Awa woke up with a small yawn and a stretch of her good arm, making sure not to disturb her still sleeping mate. She had spent the last part of the day tracking down Khan who had decided to hide in a particularly thick area of the forest that required a lot of climbing and crawling. Tsu'tey had gone to a meeting with the Olo'oyektan and TsahÃk about the big celebration that was coming up. She grinned slightly with barely open eyes when Tsu'tey's face slightly twitched before he pulled himself closer to her, tightening the hold he had on her. He was one of those types of people that you wouldn't expect to be cuddly or affectionate but he surprised her every day. In public neither of them were big on showing PDA but Tsu'tey in particular loved to curl himself around her like a koala or an oversized cat around her in private, often with a gentle purring sound vibrating deep in his throat or chest, depending on what kind of purr it was.
Her big problem now was that she had to go to the bathroom and to do that she needed to untangle herself from the mess that was her and Tsu'tey's limbs, without waking him. He was a heavy sleeper but noticed almost immediately if she left his embrace, even more now that she was injured. Normally he would only notice her leaving after she had almost untangled herself but now that his protective instincts were high he noticed every shift of her body, hence the slight twitch in his face. She had no doubt that he would wake up if she tried to move too much.
The na'vi let out a slight sigh and then collected all of her decorated braids in her hand, correcting some of the decorations that had shifted or even fell off during her sleep. The hair part of her human culture hadn't left her so she always made sure that her hair was the best it could be, spending far more time than the other na'vis to make sure it's healthy and taken care of. The decorations of her hair was also a subtle tribute to her stepdad's heritage that she had managed to make Tsu'tey pick up as well, she spent a lot of time styling and braiding it in different traditional styles. Hair for her was a big part of her identity and though Tsu'tey had made fun of her for it a lot in the beginning he had come to understand it and support her. He was among the most loyal and supportive being that she had ever encountered.
When she made sure she wasn't lying on one of them she stroked a finger down the toned, strong arm stretched over her stomach to hold onto her hip. Her touch made him shiver slightly and nustle his head harder into her chest, having decided the night before that her breasts made for a good pillow. The action made her giggle slightly and her heart flutter. Before Tsu'tey she had never known what true, pure and unconditional love felt like, or what it felt like to love someone as much as she loved him.
Awa took a hold of his hand and brought it up to her lips, making sure not to do it too quickly or strong. She had always loved watching him sleep like this, no frown on his face, relaxed and happy. She pressed a soft kiss to his hand before she put it back on her stomach, and instead turned her head to look at him. She had counted the luminescent dots on his face and body a thousand or more times but she never got tired of it. She glanced at his ear, her mouth pulling down into a sad frown at the hole in his ear. He's got very sensitive ears that depending on the situation could draw a throaty moan from him or a startled yelp.
"Why are you staring at me?" Came his deep voice, rough from sleep but still the melodious drawl that she loved and adored with his lips moving into a lazy smirk.
"I-uh- I wasn't staring at you." She scrambled out the words with a raging blush growing on her cheeks. No matter how much time she spent with him, his ability to make her blush with only a few words or movements never ceased to amaze her. "I was making sure we had no holes in the hammock"
He chuckled at her obvious lie and fully wrapped his strong arms around her and shifted their positions in one fast movement. She yelped slightly as she was lifted up slightly, turned and then placed on a familiar warm, strong chest. His tail sought out hers by instinct and she wrapped hers around his with a slight grin at his clinginess. Her legs rested between his and her head rested just below his chin.
"Since when is my body your hammock, Awa" He chuckled, the sound a soothing melody.
"Since you insist on me sleeping on you" Awa shot back and hid her face in his chest to hide her raging blush.
He hummed slightly and shifted slightly so he could comfortably brush a hand through her braids, detangling them and fixing the ones she had missed. "How's your arm and ribs doing? Do they hurt?"
She opened her mouth and then closed it again. "It's more of an aching feeling, not much pain. It's fine, I'm fine" She told him reassuringly but then gasped out loud when he pressed against her ribs, pain blooming in the spot, making black spots dance across her vision. "Okay there's some pain, but only when someone touches it"
The unimpressed look on his face told her that he didn't believe her and then shifted her slightly without actually touching her ribs and shooting a pointed glare when she winced in pain at the movement. The movement also made her remember why she was trying to sneak out of their shared hammock before and she gave him a panicked look when his arms came back around her back to hold her against him.
