Chapter 1

A dark skinned young woman with long dark brown hair dressed in a simple dark blue and white robe is eating dinner with her family. They are eating a quite well-known delicacy in the Southern Water Tribe: Five-Flavor Soup. Her Mother made it for her since she has been having troubles sleeping since being back home. It is actually her favorite dish since she was a child.

The woman takes a sip of the soup, savoring the different taste and then the warmth that comes after it. She looks down at her meal somenly. She cannot enjoy the meal like she used to. Not after what happen to her. It taste dull, nothing what she remembered, and the warmth that comes with it, is now unsatisfying lukewarm.

The woman can hear her parents conversing with each other. They are talking about that metalbender woman who is bringing order back in the Earth Kingdom with her small relief force, after the unfortunate incident of the Earth Queen being assassinated by the Red Lotus. What was her name again? She had missed that from their conversation. She cannot believe she forgot it. The metalbender saved her Father's life during the hunt of the damn anarchic group who put her in this current state. She guess it would come to her later.

She lazily blinked her cyan colored eyes, yawning. Her eyes still has bags underneath them from the nightmare she had last night. Her nightmares are becoming such a daily experience, she is sadly starting to get used to it. She take another spoonful of her meal, sipping it. This time the soup taste a bit better than before.

Noticing her daughter yawning, Senna's motherly instincts kicked in. "Korra, if you are too tired to eat, you don't have to force yourself."

Korra's father, Tonraq, place his spoon on the table. "She's right Korra. You're here to recover from the Red Lotus incident." He gave his only daughter a small fatherly smile, not noticing her stiffen on the mentioning of the group's name. "I'll make sure your soup won't go to waste. Just go to your room, and we'll help you in your bed in a couple of minutes."

Korra is kind of tired. Maybe she should get some rest. She is starting her rehabilitation treatment tomorrow. She needs to get better as soon as possible. The world needs it's Avatar. Especially the Earth Kingdom. She can't let that metalbender handle all the hard work by herself.

"Alright." Korra place her spoon on the table.

Korra place her hands on the wheels of her wheelchair, backing herself from the dinner table. Although she's been confined to her new best/worst friend for about a month now, she is still not used to riding it. She does not want to be. Getting used to it means she accepted she won't get better anytime soon. She had some difficulties, but she was able to turn her chair around. She wheeled herself out of the room avoiding the sad pitying looks she knows her parents are giving her.

She wheeled herself into her room. The light of the moon is illuminating her room nicely, showing where everything is and how messy she kept it before she went to Republic City. She really needs to clean her room. Korra thank the moon spirit, Yue, for the natural light of the moon. She did not feel like turning the light on in her room. She move the wheels of her chair to get to her bed. She's still too hurt to change clothes by herself. She does not want to call her Mother in either for help or wait for her parents to help her in her bed. They are enjoying the dinner Senna cooked. They need at least a single night off.

"This is going to hurt." Korra muttered to herself.

Korra inhale to brace herself for the pain. She slowly exhaled as she firmly hold onto her bed for support. She lift her crippled body off her chair, trying with great effort not to fall. Her arms are burning, her legs feels like they are covered with pins needles. Korra took a quick breath of air. She almost forgot to breath. That would have been bad.

She could see the headlines. Breaking news, Avatar Korra passed out from forgetting to breath. A small grin starts forming on her lips. That would be both embarrassing and hilarious. She definitely would not be able to show her face if that happen. Laugh about it, sure, but would not take a step outside for awhile. Well, wheel herself outside.

Korra plopped down on her bed, feeling like jello. If it hurts that much to just lay down on her bed by herself, she is beyond excited for her therapy session with Master Katara tomorrow. Yeah, right. She blew her hair out of her sweaty face. She is too exhausted to get more comfortable. She slowly close her eyes, hoping she will not have a nightmare about him again.

A knock on her door made Korra open her eyes. "Korra, it's your Mother. Are you ready for bed?"

Korra sits up with some pain in her arms. Her arms almost give out but she pushed through the pain and tiredness she is feeling. She cleared her throat before speaking. "Yeah, but I don't think I need your help."

"Don't be ridiculous Korra." Senna begin opening the door saying, "You are still not well-."

Senna gasp at the sight of her daughter in her bed with a triumph grin on her face. She was so shock at the sight, she drop what she was planning on giving to Korra on to the floor.

