Chapter 4

Author's Note: How's it going guys? I'm doing great, I just turned 18 and although I'm currently a little bit sick I felt like writing today.
So the story left of where Korra started cutting herself but luckily she didn't go all the way. I'm thinking of making the following chapters even more dark then the last chapter, but we'll see. Hope you enjoy and I'll see you at the bottom of the screen!

Recap:

"No." I said out loud, I had to fight this, I couldn't let that bastard do this to me, that's what he would want.

I threw the knife away from me and headed back to bed. Naga was still sleeping on it, she looked so peaceful.

I crawled up beside her waiting for the sleep to come.

"Tomorrow's another day, I guess." I sighted as I drifted away to sleep.

*Asami POV*

As I pulled up at Korra's house I noticed she wasn't there. Normally I could see her standing or heaving her breakfast through the big window which we had bust on one of our little sleepovers. Don't ask it's a long and embarrassing story for both of us, well mostly for me. Let's just say that there was alcohol involved, a lot of alcohol.

I decided to jump out of my car and go see if I could find her, maybe she overslept or something?

I made my way to her front door and lifted up the nearest flower pot under which her spare key was hidden. I took the key and opened the door.

"Korra?" I yelled as I entered her house. No answer.

I decided to check upstairs first, since she was a heavy sleeper she might be still sleeping and waking her up was never an easy task, trust me, I know.

As I made my way up the stairs I could hear Naga barking.

"I should get her out of her cage before we leave." I mumbled to myself.

I tend to do that a lot, mumbling to myself. It's been happing ever since my mom passed away a couple years ago. I remember going to psychiatrist because my dad was acting kind of overprotective and didn't want to see me fall into a depression like he did. So he sent me there every week. The guy would keep on telling me for hours and hours to talk as much as possible and to let it all out and I had seen enough movies to know that you can never keep your feelings and emotions locked inside of you because you ought to burst and explode sometime.

I guess that's why Korra and I became such good friends. I always felt like I was the lucky one who never really got into a serious depression and she was the unlucky one so I naturally felt obliged to help her in any way I could since I'd seen my father go through a depression before and I didn't want to see it happen again with somebody I care for.

Finally up the stairs, I went to check her room. I opened the door and sighed when I saw her laying on her bed, sleeping with Naga next to her. I guess she wasn't in her cage after all.

"Korra? Wake up, we have to go to school." I said as I made my way over to her.

I froze.

She was laying on her side, hand tucked under her head and I could see a fairly huge amount of blood on her arm.

"What the…?" I scooted a little bit closer to inspect her arm more.

My face turned pale.

I could see a precisely made horizontal cut around the area of her wrist. No, this could not be true, she couldn't,… she wouldn't,… right? Had she -?

"Asami?"

I was taking back by the sudden creaky voice I heard. My eyes shot up to hers.

There was a moment of silence.

"Oh hey Korra, glad you're up. We need to go to school, you need to get ready." I said trying not to mention what I just had witnessed. Not yet, I myself still had to process it. I couldn't believe it just yet.

My eyes still locked with hers, I could see that she was a little bit startled by me being in her room.

I could just see Korra quickly rolling up her sleeves to cover her wound before I turned away. I couldn't confront her immediately with it, I sure as hell wasn't ready yet either.

"Goddammit Korra, how could you do this?" I whispered to myself.

"Did you say something, Asami?" I heard her ask, trying to put as much innocence in her voice. Guess she knows that I noticed the cut, otherwise she wouldn't act like this.

"No, nothing. You get ready, I'll wait in the car, sweety." I replied being as friendly as possible, trying to prove her wrong, that I hadn't noticed the cut. I wasn't entirely convinced it worked though.

I ran downstairs directly to my car, I got in and had to stop everything around me for a minute and focus on what had happened this past minute.

"Jesus Christ, Korra." I cursed to myself while putting one hand in my hair softly rubbing my forehead. How could she? That was not the strong, brave Korra I saw there inside, she had changed.

But how?

Yesterday she was so happy and exuberant and now all of that has vanished. How could her emotions tip so quickly in just a couple of hours?

That's when it hit me.

Noatak.

I knew that bastard had done something to her, I just knew it. He must've broken up with her or something. Oh how that asshole was going to pay! Nobody hurts my best friend, a lesson Noatak would soon learn.

I was taken out of thoughts when Korra opened the door.

" Sorry, I euhm… didn't really have a good night sleep." She said.

" Yeah, that's kind of obvious when you're up all night automutilating yourself." I thought.

I was taken back a bit by my sudden inner outburst towards Korra, I guess stage 2 of my grief had made an early entrance, after denial, anger was now kicking in. God, I really should become a psychiatrist if I keep analyzing my own thoughts continuously.

"No problem Korra, we still have plenty of time left to make it to school." I said, trying my best to smile at her.

The rest of the ride went by really quietly. I hate awkward silences, well I guess everybody does. It's actually really weird how silence can make a person feel uncomfortable, I mean it's just silence, nothing is being said, no sound and still it eats you from the inside out.

I sighed.

This was going to be a long day.

And that's the end of chapter 4!

I'm not completely satisfied how this chapter turned out because I personally think it's kind of boring. I also slightly rushed this chapter because I felt guilty for not updating for so long. But I still hope you enjoyed it. Next chapter will have some more action in it, I promise!

Stay awesome guys!

~ ThreeToOne