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YUNHO GOLDEN HOUR : Part.5 Jacket Making Film
love in withdrawal
in which you avoid your desperately confused and in love husband
PAIRINGS: anthony bridgerton x fem!reader, anthony bridgerton x wife!reader
WARNINGS: flirty af, yearning af, pregnancy, meddling bridgerton siblings (specifically b,e, g, and h), angst, miscommunication, fluff sprinkled in, they love each other so much it makes me nauseous, fluffy ending
WORD COUNT: 4.1k
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AN: 🩵♥️💗 - god this one was so fun to write- it hurt me, but it was fun. please please please enjoy - and get hype for season four!!
Your laughter radiated off the pale blue walls as your husband, the lovesick fool that he was (his words, not yours) attacked you mercilessly with his kisses. His affection often kept you from starting your day, and this morning was no exception. “Anthony-”
“Yes?”
“We must-” Your breath hitched when his horribly handsome eyes met yours. “We must go downstairs. Your family-”
“Our family.” His lips caressed your skin as he whispered. “You are my wife. They are just as much your family as mine.”
“Fine.” You shook your head endearingly. “Our family-” He hummed. “Will be hungry. We should break fast.”
“They can wait and allow me a moment to admire the stunning woman before me.”
“Anthony-” You giggled. “You must contain yourself, or we shall never leave this bed.”
The same bunny.⋆.𐙚 ̊
Dark!Neteyam x innocent! Na'vi reader
Summary⋆.𐙚 ̊<The one where you and Neteyam grew up impossibly close to eachother, but as you reach adulthood you drift apart that is until things go horribly, terribly wrong. And neteyam has to draw you back to where you belong.>
Warnings⋆.𐙚 ̊<size difference, choking, dom/sub, rough, gaslight, manipulation, stalking, oral fem!receiving, squirting, sir kink,fingering, degradation, fear kink, corruption>
Neteyam did not remember a time when she did not exist.
His earliest memories were not of bows or blood or the weight of a spear in his hands—they were of a small, soft presence always just behind him, fingers clutching the woven band at his wrist as she tried to keep up with his longer strides.
She was always there.
Their families kelku stood close together, the shells angled along the trees. The Sullys’ home and hers were joined by a long lasting respect, love and trust from Neytiri's bestfriend. A trust that had been passed down into her daughter and through Neytiri's eldest son-Neteyam.
Every morning, without fail, Neteyam and Jake would make their way over to the neighbouring hut and knock three times.
Jake’s voice followed, deep and warm as usual.
“Can we steal our doll today?”
And every time, her parents laughed.
She would peek out first, with her big eyes, soft smile, and her hair never quite tied back right.
Jake had called her doll from the moment she could walk. Not because she was fragile—though she was—but because she had that comfort about her.
The same comfort that little girls put into their toys.
That was found in her.
The kind that made even the great omatikaya warriors lower their voices around her.
Neytiri loved her as her own. She was the closest thing to a neice that she had-though not by blood, she would do anything to protect her bestfriend's daughter and they would do anything to protect her children. She braided her hair with reverence, painted her markings with gentle hands, scolded the boys if they played too roughly around her.
And Neteyam—
Neteyam watched.
Always watched.
They played at the waterfall together even then. Lo’ak splashed farther out than he should have, whooping when the cascading water knocked him sideways, convinced he was invincible even then, erupting laughter out of all the kids as he scoffed in embarrassment. Kiri drifted along the water, pausing often to watch the leaves shuffle on the trees.
Spider lingered nearby, pretending he wasn’t paying attention, skipping stones and glancing up every few seconds just to make sure everyone was still there.
She stayed closer to Neteyam.
It was better that way, if she stayed near him he wouldn't go complaining to his parents that she went to far into the water, Lo'ak wouldn't get overly excited and accidentally hurt her, kiri wouldn't try to teach her to hold her breath for a whole minute resulting in a near drowning situation.
She was happy this way, she laughed when the water lapped at her calves as a result of Lo’ak’s franctic splashing, reaching for his hand when a fish surprised her, and he let her hold on without comment. Sometimes she tugged him toward the rocks to show him water flowers she liked. Sometimes she followed him without thinking, matching her steps to his like it was the most natural thing in the world.
Neteyam slowed for her without her ever realising it.
Lo’ak teased her, endlessly. He poked at her reactions, stole her things, laughed when she would pout and go stomping to Jake and Neytiri.
But he would throw punches for her without thinking.
Kiri adored her softness for it reminded her of the way of Eywa and she often dragged her into meadows to talk about Eywa and spirits.
Spider treated her like she was made of glass. Always offering her things, and always watching Neteyam carefully when he stood too close to make sure he didn't trigger a reaction.
Smart boy.
She was not like the other Na’vi girls. They climbed higher, ran faster, laughed louder. They were edged and fearless, born knowing Pandora would either make you strong or swallow you whole.
She was soft.
Her laughter was quiet. She flinched at sudden sounds. She asked too many questions and trusted the answers too easily.
Pandora loved to eat girls like her.
Neteyam learned that early.
So he taught her fear.
Not in a brutal way.
Just enough to keep her safe.
He would crouch beside her even when they would still young to warn her about the consequences of not listening.
“You must never wander too far” he would say. “There are things waiting for something like you.”
Her eyes would widen. She would nod fast and grip his arm in fear when he would purposefully step on a branch-pretending that it came from the bushes.
When they grew older, when his training intensified and his body hardened, so did his mind. He became mature and brave. He became even more of a protector than he was before. She stayed the same. Taller, yes. Older. But still gentle and soft spoken.
He became Olo’eyktan-in-waiting. A future leader. A mighty warrior in training. His future was layed out on a silver platter infront of him.
She became something else entirely.
Something that needed guarding.
Jake trusted her parents with his children, and they trusted him with her. That trust wrapped around Neteyam like permission.
He trained hard. Harder than anyone. Because strength meant safety. Because power meant control.
And because one day, he would lead—and she would still be soft.
Still kind.
Still his responsibility.
By the time he was twenty-two and she was eighteen, the world had shifted.
Pandora no longer felt infinite in the way it had when he was a boy, because infinity only exists when you don’t yet understand that everything has a cost, and he understood it now down to the bone.
The forest no longer felt like a playground or magical, he now understood the true dangers of it. The danger being that you never know what lurks in it
Twenty-five.
That was the age etched into him long before he was even born.
That was rhe age that the heir of the Olo’eyktan would take his place if he is ready and deemed worthy.
Jake didn’t need to remind him anymore; the weight of it sat naturally on his shoulders, heavy and familiar, like armor he’d grown into rather than something forced on him.
He accepted it, and he embraced it. And along with that came the change. He rarely laughed anymore for happiness is weakness. He rarely spoke for the more you reveal the more liabilities you make.
He was a mighty warrior. He led the omatikaya hunters. And many of the warriors. He trained the young. He built shelters. He served, he fought and he protected. Like a true Olo'eyktan.
And with that came a mate.
The clan chose his future mate with absolutely no concern for how he felt about it.
Which was odd considering the fact that everything else was chosen for him.
She was strong and had a sharp-tongue, independent to the point where compromise felt like an insult to her pride. She trained hard, fought harder, and carried herself like someone who expected obedience rather than trust, which made sense—because she was built to rule beside someone like him.
On paper, she was perfect.
In reality, she made his jaw tighten every time she spoke like command was something she already owned, every time she pushed instead of balanced. Neteyam was dominant by nature, by training, by instinct, and having someone that relentless at his side didn’t feel powerful—it felt violent.
But the level of submission that he would break her down to-might just strip his title away from him before he even got it.
He knew tha the clan didn’t need two voices clashing for control.
They needed one steady hand on the reins, and another presence that grounded them when fear crept in, someone they could breathe around when grief set in heavy and quiet.
And that presence was not the woman chosen for him.
That presence had never been chosen at all.
When she turned eighteen, the shift was immediate, and honestly unbearable.
She didn’t change who she was—she just grew into herself, and that was the problem. Her body softened and filled out in ways that caught the eye whether Neteyam wanted it to or not, curves settling where there had once been angles, her breasts filling out in a way that was so rare for Na'vi women-but she was never like the other women. She still laughed softly, still trusted too quickly, still felt like Pandora. The Pandora that he once knew.
The magic, the wonder it all flowed back when she was here.
So he pulled away. Because he now had an arranged mate. And he could no longer push how he felt towards her down.
He stopped walking her home, stopped sitting beside her during gatherings, stopped offering quiet guidance or watchful presence, and started choosing distance instead. He spoke less when she was near, avoided eye contact longer than necessary, and left spaces the moment he felt his attention drifting toward her out of habit.
She noticed, obviously.
She always noticed when he was feeling off.
But she didn’t confront him, she didn’t demand answers, she didn’t chase him down for reassurance, which somehow hurt worse than if she had.
For she had also matured and learned the art of choices and respect rather than the art of war and protection.
She too accepted the distance with that same quiet grace she accepted everything with, even though confusion sat behind her eyes-she accepted it.
Neteyam told himself this was discipline, that this was what leadership demanded, that protecting her sometimes meant removing himself from her world entirely—but distance didn’t stop him from watching.
He still tracked her movements through the village without thinking about it, noting when she left, who she walked with, how long she was gone, and whether she came back with the same relaxed posture she left with. He followed her into the forest whenever his duties allowed, staying far enough back that she never sensed him, but close enough that nothing else ever got the chance to.
Most nights, he slept outside her kelku, close enough to hear her breathing through the woven walls. When a predator wandered too close once, drawn by movement or scent, it never made it past the treeline, and she never even knew there had been a threat to begin with.
Pandora was no longer magical to him. But you'd be damned to think he wouldn't let it keep being magical to her.
He made sure of that.
When he noticed even a single drop of loneliness or sadness from her he reacted. He sent one of his most trusted female warriors into her life under the excuse of friendship, easygoing and harmless on the surface, loyal and observant underneath, reporting back quietly and without question.
It was better this way. Neteyam was sure of that, until...the reports came back.
She told herself she understood.
That was the easiest lie to live with, because it sounded reasonable and didn’t demand too many answers from the many questions that she always loved to ask. Neteyam was busy now, busy in the way boys who were becoming men always were, busy with training and patrols and expectations that sat heavier on his shoulders with every passing season. Of course he didn’t have time anymore to wander through the forest with her and his siblings, to stop and pick flowers just because she liked the color, to play in the water of jump from vine to vine in the trees.
Of course he didn’t.
She told herself that growth meant distance, that this was natural, that this was what happened when people stepped into their futures while others stayed where they were.
She told herself that it didn’t hurt because it wasn’t personal, because it couldn’t be personal, because Neteyam had never once been cruel to her.
So she accepted it.
She smiled when she saw him and he looked past her. She stepped aside when he entered a space like she had learned to do instinctively, making room for the weight of who he was becoming. She didn’t ask why he no longer walked her home, why he stopped sitting near her, why his presence lingered everywhere except beside her.
She assumed he was just busy.
That belief lasted right up until the day it didn’t.
The announcement came without warning infront of the whole clan in celebration.
Neteyam and Laïloui were to be mated, their bond chosen for strength and the future of the clan, and everyone around her reacted the way they were supposed to—with approval, pride, excitement.
She felt nothing like that.
What she felt didn’t have a name, because she had never felt it before, not once in her entire life. She had known joy, warmth, safety, and curiosity, but this was different. This was cold, sharp and sudden, like something had reached inside her chest and twisted without asking permission.
Her breath caught, not dramatically, not visibly, but enough that she noticed it and couldn’t make it stop.
She didn’t cry.
She didn’t scream.
She just stood there, quiet as always, while the world shifted around her and no one noticed that something essential had slipped out from under her feet.
That was when everything changed.
It was when she realised that he wasn't busy. And it wasn't an excuse.
Without Neteyam’s presence hovering quietly at her side, without the unspoken understanding that she belonged with the Sully's.
The village stopped making room for her. Conversations closed when she approached. Laughter softened, then stopped.
She was too soft.
Too quiet.
Too unnecessary.
The friend groups she had always drifted within shut her out, leaving her outside without ever saying she wasn’t welcome anymore. She was left out of gatherings, not given anything to eat during shared meals, criticized for things that had never been faults before. Her kindness was mistaken for weakness. Her silence was interpreted as something worth mocking.
And she took it.
Because she always did.
She woke up every morning with a heavy strain in her chest, the kind that made it feel like breathing required effort instead of instinct, and she carried that weight with her throughout the day like it was just another part of her now. She went to sleep with the same pressure still there, curling around her heart.
She too stopped laughing.
She too stopped talking.
For she had no one to make her laugh. And she had no one to talk to.
Her chosen family had moved on without her.
Neytiri was always busy now, tending to Laïloui with the same care she had once given her, braiding her hair with reverent fingers, smoothing her markings, offering gentle praise that used to make her chest feel warm and full. Jake spent his days training Neteyam, teaching him leadership and strategy and all the things that pulled him farther and farther away. Lo’ak chased his brother’s footsteps relentlessly, desperate to prove himself, while Kiri wandered deeper into Eywa’s pull, searching for her purpose.
And she was still there.
She didn’t blame them. That was the worst part. She understood why they were busy, why their lives were full, why there wasn’t room for her softness anymore in a world that demanded strength.
Understanding didn’t make it hurt less—it just made the pain quieter, therefore heavier.
She remained gentle.
Remained kind.
Remained alone.
And some nights, when the weight in her chest pressed too hard to ignore, she wondered if this was what it felt like to lose something you were never destined to in the first place.
By the time the morning came, she had already come to the realisation that she was no welcome here.
Not in a dramatic way, but in the same way she had learned to accept everything else that hurt her—by letting the truth settle into her bones until it stopped fighting back. The clan was awake around her in small, distant sounds, the soft crackle of dying embers and the faint rustle of early movement, but no one was awake for her, and she realized with a dull ache that no one ever really was anymore.
So she moved carefully.
She gathered her things slowly, folding what little she owned with gentle hands as if the objects themselves might break if she rushed, packing only what she could carry without strain, because she had learned long ago not to ask for help that wouldn’t come. She left behind anything that tied her too tightly to this place—small gifts, old trinkets, things that smelled like familiarity—because she knew if she took them, she might never make it past the treeline.
She didn’t look toward the Sullys’ home.
She couldn’t.
If she did, she knew she’d hesitate, and hesitation had never saved her before.
Her father’s absence still lingered like a wound that never closed properly, his death still too recent, still too raw, and her sweet mother lay sick at the loss of her mate.
She had watched Eywa take pieces of her life one by one, she had started to believe that maybe she was cursed, that maybe the world simply wasn’t meant to keep her for very long.
It would only be a matter of time before her mother was taken too.
And then what?
She would be alone anyway.
So she chose to leave on her own terms, before anyone could make it official that she was now truly all alone, before she had to watch the last thread tying her to this place finally snap.
She slipped into the forest just as the sky began to lighten, the familiar paths already feeling foreign beneath her feet.
She walked until her legs ached and her chest burned, until the weight she had been carrying inside her finally spilled over in the form of exhausted tears she didn’t bother to wipe away. No one was there to see them. No one was there to stop her. No one was there at all.
And that, somehow, hurt the most.
She had spent her entire life being soft in a world that valued strength, kind in a place that respected sharp edges, gentle where others learned to harden, and now she understood what that had cost her.
She had been something people loved when it was convenient, when it was easy, when she asked for nothing—but the moment she needed a connection, protection, belonging, she had been quietly set aside.
So she kept walking.
Because staying had started to hurt more than leaving.
And as the village faded behind her, swallowed by trees and distance and indifference, she didn’t look back—not because she didn’t care, but because she cared too much, and if she let herself linger on what she was losing, she knew she would never survive what came next.
She didn’t realize how long she’d been walking until the forest began to change.
Morning had passed in a blur of movement and adrenaline, her body running on the fragile momentum of decision.
By afternoon, the ache had settled in.
Her legs burned and her throat felt tight, not from thirst alone but from the way her chest kept tightening every time she thought she heard something behind her. Still, she didn’t stop.
The forest grew denser as the daylight faded. And for the first time since she’d left, she felt something other than grief take hold.
Fear.
Not the sharp, immediate kind that made you run, but the slow, creeping realization that she had made a mistake she didn’t know how to undo.
By the time night fell, it wrapped around her completely.
The forest after dark was nothing like the place she’d known her whole life, nothing like the gentle paths she’d walked with Neteyam and the others when laughter came easily and danger felt theoretical. At night, the trees loomed taller, the undergrowth thicker, shadows moving where they shouldn’t, and every sound felt amplified, closer than it should be.
She slowed, then stopped entirely, her breath shallow, and her ears straining as the memory hit her all at once.
Never go into the forest at night pumtsyìp
Neteyam’s voice lived in her head like it always had. His voice getting deeper everytime he said it to her as he had over his many years.
He had never raised his voice when he told her this; he never needed to. The seriousness alone had been enough to make her nod, to promise she wouldn’t, and to grip his arm for protection.
And now she was alone.
Truly alone.
She hugged her arms around herself, her fingers digging into her skin like she could hold herself together through sheer will alone, and for the first time since she’d left, regret bloomed heavy and bitter in her chest.
She wished, stupidly, desperately, that he were there.
Not the future Olo’eyktan, not the warrior everyone admired, not the man who had learned to look past her like she didn’t exist anymore, but the boy who used to slow his steps so she could keep up, the one who had taught her fear so she would survive, the one who had always been there when the forest felt too big.
The night answered her thoughts with another sound—closer this time—and her body reacted before her mind did, heart racing, breath catching painfully as she realized just how exposed she was. She had no fire, no shelter, no plan beyond the one foot she kept forcing in front of the other, and the forest did not care about her heartbreak or her softness or the fact that she had nowhere else to go.
She sank down at the base of a tree eventually, exhaustion winning out over fear just enough to make her legs give, pressing her back against the bark as she curled in on herself, trying to make herself smaller.
Neteyam had been right.
About all of it.
And somewhere deep in the forest, there was something that was waiting to pluck up a little thing like her.
The sounds of claws and wild yips echo through the greenery, causing her to push herself impossibly closer to the tree as a lone tear left her eye.
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Based on the fact that he knows this forest back to back, Neteyam knows it must be a small pack of grody grueller's. And he decides that it's best to have her scared than hurt.
Neteyam lowers himself down slowly, his muscular arms flexing with the movement. A large hand grabbing her by the back of her neck.
“What did I say.” Neteyam murmurs, his voice low and gravelly as he draws it out from his chest.
She gasps, her breath stuttering violently as recognition slams into her, and when he eases his hand away just enough for her to breathe, she twists around so fast she nearly trips over herself. Her eyes find him immediately, blown wide and shining in the dim bioluminescent light, and for one humiliating, overwhelming moment, all she can do is stare at him like he’s something unreal.
“Teyam—” His name breaks in her throat,
and before she can stop herself she takes a step toward him, hands lifting like she needs to confirm he’s actually there.
His gaze flicks over her, sharp and assessing, taking in the few scrapes on her, the dirt streaking her calves, the way she’s shaking so hard from the cold that she can’t hide it, and his jaw tightens in a way she recognizes immediately.
He straightens slowly, his presence filling the space between them until she feels small without him even trying.
“Where were you going” he asks, his tone calm but she knew better based on the way it rumbled out of him.
Her mouth opens, then closes again as another sound carries through the trees, the unmistakable purr of the grody grueller's echoing closely, causing her fingers to instinctively curl into the fabric at his side.
“Mawey” he says quietly.
“I just thought—I thought no one would noti—” She blurts out in a whisper. Cutting herself off when shame came crashing down hard enough to make her stomach twist, and she swallows thickly before whispering, “How did you even find me?”
“I didn’t,” he says simply.
Before she can ask what he means a grody grueller prawls out of one of the nearby bushes, and instinct finally kicks in fully as she scrambles back a step, but she doesn’t get far before Neteyam’s hand firmly snaps around her, pulling her back into his space with ease.
The bushes shift again, and this time she freezes completely, her nails digging uselessly into his arm before she abandons the effort altogether and moves behind him instead, pressing herself against his back like instinct alone knows where she’s safest.
“Remember when Lo'ak came home, scrapped up by one,” he continues, humming as if amused by the memory.
She’s shaking uncontrollably now, her face pressed into his mid back, breath hitching as the sounds grow louder.
You disobeyed his words and ran into the woods and now you need to remember why you must depend on Neteyam for everything, even after all these months. Why you owe him your submission.
"You think you would fight them better than Lo’ak?" he asks as a shape slips through the brush ahead, then another, and she lets out a broken sound she doesn’t even recognize as her own.
“Neteyam,” she whimpers, fingers clutching desperately at his waist. “Please.”
“What is it, pumtsyìp,” he asks softly, not turning around. “you looked like you wanted to relocate”
A vicious snarl erupts from the side and she stumbles hard, barely managing to keep her feet as she presses herself against him again, her quiet scream muffled against his back.
He exhales slowly, as he tsks.
He coos at your little pleas. “Have you come back to reality, hm?”
You nod frantically as you whimper out your response through pushing down a dob. “Yes”
They circle you with hunger in their eyes now, stepping closer.
Neteyam knows that a sudden motion from him-a mighty hunter that they have come to recognise would be enough to scare them off.
But you didn't have to know that.
“Oh but you didn’t listen to me”
“I didn’t,” you sob, “I’m sorry!”
"Are you?”
He catches your fragile chin firmly forcing you to look up at him, and whatever expression crosses his face causes your tears to finally fall from your eyes as a pout settles on your lips "I'm sorry" you sob.
It is so satisfying to him to watch your natural submission after so long. It reminds him of when Lo'ak would tease you and you would come crying to him even as a child, and even now. You still come crying to him.
“Mawey, pumtsyìp. Your Teyam is here, here aren’t I?” No response is given, instead just a gasp as another creature inches closer and you dash into his arms. This time he wraps one arm around your small frame.
He lets out a low, warning hiss that cuts clean through the night causing the pack to whine then scatter off into the woods.
Your pleas echo through the air, begging him to protect you. He simply shushes you, making no rush as a large arm tightens to pull you even closer. And Neteyam basks in the moment, a weight shifting off of his chest as he realises that you still long for and need his protection.
