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Sunila Sully (maternalforce) wrote in spinningcompass,
@ 2017-07-11 17:13:00

Entry tags:

!open, jake sully, sunila sully

Who: Sunila Sully and Blue Jake.
What: Arriving.
Where: Starting in the forest.
Warnings: Possible mentions of the bad future.
Status: Closed.

Sunila had been running through the forest when instead of the normal ground, she felt snow crunching beneath her feet. She tugged the hood of her Jedi robes closer around her head as she surveyed the scene. There were more trees than she had seen in a long time, and even more surprising, there was no spire high in the distance. She couldn't sense that ever present evil watching her either. She wouldn't let her guard down though and when she heard the smallest noise behind her, she spun around with her light saber in hand.

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_toruk_makto_
2017-07-11 09:41 pm UTC (link)

Jake was out in the forest looking for Layontspang. He felt all kinds of bad, not knowing that she'd been out here in the forest for however long on her own with nothing familiar around her. Never mind that she was an apex predator that naturally lived a solitary life (thank you, Grace's book that Tommy had a copy of), she was from Pandora, she was Neytiri's, and so Jake would go and check on her.

Or that was the plan, up until he spotted someone in a cloak running through the forest. He followed after them for a moment, confused by the fact that the person seemed to have Sunila's scent. He skidded a little on stones under the snow, and threw himself back at the sight and sound of a lightsaber blade igniting rather suddenly right in front of him. "Shit! I ain't gonna do anything, I swear!"

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maternalforce
2017-07-11 11:16 pm UTC (link)

Sunila stared in utter surprise. It was Na'vi Jake, looking healthier and younger. And when he spoke, his words were clear and coherent. She hadn't seen Jake like this in years, not since he was young. She reached out through the force, just enough to let her know that this was indeed Jake and he wasn't under the control of the man. Then, she turned off her light saber and clipped it to her belt. "Jake? How can this be you?" She asked. "What's going on?"

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_toruk_makto_
2017-07-11 11:37 pm UTC (link)

Jake frowned at the woman's questions, and then moved close enough that he could get her scent again. "Huh. You are Suni, just older," he said, crouching down to be closer to her height and wrapping his tail round his ankles, "and what's wrong with this being me?"

"What's going on is... uh, we all fought against the Man. Kat ripped his spine out, and the Spire fell, but that's broken everything so instead of it being July in 2017, it's some time in 2019 and the sun's broken so it's like this all the time. And now Kat's giving away all the animals she had us gather to help with the fight, and Rach asked about Layontspang, and since she belongs to my 'tiri, I'm out looking for her. I saw you, and now we're talking."

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maternalforce
2017-07-14 12:25 am UTC (link)

"You are younger." Sunila answered. It was as much detail as she was willing to give until she figured out what the hell was happening. She could leave out the detail of him having lost his sanity as long as possible.

Sunila shook her head, confusion still evident on her face. "No. That's not how the fight against the man went. We lost. He lived and became worse. The spire was there in 2017, 2019 and 2038. Kat's been gone a long time. And Rachel's working on a patient. I mean, she was right here." She looked around, thinking of Rachel Cuddy who should have been nearby with a fallen islander. "And Layontspang? I haven't heard that name in a long time. This is all wrong, Jake. Some shared delusion or something."

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_toruk_makto_
2017-07-14 06:41 am UTC (link)

Jake's ears flattened against his head as Suni explained her history, and tilted his head to the side as she said about Rach treating a patient. "Rach ain't a doctor, Suni. She fixes motorbikes when she isn't kid-wrangling," he pointed out, before realizing something. 2038 was when his oldest self was from.

"Are you married to a beardy Jake with leg braces?" he asked, digging his phone out of his carry-pouch. "He's here, see?"

Jake quickly scanned through the network and found a post his older self had made, just after the Spire had fallen, then held his phone out for Sunila to take and look through.

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maternalforce
2017-07-16 01:29 am UTC (link)

"Oh, that Rachel." Sunila felt a pang of sadness for Rachel and so many other Sullys that were gone. And for this Jake, in front of her now. There was so much that he would go through, so much pain ahead of him and she didn't know if she could keep him sane. "I was thinking of Rachel Cuddy."
"I am." Sunila managed a smile at the description. Jake's beard and braces were like a part of him now.

She glanced at the messages, trying to make sense of it all. "So, this is a completely different time line." She could recognize some of the others on the phone as being from her time too. "Are Greg and Alex here too?"

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_toruk_makto_
2017-07-16 09:29 am UTC (link)

Jake frowned a little at the name, then nodded when he realized who Suni meant. "She's here, yeah. Not out here, I mean she's staying with Laura in the Mansion. Her and her family." He'd seen Rachel and Dr. Cuddy and their family a couple times when he'd called round to check on Laura, but he hadn't gone over to speak to them or anything beyond saying hello. Rachel seemed a bit wary of him, anyway.

He shook his head at the names he didn't know. "I don't think so? Who are Greg and Alex?" he asked, head tilted to the side.

