Title: Water to the Face
Word Count: 659
Summary: [Republic City gets a slide on it's beach. Mako refuses to go down; he's holding up the line. Korra fixes it… sort of. | The Krew. Makorra.]

Rating: K

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prompt from anonymous on tumblr · the new gaang goes to a water park and mako is too scared to go down a certain slide (makorra)

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Water flies and sprays Korra and Bolin in the face as Asami shoots out of the large metal tube, laughing and sliding to a slow stop at their feet. Korra extends a hand to help her up, but Asami pulls her down and she goes tumbling into the shallow waves, laughing harder as a thin layer of sea foam collect around her thighs.

"That was so much fun!" Korra says, climbing out of the water. "It's just like going through the ice-tubes at the South Pole."

"I still can't believe they managed to get that huge slide set-up all the way out here; it's incredible!" Bolin says, leaning back to get a view at the wooden tower sitting on the shoreline. It wasn't anything fancy, just a straight slide down into the bay. But it was fun and fast and drew a huge crowd. He smiles, looking around to all the happy faces as the citizens of Republic City relax along the bay's banks, soaking up the sun and playing in the cool waters. But there was something missing; he hadn't heard a single cheer come from the slide since Asami came through it. He looks to the tower on more time, wondering what was wrong.

Korra twirls her head around as well, searching for something else.

"Has anyone seen Mako?" she asks.

"I haven't seen him since we climbed the tower," Asami replies. "Do you think he could have been tossed into the bay?"

"We would have noticed."

Korra rubs her chin.

"Hey! Get a move on!"

"You're holding up the line!"

All three look up.

"There he is!" Bolin says, spotting his brother first, standing at the edge of the slides mouth with a line crowding behind him.

Asami cups her hands. "Mako! Are you alright?!"

"Fine!" he shouts, leaning over the tower's edge. "Just fine!"

Asami lowers her hands and slowly turns to Bolin.

"Is Mako… scared of heights?"

"What? Nooo!" he laughs. "It's Mako! I've seen him take down Triads twice his size! Scared of heights; that would be ridiculous!"

"I think he is." She says, cringing slightly as one of the safeguards attempts to push him into the tube. Mako fights them, clinging to the edges with his hands and feet as the line that runs down the tower begin to complain, shouting at that them to it hurry up. Some of them even leave the line, not wanting to bother with the slowness.

Korra lowers her head and walks to the tower.

"I'll handle this."

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He's still fighting when she reaches the top.

"Mako!"

He doesn't even have time to say her name before she slams into his back, knocking his hands and feet loose from the edge and sending them both tumbling down the slide. Limbs tangled together, bumping and hitting each other the whole way down and they come shooting out of the tube. Cheering sounds from the tower above as Mako surfaces, gasping for breath as a line of sea foam washes into his mouth. He chokes and sputters as Korra finally comes up to breathe, rubbing her head from when it smacked against his knee in the tube.

"Are you crazy?!" he yells.

Korra pauses, and whirls the water around him with the flick of her wrist, dragging him along a current to her and she slides an arm around his neck, grinning like an owlcat as he his eyebrows scrunch together and spread to the sky in utter confusion. Her hand goes along his wet hair and she leans in and finally he gets it and his eyes close–

–and she spins to the side and throws him face first into the water.

That killed the moment.

"What was that for?" he asks, wiping the hair from his face as she walks slowly to Bolin and Asami on the shoreline.

"You were taking too long." She shrugs, looking back at him with a grin. "Both times."

:Fin:

whoops I tried to be funny but I think I failed :/

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