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Chapter Ten

(Korra POV)

Mako and I have kept our relationship a secret for almost week now. It was Friday now and I would be going to the daycare. I woke up to Mako kissing me. "I'm up." I groan. He chuckled.

"I made breakfast."

"For me or everyone?"

"Everyone. Now get up." I groan again and get up. I go to the bathroom and take a shower. Letting the water run over me for a while. When I get out, I get dressed in a tight white v-neck, cut off capris, sneakers, and a grey areopostle jacket. I went down stairs and found everyone there already (including Iroh). I sat down next to Mako and started to eat. I stopped when I noticed everyone looking at me.

"Yes?" I said

"What are you doing here? I thought you went to the city today." Asami said

"I'm leaving after breakfast." Then we went back to eating. When I was done, I excused myself to get ready to leave. I grabbed my bag and keys and as I walked out the door, someone called my name. I turned to see Mako coming towards me. I smiled at him.

"Hey." I said.

"Hey." he said kissing me good-bye. "I was wondering if I could take you to lunch today? Would your boss mind?" He added leaning against the door frame.

"I don't think so. Meet me at Narook's at twelve."

"Deal." With one more kiss, I started to walk out the door when I saw movement out of the corner of my eye. I paused and saw Bolin looking around the corner with a surprised look on his face. Mako turned around to see what I was looking at. When he saw Bolin, he started to walk towards him. "Bo I can explain everything."

"Were you two just kissing?" We look at each other and back at Bo.

"Yes." Mako says. "But you can't tell anyone."

"Why not isn't this a good thing?" I walk up to Mako and put my arm around his waist and he dose the same.

"It is but we need to see where it is going before people know. Okay?"

"Okay but we can tell Asami and Iroh right?"

"Sorry Bo but no." I look at my watch.

"I got to go. See you later." I kiss Mako on the cheek and run out the door.

When I got to the daycare, Katara was the only one there. "Hey. Where's Pema and the kids?" I asked.

"Oh you know if someone gets sick the whole family gets sick." She said with an exaggerated sigh.

"Even Tenzin?" Tenzin was one the most well know and well liked council member so far. He use to work with mine and Mako's and Bo's father until he got the job at the council.

"Even Tenzin. Look Korra I hate to ask but could you stay longer to day? What with Pema gone it would be only me until noon and I could really use the help." She says while putting a kid in a crib.

"Oh sure just let me make a call."

"Go ahead." I left the room to call Mako.

"Hey Korra, what's up?" He asks when I get a hold of him

"Hey Mako. Um Mako I don't think I can make it to lunch today."

"Why? I thought you said it was okay with Pema?" He ask sounding a little confused.

"I did but when I got here Katara told me that all the kids are sick and so is Tenzin, so she had to stay home and take care of them."

"Oh I understand. We can do it another time." He sounded disappointed.

"Thank Mako. I promise I will make it up to you. Bye. See you later."

"Bye." With that we hung up and I went to help Katara with the kids.

(Mako POV)

I was a little sad to hear that Korra couldn't make it to lunch with me today, but it did give me more time to do what I had been meaning to for awhile now. I drove up the long driveway to Korra's parent's house. For some reason I was nervous. I didn't have a good reason to be nervous, her parents liked me, they thought of me like family just as I did of them. Once I had parked the car, I went up to the door and knocked on it. Korra's mother answered the door.

"Oh Mako! What are you doing here? We thought you were with Korra at the lake." She said wiping her hands on her apron and rushing me in. "Tonraq, we have a visitor." She led me to Tonraq's study. He was sitting behind his desk going over some papers and looked up when we entered.

"Mako. What a happy surprise." He says taking off his reading glasses and stands up.

"Am I interrupting something Sir? I can come back another time." I say starting to leave.

"Nonsense boy. To tell you the truth I was getting tired of looking at those documents." He whispers as he leads me away from the door.

"I'll just leave you two alone." Senna says but I stop her.

"Actually I need to talk to both of you." I gesture to the chairs.

"Did something happen to Korra?" Her mother asks with her hand to her mouth and plops into a chair. Her father goes and stands behind her.

"No, but that's what I wanted to talk to you about. I wanted to properly ask you if I could date your daughter and I didn't want to do that without asking you first." I got smiles bigger than I should have and a lot of hugs from her mother. After that her mother left to do some errands, so it was just Tonraq and I.

"Mako I want to thank you for asking to date Korra not many boys will do that now." He said staring out the window.

"Your welcome. Sir can I talk to you?" I said going to stand beside him.

"I believe you already did but yes you may."

"Sir." He turned to look at me. "Korra was hurt while we were at the lake." He looked at me flabbergasted.

"What are you getting at Mako?"

"I don't know if Korra would want me to tell you this, but almost two weeks ago we went to a party and I was trying my best to watch out for her but she got in a car with a bad person and didn't come home till late. Then she got sick so like good friends we took care of her." I stopped to catch my breath. Her father was looking at me with worry and curiosity. "When I went to check on her one day her shirt was pulled up slightly on her back and I saw a bunch of bruises that were very recent." There was a sharp intake of breath from her father. "When she got better I asked about them and she kind of spilled the whole thing to me. She has always been so strong and to see her like that I couldn't handle it to see her like that again. I don't think that she has told anybody else yet and I didn't think she would, so I thought I would."

"Mako could you tell me who this person was?" He said taking on a fatherly role.

"I would I was thinking of bringing Korra over later and having her tell you."

"Thank you Mako. I know how much you care about her. Now have you done anything to this person?"

"Umm…" I looked at the ground. I had done something to Tanho the next day. I had busted the windows to his car, spray painted it, and put some dents in it. I hadn't told any one and know one knew I had done it. Korra's dad started to laugh.