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maternalforce
2017-07-16 05:39 pm UTC (link)

"Ah. Another person brought through time." Sunila tried to make sense of it all. If there was no spire and no man, who was bringing them back to this time and why? It was puzzling. She'd have to find her mother and see what she thought. Oh, wow, her mom. "There are so many people I need to catch up with."

"My sons. Twin boys. They're men now." Sunila answered, with a hint of sadness at the thought of her children in the future, without her or her Jake to guide them.

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_toruk_makto_
2017-07-16 06:00 pm UTC (link)

Jake's ears pricked up at the mention of her sons, and his tail wagged a little. "Oh, cool! Well, your younger self's pregnant with them now! Hey, there's two of you now. Three, if you count Willow. And three of me..." he said, then stopped and looked at Suni. "They might show up here too," he added. Hopefully, they'd bring Neytiri with them.

"Do you want a lift back into the city? I can leave you off at the Temple if you want," he offered.

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maternalforce
2017-07-16 10:55 pm UTC (link)

Sunila chuckled. It was all so new and strange, to think that her son were only there in the womb of another her. "We could start our own club of copied people. She nodded. "I hope they do. I don't want them alone in my time. It wasn't good." She wasn't sure what to tell him or what he'd already been told.

She nodded. "I would like a ride. To the temple or wherever my beardy Jake is."

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_toruk_makto_
2017-07-16 11:21 pm UTC (link)

"Your Jake, he, uh. He didn't really talk about it much, changed the subject or just didn't answer any questions when it came up on the network. And then I saw how he was looking at people at the big meeting and out at Tommy's house, I saw how he looked at me. So I'd guessed it was pretty bad from that," Jake said. "He didn't stare at Tommy like 'Holy shit, I'd forgotten you used to have that much hair', it was more 'Holy shit, you're not dead'. So I didn't ask. I didn't think it was information I'd need during the attack on the Spire, y'know?"

He stood up straight after that, stuck two fingers in his mouth and whistled as loudly as he could. Banshee nudged at his mind over their bond a few seconds later. "Banshee's on his way."

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maternalforce
2017-07-17 10:07 pm UTC (link)

Sunila nodded. "And now that the spire's down, it's information you'll never need." The future would be different and there was a great deal of comfort in that, even without her sons there to see it. There was no need to let Jake know how the man's poisons would have take his sanity, or how many losses he would have endured.

Sunila looked up at the sky. It had been so long since she'd seen Banshee. She was looking forward to see him back with Jake, as he should be. "How is Banshee? He made through the attack on the spire okay?"

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_toruk_makto_
2017-07-17 11:18 pm UTC (link)

"Yeah. I think I'm happy not knowing," Jake admitted. If his oldest self or Sunila ever wanted to talk about it, he'd listen, but he wasn't going to go searching for bad news. And he probably wasn't who either of them would want to confide in, anyway, not when they had each other.

"He's good. And yeah, he made it through. He got a couple of knocks, but I reckon we all did," Jake replied, absently rubbing at the back of his neck and then the shoulder where he'd been bitten. His bruises had mostly faded by now, but the marks from the bite were still visible.

Banshee could be heard in the distance now, screeching at something. It wasn't long before a big black bird flew down to land between Jake and Sunila, cawing at both of them, and then Banshee flew overhead before looping back and landing on a fallen tree close by. "I know that bird," Jake muttered to himself, head tilted as he wondered how.

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maternalforce
2017-07-18 06:58 pm UTC (link)

"I'm sorry I wasn't here for that." Sunila murmured, annoyed at the island for bringing her back in time to enjoy the benefits of the man being gone, without having been able to fight for it. It made her feel lazy somehow. "I'll have to check on everyone." She did trust that her mother had protected Willow, everyone else she worried about.

Sunila took a cautious step towards the bird, not wanting to scare it away. She knew that if it was dangerous, Jake would have warned her. "Is he or she one of your brother's pets? They had so many in this time from what I remember." Mostly dogs and cats, but they had a dodo too, anything was possible. She glanced over at Banshee and gave him a smile. "Hello. I remember you too."

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_toruk_makto_
2017-07-18 07:41 pm UTC (link)

"You kinda were here," Jake pointed out with a small smile, then headed towards Banshee and the black bird. "Your Jake told me you fought a land-octopus thing together, and collapsed a street in on itself. So that ain't bad going, right?"

The bird cawed again, and flitted up to a nearby branch but didn't fly off. "Tommy's got loads of pets now. New ones from Kat. But he ain't one of them. I remember him, but I got no idea why," he explained, then walked over to Banshee and made Tsaheylu with the ikran. He took a moment to scratch at a couple of Banshee's itches while explaining about Suni. "You want to come say hi before we're up in the air? He's complaining about a lack of attention for some reason," he said over his shoulder to his tsmuke.

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maternalforce
2017-07-18 09:03 pm UTC (link)

Sunila chuckled and followed him. "It doesn't sound too good for the road or any pipes or cables under it. But at least Jake and I got to kick some butt."

