I don't own the Legend of Korra and I never will.

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"Hey, Mako, can I ask you a question?" Korra asked as she carried her sleeping daughter to her room after a long day of playing and eating with her cousins and aunt and uncle.

"Yeah, sure," he said, closing the front door and locking it.

"How do you feel of having a second child?" She asked, opening the door to her daughter's room.

"I don't know, I think it would be cool, you know, why?" He asked, not getting the hint that she laid out for him.

"Well I don't know, Mako." She told him, putting the covers up to her daughter's chin and gently kissing her goodnight before turning out the light and exiting her daughter's room.

"Then, why did you ask?" He asked, being completely clueless. Korra rolled her eyes and smacked playfully on the head.

"Can you not put two and two together? Geez, Mako, I'm pregnant, and you should be happy to know, you are the first one to find out." She told him facing him.

"Really, I'm the first one to know? Asami didn't drag you to the doctor?"

"Nope"

"Someone, didn't find out?"

"Nope"

"Bolin didn't sense the heartbeat?"

"Not that I know of," She admitted. "But you are the first one that I told, and that is the important thing!" She told him, standing on her tippy toes so she can be eye to eye with him.

"Okay, shorty, that does matter." He told her.

"I'm not that short!" She told him defensively, pouting slightly.

"I just hope none of our children inherit your shortness." Mako teased. Korra pouted some more before blasting some air in his face. "What was that for?" Mako yelled.

"For being a jerk" she told him.

"And that gives you the permission to blast wind in their faces?" He asked in bewilderment.

"Yup" she simply said.

"I sometimes wish that you never learned airbending." He confessed, blowing some hair from his face.

"Deal with it!" She said, using her famous saying.

"Ugh, you can be so infuriating!" He yelled.

"Mommy, daddy, are you fighting?" Ardea asked, coming out from her room, rubbing her amber eyes. Korra smiled softly and walked over to her daughter.

"No, we are just having a little argument over something." She told her, wiping some of her daughter's black hair away from her face.

"Did you blast wind in his face again?" She asked. Korra chuckled and kissed Ardea's forehead.

"Yup, now go back to bed, sweetie." She told her, giving her another kiss on her forehead. Ardea nodded and went back to her room. Korra sighed and turned back to her husband.

"See what you did!" She snapped.

"I did? You mean you!" He shot back.

"I did nothing!"

"Yeah right, you do everything!"

"Mako" Korra started.

"Yes?"

"You're sleeping on the couch tonight." She told him, going into their room.

"Korra" Mako whined.

"Here you go!" Korra said, tossing him a pillow and blanket. Mako sighed and caught the pillow and blanket. He then set himself up on the couch; this is going to be a long night.

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"Daddy, can I ask you something?"

"Yes, go ahead, princess."

"Why were you on the couch this morning?" Ardea asked innocently. Mako sighed and put down his morning newspaper.

"Because, Mommy and Daddy weren't getting along last night" Mako told her. Ardea nodded and dipped her spoon into Corn Flakes.

"Are you two getting along now?" She asked.

"I hope so." Mako answered as his wife came in. Her hair was messy and she had purple bags under her eyes.

"Mornin" Korra greeted, grabbing the coffee that Mako had and took a sip from it.

"Hey, that was mine!" He whined.

"Are you five or something, Cool Guy?" She asked giving his coffee back to him.

"No, it's just that…get your own coffee!" Mako complained.

"What do I have cooties or something, and wittle Mako is afraid?" She teased, grabbing his cheek. He quickly swatted it away. Korra looked at him horrified. "The fuck was that for?" She asked.

"Mommy, what does 'fuck' mean?" Ardea asked. Korra looked at her daughter and covered her mouth.

"It means, it means, oh it means that Ardea shouldn't use it because then the Spirit's will curse her!" Korra told her. Ardea looked at her mother horrified and covered her mouth.

"Mako, our room, now," Korra told him. Mako stood up and followed her in. "Okay, Korra wants answers, now please give Korra answers!" She told him.

"Korra, stop talking like that," he told her.

"Fine, but tell me why you are being such a crank!" She said, crossing her arms around her chest.

"How far along are you?" He asked.

"Mako, don't try to change the subject, and if you must know, I am three months." She told him.

"And you just told me yesterday?"

"Yup, felt it was the right time!" She told him. "Now, answers."

"It was my coffee."

"Really, you're fucking coffe? Mako, stop acting like a baby and grow up!" She told him, shoving him slightly. Mako took it.

"No." He pouted. Korra smiled and kissed him.

"Then what is it about?" She asked.

"I had to sleep on the couch." He answered truthfully. Korra smiled and kissed him again.

"Don't worry; you won't sleep on the couch tonight." She told him, waggling her eyebrows suggestively. Mako smiled and pulled her into a kiss.

"I like the sound of that." Mako told her.

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"Daddy, where are you and Mommy going?" Ardea asked as she was being dropped off at Air Temple Island.

