Okay, so I still don't own Anastasia, Legend of Korra, nor anything therein.

Guest reviewer: You're half right on the elements. You'll see what I mean in the long run, Anastasia will get her element in chapter eight, with a few others getting their elements pretty soon after.

Anyways, Enjoy!

"So, when is Princess Anasoostina, or whatever her name is, join us?" Bolin asked impatiently.

"Whenever Iroh gets her to get up from that spot," Mako repeated for what felt like the dozenth time.

"Yeah, but that was a week ago!" Bolin yelled impatiently, "We've been back for a week, she's been here for two weeks, and still nothing!"

"The General knows what he's doing," Mako said firmly, "Just let him handle this. We'd only get in the way. Especially you with your horrible way with girls, little brother."

"Hey! I resent that remark!" Bolin yelled angrily.

"You resemble it more," Anastasia snapped as she walked in with puffy red eyes and a slightly-worried slightly-nervous Iroh following her. "You're giving me a headache, be quiet!"

The room was silent as they saw what Anastasia was wearing and that she was glaring at the family of airbenders as though she were wanting something or wishing ill intentions on them. Iroh calmly sat next to her, but in just the right position to block the air nomads from her view. She tensed before turning back to the table before her and glaring as though she were about to cry.

"You miss your home," Iroh said calmly, and she nodded. "Avatar Korra told us what happened with Rasputin. He cannot reach you here, it is one of the reasons that Avatar Aang brought you here. What element were you given?"

"Like I care," she grumbled. "I'm a princess, it's not like I'll be using it anytime soon."

"I'm a crown prince, and you'll find me in a firebending fight over and over again," Iroh pointed out, "As you may not have known, Fire Lord Zuko himself was nearly killed in an Agni Kai, a firebending duel, one multiple occasions, mostly by his own family. Namely his father and his older sister, but it was still the truth."

"You're a General, it's different," she grumbled. "Nobody's going to be challenging me anytime soon."

"You'd be surprised. The Fire Lord has always been able to use firebending for as long as our nation can remember. In fact, my great-great grandfather was Avatar Roku, the Avatar just before Avatar Aang," Iroh said explaining a fact to her in a roundabout way. "He got in a firebending fight with Fire Lord Azulon over the war that the Fire Lord in question was going to start. His son, Fire Lord Zuko's father, was Fire Lord Ozai. Fire Lord Zuko's mother was the daughter of Avatar Roku, and it was Fire Lord Zuko who defeated his elder sister, Princess Azula, in an Agni Kai when she was about to be crowned Fire Lord because of Ozai's attempt at world domination. You see, the Royal Family of the Fire Nation is, admittedly, still despised by some people. That is a couple of reasons why I became a General in the United Forces army."

"I thought it was to follow in the footsteps of General Iroh the first," Mako said frowning.

"Yes, that as well," Iroh said dismissively. "That is not the point. My point is, would you be putting up this fight if you were in your own world with no way of getting home?"

"The only home I need is with my grandmamma," Anastasia said defiantly, "And the kitchen boy who has faithfully served us after more than fifteen years."

"Well, you can at least get some food," Iroh said giving her a withering look. "It's unbecoming of royalty to not eat. Last I checked, it was one of the royalty etiquettes to not starve oneself. Do you really think they would want you to do this?"

"I'm not hungry," Anastasia grumbled.

"Don't make me force this food down your throat," Iroh threatened, and she gave him a glare.

"I'm a princess, you wouldn't dare!" she yelled erupting into angry tears. "If my father were here, he'd have you killed for threatening me!"

"Your father isn't even in this world, none of your family is," Tenzin pointed out from across the room.

"My family is dead!" Anastasia screamed angrily at him in a fit of rage. "Rasputin destroyed everybody but me and my grandmamma! If Demitri hadn't gotten us out of there when he did, our family lineage would have died out! My mother, my father, Olga, Tatiana, Maria, Alexei – they are all gone! What part of the fact that I am the only one left of the house of the Romanov do you people not understand?! God… god my parents… my sisters… Alexei, my poor frail brother…. I should have been less of a coward, I should have stood up against our attackers… he killed them…"

And with her angry rant finished Anastasia went into another crying fit. Iroh snorted steam through his nose silently but knelt down anyways and let her lean onto him for comfort. He may have been a war-hardened General, but he knew he wasn't getting any younger, and this woman was probably raised to marry royal family. He was one of three royal lineages, since the Air Nomads didn't really have a royalty leader due to Tenzin being the only one for that title indisputably, and the man was already married with children besides.

"I'm sorry," Tenzin said gravely, "I didn't know."

"Tenzin wasn't here for that little explanation that I gave everybody else," Korra said nodding. "So he didn't know. I'll tell him what's going on just as soon as I catch him alone."

Anastasia barely heard them through her crying, and yet again cried herself to sleep. Iroh simply rolled his eyes and picked her up bridal style to carry her back to her rooms. Asami gathered up a tray of dishes after Iroh left and followed after them softly. She stopped just before she reached the door of Anastasia's bedroom, listening intently.

"I know you're upset about losing your family, and I understand that. I lost my two brothers and my sister in a severe battle over a port just off of the earth kingdom when a group of thugs attacked us while we were about to go on vacation with my parents. I was ten at the time, my sister twelve, my two brothers fourteen and fifteen. My parents were distraught, and wouldn't eat for weeks. I hate seeing you starve like this, it reminds me of that day and the horrible pain that comes along with it," she heard Iroh say softly as though he were trying to take a weight off of his chest by admitting the dark secret.

Asami was silent before she took a quiet deep breath and knocked gently on the wall.

"Enter," Iroh said calmly, and Asami went in hesitantly.

"I thought you'd like to finish your meal," she said quietly, and looking off to the sleeping Anastasia. "I hope she gets better soon. The sooner she gets better the sooner we can at least somewhat get her life back to normal."

"I don't think we'll be able to get her life back to anything close to what it was before," Iroh said gravely looking at Anastasia's shaking slightly in her sleep. "I'm hesitant to even call her life before normal. The only reason she's become so attached to it is because it was all she knew. She'll be fine in a year and not even come close to missing her life before our world. Out of sight, out of mind; at least, as a few of my soldiers like to put it."

"I hope you're right," Asami said worriedly as she left the room. "I just hope she can get over what's wrong with her."

She's homesick to the extreme, misses the duchess and Demitri, and wants some serious retribution for what Rasputin did. Add on to that the facts that she's in a foreign world that she has no idea how it works, and you've got yourself a very confused young duchess/princess. By the way, I love how you guys are trying to figure out her element! It's giving me a few ideas on what to do for when the others get theirs!

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