Maybe if you listened to him like a good pumtsyìp then you would already know that he has always protected you-thus why he followed you here. Just like he follows and watches you in many places. He would defend you to his very last breath-and you would never have to ask for it, it would make no difference.
However, you’ve always had the most addictive way of begging so why would he ever stop such a pretty sound.
Neteyam lifts you into his arms and you let him, the familiar motion calming all your nerves.
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He so desperately want to to finally corrupt you tonight, but he still kept in mind that you didn't understand sexual acts. But that just fueled his desire even more. Though a part of him wonders if you still blindly trust him like you used you-a part of him knew that your curiosity outweighs your fear.
He needed you to find comfort and protection in him again. And though he admits that he fucked up by ignoring you these past few months-he has also come to realise that he has sacrificed everything he is to become Olo'eyktan. He has surrendered everything and allowed the clan to take and chose everything for him. But you-you were the one thing that he would give up his title for.
And he would be damned if you thought otherwise, so tonight he would make it up to you.
And you would understand that you are his to protect.
He wanted you to have something that would constantly remind you that you need him. Wether is was a swollen belly, a leaking little pussy so full of him cum that it drips out of you pretty little hole, or his scent marked on you.
He would get it through your pretty little head that you are not safe without him.
Now that he has brought you to his kelku (house), he moves your body to his preference, making you straddle him.
The dominance of his action casuing a blush to run across your cheeks as you nibble on your lips, keeping your eyes down to pick at your hands.
His large hands caressing your body so calmly that it has you cooeing at the motion.
“You do understand why you must always come to me. Don’t you pumtsyìp?” keeping his voice low, as his eyes follow the goosebumps on your arms.
His finger tips trail to the back of your neck, his large hand pulling your hair into his grasp, exposing your delicate neck to him.
“I thought you were smarter than that.” His other hand cradles your face, large enough to span the entirety of your head and tilt it upwards. It gives him the perfect view of your expression when both hands smooth up towards your hairline before parting and dragging along your scalp. Lips parted and eyes fluttered closed, he knows he has pressed the right button, pulling a mewl out of you.
"I-I am Teyam" you whispered, you face leaning into his touch.
"Then you would know that a pretty little thing like you should never be in the forest without me"
“So many things waiting to take you away.” he gravelled out, tugging your hair at the scalp, pulling a whiper out of you.
He always knew you were too innocent for this world. And submitting to him for atleast a comforting hug from him, proved him right.
“Away from me” His low voice vibrates through you, opening your eyes to find his lips mere centimeters away from your own.
And just as you lean in, his grip on your hair tightens, keeping you in place.
“You wouldn't want that to ever happen” he ensures, “for you to be taken away from me” He continues, rolling his long tongue out to lick up the side of your face, tasting your dried tears with satisfaction.
“Isn’t that right?”
“Yes Teyam.” You answered, with the smallest whisper as you try to learn forward for more. He tutts in disapproval, shaking your head with hjs grip in your hair. “Y-yes sir.” You correct yourself and like bleeding infront of a shark, the intoxicating scent between your thighs reaches his nose once more. He’s tempted to look now and see if it has left a spot on his loincloth.
And he was so so delighted to see that you still give him the authority that him and lo'ak give to his father. You always made him felt like more than he is. You gave him respect long before he was near the title of Olo'eyktan.
“There’s ma good girl.” He purrs.
His lips hovered near her ear, his breath scalding against her skin.
"You didn’t think I had truly abandoned you, did you?"
She let out a small exhale as she tilts her head down, remembering how betrayed and confused she felt.
"You...left me"
"I never left you pumtsyìp. I was with you every day. They gave me a mate before I could chose the one I wanted. I was waiting for the right time but I'm done waiting now."
"...I wish you and Laïloui all the best" she whispers as she lifts her leg to get off of him, only to have him grip her thigh and plant it back down.
"Laïloui is not the one I want."
"But-"
"Laïloui is no longer here"
Her eyebrows furrowed as she took in his words.
"I needed time to get rid of her, Mawey. That is the only reason I stopped talking to you"
"Rid of her?" She draws out slowly trying to understand what he means by that.
Neteyam tilts his head to the side in satisfaction at the memory of him shoving Laïloui off the cliff right before binding their kuru. It was a wonderful plan really-the Sully family would break their attachment to you so that Laïloui wouldn't retaliate. To keep her in an illusion that they cared for her. To make her trust them. And to draw her attention away from the one that they truly do care about-you. The clan had already chosen Laïloui before Neteyam had gotten the chance to ask you to be his mate-he had been planning it since he was 18 but Jake ensured him that it was best to wait until he was older and the title of Olo'eyktan was in arms reach. So as a result of guilt for ruining his son's lifelong plan. The sullys joined together to help craft this plan. And thus resulting in Laïloui's "disappearance". And with Neteyam’s assertance of dominance by going against the clan's orders and mating with you-that would be the final act of preparation and he would at last be given the title of Olo'eyktan.
He just needed Laïloui out of his way for good. And he needed you to not be seen as a threat in the meantime to keep you safe.
"Don’t worry your little head about that pumtsyìp."
"You should go be with your chosen then Net-"
"I already am."
She barely processed his words before his teeth grazed her earlobe, biting down on it before bringing it into his mouth to suckle on.
“You don’t get to decide my future for me.”
That did it.
Neteyam went still.
And Eywa knows that was worse than anything he could've said.
His grip tightened in her hair, tugging at it to force her face up to meet his eyes. He leaned back just enough to look at her properly, his golden eyes darkening, as his jaw tightened.
“Say that again,” he said quietly.
She hesitated. “Netey—”
“I said,” he cut in, his voice growing impossibly deeper, “say it again.”
Her heart thudded painfully. “You don’t get to decide my future.” She replied meekly, casting her eyes down as shyness crept over her body.
A slow breath through his nose.
Then a low, humorless laugh.
“Decide?” he echoed. “No, pumtsyìp. I don't need to decide anything. I just need to remind you.”
He leaned in, foreheads touching, voice dropping into her mind like poison wrapped in honey.
“Who was there when you were alone.”
“Who taught you how to walk these forests, how to hunt, how to climb trees, how to swim.”
“Who made sure no one touched you, no one claimed you, no one took what was always meant to be mine.”
Her lips parted. “You don’t know wh—”
“I know everything,” he snapped, suddenly fierce, eyes blazing. “I know every man who looked at you too long. Every whisper behind your back. Every risk that vanished before it ever reached you.”
Her pulse spiked. “But you ignored me.”
His hand slid up, fingers curling under her chin—not forcing, just guiding until she had no choice but to meet his gaze.
“Yes,” he admitted without shame. “I had to Mawey. But not for one second did I want to. I had chosen you long ago...but I just wanted to be worthy enough for you to chose me too...I was waiting for my title. But the clan chose before I could. And I had to let Laïloui think I chose her to keep you safe. Because the moment the she realized how much I wanted you—how much I need you—I would have gotten rid of her in public.”
His voice lowered, as he cradled her small face in his large palm.
“And now I’m Olo’eyktan,” he said. “No one can tell me no.”
Her breath hitched. “You’re scaring me.”
Good.
His lips curved into a smirk as he squeezed her cheeks together.
"I need you to help me get my title Mawey. I need a mate. And I will not chose one that is not you. The future of our clan rests in your hands."
“I said you’re scaring me net-"
“You’re scared because no matter how much you fight it,” he whispered, “you were never going to be anyone else’s.”
Elaila let out a soft, involuntary sound, her fingers clutching at the fabric of his robe as his mouth found her ear again.
"Such pretty sounds."
His hands explored further, mapping every curve of her body as he tilted her head back with a firm tug to her hair, exposing the fragile line of her throat.
"You'll chose me right?" he murmured, leaving open-mouthed kisses to her throat, the sloppy sounds of the action filling the chamber as he smacked his lips against the skin there before letting his spit drool down her neck just to slurp it up again. "For the sake of your Olo'eyktan."
She barely had time to catch her breath before his teeth sank into her skin to place a claiming bite.
She gasped, her fingers digging into his chest, but he didn’t relent. His tongue flicked over the mark, soothing, then biting again, harder.
"You taste divine," he rasped against her throat.
"May you please move your knife," she replies as she wiggles slightly in her attempt to sit straighter. The movement presses her body further against me
"Fuck" he whisper under his breath. "Not a knife,"
"Oh? Then what is it?"
"Keep squirming and you'll find out"
The hand on her face tilted her head slightly, guiding her gaze to his.
When his lips finally met hers, it was soft at first, but that quickly changed as each kiss became deeper and wetter.
His lips moved against hers with a desperate hunger as a low, growl of satisfaction rumbled in his throat.
When his tongue brushed against the seam of her lips, she parted for him, and he took it as an invitation, his tongue slipping past to lick up her very essence, as his tongue moved against hers in deliberate strokes, coaxing her to meet him, to match his intensity.
The sound of their kiss filled his kelku, soft and wet, mingling with the faint hitch of her breath and the steady growl that vibrated in his chest. Saliva slicked their lips, adding a slight sheen to the movements, their mouths sliding together with a fervor that bordered on desperation.
He tilted his head to deepen the angle, his teeth grazing her lower lip before sucking it gently, a flick of his tongue soothing the sting. His hand shifted, fingers tangling in her hair, pulling just enough to expose her to him fully. The kiss grew sloppier, more urgent, as though he couldn't get enough, couldn't pull her close enough to satisfy the ache inside him.
Her hands pressed lightly against his chest, a feeble attempt to put space between them, but he only responded by tightening his grip. His fingers tangled deeper in her hair, tilting her head back as his lips chased hers, refusing to let her go.
"More," he murmured, his voice rough, breathless, lips brushing against hers as he spoke. "More."
He pleaded as his hand slid to her waist, fingers pressing into her skin as he pulled her flush against him, swallowing the shaky breath she let out.
When they finally pulled apart, threads of saliva connected their lips, breaking only when he leaned back to look at her, his eyes dark with unrestrained desire. Her lips were swollen, glistening, and he stared at them as though already planning the next kiss.
"I'm scared...and confused" she admitted, her soft voice contrasting against his deep one as she kept her eyes strained to the floor.
His other hand came up, rough fingertips tracing along her soft jaw before tilting her face up to his.
"I know Pumtsyìp...I know" he answered lowly as his large hands that layed on her waist gently swayed her side to side.
"Open for me," he growled against her lips as he dived back into the kiss.
Neteyam pressed himself against her wetness with no pretense of restraint. The hard, unmistakable evidence of his arousal grinding against her core.
“Do you feel that?” he snarled against her lips. “This is what you do to me"
Suddenly, he placed her on the wall next to him and dropped to his knees, but he didn’t just do that, he yanked her thighs apart with brutal force, making her momentarily stumble back to grab the wall.
He pulled her hips forward until she was perched right on the edge of his mouth, her back arching instinctively to keep balance.
The sight of him there, his broad, muscular shoulders between her trembling legs made her breath hitch.
Without hesitation, he bent forward, his mouth descending on the sensitive flesh of her inner thigh. His lips latched onto her soft skin, his tongue dragging over the delicate curve before his teeth sank in just enough to leave a mark. The sharp sting made her gasp, her fingers clutching at his shoulders, but he didn’t relent. His mouth moved upward, leaving a trail of wet, open-mouthed kisses, saliva smearing her skin as he worked his way closer to her center.
"What are you doin-?" She gasped as she tried to gently push him away by his shoulder, which obviously failed...
Once he finally reached there, he bared his teeth and clutched it onto her loincloth, and slowly dragged it down. He took a deep breath as he took in the sight of her wet, dripping pussy, all pure and ready for him to claim.
He latched onto her, his tongue pushed between her folds as he dragged it through her arousal, his face burying into her, making her cry out and gasp. The wet slurp of his mouth filled the air as he devoured her, sucking and licking without restraint. His nose pressed against her, his jaw moving with relentless fervor as his saliva mixed with her arousal, dripping down his face and onto his hands, which were still gripping her thighs like a vice.
"Y-ou can't do that, that's dirty!" She squeeled in potest, only to have his tongue circled her clit in response, alternating between flicking it in quick, teasing strokes and pressing flat, broad strokes that left her trembling. He groaned against her, before shaking his face against her wetness making her hand instinctively shoot out to grip his hair as she took a step back, trying to move away from his overwhelming touches, his jaw was slick with her as he pulled back a string of her juices connected his mouth to her core.
“Stay still,” he growled, pulling back
His hands shifted, sliding down to grab her hips and yank her even closer to his face, making her yelp and grab onto his jaw for balance. One hand slid lower, gripping her ass roughly as the other shoved her leg over his huge shoulder, locking her in place. The angle left her completely open to him, and he took advantage, his tongue plunging into her with a ferocity that made her moans bounce off of the walls.
Neteyam growled in satisfaction "Atta girl", the vibration sending sparks of pleasure through her. His lips wrapped around her sensitive bundle of nerves, his teeth grazing it lightly before his tongue swept over it in fast, messy circles. He sucked hard, his mouth wet and sloppy as he alternated between rough suction and flicking his tongue in maddeningly erratic patterns. Saliva coated her, smeared across her thighs and dripping down to the stone floor as he growled against her.
“Neteyam" she gasped, her hands tangling in his hair, trying to push him away when the pleasure became too much. But he was relentless, snarling against her as he grabbed her wrists and pinned them to her sides with a single hand.
He pulled her closer, pressing his face against her harder, his tongue diving deep as his nose pressed against her swollen bud. The wet, sloppy sounds of his mouth echoed in the kelku, louder with every desperate flick of his tongue and every rough suck of his lips. His free hand slipped lower, two fingers thrusting into her without warning, making her yelp out and whimper as he stretcher her as he worked them in time with his mouth.
“Look at me,” he demanded, his voice low and commanding as he pulled back just enough to catch his breath, his lips slick and swollen. “Look at me while I make you mine.”
Her big, innocent doe eyes locked with his cold, stoic glare, and the sight sent a shiver down her spine. His eyes were feral, dark and wild with possession, his jaw and braids glistening with her arousal.
"I-I'm going to pee get off"
She gasped as she tried to close her legs.
But Neteyam dragged his tongue darted out to lick his lips, as he held her gaze.
"No you're not."
Then he was on her again, his mouth rougher, sloppier, hungrier than before making her throw her head back in ecstasy as she grinded her hips, sensually rubbing her core against his mouth in desperation.
Not long after, the coil in her belly snapped, her release crashing through her with violent intensity as her cries filled the air. Her legs shook, her body arching, her fingers tugging roughly at his hair as waves of pleasure overwhelmed her, but Neteyam didn’t stop. If anything, her climax only spurred him on, his tongue and fingers working her mercilessly as he coaxed another release from her overstimulated body.
Her second orgasm ripped through her, her thighs clamping around his head, trying to stop him from continuing as she screamed his name. He growled, prying her legs apart with a brutal force, and he didn’t stop until her knees buckled and she was gasping for breath, her body utterly spent and slick with sweat.
When he finally pulled back, his chest was heaving, his lips and jaw a glistening mess. He wiped his mouth with the back of his hand, before licking off the essence that trailed on it.
"If you ever try to hide your moans from me again, I'll fuck you by the fire where everyone will hear how good I make you feel,” he growled into her ear.
The same bunny.⋆.𐙚 ̊
Dark!Neteyam x innocent! Na'vi reader
Summary⋆.𐙚 ̊<The one where you and Neteyam grew up impossibly close to eachother, but as you reach adulthood you drift apart that is until things go horribly, terribly wrong. And neteyam has to draw you back to where you belong.>
Warnings⋆.𐙚 ̊<size difference, choking, dom/sub, rough, gaslight, manipulation, stalking, oral fem!receiving, squirting, sir kink,fingering, degradation, fear kink, corruption>
Neteyam did not remember a time when she did not exist.
His earliest memories were not of bows or blood or the weight of a spear in his hands—they were of a small, soft presence always just behind him, fingers clutching the woven band at his wrist as she tried to keep up with his longer strides.
She was always there.
Their families kelku stood close together, the shells angled along the trees. The Sullys’ home and hers were joined by a long lasting respect, love and trust from Neytiri's bestfriend. A trust that had been passed down into her daughter and through Neytiri's eldest son-Neteyam.
Every morning, without fail, Neteyam and Jake would make their way over to the neighbouring hut and knock three times.
Jake’s voice followed, deep and warm as usual.
“Can we steal our doll today?”
And every time, her parents laughed.
She would peek out first, with her big eyes, soft smile, and her hair never quite tied back right.
Jake had called her doll from the moment she could walk. Not because she was fragile—though she was—but because she had that comfort about her.
The same comfort that little girls put into their toys.
That was found in her.
The kind that made even the great omatikaya warriors lower their voices around her.
Neytiri loved her as her own. She was the closest thing to a neice that she had-though not by blood, she would do anything to protect her bestfriend's daughter and they would do anything to protect her children. She braided her hair with reverence, painted her markings with gentle hands, scolded the boys if they played too roughly around her.
And Neteyam—
Neteyam watched.
Always watched.
They played at the waterfall together even then. Lo’ak splashed farther out than he should have, whooping when the cascading water knocked him sideways, convinced he was invincible even then, erupting laughter out of all the kids as he scoffed in embarrassment. Kiri drifted along the water, pausing often to watch the leaves shuffle on the trees.
Spider lingered nearby, pretending he wasn’t paying attention, skipping stones and glancing up every few seconds just to make sure everyone was still there.
She stayed closer to Neteyam.
It was better that way, if she stayed near him he wouldn't go complaining to his parents that she went to far into the water, Lo'ak wouldn't get overly excited and accidentally hurt her, kiri wouldn't try to teach her to hold her breath for a whole minute resulting in a near drowning situation.
She was happy this way, she laughed when the water lapped at her calves as a result of Lo’ak’s franctic splashing, reaching for his hand when a fish surprised her, and he let her hold on without comment. Sometimes she tugged him toward the rocks to show him water flowers she liked. Sometimes she followed him without thinking, matching her steps to his like it was the most natural thing in the world.
Neteyam slowed for her without her ever realising it.
Lo’ak teased her, endlessly. He poked at her reactions, stole her things, laughed when she would pout and go stomping to Jake and Neytiri.
But he would throw punches for her without thinking.
Kiri adored her softness for it reminded her of the way of Eywa and she often dragged her into meadows to talk about Eywa and spirits.
Spider treated her like she was made of glass. Always offering her things, and always watching Neteyam carefully when he stood too close to make sure he didn't trigger a reaction.
Smart boy.
She was not like the other Na’vi girls. They climbed higher, ran faster, laughed louder. They were edged and fearless, born knowing Pandora would either make you strong or swallow you whole.
She was soft.
Her laughter was quiet. She flinched at sudden sounds. She asked too many questions and trusted the answers too easily.
Pandora loved to eat girls like her.
Neteyam learned that early.
So he taught her fear.
Not in a brutal way.
Just enough to keep her safe.
He would crouch beside her even when they would still young to warn her about the consequences of not listening.
“You must never wander too far” he would say. “There are things waiting for something like you.”
Her eyes would widen. She would nod fast and grip his arm in fear when he would purposefully step on a branch-pretending that it came from the bushes.
When they grew older, when his training intensified and his body hardened, so did his mind. He became mature and brave. He became even more of a protector than he was before. She stayed the same. Taller, yes. Older. But still gentle and soft spoken.
He became Olo’eyktan-in-waiting. A future leader. A mighty warrior in training. His future was layed out on a silver platter infront of him.
She became something else entirely.
Something that needed guarding.
Jake trusted her parents with his children, and they trusted him with her. That trust wrapped around Neteyam like permission.
He trained hard. Harder than anyone. Because strength meant safety. Because power meant control.
And because one day, he would lead—and she would still be soft.
Still kind.
Still his responsibility.
By the time he was twenty-two and she was eighteen, the world had shifted.
Pandora no longer felt infinite in the way it had when he was a boy, because infinity only exists when you don’t yet understand that everything has a cost, and he understood it now down to the bone.
The forest no longer felt like a playground or magical, he now understood the true dangers of it. The danger being that you never know what lurks in it
Twenty-five.
That was the age etched into him long before he was even born.
That was rhe age that the heir of the Olo’eyktan would take his place if he is ready and deemed worthy.
Jake didn’t need to remind him anymore; the weight of it sat naturally on his shoulders, heavy and familiar, like armor he’d grown into rather than something forced on him.
He accepted it, and he embraced it. And along with that came the change. He rarely laughed anymore for happiness is weakness. He rarely spoke for the more you reveal the more liabilities you make.
He was a mighty warrior. He led the omatikaya hunters. And many of the warriors. He trained the young. He built shelters. He served, he fought and he protected. Like a true Olo'eyktan.
And with that came a mate.
The clan chose his future mate with absolutely no concern for how he felt about it.
Which was odd considering the fact that everything else was chosen for him.
She was strong and had a sharp-tongue, independent to the point where compromise felt like an insult to her pride. She trained hard, fought harder, and carried herself like someone who expected obedience rather than trust, which made sense—because she was built to rule beside someone like him.
On paper, she was perfect.
In reality, she made his jaw tighten every time she spoke like command was something she already owned, every time she pushed instead of balanced. Neteyam was dominant by nature, by training, by instinct, and having someone that relentless at his side didn’t feel powerful—it felt violent.
But the level of submission that he would break her down to-might just strip his title away from him before he even got it.
He knew tha the clan didn’t need two voices clashing for control.
They needed one steady hand on the reins, and another presence that grounded them when fear crept in, someone they could breathe around when grief set in heavy and quiet.
And that presence was not the woman chosen for him.
That presence had never been chosen at all.
When she turned eighteen, the shift was immediate, and honestly unbearable.
She didn’t change who she was—she just grew into herself, and that was the problem. Her body softened and filled out in ways that caught the eye whether Neteyam wanted it to or not, curves settling where there had once been angles, her breasts filling out in a way that was so rare for Na'vi women-but she was never like the other women. She still laughed softly, still trusted too quickly, still felt like Pandora. The Pandora that he once knew.
The magic, the wonder it all flowed back when she was here.
