Disclaimer: I do not own any of the rights to Legend of Korra

Author's Note: This chapter isn't as long as the last one, but I tried to make it longer. The way I lengthen my chapters is by when I hit a certain point in it that goes with the name of the chapter. So I'm trying to make them longer.


Waking Up

All I could feel was pain, and there was no escaping it.

I could feel somebody holding my hand. Tight, but in a comforting way at the same time.

I tried to open my eyes, but I couldn't. It felt like there was something holding me down. To try and keep me trapped here. Where am I? Why am I stuck here. How do I leave?

"Korra please wake up. I need you here. You're what keeps me going. I need to see you smiling again and hear you laugh and stair into you blue eyes again."

Mako how can I reach you? The more ZI tried to move or do something the more unresponsive my body became. Then I became unconscious again.

I woke up hours later. I opened my eyes and what I saw me surprised me.

I was somehow back in my room on Airbender Island. I could hear somebody else's shallow breathing. I turned my head and saw Mako sleeping in a chair next to my bed.

He's so cute when he's sleeping. I sat up slightly and started to poke him in the chest. "Mako, Mako, Mako." Oh my gosh, what does it take to wake him up? He's worse than Bolin! "Mako!"

He grumbled but slowly started to wake up. He rubbed his eyes, and then he finally looked at me. Shock immediately hit his face. "Korra? If I'm sleeping don't wake me up."

"Hey City Boy. No, you're not sleeping." He sat on my bed and bent over and kissed my forehead. "What time is it?"

"About one in the morning."

"Of all the times to wake up it has to be at one in the morning?"

He chuckled, "That's just your luck."

"Ha ha." He gathered me up in his arms and held me tight against his chest.

"I missed you so much."

"Me too."

"So if I may ask, where were you exactly?"

"I don't know, it wasn't the spirit world. That's a fact. But, I don't know any other place that it could have been" I cuddled into his chest more.

"I'm just happy that I have you back with me. That's all I care about."

"What about Asami?" I couldn't just scurry my way around her, Asami's one of my best friends. I couldn't hurt her like that. No matter how much it killed me..

"We broke up while you were still missing. I'm all yours."

A small grin slowly made its way across my face.

"Really?"

"Yea." He kissed my forehead again. "Does that make you happy?"

Instead of replying to him properly I just kissed him. It took him a few seconds to respond though.

"I'll take that as a yes then." He's mine. I can't believe this is happening. Finally. "Are you okay?"

"Yea, just thinking."

"Ah. You should really get some more sleep."

"No."

"Korra it's around one in the morning. How can you get better if you don't sleep?"

"I just won't then."

"Korra why won't you go back to sleep? What's wrong, normally you are the one that's the first in your room at night?"

"Because I don't want to go back there. I want to know that I'm going to wake up again."

"Oh Korra." He tightened his grip on me. "Here you wear this tonight, so that way you know that you have to give it back to me in the morning." He lightly wrapped his scarf around my neck. "You take good care of that for me."

"Mako are you sure?"

"Yea." I snuggled into his chest again.

"Thank you."

A few minutes later I felt asleep in his arms knowing that I was going to wake up again in his arms.