— 𝐭𝐬𝐲𝐮𝐥 —

𝗺𝗮𝗻 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗲𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗿

𝐍𝐄𝐓𝐄𝐘𝐀𝐌 𝐐𝐔𝐈𝐂𝐊𝐋𝐘 𝐁𝐄𝐂𝐀𝐌𝐄 𝐘𝐎𝐔𝐑 𝐒𝐇𝐀𝐃𝐎𝐖.

everyday he would go in the forest and try to find you, always putting himself in dangerous situations.

you always arrived at the last moment, saving his arse from getting killed.

then he spent his day following you around, and making you loose half of your preys (it was one of the things that you hated him for).

he talked a lot.

you didn't

he said that he talked because he wanted to break the ice, that the silence felt uncomfortable, you thought that he was simply annoying.

he told you his name, actually he told you all of his family's names.

but you remained silent, only talking to scold him or to tell him to shut up.

he wasn't mad about it, in fact he was thankful that you weren't trying to kill him every chance you had.

he liked to have some time away from his family, and if you were the only one that he could be with, then he would've take it.

"so you aren't the one stealing our supplies?" he asked you, his mouth full of food.

you were both seated on the ground, near the end of the cliff, you were looking in front of you at the beautiful falls of pandora, the ikrans flaying around peacefully.

neteyam was eating a red fruit, you had already finished yours and you were using your knife to sharpen a new arrow.

"if i would go to your village, i wouldn't take some supplies" you answered seriously, not looking at him.

your respond felt too precise, too pointed.

but neteyam wasn't gonna test you or your patience.

he chuckled and you threw him one of your hard glances, one that he had become a little too familiar with.

that's why it didn't do anything to him and his expression didn't change.

"if you want to stalk me all my life you're gonna need to learn how to be fucking silent" you pointed at him, the knife in your hand towards his face.

"got it?"

he responded with a nod, now his expression more nervous as he was remembered once again of who he was with.

you hummed proudly of yourself before getting up from the ground.

you put your knife back in its place, the arrow still in your grasp as you pointed it in front of you, trying to see if it was sharp enough.

you moved it back into its place too.

you looked at the ikrans in front of you, admiring their beauty.

you turned around, walking towards the forest and away from the end of the cliff.

but before you could arrive to the forest you stopped to look around, your eyes on neteyam.

he was still on the ground, looking at you with no thought in his mind.

he tilted his head, confused as to why you were still there looking towards him.

then his eyes widened a little as he realised.

"you want me to..." he said, pointing at you and the nature in front of you.

"yes!" you responded exasperated.

a smile was evident in his face as he jumped up on his feet, before skipping towards you.

"you know you can talk, right?" he questioned with a smirk as he referred to the events of moments before.

"you know i can kill, right?" a small smirk appeared on your face and neteyam almost missed it as you immediately walked away.

he followed you, walking right behind you before moving to be near you.

"i saw that!" he screamed at you, you looked at him with a side eye and he chuckled as you pretended to not hear him.

you pushed a leave away from your face and you let it go as you passed it, but before it could hit neteyam in the face he blocked it with an hand.

"you know, you remind me of a panther" he commented as he watched your body almost vanish as the forest became darker.

"a panther?" you repeated, turning around to look at him.

"they're animals from earths, they have a pattern like yours and their fur is darker then their similar, making the pattern almost invisible" he explained, moving his hands around as he tried to explain it best as he could.

you hummed in understanding before resuming your walk.

"i know all of this because my father is from earth and he talks a lot about his old planet " he kept on talking and for the first time you didn't feel like stopping him.

just listening to his voice as it touched your ears.

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from that day you stopped pretending like you weren't waiting for him every day.

like you didn't waste your time running around to find other places to took him.

you still hid until you saw him, but it was pointless to pretend like you didn't want him around.

and he knew that.

he thanked you every time for bringing him in beautiful places, from the waterfalls, to the caves, to other secrets places deep into the forest.

you didn't replayed to his thanks, you just looked at him deep into his eyes, sometimes tilting your head, but he knew you appreciated it.

and just like that, thanks to all the time spent together, your glances became longer and your little touches more evident.

you both felt like your eyes were dragged to the other.

he observed you as you moved the knife from your hands to your mouth, catching it between your teeth, your fangs hitting the metal; you grabbed some fruits from the plants in front of you and you looked at it as you turned it around in your hands

you gave him a side eye but he didn't notice.

and you pretended like you didn't notice him.

because that same day you were the one that had kept the eyes on him as he tried to use your bow, the muscles on his shoulders flexing, his braids falling in front of his face.

you both found excuses to keep your bodies near.

like accidentally falling one against the other in the lake at the end of the waterfalls.

or you pushing the both of you against a tree thinking that you had seen something move in the dark, your chest against his, his breath on your neck.

and even thought you both noticed the difference , none of you said anything.

how could you?

you were supposed to be enemies.

you the panther, he the gazelle.

you the predator, he the pray.

and everyone knows that the predator always ends up eating its pray.

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a/n:
guys i'm sorry for the long wait 😭
i have lots of ideas in mind so i have to choose one that i can fit into the base of the story that i already had in mind, that's why it took me so much to write this chapter
the next one is coming sooner (or at least i think)
and i think that soon the reader is gonna meet the siblings because i changed some things in my head.
hope this chapter is okay :))

-sa <33