pandora (jake sully x reader)

one of the people

jake and reze run silhouetted in the night. Behind them waterfalls cascade down in the silvery light. polyphemus rises behind the trees as reze dives from a rock, slicing into a mirror of water.

Reze's head breaks the surface and she looks at jake, "you scared forest boy!" she teases. 

jake lets out a small laugh and jump in after her, he wraps his arm around reze's waist and she cry's out, laughing as he pulls them both under water. 

they swim over glowing anemonis. They seem to float in a cosmic dance above a luminous garden of waving shapes. Tiny purple fish swirl around them.  Their hands come together, fingers twining, as they float weightlessly, as if between worlds.

Laughing, they run together, jake gently pulls on Reze's tail and she laughs, turning around to hit him before running ahead once again.  

Long faintly glowing tendrils hang straight down in pastel curtains. Underfoot, a bed of moss glows faintly. It reacts to their footsteps with expanding rings of light. 

The willows stir, responding to their presence. reze holds up her hands, letting the tendrils run over her skin. 

"This is a place for prayers to be heard. And sometimes they are answered." she speaks as Jake puts out his hands and the tendrils play over his fingers, his palms, his forearms. 

His eyes go wide. he hears the whispers of ancient Na'vi .

"It's like -- a sound you feel." 

reze smiles, "We call this utraya mokri -- the Tree of Voices. The voices of our ancestors, who live within Eywa."

 A few sprites circle around them, some alighting on their shoulders and arms. They stand, very close together now. Reze's eyes are intense, almost luminous. jake can't help but feel drawn into them. 

But she pulls back a little. "You are Omaticaya now. You may make your own bow from the wood of Hometree." reze moves further into the tree, jake carefully follows behind her. "and you may choose a woman. "

jake suppresses a smile. 

"We have many fine women. Ninat is the best singer"

"I don't want Ninat." jake whispers. 

"There is sonna-- she is a good hunter "  Jake puts his fingers on reze's lips to stop her.  "I've already chosen. But this woman must also choose me."his eyes meet Reze's her pupils are blown wide matching his own. 

reze takes jake's hands and their fingers intertwine, moving gently over each other. 

"and who would that be, forest boy?" 

"you might know her" jake cracks a small smile. "she is a great hunter, the greatest aim in the clan, she is respected by the many of the younger navi" jakes fingers run through Reze's hair. 

she shakes her head. "ive never heard of her" reze whispers, connecting her and jake's lips. "but she sounds amazing" 

jake lets out a breathy laugh, pressing his forehead against Reze's. she smiles and kisses him again. 

"Kissing is very good. But we have something better." reze pulls him down until they are kneeling, facing each other on the faintly glowing moss. reze takes the end of her queue and raises it. Jake does the same, with trembling anticipation. 

The tendrils at the ends move with a life of their own, straining to be joined. The tendrils intertwine with gentle undulations. 

jake gasps and rocks with the direct contact between his nervous system and hers. The ultimate intimacy. They come together into a kiss and sink down on the bed of moss, and ripples of light spread out around them.