A/N : It was requested that I make a prequel to Always, so here it goes. This may span in to a few chapters. I may even add on an Epiloque of what happened with their relationship. Anyway, Enjoy please!

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Even though the crowd is probably making more noise than ever, all you can hear is a faint echo of their cheers and cries. You're sure of a few things. You're sure that Tenzin is yelling at the ref. You're sure that the faint shadows you see above you are Bolin and Mako. The words that they're saying are probably questions as to whether or not you're okay. You aren't even sure of what just happened to you. Each time you blink, everything, all the chaos takes another step back. You're sure something's wrong. You can't feel anything, it's all numb, it's all so far away. Are you dreaming? No, no that hit was real. That much you know. You lay here silently guessing for a moment until suddenly everything goes black and you're sure that you're dead. At least, close to it. That's when your mind replays it for you, just as the radio is probably yelling it to the people of the city.

You were all still in the first ring, except for Mako who had gotten knocked back by their water bender. You had been lighter on your feet than ever, dodging and flipping. You were some how hitting harder. All this training was paying off very well. It was you versus their fire bender for a while, so evenly matched. Then suddenly you hit him with a mean left hook of water, knocking him off his balance for just a second. Bolin took that second to send a disk hurling at him. He was back in ring two.

"Nice job Bolin!" you call over.

"Team Avatar kicking butt!" he yells back, jumping in the air with a grin on his face.

You're back in the zone now, though. Keeping on your toes as the game continues. A few leaps over some fire bending moves, a few dodges of some disks. One or two more fierce hits and you've almost got all three of them pushed back. The only one left is the earth bender. He's still right up front and he's got this mean look in his eye. He wants to win, and so do you. He's ready to fight and so are you. Now it feels personal, that look in his eye.

"You're going down" you say under your breath. It starts off really smooth, Mako is hitting fierce, Bolin is hitting hard, and there you are right in the middle. Your feet just brush against the ground as you spin, you duck, you hit. Right now, there is no crowd, you have no teammates, you have just the ground beneath you and your opponent. You're swinging water left and right, each hit is harder than the last. You're dodging faster, he can barely even lay a hit on you. You've nearly got him knocked back in to the next zone when something goes wrong. Suddenly all you see is an intense glow of red and orange. You manage to duck just before it hits you. You're thrown off and you realize that the firebender found a weak spot, you've snapped out of your focus now. Your mind is stuck in a moment of what just happened?

This is where he finds his opportunity, this is where you wished you would have paid attention. A disk of hard earth slams you right in the face.

That's how you got here, laying on the floor, staring in to an endless void of empty white. The noise of the arena is getting further and further away. Soon, there's nothing. Not even your own thoughts.

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White, eternal, unending. It's all you could see, bright. Where were you? What happened. Slowly your eyes opened. Your match! You had to get up and fight! Your mind wanted to force your body up yet still you stayed still. Maybe it was because of the feel of soft sheets under your fingers. Maybe it was because of the scent of the ocean under your nose. Maybe it was because your body was still trying to understand what happened. You lay for a moment, finger tips trace around in the sheets, eyes searching around for an explanation. That's when you hear it, the last thing that makes you know that you're awake. That you must be home.

"Korra? Are you awake?" the voice is gentle, soothing. Your blue eyes make their way over and there she sits, right be your side.

"Sort of" you say softly. How long have you been laying here? Hours? A day...two? You're confused, that's for sure.

"How does your nose feel?" she asks.

"Broken" you say, there's that stinging pain in your face, you turn your head and there's a bowl on your nightstand. "Is that water?" you ask. She nods and hands it to you. You scoot your body up so that you're almost sitting, you place your hand over the bowl and bend the water to sit in your palm. Soon it's resting on your face. It's a stabbing pain at first, the cartilage rearranging itself and bending in to it's original form. Your muscles tense but you make no real response to the pain. You're sure it's healed and so the glowing water is returned to the bowl and you smile at Asami.

"So how long was I out?" you ask.

"2 days. Tenzin has been pacing around non-stop. Katara said you would be fine, though"

"Katara's here?" you ask and she nods. "How long have you been-" you go to ask and she stares down in to her lap. Her raven hair shrouds her cheeks which seem to turn a light pink. "A while" she responds. You look down and sure enough there's a bed roll on the floor where she must have been sleeping. In your whole life you never would have guessed that Asami Sato would be bunking in your room and taking care of you.

"Katara didn't want to touch you until you woke up" she says. "Tenzin has been worried sick, Bolin and Mako too, we all were" she explains.

"Sorry to make you worry" you say, sitting the bowl of water on the nightstand, you turn to stand. "Oh who are these from?" you ask. There are six different vases sitting in your room, some on the nightstand, some on the floor. They're all filled with the prettiest flowers you've ever seen.

"The white vase is from Katara, the red one is from Pema and the children, the blue one is from Cheif Beifong, the green one is from Bolin and Mako, which I think Bolin dropped it and tried to put it together again" she thinks for another moment. "The golden one is from the earth bender that hit you, and the big purple one is from me" she smiles at that last part.

You stare down at your gifts for a moment, how lucky you are to have people who care for you.

"Wait- Why are the ones in the red one-" you stop as she looks disgusted.

"Meelo thought it was a-"

"On second thought, I don't want to know" you put your hands up and she giggles. You stand up and she does too. She grabs your hand.

"Well? Come on, everyone is waiting for their avatar to make an appearance" she says with a smile and you follow her. Everyone is sitting in the dining room, Tenzin and his family, Katara, Cheif Beifong, Mako and Bolin. You smile wider as everyone is so happy to see you. You wave and chat and assure everyone that you're fine, especially Tenzin who is ready to send you back to bed.

You sit down with Asami and begin talking to everyone, chatting and smiling. You don't even realize one little detail. You're still holding her hand.