Yes this is a half chapter not a full chapter, I wanted to get something out, but didn't want to shove too much into one chapter and rush the story. So this is part one of chapter 21, Enjoy!

It was dark, and loud. There was noise everywhere, but Korra had no idea where she was or what was even happening. Her hands were tied behind her back, but even so, Korra still stretched her finger tips feeling around for Nina, but all she felt was the cold cement under her fingertips. She couldn't speak, duct tape held her mouth shut, she couldn't see, as cloth was tied over her eyes, but she could feel tears leaking on her face. She could still feel her heart breaking over what happened with Amon.
If only she hadn't have been with Tarrlok! If only she hadn't have down that, her and Nina wouldn't have been in this situation, she could still be wrapped up in the arms of the man she loved at home under the thick blankets of his bed… But then, if she hadn't done that, she would have only grown more and more unhappy as she watched Amon become a monster as that masked man he felt he had to be. Even in this urgent situation, Korra's mind was torn over her first real love turning into such a heart ripping thing.
She could hear herself crying now, muffled, it was making her dizzy it was hard to breathe well with her mouth tied like that.
"Shut up!" Lue was yelling now. A sharp pain shot through her side as his foot made impact with her ribcage.
Had her arms been free, Korra would have beat the living daylights out of him, but tied up like this, all she could do was fall over and whimper in pain.
"So like I was saying," she could hear Lue saying to some unknown person, "My employer, who shall remain unnamed, needs these two lovely ladies to disappear, you understand? Make it look like a tragic crash on the way to the island or something."
"'Ey, Lue I've known you since we were kids, and we've been working together for a long time. I've done some crazy shit for you and your employer, but never killing pretty little ladies like these! He'd never asked for a lady or kid to be hurt!" Korra could feel a hand stroke her cheek, she filched away as the man hacked a laugh, "You sure it's your employer that wants them dead, and not you?"
"My boss wants them gone, he just doesn't know it yet. "
"Ohhh, look at you stepping out on your own, little Lue's grown up." the man laughed again and Lue cursed at him and sounded as if he were walking further off, "but say," the man started, "Since they're going to be 'gone' soon anyway, you mind if I have a little fun?" Korra could hear Nina let out a shocked, muffled scream next to her as the man laughed. She felt sick.
"Hands off." Lue replied, "The first rule in the line of work we do is to never mix business with pleasure, you'll lose your head and make mistakes. And if you make a mistake, you'll lose your head, by my hands." Lue hissed. The entire conversation was making Korra sick, she was wishing this was all a bad dream and she'd wake up, in her own room, no! Even at the shack she used to live in, before she met Amon, that would be better. The man she once loved, the man she still wished she could love, she now wished she never met him.

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Amon was weighing his mask in his hand, staring down at it as his father was pacing the room, speaking in a lively manner as he spoke of his plans for the world. He couldn't stop thinking about Korra, he just wanted to hold her, to love her, but if he kept making her hate him more and more, he couldn't do that… But if he let her make her own decision now, he was sure he'd never see her again. The look of terror on her face as he forced her and Nina down and tied them both up played over and over in his head as the empty eye slits of the mask stared up at him accusingly. Judging him.
With a frustrated yell, he beamed the mask across the room, and into the unlit fireplace. His oldest friend, as well as the person he claimed to love were being hurt because of him. He'd heard Tarrlok warn Korra once that he always hurt the people he loved without meaning to, and now, he was seeing it too. He let himself become a selfish monster, and now, he knew it too.
"Son." Yakone was calling from across the room with a scowl on his face, "That mask is precious for the plan, don't get so upset about what we had to do to that child that you lose sight of the plan.
Amon was unsure what to say. His father's plan to take over the city by sheer force, through some people he'd planted in high up places along with Amon's under belly business was brilliant. In fact, if things went accordingly they could rule the state in less than a month and begin working on the world before Amon hit 50, but what victory was it if all he had to show for it was the approval of the father who he wrote off years ago? What did it matter if this time, for good, his brother wrote him off, if Nina would no longer be a friend to him, if Korra could no longer love him. Ruling the world would be a big shiny gold trophy that was locked along with him in a fishbowl that his father regulated.
"She's not a child, father. if anything, she's far wiser than even I can be at times." Amon murmured, eyes cast down at his folded hands.
"I doubt it, all she's ever been is a pain. Thought she may have grown to be beautiful, wise is not something I would call her."
Amon 's eyes flew to his father, "You speak as if you've known her a long time, father." he replied cautiously.
"I've kept an eye on her awhile, son." Yakone smirked wickedly.
"There's something your not telling me."
"Oh please, like what?" Yakone barked a laugh holding his arms out.
"I don't know, but I trust in her more than I trust you and there is no deal between me and you without trust. You want me to trust you? Tell me what you know." Amon demanded.
Yakone laughed again, "After what you saw her do with your brother, you trust her more than me?"
"You've down far worse." Amon hissed watching the smile fall from Yakone's face.
"Fine, you want to know, I'll tell you." Yakone sat across the room from Amon, cold faded eyes on him the entire time, "Her parents were detectives, they were trying to bring down some thing I was working on to make this big plan happen. They got too close to one of my men that was working his way up after a looong time, so one night I followed them, waited until they were somewhere nobody could see and took them out." Amon felt his face drain of blood as Yakone spoke, "The little girl got away, so I told one of my men to go after her and bring her to me, but she ran off, and we never saw her again, so it didn't matter. We thought she was dead" Yakone smirked, "Who would've thought I'd come back to find both of my son's pining after that kid?" Amon was feeling sick.
His family, his own existence, everything he was, was taking the life out of her and after hearing what his father just told him, he wanted to make it right. He had to let her free even if it killed him.
"Don't forget that plan, son. Don't let this girl get to you so much that you lose sight of what's important!"
"She is important, Yakone!" Amon snapped, jumping to his feet, staring at his father with half crazed eyes.
Yakone looked up at Amon from where he sat, in shock, he really loved her? Well love was making him weak. "I see." HE would have to handle this situation with this girl, himself.

