xl. ❝date night and kid chaos❞
╰ au / extended storyline
( year eleven )

JAKE sighs as he steps towards Odessa, the woman pacing around the area nervously. "Dessa, they will be fine."

Odessa stops her pacing, stilling and digging her toes into the dirt underneath her. She finds it peacefully how she can be with the nature here unlike how it would have been on earth. And she loves being shoeless. "How can you be sure?"

"Niave is a wonderful mother to my children, she will make sure that no harm comes to your children." Jake speaks with ease, his words smooth and coming out in perfect na'vi. "I promise."

"And if one of them has a single new scrape?" Odessa's peaceful expression turned sour. She glared at Jake, because she knows deep down that he would let all the kids be reckless and have all the fun without any rules.

"That will not happen, Des, okay? Just trust me." Jake is practically pleading with friend.

Odessa sighs and stops shifting from foot to foot. She nods, and Jake released a happy sigh. She trusts him, she's just never really been away from her children for any periods of any time. "Okay, fine, Jake."

Jake grinned, pushing Odessa towards the forest where she could go and meet up with Neytiri. She ran throughout the trees, her feet pressing against the dirt. A feeling of being followed washed over her and she whirled around, her body clashing into Neytiris.

"Oh, hi my love." Odessa speak quietly as she wraps her arms around her mate. The two stood there, hidden underneath the many trees that only allowed the smallest a bit of light through.

The two walked thought the forest shortly after their moment, calling their Ikrans when they were in an open area. They boarded their companions, flying up and past the tops of the trees. They moved around each other in a dance, yipping and laughing.

Together they were perfect.

Odessa and Neytiri cuddled on the soft grasses that laid on top of one of the Hallelujah mountains after their time flying. Odessa's head on Neytiris chest, feeling her steady heartbeat. Neytiris hand resting against her mates body, her fingers drawing shapes.

🌍.

"No! Kiri!" Jake yelped as she chased after the young girl who's hands held a bundle of sticks that her cousins had told her to grab. Jake continued to race after the young girl, she had an advantage because she could wiggle her way underneath many of the fallen trees that lined the forest. "Kiri!"

The young girl giggled as she ran away from her uncle, dropping stick as she did so. She was quick in moving throughout the area, the plants and large bushes moving the slightest as she ran through them. "No! No! Uncle Jake!"

Neteyam quickly reached out, grabbing onto his uncles ankle and pulling. Jake fell to the forest floor with a thud, his face and upper chest landing in a puddle of mud. Just like he has when he was learning how to ride a direhorse. Jake huffed and used one hand to push himself upwards, the other wiping mud of his face. "Neteyam Mo'at'ite Everett!"

Jake ran after the giggling children, his body covered in mud. He could feel it in between his fingers, and in the corner of his lips. He threw his hands into air, a huff passing though his lips.

"No! Neteyam!" Lo'ak yelped, letting out a playful scream that alerted Jake where the children where. He listened, his ears tilted downwards as he did so.

"My Jake, you are dirty." Niave stepped out of the trees, her youngest daughter and youngest niece tucked into a wrap that secured them to her body. "We've had this conversation."

"They are mad, Niave. Crazy kids." Jake groaned, whirling around quickly afterwards and grabbing ahold of spider, who had been sneaking up on him. "Haha."

"No!" Spider cried out as Jake held onto him by his ankles, dangling him upside down. The human boy wiggled, attempting to free himself from his adoptive fathers grip. "Neteyam! Lo'ak! Kiri! Inkire!"

Spider yelled out for his family, knowing that his siblings and cousins would come running with sticks. He wiggled once more, his ankle sloping slightly before Jake readjusted his grip. Jake grinned, he held leverage now. "Alright, you monsters, come out now and spider won't be dunked in the mud."

Spider looks towards Jake with wide eyes, unlike his siblings and cousins, the mud stuck to his skin and was such a pain to get off. "No, no, nOoo!"

Jake heard a shuffle of leaves against the skin of a kid, he knew. "Come out wherever you are."

Neteyam and Inkire were the first to step out from their places in the bushes. They both held long spear like sticks with dull edges. Knees bent, both let out a huff of breath as they charged at Jake. "Ahh!" Both screamed, lungs contracting as they did so.

Jake stumbled as high kids swung their sticks at him, swiftly moving Spider out of the way so he didn't get attached by the two 'angry' kids. Spider was placed on the ground, the second his body touched the dirt, he flung himself towards the bush where he grabbed one of the hidden sticks.

"What?! No!" Jake attempted to back up, only for Lo'ak and Kiri to stand behind him with their own sticks out.

Kid chaos.