Where's My Love? - Lo'ak

Chapter 44: Or Worse

Jake Sully is one hundred percent sure he is accidentally going to lay a hand on his son when he returns.

He gave Lo'ak one request: Stay with Esmyrie while your mother and I go and talk with Tonowari and Ronal.

It was that simple. A small request.

Neytiri made dinner for all the kids for when they returned and gave Lo'ak a blanket to keep Esmyrie warm. And then her and her husband went to discuss in more detail what to do about the skypeople.

So, Jake was expecting to return to the tent and find all his kids there, Lo'ak and Esmyrie still cuddled together, the girl asleep from the medicine he gave her.

Instead, he finds Neteyam walking around anxiously, asking all his siblings when they last saw Lo'ak to hear all of them say it was during the Tulkuns return.

And now it has been well after Eclipse, with still no sign of the two kids.

Normally he wouldn't mind, he was a teenage boy at one time too, and he would sneak out on occasions to see a girl, but this was unacceptable in his eyes.

Lo'ak knows the skypeople are close, he heard... Not to mention Esmyrie was just in pain, needing medicine to help her head, and so Jake can't help but think the worst.

The skypeople found Lo'ak and Esmyrie and took them. They are wanting to use his son as leverage to lure him out.

That thought keeps repeating in his mind over, over and over, and he is beginning to lose his mind about it.

He spent hours with Neteyam and Kiri searching for the boy, and yet there is no sign of him. He even checked the forest, which he thought became Lo'ak and Esmyries hidden spot, but it was empty.

No trace of the two, and Jake had to return home and tell Neytiri the news.

She is concerned too, Jake can tell. But she seems more collected as if it could just be teenagers being teenagers and it isn't his son being held prisoner.

"Ma Jake. You need to sleep." Neytiri says, coming up to her husband who sits on the dock, his eyes cast out to the sea in search for his son.

"I can't. Not until they return." Jake shakes his head.

It's been well passed Eclipse, the sun will rise soon, and here the two still haven't returned, his kids all resting besides the boy and girl who are missing.

"Will you atleast lay with me then?" Neytiri asks, hoping if her husband lays down with her, his nerves will calm and maybe just maybe he will fall asleep.

"Okay.. yeah, okay." Jake mumbles, moving up from the dock, walking back into the hut.

He lays a kiss on all the children's foreheads before moving to lay down beside his wife, his hands instantly going to pull her closer to him.

"You are worrying too much." Neytiri tries to reassure.

"Maybe... I just can't help but think the worst. He had a knife to our sons neck once, what if he has it like that again?" Jake asks and Neytiri knows who he is referring to.

"We have lookouts Ma Jake. If the skypeople came here, we would of spotted them and been alerted." The woman tries to reason.

Jake nods at that. She's right. He is being too paranoid. He can't help it though, it just comes out sometimes.

"I'm just worried... I think he is growing up to fast." Jake whispers, his hold tightening on his wife just slightly, not wanting to ever let her go.

"What do you mean?"