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Characters: Korra (alphatar), Mako (firethepolice), Zatanna (backwordscompatible)
Date: March 29th
Location: Jade School of Kung Fu dojo
Situation: Korra tells Mako of her alternate memories from Kithika, Zatanna finds them later
Warnings/Rating: References to death

The loose, flowing blue work out pants Korra was wearing caught the air as she brought her leg up to execute a perfectly placed high kick on the punching bag. Letting out a gruff grunt, she repeated it again and was determined to complete her set when she heard that she wasn’t alone.

After making sure everyone left, Korra had spent the past two hours getting a fierce exercise and training session going. As her bare feet padded quietly across the floor, she brought her navy blue tank top up to wipe off the sweat from her face and stopped walking when she rubbed her chin with her shirt.

"Mako? What’s up?"

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[backwordscompatible]

She signed, and had to resist the urge to pinch the bridge of her nose.

"Look, Korra. I'm like the last person to judge right now..." (and, for once, this was actually true) "...but you told me you two broke up. And what I saw was not two people who had broken up. Which, if it's not true, then congrats. But if it is true...."

She trailed off, not knowing what to say. Which she demonstrated by shrugging.

"That must've been some conversation you two were having."

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Her mouth opened but she didn't say anything for a couple of seconds, and then finally Korra said "We're not together. Mako's dating Asami, and yes, we were eating and talking about our world and some silly stuff from back before we even met."

For Korra all of it was simple as day, they just hung out outside. On a hill. With dinner, and moonlight.

And fell asleep.

Simple.

"We're just friends."

[backwordscompatible]

The part about him dating Asami was new, as evident by the way her brows rose nearly to her hairline. She had to bite back a he moves fast line, and instead tried to focus on Korra's last statement.

"And you're...okay with that?"

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THAT WAS NOT A FAIR QUESTION by Korra's standards, especially when Zatanna had seen how she was while she was staying at Mike's suite. She furrowed her brow and glanced to the side before looking back at Zatanna.

She inclined her head slightly. "It's been working great so far." And that was said in honesty. They had been able to talk to each other a lot more now that they couldn't focus so heavily on.each.other.

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TOTALLY FAIR.

Now if only Zatanna had a inkling as to what Korra's apparent definition of 'working great' was.

But. Alas.

"If you're sure." Even though she was sure Korra was sure at all. "...though I still might have to smack him a bit for up and leaving like that. I mean, even if you two really are just friends, that was pretty rude."

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"I’m sure." said defiantly as she took in a deep breath through her nose. They had made enough progress in actually being able to talk to each other that Korra didn’t want to question any of it, not when she and Mako were actually able to talk openly.

"Trust me, he’s like that most of the time if he doesn’t know you that well." She left it up to Zatanna to how she learned that one. Spoiler: The hard way.

[backwordscompatible]

"How well does he have to know somebody? Because it's not like we've never spoken before."

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"It took a lot." They've been through a lot and Korra didn't want to think about any of it just then. Not when they had spent a lot of yesterday admitting their homesickness, and resentment for being torn from their world.

"I should go too, I wasn't planning on sleeping out here past dawn. Talk to you later?" She wasn't brushing Zatanna off, but now wasn't a good time for the subject.

[backwordscompatible]

She knew well enough when somebody was trying to make a quick escape.

"Sure thing. We'll make an afternoon out of it. Haven't done one of those in a while."

[alphatar]

"You got a deal." Korra let out a relaxing breath and gave Zatanna an affirming nod before she turned to make her way back home.