What If? (P1) || Jake / Reader || Draft

Spoken Words

   It's like a huge breath of relief when you feel yourself coming out of the link - and pushing against it as you swing your legs over.

However, you didn't expect Jake to be sitting there, waiting on you to come to.

"What was that?" He doesn't waste any time in asking. "I didn't know you spoke Na'vi."

"We lived here for sixteen years, of course I do." You remind.

"What did you say to her?"

"I simply greeted her with her title, expressed I was happy to see her, and then said a prayer for the wolf as I gave it a mercy kill." You explain.
You forgot how this body couldn't handle being in the link for so long, losing your footing as you try to come to — at least Jake pushes you into his lap on time.

"Is this normal?" He asks.

"I had to transfer eventually because my body couldn't handle the pressure of both." You shortly explain.

He wheels you both into the next room, holding onto you as he keeps you in his lap.
  
Grace, Norm, and Trudy arrive as they hear you both coming into the kitchen part of the shack.

"So?" Grace places a hand on her hip as she slips up both a few meals already prepared.
"Did you get in?"

"We're there. I don't know how she managed it." Jake expresses. "I really don't. Did she tell you she's fluent in Navi?"

You move off of him, and take to sitting in your own chair as everyone comes around.

Norms a little off put by that one. He sure as hell didn't know, and may have believed you sooner had he.
    "Zìsìt amrr ftolia ohe, slä zene fko nivume nìtxan." His first test of things, explaining hes studied for years.

"Ma oeyä tsmukan, oel ngati kameie."
  You respond, smiling as you spoon in your first bite of food.

Both he and Grace react, his own brows arching.

   "Why didn't you just do this to begin with? We would've definitely believed you a whole lot sooner." Grace says.

"Oeyä sap'alute."
You shoot back without hesitation.

"Yom wutsot."
      As in, stubbornly - yet impressed - Norm is telling you to 'eat your food' before he excuses himself away for the night. Not exactly a surprise that Trudy bids her farewells and goes off, too.

Same big brother figure as always.

Grace is still simply amazed by all of it.
   "I can't believe you. We've been trying for so long, and you get it in one night."

"I'm glad it worked. I was.. worried. I don't know, I've said way too much as it is. What if I'm messing up the timeline?" You set your spoon back down.
   "What if I never see my children again?"

She reaches out for your hand, comforting you.
"I can't tell you anything. And I'm sorry. I wish I knew."

Jake takes to rubbing his hand on your back.
"If it helps any, you can stop telling us. Stick to the absolutely need to know things. I'm sure my airhead brain has forgotten half of it you've told us as it is."

"That might help... some." Grace offers.
She's still struggling a bit with all of it herself.
"If there's a timeline effected, you're no longer in it, though. However it happened. Only you can really control what happens here on out."

"There's only one thing that I don't know how to work past."

"What's that?" She asks.

"When.. we won the war, in the end.
Neytiri and Jake sent the humans back home."