Well, I'm out of school forever! Well, until I graduate this week. Which means maybe more time to write until a job comes along. Before I go on let me say a few more things. Even though I am going along with the original plot the next few chapters will be different because of the fact that Korra nor Amon or anyone else (or maybe a few do know *wink wink*) know that she is the Avatar. I will put in bits and pieces from the original plot but it might be two or three chapters before we get back on track with it. Well, enough talk you have been waiting long enough.

Disclaimer: Do not own TLOK


"Korra?" the voice echoed in her head," Korra? Korra!"

She woke up with a start as the students around her snickered," W-What?"

"You fell asleep in the library cubicle again," Bolin look at her worried," Korra, are you ok? You've been acting a little weird since the rally."

"Yeah, yeah, I'm fine. Don't worry about me, Bo," she gathered her things and walked with out Bolin.

He walked in front of her and pointed at her eyes," Those bags under your eyes tell a different story."

She rolled her eyes and walked around him," Gee, thanks for pointing that out. Hey, I've got to get to class. I'll see you after school, bye!"

"Um, bye?" He waved as he watched his friend jog to her next class.

As he walked to his own class he began to think about Korra's "zombie" state lately. She wasn't your usual full of life, energetic Korra. During lunch she will just pick at her food and stay quiet. Korra would never let food go to waste! She doesn't laugh at the brothers bickering anymore. During Pro-Bending practice she barely tries anymore. She lost her spark. Something was wrong with Korra and he was going to find out what.


"Ms. Martinez, you're late."

"I know, sorry, Mrs. Howard," Korra took her seat next to Mako and kept her head down.

"Now, as I was saying we will be reading Romeo and Juliet in class for the next week or so. You'll have a final project due after we finish, understood," the class nodded," Great, now-."

Korra stopped listening to Mrs. Howard and drifted off into her own world. She opened up her notebook and started drawing random doodles, or maybe they weren't so random as you'd think.

"You want to be my partner?" she heard a guy say flirtatiously, but she was too out of it to even pay attention.

"Sorry, she already has a partner," she heard another familiar voice say with a grunt following right after.

She didn't realize someone was shaking her arm until they took the pen out of her hand," Hey, what's the- Oh, hi, Mako."

"Is everything ok?" His voice was filled with concern. Korra seemed a little too distracted today but why?

She sighed and slammed her notebook shut," Not you too. I am fine why does everybody keep asking that?"

"Korra, you weren't responding to me at all until I finally took that pen out of your hand. What were you drawing that took all your attention," as Mako tried to take her notebook off her desk she punched him in the arm," Ow! What was that for?"

"Mako, Korra, am I going to have to find other partners for you two?" Mrs. Howard snapped.

"No, Mrs. Howard everything is fine."

"Don't. Touch. My book," Korra's voice was low but menacing. It sent a shiver or two down Mako's back.

"Korra, what's wrong with you? Why are you acting like this lately?"

Korra looked at him, anger bubbling up inside of her. Why can't everyone just leave her alone? It took all of her might not to yell at him. She calmed down and turned back towards him.

"Look, I've just had trouble sleeping lately, ok? You know how I can get when I'm sleep deprived so quit your worrying. Now what are we doing?"

As Mako was explaining the final project to her a million thoughts ran through his mind. Korra might act a little hostile when she doesn't get enough sleep, but this is on a whole other level. Just the other day ay lunch he tried taking her tray of food to stop her from picking at it and what does she do? She almost stabs him with a fork! She did apologize after the incident, but what worried him was the face she put on. It was like she looked... scared? But why is the main question.


"Coach can't be here today since he's in charge of detention today so it's just us. I guess we can do a few warm ups?" Emma suggested and everyone nodded," Nice, so let's all pair up. Hey, Bo, want to be my sparring partner?"

Bolin looked at her with a sheepish smile," Me?"

