Mako stood in a room parallel to the one Lin and the captain of one of Asami and Varrick's ships were in. He was still trying to think over the original case with the explosion as well as this new one. He wondered if the men he saw at the peace march were responsible for the ship's peril too. Out of habit, he reached for the picture in his pocket. His grip on the picture loosened when he saw it wasn't the photo of the criminal, but rather a picture of him and Korra. It was at the Glacier Spirits Festival. He stared at her beaming face and felt his heart churn painfully.
He heard the door open and quickly put the photo away. Asami walked in and asked, "Is it true?"
"I'm sorry," he sighed. "You're entire shipment was stolen."
"Well, I'm not giving up on you." What was this? What were these words?
Mako and Asami stood in her empty warehouse. The sting had failed. He could see the tears in her eyes and wanted to comfort her, but something wasn't right with the feeling between them. They were standing at a comfortable distance for him, but she had to close it. Her kiss came easy like it used to. Then it felt so wrong. He just stood erect, not knowing what to do. He could feel Korra coming back to him. Asami finally noticed his tension and apologized.
It didn't take him long to push away the memories of Korra after that.
"Korra just left a week ago!" Bolin seemed a little upset, and Mako didn't understand why. These relationship statuses had nothing to do with him. He could see Asami again if he wanted to.
Then again, maybe it was the fact that it was just a week ago. It was a short amount of time to be forgetting someone and moving on. Since his and Asami's kiss at the warehouse, he had been too occupied to think about anything but her, especially since the case he was working on had to do with her.
He thought he was totally done with Korra, but maybe not.
That night he went to the dock. He hadn't planned on just sitting in the boat; he didn't have the courage to do what he was going to, so he got out and went home.
Author's Note: Go ahead and hate me. I know I haven't updated and this is short. I WILL update quickly this time.