AN: In this chapter, Wu says, "I feel pukey", which is an inside joke between me and one of my best friends. So... this one's for you, Ms. Varrick. :-)

"Do you have a four?"

"No. Go fish."

"Again? Come on, Mako, I've got the whole deck in my hand!"

The firebender shrugged nonchalantly. "Hey, I don't have a four." he said.

Wu rolled his eyes. "Okay, fine." He plucked a card from the rapidly dwindling deck. "But just know that you're lucky I love you."

Mako smirked. He'd trained with Wu before, and the ex-prince's punches didn't hurt him at all. "Oh yeah? What would you do to me otherwise?"

"I don't know. But it would be bad." replied Wu, throwing his hands up in the air dramatically. Playing cards flew everywhere as he did so.

His boyfriend laughed. "Nice going, Wu."

"Oh, shut up."

Before Mako could respond, there was a knock at the door. "I'll get it." he said, tossing his cards down onto the table and standing up.

When he opened the door, he found Korra and Asami standing there. The latter was holding their baby, Hiroshi Sato Jr. "Hey, Mako!" exclaimed the Avatar, grinning widely.

"Korra! Asami!" Mako replied, as excitement spread through him. It had been a while since he had seen his friends. "How are you guys? I haven't seen you since we came to visit the baby. That was, what, two months ago?"

"Right, well, we've been busy." Asami laughed. "How are you, Mako? Is Wu here?"

Right on cue, the ex-prince appeared behind Mako. "Hello, ladies. And hello, baby."

"We're both doing well." Mako told Korra and Asami. "How's the baby?"

"He's great!" Korra shouted. When the others all looked startled, the dark-skinned girl blushed. "Sorry. I'm still just really excited to be a mom."

"We both are." added Asami, resting her head on Korra's shoulder.

Mako smiled. "I'm so happy for you two." he said. "Now, what can we do for you?"

"Is this a bad time?" asked Asami anxiously.

"Nah, I was just beating Mako at cards." Wu responded proudly.

Mako rolled his eyes. "Yeah, sure you were."

The two young women laughed. "Well, we have a favour to ask you then."

"Sure. What is it?"

"Asami and I have to go out to the Fire Nation on some business trip." Korra explained. "We can't bring Hiroshi with us. I would Tenzin and his family to take him, but apparently there's some weird bison flu going around out there, and we don't want him to catch it. Sooo… you're kind of our only hope."

"You want us to take your kid?" Mako asked incredulously. He'd never been good with children. "For how long?"

"Three days." Asami answered. "It's not that long, and-"

"We'll do it!" Wu exclaimed. He reached over and took Hiroshi from Asami's arms. "Ooh, who's a good baby? Who's a good baby?" He tickled the child under his chin.

"Great!" Korra said. "Well, we kinda knew you'd say yes, 'cause we have all of his stuff in the Satomobile. I'll be right back." She headed outside, and Asami followed her.

Mako was eying the baby with some apprehension. Wu was playing with him, and he was giggling uncontrollably in that cute way babies do. "This is great, Mako!" Wu told his boyfriend. "I've always loved kids. Well, except when they-"

Splat. Hiroshi spat up all over Wu. The ex-prince shrieked and thrust him at Mako. "Take him! Take him! Eugghhh, that's disgusting! Mako, I feel pukey!"

"Not in here." Mako grumbled, taking the baby from Wu. Thankfully, Hiroshi hadn't gotten any spit-up on himself, only on Wu.

The dark-skinned ex-prince dashed for the bathroom. Mako sighed. "Two minutes in, and it's already hell." he muttered to himself.

A few moments later, Korra and Asami returned with armfuls of baby stuff. "Here you go." said Asami. "Where did Wu go?"

"He's throwing up in the bathroom." Mako replied flatly.

The two young women looked concerned. "He is? Does he have that weird bison flu too?" asked Korra.

"No, the baby spat up on him and now he feels 'pukey', as he put it."

"Oh." The Avatar laughed. "Okay then. Well, here's all of Hiroshi's stuff. Baby food, diapers, et cetera. We'll be back on Thursday for him."

"All right." Mako said miserably. "Have a good time. We'll see you on Thursday."

"Bye, Mako. And thank you so much!"

"Tell Wu we say thank you too." added Asami. She and Korra both kissed their son before they left Mako and Wu's house. Mako looked down at the boxes of diapers and baby food at his feet, and sighed. The next three days were going to be… interesting, to say the least.