Eywa's Gift || An Avatar: The Way of Water x reader fanfic

4. A familiar face

One day ago.

Strained painful coughing echoed throughout the dimly lit lab. The sounds of paging papers filled the air as chocolate-brown eyes roamed through old files dating back a couple of years ago. Grabbing a flask of fresh water, Trudy gulps it down as sweat beads roll down the side of her head. Her hair was in disarray, showing but a tinge of how she felt at that moment, which was terrible.

She felt worse than ever. During those two years of being practically dead, it was likely that the effects of her being blown up in a metal aircraft took a toll on her health. From the pains her lungs would give each time, it came to Trudy's realization that metal was deeply longed for inside her and to remove it would cost her life. A frown makes its way on her face as her gaze locks onto a picture frame that had an image of you standing in the midst of Loreyu one of your favourite plants, which would shrink just by a subtle touch. You were just six years old back then, your small fangs enhancing your adorable grin.

Just seeing the picture made Trudy all the more determined as she looked through the various papers that had different types of graphs, and science language. Something Trudy couldn't understand, but perhaps something would turn up that was easier to understand. It has been going on for years that Trudy has been looking for something that helped her understand why you had looked different or the gifts that Eywa blessed you with.

Trudy never mentioned to you that she would try to do some research on the forgotten files she found during your travels over the years. This was because she didn't want you to think that she didn't like how you looked or what you could do. Trudy loved you and nothing would change that. She just felt that with how weak she has recently become, being there for you as a mother figure was proven much more difficult.

Atki was a great help no doubt, and since today was your private lesson with her made Trudy feel grateful that there was someone else in your life that could teach you things she couldn't. Even if she could go with you to your lesson, seeing your connection with nature and sometimes Eywa herself, she just couldn't join you. The final battle of the day she died, haunted her. It was as though her nights went on repeat the moment she would close her eyes. Quatrich fired a missile into her ship that was already going down and her body succumbed to the blazing fire, only each time her nightmares would end up with her staying dead. Her mindset wasn't in the right place, and due to you feeling overwhelmed by certain emotions, she couldn't allow her negative head space to affect you.

Sometimes Trudy would notice how you would stare longingly at images of Grace and Na'vi children at the school they would learn English at. Trudy sometimes would think perhaps it was the fact that your sad smile was at your thoughts about how you wished to be with Na'vi people your own age or just other Na'vi, but later she realized it wasn't that. Your gaze would trail over to the body-length mirror that was in the one-room lab. She came to the conclusion that the way you looked different from other Na'vi hit deep. Even though she and Atki would tell you how beautiful and amazing you were just the way you are, they could tell how you were in conflict with why you were like this.

'Don't worry, mija. We will find something,' Trudy whispers to no one in particular. Some of these notes were done by Grace herself, most of them explaining the different types of Pandorian flora and how they would react. Trudy, read through this dozens of times but nothing mentions anything about Na'vi being born with gifts, purple-blue skin, violet eyes or even white hair. Basically, the type of Na'vi you were didn't exist in any database.

Trudy remembered how she asked Atki if she perhaps came in contact with someone that looked like you in the Omaticaya clan and that perhaps your parents were out there. However, Atki would instinctively change the subject, say that you were Eywa's gift to Trudy and it shouldn't be questioned. If Trudy didn't know better she would believe there was something Atki was hiding, but she knew better than to argue with the elder Na'vi.