Starboy - Lo'ak Sully

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The following day, Aria was with Kiri, Tuk, Harry and sadly, Spider. The group was hanging around waiting for the war party to return from their next raid.

Aria hated watching her best friend, and the rest of the Sullys go out to fight. It was dangerous, and she never knew if it was one of their last days. Aria had even found herself praying to Eywa to keep all of them safe.

Tuk had run out at some point, playing with a toy plane Aria had gifted to her. Tuk treasured the toy and absolutely loved it.

Aria had yet to speak to Harry about his intentions the other day. She hated that not in control feeling he made her feel. That, and how he reminded her so much of Rudy.

All of a sudden, Aria was pulled out of her thoughts when little Tuk came running back.

"Kiri, Aria! Come on! The war party is back!" Tuk shouts in glee, grabbing Aria's hand, the rest of the teens following suit.

They made their way to where Jake had Neteyam and Lo'ak standing in front of him. Watching Lo'ak's ears fall down, Aria knew Jake was scolding the brothers again.

Huffing, she stomps her way to Jake to hear him indeed yelling.

"Jesus, I let you two knuckle heads fly a mission and this is what happens!" Jake shouts, Aria almost flinching at his voice.

Kiri begins inspecting Neteyam and sees many cuts and scrapes on him.

"What happened?" Aria questions, curious as to what Lo'ak even did to get Jake this pissed.

"Kiri, Aria not now. Please go help Mo'at with the wounded." Jake groans, attention on the girls.

"My brother is wounded." Kiri states and Jake lets out a sigh.

"Ma Jake," Neytiri adds. "Your son is actually bleeding."

"Go on." Jake brushes off and turns to Lo'ak. Everyone but Aria had left to see Neteyam while she stayed.

"Aria please, go help with the wounded." Jake says, sternly but Aria stands by.

"Not until you stop yelling at Lo'ak." Aria says, crossing her arms. Lo'ak softly smiles but it drops at the sight of Jake.

He lets out a groan and turns to the teen. "Fine. But we'll talk about this later."

Not letting him speak another word,  Aria grabs Lo'ak's hand and leads him to where Neteyam was getting patched up.

Aria did not bring up Jake's scolding as Lo'ak's mood was finally shifting to become better. She didn't want to ruin it.

Once Neteyam was done being patched up, Aria, Kiri, Lo'ak, Harry and Spider all made their way into the Avatar only area, earning scolds and shouts from everyone around them.

"Avatar only!" A woman shouts and Kiri mocks her voice, sparking a laugh from Aria.

They walk into the lab where Aria, Harry and Spider take off their air masks and Lo'ak and Kiri place one on.

Aria high fives Max as Spider begins complaining about being a human.

Annoyed by his presence already, Aria and Harry walk over and look at Grace, Kiri's mother.

Aria had watched video diaries of the woman and heard stories about her and she so dearly wanted to have met her. She couldn't even imagine how Kiri felt. Actually, scratch that, she could considering both her parents were dead too.

The group huddles around the tank containing Grace's avatar as Lo'ak speaks up.

"So, who do you think knocked her up?" Lo'ak says, causing Spider and Harry to snicker. In any other case, Aria would have been laughing along, but this was Kiri's mother.

"I would die. I would drink acid." Kiri snaps at Lo'ak but that doesn't stop Spider and Harry.

"I bet it was Norm." Harry states, crossing his arms with a smirk.

"Yeah!" Spider giggles, pointing at one of the video diaries of Grace with Norm in the background. "Look, he's giving her looks."

"You all don't deserve to live." Aria scowls and slaps Spider on the head and punches Lo'ak.

She went to hit Harry but he grabbed her wrist quickly, causing her to stop, look down at her wrist and then up at Harry who had a smirk on his face.

Aria smiles back before flicking his face with her other hand.

Laughing she turns back to Spider who spoke up, solemnly this time.

"But sometimes it's better to not know who your parents were." He states, pouting.

Aria just stares at him and looks back at Harry who has an uncomfortable look on his face.

She cocks her head at Harry but he doesn't notice her.

"Spider, bro..." Lo'ak says but Spider pushes him off.

"It's fine. It's whatever." Spider states and Aria shrugs, not really caring.

But what she did care about was Harry's expression after the mention of Spider's parents.