"Wake up." Korra slowly sat up in her bed. Her eyes felt like they weighed a hundred pounds. Mako stirred a little but quickly went back to sleep. The rays of the late morning sun flooded into the room making it a beautiful golden color. Korra turned to her dresser and grabbed her usual outfit. She quickly put it on and started for the door.
"Korra? Where are you going?" Mako asked drowsily.
"I wanted to say hi to everyone."
"I will come with you." He said slowly standing up.
"That's not necessary Mako go back to sleep."
"No I'm coming with you. Let me just go to my room and grab some clothes. Wait here." Korra sighed and sat down on her bed. She waited there for what felt like forever and occasionally played with the water that was in the cup on her night stand. A rat scurried across the floor making her jump.
"Ohh just a rat." Korra snickered. She held her hand out to it playfully.
"Come here little guy I'm not gonna hurt you." She coaxed. The rat cautiously walked to her keeping an eye on her movements. Korra felt suddenly mad at the small creature and made her hand into a fist. The rat stopped dead in its tracks and began to contort in unnatural positions. She held her hand up and the rat lifted off the ground. Korra's eyes slowly turned to a blood red as she walked to the window holding the rat out of it. Her lips curled into a sickening smile as she slammed her hand down smashing the rat into the rocks below her window. It let out a small squeal and twitched on the ground. Her eyes faded back to their original color and the smile disappeared on her face.
"What have I done?" She gasped covering her mouth. Korra backed into Mako who had just walked in.
"Are you ok? You look like you have just seen a ghost." He questioned.
"Yeah I'm fine. Sorry I just got spooked cause a rat ran across my foot." She lied.
"Korra. Scared of rats." Mako chuckled.
"No I'm not scared of rats it just made me jump that's all."
"Well ok scaredy pants. Let's go surprise Bolin." He smiled grabbing her arm and dragging her to Bolin's room.
"Hey Bo wake up." Mako whispered tapping Bolin on the shoulder.
"Ugh what do you want Mako?" Bolin grumbled.
"I have someone here who wants to see you."
"Can't it wait till later."
"Bolin come on I just wanted to say hi." Korra murmured putting a hand to his shoulder.
"Korra?" He looked up into her crystal blue eyes and smiled.
"Korra! Oh my god! You're really here!" Bolin yelled quickly jumping to his feet. He pulled her into a long bear hug and Korra giggled.
"This must be a dream." Bolin started.
"Nope I'm here in the flesh."
"I missed you so much. We have to tell Tenzin and everyone. They will be so happy to see you." Bolin exclaimed. Korra felt a flicker of pain within herself and cringed.
"Can't we wait a while?" She asked.
"No, no they have been worried sick about you I think they need to see you right away." Mako broke in. Korra looked down at the ground and sighed.
"Come on it will be fine." Mako breathed wrapping his arm around her waist.
"Ok." The walked down the hall into the dining room where the family was eating. Korra hid behind Mako.
"Hey everyone guess who Mako bumped into." Bolin yelled.
"I love guessing games! Is it General Iroh? Or Uncle Bumi?" Ikki questioned running up to Bolin.
"Nope even better it's…"
"Korra." Tenzin gasped. She walked out from behind Mako and stared at the ground avoiding everyone's stares.
"Hey everyone." Korra said waving. The room went silent and Korra worried they wouldn't accept her. She turned to walk away but Tenzin stood in her way.
"I'm so happy to see you." He smiled. Korra looked up at him and smiled. She quickly pulled him into a hug as a tear rolled down her cheek.
"I thought we would never find you." Korra pulled away and in the corner of her eye she noticed a familiar figure standing in the doorway.
"Avatar Korra." She turned to see General Iroh leaning in the doorway with a small smirk. He walked up to her casually and held out his hand. Korra went to put her hand in his but instead she hugged him. Iroh was surprised at first but he returned the hug. Mako growled at their embrace but Bolin elbowed him in the gut telling him to stop.
"I'm so happy to be home." Korra sighed.
"Why don't you come eat dear. We were just about to have breakfast. I'm sure you're starving." Pema said setting a bowl of food on the table. Korra nodded and hastily took a seat at the table along with Mako, Bolin and Iroh. They talked for hours, catching up on their everyday lives and Korra caught Iroh staring at her every so often. She scarfed down her food laughing in between each bite.
"So Korra what happened to you?" Bolin asked. Korra suddenly felt cold and did not realize that she had dropped her fork on her plate. She sat the frozen as the memories rush back through her head. Her surroundings seemed to disappear as she fell into nothingness.
"I. I don't want to talk about it in front of the children." She stuttered. Her heart pounded in her chest and every little noise became intensified. From the little creaks in the house to the birds squawking outside, Korra could hear it all.
"Very well. Come on kids lets go play outside." Pema started taking the three airbenders to the courtyard to play with the flying lemurs. Korra waited till she knew the children were out of hearing range before beginning her story.
"I went with Amon after the duel to protect everyone. He vowed to no bother any of my friends or family if I went with him. He tortured me for the first three days and then he.. He made me his slave. Making me clean the floors and tend to his every sexual need. If I didn't follow orders I." Korra's voice faded out as she played with her arm wrappings. She took a deep breath and tried to finish.
"If I didn't follow orders I usually had to pay." She mumbled.
"And the child?" Tenzin pressed.
"It died. I had a miscarriage about one week after he took me." Korra whispered as a lone tear made its way down her cheek.
"Korra I'm so sor-" Iroh murmured.
"Don't you pity me. I did what I did to protect the people I love and that's all that matters." Korra growled standing up.
"Korra we can all help you through this make you better. You just have to open up to us." Tenzin said grabbing her shoulder. She looked at him from the corner of her eye and gritted her teeth.
"I don't know if I can." She breathed.
"Korra you can do anything if you put your mind to it." Korra sighed and turned back to Tenzin.
"There are some things in this world that should be never spoken about and those things are it. This reunion is over." Korra muttered.
(A/N) I hope everyone likes it. Please leave reviews. :) Things to keep in mind:What's wrong with Korra? What subjects are better left untouched?
