He was holding her waist, smiling at her and calling her beautiful, god she wished that was her. Korra had been un-stable ever since Tarlock had captured her, and Mako was so sweet when they finally found her, but things were weird between them now, had she done something to change their friendship? Why was he avoiding her like this, so many questions she wanted answered? Korra had woken up from nightmares ever since she got back, she had noticeable lines of fatigue on her face, and her bending was starting to suffer
"That was sloppy Korra, even if no air didn't come out" Said Tenzin sternly
"I'm sorry, I just can't do this! Why do I suck at air-bending so much?" she sat down and put her hands over her face
"Korra I'm no expert in the other elements, but you haven't been doing too well in those either, your concentration has just slipped" he sat down next to her and put his arm around her shoulder
"I know things have been hard for you lately, but we are always here, no matter what the situation" he said, he was sort of like her second father in a way
"I'm fine Tenzin, it's just air-bending, it's been stressing me out" she smiled back at him, she then stood up and walked away, leaving Tenzin with a worried look on his face.

As dinner approached she knew she would have to see Mako and Asami together, what is with him?
"Training, yeah training "she mumbled to herself, was Tenzin right? Was she really that worried that the other elements that she had already mastered been going down, he was right about one thing though. Her concentration had slipped; every minute of the day she was thinking about it, how would she defeat Amon? What the hell was going on with Mako? Why did she want to break down and start crying in random moments of the day? This past week she would find herself shivering un-controllably for no reason, or breaking down and crying for hours on end. What was wrong with her?

She stood in the middle of the gym and bent some water; it fluently twirled around her with grace and beauty. Water was her natural element; she had always loved watching how it moved, and how the sun would shine off of it. She was bending beautifully when the feeling hit her again, she started shivering, and tears welled up in her eyes. The water dropped from around her splashing to the ground and Korra collapsed to the ground
"What is wrong with me!" she screamed, she hated this, was bending making her like this? No, she loved bending it was what made her who she was, she didn't know, she didn't even care at this point. She just wanted it to stop.
"Dinner" she moaned to herself, getting up and leaving the water in the centre of the room.

"Mako stop!" Asami squealed, while he tickled her, Korra didn't even look up, her heart was aching hearing those two play together
"Here try this" he said and he placed a spoon to her mouth,
"Pema the food is amazing" Asami said, she was so polite and nice, why did she have to be so nice!
Korra knew the food was amazing, Pema was a great cook but Korra had barely touched anything on her plate. She looked up at the two of them, Mako and her eyes met briefly for a second, he looked pained, she wonder if he felt worse than her, was that even possible at this point. She felt herself shivering again, her eyes welling up with tears again
"Not here…" she whispered to herself, she looked down at her food once more feeling sick, she looked up at everyone. She suddenly felt claustrophobic in the room of people, her eyes widened and she started panting, with sweat beading off her forehead. Tenzin looked at Korra
"Korra? Korra what's wrong?" He asked
she went to answer him but lost words, he voice suddenly didn't respond to her brain, she choked up. She stood up and ran out the door. Her legs were moving so fast, she needed to get away from the love nest. Tears were spilling down her face, she could barely see ahead of her. She ran through several different corridors until she found a corner of a room. She started to cry clutching her stomach as she slid down to her knees; she was so upset all the time. Everyone must have been searching for her; she bolted out the room for no reason, Mako was probably still attached to Asami.
"Korra, pull yourself together girl" she said to herself, but she just cried harder breaking down in a dark cold room by herself
"Korra? Korra where are you?" she heard a muffled voice through the door, she was still shaking un-controllably but her sobs were loud.

Mako walked through the door; he didn't see her at first but then noticed her clutching her legs in the corner of the cold room
"Korra!" Mako yelled and ran towards her sitting beside her, pulling her closer she felt at peace for a second or so then pushed him away and clung to herself again
"Korra what's wrong? Come on everyone is worried" he said
"I don't care" she said and let out more sobs
"Korra you need to come back, we care for you and want to help you" he said, he was being genuine to the young avatar, but she was beyond caring
"You care do you Mako? Did you care when you and Asami were flirting around me twenty four seven? Did you care when you basically ignored me after I nearly died? Do you care Mako really?" She yelled, the constant flow of tears making him feel worse. He was shocked in the beginning, she was right, he had been ignoring her
"You say you care for me now, but what about all the times I needed you and you weren't there. You were too busy with beautiful Asami, so go, and ignore me more, maybe if you're lucky I'll go even Amon will beat me and I'll die and you won't ever have to deal with me again!" she spat at him, her words stinging like venom
"You think that's why I ignored you? Because I wanted you dead?" he said in shock
"Why else would you do it!" she yelled again, she was shaking more now. What was wrong with her?
"Korra look at me!" his words not making a difference to her current state, he then grabbed her wrists and turned her to look at him
"You think I ignored you because I don't want you in my life! Korra it's because I want you in my life that I've been ignoring you" He looked at her, his amber eyes keeping Korra's attention to him
"Korra when you were taken, I couldn't sleep, I couldn't eat, all I wanted to do was get you back. I couldn't let them hurt you!" he then kissed her out of the blue, it was intense and passionate, something they had both wanted for so long but avoided. The room was dark and Korra was soon entangled with Mako her legs around his torso and his hand sliding up and down her thigh, he then broke away from the kiss
"Don't ever say that again, ever" his voice stern, but pained, his eyes said it all though. He had something with Korra he could never have with Asami. Passion, fire, he didn't feel that with Asami, he liked her, but he didn't love her, not like he did Korra. He continued kissing Korra, his warmth engulfed her, and she just wanted more. Korra then grabbed his scarf and pulled him closer towards her. Then the feeling suddenly came over her again, the sickness, the tears and the shiver
"Korra?" Mako asked, but Korra was crying again
"Korra what's wrong?" he asked, his eyes locked on the beautiful woman, that's when Korra passed out in his arms. Her eyes shutting and her body going limp
"KORRA!"