And The Scent of Earth And Sea - (be-the-peaf week 50)
Title: And The Scent of Earth And Sea
Word Count: 974
Summary: [He wakes up with his tie on the lamp and a weight on his chest. Things could be stranger. | Mako. Korra. Makorra. Fluff.]-.-
be-the-peaf · Prompt 050 – formal
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Stirring, he tilts his head into the blinding sun streaming through the window and promptly sees his tie hanging from the lamp standing in the corner of the room. It’s out place, sure, but after everything he’s been through, he’s definitely seen stranger sights. The rest of his clothes were laid out over the room as well: black pants by the door, jacket beside the nightstand, and a pair of shoes thrown here and there.
Her clothes were also here and there – laying scattered in the corner of the bed where he’d helped her remove the long, heavy dress from her. The shoes she wore were probably at the foot. He blinks, looking them over one by one and pulls his arms free from beneath the heavy covers to rub a hand over his pounding head. He had too much to drink last night – he can’t remember getting home. Yawning, he wets his dry lips and lowers his hand to the lump of brown hair resting on his chest, running his fingers along her cheek.
She wakes, digging her face into the soft fabric of his undershirt for a moment before craning her head to his.
“Morning,” she says, her voice filled with sleep as she rests her chin on him, her eyes half-shut.
He brushes a clump of loose hair behind her ear. “Sleep well?”
She tilts her head into his touch. “Yeah… Haven’t slept that good in ages.”
He smiles, running his fingers over his jaw. “In that case, we should go to a party every time you come home.”
She grins, pushing her feet against the mattress to slide to his face “Shut up” she says, and press her lips into his.
Mako leans forward, holding his hand against the back of her head and taking her lips to his like water. They kiss and part and kiss and part again. She laughs, giggling as he litters her with kisses and pulls away, resting her hand on his cheek to hold him back while the other bunches his shirt to his shoulder.
“Stop, you big lug,” she says, flashing her teeth at him in a wide smile. “You’re spoiling me.”
Mako takes her hand by the wrist and puts her arm to his mouth. She laughs again, but gives up trying to stop him, resting her elbow on his chest instead.
“What’s gotten into you?”
“I don’t know,” he says, kissing her. “Must have had too much to drink.”
She pulls her arm back and props her chin beneath her hand. “Well, remind me to figure out what was at our table.”
He dips his head. “With pleasure.”
He rolls to the side, taking her with him and wraps his arms around her back, holding her close. Closing his eyes, he pecks a trail of light kisses on her forehead, burying his nose in her unwashed hair. He breathes her in, and she still smells of the ancient dirt of the Earth Kingdom Mountains, tastes of the salt of the sea that brought her home. The scent is absolutely alluring.
“I’ve missed you.” he says, muttering into her skin. “I’ve missed you so much.”
Her hands crawl up the sides of his face.
“I’m right here,” she says, pulling him down and meeting their lips once again. “And I’m not going anywhere else.”
He buries his face into her shoulder.
“Good.”
They hold against each other for a long while – taking in the other’s presence. He tightens his arms on her and she rubs her hand on his back, taking a deep breath and blowing the air into his neck. Then she pushes her arms straight against his chest, and looks at him with still-sleeping eyes.
“We should get ready,” she says. “She’s probably going to–”
“Waaahh!!”
Mako smiles.
“Speak of the Spirits,” he says, turning over in the bed to face the door. “Do you want to get her, or should–”
He faces back – she’s not there.
“Korra?” he asks, lifting himself on the bed to turn his head around the room. His hand sinks into the mattress and it squelches. He pulls away immediately, looking down to see what was spilled–
It’s red – the mattress is covered in dark, dark red.
His mind panics as he inhales the rusted cooper smell.
It’s blood.
“Korra!!” he yells, his head twisting to the door. “Kor–”
“Mako!”
His eyes fly open and he shoots up in the bed, gasping for breath. His hand wipes across his brow, sweat sliding slick between his fingers and he turns to the side as Asami leans in, her face etched with concern. She puts her hand on his shoulder, crouching beside the bed.
“Are you okay?” she asks, examining his face. “You looked like you were having a nightmare.”
“I–” he stops, taking a moment to look around the sun-speckled room, at all the clothes strewn over the floor. A pair of black pants lying flat by the door, a jacket bunched into a heap beside the nightstand, two shoes, laces loose and sprawled – one here and there. And a tie, long and thin, hanging off the lamp in the far corner, thrown after he pulled it off last night, too tired and sad to care where it landed.
All his – not a hint of her.
Mako turns his head down, and his hands ball into tight fists.
“Yeah… something like that.”
Asami’s eyes sad, her hand slipping from his shoulder as she stands. He stares at his hand and swallows hard. Silence fills the room.
“Try to get some rest,” she finally says, turning to the hall. “You’ve had a long night.”
The door shuts with a soft click and Mako takes a shaking breath, loosening his hands as Aruna’s wailing cries reach his ears.
He wishes it was that easy.
:FIN:
I know, I know, that was cruel and cliché and probably very confusing at the end for most of you but I wanted it to be a surprise. It’s not really important, but for context sake this takes place before this fic and after another fic that will explain what happened before that and this but I haven’t written it yet sooooo…..
it was too good to pass up i apologize for nothing
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