Prompt for @norvstforthvwickvd
“I know you don’t have any reason to trust me, but you need to know something.”
Holding a hand out to Nyteri almost in caution, Jake swallowed the lump in his throat while his eyes took in her profile, a resigned expression on his face as he tried to get her to listen. “I know you don’t have any reason to trust me, but you need to know something.”
Words that were spoken with the confidence of a man who was not him, he didn't dare to move closer to his was she actually still his mate because he knew that in her despair, she was volatile and unpredictable.
Things he loved about her, though.
Once she finally met his already-wet gaze, Sully forced himself to stand firm because this was his responsibility. It was all that he could do because there was no way Neteyam was in any state to prove his father's point, not after their idiot son had gone AWOL with his younger brother Lo'ak.
What were the knuckleheads thinking!? They were still just children, god damn it! What made the thought of exploring an old RDA's outpost a good one? By the grace of Eywa's will, the two boys had gotten away but not unscathed. Neteyam was being looked after by the scientist's medical squad, and Lo'ak was bloodied and bruised to the point of amazement that his second-oldest was even able to stand.
However, it'd been too long... too long since Neteyam's eyes had fluttered since he'd begun to convulse intermittently, leading everyone to think the boy had found something that Jake's old science sorties were working on before they had to abandon ship; he could only hope it wasn't lethal.
Without moving an inch still, he knew his wife had to be blaming him. He was their father.
"I know, baby, I know. I- I messed up. It's a father's job to protect his family... I failed. Just listen to me? He's going to be okay. I just know that he's going to be okay. He has to be. Right? He has to be okay, so he's going to be okay."
Was he consoling Nyteri or trying to convince himself?
"He's going to wake up, you know that, right?"