Hey guys! This is my newest venture that I decided that I wanted to try. This is my first Avatar fanfiction, but I've read a lot of them. This one will be close to the movie at the beginning , only because it's easier to describe the situation and Pandora by the way it was described in the movie. But the rest of it is pretty different. There will be similar events, but that is only to keep on track with the storyline of the movie, but a lot of things will be different. Don't forget to review!

~slytherinangel01

Finally Home

In cryo, you aren't supposed to dream at all. But I've been having dreams about sitting at a table, laughing with my sister Megan. I was happy. Content. Sooner or later, though, you always have to wake up.

Slowly, I opened my eyes. Straining my eyes, I looked around my small compartment where I was down in. It was dark and sweat was beading on my chest. Craining my neck up, I groaned at the horrible feeling storming in my stomach. Feels like I've had way too much to drink and a kick in the stomach by a grown horse.

As I heard a clicking noise, I ignored the feeling of bile rising and tried to bend my neck to see what was happening. Suddenly, the bed I was strapped down to was not to gently pulled out. Megan was the scientist, not me. She was the one who wanted to come all the way out here in space to explore the universe.

Hearing voices, I turned my head to see the commotion. There was a man beside me who also was strapped down to a bed. A person, who looked like a doctor, was checking him. The doctor asked the man if he was alright, but the man asked the doctor if we were there yet. I smirked at the doctor saying 'yes sunshine'. The doctor unties the man's stapes, then comes to me.

"You feeling okay sweetheart?"

I nodded. "Yeah. I'm good." After unstrapping me, he moved on to the next. Slowly I got up from the bed and floated around. Memories kept flashing through my mind, and I let my mind towards the day my whole life changed.

Ring! Ring!

Grabbing my mug of hot tea off the tabletop, I sat up from my small, worn table and walked down the hall to answer the door. Quickly glancing through the peephole, I saw two men in black suits. Feeling a slight movement of fear stir up inside me, I took in their hard expressionless faces. Something didn't feel right. Setting my mug down shakily on a stand by the door, I took a deep breath and opened the door.

"Can I help you gentlemen?"

The taller of the two spoke, his voice rough. "It's about your sister Megan." Oh, God. Not Megan.

My voice wavered. "What happened? Is she okay?"

"Your sister Megan was in an automobile accident early this morning." My heart stopped. Please don't say what I think you're going to say. "She didn't make it."

Sorrow hit me hard. No! Not my Megan! I walked over shakily to my table in the kitchen and sat down. I covered my face with my hands, trying not to cry, but they spilled out. Lowering my hands and folded them on the table, I watched through blurry eyes, as the two men walked into my kitchen and stood in front of me.I listened numbly as the tall man began to speak again, still speaking with his unfeeling, rough voice.

"Your sister represented a significant investment. We'd like to talk to you about taking over her contract."

The other man, the shorter one, began to speak. "And since your genome is identical to hers, you could take her place."

I was silent, as I took it all in. They had a lot of gut to bring this up right now.

The taller man walked a little bit more closer to me. "It'd be a fresh start on a new world. And the pays good. Very good." Silently, I thought about it. There was no other reason for me to stay here with Megan gone. She has... had been going to school for years to complete her dream of going to Pandora. Suddenly, I was overcome by the desire to go. For her. I would not let all her hard work go to waste. I looked up, my tears finally gone as I stared into their faces.

"I'll do it. When do I leave?"

I was knocked out of my memory as someone bumped into me. I looked up. It was the man who had been strapped down beside me. His eyes looked me over before he smiled.

"I'm sorry. I'm still trying to get a hang on this floating thing."

I gave him a small smile. "It's okay. It happens." I extended out my hand to him. "My name's Anabelle, but you can just call me Ana."

Still smiling, he reached out his hand and shook mine.

"My name's Jake."

"It's nice to meet you Jake."