"Work, sweetie, some man started to threaten some civilians, so we have to straighten it out." Korra told her daughter.

"But I really think, Mommy should be at home, resting." Mako told her. Korra rolled her eyes.

"I'll be fine! Don't worry about me!" She reassured him.

When Ardea was dropped off, Mako and Korra went to the crime scene. When they got there, they could see the man who was threatening the civilians. Korra growled and walked up behind him.

"Hey, chump; pick on someone your own size." Korra growled as she stood in a pose behind him, her hands on her hips. The man turned around, revealing piercing gold eyes.

"Oh, the Avatar, I am so scared." He said sarcastically. Korra growled and lashed out on him. The man dodged her attacks and gradually made his way to her. When he got to her he quickly punched her in her lower abdomen, then he punched her face, and then lastly fire bent at her. Korra hunched over and was knocked unconscious. Mako quickly went over to her and saw that she was burned in several different places.

"Korra, are you okay?" He rushed kissing her hand.

"Oh, is the Avatar's husband afraid of me?" The man asked. Mako made a face and shook his head.

"Me? Afraid of someone like you, don't make me laugh!" Mako said. He will pay for what he did to Korra, he will. Mako sent fireballs from left to right at the guy, catching him off-guard sometimes. As he delivered more fire at the man, he heard Korra get up.

Mako didn't stop, oh no, he had to finish. Mako quickly delivered to final blow just as back up came. He went over by Korra and picked her up bridal style.

"Come on, Korra." He told her, looking at her bloodied face. He carried her over to the paramedics who arrived and put her in the safety of one of the paramedics. The paramedic guy put her on a white stretcher and put her in the back of the car. Mako felt a tear roll down his face. What if the baby didn't make it? What if Korra didn't make it? Why was he so stupid into not forcing her to stay home?

"Hey, bro" Bolin said, coming up from behind him. "Where is my sister-in-law?" He asked looking around. Mako sighed and pointed to one of the ambulance cars that held Korra.

"In there." He told him.

"What happened?" Bolin asked, his green eyes popping from his head.

"Firebender, Korra was attacking him, but he was too fast for her, he hit her and burned her, and I did nothing." Mako told him putting his hands in his face.

"Come on, bro, let's go see her." Bolin told him, "Come on."

Mako nodded and followed his brother into his car. Mako felt stupid. He should've helped her! But no, he stayed in the background like a nincompoop.

"What if something happens to the baby?" Mako asked himself. Bolin took his eyes from off the road for a second and looked at his brother.

"Dude, she's pregnant? No wonder I felt another heartbeat near her! Why didn't you make her stay home?" Bolin asked, looking at the road again.

"I tried, but she kept saying she will be safe to I gave in, I'm so stupid." Mako cried.

They drove to the hospital in silence after that. Once they arrived though, Mako bolted from the car and into the hospital before Bolin could say anything. When Bolin got into the hospital he could hear Mako yelling at the receptionist.

"Please I want to see my wife!" Mako hollered.

"Sir, you can't right now, please sit in the waiting room before I call security." The receptionist said firmly. Bolin went up to his brother and put a hand on his shoulder.

"Come on, bro, let's wait." Bolin told him. They sat down in the waiting room and waited for the doctor to come out.

Hours past, and finally the doctor came out. Mako jumped up and went over to the doctor.

"How is she?" He asked.

"Fine, she has several burns, but nothing to serious." The doctor told him.

"Is the baby alright?" He asked. The doctor shook his head and looked down.

"There was no heartbeat, I'm sorry, but the child did not make it." The doctor told him. Mako looked down on the floor and curled up into a little ball and began to cry. "We already took out the fetus, sir, I am very sorry for your loss." And with that the doctor went back into Korra's room.

Mako stayed like that until he was allowed to go into Korra's room. He wiped away his tears and went into to see his wife's face puffy and red.

"Mako" she said weakly. He ran to her and hugged her. "I lost the baby, and it's my entire fault! If I listened to you and stayed home, then we would've had a baby, and Ardea would've been an older sister, and-"

"Korra" Mako said, pulling away from her. "It's not your fault." Korra opened her mouth to protest, but Mako stopped her. "It's not your fault; remember that I will always love you, no matter what." He told her, wiping away her tears. Korra nodded and cried some more.

"I don't want another child." Korra told him.

"Okay." Mako agreed. She wrapped her arms around him and kissed him.

"I love you, Mako." She said.

"I love you, too, Korra."

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Yup, pregnancy ended in a miscarriage. Sorry about that, but I just felt like it, and it was in my plans when I was planning this story. Yeah, miscarriages are common, it happened to my mom before she had my brother, so I wanted to write this chapter about miscarriages…they're depressing. Well I hoped you liked this chapter and I will possibly add the next chapter later on today or tomorrow since I never really update this, oh and another announcement, I will be changing the title from Promise to something that I think of…no idea yet!

Still looking for that beta reader because I can't trust my eyesight anymore! I am in need of new glasses…