It had to have been at least an hour since Korra and Nina had been thrown on the small airplane together, and she dreaded every minute. The cabin was small, so while Nina sat in the back seat, Korra was forced to sit in the front seat next to the man. The entire ride, he rested his disgusting hand on her inner thigh talking about whatever, but Korra couldn't hear him over the sound of her heart in her ears.
This was how she was going to die? Not on the streets like she'd always thought, but in an aircraft with her friend and the sweaty palm of an annoying murderer caressing her thigh. She could put up with it at the moment though, because as long as he was preoccupied with being a creep, he wouldn't notice the shard of glass she'd been clutching since snatching it up while he was talking to Lue, she'd been working at the ropes since he sat her down.
"Oh now doll, don't cry, I told you I won't let it be painful or anything, it'll just be like a bee sting," the man chuckled, "I really big bee sting!" he laughed.
Korra thought she was going to puke, she had to get out of this somehow, "So you do this a lot?" She tried to ask calmly, but it came out as muffles as her mouth was still held shut by duct tape.
"What's that? I can't hear you darlin." the man ripped the tape from her mouth and Korra felt her eyes water, but she didn't scream. She was too nervous to really feel the pain.
"I asked if you do this a lot." she repeated calmly.
"Ohhh, you have a pretty little voice there sweety." he cooed stroking her face, "It makes me curious what those eyes of yours look like." he chuckled, "But to answer your question, I've been around."
"Oh, I see." she sighed in the most seductive way she could manage,, "Must be hard." Just district him enough to get free she told herself.
"Hah, my job's not the only thing!" He cooed, rubbing his hand up and down her thigh, "But I'm also not stupid, I've been doing this a while little girl, I'm hurt you think you can trick me that easily, though this thing is on autopilot, you keep messing with me and I might have to take my risk with Lue's threat." his hand moved away and relief surged through her as she felt the ropes loosen around her arms.
"Good," the ropes fell from her hands, "Cuz I'm not that type of girl." Just as the man was turning to stop her she knocked him out with a hard right jab, thankful for the years of training. Without another thought, she turned to untie Nina.
"What happened?" Nina asked scurrying up to the pilots seat and shoving the man to the back of the cabin so Korra could tie him up.
"I just didn't want to die like that." Korra smirked, as she tied the man up so that he couldn't move before joining Nina at the front.
"I'm going to have to land us, we'll be coming up on Amon's island soon.
"We can't go to the island! If we do, we'll still be at Amon' s mercy. Do you know how to take us back to the city? I know someone who can help us." Korra insisted.
"Though I may live in the city now, when I was little I grew up on a farm, one of the first things I learned was how to fly a crop duster. I can take us as far as the gas tank allows." Nina assured her, turning the plane around.
"Good."