We talked a bit as we went over to our lockers and opened them, taking out our duffel bags and our exo-packs. They were masks that we put over our faces to be able to breath, since the place we were going to had air that was toxic to us.

In the corner of my eye I caught a bit of brilliant hues of colors. Wondering, I went over to one of the windows. Jake followed me, and we both looked out, spotting the planet that looked so much like how our own used to be. Pandora. I've heard a lot of things about Pandora while growing up on earth, but I never figured I'd be coming here.

I couldn't help being awed at the sight of Pandora. It was a beautiful, but very new planet. It was clean, unpolluted, unlike planet Earth. Oh Megan... You would have loved this.

A scratchy voice began speaking through the speakers. "We are now approaching Pandora. Please head to your assigned ship and get ready for your flight down." I looked at my tag that was around my neck. My ship was number three. I looked at Jake and asked him what his number was. His was three too.

I smiled. "We'll let's get moving." We floated over to our number and we entered a small chamber that was filled with other people that were on our same ship. The door shut behind us, and a loud whooshing sound filled the chamber. I was a little unprepared at the sudden gravitational pull that pulled my feet down to the ground. My knees buckled a bit, but I was still standing. There was a loud groan as a door opened on the opposite side that we had entered the chamber from.

The crowd started moving into the plane, but I was searching for Jake. My eyes widened when I found him. He was on the ground with a determined look, crawling to reach for a wheelchair that was a bit of way away from him in the corner of the ship.

Pity flooded into me when I realized that he couldn't walk, but I wiped all signs of it off my face. A lot of people would be offended when you show them pity. I wouldn't judge Jake just because he couldn't walk. Who am I to judge?

Either way, I walked over and got his wheelchair for him and wheeled it over to him as a burly man in a deep green uniform quickly made his way over to us. He began to yell at us to hurry up and strap ourselves in. I turned around and glared at the man as Jake began to pull himself up into the chair.

"You're gonna wait, until we're good and ready. Do you understand me?"

The captain simply glared at me and told us to hurry up because he was going to get off schedule. I didn't care about his freaking schedule. If he gets in trouble, it's his problem. When Jake was finally situated in his wheelchair, he wheeled out of the small compartment and into a small spot in the plane, buckling himself and his wheelchair to the wall.

I walked over and sat in the last seat available and buckled up as the small compartment closed. The captain started yelling orders as the ship took off. The descent down was fast! A minute later, we touched ground. Wincing at the uncomfortable popping in my ears, I quickly unbuckled my restraints and stood up. I grabbed my duffel bag and put it on my back. The captain started blabbing at us to put our exo-masks on, so we don't die. I put mine over my face and watched as the captain pushed a button, opening the plane.

The captain started yelling at us again to run into the building and wait there for him. He was really starting to piss me off. As the others started running out, I waited for Jake to get his stuff together. When he finally got it all together, I started walking out of the ship with Jake following me. We ignored the captain as we walked out.

As we started heading to the building, I heard some guys in uniforms with guns talking about me none to quietly. I rolled my eyes though and kept walking. You could never really get away from guys like that. We finally made it inside and sat down with the rest of our group in a meeting room. We all turned our heads, as a man, with a scar on one side of his face, walked into the room and started talking.

"You're not in Kansas anymore ladies and gentlemen. You are on Pandora."

He walked past us and stood in front of the windows that faced the metal gate that held us in and everything else out.

"Respect that fact every second of every day. If there is a hell, you might want to go there for some R and R after a tour on Pandora. Out there, beyond that fence, every living thing that crawls, flies, or squats in the mud wants to kill you and eat your eyes for Jujubes."

I had to hold back a gag. That was a disgusting image to put in my mind. I perked up though, when he started talking about the Na'vi. "We have an indigenous population of humanoids called the Na'vi. They're fond of arrows dipped in a neurotoxin that'll stop your heart in one minute." I raised an eyebrow at that. "And they have bones reinforced with naturally occurring carbon fiber. They are very hard to kill."

