Disclaimer Thing... Um, am I supposed to say I don't own Avatar: the Legend of Korra. I was never really sure about this... Well I don't own Avatar: the Legend of Korra so I guess I'll just put this here anyway. Doesn't usually hurt to be overly cautious...


Avatar Reed would never fully realize his powers.

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When Reed was ten years old he finally found out who his father was.

After years of wondering and secretly hoping to meet his father, Garen told him.

His father had been a drunk, a strong earthbender, he had apparently been drinking off his loss in the probending arena or something, when he saw his mother. She hadn't even been considered an adult at the time, only seventeen years old.

But she was beautiful.

And his father followed her and hurt her. In ways no one should.

Eventually the man would pass out and she, panicked and scared, would run into someone on the street who took her to the station.

His father would be arrested and locked away. But it would never be over for her.

She was going to have a baby. Although even if she hadn't had the baby, he would forever haunt her.

And Reed understood why he had not been told before and why occasionally his mother would flinch when she looked him in the eye.

Shaking, Reed had asked to see a picture of his father and was horrified to find that except for the color of his hair, he was the spitting image of his father.

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When Joey was born Reed was only fourteen and it was then that he had been forced to realize, he was a blemish.

A dirty stain that would always remind his mother of what she had lost, of what she would never regain.

He realized, looking into the dimly lit room, watching as his mother looked at her baby with the joy only a new mother had, and Garen looking every bit the proud father as he looked down at his infant son, that he wasn't really needed. His mother would be happy without him she had her perfect family.

His mother looked up in that moment and called him over, "Come see your new brother, Reed." He reluctantly wandered over and looked down at his brother, hoping his jealousy didn't show.

Looking at his brother "Half-brother," He thought bitterly.

"I'm not needed now," he kept these thoughts to himself and was determined to avoid his new brother.

Two Months Later:

His mother and Garen had decided they were going to go out, leaving him alone with his baby brother for the first time.

He wasn't sure how to feel about this, because on one hand he was glad things were getting back to normal ("Nothing would ever be normal again with him around," his mind bitterly whispered.) On the other hand he did not want to be left alone with Joey, because that involved facing the one who replaced him.

"Reed, we're going to leave now. Please take good care of your brother." Were his mother's parting word's.

So he would watch him, for his mother.

Every time Reed went out in public, someone was commenting on how much Joey looked like him. Which didn't bother him too much, even though he couldn't see the resemblance.

Sure they both had their mother's brown hair, but while Reed's was wild and messy, Joey's was perfectly straight, almost unnaturally so. Also, while Reed had his father's dark brown eyes, his brother had their mother's blue. While Joey loved to smile and was loud. Reed was quiet and impassive.

Reed would try to love his brother though, try to get along.

Even if it was because his mother told him to.

He would try, for his mother, who had kept him. Even when no one would have shamed her for getting rid of him.

Because of how he came to be.

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As Reed waited with his brother Joey, he realized their parent's weren't coming back.

Reed just didn't understand who these, 'White Lotus' guys thought they were. They claimed Reed was the Avatar, the one who had to save the world and so had at stalked him then kidnapped his family (So they could, "train him.")

Well, they had him here now and he was pretty sure if he hadn't been holding Joey, that Joey wouldn't be here either.

He wasn't stupid, he had heard them talking while he was behind the door. "Eliminate the distractions..." Was what they had said, he hadn't understood at the time but it was no coincidence that Garen and his mother had disappeared not three hours later, kidnapped by Equalizers, they had claimed.

Reed was leaving, before they took the only thing he had left. Who cared about the world, he certainly didn't, not anymore.

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Avatar Reed would always wonder where it all went wrong.

He didn't stop wondering, even as he felt the heat of the flames and breathed his last breath, he would never get the answer.

At the same time, miles away an infant Avatar Kara, born to a well off firebending couple, gulped in her first breath of air.


AN: Did I do it better this time? Maybe as I continue on through the story, I can post snippets of the different Avatar's lives.

Btw, I never included it but... Reed's 'Spirit Animal Guide' thing is a hawk-owl thing named, Hawky. Also, I actually was not thinking of Sokka's Hawky, when I made up the name. But thinking back it does look like that.