DISCLAIMER:I still don't own Legend of Korra

"Korra, your back!" Asami greeted her roommate from her spot on the couch. Korra stumbled in the door, looking worn out from another long day at the hospital.

"Korra, you have to stop spending every day there!" Asami scolded her as she hung up her jacket. Korras only response was to throw herself onto the couch with a groan. "How is she?" Asami asked, sitting at the edge of the couch beside the sprawled out Korra.

"She hasn't woken up yet" she answered with a sigh and Asami made a noise of sympathy. "What time is it?" Korra questioned.

"Half ten" Asami informed her. "Sorry I'm late then" Korra muttered sheepishly. Asami smiled.

"No worries, I'm guessing you want your dinner"

"Yup" Korra said sitting up, suddenly eager. Asami chuckled and got up to reheat Korras meal.

"Thanks 'Sami, you are the best roommate ever!" Korra mumbled through a mouthful of food. Asami smiled at the sight. Korra set her plate aside once she had finished and tried to stifle a yawn. "Okay, you need to get some sleep! You barely got any sleep last night"

"Well that's what happens when you run someone over with your car" Korra said sarcastically. And Asami laughed.

No daddy. I can do better. I can do better" the two your old screamed. "It's too late for that Kuvira, this is all your fault" he spat. "No daddy, no!" she tried to follow him, grabbing the edge of his jacket. "Let go!" he snarled, lashing out at her. Young Kuvira looked up I shock from her spot on the ground. "I should have killed you when you first screwed up" he growled, his voice laced with menace. And for the first time in her life Kuvira felt truly afraid…"

Kuvira bolted upright. She was panting heavily and sweat glistened on her brow. She looked around, forgetting where she was through her fear-filled mind. She calmed herself, sucking in deep lungful's of air. That dream again, one of the many from her childhood. She looked out the single widow in her room. It was night. The stars in the sky could barely be seen through the pollution of light from the city. She lay back down on her sheets, knowing she wouldn't get much more sleep that night.

Her mind unwillingly drifted back to the years she had lived on the streets when her parents had cast her aside. She tried to clear the dark thoughts from her mind to no avail. 'I meant nothing to them…' 'I don't mean anything to anyone…' 'I should be dead!' At last she fell into an uneasy sleep where she constantly squirmed under the influence of her nightmares.

"Hey Asami, I'm heading to the hospital" Korra called.

"Again?" Asami questioned sceptically. Korra sighed "yeah, I know what you're thinking but you wouldn't understand".

"Why? Because I've never run someone over?" Asami questioned, raising an eyebrow. "Hey! It was an accident!" Korra exclaimed.

"Hey, I'll come with you"

"Are you sure?"

"Yup, I need to meet this girl you ran over" she teased while Korra complained about her not letting that go. Within a few moments Asami was ready to leave. She grabbed her coat from the coat-rack and followed Korra outside.

"Spirits, it's cold" Asami muttered as a blast of icy air met her skin. "How are you not freezing?" she asked Korra who was walking along beside her without even a hoody on. Korra laughed "I'm from the south remember? I'm used to the cold". She pulled Asami close to her in order to try and warm her up a little. Asami melded into her embrace. She wished Korra was more than just a friend…

Asami shook herself mentally. 'No. she couldn't be thinking about that, Korra was her best friend, nothing more. And besides the tanned girl was probably straight.' Even so she found herself loving Korras arm around her. They clamoured into Korras car before driving off towards the hospital.

Korra sighed as she set her hands on the steering wheel. Kuvira had been on her mind all that night. The image of the other woman's dulled, green eyes haunted her. She felt a desperate urge to help her, to protect the fragile being. "Korra!". Korra slammed her foot on the brake, nearly rear-ending the car in front of her whose owner responded with an angry honk of the horn. "Sorry" Korra called out the window. "Are you okay, Korra?" Asami asked her. "Yeah just thinking" she told her roommate putting on a lopsided grin of reassurance. Asami didn't look like she believed her but decided not to say anything.

