bound - avatar oc x oc

part 12

Akaia sat awake in her family's marui, the girl hadn't slept all night.

She sat watching the dark sky as the sounds of her family's breathing and snores soothe her.

The girl was scared, scared of closing her eyes and seeing the faces of the avatars she killed in order to save her family.

They haunted her dreams, every night since the attack. So Akaia's solution was not to sleep. At all, no matter how exhausted she was.

Akaia yawned before standing from her mat. She looked back towards her family making sure they were all still asleep before leaving the marui.

The girl walked along the beach and towards where their Ikrans are kept.

As she walked a pair of ocean eyes followed her movements.

Mak'korro watched as the girl staunched along the beach with a confused frown on his face.
Why was she awake so early again?

The boy sighed before jumping off the dock and jogging after her.

Akaia heard movement behind her as she approached the Ikrans. The girl reached towards her grandfathers knife before turning and pouncing on her attacker, straddling them and putting her knife firmly at their throat.

The girls eyes widened as she quickly realised who she was on top of. As she pulled away her knife.

"Mak'korro? What the hell are you doing here." She questioned at the boy beneath her.

The boy laughed, "I saw you staunching along the beach, I just wanted to make sure u were okay." His laugh shaking her body.

"I don't staunch." The girl mumbled shaking her head.

He laughed once again, "Yes you most certainly do." He replied back to the girl.

Akaia scoffed before getting up off the boy rubbing the sand off her shins before extending a hand towards towards him. Mak'korro looked at her hand before grabbing it, Akaia helped pull the boy up to his feet.

Mak'korro sighed as he began rubbing the sand off his back. "What are you doing out here anyway." He questioned looking towards the girl.

"I just wanted to see my Ikran." She replied, before helping him brush the sand off his muscular back.

"This early?" His asked as he turned to face her with concern eyes that drifted down towards her discoloured neck.

Akaia stopped brushing his back as she looked into his eyes. She watched as his attention left her neck and met her eyes.

She suddenly felt anxious about the fading bruises on her neck. "I have trouble sleeping." Akaia admitted reluctantly.

Mak'korro nodded, "Nightmares?" He questioned.

"Something like that." She said before turning away from him and walking towards the makeshift Ikran nest that had been set up.

Akaia could hear the boy's footsteps behind her as they approached a set of bushes that separated the nest from the beach.

"Why are you following." She asked as she continued walking.

"Am I not allowed to?" He said making her stop in her steps and turn towards him.

Their eyes met once again making goosebumps appear on Akaia's arms.

"I mean you are more then welcome but I don't think it will be that interesting for a water boy like you."

Mak'korro scoffed, "A water boy?" The boy said with a smirk.

Akaia let out a laugh, "Yes, water boy. Or do you prefer fish boy?"