*＊✿❀LO'AK | fallen angel❀✿＊*

thirty four

jakes pov | going back home |
we can still hear the cheers from everyone. people congratulating us, wanting to see cloud. it's early in the morning. neytiri and i were out talking to people.

the people who saved her. i can tell ronal wants her revenge, but tonight, she didn't get it. the sun barley rising.

lo'ak must've sensed we were coming home he jumped out of his hut. staggering to find balance. looking for something in our eyes.

"she's staying!" neytiri runs to hold him.

lo'ak is just like me. in so many ways, maybe that wasn't a good thing, maybe it is. i understand him, but he feels so guarded. so protective of who he is, or who he wants to be.

everyone had a rough patch with him back in the forest, he was too much or not enough. but right now in this moment he is a boy who's mom is holding him.

he is a boy who is madly in love.
maybe i didn't do enough to let him know that i loved him.

i saw so much of myself in him, i didn't want him to make the mistakes i have. but maybe i've changed him too. much.

i walk towards them, neytiri runs into the hut to hug cloud. lo'ak smiles at me awkwardly.

grabbing his shoulders, the words are there. the three words i think he needs to hear.
he looks at me worriedly.

his eyes are so.. drained still?

"i know you're not all that you want to be. but.. you're more than you were. and that is great."
i clear my throat.

his lips turn downwards, his breathe gets shaky.

"i see you."
lo'ak. my strong, independent, "i'll get there myself" lo'ak. he is now a man. a man who is unlearning all that he thought was right. all he thought he wanted to be.

glancing to see cloud walk out. her white wings, white skin. making her look ethereal, turning to see lo'ak.

he looks at her, then back to me. tears in his eyes. "i see you."

it's different when you make a navi yourself. when you grow this thing, and they're so much like you. to hear those words "i see you." from him. i believe it.

love comes in so many forms. love is so many things it is not just sex, crushes, or attachment. while those things can be apart of it, it is not all that it is.
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clouds pov |
in this moment lo'ak is looking at me for who i am. for what my soul is.

he does not care to acknowledge how i lack or what i can not do.

in this moment i feel loved.
i feel loved because despite my faults, how could i be so ignorant to think that

i could not be loved ?
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that's it. our souls were meant to be together. now i stay with him, i'll follow him. i'll chase after him, to the ends of everything. i'll be with him.
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- vbelle
(so uh. that's it. i don't want to drag this story out. don't think you'd want that either. they deserve a happy ending yk? maybe you saw yourself in certain parts of this story.. maybe you liked the romance. either way i appreciate you. like honestly. thank you.)