What if? (P2) || Jake/Reader || Draft

Broken rules

"Fuck." You rush out of the water to grab your bag and sling it over as you jump on Arohk. "Get on. We're going for a flight.
—-Bob, go find Jake."

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"I mean, we're almost there as it is." Jake pulls himself up from crouching over the larger map he and Norm have printed out. "The tunnels don't need much else added in, we've got all the proper equipment thanks to the mining the RDA started."

"And the shit they so graciously left behind, you mean." Norm points out before his earpiece lights up like the Fourth of July.

Tsu'tey and Jake share a concerned look as they notice the expression on Norm's face.
"Trudy? Yeah? No, only Lia and Niikeym. They're with Neytiri and Sa— What? His Ikran? Are you sure? A lot of them look awful alike—- Oh. Well, shit."
He holds up his wrist and switches on a few things on his smartwatch.
"—Okay, I've got your location. We're coming."

"What's going on?" Jake steps closer as he starts to worry.
Bob shows up in the background behind him before he could even consider calling for him.
Definitely not a good sign.

"It's Trudy. She says they were out fishing and called the Ikran to help - Lo'ak's Ikran showed up out of nowhere, and they can't find any sign of him nor reach the other kids."

"Oh, no."
Jake rushes to get to Bob while calling out.
"—Tsu'tey, can you get a search party going if you don't hear back from us in three minutes?"
And tosses him his watch to keep track of them before taking flight.

"Will do."

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"I can feel your heartbeat in my back." Trudy mentions as she sets a hand on your thigh. "Hey. The kids are gonna be alright."

You give a shortened sigh as you try to keep any signs of panicking at bay.
"Last time something like this happened, Quaritch had them under his guns and knives, and they captured Spider. I'm not going through that again."

"Hey, hey." Trudy tries to keep your mind grounded. "Different life, different outcome. Besides, we'd have known if the RDA had come back. There's no way in hell it was them."

'Any sign?' Jake's voice comes in with worry.

"No. Not yet. We're gonna head further south since that's the direction she came in, can you go north? Get Neytiri to take the kids west?"

'I'll have Tsu'tey take the east with his crew, then.'
His voice and manner stay calm as ever, thankfully. Because you're one bad moment from losing it.
'—Baby. We're gonna find them. We always do.'

He switches off again to focus on his end when he realizes you've gone quiet.

"Trudy, keep trying the kids channels, would you?" You speak up eventually. "-out of all of us, we gotta get within range sometime."

After a long ten minute absence of anyone calling in — it's Tsu'tey who finally calls with good news.

"They are near the Hallelujah mountains."

As if your heart couldn't sink any further.

"—I have Lo'ak calling in, but the connection is fuzzy."

Trudy grabs on a bit tighter this time, seeing as you've picked up speed to get there as soon as you can.

Everyone's circling around by direhorse or Ikran, trying to comb through as much ground as they can.