"Where the hell are they!?" Tarrlok was yelling as he slammed his hands on the steering wheel of his car. He and Tahno had been running around from airport to airport, from bus station to bus station driving anywhere Tarrlok thought his brother might have sent Korra to get her out of the city. If he knew his brother, he knew he would have sent them to his private island, so that no one could interfere with his plans.
Tahno looked over at Tarrlok with a scowl. Tahno did need Tarrlok's help to find Korra, but why was Tarrlok so distraught by Korra's disappearance, just who was he to her? "You seem really upset about her missing, almost like you know her."
"Something like that." Tarrlok scowled, throwing the car into drive before peeling off to check a train station that just popped into mind, "What about you?" Tarrlok asked, "When you ran up here you said she was your girlfriend, I didn't know she was dating anyone."
Tahno looked away, embarrassed that he had told Tarrlok she was his girlfriend, "Well, she's a girl and is my friend. I don't take well to people hurting my friends." Tahno hissed.
Tarrlok glanced over at the cold look in Tahno's eves,. This kid was pretty serious, despite what he said, he clearly liked Korra. "When we find Korra," Tarrlok started, unable to believe what he was about to say, "Most likely Amon will retaliate, I'll take care of him, but you'll have to help Korra and the woman she was kidnapped with escape."
Tahno snorted a laugh, "Yeah? And go where, Amon has eyes everywhere."
Tarrlok glanced over questioningly, "How would you know that?"
Well at this rate, Tahno figured he had no choice but to trust Tarrlok, and he knew that what he was about to tell him, might help Tarrlok bring down Amon, "A few years ago, I was working for a guy who knew a guy. All these rallies that had been popping up? Yeah, I worked for a guy who was friends with the leader of those rallies, some guy in a mask was all I ever thought of him as. The guy in the mask, never spoke, he always wrote his messages and burned them, and he never took off the mask, but one day he slipped up. My boss was supposed to deliver a letter to The Masked man one day, but he was sick so he sent me instead. I showed up where we were supposed to meet and in a reflection, I saw the man without his mask; he was Amon." Tarrlok's eyes went wide, "I got outta there before they saw who I was, so they assumed my boss did it, and they killed him. After that our group fell apart and I went down the path of the straight and narrow, become a fighter instead. I never had interest in revenge or anything, but I always kept an eye on Amon, just in case things started looking bad and I had to make a run for it."
"Listen, if things go bad when I have to face Amon." Tarrlok said urgently, "You have to find some way of telling the authorities everything you just told me as carefully as you can and get out of the city. Write a letter, use a smoke signal, morse code, it doesn't matter, you have to tell them without them knowing who you are. I know Amon too, and if you have Korra and are keeping her from him, he will do everything to try and get her back. Keeping him in prison might be the only way to even give you a sliver of hope of escaping his wrath."

Amon was pacing the room back and forth waiting for the call that Korra and Nina had arrived safely at the island. Yakone had left awhile ago after seeing a message on his phone, he said he had to go 'start his planning', leaving Amon to his thoughts.
Just as he was certain to go mad with anxiety, the phone rang. "Hello! She arrived safely yes?" Amon was asking with a smile on his face as he answered the phone, not giving the woman on the other side a chance to even say hello, "Let me speak to her!" Amon was demanding. He would apologize to Korra, he'd go fly out immediately to find her and make things right. He'd hold her close and make everything better again and-
"S-sir," The woman stammered nervously.
"I said let me speak to her!" Amon yelled, panicked now by the woman's tone. Something went wrong and he knew it.
"W-we were calling to ask if there was a problem, we saw the plane, but then it suddenly turned around, was there a change in plans?" the woman asked meekly.
Amon's heart fell to his toes. He slammed down the phone and ran to get his jacket. He didn't know for sure where they were going, but there were only a few places he could think of either of them coming up with. And if he was right, while he was going to get Korra, he would wring Tarrlok's neck while he was there.

"Hello?!" Tarrlok was yelling into his phone, it had been ringing for awhile, but he had only just noticed as he and Tahno pulled out of the train station they were searching for Korra at.
"Yes sir, umm, I don't know how to say this, but there's a small plane out in the field behind the house. Should we call the police?" the maid on the other end of the phone was asking in a small voice.
Tarrlok was speechless, "N-no, don't do that. Don't do anything, I'm on my way!"
"What is it?" Tahno asked upon seeing how frantic Tarrlok was.
"I think I found her." Tarrlok grinned, "She got away from him." he smiled as if his face would split.
"Where is she?!" Tahno demanded, sitting up in his seat upon hearing the news.
Tarrlok laughed, "We were dumb to come looking for her, I should've known she'd come to us. Korra escaped and fled to my place. The second we get there, you take Korra and run okay? I'm sure Amon must have bugged my place, which means he's probably on his way there now. I'll handle him, you take care of Korra." Tarrlok instructed, looking at Tahno with dire seriousness.
Tarrlok wasn't sure how this was all going to play out, he wasn't sure if he would see Korra again after today, but if even in this little way, he could help, he was contented with that much.

Just as the maid got off of the phone with Tarrlok, the doorbell rang, "Oh, he's awfully fast today!" She chuckled, scurrying to the front door. "Coming!" She called before swinging the door open. She froze upon seeing the hardened smiling face of a stranger.
"Hello, I'm Tarrlok's father," He pulled out a gun and held it to the maid's forehead, "Do you mind if I come in?"

So I'm hoping to end this at chapter 22 and then I've decided to do one standard ending and then 3 spin off alternate endings as separate one shot stories, so look out for that once anti reality is finished. Also thanks so much for all of the kind reviews, it really makes me happy that people enjoy this story and I'll work hard to make the ending worth it :)