Korra stared out of the window of her room out towards the sea, a blanket of darkness freckled with stars laying over it. She sat in her wheelchair adorning her night robe. Her hand reached up to her hair as she pulled a pin out allowing it to cascade down onto her shoulders. She sighed, looking down at her legs as closed her eyes and exhaled slowly, concentration painting her face. Her foot moved slightly her whole body followed, jolting,

"Korra! There's a letter here for you!" A woman's voice yelled from down the hallway. Korra placed both hands on the wheels of her chair, spinning it around to face the door. It crept open slightly as Senna peered in through the small opening. "It's from Asami" she said tenderly, looking over lovingly at her daughter, a grin spreading across her face. Korra looked down at her lap, unable to stop a smile forming as she began to roll herself over to the door, keeping her gaze constantly averted,

"Thanks Mom" Korra reached out and grabbed the envelope, looking up from the floor at her mother and forcing a small smile

"Good night sweetie" Korra turned her head and smiled as Senna closed the door and turned away.

"So?" Tonraq stood in front of her. His hands clasped as he rubbed them together nervously, a look of anxiousness on his face.

"She looked... happy" Tonraq let out a relieved sigh,

"Good... that's good"

"I don't know what we can do Tonraq, she's been like this for a full year, what if she doesn't recover? What if she's like this forever? I.. I don't know if I can stand watching her like this for the rest of her life. I..." Senna launched herself at her husband, throwing her arms around him and burying her head in his chest, "I just want our baby to be ok, I just want her to be happy again." Tonraq placed one arm around her and the other on her head, slowly stroking her hair.

"It's ok, she's going to be fine"

"It just... it seems like the only time she's even a little bit happy is when Asami writes to her, I just hope she keeps writing, they seem to have a real connection. She makes Korra happy, that's all I want"

"I know" he whispered. A puzzled expression came to his face as he looked towards Korra's door, his eyes narrowed, "I know"

Korra placed the letter down on the desk and pushed herself up from her wheelchair onto her feet, she stumbled and fell to the ground. She reached up to grab a hold of the desk and pulled herself up. She grabbed the arm of her desk chair with her other hand as she propped herself up, slowly, meekly moving over to the desk. She pulled out the chair with one hand and launched herself down onto it.

Korra looked down at the letter lying in front of her, grey painted the underside of her eyes as sadness filled the voids they had morphed into. She picked it up, examining her name, that handwriting, she smiled, it was definitely from Asami. Korra slowly, carefully opened the letter. A quick scent floated from the letter to Korra as she opened the envelope, it smelled like her. Her stomach curled and her eyes closed blissfully as she inhaled. Korra pulled the paper from the envelope and unfolded the letter.

"Dear Korra

I miss you, it's been just over a year since you left and I still wake up every morning hoping you've come home. I'm worried about you, I hope you're ok. I hope you've been getting my letters, you haven't written back so I don't know if they're even reaching you"

Korra looked over at the stack of letters on her night stand and smiled. She let out a sigh, placing her head in her hands and shaking her head, the shame she felt at letting Asami keep writing and keep hoping when she could do nothing in return was heartbreaking.

"I went to Air Temple Island to see Tenzin and the kids a few days ago, you'd be so proud of them, they're still helping to teach the new airbenders and they did a great job taking all the classes while Tenzin went to see you. Even if Mako, Bolin and I had to watch the classes to make sure Meelo didn't make them jump off the tower again. Don't ask."

Korra let a slight grin form as her mind formed an image of Meelo stood in front of a class teaching the class how to fartbend and yelling at them,

"Be The Leaf!" she muttered, letting out a small giggle. The image faded to her own first airbending lesson with Tenzin and the kids, before all this, before the everything that had happened, before Amon, before Unalaq, before... Zaheer. Back when she could still bend properly, back when she wasn't so useless, so helpless. Her heart tugged at the memory. Korra looked down, her grin long since faded.

"Anyway, I just thought you might want to know that Future industries has officially started work on "Avatar Korra Park", I wanted it to be a surprise for when you came back but I just couldn't wait to tell you. I've been petitioning Raiko for months to get republic city park named after you..." Korra sat, awe struck,

"Me? Why? I don't deserve this" Korra looked down, disheartened. She continued reading

"I put an inscription on the bottom of it that said "In honour of Avatar Korra: the saviour of the world, and her Team Avatar..." Korra sighed and looked down at her feet,

"Saviour of the world? I can't even save my own legs." Her eyes focussed on her legs as she tried to force some kind of reaction from her limbs, her left foot moved slightly. Korra looked down, every muscle in her body urging her to scream, to shout, to do something. She ignored it, her mind raced with memories of all the previous times she'd felt this way, the crying, the anger, the pain; with each occurrence she became less and less responsive, to the point that she was now almost able to completely turn off her feelings, leaving herself an almost emotionless shell of her former self. But each time she attempted to void herself of her emotions a small memory would linger on her mind, Asami. Her eyes, those beautiful green eyes, her hair, that amazing raven black hair, her smile, oh god her smile; it was just... her.

"I don't really know what else I can say. I miss you so much Korra, we all do. Please come home soon, I don't know how much longer I can go on without you." Korra swallowed a lump in her throat. "You don't have to write back to me if you don't want to, I know it must be hard for you. I just want you to know I'm always here for you if you need anything at all."

"I miss you too" She clutched the paper tight in both hands. Her breathing became more ragged as she tried to contain her overwhelming sadness.

Korra pulled out the letter at the sides making it more easily visible, hanging on, as if life or death.

"I look forward to hearing from you,

Love Asami"

"I'm gonna do it, no excuses, she deserves a letter back, no excuses, I'm gonna do it this time" Korra repeated to herself, pulling out the drawer of her desk and placing a piece of paper in front of herself. She picked up a pen lying lazily at the side of the desk. Her hand trembled as she put the pen to paper, "Dear Asami" she scribbled, the letters almost unintelligible from her shaking. "I miss you too" her hands shook more violently, forcing the pen to scrawl all over the page. She threw the pen across the room and picked up the paper in both hands, violently clutching it.

"AAAARRRGHHH!" Korra screamed angrily, setting her hands ablaze, the paper still clutched in them, she slammed them on the desk. "What's wrong with me?! What did I do to deserve this?!" she placed her head in her hands. A wave of emotion hit her, everything she had bottled up suddenly spilled over, a years worth of grief, anger, loneliness, longing trickled down her face and onto her wobbling chin, dripping off onto Asami's letter. Her eyes swelled up, reddening as a weight pressed on her chest and a lock formed in her throat, not allowing her to scream, to cry out no matter how she tried. A tiny squeal escaped before the lock sealed itself again. She slammed her fists violently down onto the table again, this time letting out no noise save a quiet, pain filled cry. Korra looked down at the letter, the lock in her throat pried open, as she squeezed her eyes shut, doing anything possible to stop the grief from escaping,

"I'm sorry Asami... I.. I'm sorry"