"Well, your name is Bolin, right? Come on, let's go!" she grabbed his hand and walked off to the other side of the field with him.

As they did Bolin looked over at Korra and Mako mouthing the words," She's holding my hand!" You could practically see hearts floating all around his head.

Mako shook his head and chuckled," Someone seems overly excited to be partnered up with Emma."

"Well, he has been crushing on her for awhile," Korra laughed.

"You know, I think that's the first time I've heard you smile since the rally," he noticed her smile fade," Uh, let's spar."

"Yeah, let's."

The sparring match seemed to be going to fine. Mako attacked Korra with two fireballs and she easily dodged them and retaliated with a water whip. Mako sent another attack that knocked Korra down. Mako ran over to make sure she was ok. When he offered his hand to help her up she opened her eyes and only stared at him.

'There it is again! That face! That look!' Mako thought.

He slowly took his hand back and got down to eye level with her," Korra, it's ok."

It took a few seconds before she snapped out of her trance," I, uh... I'm going to get some water."

Once she was out of earshot Bolin and Emma ran up to Mako," Hey, we saw what was going on. What happened?"

"I-I don't know. She fell and when I tried to help her back up she just looked at me," Mako wasn't liking this at all.

"Have you guys noticed she's been a bit more cranky lately or is that just me?" Emma asked.

"No, we've noticed too. It's really weird."

"I'm really starting to worry about her," Emma's face fell in disbelief," I would hate to her get any worse."


Mako was sitting at his desk working on his Chemistry homework when he heard his door click open, " What is it, Bo?"

"Mako," Bolin shut the door and took a seat on Mako's bed," I'm really worried about Korra."

"I know what you mean. She's not acting like her usual self."

Bolin looked down at his feet," Do you... Do you think it had anything to do with the Amon and the Equalist rally?"

Mako stopped writing and put his pencil down," What?"

"Haven't you noticed that this didn't start happening until after the rally? Think about it."

Now that Bolin mentioned it, it did seem to make sense. He never thought about it like that, but once it was said it put a piece together to the puzzle.

"Now that you bring it up, she has been saying she hasn't been sleeping well lately," rolled the chair around and propped his feet on the bed.

"You think it's nightmare?"

"Might be, but that doesn't explain her constant spacing out." Or does it?

"I think I've got it!"

There was knock at the door and their Uncle's head peeked out," Not to intrude on your conversation boys, but someone is here to see you."

"Who?"

"Come see for yourself."

They looked at each other and walked down to the living room. They were surprised to see who was sitting on the couch," Mr. Martinez?"

"Evening, boys."

"Good evening, not to sound rude, but what brings you by?" Mako asked.

"Your friends of Korra's right?" they nodded," Well, Korra has been acting... odd lately. I was hoping you two would know why."

"I'm sorry, sir. We would like to know what's going on just as much as you do."

"It's been going on for two weeks now and her mother and I are starting to grow very concerned. She won't eat as much as she use to, she's seem to have lost weight because of it. She won't talk to us or anything," you could hear the sadness in his voice. He's lost his daughter to who knows what.

"Now that you mention it she isn't as energetic at work as she usually is."

Mako hesitated before giving out his theory, " I think I may have an idea as to what's going on."


The Next Day...

"Mako! Mako!" Emma called out to him.

He closed his locker and waited for her, " What's up, Emma? What's the rush?"

"Korra, dropped her book on the way ouy of free period. I picked it up and found something you might want to see," she opened it up to a certain page and handed it to him," Take a look."

He took the notebook and was a bit surprised at what he saw," I was really hoping it wouldn't be this."


Whoa, what did Mako and Emma find in Korra's notebook? Why has she been acting so weird lately? I guess we'll jusy have to find out in the next chapter. I would just like to say thank you to all my reviewers. I had lost motivation in writing this story and reading all your reviews gave me back that motivation! Don't forget to vote for your pairings. I add a little BolinxEmma, but keep voting until they make an appearance!

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