So he pulled away. Because he now had an arranged mate. And he could no longer push how he felt towards her down.
He stopped walking her home, stopped sitting beside her during gatherings, stopped offering quiet guidance or watchful presence, and started choosing distance instead. He spoke less when she was near, avoided eye contact longer than necessary, and left spaces the moment he felt his attention drifting toward her out of habit.
She noticed, obviously.
She always noticed when he was feeling off.
But she didn’t confront him, she didn’t demand answers, she didn’t chase him down for reassurance, which somehow hurt worse than if she had.
For she had also matured and learned the art of choices and respect rather than the art of war and protection.
She too accepted the distance with that same quiet grace she accepted everything with, even though confusion sat behind her eyes-she accepted it.
Neteyam told himself this was discipline, that this was what leadership demanded, that protecting her sometimes meant removing himself from her world entirely—but distance didn’t stop him from watching.
He still tracked her movements through the village without thinking about it, noting when she left, who she walked with, how long she was gone, and whether she came back with the same relaxed posture she left with. He followed her into the forest whenever his duties allowed, staying far enough back that she never sensed him, but close enough that nothing else ever got the chance to.
Most nights, he slept outside her kelku, close enough to hear her breathing through the woven walls. When a predator wandered too close once, drawn by movement or scent, it never made it past the treeline, and she never even knew there had been a threat to begin with.
Pandora was no longer magical to him. But you'd be damned to think he wouldn't let it keep being magical to her.
He made sure of that.
When he noticed even a single drop of loneliness or sadness from her he reacted. He sent one of his most trusted female warriors into her life under the excuse of friendship, easygoing and harmless on the surface, loyal and observant underneath, reporting back quietly and without question.
It was better this way. Neteyam was sure of that, until...the reports came back.
She told herself she understood.
That was the easiest lie to live with, because it sounded reasonable and didn’t demand too many answers from the many questions that she always loved to ask. Neteyam was busy now, busy in the way boys who were becoming men always were, busy with training and patrols and expectations that sat heavier on his shoulders with every passing season. Of course he didn’t have time anymore to wander through the forest with her and his siblings, to stop and pick flowers just because she liked the color, to play in the water of jump from vine to vine in the trees.
Of course he didn’t.
She told herself that growth meant distance, that this was natural, that this was what happened when people stepped into their futures while others stayed where they were.
She told herself that it didn’t hurt because it wasn’t personal, because it couldn’t be personal, because Neteyam had never once been cruel to her.
So she accepted it.
She smiled when she saw him and he looked past her. She stepped aside when he entered a space like she had learned to do instinctively, making room for the weight of who he was becoming. She didn’t ask why he no longer walked her home, why he stopped sitting near her, why his presence lingered everywhere except beside her.
She assumed he was just busy.
That belief lasted right up until the day it didn’t.
The announcement came without warning infront of the whole clan in celebration.
Neteyam and Laïloui were to be mated, their bond chosen for strength and the future of the clan, and everyone around her reacted the way they were supposed to—with approval, pride, excitement.
She felt nothing like that.
What she felt didn’t have a name, because she had never felt it before, not once in her entire life. She had known joy, warmth, safety, and curiosity, but this was different. This was cold, sharp and sudden, like something had reached inside her chest and twisted without asking permission.
Her breath caught, not dramatically, not visibly, but enough that she noticed it and couldn’t make it stop.
She didn’t cry.
She didn’t scream.
She just stood there, quiet as always, while the world shifted around her and no one noticed that something essential had slipped out from under her feet.
That was when everything changed.
It was when she realised that he wasn't busy. And it wasn't an excuse.
Without Neteyam’s presence hovering quietly at her side, without the unspoken understanding that she belonged with the Sully's.
The village stopped making room for her. Conversations closed when she approached. Laughter softened, then stopped.
She was too soft.
Too quiet.
Too unnecessary.
The friend groups she had always drifted within shut her out, leaving her outside without ever saying she wasn’t welcome anymore. She was left out of gatherings, not given anything to eat during shared meals, criticized for things that had never been faults before. Her kindness was mistaken for weakness. Her silence was interpreted as something worth mocking.
And she took it.
Because she always did.
She woke up every morning with a heavy strain in her chest, the kind that made it feel like breathing required effort instead of instinct, and she carried that weight with her throughout the day like it was just another part of her now. She went to sleep with the same pressure still there, curling around her heart.
She too stopped laughing.
She too stopped talking.
For she had no one to make her laugh. And she had no one to talk to.
Her chosen family had moved on without her.
Neytiri was always busy now, tending to Laïloui with the same care she had once given her, braiding her hair with reverent fingers, smoothing her markings, offering gentle praise that used to make her chest feel warm and full. Jake spent his days training Neteyam, teaching him leadership and strategy and all the things that pulled him farther and farther away. Lo’ak chased his brother’s footsteps relentlessly, desperate to prove himself, while Kiri wandered deeper into Eywa’s pull, searching for her purpose.
And she was still there.
She didn’t blame them. That was the worst part. She understood why they were busy, why their lives were full, why there wasn’t room for her softness anymore in a world that demanded strength.
Understanding didn’t make it hurt less—it just made the pain quieter, therefore heavier.
She remained gentle.
Remained kind.
Remained alone.
And some nights, when the weight in her chest pressed too hard to ignore, she wondered if this was what it felt like to lose something you were never destined to in the first place.
By the time the morning came, she had already come to the realisation that she was no welcome here.
Not in a dramatic way, but in the same way she had learned to accept everything else that hurt her—by letting the truth settle into her bones until it stopped fighting back. The clan was awake around her in small, distant sounds, the soft crackle of dying embers and the faint rustle of early movement, but no one was awake for her, and she realized with a dull ache that no one ever really was anymore.
So she moved carefully.
She gathered her things slowly, folding what little she owned with gentle hands as if the objects themselves might break if she rushed, packing only what she could carry without strain, because she had learned long ago not to ask for help that wouldn’t come. She left behind anything that tied her too tightly to this place—small gifts, old trinkets, things that smelled like familiarity—because she knew if she took them, she might never make it past the treeline.
She didn’t look toward the Sullys’ home.
She couldn’t.
If she did, she knew she’d hesitate, and hesitation had never saved her before.
Her father’s absence still lingered like a wound that never closed properly, his death still too recent, still too raw, and her sweet mother lay sick at the loss of her mate.
She had watched Eywa take pieces of her life one by one, she had started to believe that maybe she was cursed, that maybe the world simply wasn’t meant to keep her for very long.
It would only be a matter of time before her mother was taken too.
And then what?
She would be alone anyway.
So she chose to leave on her own terms, before anyone could make it official that she was now truly all alone, before she had to watch the last thread tying her to this place finally snap.
She slipped into the forest just as the sky began to lighten, the familiar paths already feeling foreign beneath her feet.
She walked until her legs ached and her chest burned, until the weight she had been carrying inside her finally spilled over in the form of exhausted tears she didn’t bother to wipe away. No one was there to see them. No one was there to stop her. No one was there at all.
And that, somehow, hurt the most.
She had spent her entire life being soft in a world that valued strength, kind in a place that respected sharp edges, gentle where others learned to harden, and now she understood what that had cost her.
She had been something people loved when it was convenient, when it was easy, when she asked for nothing—but the moment she needed a connection, protection, belonging, she had been quietly set aside.
So she kept walking.
Because staying had started to hurt more than leaving.
And as the village faded behind her, swallowed by trees and distance and indifference, she didn’t look back—not because she didn’t care, but because she cared too much, and if she let herself linger on what she was losing, she knew she would never survive what came next.
She didn’t realize how long she’d been walking until the forest began to change.
Morning had passed in a blur of movement and adrenaline, her body running on the fragile momentum of decision.
By afternoon, the ache had settled in.
Her legs burned and her throat felt tight, not from thirst alone but from the way her chest kept tightening every time she thought she heard something behind her. Still, she didn’t stop.
The forest grew denser as the daylight faded. And for the first time since she’d left, she felt something other than grief take hold.
Fear.
Not the sharp, immediate kind that made you run, but the slow, creeping realization that she had made a mistake she didn’t know how to undo.
By the time night fell, it wrapped around her completely.
The forest after dark was nothing like the place she’d known her whole life, nothing like the gentle paths she’d walked with Neteyam and the others when laughter came easily and danger felt theoretical. At night, the trees loomed taller, the undergrowth thicker, shadows moving where they shouldn’t, and every sound felt amplified, closer than it should be.
She slowed, then stopped entirely, her breath shallow, and her ears straining as the memory hit her all at once.
Never go into the forest at night pumtsyìp
Neteyam’s voice lived in her head like it always had. His voice getting deeper everytime he said it to her as he had over his many years.
He had never raised his voice when he told her this; he never needed to. The seriousness alone had been enough to make her nod, to promise she wouldn’t, and to grip his arm for protection.
And now she was alone.
Truly alone.
She hugged her arms around herself, her fingers digging into her skin like she could hold herself together through sheer will alone, and for the first time since she’d left, regret bloomed heavy and bitter in her chest.
She wished, stupidly, desperately, that he were there.
Not the future Olo’eyktan, not the warrior everyone admired, not the man who had learned to look past her like she didn’t exist anymore, but the boy who used to slow his steps so she could keep up, the one who had taught her fear so she would survive, the one who had always been there when the forest felt too big.
The night answered her thoughts with another sound—closer this time—and her body reacted before her mind did, heart racing, breath catching painfully as she realized just how exposed she was. She had no fire, no shelter, no plan beyond the one foot she kept forcing in front of the other, and the forest did not care about her heartbreak or her softness or the fact that she had nowhere else to go.
She sank down at the base of a tree eventually, exhaustion winning out over fear just enough to make her legs give, pressing her back against the bark as she curled in on herself, trying to make herself smaller.
Neteyam had been right.
About all of it.
And somewhere deep in the forest, there was something that was waiting to pluck up a little thing like her.
The sounds of claws and wild yips echo through the greenery, causing her to push herself impossibly closer to the tree as a lone tear left her eye.
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Based on the fact that he knows this forest back to back, Neteyam knows it must be a small pack of grody grueller's. And he decides that it's best to have her scared than hurt.
Neteyam lowers himself down slowly, his muscular arms flexing with the movement. A large hand grabbing her by the back of her neck.
“What did I say.” Neteyam murmurs, his voice low and gravelly as he draws it out from his chest.
She gasps, her breath stuttering violently as recognition slams into her, and when he eases his hand away just enough for her to breathe, she twists around so fast she nearly trips over herself. Her eyes find him immediately, blown wide and shining in the dim bioluminescent light, and for one humiliating, overwhelming moment, all she can do is stare at him like he’s something unreal.
“Teyam—” His name breaks in her throat,
and before she can stop herself she takes a step toward him, hands lifting like she needs to confirm he’s actually there.
His gaze flicks over her, sharp and assessing, taking in the few scrapes on her, the dirt streaking her calves, the way she’s shaking so hard from the cold that she can’t hide it, and his jaw tightens in a way she recognizes immediately.
He straightens slowly, his presence filling the space between them until she feels small without him even trying.
“Where were you going” he asks, his tone calm but she knew better based on the way it rumbled out of him.
Her mouth opens, then closes again as another sound carries through the trees, the unmistakable purr of the grody grueller's echoing closely, causing her fingers to instinctively curl into the fabric at his side.
“Mawey” he says quietly.
“I just thought—I thought no one would noti—” She blurts out in a whisper. Cutting herself off when shame came crashing down hard enough to make her stomach twist, and she swallows thickly before whispering, “How did you even find me?”
“I didn’t,” he says simply.
Before she can ask what he means a grody grueller prawls out of one of the nearby bushes, and instinct finally kicks in fully as she scrambles back a step, but she doesn’t get far before Neteyam’s hand firmly snaps around her, pulling her back into his space with ease.
The bushes shift again, and this time she freezes completely, her nails digging uselessly into his arm before she abandons the effort altogether and moves behind him instead, pressing herself against his back like instinct alone knows where she’s safest.
“Remember when Lo'ak came home, scrapped up by one,” he continues, humming as if amused by the memory.
She’s shaking uncontrollably now, her face pressed into his mid back, breath hitching as the sounds grow louder.
You disobeyed his words and ran into the woods and now you need to remember why you must depend on Neteyam for everything, even after all these months. Why you owe him your submission.
"You think you would fight them better than Lo’ak?" he asks as a shape slips through the brush ahead, then another, and she lets out a broken sound she doesn’t even recognize as her own.
“Neteyam,” she whimpers, fingers clutching desperately at his waist. “Please.”
“What is it, pumtsyìp,” he asks softly, not turning around. “you looked like you wanted to relocate”
A vicious snarl erupts from the side and she stumbles hard, barely managing to keep her feet as she presses herself against him again, her quiet scream muffled against his back.
He exhales slowly, as he tsks.
He coos at your little pleas. “Have you come back to reality, hm?”
You nod frantically as you whimper out your response through pushing down a dob. “Yes”
They circle you with hunger in their eyes now, stepping closer.
Neteyam knows that a sudden motion from him-a mighty hunter that they have come to recognise would be enough to scare them off.
But you didn't have to know that.
“Oh but you didn’t listen to me”
“I didn’t,” you sob, “I’m sorry!”
"Are you?”
He catches your fragile chin firmly forcing you to look up at him, and whatever expression crosses his face causes your tears to finally fall from your eyes as a pout settles on your lips "I'm sorry" you sob.
It is so satisfying to him to watch your natural submission after so long. It reminds him of when Lo'ak would tease you and you would come crying to him even as a child, and even now. You still come crying to him.
“Mawey, pumtsyìp. Your Teyam is here, here aren’t I?” No response is given, instead just a gasp as another creature inches closer and you dash into his arms. This time he wraps one arm around your small frame.
He lets out a low, warning hiss that cuts clean through the night causing the pack to whine then scatter off into the woods.
Your pleas echo through the air, begging him to protect you. He simply shushes you, making no rush as a large arm tightens to pull you even closer. And Neteyam basks in the moment, a weight shifting off of his chest as he realises that you still long for and need his protection.
Maybe if you listened to him like a good pumtsyìp then you would already know that he has always protected you-thus why he followed you here. Just like he follows and watches you in many places. He would defend you to his very last breath-and you would never have to ask for it, it would make no difference.
However, you’ve always had the most addictive way of begging so why would he ever stop such a pretty sound.
Neteyam lifts you into his arms and you let him, the familiar motion calming all your nerves.
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He so desperately want to to finally corrupt you tonight, but he still kept in mind that you didn't understand sexual acts. But that just fueled his desire even more. Though a part of him wonders if you still blindly trust him like you used you-a part of him knew that your curiosity outweighs your fear.
He needed you to find comfort and protection in him again. And though he admits that he fucked up by ignoring you these past few months-he has also come to realise that he has sacrificed everything he is to become Olo'eyktan. He has surrendered everything and allowed the clan to take and chose everything for him. But you-you were the one thing that he would give up his title for.
And he would be damned if you thought otherwise, so tonight he would make it up to you.
And you would understand that you are his to protect.
He wanted you to have something that would constantly remind you that you need him. Wether is was a swollen belly, a leaking little pussy so full of him cum that it drips out of you pretty little hole, or his scent marked on you.
He would get it through your pretty little head that you are not safe without him.
Now that he has brought you to his kelku (house), he moves your body to his preference, making you straddle him.
The dominance of his action casuing a blush to run across your cheeks as you nibble on your lips, keeping your eyes down to pick at your hands.
His large hands caressing your body so calmly that it has you cooeing at the motion.
“You do understand why you must always come to me. Don’t you pumtsyìp?” keeping his voice low, as his eyes follow the goosebumps on your arms.
His finger tips trail to the back of your neck, his large hand pulling your hair into his grasp, exposing your delicate neck to him.
“I thought you were smarter than that.” His other hand cradles your face, large enough to span the entirety of your head and tilt it upwards. It gives him the perfect view of your expression when both hands smooth up towards your hairline before parting and dragging along your scalp. Lips parted and eyes fluttered closed, he knows he has pressed the right button, pulling a mewl out of you.
"I-I am Teyam" you whispered, you face leaning into his touch.
"Then you would know that a pretty little thing like you should never be in the forest without me"
“So many things waiting to take you away.” he gravelled out, tugging your hair at the scalp, pulling a whiper out of you.
He always knew you were too innocent for this world. And submitting to him for atleast a comforting hug from him, proved him right.
“Away from me” His low voice vibrates through you, opening your eyes to find his lips mere centimeters away from your own.
And just as you lean in, his grip on your hair tightens, keeping you in place.
“You wouldn't want that to ever happen” he ensures, “for you to be taken away from me” He continues, rolling his long tongue out to lick up the side of your face, tasting your dried tears with satisfaction.
“Isn’t that right?”
“Yes Teyam.” You answered, with the smallest whisper as you try to learn forward for more. He tutts in disapproval, shaking your head with hjs grip in your hair. “Y-yes sir.” You correct yourself and like bleeding infront of a shark, the intoxicating scent between your thighs reaches his nose once more. He’s tempted to look now and see if it has left a spot on his loincloth.
And he was so so delighted to see that you still give him the authority that him and lo'ak give to his father. You always made him felt like more than he is. You gave him respect long before he was near the title of Olo'eyktan.
“There’s ma good girl.” He purrs.
His lips hovered near her ear, his breath scalding against her skin.
"You didn’t think I had truly abandoned you, did you?"
She let out a small exhale as she tilts her head down, remembering how betrayed and confused she felt.
"You...left me"
"I never left you pumtsyìp. I was with you every day. They gave me a mate before I could chose the one I wanted. I was waiting for the right time but I'm done waiting now."
"...I wish you and Laïloui all the best" she whispers as she lifts her leg to get off of him, only to have him grip her thigh and plant it back down.
"Laïloui is not the one I want."
"But-"
"Laïloui is no longer here"
Her eyebrows furrowed as she took in his words.
"I needed time to get rid of her, Mawey. That is the only reason I stopped talking to you"
"Rid of her?" She draws out slowly trying to understand what he means by that.
Neteyam tilts his head to the side in satisfaction at the memory of him shoving Laïloui off the cliff right before binding their kuru. It was a wonderful plan really-the Sully family would break their attachment to you so that Laïloui wouldn't retaliate. To keep her in an illusion that they cared for her. To make her trust them. And to draw her attention away from the one that they truly do care about-you. The clan had already chosen Laïloui before Neteyam had gotten the chance to ask you to be his mate-he had been planning it since he was 18 but Jake ensured him that it was best to wait until he was older and the title of Olo'eyktan was in arms reach. So as a result of guilt for ruining his son's lifelong plan. The sullys joined together to help craft this plan. And thus resulting in Laïloui's "disappearance". And with Neteyam’s assertance of dominance by going against the clan's orders and mating with you-that would be the final act of preparation and he would at last be given the title of Olo'eyktan.
He just needed Laïloui out of his way for good. And he needed you to not be seen as a threat in the meantime to keep you safe.
"Don’t worry your little head about that pumtsyìp."
"You should go be with your chosen then Net-"
"I already am."
She barely processed his words before his teeth grazed her earlobe, biting down on it before bringing it into his mouth to suckle on.
“You don’t get to decide my future for me.”
That did it.
Neteyam went still.
And Eywa knows that was worse than anything he could've said.
His grip tightened in her hair, tugging at it to force her face up to meet his eyes. He leaned back just enough to look at her properly, his golden eyes darkening, as his jaw tightened.
“Say that again,” he said quietly.
She hesitated. “Netey—”
“I said,” he cut in, his voice growing impossibly deeper, “say it again.”
Her heart thudded painfully. “You don’t get to decide my future.” She replied meekly, casting her eyes down as shyness crept over her body.
A slow breath through his nose.
Then a low, humorless laugh.
“Decide?” he echoed. “No, pumtsyìp. I don't need to decide anything. I just need to remind you.”
He leaned in, foreheads touching, voice dropping into her mind like poison wrapped in honey.
“Who was there when you were alone.”
“Who taught you how to walk these forests, how to hunt, how to climb trees, how to swim.”
“Who made sure no one touched you, no one claimed you, no one took what was always meant to be mine.”
Her lips parted. “You don’t know wh—”
“I know everything,” he snapped, suddenly fierce, eyes blazing. “I know every man who looked at you too long. Every whisper behind your back. Every risk that vanished before it ever reached you.”
Her pulse spiked. “But you ignored me.”
His hand slid up, fingers curling under her chin—not forcing, just guiding until she had no choice but to meet his gaze.
“Yes,” he admitted without shame. “I had to Mawey. But not for one second did I want to. I had chosen you long ago...but I just wanted to be worthy enough for you to chose me too...I was waiting for my title. But the clan chose before I could. And I had to let Laïloui think I chose her to keep you safe. Because the moment the she realized how much I wanted you—how much I need you—I would have gotten rid of her in public.”
His voice lowered, as he cradled her small face in his large palm.
“And now I’m Olo’eyktan,” he said. “No one can tell me no.”
Her breath hitched. “You’re scaring me.”
Good.
His lips curved into a smirk as he squeezed her cheeks together.
"I need you to help me get my title Mawey. I need a mate. And I will not chose one that is not you. The future of our clan rests in your hands."
“I said you’re scaring me net-"
“You’re scared because no matter how much you fight it,” he whispered, “you were never going to be anyone else’s.”
Elaila let out a soft, involuntary sound, her fingers clutching at the fabric of his robe as his mouth found her ear again.
"Such pretty sounds."
His hands explored further, mapping every curve of her body as he tilted her head back with a firm tug to her hair, exposing the fragile line of her throat.
"You'll chose me right?" he murmured, leaving open-mouthed kisses to her throat, the sloppy sounds of the action filling the chamber as he smacked his lips against the skin there before letting his spit drool down her neck just to slurp it up again. "For the sake of your Olo'eyktan."
She barely had time to catch her breath before his teeth sank into her skin to place a claiming bite.
She gasped, her fingers digging into his chest, but he didn’t relent. His tongue flicked over the mark, soothing, then biting again, harder.
"You taste divine," he rasped against her throat.
"May you please move your knife," she replies as she wiggles slightly in her attempt to sit straighter. The movement presses her body further against me
"Fuck" he whisper under his breath. "Not a knife,"
"Oh? Then what is it?"