He turned around and walked a bit down the aisle again. He stopped by my seat, which happened to be at the end of the isle, so my eyes were at his waist area. Why did he have to stop here.

"As head of security, it is my job to keep you alive. I will not succeed. Not with all of you. If you wish to survive, you need to cultivate a strong mental attitude. You've got to obey the rules. Pandora's rules."

He looked down at me and smirked. I knew he was looking down my shirt. "Do you get that sweetheart?"

I swallowed hard what I wanted to really say to that bastard. Instead of speaking, I simply nodded. He looked a little bit disappointed with my lack of response. Turning around again, he headed back to the windows. My mind went blank as he started listing off the rules.

As soon as he was finished, I stood up and started walking out with Jake beside me, ignoring the guy, who I learned was Quaritch, who I could feel was staring at me. Jake and I were heading to the lab we were to report to, when I heard someone yelling out Jake's name. We turned around, watching the guy who approached us. My eyes widened in shock as I recognized him.

He came up beside Jake, introducing himself as Norm. They were talking for a bit, before Norm looked up at me. His eyes widened as mine had in shock. He stumbled a little as he walked towards me.

"Megan? Is that you?"

I shook my head. It hurt still to hear her name. "No, I'm her sister. Anabelle." I held out my hand and shook his. "You were the guy who was dating my sister when she was at college learning things about Pandora. We never got the chance to meet."

His eyes filled with sadness. "Yes, well, it's nice to meet you Anabelle. I was just shocked." His adam's apple bobbed a little as he swallowed hard. I could tell he really missed my sister. "She told me things about you, but I didn't know you were coming here in her place."

I whispered as the sadness ate at me. "Neither did I."

We both wanted to get off the topic, so he was kind enough to start talking about the Avatar program as we walked together to the lab. I looked down at Jake, who was in between Norm and I. Jake was looking at me with concern and worry. I quietly told him that I would tell him about it later. He nodded as we came up to the lab.

Norm was smiling now, talking excitedly to everyone as we walked into the bio-lab, but I could tell he was still sad, because his smile did not reach to his eyes. He walked up to a place that he called a link room, but I was distracted by Jake rolling away to the left. I followed Jake down the small aisle until we came to an area that had three big containers.

I walked up to one of the containers and looked in awe at the Avatar that floated in the blue liquid. It looked so big! I remember what the two guys in the black coats had told me about the Avatar contract that I was taking over. They didn't tell me much, but said that I was to drive a remotely controlled bodies called avatars. They said that they were grown from my sister Megan's DNA mixed with the DNA of the natives. Every driver is matched to his or her own avatar, so that their nervous systems were in tune. Which why the two men had come to me, because I can link with Megan's avatar. I looked up as a short, portly man with curly hair walked up to us, introducing himself as Max. I looked back down at the avatar in the container.

I smiled. "They are so big."

Norm turned around and looked at me, smiling a little. "Yeah, they fully mature on the flight out. So the proprioceptive sims seem to work really well."

Max started messing with some things on the controller of the container before speaking. "Yeah, they've got great muscle tone. It'll take us a few hours to get them decanted, but you guys can take them out later today, if you come back after settling in." He smiled before pointing to the other two containers. "Those two are Anabelle's and Jake's. I'm sure you can figure out which one is yours out of the two."

Jake and I headed over to them. He stopped next to the one that looked masculine, and I went to the last one. Megan's. My breath caught at the beauty of the avatar. She too was tall like Jake's and Norm's, but mine was maybe an inch or two shorter. I could see Megan's pretty heart shaped face in the face of the avatar. They had the same mouth, the same eyebrows. I laughed a little. They even had the same chest size. Megan and I had a bit bigger chest size than the average being, so Megan's avatar would be the same.

I whispered as Jake and Norm came up behind me. "She looks so beautiful, just like Megan."

I sensed the change in body heat, as Norm walked up behind, gently placing his hand on my back. He looked at into my eyes as he to me."No, she looks beautiful like you. This is your avatar now Anabelle." I smiled at him before looking back at the avatar.

