"I miss her so much," Bolin sighed.

"Bolin, its been not even two weeks. Not to be rude or anything, but I really don't want to hear about your relationship problems right now." Korra tried to explain to him.

"Oh, sorry," Bolin kept forgetting she'd just broken up with Mako.

"At least you have pro-bending to keep you distracted now. I have nothing."

"I think we both know how you feel abut him," Korra looked away, "so I think you should tell him that," said Bolin.

"I know, but I still can't believe that a week after I left, he went back to Asami. It feels like he doesn't care about me enough." Mako told her about Asami on the way back to RepublicCity. She wasn't angry, she was just...hurt. Of course, both Mako and Asami felt terrible so they broke up as well.

"Korra, I know how he feels. He told me. Trust me, he cares."

"I'm sorry. I really didn't mean to turn this into a conversation about me. I've got to go train with Tenzin." She got up and walked out.

She changed the subject. He tried to figure out how to waste time.


When Eska arrived at the docks of RepublicCity, she had a sudden thought. Where am I supposed to find him? She saw the tallest and largest building and figured that it was the 'probending' arena. The radio host had described it that way on the radio. She decided that since she had heard he was starting probending, that she could look there first. Of course, she could go the AirTempleIsland, her cousin had mentioned before, but she also wanted to learn about what exactly this 'probending' is. She used her logic to figure out that it was some type of bending battle.

Since it was technically her ship, she left it at the docks with her stuff inside. She made her way to the gold building. When she got there, she read a sign on the door. It said, "Practice gym open to teams for practice. Three hour a-day limit." Good, its open then.

She walked in, and wondered around until she saw a familiar figure bending earth discs into a net. "That's a nice punch you have there." He turned.

"Eska!" He ran to hug her, and she let him which was unusual for her. "What are you doing here?"

"I left earlier than I thought I would. I... I missed you too much."

He smiled. "How did you find me?"

"Well, I had been listening to the radio and heard an interview with you talking about probending, so I thought I might find you here. Also, I wanted to find out about what probending is."

"You don't know what probending is?"

"Not really. I've never been to RepublicCity before now."

Good thing she got here unharmed, Bolin thought. He knew that not the best people are out there on the streets. "Well," he explained, "each team has one fire bender, one water bender, and one earth bender. There are three rounds, and its basically best two out of three. There are different zones and rules that are kind of hard to explain, so you should watch a match. I just found the other two benders yesterday. I play on the Fire Ferrets."

"Is that by any chance based off of Pabu?"

"That's exactly what its based off of. Let me take a shower really quick then I'll show you around the city."

Eska waited for about fifteen minutes, then Bolin was ready and they walked around the city. He pointed out all of the major places and many of the restaurants. He even pointed out the billboard that had been made of him as Nuctuk. Then he told her stories of when he was filming his movers. She could tell he missed it.

"I got to do my own stunts, and during filming breaks, they would bring me anything I wanted. And, I got a lot of stuff out of it, like my new apartment." It was silent as Bolin realized something important. "Where is all of your stuff?" Bolin wondered.

"I left it on the boat I took here."

"Let's go get your stuff, and I'll show you to my apartment."

"Okay."

They went to the boat and got Eska's stuff; Bolin carried triple the amount she could, and they made their way to his apartment.

"So do you want to go out and get dinner, or do you want to stay here and hang out?" Bolin asked her.

As she thought about her options, they heard a knock at his door. He went to answer it, and Eska followed. It was Korra.

"Hey, can I talk to yo-," she looked next to him, "Oh hey Eska." She looked back, "I'll come back later."

"No, you don't need to-." Bolin tried to say, but she was already gone.

"Is something wrong with Korra?" Eska asked as he closed the door.

"Not really, but she and my brother broke up a few weeks ago. She's still... figuring out how to deal with it. I can tell she misses him."

"Oh." It was quiet for a couple seconds.

"So, did you figure out what you want to do?"

"Oh, um," she thought, "I guess we can just stay here, I'm not really hungry any way."

"Well, I am. I'm going to order some food. I'll be back in a few minutes." He went to call the noodle place for delivery.

She became bored and decided to explore the apartment. Okay, so one bed, two closets, a kitchen, a bathroom, and a living room. Perfect size, unless I were to follow my mother's advice; if we were to eventually get married. She cringed at the thought, and found herself where she started, the living room.

"Okay, my food's going to be here in thirty minutes. I got you something in case you get hungry."

"Thank you. So... tell me more about probending. How did you get into it?"

"Well when my brother and I were younger, we were orphans and we lived on the street. We were offered a place to stay, and we would get paid to probend, so we lived in the attic above one of the training rooms, and that's all we did for a few years. Then Korra came to RepublicCity and joined our team. When she and my brother left, I had to look for replacements and you can't get much better than the avatar and all the other teams have the good benders."

"Do you train everyday?"

"Not everyday, but it'll be more frequent when the season starts."

"I just need to figure out what I'm going to do when you're not here."

"Well, you could come with me, or you could stay with Korra. She needs to talk to someone right now, and don't worry I'll take you to see a match other than mine sometime."

"I would be happy watching you, my turtleduck."

"Aww, thank you, Eska." He kissed her cheek.

"Your welcome," She kissed him back on the lips. He put his hands on her hips, and she put her arms around his shoulders, deepening the kiss. Before anything went too far, the doorbell rang and their food was there.

"These are really good." Eska had decided to eat after all.

"They're from that place I pointed out to you called Narook's. They have a lot of water tribe food, too."

"Well, I'm going to be eating from there a lot more from now on."

Later they went to bed, and at first it was a little weird. They slept straight and kept to their side of the bed, but Eska woke up with big, strong arms wrapped around her. She smiled and went back to bed.


AN: Sorry the last scene in the bed was short and not detailed. I've never written that before so I didn't really know how to come at it. (Feel free to help/give me suggestions on that). So tell me what you think! More to come, but if you don't like something or have a suggestion, tell me so I can make it better :)