"Keep squirming and you'll find out"
The hand on her face tilted her head slightly, guiding her gaze to his.
When his lips finally met hers, it was soft at first, but that quickly changed as each kiss became deeper and wetter.
His lips moved against hers with a desperate hunger as a low, growl of satisfaction rumbled in his throat.
When his tongue brushed against the seam of her lips, she parted for him, and he took it as an invitation, his tongue slipping past to lick up her very essence, as his tongue moved against hers in deliberate strokes, coaxing her to meet him, to match his intensity.
The sound of their kiss filled his kelku, soft and wet, mingling with the faint hitch of her breath and the steady growl that vibrated in his chest. Saliva slicked their lips, adding a slight sheen to the movements, their mouths sliding together with a fervor that bordered on desperation.
He tilted his head to deepen the angle, his teeth grazing her lower lip before sucking it gently, a flick of his tongue soothing the sting. His hand shifted, fingers tangling in her hair, pulling just enough to expose her to him fully. The kiss grew sloppier, more urgent, as though he couldn't get enough, couldn't pull her close enough to satisfy the ache inside him.
Her hands pressed lightly against his chest, a feeble attempt to put space between them, but he only responded by tightening his grip. His fingers tangled deeper in her hair, tilting her head back as his lips chased hers, refusing to let her go.
"More," he murmured, his voice rough, breathless, lips brushing against hers as he spoke. "More."
He pleaded as his hand slid to her waist, fingers pressing into her skin as he pulled her flush against him, swallowing the shaky breath she let out.
When they finally pulled apart, threads of saliva connected their lips, breaking only when he leaned back to look at her, his eyes dark with unrestrained desire. Her lips were swollen, glistening, and he stared at them as though already planning the next kiss.
"I'm scared...and confused" she admitted, her soft voice contrasting against his deep one as she kept her eyes strained to the floor.
His other hand came up, rough fingertips tracing along her soft jaw before tilting her face up to his.
"I know Pumtsyìp...I know" he answered lowly as his large hands that layed on her waist gently swayed her side to side.
"Open for me," he growled against her lips as he dived back into the kiss.
Neteyam pressed himself against her wetness with no pretense of restraint. The hard, unmistakable evidence of his arousal grinding against her core.
“Do you feel that?” he snarled against her lips. “This is what you do to me"
Suddenly, he placed her on the wall next to him and dropped to his knees, but he didn’t just do that, he yanked her thighs apart with brutal force, making her momentarily stumble back to grab the wall.
He pulled her hips forward until she was perched right on the edge of his mouth, her back arching instinctively to keep balance.
The sight of him there, his broad, muscular shoulders between her trembling legs made her breath hitch.
Without hesitation, he bent forward, his mouth descending on the sensitive flesh of her inner thigh. His lips latched onto her soft skin, his tongue dragging over the delicate curve before his teeth sank in just enough to leave a mark. The sharp sting made her gasp, her fingers clutching at his shoulders, but he didn’t relent. His mouth moved upward, leaving a trail of wet, open-mouthed kisses, saliva smearing her skin as he worked his way closer to her center.
"What are you doin-?" She gasped as she tried to gently push him away by his shoulder, which obviously failed...
Once he finally reached there, he bared his teeth and clutched it onto her loincloth, and slowly dragged it down. He took a deep breath as he took in the sight of her wet, dripping pussy, all pure and ready for him to claim.
He latched onto her, his tongue pushed between her folds as he dragged it through her arousal, his face burying into her, making her cry out and gasp. The wet slurp of his mouth filled the air as he devoured her, sucking and licking without restraint. His nose pressed against her, his jaw moving with relentless fervor as his saliva mixed with her arousal, dripping down his face and onto his hands, which were still gripping her thighs like a vice.
"Y-ou can't do that, that's dirty!" She squeeled in potest, only to have his tongue circled her clit in response, alternating between flicking it in quick, teasing strokes and pressing flat, broad strokes that left her trembling. He groaned against her, before shaking his face against her wetness making her hand instinctively shoot out to grip his hair as she took a step back, trying to move away from his overwhelming touches, his jaw was slick with her as he pulled back a string of her juices connected his mouth to her core.
“Stay still,” he growled, pulling back
His hands shifted, sliding down to grab her hips and yank her even closer to his face, making her yelp and grab onto his jaw for balance. One hand slid lower, gripping her ass roughly as the other shoved her leg over his huge shoulder, locking her in place. The angle left her completely open to him, and he took advantage, his tongue plunging into her with a ferocity that made her moans bounce off of the walls.
Neteyam growled in satisfaction "Atta girl", the vibration sending sparks of pleasure through her. His lips wrapped around her sensitive bundle of nerves, his teeth grazing it lightly before his tongue swept over it in fast, messy circles. He sucked hard, his mouth wet and sloppy as he alternated between rough suction and flicking his tongue in maddeningly erratic patterns. Saliva coated her, smeared across her thighs and dripping down to the stone floor as he growled against her.
“Neteyam" she gasped, her hands tangling in his hair, trying to push him away when the pleasure became too much. But he was relentless, snarling against her as he grabbed her wrists and pinned them to her sides with a single hand.
He pulled her closer, pressing his face against her harder, his tongue diving deep as his nose pressed against her swollen bud. The wet, sloppy sounds of his mouth echoed in the kelku, louder with every desperate flick of his tongue and every rough suck of his lips. His free hand slipped lower, two fingers thrusting into her without warning, making her yelp out and whimper as he stretcher her as he worked them in time with his mouth.
“Look at me,” he demanded, his voice low and commanding as he pulled back just enough to catch his breath, his lips slick and swollen. “Look at me while I make you mine.”
Her big, innocent doe eyes locked with his cold, stoic glare, and the sight sent a shiver down her spine. His eyes were feral, dark and wild with possession, his jaw and braids glistening with her arousal.
"I-I'm going to pee get off"
She gasped as she tried to close her legs.
But Neteyam dragged his tongue darted out to lick his lips, as he held her gaze.
"No you're not."
Then he was on her again, his mouth rougher, sloppier, hungrier than before making her throw her head back in ecstasy as she grinded her hips, sensually rubbing her core against his mouth in desperation.
Not long after, the coil in her belly snapped, her release crashing through her with violent intensity as her cries filled the air. Her legs shook, her body arching, her fingers tugging roughly at his hair as waves of pleasure overwhelmed her, but Neteyam didn’t stop. If anything, her climax only spurred him on, his tongue and fingers working her mercilessly as he coaxed another release from her overstimulated body.
Her second orgasm ripped through her, her thighs clamping around his head, trying to stop him from continuing as she screamed his name. He growled, prying her legs apart with a brutal force, and he didn’t stop until her knees buckled and she was gasping for breath, her body utterly spent and slick with sweat.
When he finally pulled back, his chest was heaving, his lips and jaw a glistening mess. He wiped his mouth with the back of his hand, before licking off the essence that trailed on it.
"If you ever try to hide your moans from me again, I'll fuck you by the fire where everyone will hear how good I make you feel,” he growled into her ear.

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More Than Strangers, Less Than Friends - Neteyam // Part One
You are the eldest daughter of Ronal and Tonowari. Several months after his recovery from a bullet wound that rendered him comatose, your parents have arranged a bond-pact between Toruk Makto's son and you to be mated. It wouldn't be such a problem if not for the glaring issue—your lover.
Warnings- ooc Neteyam, obsessive
A/N- This fanfic is old, like 2023 old. I wrote it but never posted it! I decided since Avatar is getting popular again to do it! Here's part one to... I think a five part series? Most likely more knowing myself. I kinda cringe seeing my old writing but eh! Hope you enjoy!
Part Two
You were the first daughter of your clan’s Olo’eyktan, second-born and always second-chosen.
From the beginning, your life had been shaped around the things you were not. Not the next heir. Not the next Tsahik.
It had been simple, really. From the moment you were old enough to understand words. It had been explained gently at first, then plainly as you grew: Tsireya possessed the healer’s gift, not you. Ao’nung was a natural leader, you lacked charm. You suppose your parents thought that by saying it softly, it’d somehow prevent the slow-growing rot of envy.
So you remained something in-between, between earth and sea.
“You do not need to be more than what you are,” your mother always said, brushing your cheek with her thumb. “Eywa makes nothing without reason.” You believed her.
Or tried to.
Years passed, and you made your own purpose. By duty you supposed. It was the only thing you could really accomplish.
If a predator stalked too close, you killed it.
If a child wandered off, you found them.
If a duty was too tedious, too tiring, too thankless—your hands were already reaching for it.
So dutiful.
So indispensable.
So quietly wanted.
ʙᴀʀᴇ ʏᴏᴜʀ ꜰᴀɴɢs
Neteyam x Omatikaya!Reader 16.7k words
I got so insanely carried away, but again, I just cannot write a short story. I also never write smut so stfu (ᵕ≀ ̠ᵕ ). There will absolutely be mistakes, this isn't entirely proofread, and I cba rn so I'll do it later.
Summary: Duty weighs heavy when the clan expects you to stand shoulder-to-shoulder with the one you’ve spent years convincing everyone you loathe. Your father is the clan’s greatest warrior, closest friend to the Olo’eyktan, and their bond sealed your fates together long before you could draw a bow. You grew up running wild with the Sully children but the flawless eldest son always seemed to shadow your every step and you’ve perfected the scowl reserved only for him. The clan believes it and they accept your envy. Everyone except the parents who watch with quiet amusement, because they see what you both still refuse to name. Or in which; you’re the warrior’s daughter, bound by expectation to the perfect future leader you claim to hate. You insist it’s true and everyone believes you. Except, parents always know their children best.
enemies to lovers, holy slowburn, slight soulmates (but not really?), childhood rivals, forced proximity, aged up Neteyem, so much smut!!! as always, my terrible gramma
༄.° MINE, never his.
✿ dark!neteyam x fem!metkayina reader x dark!ao’nung part 2
wc, 3.4k .ᐟ
SUMMARY, Ao’nung, the prince of reef, doesn’t let anyone meddle with what is his and get away with it — neteyam sully was no exception.
╰┈➤ WARNINGS, smut /ao’nung and neteyam are both jealous of each other /obsession/fem!receiving /corruption kink /cheating /slight threesome at the end /m!masturbation /slight angst/ choking kink//can we talk about how fine ao’nung looks in the new movie with his tattoo and everything ohmy 😫
part one here!!
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As rumours sparked around the village that you and neteyam were bonded, Ao’nung was furious.
You, his intended mate, have bonded with another man?
It was Ao’nung that you had been promised to for years.
At times he had made it seem like he did not want you for a mate, but deep down it was always you who his dick heart craved.
It was you who he had longed for.
It was you who could fulfil his desires.
It was you who visited his dreams every night.
And yet a boy that had come from the forest with his family, seeking uturu, dared to challenge Ao’nung’s claim on you.
As soon as news spread of what had occurred between you and neteyam, Ao’nung’s friends began to tease him about losing his betrothed to a “forest freak with a small tail”
He was the the eldest son of olo’eyktan, he was the future olo’eyktan himself, how could this be?
You were are to be his Tsahík.
And because of this Ao’nung knew that he had to prove himself, he wouldn’t let neteyam get away with taking what was rightfully his. You.
Mated with the eldest sully boy or not, you were still his and the taller na’vi doesn’t react well to others meddling with his belongings. Especially not to Neteyam sully who the metkayina boy has had a secret rivalry with the second he stepped foot on awa’atlu.
Two days have passed since Ao’nung first heard the village’s gossip and throughout the entirety of that two-day period, he has done nothing but glare daggers at you.
What confused you most is that you and Ao’nung have had plenty of opportunities to talk, plenty of opportunities for him to shout at you, plenty of opportunities for him to do anything. Yet he refused to as much as breathe in your direction.
Earlier that morning your mother had tasked the two of you with feeding ilu as she thought it would help keep peace between you and the Metkayina boy.
But with Ao’nung there was no such thing as peace.
So despite you being made to spend time with each other, he remained silent.
The entire time.
He said nothing, yet his eyes followed your every move — they seemed to be betraying him.
You hated to admit it but his lack of words did in fact bother you. He was never this quiet, it was strange. Ever since you were kids you have not went so long without speaking. Although you and Ao’nung were indeed in an arranged betrothal, it was not something either of you had ever disagreed on.
But Ao’nung’s silence was deafening and made you think that he had something planned. He always did, just like the time he tricked lo’ak into going outside the reef with him.
After all by now everyone in the clan knew better than to mess with the olo’eyktan’s son, clearly not neteyam though
Others may think you were being paranoid but you knew the prince of the reef better than anyone.
And when it came to him, you were rarely ever wrong.
── .✦
This evening yet another celebration was being held, this time to honour the return of the tulkuns. You have already told your spirit sister all about the situation you were in and for once she surprisingly had no advice to tell you. Only that she’ll miss yours and Ao’nung’s bickering
“Tayem are you sure you can’t go?”
There was a hint of pleading in your voice, of course you were fine attending the event with tsireya but members of the clan would surely question on why your mate was away on duty instead of celebrating like a metkayina. The tulkuns were very important to your people, neteyam not being there could be mistaken for a sign of disrespect.
You especially didn’t want to draw any unnecessary attention to yourself because you knew Ao’nung would be watching, tracing each motion you made with his predatory eyes as he has been doing these past few evenings.
In short, it’d be easier with neteyam there
He comfortingly put his hand on your cheek — one of his hands alone being larger than your entire face, “Paskalin, you know I can’t.”
You looked up hopelessly, softly batting your eyelashes at him.
“Please Teyam”
He hated having to say no to you
How could he refuse his stexli?
He almost groaned at the sight of you like this, a bulge beginning to form in his loincloth.
“Fuck you look so pretty like this baby, let me at least walk you there yeah?”
── .✦
Luckily no one judged you for not being accompanied by your mate which was slightly relieving. This was a time of happiness for your clan, rejoicing with your brothers and sisters — it was no time to worry about who hasn’t come.
You were talking with tsireya, your voices low beneath the open sky when the feeling that your being watched returned, it was that quiet awareness that wouldn’t leave your skin.
Ao’nung stood a short distance away, still refusing to utter a single word to you. He hasn’t joined the conversation, hasn’t tried to. After all why would he, you had betrayed him in his eyes.
Yet every time you shifted your weight, every time you smiled or glanced down at your hands, his gaze would follow. You could feel it.
It never went away.
Your best friend laughed at something you said, brushing your arm. At that moment A’onung’s jaw tightened almost imperceptibly. He looked away for half a breath then back again, as if drawn despite himself.
You turned slightly just enough to catch him watching. He didn’t look away this time. Didn’t speak. His eyes only lingering and eyeing your body up and down, tracing the moment before you returned your attention to tsireya, pretending not to notice the heat of her brothers stare.
Forced into silence, he remained where he was, still quiet but his eyes never stopped finding you. Was he still angry? Was he jealous of you bonding with another man? What was he feeling?
You wanted needed to know
You needed to speak with
The metkayina festival was loud — music rolling through the air, laughter rising and falling like the waves of awa’atlu but Ao’nung stood apart from it, his shoulders tight and jaw set. He hadn’t looked at you once since earlier.
You had to wait for the right moment
You wanted to at least explain yourself.
When tsierya was pulled into a dance by someone (probably lo’ak) and the crowd shifts, you followed him as he moved away from the firelight, towards the quieter edge of the gathering. He noticed you and his pace quick-end, as if meaning to leave altogether.
“Ao’nung,” you called.
He immediately stopped in his tracks.
He has always been weak when it came to you
Slowly, he turned to face you, his eyes, once full of admiration, were now sharp with restrained irritation and anger.
“What” he said flatly, it was neither a question nor an invitation.
You stepped closer, lowering your voice so no one else could hear despite the two of you being far away from the others.
“You’ve been avoiding me for days, a’onung.”
At that he laughed.
His laugh was short and humorless. “I think I’ve had a pretty good reason to, wouldn’t you say so, my betrothed?”
The music felt distant now, muffled by the tension between you. Firelight flickered across his face, highlighting his high cheekbones, catching the fury he hadn’t bothered to hide. He wouldn’t look away, but he wouldn’t soften either.
You struggled to form your sentence properly,
“C—Can you at least talk to me, tell me h—how you feel, I want to know”
You must of sounded so stupid trying to get an answer from him, stammering over your words. After all You were the one who ruined your friendship — everything that happened was your fault but you needed to know the answer. You couldn’t go on like this.
You just wished he would talk to you,
Maybe even argue,
Anything that would show you that he still cared.
The future olo’eyktan’s jaw tightened as he let out a sharp breath,
“Oh so now you care about how I feel, yawne?”
You wanted to say something so badly, maybe tell him that neteyam had connected your kurus himself, but all you could do was pathetically look at him, unable to find the right words as tears threatened to spill from your eyes. You hated how despite being mated to neteyam, your heart also ached for ao’nung.
Seeing you look so upset because of him made ao’nung feel a certain way.
His angry gaze quickly turned into something else, something darker.
Lust.
“Great mother forgive me for what I’m about to do, why must you do this to me yawne?” he muttered under his breath but before you could ask the tall na’vi what he had meant, he smashed his lips onto yours.
The kiss was fierce, nothing gentle about it - born of everything he’d held back for so long. It’s angry and aching all at once and for a heartbeat, the world falls away.
But reality cuts through and your thoughts quickly drift back to neteyam, your mate.
You press your hands against Ao’nung’s muscular chest and push him back, your breath still unsteady.
“This isn’t right”
“Him taking my betrothed wasn’t right either, yet he still did and you let him.”
“A—Ao’nung I—I”
Eywa you were so pathetic, you couldn’t even defend yourself because he had a point and you knew it.
You opened your mouth to speak further but he silenced you, capturing your lips again in a kiss that left no room for words. This time the kiss was more soft but still as passionate,
“Shh just let me take care of you, okay?”
His strong tail wrapped around your leg possessively, now kissing you even harder. Instead of his hands landing on your waist as Neteyam’s would every time you got intimate, the metkayina boy held you by your throat as if daring you to push him away again.
One of his hands then slowly began to untie your top but when it started to slip down your body you made an embarrassing attempt to pull it back up. “Don’t get shy on me now yawne, this was all meant to be mine anyway.” Your cheeks go even more purple at his words and you look up at him through your long lashes.
What you see makes your needy cunt drop with even more slick — his gaze was hungry, he was looking at you like predator looks at its prey.
You had never seen him look so desperate nor determined before. He had that look in his eyes that if anyone was to try and take you away from him — he would die right there and then or maybe the fool attempting to separate the two of you would. After all, he has killed for you before.
The hand that he still had on your neck tightened, ao’nung was asserting his full authority over you.
You knew there was no going back after this.
It seemed Ao’nung has also claimed you.
Your nipples harden as they are exposed to the cold evening air, Ao’nung throws your top that was now fully off, to the side before bringing his face down to suck and bite on your perky tits. The position was quite uncomfortable as the muscular man was almost a foot taller than you so instead he decided to pull you down onto his lap.
You gasp as you feel something hard poke against your inner thigh.
He just smirked at reaction, continuing to give you wet kisses all over your breasts, his mouth beginning to slowly trail down your body. He wanted to mark you. Leave marks on your precious skin for your mate to see — maybe he’d finally learn about what happens when someone messes with what belongs to metkayina prince, “Fuck you’re so perfect, neteyam doesn’t deserve all this.”
You moaned at the mention of your mate.
You wondered what neteyam would think if he were to witness this scene. You wondered what he would think when he saw the marks that Ao’nung has foolishly left on your skin as a surprise for him.
Little did you know that your mate was already here — watching everything.
Neteyam hid himself behind a tree while he watched the metkayina man take you, his mate, as he has taken his betrothed a few days prior.
Normally neteyam would punch anyone who dared to lay a hand on you, some of ao’nung’s friends could actually vouch for this — yet the darker na’vi couldn’t stop watching. The ache between his legs wouldn’t allow him to.
His yellow eyes followed the silhouette of you and Ao’nung as the prince went down onto his knees — his kisses eventually stopping as he reached the hem of your carefully crafted loincloth — one that matched neteyam’s, he had made it for you, his paskalin, himself.
Ao’nung smirked to himself as he ripped it off, immediately attaching his lips onto your cunt and draping his thirsty tounge up in your slit like he’d been dreaming of this.
Probably because he has.
“Fuck angel, you taste even better than I’ve imagined.”
You tried your hardest to muffle your moans but you couldn’t help but cry out loud as his tongue flicked your clit with circular strokes — teasing you. You attempted to shut your thighs but he gripped them, holding you wide open for him as he feasted on your pussy.
Neteyam’s breathing got heavier, his hands guiding themselves to his throbbing dick — he was oddly turned on by the sight of you getting devoured by another man. He’d step in soon enough, he thought to himself.
He wouldn’t let you forget who you belong to.
The forest na’vi pumped his dick up and down while watching you come with a scream on ao’nung’s tongue, thighs clamping around his head.
Despite you reaching your orgasm, he didn’t stop.
Instead he continued licking, sucking on your clit even harder than before — he was relentless, he was starved.
“You taste delicious flower”
You could only whimper in response as he whispered even more filth until he finally ate cleaned up the mess you had made between your thighs.
He stood up, helping you balance yourself while your thighs still trembled. You thought it’d be the end of it but he apparently he was just getting started,
“Turn around for me yawne.”
As soon as neteyam heard this he knew it was time to step in. The scene he’d just witnessed may have turned him on a little too much for his liking but he was not about to let another man fuck his wife.
“How about you turn around for me, sevin?”
The sound of another voice made you jump, causing you to open your eyes, as you did you expected to meet the eyes of the man you have spent the entire night with — however you were surprised as you met with the yellow luminous ones of your mate instead.
“N—Neteyam”
Fuck, what have you done?
You were going to explain yourself until you saw that he didn’t seem angry at you, instead he shared a knowing look with ao’nung — as if they were silently communicating with each other.
Suddenly both of their eyes landed on you — matching smirks plastered on their faces.
“Me and neteyam were thinking that maybe we could share you for tonight, what do you think about that baby, hm?”
