Aylin was with Bolin upstairs after spending a good hour looking for Korra but it seemed as if she disappeared in thin air.

She felt anxious. Korra didn't babysit the kids because they had the air acolytes to help and she didn't like staying cooped up.

What was she up to?

She felt off and a little worried. She hoped Korra was okay.

"Don't worry about Korra, Aylin. Korra's a tough gal."

"I know, Bolin but I feel weird that she left so suddenly." She said, pressing herself against his side. He placed an arm around her shoulder and squeezed her reassuringly.

"Yeah, it was weird but she'll be fine. She's the Avatar."

"You're right." Aylin said, enjoying his security and warmth. Their moment alone was interrupted when Asami came storming angrily with Mako right behind her.

"What happened? What's going on?" Bolin asked, pulling away from Aylin as they hurried towards them.

Asami angrily told them what Korra had done, blaming her father for being a part of the Equalists. Asami believed profusely that her father was innocent.

Aylin was stunned and confused. Korra would never do something as to harm someone's reputation or risking her friendship without a solid reason.

But then again, it was really hard to see Asami's father being part of the Equalists. He sponsored their team for one and accepted Mako and Bolin into his home.

It was hard to believe but she also couldn't completely ignore that Korra may have stumbled upon something that made her react the way she did.

Korra was stubborn and impulsive but she was also fair.

Aylin just couldn't see Korra making that big of an accusation with the risks involved. She'd had to have a reason but what?

"Let's not talk about this. It's over." Asami said as they all headed back upstairs to the eating room. Aylin let her rant for a few minutes before telling her that it was okay and that it was over. Asami seemed to appreciate that before sitting next to Mako and Aylin headed to sit next to Bolin.

Bolin turned the conversation to other topics and soon everyone seemed to forget about it. Except Aylin. She tried but couldn't. Her gut was telling her to believe Korra but how could she when she didn't even know Korra that well and the way she accused Asami's father...

It didn't make sense.

She saw Bolin greedily eating and she smiled before eating herself. She could afford to eat and think about this when she was alone. For now, she'd pretend for Bolin, Mako, and Asami.

After a while, they heard the door open and everyone jumped as Chief Bei Fong's police officers came in.

"Ya!" Bolin yelled, holding his hands up in the air, for some reason worried that they came to arrest him. Pabu, out of surprise, had fallen out of Bolin's shoulders and fell onto her lap. She cradled him against her chest as Chief Bei Fong , Korra and Councilman Tenzin came in after the officers.

"What are you doing here?" Asami demanded angrily as Mako shut off the music.

"We have reason to believe there's a factory below the mansion." Chief Bei Fong said to her.

"I think I would've noticed if there were a factory underneath my house." She said angrily, obviously fed up with the interrogations against her father. "The lies you people come up with just to persecute my father."

"Where is your father?" Councilman Tenzin asked seriously, frowning.

"In his workshop. Behind the house."

"Can you lead us?" Chief Bei Fong asked patiently as Asami huffed angrily as she stood up.

Mako followed her with Bolin and Aylin right behind them as Asami led everyone to her father's workshop. She looked and was relieved to see the moon at its weakest. Funny how the moon spirit no longer tried to enter her body ever since the last full moon.

She was hoping it would be the last time but still felt cautious when she was out, her body tensing automatically. Bolin reached behind him to grab her hand and squeezed. She looked up and smiled softly, telling him with her eyes that she was okay.

He nodded and didn't let go as they headed into the workshop.

Once they entered, they were surprised to see no one working inside. It was empty with models and blueprints and maps.

"Dad?" Asami asked, a hint of worry in her voice as she walked past Tenzin and Bei Fong.

"Hello?" Asami asked again searching for her father.

"Chief, the estate's been secured. No one's left the workshop since we arrived." One of Bei Fong's officers stated.

She entered the middle of the room, her hands clasped behind her back. "Perhaps we just couldn't see him leaving."

Chief Bei fong raised her leftfoot, the metal covering the sole of her feet clacked away as she slammed her foot down the the ground, using her seismic sense to detect anything underground.

"There's a tunnel beneath the workshop running deep into the mountainside."

"What?" Asami said in disbelief. "There's no tunnel."

Cheif Bei Fong turned and manipulated the ground, creating an opening that sure enough led to a tunnel underneath the workshop.

Everyone saw the stairs leading down, causing shock to reverberate around Asami.

"Do you think your dad knows about this tunnel?" Bolin whispered to Asami.

"I don't understand. There must be an explanation."

"Maybe you don't know everything about your father. I'm sorry." Korra said regretfully to Asami.

"Officers. Into the tunnel. Be cautious."

