backwordscompatible | IC CONTACT (HAVEN)

What?

[He sounds surprised, and maybe a bit guilty. But just a bit, because he wasn't really avoiding her, in his head.]

No-- No, it's nothing like that. I...

[pause]

The differences in what we remember and just getting my feet under me, it's been...

[a sigh.]

Look, I just saw her yesterday. I'm not avoiding her.

[Believe it or not, that much actually made sense to her. She'd been through it herself enough times to understand the awkward.]

Well, that was yesterday. And this is today.

Look...whatever the time difference between you two...as long as you're still friends, it'll work out. Trust me. Conner and I come from five years apart, and if anything, I think we're closer now than we were back home.

[Completely ignoring the part where they might not still be friends in either of their times. Or the fact that she and Conner had gotten extremely lucky. Or...really...any other situation that involved things going less than casually.]

I know.

Are you always this nosy?

[Yes.]

Are you always this defensive?

[about 90% of the time]

Not all the time. [Korra was just a sensitive subject.]

[Mako, please. Don't sell yourself short.]

So I'm just a special case. Lucky me.

It's more the question...

[he shrugs uncomfortably on the other end. Admittedly, he was thinking about it too much, now]

The one about the prank?

[Or possibly the reason why he might be avoiding Korra, but this topic might actually have a chance to get her somewhere.]

It's no big deal, really. All we did was ask her to hold onto some of Conner's clothes for a little while. I promise. That's it.

[Less he think they were causing the kind of trouble that wasn't so fun.]

Oh.

[... he wasn't sure what to say about that. He knew they were close, based off what she'd told him before but... the guy seemed pretty stand-up?

... And he wasn't sure if being jealous was a normal reaction here]

I see.

And no, we don't make a habit out of it, if that's what you're worried about.

There were extenuating circumstances involved.

[Namely, somebody left Zee and Kon alone unsupervised, and they enabled one another.]

I believe you.

I'm sure it was a pretty good prank.

[he's... so glad... she can't see his face right now. So glad.]

It really was. We could have kept going on forever if Korra hadn't caved and finally given his clothes back. I guess she thought it would be too weird keeping them stashed...wherever she had them stashed.

Come to think of it, I never did ask her where that was.

[A....WKWARD....

Help, he doesn't know how to smoothly bail out of this conversation and he really wants to]

You... don't say.

I can't say. I just told you that.

[Though she was starting to pick up on a bit of tension here. One would think a joke like this would earn even a slight chuckle, but Mako sounded...nervous?]

You feeling alright over there?

[he clears his throat]

Well... I just realized I should. Head over to Haven North.

[Official cop business.]

Annnd didn't want to interrupt your story. But now that you're done, I need to do that.

That's all.

[Uh huh. She wasn't buying that for a second, but since she couldn't figure out what exactly it could be...]

Yeah, sure.

Just remember what I said, alright? [LIKE HE COULD FORGET] Having people from your own world here helps a lot. I'm sure Korra would hate it if you were avoiding her just because of a little timeline awkwardness.

[She totally didn't buy it.

But, either way, it worked. And it wasn't exactly a lie. He did have plans to head straight to Haven North, to add to the log book that he'd started.]

I know. Thanks, Zatanna.

[click.]

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