Authors Note: This is my first fan fiction so be nice. Sorry if it sucks! I regret to say that I do not own anything. This is set just before Grace meets Jake, obviously and can be thought of as a deleted scene from the movie! Hope you enjoy and please rate and review, and I really do like to hear where I can improve and even where I just basically stink. Hope you enjoy!!!
Grace woke up that morning feeling irritable, not that that was completely out of the ordinary but today it was a little more than just waking up on the wrong side of the bed. Today was the day some new jar headed ex-marine would arrive to take the place of his identical twin brother in her Avatar Program, something she was NOT happy about, and the fact that Parker had only informed her of this fact the day before without the actual courtesy to tell this to her face did not make her feel anyway better.
"That idiot Parker" she thought as she rubbed her head beginning to regret those glasses of wine she had drank the previous night. She sat there for a few minutes wondering what she would do and eventually decided to grab a cup of coffee before going to complain to Parker, an event she seemed to be doing continuously ever since he had let those idiotic marines get away with destroying the school she worked so hard to set up and maintain and in the process, killing Silwanin, who happened to be the oldest daughter of Eytukan, the Omaticaya's clan leader and Mo'at the spiritual leader, preventing all chances of her or any other avatar, or dream walker, as the Navi called them, into the tribe again. This realisation REALLY pissed her off and the more she thought about this incident and the fact that an ex-marine would be taking control of an avatar with absolutely no training instead of his brother who had spent five years in training and who was a fully accomplished scientist added to her fury.
She marched down to Parkers office throwing anyone who got in her way one of her infamous deathly looks and angrily walking around them. When she finally got to her destination she swung the door open and saw Parker about to aim his golf ball into a turned over cup, a game she soon put an end to by kicking the cup aside, preventing him from getting the ball in. She then shoved his letter informing her of the situation at him.
"What the hell is this about Selfridge" she asked trying unsuccessfully to keep her voice completely calm but thinking she was doing a pretty good job at not picking up one of his golf clubs and hitting him so hard across the face with it that he would actually think he was seeing stars.
He glanced at the paper she was dangling in front of him and gave her one of his terribly annoying smirks before answering "I don't know what your talking about".
"Oh don't play dumb with me you fool, you know exactly why I'm here. Now tell me number 1. exactly why you have invited Tom's inexperienced brother to come to control his avatar and number 2. Why you only inform me of this fact the day before said persons arrival. I am not sure if you are aware of this but I don't actually need more jar headed morons roaming around my science labs bugging me every two seconds when I do have important work to be doing."
Parker looked up at her in amusement and answered, "well", he sighed. "I think you should be thankful that this guy had a twin brother of the same DNA so his puppet won't be put to waste and thankful his twin agreed to come!"
"Thankful?" Grace shouted amazed. "Your telling me I should be thankful that Tom died after years of being thought about the Navi and Pandora only to be replaced by his clueless and inexperienced brother?" "And I think you will find that the common term for my puppetsas you call them is Avatars!'
"Oh, well excuse me! I had no idea" he said sarcastically. "And yes, you should be thankful for this, now run along and start this important work you speak of and do tell if you find anything of actual interest such as finding a diplomatic solution by using anything you've got to attempt to stop any outbreak of war"
Grace rolled her eyes and sighed. There was just no getting through to this man, so she decided to retreat to her science lab to calm down a little before meeting the ex-marine, but not before she made a quick stop to have a cigarette!