The Girl Reborn / Neteyam x reader

Care Taker

I woke up to no Neteyam infront of me and was dissapointed.  I sat up still sore I saw Neytiri cooking a breakfast for everyone.  No one noticed I was up until I tried to stand up.  I got onto my knees feeling proud but still feeling weak and upset.  I tried to put my foot forward but failed.  I landed back on my back where I started.

I took a pillow and screamed into it.  Neytiri turned her head around quickly.  "y/n, are you okay?" she rushed over to me.

"I'm not, I can't stand being weak," I told her frustrated getting back on my knees.  "This isn't me," I began to get tears in my eyes as pain kept shooting through my body and feeling like a failure.

"You're strong y/n, but you're hurt take it easy," she told me patting my shoulder and standing back up.

I was taking it easy, I used my hands and placed them infront of me.  I used as much force as I could in my non injured leg and pushed myself up.  Once I finally stood up I had a genuine smile on my face. 

"I did it!" I yelled proud.

"Mom!"  Neteyam walked in. "I thought you said you would help her," he complained.

"I would have but she would have bit me," Neytiri said winking at me.  She knew I wanted to do it on my own.

Neteyam walked over to me looking at me with concern, "Are you okay?" He asked me.

"Yes lover boy, I don't even feel anything," I told him dripping with sarcasm which was a bull faced lie and he knew it.

He looked at me with care in his eyes.  I looked at him knowing exactly what he was going to do.  He first checked my oxygen which was okay.  Then he looked at my legs stab wound and made sure it was looking okay.  He looked at me to ask for premission to look at my stomach and I gave it to him. 

He lift my shirt and rubbed his finger causing me to wince a little and hold my breath.  He looked back into my eyes and gave it a gentle kiss.  When I tell you this man could make me forget I'm hurting i'm not lying. 

Waking up today, I felt like I had a new fire in me.  As my near death experience lit something in me that made me stronger.  I still had so many questions and I felt like I needed to talk to Jake and Neytiri about them.  I wasn't going to hide it from Neteyam either.

My leg didn't feel as bad as my stomach and I went to take a step forgetting it and almost fell right back down, luckily Neteyam caught me.  It sent shock waves of pain down my body.

"Ah," I grunted, "Lay me down please," I told him.  He laid me down and looked confused.

"Did I hurt you?" He asked me hovering by my side and glaced at his mom. 

"Did you do this to me?  No you didn't, so no." I told him, I'm hurt and I am angry.  I lifted my shirt to see my wound bleeding again and tossed my shirt back down.  I could feel a tear come out of my eye due to frustration. 

"Hey, it's okay, it's not bleeding a lot so it will scab over," He told me trying to make me feel better. 

"Can you just walk me to my tree please," I asked him looking at him.  He looked at his mom and she nodded.  Neteyam helped me get back up and had me use him as a support.

When we got out of the hut I had all eyes on me and dropped Neteyam as my support.  I looked around to see Jake starring at me and his son.  I smiled at him and he just looked sad, don't pitty me please.  I didn't hold onto Neteyam as support until we got into the woods where I couldn't be seen.

"Everyone knows you went through a lot love, they're not going to judge you," He told me

"I'm not worried about being judged, I just don't want people to think I'm weak," I told him trying to compromise

"That's not wanting to be judged," He snickered to himself.

"Look at me," I told him stopping and he stopped to look at me.  I looked at him and stuck my tongue out at him.  He smiled which caused me to smile.

Neteyam grabbed my face lightly, "You are so beautiful y/n, I just want you to know your scars don't show nothing but your strength,"

I looked up at him and gave him a hug.  He lightly hugged me back and gently picked me up.  I stayed hugging onto his neck and rested my head on his chest.  We got to the tree and he sat me down and sat opposite of me.  I looked at the tree and asked in my head, Eywa what do you have planned for me?  I started thinking about everything that happened lost in thought.

"Y/n" Neteyam nudged me causing me to look at him, "You look deep in thought, care to talk?"

I looked down at the ground, he's going to think I'm crazy.  So I might as well say it bluntly

"When I was on my near brink of death I saw a lot of things ," I started off, "Eywa visited me, she said she chose me to be a protector but I don't know what from, she also said we have a big problem coming and she told me she's always been by my side and will continue to be." I looked at him and he looked shocked amd confused, "I knew it, you'd think I was crazy because that's not even the end of it,"

"so you talked to Eywa, did you see her?" He asked actually interested.

"Not exactly, it was like she was all around me but she was mainly coming from the tree, but not my tree, a much older tree," I told him.  He nodded his head taking in what I said.

"You said there's more?" He asked.

I huffed looking back at the ground, "Yeah, I saw my parents... I couldn't even hug them because of my fragile state and they didn't want me to cross over because as I said, Eywa chose me for something and my story wasn't over yet," I looked back at him, " they didn't even get to say they loved me because I got too emotional and crashed it all, I didn't get to tell them I loved them."

He grabbed my hand and kissed it, "They know you love them, they understand that you were scared too," He told me.  It felt better getting this off my chest.

"I want to talk to you parents about this, do you think that's okay?" I asked him.

"Of course love, and I promise you we don't think you're crazy," Neteyam told me reassuringly.

I scooted over to him under the tree and we stayed there for a few hours before heading back.

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Sooooo? How'd you like this chapter?

We're going to see y/n grow a lot in the next few and become much stronger.