Your eyes widened, you had expected many things — just not this.
Oh great mother.
── .✦
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should've been there.
female!na'vi reader x neteyam. 2.1k wc
summary: fluffery! reader is openly paired with neteyam in the clan, but not yet mated. when a group of hunters begin mocking reader (and even flirting with her…), specifically about neteyam’s restraint to bond, he overhears and grows angry.
oooo yeah possessive neteyam… I like it. first try at an avatar fic lmk what we think.
✧・゚: *✧・゚:*
the bond between you and neteyam has never been questioned, evident in the way you are never seen apart. even when you are, it still thrives in the small things; glances across the woven huts, the permanent bracelets engraved with shared initials. everyone in the clan knows you are paired, most not minding the fact that the mating ceremony has not yet been enacted. there is no rush between you two on this journey, a journey guided by eywa’s steady breath.
so, when the training rotations shift for a week, it feels insignificant. hunters are reassigned, paths diverge for a few days, and you’re placed in one group whilst neteyam leads elsewhere. you kiss his cheek before parting when he hugs you tight, promising to meet later, neither of you thinking twice about the situation.
“see you soon, sevin.”
“soon, ma’sayrìp.”
your friends giggle around you, his own mirroring the actions.
you trust him completely, and he trusts you impossibly more. it’s only a temporary separation, nothing more than duty, but it’s the first time in a while that you’re not glued to his side. neither of you realize how much that small distance is about to matter.
-
your new group is made up of familiar faces, young hunters like you with reputations that shine brighter than their smiles. ra’vir grins too wide when you step closer to the senior hunter to hear the instructions. his friend tsìkal, equally as dickish, elbows him lightly as they share a whispered joke. they offer to show you the path, even though you already know it.
“easy work today, a lucky group we have.” ra’vir says casually. you laugh softly, assuming he’s referring to the training. it doesn’t take long for the tone to switch. whispers trail behind you when you walk ahead, low and mocking. you’ve always been aware of the curiosity around the ‘delayed’ bonding of you and neteyam, but in your opinion it couldn’t come close to being a problem. interrupting your thoughts, xeytu’s voice carries enough to be heard,
“she’s still waiting, huh?” followed by quiet laughter. tsìkal glances past you, towards neteyam’s group in the far distance who are starting their trek, smirking.
“strange.” he adds. you don’t understand their jokes and don’t want to provoke them either, so again you just smile, adjusting your gear, unaware of the glances exchanged behind your back.
the comments grow bolder as the hours pass, and at times physically bold. xetyu reaches out without asking, fingers tracing the curve of your bow as he inspects it.
“light,” he says, tugging it before you pull away from him. “delicate, like you. has he taught you to use it properly?”
you tighten your grip, calm on the surface even as you feel unease rise in your heart. tsìkal snorts.
you maintain composure.
“we have taught each other. it is not so difficult, or did you need help learning, xeytu?”
the others laugh at your remark, eyes lingering too long on you instead of the targets infront. you step away, straighten your shoulders and move with a quiet confidence. you’ve trained too long to be shaken by a few loud mouths, especially those that come from hunters much less competent than you are.
ra’vir steps into your space again, this time deliberately brushing your shoulder to test how much you’ll yield. tsìkal laughs under his breath and nudges you lightly with his elbow, enough to throw you off your balance. you scoff and take a large step forward again, muttering a quiet ‘please, stop.’
“you’re patient. more than most would be.” ra’vir teases. “you know, I’d never leave you waiting like he does.”
“I’m not waiting for anything, ra’vir. I trust in our path, to question it is to question eywa.”
your jaw tightens, and your knuckles turn pale with the force you use to hold your arrows. xeytu reaches for your wrist as if to calm you, fingers lingering far longer than necessary.
“easy, taronyutsyìp.” (little hunter) he murmurs. “he’s just saying what we’re all thinking.”
something angry flashes through you. in irritation, you twist in one smooth motion, freeing the threaded cap of your knife as you turn to a still. as ra’vir skips to follow you, his hand catches on the edge of the blade. there’s a sharp groan as he jerks back, his other hand lifting to assess the bleeding. you smirk and tuck your knife back in your side.
“what are you thinking now? skxwang.”
tsìkal, aggresive in nature, snaps.
“who the fuck do you think you are-“
sa’niri moves fast, stepping between you and them with a sharp hiss. she’s older, a senior hunter who they wouldn’t dare to cross.
“enough,” she shouts. “have you forgotten where you are?”
ra’vir’s head drops to the ground, already backing away.
“we- we were just talking.”
her eyes flick to the cut on his hand.
“you don’t touch what isn’t yours, child.” xeytu scoffs at this, mumbling something under his breath. sa’niri notices.
“say it louder. let everyone hear.” she says. xeytu looks up, ears dropping in shame as he finds the dissapointed eyes of the other hunters around, judging.
silence.
“go. you are dismissed from here.” she commands, and they do, retreating back into the woods where they can no longer be watched.
“are you alright, tsmuke?” (sister) her voice now soft.
“I’m okay. thank you, sa’niri.” you hug her briefly, before being pestered by hunting friends about what the hell had just happened.
-
✧・゚: *✧・゚:*
-
a few skips away, neteyam’s rotation ends much earlier than expected, his group dismissed while the sun is still high. he walks back toward the eating fire with his other hunting friends, the conversation light until lo’ak approaches.
“hey,” he says. “I heard what happened, she okay?”
neteyam keeps walking but there’s a halt in his step.
“why wouldn’t she be?”
lo’ak exhales, knowing how this could potentially go wrong.
“ra’vir, tsìkal, xeytu…? got sent back. sa’niri schooled them. they were messing with her… talking about you.”
now he stops. the muscles in neteyam’s jaw flex hard. his hand grips on lo’aks shoulder.
“is she hurt? where is she now?”
“she’s still training, bro. she’s fine.” he added quickly. “she handled it, ‘heard ra’vir caught a nice scar.”
neteyam turns without another word, furious knowing that you had to use your blade to defend yourself against these fucking pricks. lo’ak catches his arm.
“neteyam, they’re gone I said. she’s safe now.”
he snatches his arm back, eyes dark.
“that does not mean it is finished.”
he finds them near the edge of the swing tree, already miles ahead of lo’ak. the moment they see him, colour drains from their faces, tails wrapping around their own legs in fear of what’s to come.
neteyam is older, larger, marked with responsibility that they have not encountered yet. when he pushes ra’vir lightly with his finger, his back hits the tree. no one speaks.
“what did you think you were doing, exactly?”
ra’vir swallows. tsìkal shifts his weight between legs, xeytu hiding behind with eyes fixed on his feet.
neteyam steps closer.
“you touched her?” he’s controlled, even calm when he speaks, which somehow makes it worse.
“we didn’t mean-“ tsìkal starts.
“no.” neteyam shoves him without warning, hard enough that he slams int xeytu. the sound echoes and none of them dare to move.
“you do not mean anything with her,” he spits. “you do not look at her. you do not speak her name.”
xeytu’s voice breaks when he speaks.
“neteyam, we were joking. we are sorry.” neteyam drives his fist into the tree beside his head, splintering wood.
“you joked about what is mine. my mate.”
lo’ak has caught up now, pulling neteyam back.
“bro! stop this. now.”
neteyam is about to speak again when he feels jake’s presence. he steps in close, hand firm on neteyam’s shoulder.
“what is it, boy? you wanna tell me what the hell happened?”
neteyam looks up at him, his chest rising and falling with a harsh pace. he starts to ramble, “they put their dirty hands on her. she had to draw her blade. I couldn’t be there- training-“
“I got it.” jake’s eyes harden as he looks at the boys up and down, taking in their fear, their shame. he pulls neteyam back by the arm, firm but understanding while they walk off.
the hunters are left standing there, shaken, humiliated, fully aware that everyone will know why they were dismissed, and which family they wrongfully crossed.
“you did the right thing, son. but you lead, starting now. we handle this different, the right way.”
neteyam nods once, the anger settling but not fading entirely.
-
✧・゚: *✧・゚:*
-
dark blue has crept over the sky of pandora once your training is complete. you rush to hometree to find neteyam, but he isn’t there, and he isn’t at his family hammock either. so, you find him where you expect to next, far enough from kelutral that the sounds of the clan fade into leaves and glowing biodiversity. he’s sitting with his back against a slanted rock, its coarse surface blanketed with sparkling moss. his eyes are closed, and with your feather-light walk he does not sense your approach.
“hey,” you say softly.
he looks up immediately, relief flashing across his face. his shoulders drop instantly and he feels his anger drain into something lighter.
“hey, ma’tsawke. come here.”
you barely had time to kneel before his hands were on you, his thumbs brushing your arms, shoulders, checking for anything out of place. he kissed your head and pulled you close to him.
“ngatxoa,” (im sorry) he hums.
“I hate that I wasn’t there, baby.” he speaks quietly, but the guilt is loud. the sound of his voice, coated with the velvet of his na’vi accent, resembles a purring when he talks to you… baby… the english term that he used frequently, caused a purple flush to appear on the tips of your ears and nose.
“I’m okay,” you say softly, letting him check all of your skin. “I promise.”
“I know,” he says, quick. “I know you can handle yourself.” his hand slides to your waist, effortlessly pulling you into his lap. “that doesn’t stop this from eating at me.”
he leans his forehead into yours, breathing you in.
“seeing you right now… I just don’t want to let go.” his voice drops.
you smile faintly. “nete’, you’re squeezing me really hard.”
“yes,” he admits. “I need to.” his fingers trail up your back, drawing patterns into your soft skin. “I missed you today. too much.”
you tuck closer into his chest. “I missed you too.”
he presses a kiss into your hair, then your head, then your nose. then, he lets his forehead rest on yours.
“they didn’t hurt you, sevin?”
you try to shake your head. “no. just made me uncomfortable.” his grip on you becomes the slightest bit tighter.
“what did they say to you?” he asks. you sigh in response.
“please, baby.” he says gently. “I want to know.”
you smile, nails tracing the curves in the braids that fell in-front of his face.
“they called me taronyutsyìp,” you huff softly. “as if I didn’t earn my place there.”
he doesn’t interrupt.
“and they kept touching my things,” you continue. “my bow. my hand.” you glance up at him. “I didn’t like it.”
silence settles between you, tense but controlled. his hands curl slowly, then relax again, like he’s forcing himself to stay calm.
your hands rest on his shoulders.
“ma’teyam,” you say quietly. “tell me what you’re really thinking.”
he exhales through his nose.
“I’m angry,” he starts. “not at you. never.”
“I hate that they spoke to you like that.” a pause.
“and I hate that they touched you at all.”
you lean in, pressing a soft kiss to his cheek, then another at the corner of his mouth.
“I see you, neteyam.”
“I see you, yawne.”
you kiss him properly this time, feeling the tension escape him with your touch. his hands leave your back to hold your face, pulling you deeper into his lips with the most gentle force.
“you’re the only one that matters to me.” you murmur against him. you feel the corners of his mouth curl into a smile, and you pull away to admire the sight.
“there’s my pretty boy.” you coo, pointer finger stroking along the edge of his jaw.
his breath shudders out, tension finally easing as he pulls you closer, forehead resting against yours again.
“you’re perfect, my syulang. always so sweet.”
⤷ neteyam x human!scientist!fem reader
- cw: lower case intended, aged up!neteyam, smut, p in v, humans can breathe the air, virgin!reader, mention of masturbation, neteyam keeps talking about his imagination, fingering, oral (fem receiving), cum eating, dirty talk, size difference (not explicitly mentioned but reader is human soo), neteyam’s kinda possessive, slight belly bulging. let me know if i missed anything!
- an: apologies if this seems rushed. also, so sad we only got glimpses of neteyam in the third movie, i miss my mannn.
- word count: 4.5k
- summary: you and neteyam were inseparable as children. like spider, you were a human left behind, raised among the omatikaya, growing up with pandora as the only home you ever truly knew. when quaritch and the recoms forced jake sully and his family to flee, neteyam disappeared with them, leaving you behind for years of silence and unanswered feelings.
that is, until he returns.
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Dangerously Envy - Neteyam
[ Neteyam x fem!reader ]
summary: After promising to spend a day with Neteyam, he finds his patience tested when other males from his clan interrupt your time together to flirt with you. Worst part is, he can't really do anything about it. Not when he has to make peace with everybody as the future Olo'eyktan, and definitely not when they think you're his "sister".
tags/warnings: jealousy, slight angry neteyam if you squint, kissing, making out, lil descriptions of sex, mentions of sexual activity, sexual implications, tension, neteyam being horny (be warned), neteyam yearning, reader isn't specified as na'vi so feel free to picture a human instead
word count: 1,960
yawntutsyìp (n.)- darling, little loved one
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Neteyam had always considered himself very patient. Even at this moment, even as he stood below a tree while Eykan so frequently rubbed himself on you in excuse of showing off his hunting “skills”. The young man lightly brushed his fingers along your elbow as he let go of your arm, acting as if he hadn’t noticed his future Olo’eyktan wasn't standing right there watching the interaction unfold with pure discomfort. The boy was either blind or stupid.
hello! i saw that u write for avatar and i was wondering if u could write something about neteyam x reader please, maybe the 'she fell first but he fell harder' type? angst with a fluff ending, if possible. i love ur writing! ♡
The Storm
Tags: Neteyam x Fem!Reader, Heacanons, She Fell First But He Fell Harder, Angst, Fluff Ending
Warnings: None
For as long as you can remember, you have been in love with Neteyam. You were convinced that a future olo’eyktan had no room for a love as simple as yours. But when the ache of unrequited feelings forces you to finally pull away, you realize you vastly underestimated your place in his world.
OFCC <33 and tysm!! Neteyam is so popular with yall lmfao
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summary: neteyam lets his little siblings have whatever they want, especially tuktirey. she’s just so cute! how could you say no to that face? usually he would h no problem letting her have what she want but when it came to you, he found himself not wanting to compromise.
tuk’s affection for you held that peculiar purity only children manage. there was an instinctive possessiveness, lacking any calculated thought, and an unrestrained loyalty that was evident in every shared touch. when those thin limbs curled around your waist or her tiny fingers traced a path through the ferns to a mossy nook she’d quietly claimed as yours both, neteyam never found reason to protest against it. she’d press her face into your ribs when you sat, call you her extra sister. she was so tiny, still missing a back molar, over-enunciating her r sounds, and everything in her life fit neatly into yes or no, want or don’t. she admired you with barely restrained conviction because you never told her no. your lap was warmer than her woven cot, and you told stories with your whole face and let her interrupt them. she always won when you played, and you never brought it up. for a long stretch, all of it was uncomplicated and entirely sweet.

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friendliest fire / neteyam
aged up! neteyam x na'vi reader. MDNI 🔞
Summary: He almost died. You saved him. And now neither of you knows how to pretend it didn’t change everything, especially now that he knows about the thing you’ve hidden since the day you arrived. Rivals don’t do the things you two do… do they? Warnings: 6k+ words, aged up! neteyam, rival to friends i guess (still with benefits) , explicit smut, p in v, finally not a hate sex, cunnilingus, pussy eating, reader on top (woohoo), riding, this is more fluff than the before i think
Chapters: friendly fire, friendlier fire, friendliest fire
Three days later, the air in the high pods of High Camp was thick with the scent of crushed herbs and woodsmoke. You climbed the woven ramps, your heart doing a nervous stutter-step that you refused to acknowledge.
You found him in the healers' wing, propped up against a stack of woven mats. He was stripped to the waist, a thick, clean white bandage wrapped firmly around his chest. He was pale, but the gray tint to his skin was gone, replaced by the healthy blue glow of someone far too stubborn to stay down.
The moment you stepped inside, his ears perked up.
"You’re late," Neteyam called out, his voice still a bit gravelly but carrying that familiar, arrogant lilt. He didn't even wait for you to sit before he gestured to a bowl of fruit nearby. "I’m starving. Peel me one of those? The healer treat me like I’m made of glass."
"The healer is your grandmother, Neteyam," you said. You stood at the foot of his mat, arms crossed, staring at him. "You almost bled out in the dirt three days ago, and your first words to me are a demand for snacks?"
"Technically," he said, leaning back and wincing just a fraction as his wound pulled, "my first words were that you're late. The fruit was a follow-up."
He patted the space on the mat next to him. When you finally sat down, he watched you with golden eyes that had lost their glaze, regaining that sharp, teasing light that always managed to get under your skin. "I remember the part where you told me to shut up. Very romantic," he said.
"I was trying to save your life," you hissed, feeling your face heat up. "You were being incredibly annoying."
"I was dying! I’m allowed to be a little dramatic," he countered, reaching out with his good arm to snag your wrist, pulling your hand toward him. He traced the small scabs on your skin where the ropes had been. "But I heard you. 'I've got you,' you said. You sounded so worried."
You hissed, jerking your hand back. "I was worried about the lecture your father would give me if I brought his heir back in pieces. Don't let it go to your head."
Neteyam chuckled, but the sound turned into a small wince as his chest rose. He settled back against the mats.
"How did you do it?" he asked softly. "That thing with the tsaheylu. The leader woman... she looked terrified of you. Like she’d seen a ghost."
"Her name is Varang," you said. You went still, looking down at your scarred wrists. The memory of the black rage and the way you had crushed Varang’s mind made your skin crawl. "And let's say, experience is the best teacher," you continued.
Neteyam’s ears twitched, his head tilting to the side. Experience? Na'vi don't use the bond like that. They use it for connection, for the ikran, for the direhorse. They don't use it to lobotomize people
He looked at you closely, his eyes narrowing as he put the pieces together. "What do you mean, 'experience'?"
You sighed, the secret you had kept since the day you arrived at High Camp finally slipping out.
"Neteyam, I wasn't a Windtrader. I was a Mangkwan," you said, your voice a cold thread. "Hell, not only a regular Mangkwan, I was the tsakarem."
The silence that followed was heavy. Neteyam’s hand, which had been reaching for yours again, froze in mid-air. "You're one of them?" he whispered, the realization hitting him like a physical blow.
"Was," you corrected sharply. "Yeah... maybe I lied about my story when I arrived here," you chuckled, though there was no humor in it. The sound was dry and sharp.
Neteyam sat back, his mind racing through every moment he had known you, the "stray" girl who had fought twice as hard as any Omatikaya, the girl who knew too much about pressure points and psychological warfare.
"So that mad woman..." Neteyam started, his voice hushed as he looked at the entrance to the pod to ensure no one was listening. "Varang. She’s your mother?"
You recoiled, a genuine hiss of disgust escaping your lips. "Now that’s an insult. I’d rather have been birthed by a viper."
You looked down at your hands, picking at a loose thread on the mat. "The part of me being an orphan isn't a lie."
You felt a cold weight settle in your chest, the kind that no amount of forest sun could warm. "My parents died in the same volcanic eruption that blackened the southern islands. I watched the sky turn to ash and the earth swallow everything I loved."
You looked up at Neteyam, your eyes hard and dry. "I’ve hated Eywa ever since. You’ve never seen me pray to her, have you?" You let out a short, jagged chuckle. "While the rest of you are singing to the trees, I’m wondering why the Great Mother felt the need to bury my family in ashes."
Neteyam’s expression shifted from shock to a deep, pained silence. For an Omatikaya, for the son of a man who spoke to Eywa through the Tree of Souls, your words were pure sacrilege. But he didn't pull away.
"Varang found me in the ash," you continued, your voice hollow. "She didn't see a grieving child. She looked into my eyes and realized we shared the same hatred. She saw a girl who wanted to tear the world apart, and she took me under her wing to show me exactly how to do it."
Neteyam looked at you deeply. The teasing spark in his eyes had completely vanished, replaced by a heavy, grounding gravity.
"Why did you run away?" Neteyam asked, his voice barely a breath.
"You don't even want to know how the training was," you said, your voice going dangerously thin. You stared at your hands, but you weren't seeing the healer's pod. You were seeing the dark, damp caves of the Mangkwan coast.
"She forced me to bond with dying victims. Men, women, animals... it didn't matter. She made me stay connected while their life flickered out. I felt the fear, the cold, the agony. I felt the last breath they ever took. Again, and again, and again... until I felt numb."
You looked at him, and for a second, your eyes were as cold as Varang’s.
"That’s how you control a tsaheylu," you said. "Because their feelings don't affect you anymore. You learn to treat someone’s soul like a room you’re just walking through."
Neteyam flinched. He looked at the bandage on his chest, realizing that when you had saved him, you had used a skill forged in the deaths of dozens of others.
"But I don't like torturing people," you said, your voice finally breaking, the hardness cracking. "Varang wanted me to enjoy it. She wanted me to be the one who pushed them over the edge. But every time I felt a heart stop... it felt like my own was stopping, too. I couldn't be the monster she wanted," you whispered, the words hanging heavy in the air.
Then, you cleared your throat, forcing the darkness back with a sharp, jagged smile. "I actually had a proper little rebellion. I told her to her face that I wouldn't do it. She was, let's say less than pleased. But I fought her, managed to scramble away, and limped into High Camp looking like a drowned forest cat."
You let out a dry chuckle, nudging his good leg with your elbow. "So, technically, I didn't lie! I was a victim of the Mangkwan. I just left out the part where I was their tsahik-in-training. I figured 'Windtrader orphan' sounded much more sympathetic and much less than 'I-can-fry-your-brain-with-my-hair.'"
Neteyam rolled his eyes so hard he nearly winced from the effort, a huff of indignant laughter escaping his chest.
"A Windtrader," he repeated, shaking his head. "I should’ve guessed it was a lie. No Windtrader hiss like a wounded kitten every time things don't go their way. And they certainly don't look like they're ready to commit murder when someone asks them to help with the laundry."
"I do not hiss like a kitten," you snapped, your ears flattening.
"You do," he insisted, a teasing glint returning to his gold eyes despite his pale face. "You’re all spikes and teeth. Every time I try to help you with your footing or show you a better grip on your knife, you go hiss. It’s cute. Like a little forest cat that thinks it’s a thanator."
"I am a thanator compared to you right now," you retorted, gesturing vaguely at his prone, bandaged form. "You’re currently a very blue and very talkative rug."
