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VI

[Flashback]

Time had seemingly frozen for Neteyam in that moment.

The words 'I've been shot' left him feeling like a bullet had gone right through him as well.

He did his very best to keep Y/N afloat, feeling helpless as she continued to bleed from being shot.

"Lo'ak help me" he desperately asked, clicking his tongue at the ilu next to them to swim closer.

They'd managed to get off the sky people's ship, with Spider too and yet Neteyam felt that all his efforts had been in vain. Their escape wasn't planned out but he thought he could've been better at what he always felt was his job: protecting.

He held Y/N close to him, his chin resting atop her head.

With every passing second, his heart only began to pick up pace and a strange feeling engulfed him; like a stone twice his weight was placed on his chest.

He couldn't bare the idea of losing her so he pushed those thoughts away the best he could yet the dread of the possibility of said instance occurring, lingered.

Lo'ak's voice seemed so distant when he called out to their dad despite him being right behind him.

Y/N coughed and winced in pain as she was carried from the ilu to a rock, clenching her teeth to keep herself from letting all of that antagonising pain emerge in the form of a scream.

Tsirerya was already crying, Lo'ak also just moments from doing the same as they encircled Y/N while Jake examined her briefly.

Neteyam refused to take his eyes off her, his hand holding her's as she occasionally squeezed when the pain got too much.

'Do not take her' he inwardly prayed to Ewa, borderline begging.

He felt as though he had been entrapped in a bad dream and he wanted nothing more than to just wake up to find all of this wasn't really happening.

"No exit wound" He breathed out, making Neteyam's ears shoot up.

Despite being wounded pretty bad, there was still a slim chance to save her.

Whilst his parents along with Spider went back for his sisters, Neteyam made haste for the village with Y/N.

There was a flame of hope set ablaze at the mention of a possibility that she could be saved and Neteyam would fight almost anyone or anything who would stand in his way of saving her.

"Neteyam" she weakly called out, using up whatever strength she had just to call out his name

'You're going to be okay' he immediately cut her off before she had a chance to say anything else that would suggest she was giving up 'stay with me, you're going to be okay'

[End of flashback]

~few years later~

Neteyam and Y/N had, to everyone's surprise, grown distant over the past six years.

Or more like, had been making every effort to stay away from each other as much as possible.

They were like the same poles of a magnet, repelling away from the other.

They both refused to talk about it when questioned and just brushed it off but being part of the same friend circle meant there were some occasions in which they just couldn't avoid each other and just had to put on a fake front and deal with each other's existence; not to mention the awkward atmosphere they created and the tension that everyone in their group sensed and had to deal with.