Please don't hate me! Something happened to my computer so I couldn't update, and I got a job so I'm really really sorry. I can still update often but if I don't it's because of work or my computer acting up from time to time. I will try to update tomorrow if I have time. I don't work, but I have to go somewhere, but I do work on Wednesday so I may not be able to update then.
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Hearts on Fire
chapter nine: Morning Fight
Korra's P.O.V
I roll over in my bed and look at the clock. It' Monday so school is in a few hours I had a lot of time to just go back to sleep.. I close my eyes and try to go back to sleep. I can feel some one watching me. I look at the entrance to my room and see my mother standing in the doorway, arms crossed, blank expression.
"You know, I really hate you." she says to me, still staring blankly at me. I really don't think that my mother is actually mentally stable.
"You've made that clear countless times. I get it. And quite frankly, I don't think you'll ever love me again." I get out of bed and make my way to the bathroom.
"How could I? You make my life miserable. Your father left because of you. He loved me and you made him leave."
I stop short and turn to her.
"You know, you keep telling me that. If I'm the reason he left and all he wanted was you, then why are you still here with me and not with him. If he loved you why didn't he take you with him and just dropped me off at some orphanage or just leave me?"
She didn't answer.
"I guess I'm not the only one he wanted to leave."
I walk passed her and out of my room. She's still stunned at what I had just said. But it didn't last long.
"Don't you EVER talk to me like that AGAIN!" She yells.
She grabs my arm and I try pushing her away, but she's so angry that she has an iron grip on me. She slaps me across the face, hard, and I can taste blood where I bit the inside of my cheek. She still hasn't let go of my arm so I'm still struggling to get away from her.
"Let go of me!"
"Take back what you said!"
"No! Now let go of me!"
She hits me again. She's still screaming curses and insults at me as I try to shake my arm free. Why haven't I hit her back? She's my mother. Although she treats me this way, she always will be and I still remember when she did love me. That's something she's forgotten over the years.
"...you worthless whore! Take it back!" another hit.
I furrow my brows in anger. I'm not her. How could she this to me. I've been holding back my anger and biting my tongue until now.
"I'm not the whore,you are!"
That did it. Before I know it, I'm at the bottom of the stairs. The pain shoots through me and I scream. I try me best to hold back the tears that threaten to escape. I try my best to get up, but as soon as I do, I'm back on the floor in even more pain than before. The pain in my right arm is unbearable and I try to avoid using because I'm pretty sure it's broken. I finally make it of the ground and stumble out the front door. My vision is blurry and I realize that I've let the tears fall. I go to the person I could talk to right now.
I knock on the door and to my relief, Mako answers.
Mako's P.O.V
I heard the knock on the door and make my way down the stairs. Who could be at the door this early? I open the door an drub the sleep out of my eyes.
"Yes, Can I help you?" I ask the person at the door.
I hear a sniffle, as if some one were crying and I quickly look up at the person in front of me.
"Korra?"
"My mom an I had a fight." she says.
There are tears streaming down her face, I can tell she's hurt, and she won't look at me. I look her over and she's cradling her right arm.
"What happened to your arm?"
She takes a moment to answer.
"I think it's broken."
"She broke your arm?! What the Hell did you do to make her do that?!"
"Will you calm down! I just said something she didn't like that's all."
I let out a deep sigh. She actually hurt Korra for something she said. The situation probably could be worse. I'm just glad it isn't.
I calm down and tell Korra to come in while I change clothes so I could take her to the hospital. Actually, all I did was put on a shirt and shoes. i grab my keys and drive her to the hospital.
"Korra, the doctor will probably ask how you broke you arm."
"I fell." she says simply.
"Korra, I can't just tell them that you fell."
Her head snaps up at me. "And why not?"
"I told you if things got worse I was gonna do something. That starts now."
"Then I'm not going to the Hospital and you won't say anything."
"Don't be crazy. Your arm is broken so you have to go."
"Then I'll walk."
"Will you stop being a child?!"
"No! I won't."
"Fine! If it'll get you to go to the Hospital like a normal person..." I start. She looks over at me, hopefully. "I won't say anything."
"Really? Thank you!" she throws her left arm around my neck and the car swerves.
"Whoa! Korra I'm still driving!" She quickly lets go.
"Sorry."
"And don't get too happy. I'm mad at you."
I turn into the parking lot and open the door for her. I signed her in and we sat in the waiting room. We sat silently for a while, just looking around the room.
"Why are you mad at me?"
"Korra, they're hurting you and won't let me say anything. I don't feel good about it. If something happens, it's going to be my fault."
"Well if it were up to me, you still wouldn't know."
"That doesn't make it any better. I would want to know. You're my friend and if there is something I could do to protect you I'd do it in a heart beat."
I stare into her eyes to make sure she's listening to me.
"I care Korra. I don't want anything to happen to you." I lean my head back against the chair and the conversation stops, returning us to silence.
Eventually the doctor calls us in and puts Korra's arm in a cast and then a sling. Soon she's released and we're on our way back home. Out of the corner of my eye, I can see her glancing up at me.
"What?" I finally say
"I-I just don't want you to be mad at me. It's just that...I have a little while left before I turn 18 and I don't want anyone to take me somewhere I don't want to go, someplace where Nobody cares about me. At least at home, my mother hates me, but I have you, Bolin and Asami."
"I get it Korra, but she broke you arm. Next thing she'll be throwing you down the stairs."
She doesn't say anything. I pull into the driveway and turn to her. She stairs down in her lap, refusing to look at me.
"Actually...that's how she broke my arm."
"What the Hell! She threw you down the stairs?!"
"Shhhh! You might wake up Bolin."
I roll my eyes. "No I won't. He sleeps like a rock."
"Can we just talk about this later. I should really get ready for school."
"Fine. But we will talk later." She nods her head and disappears into her house.
I'm not sure if I like this chapter. I had to get some thing out. I will try to update tomorrow. Let me know what you thing. I think I need to start doing some Makorra relationship building. If you have any Ideas, let me know! Please Review.