I still do not own Legend of Korra, its characters, nor the plot to Anastasia (which I have now differred from somewhat).

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"I can't believe this," Kailee squealed two days after Asami had been able to pinpoint the somewhat location of the tracker animal, "Me! Married! In your face, ruddy orphanage owner!"

"What?" Iroh asked confused, "Oh, that's right, an orphanage raised you. What on earth gave you the impression that nobody would marry you?"

"The caretaker would always yell at me and try to hit me upside the head with a frying pan whenever I was bad," Kailee growled, "I can't wait until I get my hands on that wench!"

"I think we both will," Iroh said with a stern frown. "Was she a bender?"

"Yes, an earthbender," she scowled deeper, "She always created this earth wall in front of the gates so none of us could get out. It didn't work against her fellow earthbenders, though. She enrolled them to become earthbenders at the age of three, metalbenders at age ten."

"Well, I've got the next four or five days off, since it seems to be custom for them to give their workers time to get used to being married," Iroh said crossing his arms behind his back out of habit, a habit that Kailee noticed was getting more and more frequent and usually occurred when he felt as though there was going to be a fight or if he just wanted to make sure he kept control of himself.

"Okay, so… what do married couples normally do right after they get married?" she asked, and he stared at her.

"I'm not sure," he said warily, "I was hoping you knew."

"Well, trial and error, I guess," she sighed before straightening up and getting into the open space of their abandoned castle of sorts. "So… I've been thinking…"

"About?" he asked curiously.

"You," she admitted, "I-I'm afraid I haven't been completely honest with you. I sort of know you through your past, but not really well and mostly by reputation."

"Well, that sounds like a good place to start," Iroh said taking a deep breath in. "We'll start there."

"From what I know, you were one of the Generals in the United Forces Army, and the only one to respond to the call and rush to the Avatar's aid even though it would likely be a trap," she said, her mind going back to the past.

"So, now what?" Bolin asked with a yawn. "He's been missing for almost a month and a half, two months, around there, and nobody has seen head or hide of General Iroh!"

"Iroh would not let himself be caught," Zuko said calmly, "We must be patient, young earthbender."

"I hate being patient," Korra growled, "But if you think that will be the best route, then I'll obey. You were with Avatar Aang, and you know all of Iroh's tricks. Well, most of them, probably not quite all of them if he gleaned a few in the fight against Amon."

"Iroh has become another Kailee," Katara said sorrowfully as she sat next to Zuko with tears in her eyes that were threatening to spill over. "I should have taken better care of her…"

"Katara, stop this at once," Zuko scolded, "You are an elder, and a waterbending Master. There was nothing that any of us could have done that night that Iroh didn't do. All we can do is wait for her to arrive. Your son and Toph's daughter would not have summoned us here to give us false hope."

"Fire Lord Zuko is right, mother," Tenzin said walking in, "Kailee is alive, and I have a suspicion as to who she is. I think, I'm not sure, but I think that she is the mute that General Iroh was protecting."

"And history again repeats itself," Zuko smiled, and Katara smacked him on the arm. "It's true."

"What's true?" Korra asked, "What happened that night?"

"Iroh protected Kailee by going and getting her music box for her when she wanted to go back out among the equalists to get it," Zuko explained. "It was her most prized possession, and Iroh knew it would probably have been at the next meeting that he saw her again if she escaped like he'd made it possible for her to. Unfortunately, we could hear her screams of pain from in the air while Tenzin and Pema helped us to flee on Appa."

"Wow, that's creepy," Asami said shivering. "What exactly did the equalists do back then? How bad was it that night?"

"Bad enough for a room full of benders and the remnants of those who travelled with Aang to flee for their lives with their families," Zuko said gravely. "But do you truly wish to know? It is not a pretty tale at all."

"Whose is in this room? Mako and I are orphans, Asami's dad was a filthy-rich lunatic bent on revenge, Korra got the crap scared out of her by Amon when he took her bending away, and the airbenders were nearly killed by said lunatic and Amon," Bolin rambled, and Zuko shot him a look so full of fire that the earthbender cringed in his chair. "Right, sorry."

Zuko and Katara sighed wearily before turning to Tenzin and Lin to tell the tale for them. Their hearts were heavy, but all four of them remembered the attack as if it had happened only a few hours prior to where they were at now. As if making a sorrowful choice, Katara began telling the story, tears spilling onto the front of her clothes as she did.

Poor Katara! So, who wants what to happen? I'm kind of stuck on a future chapter. Angry Fire Lord plus terrified nonbender equals complete disaster, so I'm not sure on where to go with it since I want Iroh to get in the way and protect her nearly costing himself his own life.

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