"A rug that saved your life," he reminded you, pointing a finger at your nose. "Before you went all 'scary priestess' on everyone, I was the one standing between you and Varang’s blade. I think that earns me the right to call you a kitten."
"It earns you a smack to the head if you weren't already concussed," you muttered, though you didn't move away. "And for the record, you're so stupid. I told you not to drop that bow. We wouldn't be in this mess if you just listened for once."
Neteyam let out a dry, rattling breath that might have been a laugh if it didn't hurt so much. "Oh, right. Because watching your head get jerked around while you screamed in pain was the perfect time for me to be 'logical.' My mistake."
He shifted, trying to find a comfortable position, his face tight with lingering exhaustion. "Honestly? With how much you’ve been lecturing me since I woke up, I’m starting to think I should’ve just let her cut your kuru. At least then you would be quiet."
Your tail lashed behind you. "And I should have left you bleeding in the forest. At least, the soil would’ve made better use than your stubbornness."
Neteyam hissed at you.
You hissed back.
The air between you was thick with heat and the lingering tension of two people who had almost lost everything, expressed through the only way you knew how: sharp words and bared teeth.
"Am I interrupting a hunt?"
The deep, gravelly voice of Jake Sully echoed through the pod.
You both jumped. Neteyam winced, hissing for a very different reason as he clutched his chest, and you scrambled back, nearly tripping over a bowl of medicinal mash.
Jake stood in the entrance, his arms crossed over his chest. He looked between the two of you. Jake’s expression was unreadable, but one of his eyebrows was arched in a way that suggested he had heard more than he was letting on.
"Dad," Neteyam panted, trying to smooth his expression into something resembling a disciplined soldier. "No. Just... discussing tactics."
"Sounded like a lot of hissing for a tactic discussion," Jake said, stepping into the room.
He looked at you, his gaze heavy and observant. "And you. I hear the healers have been looking for you. Something about you refusing to let them check your wrists because you were too busy 'supervising' my son’s recovery?"
You looked at your feet, your tail giving one final flick. "He’s a difficult patient, sir."
"She’s a tyrant," Neteyam muttered under his breath.
You give him a final hiss before finally excusing yourself to leave the room.
Three months had passed since the "tactical disaster" in the forest, and life at High Camp had returned to its usual rhythm, which, for the two of you, meant a constant state of verbal warfare and physical tension that could set the foliage on fire.
The scar on Neteyam’s chest was now a jagged, silvery mark against his blue skin, a permanent reminder of the day he was an "idiot."
"I hate you," you said. You two were on the way of a hunting, and of course it was full of arguing like usual. "I hate your face, I hate your ego, and I especially hate that you think you're better than me."
"Because I am," Neteyam chuckled.
"You know, the more I think, the more I want to finish what Varang started. Maybe I should re-stab your scar and actually leave you bleeding in the forest," you hissed.
"Still all spikes and teeth," he said. "Are you going to hiss at me again, kitten?"
"If you call me kitten one more time, I will actually fry your brain," you threatened.
Twenty minutes later, the bickering hadn't stopped, but it had shifted into the rhythmic, professional silence of the hunt. Mostly.
You moved through the mid-canopy like ghosts, leaping from branch to branch with practiced ease. Neteyam was a few meters to your left, his long limbs moving with the terrifying fluidity that made him such a lethal scout.
Neteyam didn't even look at you. He just raised two fingers, pointing toward a thicket of purple-leafed bushes. A yerik stood there, its six legs tensed, ears twitching at a sound only it could hear.
He looked at you then, a challenge dancing in his gold eyes. He didn't say a word, but the tilt of his head was clear: My kill or yours?
You didn't wait for a formal invitation. You notched an arrow, the movement silent and blurred. But as you drew back the string, Neteyam’s hand reached out, his fingers brushing your elbow to adjust your stance by a fraction of a millimeter.
"Your elbow is too high," he breathed into your ear, his chest nearly brushing your back. "You're getting sloppy because you're angry."
"I am not sloppy," you whispered back, your tail twitching in irritation. "And get off me. You’re ruining my line of sight."
"I'm perfecting it," he murmured, his breath hot against your neck. "Now shoot, kitten. Before it smells your attitude and runs away."
You gritted your teeth, focused on the target, and loosed the arrow. It whistled through the air, a clean, silent streak of death. The yerik dropped instantly, not even a cry escaping it.
"Clean," Neteyam admitted, finally pulling back. He looked at the fallen prey, then back at you with a smirk that was entirely too fond. "Almost as good as me."
"In your dreams, Sully," you snapped, already jumping down toward the forest floor to claim the kill.
Neteyam hauled the yerik onto his shoulders, the weight of the animal barely seeming to slow him down. Instead of heading back toward the main camp, he began to climb toward the high ridges, toward the shimmering, ethereal glow that illuminated the horizon.
"Where are you going?" you asked, jumping over a gnarled root. "The villages are the other way, Olo'eyktan-to-be."
"I know where the villages are," Neteyam replied over his shoulder, his tail swishing with a steady, rhythmic confidence. "We’re making a stop first."
As the trees began to thin and the air grew thick with the hum of a thousand invisible spirits, the glow intensified. You rounded a corner and stopped dead. The Tree of Souls stood before you, its long, glowing tendrils swaying in a wind that didn't exist, a living cathedral of light.
He dropped the prey at the edge of the sacred ground, wiping a bead of sweat from his forehead. He looked at the tree, then back at you, his expression maddeningly calm.
You let out a dry, sharp bark of a laugh, crossing your arms over your chest. "You’ve got to be kidding me, Neteyam. Are you trying to perform an exorcism? Do you think the tree is going to smell the 'Mangkwan' on me and strike me down?"
"I think you’re being dramatic," Neteyam countered, walking over to you. He didn't stop until he was in your personal space. "I’m not asking you to pray. I’m not asking you to like Her."
"Then why are we here?" you asked, though the hum of the tree was making the hair on your arms stand up.
"Because you spend all your time looking at the ground or looking for enemies," Neteyam said softly. He reached out, his fingers catching a floating woodsprite.
Atokirina. A seed of the sacred tree that was drifting toward your face. He held it out to you, the tiny, glowing creature spinning slowly in his palm.
"I wanted you to see that not everything in this world is fire and ash," he murmured. "Even if you hate the Source, the view is still better than a cave in the Mangkwan coast, isn't it?"
"It’s just a tree, Neteyam," you whispered, though your voice lacked its usual bite.
"It's a very pretty tree," he corrected, his smirk returning. "And it’s very quiet. Which is the only way I can get a word in without you hissing at me."
The atokirina flew away from Neteyam's palm.
You let out a huff of a laugh, leaning your weight onto one hip as you stared at the swaying, luminous vines. The light played off your skin, making the old scars on your wrists look like silver threads.
"I don't know, Neteyam," you joked, your voice echoing slightly in the hollow silence of the grove. "I'm afraid I would scare your ancestors away. Can you imagine? One touch and all the great Omatikaya leaders of the past start screaming because a Mangkwan witch just walked into the chat."
Neteyam snorted, stepping closer until his shoulder brushed yours. "My ancestors have seen Great Shadow wars and human invasions. I think they can handle one grumpy girl from the coast."
"I'm serious," you said, though your smirk remained. "I did terrible things with my kuru in the past. If I plug into this thing, I might accidentally download a virus into your precious Eywa."
"A virus?" Neteyam shook his head, looking at the tree with a quiet, steady reverence. "It doesn't work like that. You don't 'take' from the tree. You just... listen."
He reached out, his hand hovering near the glowing white tendrils, then he looked back at you. His eyes were soft, searching. "You’re not a virus. You’re just afraid."
The joke died in your throat. Your gaze drifted from his face to the swaying vines of the Tree of Souls. The hum of the tree felt like a physical weight against your chest, a heartbeat that wasn't yours
"I'm not afraid," you lied, your voice dropping to a whisper.
But you were. You were terrified. You were afraid that if you connected, you’d see your parents with their faces twisted in the same fire and ash that had claimed them. You were afraid their spirits would look at what you’d become, what Varang had turned you into, and turn away in shame.
And even worse? You were afraid that you’d reach out into that Great Mother's mind and find... nothing. That the silence would be absolute, proving that your parents were just gone, scattered like smoke, and that Eywa had never been listening at all.
"Just try," Neteyam urged softly. He took a step toward you, his hand grazing your arm. "One touch. If it’s too loud, or if you hate what you hear, you pull away."
You looked at the glowing vines, then back at him. "If I see a bunch of old Omatikaya chiefs telling me to do my laundry and stop being mean to you, I’m never letting you hear the end of it."
"Deal," he murmured, a small, encouraging smile breaking through his seriousness.
You took a shaky breath, your fingers trembling as you reached for your queue. You slowly brought the pink, sensitive filaments of your kuru toward the glowing vines of the tree. The closer you got, the more the air seemed to thrum.
At the last second, you froze. The fear of seeing them, or not seeing them, hit you like a physical blow to the stomach.
"I can't," you gasped, snatching your hand back as if the tree had burned you. You stumbled a half-step away, your chest heaving. "I told you, it's just a tree. I’m not doing this, Neteyam. Do your own prayer, take the damn yerik, and let’s go home."
Neteyam didn't push. He just gave a quiet, knowing nod, respecting the wall you’d slammed down. You walked away a few paces, leaning against a nearby trunk as you sat down beside the dead yerik.
You watched him with narrowed eyes as he approached the glowing tendrils. He closed his eyes, connecting his kuru with that glowing vines.
When Neteyam finally finished, he disconnected and walked over, sinking down to sit beside you. He didn't say anything at first, just sat there in the shared quiet of the bioluminescent glow.
Suddenly, a single atokirina bobbed through the air, drifting right toward your face. Without thinking, purely out of a reflexive, you slapped it away from you.
"Don't," Neteyam said, his hand shooting out to catch your wrist mid-swing. He didn't pull you away, he just held your arm steady in the air. "Stay still," he murmured, his eyes fixed on the woodsprite.
You were confused, but you stopped struggling. Then, more of them came. It wasn't just one, dozens of the glowing seeds descended like falling stars, landing on your shoulders, your hair, your knees, and your hands. They were weightless, pulsing with a faint, cool light until you were draped in a shimmering, white shroud.
You sat there, frozen, until they all finally took flight again, drifting back into the heights of the tree.
"What was that?" you asked, your voice barely a rasp. You felt exposed, like the tree had just looked right through your skin.
Neteyam was staring at you. "You've been chosen. By Eywa," he breathed.
"For what exactly?" You snapped, standing up abruptly and brushing off the invisible dust of the spirits. "To be a glow-in-the-dark target? To be your tribal mascot? No. Absolutely not. I’m not 'converting' or becoming a believer just because she says I'm chosen or whatever. I don't care about her seeds and I don't care about her signs."
Neteyam stood up, hoisting the yerik over his shoulders with a grunt. He looked at you, that maddening, smug smirk slowly returning to his face despite your outburst. "Stubborn ass."
"I'll take that as a compliment."
Neteyam let out a short, sharp bark of a laugh, adjusting the heavy weight of the yerik on his shoulders. "Of course you would. Only you could be blessed by the Great Mother and treat it like a personal insult."
"It is an insult," you countered, falling into step beside him, your tail lashing with leftover adrenaline. "She’s been silent my whole life while I was bleeding in the ash, and now that I’m finally tucked away in your little forest paradise, she wants to say hello? She’s late. By about ten years."
Neteyam didn't look back, but you could hear the smile in his voice. "Maybe she was waiting for you to stop hissing long enough to hear her."
"I will hiss at her, I will hiss at you, and I will hiss at anyone who thinks I'm going to start wearing flowers and singing to a tree," you grumbled. You reached up to adjust your hair.
Neteyam didn't answer with words. Instead, he shifted the yerik to one shoulder and reached out with his free hand, his fingers snaking toward your queue.
"Hey!" you barked, jumping back as if he’d shocked you. "Hands off the merchandise, Sully! You want to lose a finger?"
"Just checking for more bugs," he teased.
"Bugs? I'll show you some bugs, you moron!" you snarled, lunging at him.
Neteyam wasn't expecting the sudden tackle. He tried to pivot, but with the weight of the yerik on his shoulders, his balance was off. You dove for his midsection, your fingers finding the sensitive spot right above his hip bones.
"Wait—no!" Neteyam choked out a surprised, breathless laugh as he went down. The yerik slid off his shoulders into the grass with a heavy thud, and he hit the mossy ground a second later with you pinned firmly to his chest.
You didn't stop. You dug your fingers into his ribs, tickling him ruthlessly. "How's that for a bug, Sully? You want to check for more?"
"Stop! I yield!" he wheezed, squirming beneath you, his hands catching your wrists to try and pull them away. He was strong, but he was laughing too hard to actually use his strength. "Mercy! The Mangkwan... they have no honor!"
"None at all," you hissed, but you finally stopped the tickling.
You didn't move, though. You stayed right where you were, straddling his waist, your hands pinned against the ground by his. The forest around you seemed to go quiet, the glow from the Tree of Souls spread across your face.
It had been three months. Three months since that night in the tent before the ambush. Three months since you two touch each other.
"What's the matter?" Neteyam teased, his voice dropping into a rough, low vibration that seemed to hum right through your skin. "You're usually so loud when you're winning. Why so quiet now, kitten?"
"Shut up," you whispered, though you didn't move.
"Make me," he challenged.
"Oh, I know a way," you murmured.
You didn't go for his ribs this time. You didn't go for a punch or a shove. Instead, you reached around his head, your fingers navigating the dark braids until you found his queue.
Neteyam didn’t flinch. He didn’t try to block you. He just lay there against the moss, his smirk widening into something amused. He wasn't afraid of what you could do to his mind, he’d already felt your soul when you saved his life. He knew you wouldn't really try to fry his brain anyway.
"Go ahead," he challenged softly, his hands moving from your wrists to rest firmly on your waist. "Do your worst, Mangkwan. Break my mind. I think there’s only room in there for you at this point, anyway."
The challenge hung in the air, thick and heavy. You didn't back down. You reached for your queue, the neural filaments shivering as they sensed the proximity of his.
As the filaments braided together, the world exploded.
Neteyam’s pupils dilated instantly, his golden irises nearly swallowed by black as the connection slammed into him. He let out a ragged gasp, his head falling back against the moss as the sheer force of your mind flooded his. He closed his eyes tight, his fingers digging into your waist as he tried to process the sensory overload. It wasn't like connecting to an ikran or a tree. It was like plugging into a live wire.
Through the bond, you felt him, all of him. You can feel his overwhelming heat, his fierce protectiveness, and the raw, aching want he had been suppressed for months.
You, however, remained perfectly still. You kept your eyes open, watching the way his chest heaved and the way his tail twitched violently in the grass.
"Too much for the prince?" you whispered, your voice cool and steady despite the fire rushing through the bond.
Neteyam let out a low, pained groan of pleasure, his grip tightening on your hips. Through the tsaheylu, his thoughts racing. He was seeing flashes of that night in the forest, the smell of your skin, the way you looked when you were angry, and the terrifyingly beautiful way you looked when you were saving him.
He opened his eyes, hazy and dark, looking up at you with a vulnerability he only ever showed in the dark. [Stop... acting like you don't feel this,] his voice echoed directly into your mind, bypasssing your ears. [I can feel your heart. It’s lying for you.]
He was right. Even if your face was a mask of calm, the bond didn't lie. Your heart was drumming a matching rhythm against his own.
"You look good quiet like this," you murmured, your voice a cool contrast to the storm raging through the bond.
Neteyam let out a long and shaky exhale. Without breaking the connection, he sat up, his hands never leaving your waist, until you were eye-to-eye in the middle of the glowing grove.
"You're a demon," he rasped, though he was pulling you closer.
"And yet, you're still here," you whispered.
"I'm not going anywhere."
He didn't wait for another taunt. He leaned in, closing the final inch of space. When your lips finally met, the tsaheylu flared again, sending a physical jolt through both of you.
The tsaheylu turned the kiss into something visceral, a sensory overload that made the forest floor feel like it was falling away.
Neteyam’s hands moved with a sudden, possessive urgency, sliding from your waist to the small of your back, pulling you flush against him until there wasn't a breath of air between your chests. He tasted like the cool water of the river and the sweet nectar of the flowers.
The tsaheylu spiked, a line of pure sensation shooting through your nerves as Neteyam’s hands slid down to your thighs, lifting you effortlessly. He adjusted you until your back was pressed against the dead yerik, using the animal's body as a makeshift headrest.
"Neteyam," you breathed, your head thumping back against the yerik as his mouth left yours.
He didn't stop. He moved lower, his lips tracing a path of fire down your throat, lingering on the spot where your pulse was jumping like a trapped bird.
He went lower still, his head dipping below your eye line. You arched your back, your breath hitching in your throat as the tsaheylu transmitted every ghost of a touch, amplifying it until you couldn't tell where your body ended and his began.
He also could feel your sharp intake of breath, the way your muscles coiled in anticipation, and he chose that exact moment to slow down. He looked up at you from his position, his golden eyes hooded and dark, glowing like embers in the twilight of the grove.
"Are you unaffected by this, little Mangkwan?" he whispered, his voice vibrating through the neural link.
You tried to glare at him, but it was hard to maintain your "scary priestess" persona when your toes were curling into the moss. "I'm going to kill you, Sully."
"You've been saying that for months," he teased, his thumb tracing a slow, agonizing circle on the inside of your thigh. "But your heart is telling me something else."
Neteyam’s hand moved with a slow, deliberate precision, sliding the edge of your loincloth aside just enough. He leaned in, his nose brushing against the sensitive skin of your inner thigh.
He took a deep breath, closing his eyes as he took you in. He could smell the heavy and sweet scent of your arousal.
Then, he leaned in and took a taste.
You let out a sharp, choked-off cry, your head thumping back against the yerik so hard the animal's carcass shifted. Because he was connected to you, he felt exactly how good it felt to you while he did it. He felt the jolt of pleasure as it traveled up your spine, and he fed it right back into the loop, amplifying it until the world was nothing but violet light and the sound of his name on your lips.
"Oh," Neteyam groaned against you, his voice vibrating through your entire lower body.
Neteyam didn't hold back. Every flick of his tongue was a calculated strike against your remaining sanity. You were blinded by the way the bond made every touch feel like a lightning strike, the way his satisfaction bled into your own until you were drowning in a sea of shared, mounting ecstasy.
"Neteyam—" you gasped, your fingers digging so hard into his shoulders.
You felt his tongue, hot and expert, swirling against you, and because of the bond, you felt his own primal satisfaction at the way your thighs trembled against his ears. He could feel the exact moment your breath hitched, the exact millisecond your internal muscles coiled, and he used that knowledge to push you even harder.
Your fingers dug into the muscles of his shoulders, your nails carving crescent moons into his skin, but he only pressed deeper. He was drinking you in, tasting the salt and the sweetness. His own arousal bleeding through the link until you could feel the heavy, thrumming ache in his own body.
He let out a low, muffled growl against your skin, his hands sliding up to grip your hips, anchoring you as you began to arch uncontrollably. [Give it to me,] his voice echoed in your mind, dark and commanding. [Let it go, kitten. Let me taste it all.]
The command in your head was the final blow. The release hit you with the force of a physical collision, a psychic shockwave that traveled through the tsaheylu and slammed into Neteyam’s mind at the same time it wrecked your body. Your back arched so sharply it felt like your spine might snap.
The silence that followed was heavy, broken only by the ragged sounds of your breathing. Neteyam eventually sat up, he wiped his mouth with the back of his hand.
Slowly, your strength returned to your limbs. You sat up, sliding onto his lap and straddling his waist. You reached out, framing his face with your hands, and pulled him into a kiss. This one was slower, deeper, and tasting of the victory you both finally shared.
When you pulled back just an inch, you saw that familiar, smug look starting to creep back into his expression. You couldn't have that. Not yet.
"Don't look so proud of yourself, Sully," you rasped, your voice still a little wrecked.
Neteyam let out a breathless, incredulous laugh, his hands tightening on your waist. "Well. I recall you nearly breaking my shoulders and screaming my name loud enough to wake the ancestors."
"The ancestors are probably more disappointed in your lack of focus," you countered, though your breath hitched as his hands slid from your waist to your thighs, his grip firm and grounding.
"Lack of focus? I'm focused exactly where I want to be." He shifted beneath you, his hips tilting upward just enough to make you gasp.
"If you're so worried about my focus," Neteyam rasped, his voice dropping into a low, dangerous register, "then why don't you take control?"
He didn't wait for an answer. His hands, large and steady, lift your hips before he managed to move his loincloth aside. He grabbed your hips again, aligning you perfectly above him. The tsaheylu flared. You felt the heavy and thrumming weight of his desire.
You let out a shaky breath, your hands coming down to rest on his broad chest for balance. "Careful, Sully," you whispered, your eyes locking onto his. "You might find out I’m a lot more than you can handle."
"Try me," he challenged.
You sank down slowly, the sensation so intense that your head fell back. The sensation hit both of you with a "double" intensity that felt like a physical weight.
Through the bond, you weren't just feeling yourself, you were feeling him feeling you. You felt the incredible, searing warmth of your own body from his perspective, the way you were so tight and welcoming that it made his vision go blurry. At the same time, he was feeling the sensation of fullness through your nerves, a heavy, grounding ache that made your toes curl into the moss.
The feedback loop of the tsaheylu was becoming a storm you couldn't control. You moved with a rhythmic grace, your hips rolling in a slow, torturous grind that forced a groan from deep within Neteyam’s chest.
Neteyam’s hands moved to your hips, his large palms anchoring you, guiding your pace when he felt you falter from the sheer intensity.
[Look at me,] he commanded through the link.
You forced your eyes open, your vision swimming with violet light and sweat. You began to move faster, your breath coming in short, sharp hitches that sounded like prayers in the silence of the grove. He was so warm, so impossibly solid beneath you.
He met every one of your descents with a powerful, rhythmic thrust of his own hips, his tail lashing the ground, coiling and uncoiling in the grass. Because of the bond, you could feel the tension building in his loins—a coiled spring of energy that was seconds away from snapping. He felt your internal muscles clenching around him, the rhythmic ripples of your body sending waves of agonizing pleasure straight to his brain.