At last they reached the hospital and the room where Kuvira was staying in. Korra knocked gently on the door before opening it and stepping into the room. Kuvira was asleep but stirred as Korra sat down at her bed-side. Korras breath hitched in her throat as Kuvira raised her head. Her black hair looked dishevelled but it still looked beautiful in Korras eyes.

"Korra?" she whispered. "Yeah, how are you feeling?" Korra asked gently. Kuvira groaned slightly as she struggled into a sitting position. "My head hurts but I deserve it" she muttered bitterly. Korra put a hand on Kuviras. "Hey, don't talk like that, why would you ever deserve pain?" she asked softly. "I deserve to die after what I did".

Kuvira turned her head to where Asami was sitting to the left of Korra. "Who are you?" she asked her voice sounding scratched and hurting her dry throat. "I'm Asami…Korra's told me who you are" she said with an awkward smile. Kuvira just stared as though her as though seeing right through her. After a while she came back to her senses, looking momentarily surprised before she nodded "it's a pleasure to meet you Asami, mine not yours" she laughed bitterly, turning her gaze to her lap.

Kuvira looked up as Korra squeezed her hand gently "don't think that way Kuvira, I am sure there are loads of people who love you very much" she told her. Kuvira shook her head. "I was cast aside by my own parents, I meant nothing to them. My foster mother told me she loved me but she soon turned her back on me. No one cares Korra. No one…"

Asami's hand flew to her mouth in shock at Kuviras statement. "Kuvira, there must be someone who loves you" she half-whispered. Kuvira gave her a small smile that didn't quite reach her eyes. "Don't worry about me. I've grown used to it" she told the girls beside her in a hoarse whisper.

She gasped as Korra hugged her suddenly. Holding her close to her, wrapping her arms around Kuviras scrawny body. Kuvira sat for a moment in shock before she put her arm around Korra and buried her face in the other woman's shoulder. "I care Kuvira" she whispered, not breaking the embrace. Kuvira pulled back as tears began to prick her eyes. She wiped the edge of her sheets across her eyes hastily.

"Where do you live?" Asami asked suddenly. "I have an apartment in the city. It's near Supermacs…*". Korra clapped her hands in delight "that's where we live" she said happily. "Really? Are you a couple?" Kuvira asked, for some reason she felt her hopes sinking. 'I can't have feelings for this girl I barely know her! And she ran me over with her car' she told herself but that tiny voice at the back of her head told her that she loved this kind woman.

Asami felt a small pang of longing when Kuvira asked if they were a couple. Her heart sank when Korra laughed and told her that they weren't. "Oh no, we're roommates" Korra explained "we both go to the college near there". Kuvira gave a small smile, a genuine one for what must have been the first time in years. "I go there too…. Could you tell them about this" she gestured to her leg, her voice portraying the uncertainty of asking the question "my phone smashed when I got hit" she explained, not making eye-contact. She hated asking for favours.

"Of course!" Korra said, tugging her phone from her pocket. She swiftly dialled the school number and handed the phone to Kuvira who took it, surprised. "You would trust me with this?" she asked. "Well you can't exactly go anywhere" Korra joked. Kuvira nodded.

"Hello?" a man's voice crackled down the line. "Um, hi" Kuvira squeaked.

"Kuvira? Is that you? Are you okay?" the man questioned, evidently worried.

"Um…yeah I had a little accident. I'm at the hospital"

"Oh spirits, are you okay? What happened?"

"Yeah, I got hit by a car. Korra and Asami are with me now"

"Are car!? Spirits. I'll be right there"

"No its okay, you don't have to-" she tried to tell him but he had already hung up. Kuvira sighed and handed the phone back to Korra. "What did he say?" she asked.

"He said he'll be over in a bit" she told her with a sigh. Asami rolled her eyes comically "I know he's got a good heart and stuff but he can get a bit annoying" she said. Kuvira nodded her agreement.

*Supermacs is a popular Irish fast-food place founded by Pat McDonagh.