Asami held Korra in her arms as she convulsed. People were running up to her and calling for ambulances. But she was completely zoned out, all she could focus on was Korra. She held her head in her lap and grimaced each time Korra's arms slammed into something. She watched as Korra's convulsions stopped and her limbs locked into place, body as stiff as a board. Asami panicked because she wasn't breathing, though she had a pulse. She desperately tried to unlock her jaw and failed. Korra's lips turned blue and right when it seemed like she would run out of oxygen, she gasped for breath. This time she lay still, eyes closed. But she was breathing.

The doors to the restaurant burst open and a woman ran to Korra and Asami, followed immediately by a man pushing a light-weight gurney. The woman knelt beside her and checked her pulse before they worked together to load Korra up into the gurney and tie her down. The woman turned to Asami. "Are coming with us?"

"Yes! I'm her girlfriend." Asami said, running to catch up. The paramedics loaded Korra into the ambulance and the woman jumped into the front seat. The man helped Asami up before closing the doors and flipping the lights on.

"My name is Grant, can you tell me what happened?" The man asked while checking Korra out. Asami nodded and watched for a couple seconds as Grant opened Korra's mouth and flashed his flashlight in it.

"So we went to this restaurant for our date night, and we had just ordered. Then this man walked by, he looked just like Korra's father, and Korra just gaped at him. She was obviously afraid of him, and she turned back to me in these jerky movements. She looked at me, but it was like she wasn't registering that I was there, she just stared at me blankly. So I grabbed her wrist, but she didn't respond to that either. That was when I got up and walked around the table to her. Right when I got to her, her eyes closed and she went limp in my arms. That was when she started convulsing. It must've only been three minutes, but it felt like forever. She was convulsing, then she stopped and locked up, completely stiff. She stopped breathing but she still had a pulse. I tried to wrench her jaw open, but it was completely locked. And right when I thought something horrible was going to happen, she stopped and went limp again. Her lips and eyelids were blue because she hadn't breathed for so long." Asami said, the words gushing out of her.

"Thank you for the information, it was very helpful and I will make sure to tell Korra's doctor that. Even so, her doctor is still going to ask you what happened." Grant said, glancing up at her long enough to see her nod before turning back to his patient. "We are almost at the hospital. When we get there you should wait in the waiting rooms while the doctors run some tests on her, okay?"

"Okay." Asami said, nodding once more before grabbing Korra's limp hand. She squeezed it, wishing desperately that Korra would squeeze it back. But she knew that she wouldn't.

THE NEXT DAY

Asami smiled at Korra, who was sitting up in her hospital bed. Her hair was wet from the EEG that they did this morning. Her hand was wrapped tightly around Korra's. Her heart skipped a beat when Korra smiled up at her. Korra's doctor, Dr. Knapp, walked into the room followed byve a neurologist.

"Hello Korra and Asami, my name is Dr. Silver. I reviewed Korra's EEG and MRI and it looks like she doesn't have epilepsy. Of course, we cannot be sure of this, not until she has had another seizure. Can you tell us a bit about what happened?" Dr. Silver asked them, sitting down on a wheelie stool and grabbing a pen, resting it against his clipboard.

"Yes, I can. We went to this restaurant for our date night, and we had just ordered. Then this man walked by, he looked just like Korra's father, and Korra just gaped at him. She was obviously afraid of him, and she turned back to me in these jerky movements. She looked at me, but it was like she wasn't registering that I was there, she just stared at me blankly. So I grabbed her wrist, but she didn't respond to that either. That was when I got up and walked around the table to her. Right when I got to her, her eyes closed and she went limp in my arms. That was when she started convulsing. It must've only been three minutes, but it felt like forever. She was convulsing, then she stopped and locked up, completely stiff. She stopped breathing but she still had a pulse. I tried to wrench her jaw open, but it was completely locked. And right when I thought something horrible was going to happen, she stopped and went limp again." Asami paused for breath before Korra interrupted.

"I don't really remember what happened. I had just ordered and that man walked by. He looked very similar to my father and suddenly I got tunnel vision. Is that what you call it when the edges of your eyesight are black and all you can see is the thing right in front of you? Anyway, then I felt like I was super light and I tried to move, but I couldn't. I turned back to Asami to ask for help, but I was feeling super weird and dizzy. It was the worst sensation in my life. Then I woke up in the hospital." Korra said, shaking her head and putting her hand against her face. Asami winced and squeezed her hand lightly for support.

"I'm sorry, but I need to ask; Why did you react the way you did when you saw a man that looked like your father?" Dr. Silver asked. In response, Korra lifted the edge of her hospital shirt up to show him her many, many scars.

"He's an abusive bastard, that's why." Korra said, turning her head away from them. Asami winced once more and rubbed Korra's arm, thumbing little circles on the back of her hand.

"Okay, now I need to ask you some questions. The first is, are you in danger from him or anyone else?" He asked, scetting his clipboard aside while listening to her.

"No, I moved into the student dorms a little while ago. I now live with Asami. She saved me after he kicked me out of his house. We went back to get my things and he attacked her. I had to carry her back to the car and drive her to the emergency room closest to my house."

"Okay then. Are you in any danger from yourself? Have you been hurting yourself or thinking about hurting yourself? Have you used any drugs at all as a stress relief?" Dr. Silver asked, leaning forward slightly.

"No, I haven't been hurting myself, I haven't thought about hurting myself, I haven't been contemplating suicide, and I haven't been taking drugs or thinking about doing drugs as a way to relieve my stress." Korra said and Asami breathed a quiet breath that she didn't know she had been holding.

"Alright, those are all of my questions for now. I'm going to recommend that you see a therapist, here are some therapists I know that specialize in these situations. I also want to let you know that you probably have Psychogenic Non-Epileptic Seizures, also called PNES. Normal antiseizure medicines don't work with PNES, which is why I'm recommending a therapist. Right now therapy is the only treatment for patients with PNES. Would you like to hear a bit more about PNES right now or would you rather wait until you meet with a therapist? Or perhaps after you've had some rest." Dr. Silver asked.

"I'd like to hear about it right now." Korra said while glaring at the sheets.

"Okay. PNES is most commonly found in women and almost all of them have been on the receiving end of some sort of trauma. As I said before, the only treatment we know of right now is therapy. Mostly just stress management and learning coping techniques. By definition, PNES is a physical manifestation of a psychological disturbance and is a type of Somatoform Disorder called a conversion disorder. It is different from epilepsy because, instead of having seizures caused by irregular electric brain discharges, you will have seizures caused by this manifestation of psychological distress." Dr. Silver told Asami and Korra. Asami understood a little bit, but Korra seemed a bit lost. "I'll print you some reference sheets so you will understand."

Asami squeezed Korra's hand again while Dr. Silver and Dr. Knapp left the room, talking. She felt horrible, Korra was obviously confused and scared. Asami was also scared and confused, but not for herself, she was worried about her girlfriend. She couldn't even imagine what Korra was going through right now. But then she felt Korra's hand squeeze hers back and for the first time since Korra had that seizure, Asami started crying. She tried to wipe her tears away furious that she was crying when Korra wasn't, but they spilled out of her eyes once more when Korra pulled her up onto the bed and started crying as well, hugging Asami tightly.