It was a total sensory takeover. The scent of the crushed moss, the humming of the sacred tree, the salt of your skin, and the taste of his breath as you leaned down to capture his lips again.
The kiss was the fuse that finally hit the powder keg. As your lips crashed together, the tsaheylu give a torrent of shared sensation that left no room for thought.
You accelerated your pace, your body a blur of motion against his, the friction generating a heat that felt like it was melting the very air between you.
And then, you felt the exact moment he reached his limit. It acted as a trigger for your own body. The pressure in your core coiled tighter and tighter, an agonizing thrum that demanded to be let loose.
Then, it happened.
The release rippled through your body.
You let out a cry into his mouth as your internal muscles clamped around him in a series of powerful spasms. You felt your own climax as a blinding explosion and then, a millisecond later, you felt his release. A deep, pulsing flood of heat that mirrored your own, echoing back and forth through the tsaheylu until the pleasure was infinite.
Neteyam’s back arched off the moss, his hands gripping your hips so hard his knuckles went white. He groaned your name into your mouth, the sound vibrating through your teeth as he finally let go.
Slowly, the weight of gravity returned. You collapsed forward, your head falling onto his shoulder, your chest heaving against his as you both fought for air.
Neteyam’s hand came up to stroke the back of your head and back. He didn't speak. After a long moment of just holding you, he shifted, slowly laying back down on the mossy ground and pulling you with him.
You let out a soft giggle against the skin of his shoulder. You rolled off his chest but didn't go far, settling onto your side and resting your head on the crook of his arm.
He shifted his arm, pulling you even tighter against his side until you were tucked perfectly against his chest, cocooned by his scent and the heat still radiating from his skin. One of his large hands rested over your hip.
You fell asleep first, your breathing evening out as you drifted into a sleep.
As you drifted deeper into sleep, the tension finally left your body, your hand resting limply over Neteyam’s heart. He stayed awake for a long time, watching the way your expression had finally softened in the dark.
Satisfied, he pressed a final, lingering kiss to the top of your head and let his own eyes flutter shut, his grip on your hip never loosening even as he drifted off.
From the high, luminous canopy, dozens of atokirinas began to descend. The woodsprites drifted down like slow-motion snow, pulsing with a rhythmic white light.
They landed everywhere. They settled on your intertwined legs, on Neteyam’s broad shoulders, and in the messy tangles of your hair. One landed softly on the bridge of your nose, another settled right over the spot where your kuru was still braided with Neteyam’s.
The morning light filtered soft and hazy. You felt the absence of his heat before you even opened your eyes, the tsaheylu have been gently disconnected while you slept.
You stirred, rubbing the sleep from your eyes with the back of your hand, and saw Neteyam already sitting up beside you. He was staring at the glowing vines of the tree, his expression a complicated mask of realization.
As he looked around, the weight of last night seemed to crash down on him all at once. The sex, the tsaheylu, the fact that he came inside, and worst of all, that you two had done all of it here, before Eywa, right under The Tree of Souls.
"We aren't mated, are we?" he asked.
You contemplated the thought for a split second, but you quickly rubbed it off.
"Absolutely not," you said firmly, standing up and brushing the glowing moss from your skin.
i emptied my drafts, this is probably the last part, i have no ideas left lmao. also sorry if the title sucks i just can't think of another :p
friendlier fire / neteyam
aged up! neteyam x na'vi reader. MDNI 🔞
Summary: The rivalry didn’t stop just because the clothes came off. If anything, the stakes are higher now. Warnings: 8k+ words, aged up! neteyam, rival with benefits, explicit smut, p in v, (still) hate sex, fingering, edging, blowjob, mention of blood, heavy injury Notes: yeah this is kinda long ig, but i hope you enjoy it
Chapters: friendly fire, friendlier fire, friendliest fire
The sun was high over High Camp, baking the mud and stone. The air smelled of roasting fish and ozone. You were sitting on the edge of the communal fire pit, restringing your bow. Your fingers were raw, and every muscle in your legs screamed in protest every time you shifted weight—a lingering, aching reminder of the cave floor.
You adjusted the woven strap of your top, tugging it higher on your shoulder to cover the bruise Neteyam had left there. It was a dark, purple mark, shaped unmistakably like teeth.
"That dive yesterday," a voice said, breaking your focus.
You looked up. It was a young hunter from the second squad. He was smiling at you, holding a bowl of fruit. "I saw the telemetry logs. I didn't think an Ikran could bank that hard without stalling. You have to teach me how you shifted your weight."
You smirked, leaning back on your hands (and wincing slightly). "It’s not about the weight. It’s about the knees. You have to lock them against the saddle right before the turn."
"Show me?" He asked, stepping closer, his tail swishing with clear interest. "After the midday meal? We could take the training mounts out."
It was innocent.
It was friendly.
"She's busy," a cold voice cut through the conversation like a obsidian knife.
Neteyam appeared behind the young warrior, looming like a thunderhead. He wasn't looking at the other boy, his golden eyes were locked on you, specifically on the way you were leaning back.
The boy jumped, ears pinning back. "I was just asking about—"
"I heard," Neteyam interrupted, his voice smooth but edged with steel. "But unless you want to explain to the Olo'eyktan why the perimeter sensors haven't been recalibrated yet, I suggest you get back to your post."
"But... my shift doesn't start for another hour."
"I moved it up," Neteyam lied. Effortlessly. "Go."
The boy didn't argue with the Chief's son. He gave you an apologetic look and scrambled away.
You watched him go, then turned your glare on Neteyam. "You're a jerk. And a liar."
Neteyam didn't flinch. He walked around the fire pit and crouched down in front of you, invading your personal space. He reached out and snatched the bow from your lap, inspecting your stringing work with a critical eye.
"You're distracting the other warriors," he muttered, plucking the string. It hummed perfectly. He scowled, annoyed that he couldn't criticize it.
"I was talking strategy," you countered, snatching the bow back. "Something you might want to try instead of barking orders."
"He wasn't looking at your strategy," Neteyam said low, his voice dropping to a rumble. "He was looking at your mouth."
Your rolled your eyes. "So? Maybe I like the attention. Not everyone treats me like a headache they can't get rid of."
Neteyam’s jaw tightened. He leaned in closer, his voice dropping to a whisper that only you could hear amidst the camp noise.
"He doesn't know you," he hissed. "He thinks you're just some brave, pretty refugee. He doesn't know you're a brat who refuses to follow orders."
"Jealous, Sully?" you taunted, tilting your chin up.
"Territorial," he corrected, his eyes darkening. "You're my headache. I'm the one who has to clean up your messes.
"I can handle myself."
"I know." His gaze drifted down to your shoulder, staring pointedly at the strap covering his mark. A flicker of satisfaction crossed his face. "Fix your strap. It's slipping."
You froze, heat rushing to your face. You quickly adjusted the strap, glaring at him.
"You did that on purpose," you accused.
"I don't know what you're talking about," Neteyam said, standing up and dusting off his hands. The perfect soldier mask was back in place, but the corner of his mouth twitched upward. "Report to the sparring ring in ten minutes. I want to see if your hand-to-hand is as sloppy as your landing was."
"I hate you," you said, standing up and wincing as your sore muscles protested.
Neteyam paused, looking back at you. He let his eyes rake over your form, slow and heavy, remembering exactly why you were sore.
"Ten minutes," he ordered. "Don't keep me waiting."
The moon was high, casting a silver glow over the forest floor, painting the ferns in shades of indigo and violet. The camp was asleep. The fires had burned down to embers, and the only sound was the distant rhythm of the ocean against the sea wall.
But deep in the forest, in a small clearing hidden by a curtain of hanging vines, the silence was being violently broken.
Thud.
You hit the mossy ground hard, the air leaving your lungs in a sharp gasp. Before you could scramble up, a heavy foot pressed into your stomach, pinning you down.
Neteyam stood over you, silhouetted against the bioluminescent canopy. He was dripping sweat, his chest heaving, his braids tied back severely to keep them out of his face. There was no audience here. No recruits to impress. No father to perform for. Just you, him, and the dark.
"Dead," he whispered, the word cutting through the humidity.
You groaned, grabbing his ankle and twisting your hips. It was a dirty move, one you learned from a street fight. You torqued his knee sideways. Neteyam hissed, losing his balance, and stumbled back.
You didn't give him a second to recover. You sprang up, ignoring the ache in your ribs, and tackled him.
The two of you went down in a tangle of limbs, rolling through the wet ferns. He was stronger, but you were vicious. You managed to get a forearm against his throat, pinning him to the root of a massive tree.
"You over-committed," you panted, your face inches from his. "You thought you had me. Typical arrogance."
Neteyam glared up at you, his pupils blown wide in the darkness. He wasn't even trying to throw you off yet. He was just staring, his chest rising and falling rapidly beneath yours.
"I let you up," he rasped, his voice rough.
"Liar," you spat, tightening your grip on his forearm. "You just hate being on the bottom."
The air between you crackled, thick and heavy. This far out, there was no one to hear the harshness of your breathing or the way your hearts were hammering in unison.
Neteyam’s hand shot up, gripping the back of your neck. It wasn't an attack. It was a demand. He pulled your head down, not for a kiss, but to press his forehead against yours, hard.
"You fight like a feral animal," he muttered, his breath hot against your skin. "No technique. Just... chaos."
"It works," you breathed back, staring defiantly into his golden eyes. "I'm the one on top, aren't I?"
Something in his expression fractured. The rivalry, the anger, the exhaustion all twisted into that familiar, suffocating heat.
"For now," he challenged.
He bucked his hips, a sudden explosion of strength that caught you off guard. He flipped the positions effortlessly, slamming your back against the tree trunk. The bark was rough against your skin, but his body was harder. He pinned your wrists above your head with one large hand, his other hand gripping your jaw to keep you looking at him.
"You talk too much about winning," Neteyam growled, his voice dropping to a low, vibrating purr. "But you forget who trained you."
"You didn't train me," you shot back, though your voice shook slightly as his knee pressed between your legs, parting them. "You just... polished the edges."
"Then let me polish them," he whispered darkly.
He didn't wait for a witty comeback. He crushed his mouth to yours, devouring the sound of your protest. It was aggressive and messy, fueled by the adrenaline of the fight. You bit his lip and he groaned into your mouth, his grip on your wrists tightening to the point of pain— a pain you welcomed.
You wrenched your hands free from his grip, not to push him away, but to claw at his back, dragging your nails down his spine. He shuddered, breaking the kiss to bury his face in the crook of your neck, biting down on the sensitive muscle there.
"You're so loud," he murmured against your skin, his hands roaming down your sides, finding the ties of your loincloth. "Good thing we're miles away."
"Shut up," you gasped, throwing your head back against the tree bark.
The bark of the massive tree bit into your back, but you barely felt it. All you could feel was Neteyam pressing his hips against yours.
His hands were frantic, tugging at the ties of your loincloth, his breath coming in ragged, desperate gasps against your neck. He was eager. Too eager.
"Finally," he groaned, abandoning the knot to just shove the fabric aside, his knee nudging your legs further apart. He moved to bridge the gap, his body coiled tight, ready to bury himself inside you and take what he thought was his.
You caught him by the shoulders and shoved. Hard.
It wasn't enough to throw him off, but it was enough to stop his momentum. Neteyam froze, his chest heaving, his golden eyes snapping up to yours in confusion and annoyance.
"What?" he rasped, his voice thick with lust. "Don't tell me you're backing out. You started this."
"I'm not backing out," you said coolly, though your own pulse was hammering. You slid your hand down his chest, over his taut stomach, and rested it firmly on his hip bone, keeping him just inches away from where he wanted to be. "I'm just... pacing you."
Neteyam frowned, his brows knitting together. He tried to push forward again, grinding against your hand. "I don't need pacing. Move your hand."
"No," you said, digging your nails into his skin. "I remember the cave, Neteyam. You were sloppy."
Neteyam went still. Even in the dark, you could see the flash of indignation. "I was not—"
"You were fast," you interrupted, tilting your head mockingly. "Embarrassingly fast. For a warrior who lectures me about 'stamina' and 'discipline' all day, you certainly lost yours the second you touched me."
He snarled, a low, animalistic sound. "I was pent up. It was a one-time thing."
"Was it?" You smirked, trailing your other hand down his neck, feeling his pulse jump under your fingertips. "Because you seem to be rushing again, boy. Panting like a dog, fumbling with knots... is this the famous Sully composure?"
Neteyam gripped your wrist, his fingers bruising. "You want composure?" he growled. "Fine."
You smirked, tilting your head. "So I'm setting the pace tonight. You wait until I say you can—"
Neteyam didn't let you finish.
In a blur of motion, he grabbed your wrists, tore them from his chest, and slammed them high above your head against the tree trunk. He gripped both of them in one large hand, his fingers overlapping easily, pinning you completely.
"You think you have the authority to command me?" he growled, his voice dropping into a register so deep it vibrated in your bones.
"I—"
"Quiet."
He used his free hand to grab your jaw, squeezing your cheeks to force your mouth open, silencing you. The playful teasing vanished from the air, replaced by a suffocating, heavy dominance.
"You want slow?" he hissed. "I'll give you slow. But you don't get to decide when it ends. I do."
He entered you then—not with the frantic rush of the cave, but with a terrifyingly slow, deliberate slide that stretched you to your limit. You gasped, your head falling back against the bark, your hips instinctively bucking to try and take more, to speed him up.
"Ah," he chided, his grip on your wrists tightening. He held you still, refusing to let you move. "Stay still."
He withdrew slowly, agonizingly, before sliding back in, just as slow. It was torture. It was a display of perfect, cruel control. He watched your face, watching your composure shatter while his remained iron-clad.
"Please," you whimpered, the word slipping out before you could stop it. The friction was maddening, and his refusal to speed up was driving you insane.
"Please what?" he mocked softly, nipping at your throat. "Please speed up? I thought I was too fast for you? I thought I was sloppy?"
"Neteyam, shut up and just—"
He thrust harder, hitting a spot that made your vision blur, but immediately slowed down again.
"I'm... bored," you lied through your teeth, your voice breathless but dripping with venom. You tightened your legs around his waist, pulling him in deep, trying to force the pace yourself since your hands were still pinned. "Is this it? Is this the legendary stamina? Because you're stalling, Sully."
His jaw worked. The vein in his neck pulsed. He wanted you to break, but you were cracking his composure instead.
"I am controlling the pace," he hissed.
"You're afraid," you taunted, arching your back off the tree to meet him, defying his hold. "You're afraid if you let go... you'll finish in seconds again. Prove me wrong."
That snapped the last thread of his restraint.
But he didn't thrust harder. Instead, he withdrew completely, pulling away from you with a sudden, jarring motion that left you gasping at the loss of heat.
Before you could make a sound, his hands were heavy on your shoulders, shoving you downward. The force was undeniable, a physical command that brooked no argument.
"Down," he snarled, his voice stripped of any patience.
Your knees hit the damp moss with a soft thud. The sudden change in elevation made your head spin. You looked up, wiping a stray lock of hair from your face, and found Neteyam towering over you.
He looked imperious in the moonlight, his chest heaving, his jaw set in a line of hard stone.
"You have a big mouth," he hissed, looking down at you with dark, dilated eyes. He tangled his hand into your hair, tilting your head back until your neck was exposed, forcing you to look up at him. "Use it for something other than talking."
You didn't blink. You just smirked, the expression sharp enough to cut, and wrapped your hands around the backs of his thighs.
"Gladly," you murmured.
You didn't wait for him to posture or prepare. You leaned forward and took his length in, not tentatively, but with a sudden, voracious enthusiasm that knocked the wind out of him.
Neteyam’s head snapped back. A harsh, broken noise tore from his throat. His hands tightened in your hair instantly, not to pull you away, but to anchor himself as his knees threatened to buckle.
You worked him ruthlessly, looking up through your lashes to watch the ruin of his composure. You tightened your suction, using your hand to twist and stroke in a rhythm that was designed to destroy him. You wanted him to lose his mind, and you were succeeding.
He snapped.
He abandoned the pretense of the stoic test. His grip on your hair turned bruising, and he started to move, snapping his hips forward to meet you. He fucked your mouth. Hard.
He drove into you with zero regard for finesse. You didn't back down. You didn't gag. You met every thrust, your own competitive fire fueling you. You took him deeper, tightening your throat around him, challenging him to find your limit.
Is that all you got? your eyes screamed. Take it, his body answered.
He was close. Terrifyingly close. You could feel the way his muscles seized, the way his breath hitched into a high, desperate whine in his throat. He was seconds away from spilling over, seconds away from losing the game and finishing right there in the dirt like a rookie.
And he knew it.
"Fuck," he choked out.
Suddenly, violently, he yanked your head back by your hair, forcing you to release him with a wet pop.
You gasped, trying to catch your breath, staring up at him confused and disappointed. "What? Too much for you?"
Neteyam looked down at you, chest heaving, his face twisted in a mask of pure frustration and lust. He was trembling, sweat dripping from his nose, looking like he wanted to murder you and worship you at the same time.
"You don't get to win that easily," he rasped, his voice wrecked.
He didn't give you a second to process the loss of contact. He gripped your hips and slid down the rough bark of the tree, dragging you down with him until he was seated on the mossy roots and you were pulled hard between his legs.
He slammed your back against his chest, trapping you. His thighs bracketed yours, keeping you spread open, and his arm clamped across your chest like a bar of iron, pinning you against him.
"You stopped," you panted, tilting your head back to glare at him upside down. "You were right there. You coward."
"I'm not a coward," Neteyam growled. "I don't finish while you're still thinking you're in charge."
He didn't wait. He shoved his hand down the front of your loincloth, bypassing the fabric with a rough, impatient jerk. He found you instantly—soaked and swollen.
"And look at that," he sneered against your ear. "You talk so much, but you're dripping for me."
He thrust two fingers inside you, deep and sudden.
You gasped, a loud, broken sound that echoed too clearly in the quiet forest. Your hips bucked instinctively, trying to escape the sudden intrusion, but he had you trapped between his thighs.
"Too loud," he muttered.
He took his free hand, the one that had been pinning your chest, and slammed it over your mouth. His palm was rough, calloused from the bowstring, and it smothered your cry instantly, pushing your head back against his shoulder.
"Quiet," he ordered, his voice vibrating against your spine. "You don't get to scream. You just take it."
He began to move his fingers. It wasn't the clumsy fumbling of a boy but it was the precision of a warrior who knew exactly where to strike. He curled his fingers, hitting that maddening spot inside you with a punishing, rhythmic curl. Come here. Come here.
You bit into his palm, muffled whimpers vibrating against his skin as the pleasure spiked hot and fast. You were already on edge from the teasing earlier, and he knew it. He ramped up the speed, his wrist twisting, his thumb grinding against you, driving you blindly toward the cliff.
Your vision blurred. Your toes curled into the moss. You were there, right there, your body tensing for the release—
And he stopped.
He didn't pull out. He just stopped moving, leaving his fingers buried deep inside you, still as stone.
You made a frustrated, muffled noise against his hand, thrashing in his hold. You tried to grind down on his hand to finish it yourself, but he stay still.
"Ah," he whispered into your ear, his tone dark and mocking. "Did I say you could finish?"
He waited. He waited until your muscles stopped spasming, until the peak faded into a dull, aching throb of need. He waited until you were limp against him, panting through your nose, furious and desperate.
"You wanted to test control?" he murmured. "This is control."
He started again.
Slowly at first, agonizingly slow drags that stretched you out, before snapping back into that vicious, fast rhythm. He played you like an instrument. He built you up, higher this time, the pressure building in your lower belly until it was unbearable. You were arching off his chest, clawing at the arm wrapped around you, begging him without words.
And just as you started to keen against his palm, trembling on the edge of ruin—
He stopped again.
"Not yet," he hissed, nipping the side of your neck. "You made me wait. Now you wait."
Tears of frustration pricked your eyes. It was torture. It was humiliating. And it was the hottest thing he had ever done.
He held you there in the dark, his hand over your mouth silencing your protests, forcing you to simmer in your own desperation while he sat calmly behind you, the master of your body.
"Are you going to behave?" he asked softly, moving his fingers just a fraction. "Or do we go for a third round of this?"
You nodded frantically against his palm, your pride completely dissolved by the ache throbbing between your legs. You couldn't take a third round of edging. You felt like you were going to snap in half.
"Good choice," Neteyam murmured against your ear.
He slowly peeled his hand away from your mouth. You sucked in a jagged breath, your lips swollen and wet, immediately turning your head to glare at him.
"You're cruel," you gasped, your voice trembling.
"I'm effective," he corrected.
He withdrew his fingers from you in one slow, agonizing slide, leaving you suddenly cold and achingly empty. You made a noise of protest, trying to chase his touch, but he gripped your hips and shoved you forward, off his lap and onto the mossy ground.
"Hands and knees," he ordered, his voice leaving no room for argument. "Now."
You didn't fight him. You scrambled into position, the damp earth cool against your palms, your back arched instinctively. You heard the rustle of movement behind you, the sound of him adjusting himself, freeing the part of him that you had tortured earlier with your mouth.
Neteyam loomed over you, his shadow swallowing you whole. He placed a heavy hand on your lower back, pressing down to correct your arch, forcing your hips higher.
"Perfect form," he mocked darkly, his voice vibrating against your spine. "See? You can follow orders when you want to."
He didn't give you a moment to retort. He didn't give you a count of three. He gripped your hips, his fingers digging into your skin hard enough to bruise, and drove into you with a single, brutal thrust.
The air left your lungs in a sharp, broken cry. He filled you completely, stretching you to your absolute limit, erasing the empty ache he had left you with moments ago. The sensation was overwhelming, too big, too deep, too sudden.
"Neteyam—" you gasped, your fingers clawing into the damp moss.
"I'm here," he growled, leaning down to drape his heavy frame over your back, his chest pressing you down toward the earth. "I'm right here."
He began to move, and there was no hesitation this time. No "pacing." He pounded into you with a ruthless, punishing rhythm, the slap of skin against skin echoing in the clearing. He pulled your hips back onto him with every thrust, burying himself to the hilt, hitting that spot inside you with a violence that made your vision white out.