My avatar.

Max walked up to us. "Okay guys, we need to move onto the video journals, so I can teach you how to use them." He logged us onto our personal journals, and showed us how to use it. He then left us to talk to the camera. I turned to look at the camera, fixing it, to where it faced me completely. I looked at myself on the computer for a second. I looked exactly like Megan. We had the same honey brown hair, the same small, pink lips, and the same sun-kissed skin. Our eyes were both green.

I turned away from the computer and looked straight at the camera. I smiled a little as I leaned back in the chair. "Well here I am, doing science. There isn't much going on. I just miss Megan. A whole lot." I had to hold back the tears that wanted to pour out. It hurt a lot, thinking about her. Wishing she were here, but knowing she never would be.

I turned off the cam and picked up my duffel bag from the floor. I turned to look at Jake as he too, shut off his cam. He looked up at me and smiled.

I couldn't help smiling back. "So how was your log?"

"Good, but I think it's kind of stupid though."

I laughed lightly. "Yeah, I think so too."

A lab technician yelled that someone is coming out of the link. I watched as one of the link beds came into view and opened. A woman with short, wavy red hair sat up, groaning a little.

She looked around a bit, before putting one of her hands against her forehead. "Who's got my goddamn cigarette?" She swung around a bit, to rest her feet on the ground. "Guys! What's wrong with this picture?"

A woman walked up to her and handed her a cigarette and a lab coat. I smiled. I think I'm going to like her.

Norm walked up to us. I turned my head to look at him as began to talk excitedly about the woman who had just gotten out of the link. "Grace Augustine is a legend! She's the head of the Avatar Program. She literally wrote the book on Pandoran botany."

Max began to lead us to her. He turned his head a little to look at us as we followed him. "Well, that's because she likes plants better than people." As we came closer to her, he spoke again.

"Here she is, Cinderella back from the ball."

He walked up to her. "Grace, I'd like you to meet Norm Spellman, Jake Sully, and Anabelle Rivers."

She looked at the three of us, before resting her eyes on Norm. "Norm. I hear good things about you. How's your Na'vi?"

He spoke to her in Na'vi. I could understand a few of the words I had learned from Megan. From the little Na'vi I understood, I think he was talking about Eywa being happy about their first meeting. I had to hold in a little laugh when I heard Grace's reply. Norm smiled sheepishly at Grace. All I could get out of what he said was something about five years. I frowned. There was still a lot I didn't understand. Max introduced Jake and I again to Grace. She turned to us with a slight frown on her face.

I held out my hand to her. "It's nice to meet you."

Instead of shaking my hand she put her hands on her hips. "Yeah, I know who you two are, and I don't need you two. I need your siblings. You know, the two that studied for three years for this mission."

I lowered my hand to my side, a scowl on my face. "Megan's dead. I'm sorry it's such a big inconvenience for you." Jake nodded, his face stone hard.

A look of pity flashed across her face, before disappearing. "How much lab training have you had?"

I shrugged my shoulders. "None." Jake said the same thing.

I could tell she was upset. She turned towards Max. "You see? I mean they're just pissing on us without even the courtesy of calling it rain." She turned from us and started to walk out of the lab. "I'm going to Selfridge."

Max walked up quickly behind her, trying to keep up with her pace. "No, Grace, I don't think that's a good idea."

She turned her face towards him, glaring at him. "No, man, this is such bullshit! I'm going to kick his corporate butt. He has no business sticking his nose in my department."

Max stopped following her as she disappeared around the corner. He walked back to us, sticking his hands in his lab coat with a sigh. "Make sure your back here later today. Try and use big words." He walked away.

I looked down at Jake, and he looked at me. I smiled. "Well that went well."

"I guess so. I think she took it pretty good." I laughed.

