Mako visits Asami

After an unexpectedly frustrating day and an incredibly stressful meeting with Varrick, Asami was still **** to leave the office. She'd worked a full day but there was still so much to do. Not to mention the fact that she just didn't want to go home. Not after the things she had said and the things Korra had done.

The door to her office opened and her secretary peaked her head inside. "Ms. Sato?"

"Yes, Rula?"

"The chief of police is here to see you."

And then there was Mako. He was the last person she wanted to deal with at moment. Okay, the second to last person, the last person being Korra.

"I assume you're here about the investigation?" Asami asked.

Mako cleared his throat, blushing at the thought of Korra's nakedness. Asami thought this would anger her, but she had long ago accepted that the two of them had been intimate. Plus, it wasn't like it was Mako's fault that Korra had driven across the whole city with no top.

"I'm not here to make things difficult, Asami. I just want to know what happened."

"You're guess is as good as mine." Asami said bitterly. "She wouldn't tell me the truth."

It crossed her mind, to tell him about the photo and the possible ****. He was the chief of police after all. She quickly dismissed the thought. After how lenient he'd been already, she had no right to ask for something else right now.

Plus, it would involve divulging that Korra had cheated on her, which was somehow worse than the public indecency. She couldn't bear the laugh she was sure he would give, at the irony of the situation, if he found out about that.

"I don't want her to go to trial for this, Asami. But I don't have much choice." He said, putting his hands on the edge of her desk.

She glared across at him and he reluctantly removed his gauntlets from the surface of the desk. "Mako, I am exhausted, alright? And frankly, I don't care anymore...if you want to prosecute her, go right ahead. Our lawyer said you've got dozens of witnesses to what happened, there's no point in trying to deny it."

She began to tear up. There was a time, she would have given her life for Korra. And she still loved her, more than anything. That's why this all hurt so much and why none of it made sense.

"What's wrong?" Mako said, as she turned away from him. She refused to be pitied by him right now.

"Nothing." She said, wiping her face. "My life has turned out exactly the way I wanted it!"

"Asami..." He sat down across from her and sighed. "Whatever happened, I promise I will do whatever I can to help."

Asami lifted her eyes and rubbed them. Then she let out a defeated sigh. "I was going to ask her to marry me...and now I find out...I'm not enough for her."

Mako lifted his head in surprise. Korra and Asami were beautiful in completely different ways. But they were still two of the most beautiful women in the world as far as he was concerned. And to hear that Korra wanted more than Asami? Asami, who was smart and graceful and rich and who had lost her mother and her father and almost her entire business again and again?

Mako's blood boiled. He should have known from the moment Korra kissed him that she was selfish. Her whole life she had been taught how important she was and even with him, Bolin and Asami treating her like a normal person, she still believed it. She treated people like they were toys, she could toss aside when she was tired of them. She had done it to him when they broke up. She had done it to Team Korra when she abandoned them to try to fix the chaos in the Earth Kingdom by themselves. And now she was doing it to Asami, because of some, quarter-life crisis.

He stood up, feeling sick. "I'm sorry." He said.

And when he said it, Asami felt herself unsure what he was apologizing for. Was he sorry for Korra's actions over the last 24 hours? Was he sorry that he had not warned her, when she and Korra had gotten together that the relationship would inevitably break her heart? Or was he sorry that he had ever cheated on her with Korra in the first place, that he had chosen the wrong person, between the two of them.

In retrospect her falling in love with Korra now looked like such an obviously terrible idea that she questioned why someone hadn't shaken her and told her so to her face before the two of them ran off to explore the world together. They were friends forged in fire it was true, they had put all the high school drama behind them. But Asami had known that Korra was impatient and egotistical. She had seen the catastrophic results of those qualities over and over in her time with the Avatar. And she had allowed herself to fall for her anyway, out of what? Some self-enforced naivety? Had she really been that star-struck by someone so powerful and competent, that she had blinded herself to all the little flaws that made them human.

It was times like these she wished her mother was still here.

"I don't know what to do..." Asami said, full on sobbing now. "I want to forgive her, but...I'm afraid...I'm afraid she'll just do it again."

Asami realized she was ashamed of just how terrified of this day she had been. Korra's history had always lingered in her mind and Asami had often been afraid she might find someone more interesting or exciting to glom onto. Now that day had actually come and Asami realized it was so much worse than she had ever thought.

"Look, Asami..." Mako turned back to her. "I can't tell you what to do, but me and Bolin...we'll be there to support you, alright? Whatever your decision is." He promised.

Asami laughed and wiped her eyes again. "You never could stand to see me cry..."

The new police chief gave a sad smile and then stood to attention. "Let me drive you home, Asami...you said yourself that your exhausted."

"Wouldn't want to have to give me a ticket, right?" Asami said, letting out another stale laugh at the agonizing absurdity of the situation.

Mako just smiled and offered his arm, which Asami took, gratefully. She needed something to lean on right now.