Aylin, Bolin and everyone else were about to head into the tunnel until Chief Bei Fong caught their attention. "Nuh-uh. You four stay up here. Officer Desong? Keep an eye on them."

They all watched as Korra, Tenzin, and the Chief head downstairs and when Korra turned, Aylin saw the regret and shame in Mako's eyes as he turned away from her gaze.

They waited as patiently as they could until they head a slam that sounded like metal door closing.

"What was that?" Bolin asked nervously.

"We need to get down there." Mako said anxiously as they all looked down to the tunnel where the loud noise had come from.

"Absolutely not. You're staying put until the Chief comes back."

Aylin saw the look that passed through the two brothers and Aylin knew that they had something planned.

What they had planned, she didn't know. She didn't know but she knew they were up to something.

"Alright. We'll stay put. But could we wait outside or something?" Mako asked innocently, a bit too innocently as he rubbed his nose. "It's so dusty in this workshop."

"No. We're waiting right here."

Aylin saw the way Bolin was moving his foot as if searching for something on the ground and that's when it clicked through her mind on what the brothers were doing.

"Okay, but don't blame me if i start snee-if I start to snee-snee-snee-sneeehhehe-sneee-snee-snee-"

"What's your problem, bub?" The officer asked almost impatiently.

"I'm about to-" Mako said, bending back, forcing the girls to step back just as he 'sneezed' fire out of his mouth and nose just as Bolin lifted his foot up a bit, causing a large brick of rock to form behind the officer as he fell back from Mako's sneeze.

Bolin didn't waste a second as he jumped on the officer and Mako quickly tied up the officer against the barrel.

"Sorry pal. We know you were just doing your job." Mako said as they stepped back from the tied officer.

"Yeah. Just stay put until the Chief comes back. That sounds very familiar, doesn't it? Why? Because you said it." Bolin said rapidly.

They headed to the tunnel until both Bolin and Mako turned to the girls. Bolin tugged Aylin away as Mako told Asami to wait.

"I want you to stay here with Asami."

"But Bolin..." Aylin began, clutching his biceps. She didn't want to be apart from him. Not after everything that was going on. What if something happened to him? Then what?

"It might be dangerous for you and I want to make sure you're safe here." Bolin murmured, cupping her cheek, causing Aylin to rub against his hand tenderly.

"But what about you? It'll be dangerous for you, too." She said softly, trying not to cry. She wanted to hold him against her and never let him go because then he wouldn't leave her alone.

"I'll be fine. I'll have Mako." He said, smiling encouragingly at Aylin but it didn't have any affect on her. "Please stay. I don't want you to get hurt. I can't stand that the thought of you getting hurt. I want you safe and out of harm's way up here. Can you do that for me?"

He clutched her arms and stepped closer, leaning his forehead against hers. She hated this, she didn't like the feeling of emptiness she was getting in the pit of her stomach of the thought of Bolin going down there into who knows what. She didn't like this one bit. But if he wanted her to be safe, then she would do it. She wouldn't like it but she would do it.

For him.

Just for him.

She sighed and closed her eyes, breathing in his earthly scent so it could last inside her soul. She opened her eyes and clutched the front of his shirt.

"Okay." She murmured.

Bolin's body sighed with relief and she felt his arms wrap around her waist to pull her closer to him as he leaned down to kiss her. His lips brushed hers, causing heat to ignite in the pit of her belly before flaming out towards every part of her body. He began to pull away but she didn't want this to end. If he was walking straight into danger, then she deserved a damning kiss.

She pulled him back roughly against her, her lips moving over his almost violently. She wrapped her arms around his neck and shoulders, bringing him closer, enjoying the heat of his body and his kiss that rushed inside her. Bolin had frozen but quickly caught on, tightening his hold on her, one of his hands going to her upper back to push her closer to him, causing the kiss to deepen. She felt rather than heard her soft moan in the back of her throat and didn't want this to end at all.

She wanted to drown in his kisses and never stop. She wanted the racing of her heart to continue, she wanted the heat of his kiss to grow inside her body until she couldn't breathe, she wanted his hands on her body, igniting her into a puddle of hot liquid. She didn't want his kiss and touch to ever stop, never.

But it had to.

Bolin, reluctantly she noted, stepped back, their lips separating and she felt the yearning in her body to go back to him, to get back their kiss.

She opened her eyes, blinking rapidly and he was staring at her with a look of endearment that caused her body to flush with heat.

His cheeks were tinged with pink and they were both breathing hard.

"I'll be back. I promise." He said and his voice had gone soft and deep, which caused her core to tighten.

She nodded and he gently pried her hands of his shirt before kissing her cheek.

"Be careful." She murmured as he smiled and nodded before going down into the tunnel as Mako followed.

She felt like her heart was being ripped in two as he disappeared out of her sight.

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