"You like that?" he taunted, his breath hot and ragged against your ear as he picked up the speed. "You like running your mouth, don't you? But look at you now. Face in the dirt, taking everything I give you."
"Shut... up," you panted, though the words lacked any real bite. You were overwhelmed, your body betraying you, arching back to meet his ruthless pace.
You tried to retort, to tell him to go to hell, but the words dissolved into a broken, ragged moan as he hit that deepest point of you again. Your arms were shaking, elbows bending, threatening to collapse under the force of his thrusts.
"You're struggling," Neteyam observed, his voice dark and breathless. He sounded pleased. "Can't hold yourself up?"
He grabbed your waist with both hands, pulling you back hard against his hips, doing the work for you so he could pound into you with even more force. The friction was blinding. He was relentless, a storm of motion that refused to give you a second to breathe.
"You wanted to finish?" he hissed against your neck, sweat dripping from his brow onto your skin. "I made you wait. I edged you until you were trembling. And now..."
He let go of one hip, sliding his hand down your stomach, slipping between your legs to find the slick, swollen bundle of nerves he had tormented earlier.
"Now I'm going to ruin you."
He ground his thumb against you right as he thrust deep.
It was too much. It was sensory overload. Your head fell back, a scream tearing from your throat that you couldn't suppress if you tried. His hand was skilled, cruel, and fast, working in perfect, punishing sync with his hips.
"That's it," he growled, feeling your walls clamp down around him, feeling the way your whole body seized up. "Cum for me."
The command was the final straw. You shattered. The release hit you like a lightning strike, arching your spine so hard it hurt, a broken scream tearing from your throat. You clamped down on him, your body convulsing in wave after wave of blinding pleasure.
Neteyam groaned, a harsh, guttural sound that vibrated against your back. He thrust into your spasms once, twice—hard and desperate—chasing his own end.
"F-fuck," he stammered, his hips jerking.
He was right there. You could feel him swelling, throbbing, ready to spill.
But at the very last second, just as his breath hitched into a silent scream, he wrenched himself out.
The friction vanished instantly, leaving you gaping and empty, gasping for air. Before you could process the loss, you felt hot, heavy spurts of liquid hitting the small of your back, sliding down your skin to mix with the sweat and the moss.
Neteyam hissed through his teeth, his hand gripping your hip tight enough to leave a mark as he emptied himself onto you. He jerked his hips, groaning your name, shaking with the force of his release. He coated your skin, marking you in the most primal way possible, refusing to hide the evidence of what he’d done to you.
He rode out the high for a long moment, his chest heaving, his forehead resting against your sweaty shoulder blades.
When the tremors finally stopped, he didn't move away. He collapsed forward, his heavy weight pressing you into the ground, his slick chest sliding against your back.
He turned his head, pressing a wet, open-mouthed kiss to your shoulder, right next to where he had bitten you earlier.
"Look at you," he panted against your skin, his voice thick and wrecked. He reached down, his hand sliding over your lower back, smearing the warm mess he had made over your skin. "Covered in me."
You lay there, trembling, face pressed into the dirt, too overstimulated to even speak.
Neteyam let out a low, dark laugh. "I think that counts as a win," he whispered into your ear.
Neteyam finally rolled off you, the loss of his heat leaving you shivering in the damp air. He didn't offer a hand. He didn't ask if you were okay. He just stood up, his feet crunching on the moss, and immediately started fixing his loincloth, hiding the evidence of his lapse in control with annoying efficiency.
You pushed yourself up on trembling arms, wincing as your lower back protested. You felt sticky, sore, and thoroughly used. You watched him run a hand through his braids, regaining his composure as if he hadn't just been snarling into your neck a minute ago.
"Hey," you snapped, wiping mud from your cheek, feeling the wetness cooling on your lower back.
He glanced down at you, his face impassive, though his chest was still rising and falling a bit too fast. He picked up his knife from where he’d discarded it and turned to leave.
"At least give me some aftercare, you asshole," you grumbled, glaring at his retreating back.
Neteyam stopped. He looked over his shoulder, his golden eyes sweeping over your disheveled form, the mess on your back, the bruise forming on your shoulder, the fire still burning in your eyes.
A slow, maddening smirk curled his lip.
"You wish."
He turned and walked into the shadows of the forest without looking back, leaving you to clean up his mess.
You scowled, grabbing a handful of moss to wipe the sticky evidence of his "win" off your skin, muttering curses under your breath. You reached for your loincloth, your legs still shaking so bad you nearly toppled over.
"Asshole," you hissed again, to the empty forest. "Arrogant, preening, forest-boy piece of—"
Snap.
The sound wasn't the rhythmic crunch of Neteyam’s step fading away. It was a sharp, dry crack. Close. Too close.
You froze, your hunter instincts cutting through the post-coital haze instantly. The forest had gone quiet. The insects had stopped buzzing.
You dove for your knife—which was three feet away in a pile of your discarded gear.
You didn't make it.
A shadow detached itself from the gloom of the tree trunk. A heavy, ash-grey hand clamped over your mouth, and a thick arm banded around your throat, jerking you backward off your feet.
You kicked out, your heel connecting with a shin guard made of bone, but the figure didn't budge. You were slammed hard against a chest that smelled of rancid fat and charcoal—not the clean scent of rain and earth that Neteyam carried.
Mangkwan. The Rogue Tribe. Slavers and scavengers who picked off stragglers near the border.
"Get off of me!" you screamed, thrashing wildly. You managed to twist your body, driving an elbow into his gut, but your exhaustion betrayed you.
You rolled, scrambling on hands and knees toward your knife. Your fingers brushed the hilt—
A boot stomped down on your wrist.
You cried out, the bone radiating pain. The Mangkwan warrior loomed over you, raising a heavy obsidian club.
The club whistled down, aiming to split your skull. You squeezed your eyes shut, bracing for the dark.
Thwip.
The sickening crunch of bone never came. Instead, there was a wet thud and a gargled cry of pain. You opened your eyes to see the warrior stumbling back, clutching his shoulder where a long, feathered arrow had punched clean through his bicep. The obsidian club fell harmlessly into the ferns.
"Ambush!" a sharp, female voice barked from the shadows.
Before you could scramble toward your knife, a hand—stronger and crueler than the first—snaked into your hair. You were yanked backward so hard your neck popped, and a cold, serrated blade was pressed against your jugular.
"Still," the woman hissed.
It was Varang. The matriarch of the raiding party. Her skin was painted in skeletal white rib cages, her eyes rimmed with red pigment. She hauled you up against her chest like a ragdoll, using your body as a shield.
A figure dropped from the canopy, landing in a crouch ten feet away.
Neteyam rose slowly to his full height. He had his bow drawn, the string pulled taut to his cheek, the arrow aim locked dead on Varang’s left eye.
"Let her go," Neteyam said, his voice terrifyingly calm.
Varang laughed, a rasping sound like dry leaves rubbing together. She didn't know who he was. "You have a steady hand, boy," Varang noted, her eyes darting between the arrow tip and your throat. "But not steady enough."
She moved.
She didn't lunge for you, and she didn't slice your throat. Instead, she dropped the knife from your jugular and whipped her hand behind your head. Her rough, calloused fingers didn't grab your hair this time.
She grabbed your queue.
She closed her fist tight around the base of your kuru, squeezing the sensitive neural tendrils hard enough to send white-hot lightning shooting down your spine. The other hand holding the knife against it.
You screamed. It was a raw, primal sound of agony that tore through the clearing. Your legs gave out, but she held you up by the braid alone, twisting it viciously.
Neteyam flinched. The perfect statue of the warrior cracked. His bow tip dipped, just an inch, his golden eyes widening in genuine, suffocating panic.
"Drop it!" Varang barked, yanking your head back by the neural whip so hard you thought your neck would snap. "Drop the bow, or I cut it. I’ll cut it right now and leave her severed in the dirt."
The threat hung in the air, heavier than death. To a na'vi, a severed kuru was a fate worse than dying. It was a disconnection from Eywa, from the ancestors, from everything.
"No," Neteyam breathed, his voice cracking. The deadly calm was gone, replaced by the terrified desperation of a boy watching his world about to be destroyed. "Don't... don't touch that."
"Then yield!" Varang shrieked, twisting her wrist.
A white-hot bolt of lightning tore down your spine, seizing every muscle in your body. You screamed, your vision fracturing into spots of light, your knees hitting the dirt. The pain was absolute and it wasn't just physical. It was a threat to your very soul.
Through the haze of agony, you saw Neteyam.
He was breaking.
The boy who never missed, the boy who lectured you on tactical sacrifices, was crumbling. His bow lowered inch by inch, his face pale and twisted in horror. He was going to do it. He was going to surrender himself to these butchers just to stop the pain.
"No," you gasped, the word scraping out of your throat like sandpaper.
Neteyam’s eyes snapped to yours. They were wide, wet, and terrified.
"Don't," you choked out. "Don't drop the bow!"
"Shut up!" Varang hissed, jerking your queue again.
"Shoot her!" you screamed, your voice tearing raw against your throat. "Neteyam, shoot her!"
He aimed. For one heart-stopping second, he aimed right between your eyes, trying to find the sliver of space to hit Varang. His finger tightened on the string. The muscles in his forearm bunched.
But then Varang twisted your queue, just a fraction, and a fresh wave of agony convulsed through your body. You whimpered, your head jerking back.
That was it. That was the breaker.
Neteyam let out a sound like a wounded animal, a sharp, horrifying exhale of defeat.
He didn't ease the tension. He didn't lower the weapon slowly.
He opened his hand.
The bow dropped.
It hit the mossy ground with a dull, wooden thud that sounded louder than thunder in the quiet forest. The arrow clattered uselessly into the ferns.
"No!" you sobbed, staring at the weapon, then up at him. "You idiot! Pick it up!"
Neteyam ignored you. He looked solely at Varang, his hands shooting up into the air, palms open, chest exposed.
"I yield," Neteyam choked out, his voice shaking. "I yield. Look. No weapons."
He kicked the bow away from him, sending it sliding across the dirt toward Varang’s feet. Then, he dropped to his knees. "You have what you want," Neteyam stated, his voice devoid of fear. It was cold. Hard. "I am unarmed. I am compliant."
Varang scoffed, but she saw the look in his eyes, the look of a predator waiting for a single mistake. She uncurled her fingers from your neural whip, though she kept a brutal grip on your shoulder.
"See?" Varang grinned, her filed teeth glinting in the dark. "He can be taught."
She whistled, a sharp, piercing sound.
From the shadows, three more Mangkwan warriors emerged. They had been waiting and watching.
One of them kicked Neteyam hard in the back.
You gasped, lunging forward, but Varang jerked you back.
Neteyam didn't make a sound. He absorbed the blow, his body jerking forward slightly, but he righted himself instantly. He didn't look at the attacker. He kept his eyes fixed on you, assessing the damage, checking your pupils, checking your breathing.
"Hands," a warrior barked, throwing a loop of heavy, rough-spun cord around Neteyam’s wrists.
Neteyam moved his hands behind his back slowly, deliberately. He allowed them to wrench his arms up high, binding his wrists together with agonizing tightness.
"The girl, too," Varang ordered, finally shoving you toward another warrior.
You were grabbed roughly, your own hands bound behind you with biting cord. You were hauled up to your feet, stumbling against the warrior who held you.
"You idiot," you hissed across the clearing at Neteyam, your voice shaking with rage and fear. "Why did you do that?"
"Because I can break out of ropes," he said, his voice low and steady, carrying easily over the noise of the clearing. "I can't fix a severed nerve."
The warrior behind him laughed, yanking the knot tight. "You talk big for a—"
Neteyam moved.
It was an explosion of motion. He dropped his weight instantly, snapping his head back with bone-crushing force, aiming for the nose of the warrior behind him.
But the Mangkwan warrior wasn't a novice recruit in a training ring.
He didn't even flinch. He simply tilted his head back, letting Neteyam’s skull hit his armored chest plate with a dull, pathetic thud.
You sighed, closing your eyes for a brief second. Idiot.
The warrior laughed, a low, wet rumble in his chest. He didn't lose his grip on the rope, in fact, he tightened it, wrenching Neteyam’s arms up so high you heard the shoulder joints pop. Neteyam gasped, his knees buckling under the pressure as the warrior kicked the back of his legs, forcing him back down into the mud.
"Feisty," the warrior mocked, pressing a heavy boot between Neteyam's shoulder blades to pin him flat. "But stupid."
Varang watched the display with a bored expression. She stepped forward, her bare feet squelching in the mud, and stopped inches from Neteyam’s face.
She crouched down, grabbing a fistful of his braids and yanking his head up so he was forced to look at her.
"Are you done?" she asked, her voice sounding like gravel.
You hissed. "Dont"
Varang’s head snapped toward you. Her eyes, rimmed in red pigment, narrowed as she looked you over—bound, helpless, but still snarling commands at her like you were in a position to negotiate.
"Don't?" she echoed, her voice dripping with amusement.
She looked back down at Neteyam, whose face was contorted in pain as she twisted his braids. She smiled, a cruel, jagged thing.
"Don't touch him?" she asked, her voice dropping to a whisper. "Or what? You'll hiss at me again?"
To make her point, she didn't let go. But she didn't just pull his hair, either.
She looked at you, her eyes dead and cold, and smiled.
"You speak too much," she whispered. "Let's see how loud you scream for this."
She drew the jagged bone knife from her belt. There was no wind-up. No dramatic pause. She simply drove the blade down with terrifying speed.
Schlick.
The sound was wet and sickening. She buried the knife to the hilt in Neteyam’s chest, high on the left side, missing his heart by barely an inch but piercing the lung.
Neteyam’s back arched off the ground, a silent, horrific convulsion. His eyes went wide, the pupils blowing out until the gold vanished. He tried to inhale to scream, but only a wet, bubbling gurgle escaped his lips.
"There," Varang sneered before she ripped the knife out, sending a fresh spray of blood across the ferns. "Quiet."
The world stopped.
The sound of the forest vanished. The sound of Varang’s laughter faded. All you could hear was the wet, rattling wheeze of Neteyam trying to breathe through a chest full of blood. You saw the light in his eyes flicker and start to dim.
Something inside you snapped.
"NO!"
The scream that tore from your throat wasn't human, it was the sound of a wounded thanator.
The warrior holding your arms never stood a chance. You didn't use technique. You used hysteria. You threw your head back, slamming your skull into his face with enough force to shatter his nose and your own forehead.
He howled, his grip loosening for a fraction of a second.
It was enough.
You ripped your arms free, the rough cords tearing the skin off your wrists, but you didn't feel it. You spun around, grabbed the warrior’s spear, and didn't even bother to use the point. You swung the heavy wood like a bat, smashing it into his temple with a crack that echoed through the trees. He dropped like a stone.
Varang turned, her eyes widening as she saw you.
You didn't stop. You launched yourself across the clearing, vaulting over Neteyam’s bleeding body, landing in a crouch between him and the matriarch.
You didn't scream this time. You hissed, a raw, guttural sound that vibrated deep in your chest, your lips pulled back to bare your teeth, your fingers curled into claws.
Creak.
Three bows were drawn instantly.
The Mangkwan warriors surrounding the clearing reacted to your aggression with lethal precision. Three poison-tipped arrows were locked onto your chest, the strings pulled taut. They were less than ten feet away. There was no way to dodge.
You didn't care. You stood your ground over Neteyam’s convulsing form, glaring at them with eyes that promised murder, daring them to loose.
"Hold!"
The command cracked through the air like a whip.
Varang raised a hand, palm open, signaling her men to stand down. The warriors hesitated, their fingers twitching on the strings, confused by the order to spare a prisoner who had just broken a guard's nose.
She stepped toward you, ignoring your bared teeth and the feral hiss rattling in your throat. You were crouched over Neteyam, your hands slick with the mud and his blood, ready to tear out the throat of anyone who came closer.
"You have spirit," Varang noted, her voice dangerously soft. "But spirit needs to be broken."
She moved faster than you could track. Before you could lunge, she sidestepped your clawing hands and slammed a knee into your ribs, knocking the wind out of you. She spun you around, not to bind your hands, but to grab the base of your scalp.
"No!" you gasped, thrashing, but she pinned you against her chest, her arm like a vice across your throat.
"Shh," she whispered against your ear, bringing her own braid forward. The tendrils at the end of her queue were writhing, pink and predatory. "I'm going to show you what dying feels like before I even cut you."
She forced the connection.
She jammed her neural tendrils against yours. Usually, Tsaheylu was a gentle and sacred act, a merging of souls. This was a violation. It was a psychic rape.
Snap.
The bond formed instantly.
Varang gasped, her eyes rolling back, ready to flood your mind with her darkness, her sadism, the accumulated pain of a thousand victims. She intended to crush your mind, to turn you into a vegetable while Neteyam watched.
But she made a fatal miscalculation.
She expected to find fear. She expected to find a terrified little girl crying for her mate.
Instead, she connected to a hurricane.
The moment the bond clicked, you didn't pull away. You pulled her in.
The rage that had snapped inside you wasn't just adrenaline. It was a black, bottomless ocean of pure violence. You didn't block her out. You opened the floodgates and drowned her in it.
You want inside? your mind screamed, the voice echoing like a thousand crashing waves. THEN LOOK.
"GAH!" Varang shrieked.
Her body went rigid against yours.
She tried to project pain, but your rage devoured it. You forced your emotions onto her. The blinding red need to kill, the agonizing grief of watching Neteyam bleed, the sheer, animalistic hatred you felt for her right now. It was too much. It was a sensory overload that no single mind could contain.
You weren't the victim in the bond. You were the predator.
Varang scrambled backward through the mud, her heels digging into the earth as she tried to put distance between herself and the monster she had just touched.
You rose to your feet, swaying slightly, your chest heaving. You felt huge. You felt like the forest itself.
You drew in a breath that seemed to pull all the air out of the clearing, your lungs burning with the force of it. You looked at her, then at the warriors standing frozen with their bows, and you let it out.
"DIE!"
Varang shrieked—a high, pathetic sound. Her nerve broke completely. The psychic crushing you had given her, combined with the primal terror of your voice, was too much.
"Retreat!" she screamed, scrambling to her feet and bolting into the darkness, abandoning her dignity, her weapons, and her pride. "Move! Move!"
The warriors didn't hesitate. Seeing their matriarch broken and fleeing, they panicked. They lowered their bows and ran, tripping over roots in their haste to get away from the demon girl who had turned the mind-bond into a weapon.
In seconds, the clearing was empty.
The heavy silence of the forest crashed back down, deafening after the chaos. The adrenaline that had turned you into a monster began to drain away, leaving you cold, shaking, and small again.
Then, a sound behind you shattered the moment.
A wet, gurgling cough.
The red haze vanished instantly. You spun around, dropping to your knees beside Neteyam.
You lunged for him, your hands shaking as you reached for the jagged hole in his chest. The smell of copper was overwhelming, mixing with the damp scent of the earth. You needed to apply pressure, you needed to stop the life from leaking out of him.
The moment your palms touched the wound, his body bucked.
With a sudden, violent burst of adrenaline, Neteyam’s hand shot up. He slapped your hands away with a wet smack, his strength surprising and desperate. It was a soldier’s reflex, just like a dying animal lashing out at anything that touched the source of its pain.
"Stupid!" you hissed, your voice a mix of terror and fury.
You didn't let him fight you. You grabbed his hand and pinned it firmly to the mossy ground. He was weak, despite that burst of adrenaline, and his fingers felt cold against yours.
"I want to go home," he rasped, the words sounding small and hollow, stripped of all his usual cockiness. It was the voice of a boy who was slipping away, his consciousness fraying at the edges.
"Yes," you snapped, your voice thick with a desperate, shaky authority. "You’ll go home. But only if you shut up and let me treat this properly."
But Neteyam, despite being inches from death’s door, was apparently not too far gone to be a complete nuisance.
"It... stings," he whined, his voice a wheezing, pathetic rasp. He tried to wiggle his shoulder away from your hands, his face scrunched up like a toddler. "You’re being... too rough. You’re doing it... wrong."
"I am saving your life!" you hissed, nearly sitting on his stomach to keep him pinned. You grabbed a handful of the medicinal paste you always carried in your pouch.
"That's cold," he complained, his eyes fluttering but his mouth still moving. "Ow... stop. Your hands are... shaky. Get a... real healer."
"Neteyam, I swear!" you snapped, but your voice broke. He was losing too much blood, and his frantic movements were only making it worse. He was spiraling into shock, his mind racing in a dozen directions, and his constant, delirious complaining was making it impossible to work.
You needed him still. You needed him quiet.
Without a second thought, you reached behind his head and grabbed his queue. He didn't even fully processed it before you brought your own queue forward and snapped the neural tendrils together.
Tsaheylu.
The connection hit like a physical wave. Usually, a bond was a shared experience, a mutual opening of souls, but right now, you were the anchor. You didn't let his pain or his frantic thoughts overwhelm the link.
You filled the bond with a heavy, golden sense of calmness.
You projected the feeling of sunlight hitting still water, the scent of the forest after rain, and the steady, rhythmic beat of a heart that wasn't ready to stop. You forced your own steady breathing into his mind, overriding his panicked gasps.
The tension drained out of his limbs instantly. His hands, which had been fighting yours, fell to the moss, palms up. His eyes, once wild and glazed with pain, softened and fixed on your face.
Quiet now, you projected through the link, a gentle command. Just let me work.
He didn't say a word. He just lay there, tethered to your spirit, his senses flooded with the peace you were providing as a shield against his own agony.
In that silence, you finally finished. You packed the wound and wrapped the bandages tightly, your movements smooth and efficient now that he wasn't fighting you. You could feel his heartbeat through the bond, still weak, but steadying.
"I've got you," you whispered, your voice the only tether left. "We're going home."
Home. The word echoed through the bond, a final, shimmering image of the Hometree and the scent of woodsmoke. It was the last thing he processed before the darkness finally pulled him unhim. It's not a cold, lonely darkness, but a deep, healing sleep fueled by the calm you had poured into him.