Korra collapsed down onto the curb of a street corner far from the restaurant. This area seemed familiar to her but she was too broken to notice. She sat there with tears plummeting from her eyes. She rested her head in her palms with her elbows on her thighs. She was in complete distress. Seeing Mako threw a curveball in her plan to forget him. Now, she would not be able to date Bolin to help her forget her feelings for Mako. Yes, she knew that idea probably wouldn't have worked but she felt like she needed to do it anyway. She wondered how Mako felt. She could see that he was upset, almost like he was full of anguish. She felt guilty that she had to put them both through all of this. Why couldn't things be simple and have her love him? If she could just allow herself to follow her heart and actually fully love him things would be better.
Or better yet why couldn't she just remember everything? That was the core of the problem, right? She knew that if she could have remembered the past few months she would never have had this problem in the first place. Things could have just gone back to normal, but they didn't. She wanted to remember, she would have given almost anything to be able to remember. If she had never lost her memory she would have never forgotten about how she loved Mako. She would have never remembered the hurtful feelings but instead they would be replaced with the memory of her forgiveness towards him. She knew she must have forgiven him even if she didn't remember it, which confused her because she could not forgive him now. She just wanted to remember so all of this could be over, so things could go back to the way they were. She started crying harder.
"Dammit spirits, why can't I just remember? I just want to remember the past few months. I just want to remember what Mako and I had." She yelled.
Then almost instantaneously, the wind started to pick up. She picked up her head and slowly started to calm own and stop crying. Korra looked to her left at a newly put up telephone pole that was next to her. She noticed a red scarf blown onto the pole and wrapped around it from the wind. She slowly picked it up. She held the scarf in her hands. It looked old, warn out. It was frayed at the ends and had mud stains all over it. She didn't know why but this scarf felt familiar to her like she saw it in a dream, almost like it was one of her many forgotten memories. She felt the scarf; it was soft and smooth despite the water and mud stains. She waterbend the water out of the scarf and cleaned off the dirt. Now she felt like she really knew it. She held the scarf up to her face to wipe off the tears and rain.
While the scarf was touching her face, she started to smell it. She moved the scarf closer to her nose. She took in a breath of its scent. The scent of the scarf was familiar, too. Weirdly enough, she liked the smell of the scarf. She closed her eyes and took in another long intake of the scent. She enjoyed it for a moment, but then her eyes shot open. Almost simultaneously she felt a rush of memories flooding back into her mind. She remembered it all. She remembered taking down Amon. She remembered unblocking her airbending. Then, she remembered who helped her unlock her airbending and the person who helped her take down Amon; Mako. She remembered the friendship that they shared. She remembered the first time he told her that he loved her. She remembered their first kiss and their first date. More importantly she remembered the love she has for him. Her memories hit her like a tidal wave. She experienced the bad memories and the good memories again, like she was reliving them.
After a moment of being in shock from all the memories suddenly coming back, she clenched the scarf that she now remembers in her hand and stood up. Korra started running. She was running as fast as she could back to the restaurant. A smile grew on her face as joyful tears fell from her bright blue eyes. She dashed down the streets as she pushed her way through the crowds of people in her way. She wanted to see him. She needed to run back to him. She needed to fix this.
She got to the restaurant. He wasn't there. Of course, that's because she was gone for awhile. His only choice was to leave. She had to find him, but where could he have went? She looked forward and squinted her eyes. The park was a few blocks away, maybe Mako went there; it was where their first date was. She ran towards the park. She was in complete ecstasy. When she got to the park she didn't see him. She ran to the center of the park; the fountain. She was about fifty feet away from him when she saw him. Mako's back was to her, he was looking at the fountain. He was soaked, but so was she. Korra's grin widened.
"Mako!" Korra yelled out to him.
Mako didn't know if he should believe what he heard. The voice sounded like Korra's but he wasn't sure if his mind was playing tricks on him or not. He slowly turned around, damaged and wrecked, to see that Korra was running straight at him. She instantly jumped on him and wrapped her one good arm around Mako's neck. Just as fast, she pulled him into a kiss. Mako's eyes shot open in surprise but then slowly closed. He felt her cold lips upon his as rain fell between their faces. He grabbed onto her, pulling her closer. His hand cupped her face. They pulled away, both clearly wanting more.
"Korra, wha-" Mako said trying to figure what happened. He was still in shock.
Korra moved her arm from around Mako's neck. "I found your scarf." She said as she showed him the scarf.
He gave her a look. "Korra, I don't get how finding my scarf makes you want to kiss me, especially since you said you hated me a few minutes ago." He looked at her. She was genuinely smiling at him; she hadn't done that since they were in a relationship. His eyes widened, he realized why she was acting like this. A smile grew on his face. "Korra, do you remember?" He was hesitant in his words.
She was so completely happy. She smiled at him and nodded. "Yes." She replied lightly.
At her words Mako became so much happier. He grabbed her closer and pulled her into another kiss. With that kiss all of his feelings of gloom and despair flew away. Korra blushed. They partially smiled into the kiss. When he pulled away, he pulled her into an embrace. She rested her head on his chest and he had his arms around her. Suddenly she started crying.
"Mako, I'm sorry." She looked up at him.
"Korra, what do you have to be sorry about?"
"I'm sorry for leaving you."
"No Korra, you don't need to be sorry about that. It wasn't your fault that you lost your memory."
She stopped crying. "Yeah, I know. But I never want to leave you again."
Mako smiled. "Good, because I never want to leave you either."
Korra grinned. "But you don't know why I never want to leave you."
"Then, why is that?"
"Because I am an idiot."
"Korra, you're not an idiot."
"I'm an idiot for loving you." She smirked. Mako lightly laughed.
"You must be."
He looked into her bright blue eyes and she looked into his golden eyes. The lights reflected off of their eyes. They were caught in a trance, not looking at anything else beside each other. Mako, then, brushed the wet hair away from her face. Her cheeks turned pink. He slowly moved her head closer to hers until their lips locked for the third time. It was a short kiss, but to the both of them every kiss made them feel better. She still held onto him, resting on his chest.
"Mako, isn't this a little bit like our first date?"
"Yeah I guess you can say that, if you forget that we never had dinner and forget the fighting, crying and running away parts. Then, yeah it is."
Korra lightly hit him on the arm. He smiled. "Shut up. I've done enough forgetting for awhile." She laughed. "Dance with me."
"But there is no music."
"So what." She rebutted.
Then Mako began to lightly hum the tune to their favorite song. They lightly swayed back and forth. Their eyes were closed. There was no space between them. As they swayed, Mako lightly kissed Korra on her head and she held onto him harder. Rain fell on them as they lightly swayed back and forth. They felt like they were alone, like they were the only two people in the world, and at that moment they were the only two in the world that they needed.
A/N: ...And that's it. Thank you to everyone who read this. :D