Chapter 15: I should've bought you flowers

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"Excuse me," Iroh said as he left the dining room.

"What letters is he talking about bro?" Bolin asked his brother, "I have no idea," Mako replied in confusion. "Well, this went...well," Pema said, "Tenzin I think its time for us to give them some space," she ordered her husband, who obediently walked out of the room following his wife. Bolin soon followed the two airbenders example leaving his brother alone.

Korra walked through the empty halls of the temple towards Iroh's room. She gently knocked on the door waiting for him to answer, but nothing came from the other side.

"Iroh...I'm sorry," she said quietly, but there was still no answer. Defeated she walked to her room where she found a letter sitting on top of her bed.

Korra, I'm sorry, but I can't do this...I know that you love him, you have to admit this to yourself...I took a ship back to the fire nation, I'm sorry.

-Iroh

Korra read this letter and the heaviness in her heart seemed to get heavier by the second. She sat in silence as the tears rolled her mocha cheeks. The Avatar can't have love, she thought to herself, the universe just wouldn't allow it, she had one purpose, to protect the world, to keep the balance, after that the world won't need me anymore.

"Korra can I talk to you?" a voice came from the hallway.

"What Mako. WHAT. What can you possibly want from me? You have already taken everything from me," her voice was hoarse and strained, "maybe if Amon takes away my bending and kills me it will finally be enough for you," the tears started to spill like waterfalls, "it was never enough for you Mako...I was never enough for you." Mako kneeled down so that he could look her in the eyes.

"You were always enough...it just took me too long to realize it...Korra I'm sorry, I should've bought you flowers...moon flowers your favorite ones, because you told me once that you thought they were the most beautiful flowers in world that just because they weren't like the other flowers that bloomed in the sun, it didn't mean that it wasn't beautiful...and I should've held your hand, every time we walked through the park...I should've told you how incredible I thought you were every second of the day...and I should've fought for you," his eyes burned into her soul and the tears slowly started to stop.

His words started to heal the holes in her heart, one by one they started to close, and for once Korra didn't fight it. She loved this man in front of her, through every sleepless night, every painful rejection, he never left her heart. Slowly their heads dipped in and their lips met, Korra's heart was pounding out of her chest as they pulled away. "I love you," they said in unison, and they both smiled.

Suddenly their were explosions outside, members of the guard ran into the room,

"THE TEMPLE IS UNDER ATTACK!"