A/N: LOK isn't mine. In this chapter, Korra is four...ish. I think. *shrug* To the person that requested this, I'm sorry this took so long. I went to Myrtle Beach this week, and didn't bring my laptop. But here you go! :) - Immac
In Which Senna Knows
Mother's intuition.
Senna always knew that Korra would be different. She always figured her daughter would do something extraordinary, even if she just seemed like your regular tomboyish toddler at the time. She always assumed Tonraq noticed too, though her husband wasn't quite as… savvy as she. He just thought Korra was odd. He didn't care, though. It was more like a fact of life than anything: the sky is blue, the snow is white, Korra's odd.
It was weird, though. Korra always was talking about the stories her parents told her about Avatar Aang and the 100 Year War. When watching her father gut a tiger seal, she'd casually tell him the story he'd told her the night before about how Aang destroyed a fleet of Fire Nation warriors by going into the Avatar state and being a giant water monster. At bedtime, she always wanted an Aang story. By the time she was almost 4, her parents had told her all of the stories they knew.
That was the night she told them a story about Avatar Aang.
"An' then he went all glowy and asked where Appa was," she explained, "and the sand benders told 'm they sold 'im. And Aang was really mad, and Katara hugged 'im, and he stopped glowin'."
Senna knew that her daughter didn't just make this up. It was too detailed to have come from the mind of a toddler, even an odd one. Tonraq assumed she'd learned this story from one of the kids in the village, but her mother knew better. She just wasn't sure.
And then Korra ran up to her one day with a crude doll made out of earth.
"Mama! Mama!" the four-year old said eagerly. "Look! I made you!"
"Oh, baby, that's beautiful," Senna said, scooping up her daughter. The doll was only a few inches tall and had a vague but deliberate figure, but Korra had tried drawing her mother onto the doll. The doll had a smiling face and two braids, like Senna, drawn on with soot. "Did your father help you whittle this?"
"Uh uh," Korra shook her head. "I was playing and I smacked the ground, and it popped out. And then I drew on it!"
Senna blinked. Korra… earthbended?
"Korra, remember that story you told me and daddy about Avatar Aang? The one where his pet got sold?" she asked her child slowly. Korra nodded eagerly. "Where did you learn that?"
"I don't know. Just did. Hey, you wanna see what I did to the platypus-bear Uncle Unarock gave me?" Korra squirmed until her mother placed her back on the ground. Senna cautiously followed the child back to her bedroom, where Korra grabbed a stuffed animal. To Senna's surprise, half of the head was burnt off, and the rest was charred and crispy.
"Korra, how did you do that?" Senna gasped.
"Like this," Korra said, placing the toy on the floor. She took a deep breath, then threw a punch. A small, candle-sized spark flew from her fist, igniting the platypus-bear. Senna jumped back and yelped, but Korra just giggled and clapped.
"Uh, Korra, dear, can you put that out?" Senna asked. "Please?"
"Sure, mama!" Korra said happily, bending a few tiny drops of water from the snow on her windowsill and using it to extinguish the small fire on the toy. Senna blinked.
"Come on, honey, we need to go find your daddy," she said slowly. "You're just like Avatar Aang, Korra."
"Am I the Avatar like him?" the toddler's big blue eyes went wide with glee.
"I think you are," she said.
"I'm the Avatar!" Korra cheered, bursting through the wall excitedly while Senna just blinked in shock.
Her intuition told her that Korra was going to be special, and that intuition was never wrong.
A/N: Since you guys already know that I desperately need submissions or this thing won't go anywhere, I'm now using this space for free advertisements! :D I have a new story, The Rise of Aryan, which focuses on the Avatar following Korra's death. It'd mean the world to me if you beatiful, fabulous peoples, you, would go and check it out! (Plus, wouldn't Korra be the best spirit advisor EVER? Besides Kyoshi, I mean.) - Immac