I looked at Norm, who was standing behind Jake and me. I grabbed his hand as I started walking out of the lab. "Come on guys. We need to find ourselves a bunk room."I let go of Norm's hand to open the door that lead to the bunk area of the building. I whistled at the long hallway of doors.

"Damn. How many people are here." I walked down the aisle until I found a bunk room that could fit four empty. I pushed it open, and held it for Jake as he rolled in. Norm followed in behind us.

I threw my bag onto the top bunk before assessing what we had. There was a small window that looked out onto the fence and a small closet. I opened a door that was beside the window. It was a small bathroom that had a stand up shower, a toilet, and a small sink. All and all, it wasn't that bad.

I turned towards Jake and Norm. "I'm sure you guys don't mind bunking with a girl do you." Jake said he didn't mind, but Norm blushed a little before replying the same thing. I pulled out a small clock from my bag and plugged it into an outlet. I setted the time, which was five. I heard a knock on the door. Norm was about to get it, but I stood back up and said that I'd get it. I opened the door, revealing a short girl with brown hair and dark, brown eyes.

She held out her hand. "The name's Trudy. I just wanted to tell you guys that I'm the one who flies all the science sorties, so you guys are going to be flying with me." I shook her hand. I pointed out which one was Jake and which one was Norm to her.

She told Jake that Quaritch wanted to talk to him, and that she would take him to him. Before leaving with her, he told us that he would meet us in the bio-lab in time for our first link. I turned to look at Norm, who was unpacking what he had brought.

"I'm going to hit the shower first."

"No problem." He went back to unpacking.

I grabbed my towel and made sure I had all the clothes I needed to change into. I walked in and put all my clothes and towel on the sink, before shutting the door behind me. Silently, I prayed that there would be heated water as I turned the knobs and got undressed.

I sighed happily, as the warm water came pouring down on me. I always felt refreshed and clean after coming out of a hot shower. I felt like I was washing everything away and beginning anew, which was how I felt about coming here. I hope to move on and find a home here on Pandora.

After I was done, I shut off the water and stood there for a while. Allowing the water droplets to slid down my skin and letting the cool air touch my skin as well. I shivered as the two came together. I got my towel and dried off. I slipped on my clothes and put my hair up in a high bun.

I hung my towel on one off the hooks on the wall, before opening the door and walking to my bunk. I glanced over at Norm, who was sitting up on his bed, reading a book.

"The shower is open now."

He looked up at me for a second before nodding. Grabbing his own towel off his bunk, he walked into the bathroom and closed the door. The water turned on. I jumped up onto my bed and unzipped my bag. I didn't bring that much with me. In fact, I hardly owned anything. I did take the only pictures I had of Megan and I and tapped them to my wall. I also took out the small diary that Megan had given me on my last birthday.

I hadn't used it yet, but I was going to start tonight. I stuffed it into my pillow case, before jumping back down. I grabbed the little bit of clothes I had and hung it in the small closet next to Norm's. I put my bras and underwear in a small container that was on the floor of the closet.

When I stood back up, the restroom door opened. I turned and was shocked to see Norm standing in the doorway off the bathroom, with only his towel tied loosely around his waist. He smiled sheepishly at me, before walking over to me.

"Sorry, I forgot to bring clothes with me into the bathroom."

I laughed nervously. "That's okay."

He walked a little bit closer to me, before reaching behind me and grabbing his clothes. He turned back around and walked back into the bathroom, closing the door behind him. I let out a deep breath. I needed to get my act together, especially since I'm roomed with two guys.

I never had that much experience with guys. Of course I've dated, but I've actually never have kissed a guy or done anything intimate with someone. My sister had drilled into me ever since we were little that you only share yourself that intimately with someone you truly loved with all your heart. I guess my sister would call what I was feeling right now physical attraction.

But that was quickly extinguished. Megan and Norm had dated! She was practically in love him, so he was completely off limits, besides; I felt something deep down in me, telling me that he wasn't the one. But I did have another feeling, that I would be meeting that person very soon.

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slytherinangel01