Tonraq and her knows that Korra is not well enough yet to do such a act without help. It is evident of such a fact based on how exhausted and in pain she looks. She knows her precious daughter is a stubborn young woman who thinks she's always right, but she had hoped she stop such childish behaviors after the dealing with the Equalist, the Dark Avatar, and more importantly, the anarchic group known as the Red Lotus. Senna knows she gets it from her Father.

Senna sighed in a way that Korra is already preparing for the usually scolding. "Korra," She began walking to her. "You should have called us to help you in bed if you want to so bad." She had thought her daughter would had waited for either her husband or her to help to bed.

Korra wipe her hair off her face. It was starting to stick to her because of her sweat she worked up on while trying to get in her bed. "I know, I wanted to see if I could do it by myself. And I did, so it means I'm getting better, even if it's just a little bit." She give her Mother her usual sheepish smile when trying to get out of scolding. "So that's good."

Unfortunately for her, she won't get out of this one. Senna notice how she is breathing quite heavily and that she is covered in sweat. She wish Korra could just let them help her. That's what parents are for after all. Helping their sweet children when they are at their lowest.

Senna sat next her daughter on the bed. "Korra, I know you want to get better as fast as you can, but you ne-."

"Hey, what did you drop on the floor?" She is really tired of hearing the same thing from her Mother and Father. They are starting to sound like a broken record to her.

"Oh that's right." Senna got up from the bed and walked towards the items she dropped. She crouch down to picked them up. "They're letters from your friends. A White Lotus Sentry dropped them off a couple of minutes ago."

"Oh, um" Korra look away from her Mother. "Just place them on the nightstand please."

Korra has not wrote back to her friends since she came back home. She feels like if she wrote to them, it might distract her for getting better. Korra knows this is wrong of her to do such a thing for a stupid selfish reason but she wants to be back at 100% as fast as possible. Quicker she does, the quicker she can talk and hang out with them. The quicker she can be the Avatar again. And she desperately wants to be the Avatar again.

"Okay honey." She place the letters on her nightstand.

Senna waterbend the sweat off of her and bent it out the window. She hopes she can sleep more comfortably now. She wishes her a good night before making her way to leave the room. Korra is thankful her Mother bent the sweat off of her. She knows she can not properly, or in fact, not bend at all. This reminds her when Amon took her bending away and the hopeless feeling she felt back then. She was so sad and desperate for anything positive out of the situation, but she knew she can move past it. She is Avatar Korra after all. And like that time too, she will get past her current situation.

Korra glance at the letters on her nightstand. Though she does not write back, reading them does make her happy. It makes her look forward when she gets better and head back to Republic City and start helping the Earth Kingdom. Speaking of the Earth Kingdom, she still does not remember the name of that female metalbender. She thought it would come back to her by now. Maybe her Mother might know.

"Hey Mom?"

Senna was about to close the door of the room before she heard her daughter's voice. "Yes Korra?" She said, opening the door.

Korra looked at her Mother. "Do you know that metalbender woman's name who's helping the Earth Kingdom and saved Dad's life?"

She can not believed she just heard that from her daughter. "How can you forget the woman who saved your Father's life?"

Korra chuckled, embarrassed that she did forget the person's name. "I always been bad at names."

Senna smile slightly, happy that the old Korra is still in there. It feels like forever for her to hear Korra laughing, well, chuckling, but it is something. "Kuvira dear, her name is Kuvira."

"Kuvira, huh?" Korra cups her chin try remembering her encounters with Kuvira.

It is starting to come back to her. Korra met her back in Zaofu trying to find the Red Lotus, and if her memory is correct, she was a captain of that city's guards. Korra does not recall ever speaking to her though or how she looks. In fact, she does not even remember saying thanks to her for saving her Father. She's been so busy being crippled, she forgot to thank the person who had made sure that her family is still whole.

"Thanks Mom, it's been bothering me for awhile." Korra glance at the letters at her nightstand.

"I'm glad I could help. Night." Senna turned around and began walking out of the room. Now it's her turn to get some sleep.

"Mom?"

Senna turned back around to face Korra. This is the most she ever spoken to her since coming back home. "Yes?"

Korra stares at the letters from her friends for a minute longer before facing her Mother. She knows it is right thing to do. "Is it possible for me to send a letter to Kuvira?"