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Mako's POV

I was sitting in my office, doing some paperwork when I noticed everyone around me get out of their seats and run to the radio. I raised a brow but continued with my work.

It had been a little over five years since I had lost my little brother. Soon after his death I had enrolled myself into the police academy and earned the title of Assistant Chief, in other words, Chief Bei Fong's right hand man. Saikhan was also Assistant Chief, he had more seniority than I did, but Lin preferred me in some situations more than she did him.

When I looked around and noticed no one was in their spot I got up to investigate what had happened. I drew closer and heard the radio broadcast.

"The Avatar was found floating in the sea by a fisherman and his son, five years after she was missing and presumed dead following her disappearance. She has confirmed to be the sole survivor of the kidnapping which resulted in the death of a young Pro Bender Bolin-"

I didnt want to hear anymore so I shut the radio off by setting it on fire. Everyone scrambled back to their post. An officer came up to me and I turned my glare on him. He winced and gulped before speaking.

"There's someone here to see you," he managed to say.

I turned and found the one person I didn't ever want to see again. Korra. She looked older, in a sense more mature. She was wearing her usual water tribe clothes but her left arm had a fingerless long sleeve glove on it, while the other just had her Water Tribe band. I nodded and walked over to her, roughly taking her by the arm.

"What are you doing here?" I managed to ask through my teeth. I could feel my hand heating up.

She gently pried my hand off her before speaking. "I need to talk to you." I shook my head. I didn't want to talk to her. "Please?"

I looked up to her and gave her a sharp nod before heading outside the station.

Korra's POV

"Did you even try to save him?" the Firebender asked, venom evident in his voice as he spat out the question.

"I did," I replied calmly. He had every right to be furious with me, to hate me. I didn't blame him.

Mako came straight up to me till we were toe-to-toe with each other. I resisted the urge to wince. I could see the anger and hatred, even in his eyes. His fists were clenched by his side, jaw clenched. He hadn't changed much, maybe looked a little older, a little prouder, and a little more serious than usual. I stared back into his amber eyes, waiting for him to speak.

"Why are you here?" he managed to ask after a while. I could swear I saw steam coming from his hair.

"To apologize," I replied sincerely. "It was my fault he died." I meant it. I was sorry his brother had been killed because of me. I hadn't meant for that to happen. Bo had been a sweet kid, and he'd believed in me when I hadn't deserved it. I still don't.

"I couldn't be mad," he replied. "I couldn't be mad at my little brother for going with you after I strictly forbid him from doing so. I couldn't grieve either, you know why? It's what happens when your brother chooses some cocky, self-absorbed Avatar over his own flesh and blood."

"I didn't-"

"I buried an empty coffin," he continued. "Next to my parent's graves, because his body was -is- at the bottom of the ocean, where you left him." I didn't know what to say. The next words he said, however, hit me like a bucket of cold ice. "It should have been you."

I lowered my gaze. I actually wished it was. "I know it's too late to say this, but I'm sorry."

He let out a shallow laugh, shaking his head. "Yeah, I'm sorry too. I would have hoped you would've suffered a lot longer than five years," Mako added, turning his back on me.

I nodded absently, wishing I could bring Bolin back. Wishing I was the person I was now, back then. He was right. I deserved much worse than what I'd been through.

Asami's POV

I saw the cold look Mako gave Korra the entire time. I didn't have to be there to feel the venom. He hated her; that was a fact. When the news came in of their disappearance, the Firebender's first reaction was to brand Bolin's behind when he got back for disobeying him. But then the days turned into weeks and the weeks into months. He started to go insane then, we all did.

One day an Equalist went to the Police Station, admitting that he'd had a hand in the kidnapping of Avatar Korra and her friend. He said that he had seen a masked man take them onto a boat and that when he returned, the teenagers weren't with him. That's when we knew. Mako's character hardened even more after that. He avoided me and anyone who reminded him of her, of what she had done.

This is why it came as no surprise to me when I saw him walk away from her. I saw how much whatever Mako had said affected my friend. She quietly walked back over to me and I slung an arm around her shoulder. She smiled at me as we headed to the car.

"Ready to go shopping?" I asked.

She let out a small laugh, shaking her head. A screeching of tires was heard and next thing I knew I had a dart stuck in my neck. I looked over to see Korra trying to fight masked figures before letting out a yell. I blinked, trying to get the drowsy feeling to go away without success. Then I fell to the floor and the blackness took over.