"Tsu'tey I need to pee" She whispered and then started shifting in his hold, now that he was awake she didn't need to be careful no to wake him. "If you don't let go of me right now I swear to Eywa I will pee on you"
"Do you need me to come with you?" He asked with a worried tone, he didn't want her to hurt herself even more. She had never been one to handle being hurt well, and she was much more fragile than the rest of her clan members.
"I'll be fine, Tsu. I'm just going to that spot" That spot, her spot, she had never lost that admittedly human embarrassment about peeing with others and it the toilet are was too open for her tastes. So she solved the problem by building her own little toilet area that only she, Neytiri and Tsu'tey knew about.
He nodded and released her after giving her a warning look. "Be careful"
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She had just finished her business and was on her way back to the hometree when she saw Jake. He was sitting on a moss covered stone, alone. She scoffed slightly, she hadn't forgiven him yet for hurting her like that and the sleep that she had managed to get after Tsu'tey and hers nightly adventure hadn't helped in cooling her raging feelings down. Sure, she didn't want to kill him anymore like she did when she first woke up but she had no desire to talk to him. But she wasn't going to sneak past him, she wasn't the one that should be hiding.
So she walked in her normal pace, her feet light and almost soundless like she had been taught. Jake seemed to have been waiting for her though as his eyes snapped right to her after coming out of his thoughts.
"Awa!" He called out in a too loud voice for the time they were in the woods. She could see him rushing at her, his hand waving in every direction and stumbling on his tail at least 3 times before he reached her. "Awa"
"What?" She snapped with a scowl on her face, her english heavily accented. "What could you possibly want?" The Na'vi spat after crossing her arms firmly over her chest.
"I wanted to apologize" He admitted to her while rubbing his neck with his left hand. Small red blotches decorated the apples of his cheeks as he looked down on her. "It was an accident. I'm sorry"
"Neytiri sent you, didn't she?" Awa sighed and pinched the bridge of her nose. "Do you even know why you're apologizing?"
"No" He sheepishly admitted and when she turned around to leave he scrambled to grab her arm, her injured arm. She spun around with a hiss of pain and clocked him right in the jaw with her good fist.
Great, her broken arm was now pulsing with warm flashes of pain that took everything in her to hide the tears welling up in her eyes. "Don't touch me"
"I-I'm sorry for that too. Listen I'm sorry for all of it." He stuttered and reached his hands out to her but then let them fall at his sides. His eyes were wide with surprise as he stared at the Na'vi before him that was desperately trying to hide the pain she was feeling.
"Save it" She replied through her teeth. "Why are you apologizing for something you don't even know. That's stupid."
"I hurt you?" Jake asked with a hesitant tone to his worried voice. He had rehearsed his apology speech to the ex dreamwalker but that didn't go to plan. Instead of honest apologies he hurt her even more. God, Grace would kill him.
"Of course you did, you idiot! You broke my arm and bruised my ribs. You're lucky the yerik could still be used" Awa barked at him and cradled her now even more injured arm. Whatever progress had been made during the night was gone and she was back on step one.
"I didn't mean to!" He told her desperately, he didn't know if Neytiri would keep on training him if he didn't apologize, and if he wasn't being trained he wouldn't have anything to tell Quaritch. No, he needed to do this. "It was an accident, it was my first time on one of those horses"
"Those horses?!" She echoed with a glare on her face. "Those horses? For one, they're called Pa'li or direhorses for you since your small brain can't seem to learn the language of those you torment, and two, they are much more than just 'those horses'." She told him with her anger shining clear in her eyes and voice.
She could take him hurting her, but she couldn't take his continuous blatant disrespect and ignorance for the Na'vi, their culture, the things Neytiri was teaching him, and Pandora. It's a privilege to be here, she had to fight tooth and nail to get there and here was this dreamwalker who didn't work anything for it and when presented with this golden opportunity he just ignored it all. He joked everything away, and the disrespect. She sacrificed so much, and still is, and he's doing nothing for it.
"Sorry, sorry" He backed off and put his hands in the air. "I don't know much about this yet. I'm sorry for doing that to you, and I'm sorry for everything"
"You know nothing, tell Neytiri to come find me" She told him before leaving him alone in the forest. She couldn't talk to him anymore without screaming at him or hurting him. It hurt her to see someone who was given something that she always dreamt of, without working for it, and then tossing it all away. It was like he wasn't even trying. "Work on that apology"