Kailee had been fully prepared to die when she'd been somehow pushed into the cold waters just outside Republic City. She'd ultimately seen it coming from the one that she had once known, but she still couldn't quite remember how without a searing migraine that made her head hurt so badly that it drove her mad.
What she hadn't expected was an ally in the oversized city who would rescue her now that the familiar face had forced her into chi blocker clothing. She was a nonbender, would probably get killed, and was likely not to have anything good happen as a result of her being rescued anyways.
Right as she felt herself slung over her rescuer's shoulder, she felt a tidal wave before it hit somehow, and she felt the two of them knocked overboard. But to her astonishment, her rescuer kept a firm grip on her even as he himself was drowning. As if by her own sudden desire to live, the waters were pushed upwards so that she and her rescuer were now the ones being rescued. She couldn't even feel herself anymore as she felt water go into her airways and she felt as though she were drowning.
But right as she thought she was going to join her parents, the water and the drowning feeling went away from her. she coughed and turned her head, trying to let out a scream of agony to try to let her rescuers know that she was in pain, but all that came out was a weary moan.
In an attempt to get a look at her rescuer, she turned her head back to the front and forced her extremely pained eyes to open for her. she felt as though she were freezing to death and looked up at her rescuer wearily and began to nonverbally plead for warmth. She flinched as he held out his hand, not sure if he was going to use lightning bending or fire bending to kill her for her dress.
Kailee then heard a familiar scream of alarm, one that she remembered from somewhere far away and a very long time that she couldn't remember. She groaned inwardly – she didn't know why, but this voice was not one that she wanted to hear, so she turned over on her side as the other female began screaming at her, like this voice always managed to find a reason to do. She knew that she should follow this person, but the tone simply screamed nothing but trouble to Kailee, so she remained mute and curled up tighter to try to defend herself from the oncoming migraine that came with memories.
To her surprise, her rescuer was a firebender who was defending her, and again the young female could somehow hear the water as it came up to attack them. She felt her rescuer grab her by the waist, and she watched astonished as he used his other fist to use firebending and get away from their attacker.
But he landed on a patch of ice that he hadn't seen, and having not been used to it, he fell. Kailee could practically feel the sickening crack before it hit her rescuer in the head as he held her head up to his arm to keep her safe. The water washed over them as they fell, and she literally watched as she herself was encased in ice.
By the time Korra had gotten to the waterbender and screamed at her, with all the other waterbenders using their own ice blocks to battle her and keep her contained, Kailee was in full-blown panic mode. It wasn't something that she knew, but she saw flashes of bloody snow before her vision, and if it weren't for the ice around her, she'd have screamed her lungs out.
As it was, she had to settle for when Korra completely destroyed the ice, and it was then that she let out the ear-splitting shriek of terror. She backed away, seeing only red, and slipped on the ice. Backing away and trying to flee wasn't an option, as she soon saw by the semi-familiar face that was from her past. She stared at it in terror before screaming again and pointing at her attacker and then back out at the bay.
"what?" Korra asked confused, and Kailee screamed louder and began trying to tear out her own throat with her nails.
Kailee screamed and pointed at the girl who had attacked her, and flinched as she realized who this was from her past. It was someone who used to practice with someone that she knew, someone who hated her and did nothing but glare at her for her whole life. She screamed in more alarm as she recognized the girl from the night that her parents had been killed. She didn't know how they'd died, or what had happened, but it hurt her head too much to remember so much, and she fell backwards, curling up in a ball and literally trying to rip her hair out in pain.
She collapsed, and Iroh caught her skillfully as she fell, her world darkening as she felt the arm again go to her waist to protect her. she curled up tightly in the ball an closed her eyes, wishing with all of her might that the pain would go away. Iroh lowered her to the ground carefully, not knowing what was wrong with her.
The one that she'd been pointing at knew exactly how to get back at her, but she had to make it look like the girl was a chi blocker.
"What are you doing?" she screamed in alarm.
"You lost onctrol of your bending with that first wave, and then the ice going around the General was your way of trying to kill them!" korra snapped accusingly, "Who are you? Why do you want a nonbender dead?"
"Don't you get it? she's wearing chi blocker clothes!" Tarala screamed at Korra, and she knew that she'd won the battle.
"General Iroh, we'll need to get her to somewhere safe," Korra said, "I know her, and she's not a chi blocker. She's terrified of benders and equalists alike. I think she's got some suppressed memories, but aside from that, I'm not sure."
"I know just the place," Iroh nodded knowingly as he went to pick Kailee's unconscious frame up.