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          "MA LO'AK, calm down." Lēia softly spoke as she walked over to Lo'ak, who was pacing the room, mumbling to himself. Lēia and Lo'ak had been mated for 2 months. Neytiri and Jake already knew of the mating merely a week after as Tuk — the child who promised not to tell anyone about the couple — decided to tell all of the Sully's about them. Of course it didn't come as a shock to Kiri as she already knew, but surprisingly when Jake and Neytiri found out, they wasn't shocked either.

         But both Lēia and Lo'ak knew that the girls parents wouldn't react the same. So that brought them to the present moment. Lo'ak continued to mumble words of encouragement to himself as Lēia rested her hand on his shoulder to try and stop him. "Lo'ak." She shouted as the boy stopped, looking over to the girl. "Calm down. They have no choice but to accept us, we were mates before Eywa." Lēia firmly spoke, as he nodded, placing a kiss on her forehead.

          Aonung, Lēia and Tsireya were all promised to 3 different na'vi's. Lēia was promised to Anax, Tsireya was promised to Faeui and Aonung was promised to Xa'ea. Though the problem was that Lēia and Anax despised one another, Tsireya had never even met Faeui — even despite the fact he was one of Aonung's best friends and was head over heels in love with her — and Aonung and Xa'ea never got along.

          "Come, otherwise they'll already be mad that we're late." Lēia spoke as they left Sully's mauri, the couple quickly walking over to the meeting mauri. Yes, Lēia had called it as a meeting. They walked into mauri, being met with Tonowari, Ronal and unexpectedly, Aonung and Rotxo. "Great." Lēia mumbled, noticing suspicious eyes was on the both of them.

          "Why are them two here?" Lēia questioned as her and Lo'ak sat down on the bench opposite the one Ronal and Tonowari were sat on. Aonung and Rotxo were propped up behind them, both of the duo leaning on the mauri walls. "We invited your brother and Rotxo invited himself, as per usual." Tonowari mumbled the last part as Rotxo smiled brightly. Tonowari and Ronal acted like they was annoyed by Rotxo's constant presence but deep down, they loved him like their own. Everyone became quite, waiting to hear the reason why Lēia called a meeting.

          "Me and Lo'ak are mated." Lēia spat out. At first, nobody said anything. "I expected it." Rotxo first spoke as Tonowari hummed. "For a odd reason, I agree with you." Tonowari spoke as Ronal slapped Tonowari around the head. "You mated with him? What about Anax? He is a lovely boy—" Ronal rambled on as Aonung scoffed. "Can't you just be happy for your daughter? You are acting as though her situation wasn't the exact same as yours and fathers." Everyone's eyes widened at the fact Aonung wasn't defending his mother.

      But it was true, Tonowari's and Ronal was just like them. Ronal was promised to Tonowari's brother, Konoar, but she fell in love and mated Tonowari. Lēia was shocked that Aonung was defending her as she expected  him to be just as mad, because she knew that Aonung and Lo'ak didn't get along well. But what Lēia didn't realise, was that Aonung already knew. He had seen them sneaking out together a few times. Of course he was mad at first, because he didn't want his sister to get hurt. But she seemed happy with him and he seemed happy with her, so he let them be. He just wanted his baby sister happy after all the years of loneliness she felt.

          Ronal's face shifted through many different emotions before it returned back to normal, a sign leaving the woman's mouth. "Please leave me and my daughter alone for a minute." Ronal sternly spoke as everyone left the mauri. "Mama, why can't you accept him? I love him and he loves me." Lēia's voice cracked slightly as tears formed in her eyes. Ronal walked over to her youngest daughter, bending down infront of her. "I do accept him. I just wish you would have told me before. You used to tell me everything." Ronal was now also teary eyed as she pulled her daughter in for a hug, holding her close as they both sobbed.

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          Everything had calmed down and seemingly, the whole village had found out about Lo'ak and Lēia. But everyone supported them — pretty much at least. Anax was salty about it, the boy already trying to fight Lo'ak a few minutes after he found out, but he soon semi calmed down.

          Lēia trailed along the beach, in search for her brother to thank him for sticking up for her and Lo'ak. Lēia finally spotted his silhouette as he fed four ilus surrounding him. She held her hand above her eyes to block out the setting sun as she walked over to him. She picked up one of the buckets full of fish from beside him as she two ilus came over to her, scavenging for food. "Thank you for earlier, uh, Lo'ak is thankful aswell." Lēia awkwardly laughed, not knowing what else to say.

          Ever since Neteyam's death, Aonung was never the same. Not many people noticed it, but he turned more cold. More snappy and on edge. He didn't speak much anymore, keeping to himself most of the time. Of course he was with Rotxo most of the time, but he didn't seem himself. He completely stopped smiling. The girl had almost forgotten the sound of his laugh. She missed it. She wanted her big brother back.

          "It's okay." He responded, not looking towards his sister as he threw another fish into the ilu's mouth. Lēia copied his actions. "Are you okay?" Lēia questioned as the boy hummed in response. "Do you miss him?" Lēia watched as a rigged breath left his body. He sighed, "More than you would think." He threw the last fish in the bucket into the ilu'a mouth before walking away, leaving Lēia alone as she watched his receding figure, the girl confused as to what he meant. But she decided to not follow after him, a sigh escaping her body before she returned to feeding the ilu's.