"I'm with you there I wont tell if you don't." I grinned in relief. "Okay if you bring Korra by I'll get something worked out." We started to make our way to the front door.

"Thank you Sir." I said as I walked out the door.

"Oh and Mako you can stop with the Sir it makes me feel old."

I drove up the daycare where Korra worked. The kids were outside playing and some teenage girls were running after them. I walked inside to see Katara helping a child out a door an through another. "Katara?" She turned to look at me.

"Mako? Why I haven't seen you since you little." She says reaching to ruffle my hair. I chuckle.

"I was twelve."

"I know, but you've grown into such a handsome young man." She says patting my cheek, but paused. " You look so much like your father." She whispers. She takes her hand way and wipes away a fake tear. I clear my throat.

"So do you know where Korra is?" She sighs

"Yes I do." She led me to a door that was cut in the middle and the top half was open. Korra was sitting on the floor playing with four children who ranged from one to three years old. She was teaching them to draw, which included them throwing the crayons everywhere. I couldn't help but smile at the way she handled them. I could see that she had a blue hand print on her white T-shirt. I laughed when the child that she was holding stuck its hand in her mouth. She looked over at me and smiled, using the baby's hand to wave to me.

"Has she eaten lunch yet?" I ask turning to Katara.

"No she hasn't. I keep telling her that she could leave but she insist that she wants to help."

"Do you think that she could take some time of today?"

"Take her for the rest of the day. She works harder than the rest of us."

"Thank you Katara." I say quickly and peck her on the cheek. I walk in to the room and stand next to Korra

"Hey what are you doing here?" She says standing up and putting the baby in a crib for a nap.

"Well I thought that you were working really hard and I would come visit you. I ask Katara if you could have some time off for lunch and she said you could have the rest of the day off." I said helping her put the kids in cribs. She frowned slightly.

"I don't know Mako. Katara might still need my help and…" I put a finger to her lips.

"Korra please just let me take you to lunch." She smiled and nodded. When we got out side we heard thunder rumble in the distance. Hurriedly we crossed the street to the restaurant. We ate in silence. I didn't know how to bring up the topic of Tanho. She'll furious that I told her father.

"Mako?" She said tapping her finger on my head.

"Mmm?"

"Mako you were daydreaming." We started to make our way outside where the storm clouds had gotten worse and were hanging heavy in the sky.

"Oh I hadn't realized ." I said opening the door for her.
"What were you thinking about?" We were almost to her car now.

Umm. Well I was just thinking about the conversation that I had had with your father earlier today."

"You talked to my dad? What about?" She asked leaning against her car.

"Well first I had to ask if I could date his beautiful daughter." I replied leaning on one elbow and coming close to her so we were almost touching.
"Oh yeah? What did he say?"

"Well he said that he loved the idea but if I ever hurt you he'd kill me."

"Damn I was hoping to be rebellious."

"There other ways." I said kissing her. I knew it wasn't going any farther. I would never pressure Korra into doing anything she didn't want. When we broke I spoke. "Korra...I told your father about Tanho." Her eyes hardened.

"What?!" Her gaze was like ice. She pushed me away.

"I had too!"

"No you didn't! Why couldn't you just leave it alone! I trusted you not to tell!"

"Korra as your boyfriend it was my place to tell him and I promised him I wouldn't let anything hurt you and I broke that!"

"Mako it was never your place to tell him! I can't believe I thought I could trust you." While saying this she had opened her car door and gotten in.

"Korra, I..." I started towards her.

"Just don't Mako. Please leave me alone. At least for a while. Good bye Mako." And with that she slammed the door and drove off. I ran to my car and tried to catch up but she had gotten a head start and I had no idea where she had gone. I called her dad to let him know that we would not be coming back to the house and started back to the lake. The storm clouds were getting heavier and by the time I got back to the house it was the worst downpour of the summer. When I had parked I made a mad dash for the house. I was soaked by the time I had got inside. All the lights were off and it quite. I flipped the switch but nothing happened. Great the power was out.

"Korra! Bolin! Asami! Where are you?" I shouted into the darkness.

"Mako?" Bolin shouted back. I saw him come around the corner with a flashlight in one hand and Pabo in the other.

"Hey Bo where's everyone else?"

"Asami and Iroh are in the living room."

"Where's Korra?" I asked.

"I thought she was with you?" I stopped in my tracks.

"What?"

"She's not with you is she?" He said nervously.

"Damn it! Damn it! Damn it! This is all my fault! Damn it!" I yelled kicking the banister of the staircase.

"Umm what's going on in here?" Asami asked coming around the same corner Bolin did. "Bolin whats wrong with your brother?" I spun around to face her.

"I'll tell you what's wrong. Korra and I got in a fight and now she's out there in that storm and I have no idea if she's okay or not!" I yelled running my hands through my hair.

"Its okay Mako I'm sure she just went somewhere to cool off. Have you tried her parents or her phone?" After they calmed me down we tried calling her phone but no answer. Then we tried her parents and anywhere else she could be but nothing. With each phone call my anxiety increased. After two hours of phone calls the started to clear and another twenty minutes it was gone completely.

"I'm going to look for her." I said getting up off the couch.

"Mako take it easy. You don't even know where to look for her. If you just wait awhile I'm sure she'll walk right through that door and minute." Iroh said putting a hand no my shoulder to stop me. I sat back down and waited. Not long after my phone rang.

"Hello?" I said in a rush hoping it was Korra.

"Mako." It was Tonraq.

"Sir?"

"Mako, get to the hospital now. Korra was in an car accident." Those words cut my heart to pieces.