Chapter 2

BEEP, BEEP, BEEP! Korra grumbled, her arm reached out and smacked her alarm clumsily, it didn't turn off, and she lifted her head which was buried in the pillow "Ugh" she grumbled as she pressed the button on the top of the clock. Then she sat up, swung her legs over the side of the bed and stood up slowly, she looked around, the bed was now empty, "Always the early bird isn't she," Korra grumbled to herself.

She walked over to the wardrobe, pulled out the blue school T-shirt, the white waterbending insignia printed onto the back. Pulled out a pair of black joggers and got changed. She then walked downstairs and into the dining room. There at one end of the table sat Asami, in front of her a plate of toast, and to one side of her an empty plate dotted with crumbs and a glass with the remnants of a glass of orange juice.

"Your Dad been and gone I assume," Korra asked making Asami jump, due to her night time activities her footsteps rarely made a sound and the door had been open.

"I wish you'd stop doing that Korra," Asami said slightly startled.

"I don't make an effort, and the door was open," Korra said smiling.

She walked around the table and sat opposite Asami where a plate was sitting, and grabbed two pieces of toast and started to butter them.

"How did last night go?" Asami asked.

"Good, managed to knock Amon out, at least I think I didn't kill him," Korra bit her cheek, "Bolin was there, he was a prisoner, I managed to free him and the others, and trap the Equalists,"

Then a knock at the dining room door, Asami looked up, and turned towards the door, "Come in"

The door swung open, it was the butler, "Miss Sato, it's the Chief of Police I told her wait but she was instant to speak Miss Korra,"

Then Beifong appeared next to the butler, "Chief," Korra said acknowledging her presence albeit though a mouthful of toast.

"Korra you asked if I could keep her up-to-date with the Equalist issue," The Chief said gruffly. This much was true, if only as an alibi as to why she knew so much about the Equalists, they had killed her Father after all. "It appears there was an Equalist rally last night however I have reason to believe that the Avatar put this to a halt, she managed to capture Amon, however he managed to escape," Korra swore under her breath "It appears he's a Bloodbender, although we weren't able to capture him we forced him to show his true colours, we'll be ready next time,"

Korra nodded "Is that all?"

Beifong nodded, "Until next time Korra," she turned on her heal and walked out the door.

As the door closed behind the butler Korra slammed her fist against the table making most of dishes on it jump into the air. "Dam it, what has that bastard got in store next," she cursed

"If he's a master waterbender, then why is he leading a campaign to kill all benders?" Asami mused

"The man's a psychopath, hell if I know," Korra shrugged after eating her toast, she rose, necked her orange juice and walked out of the door.

Korra and Asami walked into school hand-in-hand, the trek into school wasn't a long one, they then walked over to Mako and Bolin, Mako in his red Firebending T-shirt and Bolin in his Green Earthbending top, Bolin seemed a little than usual, Kora didn't blame him.

"Korra!" Bolin cried, "you'll never guess what, I saw the Avatar, I mean no-one's seen the Avatar's face since Aang died, but…" her was cut off by a smack on the back of the head from Mako.

"You only saw the Avatar because you were hanging around with Shady Shin again," He scolded

"YOU WHAT!" Asami screamed. Kora knew she was acting, Kora had told her earlier, but is sure as hell was convincing

Bolin rubbed the back of his head where his brother had just hit him, "Yeah, we got kidnapped by some Equalists, and the Avatar saved us, but she was totally kickass, it is a she right? Any way she took out hundreds of them on her own, and…" another smack on the back of the head this time from Asami.

"You got kidnapped Bo, that's nothing to be proud of," she sounded exasperated.

Korra just kept her mouth shut for fear of giving something away, then the bell went, and everyone dispersed to their next lesson. Mako fell into step with Korra "You're unusually quiet today," he said

"Yeah I guess Bolin was lucky," Korra said quietly

Mako knew what she was implying and said no more on the subject, sometimes it was easy to remember that Korra's dad was killed by equalists, that was why she did what she did.

[2 years ago]

Asami screamed as her mother collapsed quite dead in front of her, her dad yelled out, almost in pain and fell to the floor, gathering his wife's body in his arms, the family's assailant advanced towards them, flaming daggers in his hands, then out of nowhere a stream of water flew over Asami's head and collided with his cheek making him stumble back a few steps, Asami looked in the direction of the attack, to see a young girl, no older then her, with tan skin and long black hair, running along the wall, she jumped off the wall with her fist raised, she then punched the man across the face, she stopped to look at Asami, her eyes locked with hers for a spit second, and that was the first time Asami saw her eyes, those eyes, a deep blue, more so hen any Asami had ever seen.

That pause was enough to enable the man to regain his balance, he punched and flames burst from burst fist, without looking the girl ducked under the flames, she pulled water from the gutter as she span around, the water solidified, from a water whip into a long icy spear, it impaled him though his stomach, he groaned as the life slopped from his eyes. The man collapsed, the girl waved her hand and the ice melted.

She turned around and looked at Asami, but her eyes weren't looking at Asami, they were fixed on the open wound on her cheek, "Hold still," she said as she walked forward, water, from the gutter floated up and coated the girl's hand, Asami hissed as the cold water touched the cut, but then it warmed as it started to glow with a blue hue, the stinging was replaced with a tingling sensation as the wound closed.

"What's your name," Asami asked, trying to be polite.

"I said hold still, I'm not done yet," the girl said with a surprising calm tone of voice, considering that she was so close to a complete stranger. She lowered her hand and the water dropped back into the gutter, "done," she said, "My name's Korra, to answer your question," she sighed and looked around, "are you ok?" she asked.

Asami shrugged, she wasn't injured, anymore at least, but her mom was dead… 'Don't think about it and it'll go away' she told herself.

"I can't help your mom I'm afraid, she is your mom isn't she?" Korra asked, there was pain in her voice, almost like she was remembering something painful.

Keen to change the subject Asami asked "Where are your parents?"

"Dead," came a blunt reply. So much for changing the subject. That was when Asami had an idea, to keep her mind off things.

"Do you have anywhere to go?"

"No,"

"Why don't you come home with us?"

"I can fend for myself," Korra turned around and went to pull up the hood to her baggy hoodie but Asami reached out to grab her arm,

"At least… at least let me repay you," Asami sighed "you saved our lives,"

"No need,"

Asami produced a slip of paper from her coat pocket, it had her home address on it, her mother had always insisted that she carry it in case she got lost, Asami handed it over "I insist, that is my home address, be there at 5 o'clock tomorrow evening, if you're don't come I'll understand, but I would really appreciate it,"

Korra nodded and accepted the slip of paper, she then looked up, Asami's dad was cradling her mom's body crying, "go, he needs you, I won't blame you for crying, I sure as hell did,"

Asami nodded and went to comfort her father, when she looked up Korra was gone.

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