I Have Crossed the Stars to Find You - BOOK ONE

Chapter 8 - Moonlit Flights (⚠️)

Warning: Some making out, slightly suggestive content, alcohol use

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3rd Person

The next few weeks go by smoothly, Rose has decided to put off her initiation into the clan since Neytiri and Tsu'tey are busy with their usual clan duties as well as the fact that Neytiri is also now with child. So she has spent most of her days helping Ninat adjust hers and Norm's home pod to accommodate the baby, her and Ozue making small decorations for them to hang up.

There's been more and more ships landing, coming from space and landing far from New Hometree, so Jake has been kept busy as what is essentially Tsu'tey's 2nd in command in the Omaticaya army. Due to him leading majority of the raids that go after these ships, Jake hasn't been able to spend much time with Rose since the day she got her ikran.

That's why it only comes as a partial surprise when one night, a few hours after dusk when everyone is in their home pods, most of them asleep, Jake hears a quiet knocking on the outside of the entrance to his home pod. He walks up and pulls the vine curtain aside, unable to stop the smile that appears on his face when he sees Rose standing there.

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Jake

I feel my tail flicking around happily behind me as I look her over, she's got her hair down like she had just taken her braids out, and she has her satchel on with a wooden bottle in it that's kept shut with a makeshift cork. She looks a bit restless as both of us just stand there without speaking, until she suddenly comes forward and hugs me tightly, burying her face in my chest as her tail comes forward to wrap around my waist. With a small chuckle I hug her back, arms wrapped around her waist and I lean my head down a bit to plant a kiss on the top of her head, "And to what do I owe this pleasure, hì'i yayo?" I ask as she looks up at me with a little smirk.

"Well.. we've been spending a lot of time apart recently and I wondered if maybe.. you wanted to go for a fly? With me?" She responds, her face hopeful even as her tail begins to lash around anxiously. I lean down and press a kiss to her forehead, rubbing her back with one of my hands as I respond, "I'd love nothing more, ma yawne."

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Half an hour later we were flying through the Hallelujah Mountains on our ikran, Rose leading the way as we flew up to one of the taller mountains and landed next to a small clearing at the top. We both landed and dismounted our ikran, saying a few words to them each before letting them walk a bit of a ways away to lay down and rest. Rose took my hand and gently tugged me along as we made our way into the clearing, turning and laying on her back in the grass once we got to the center. With a soft chuckle I joined her, the two of us just watching the stars together in comfortable silence for a while.

Eventually she sat back up and looked down at me, smiling softly, "So.. Ozue taught me how to make alcohol. Or at least the Na'vi equivalent of alcohol." My eyebrows raised as a smirk spread across my face, "Oh really? And did you bring any of this alcohol?" She giggled quietly and nodded, hopping up and going over to Anìheyu to grab her satchel from where she had left it with him. She took out the wooden bottle I saw earlier and hurried back over, sitting in front of me now once I sat up normally. I watched as Rose opened the bottle and took a small sip, swallowing it down and smiling a bit before drinking some more and handing me the bottle. I sniffed at it before taking a big sip, ears flicking against my head at the slight burn as it went down my throat. "Sorry.. I probably should've warned you about that." She says quietly, and when I open my eyes back up she's staring at me with soft smile, the light from my glowing freckles reflecting to create small galaxies in her eyes.

I quickly take another large sip before passing the bottle back to her, smirking lightly as I watch her take a few sips of her own, my eyes getting stuck on the way her throat bobs when she swallows it down. A few drinks later I can feel a pleasant buzz humming through me, just looking up at the stars with a lazy smile before I feel something brush against my leg. I look down to see Rose sitting cross-legged a few feet in front of me, her tail lightly swishing across her thigh, the tuft of hair at the end of it tickling one of my calves. She's watching me with heavy eyes as she takes yet another drink before capping the bottle and setting it on the ground next to us.

I don't move from my position as she leans down to land on her hands and knees, her head still eye-level with mine as she crawls closer, tail swishing around behind her. I'm still partially sitting up, though I'm leaned back and using my hands braced against the ground behind me to keep me up, legs slightly spread, and she wastes no time crawling right into the open space between them, her eyes still locked on mine as she sits back up on her knees and rests her hands on my shoulders. "Is this okay?" She asks quietly, allowing me to catch a glimpse of nervousness in her features for just a moment before I nod with a soft smile and sit up properly, wrapping my arms around her waist before picking her up and pulling her over my lap. Rose straddles me and I can't help but notice how right it feels, like she's the one who's always been meant to be there.

She begins to lean forward slowly and I close my eyes, doing my best to keep my breathing steady as I feel her lips press to mine. I kiss back softly and bring up one hand to cup the side of her face, the other resting on the small of her back. After a moment or two I lean back and we look at each other, smiling softly at each other before I lean back in and kiss her again, deepening it when I feel her reciprocate.

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Rose

Within minutes we're grabbing at each other eagerly, Jake gently but firmly holding my front against his own as he begins to trail kisses down from my mouth to my neck, letting out a quiet purr against my pulse point when I accidentally scratch my nails down one of his biceps. Closing my eyes as he sucks a mark onto my collarbone, I nearly yelp out of surprise when I feel Jake's hand gently tug near the base of my tail before he speaks against my skin, "Play nice, ma yawne, or I can't promise I will." I just let out a soft whimper in response as he goes back to his assault on my neck.

He continued littering my neck and shoulders with little bruises until he deemed me properly covered, purring quietly as he leaned back and admired his work. After a moment he grabbed my thighs and lifted me up carefully before sitting up on his knees, looking around for a moment before gently setting me down on my back in a softer patch of grass. I reach my hands out towards him and he immediately leans down to be back within my reach, his purring getting louder when I gently cup his face with both hands, turning his head slightly to press a kiss to one of my palms.

I feel myself start to purr as he positions himself between my thighs, still up on his knees and as I wrap my legs around his waist he keeps a hand under me to support my back, leaning down so we were chest to chest. I connect our lips again and nip gently at his bottom lip, smirking against his mouth as he lets out a quiet groan. The smirk soon gets wiped off my face as he lightly grinds his hips down against mine, reminding me that the only things separating him from my core are our two loincloths, the thought sobering me slightly as he starts kissing down my front again, stopping just above my chest piece. "Jake, ma Jake," I practically whimper out and he's back up to eye-level with me in an instant, his breathing noticeably heavy and his pupils blown wide as he smiles down at me, kissing my forehead, "Yes, ma yawne?"

"I am not one of the People yet, ma Jake, and we are both very intoxicated. We cannot do this tonight." I tell him, unwrapping my legs from his waist and carefully sitting us both up, smiling softly as he nods in agreement with me before pressing a soft quick kiss to my lips and backing off, letting me fully sit up and fix my coverings. We end up deciding to sleep there for the night since we don't trust ourselves to get home safely with how drunk we are, and we end up falling asleep together in the clearing, both of us laying on our sides spooning with Jake as the big spoon, his hands lightly tracing some of the stripes on my thigh as he presses light kisses to my shoulders and the back of my neck until we both fall asleep.