"Oh, wow. Kat had wolves and other big creatures if I remember right. How's Izzy coping with all of that?" She did find it amusing that Tom would find ways to make the Sully home even more crowded. She looked over at the bird again. "Are there birds like that on Pandora? Would you know him from there?" The bird would hardly be from Jake's earth, not from what she'd heard about his world. She made her way over to Banshee and gave the ikran a grin. "Were you feeling ignored or is Jake teasing me?"

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_toruk_makto_
2017-07-18 10:17 pm UTC (link)

"I think Izzy's put her foot down. Whether Tommy's aware of that or not, I got no idea," Jake told her with a quick laugh, before shaking his head. "There's nothing like that on Pandora."

Banshee asked why he was thinking of home, so Jake told him, and then Jake blinked as Banshee showed him memories of playing with the black bird, which in turn set off memories of his own. "uh. Apparently at one point, I was the Norse god Tyr, and had birds following me. And he," he said, pointing at the bird he now knew to be a raven, "was smart enough to not get eaten by this one, and then they made friends. Huh. Cool."

Banshee gave a quieter-than-usual screech as Suni approached, then held out a wing. "He says it's itchy near the claw," Jake translated, with an obvious eye-roll at how demanding his ikran was being.

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maternalforce
2017-07-18 10:58 pm UTC (link)

"I'm sure she'll make him aware of it." Sunila said with an amused grin. "Wives have a way of making our feelings known, without saying a word." Of course, it was easy with her and her Jake, thanks to the force.

"Oh, the god thing. I was lucky; I didn't get a god in my head. I think it's because I was a kid at the time." Sunila commented. It felt like so very long ago to her. She could remember her father's leg not hurting for a while, but the rest of it had been bad. "He must have very good taste in friends."

She chuckled. "It is, is it? I suppose you want a scratch. Is this payment for the ride?" She sent a soothing sense through the force and ran her fingers along his wing, until she found the itchy spot, giving it a scratch. "You know rubbing your wing on a tree might help when you're alone."

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_toruk_makto_
2017-07-19 06:48 pm UTC (link)

Jake nodded, but said nothing as he thought about how his Mate would have let him know when he fucked up. He tried hard not to let people know how much he missed Neytiri, but times like this when he'd been out looking for her palulukan... Best not to think about it. He looked round at Sunila when she mentioned being a kid, though. "Oh, shit. I remember you as a kid now," he said, "you liked... You liked the blue raspberry stuff which is why I asked Tommy if we could grow blue raspberries. Huh. Cool."

Banshee made a very happy noise as he got scratches and then nudged his Na'vi in the side. "Ah, get off," Jake muttered, fixing his renten into place, then replied for his ikran again. "He says you have good fingers. Better than trees."

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maternalforce
2017-07-19 09:44 pm UTC (link)

Sunila chuckled. "I even gave you blue raspberry children's drinks once. Do you remember that too? I thought you'd like it better than the blue alcoholic stuff." She sighed. "I miss those days of going into the stores and being able to find whatever I wanted." It had been hard to find anything useful for years, let alone luxuries like gifts.

"Thank you." Sunila said to Banshee. "They're like my Dad's fingers. Good for music and performing surgery too." She hadn't had a guitar or piano to play in years. They'd never run out of wounded in need of help though.

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_toruk_makto_
2017-07-19 10:15 pm UTC (link)

He frowned as he tried to remember, but it was beyond him for now. "No... Sorry, I don't. I went home for a couple've months... well, it was years for me, but it was only two months here, and when I was brought back, I couldn't remember anything about here. I've started getting memories back, but... not everything's there yet."

Jake checked the harnesses on Banshee while Suni spoke to the ikran, making sure they were tight enough, and then climbed on. "We're gonna go to the Jedi Temple, Banshee. You remember that place?" Banshee did, and sent Jake a memory of watching his tawtute self climbing up the outside of it. "Does your Jake still climb the Temple? Or does he just jump up and down it instead?" Jake asked Suni, and then held his hand out to her so she could climb onto Banshee's back.

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maternalforce
2017-07-20 02:43 am UTC (link)

"Perhaps I can help you get your memories back. With the force. Or simply by taking you to places you liked, showing you what you did." Sunila would have to be careful not to remind him of what isn't on the island anymore. She didn't want to bring him sadness. "It might trigger the memories."

"My Jake can leap over the temple now. Climbing can be a bit trickier with the leg braces, but he manages." She took his hand and used his help to climb up onto Banshee. "Alex climbs it. And mountains and the trees that are left. He's a lot like his dad. The two of them were often out on adventures, and when things became bad, they became our lookouts and gatherers."

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_toruk_makto_
2017-07-20 10:11 pm UTC (link)

"If you can get my memories back, that'd be awesome. I hate when... well, what just happened, happens," he said, "and I haven't smacked my head to explain the lack of memories, y'know?"

"Alex sounds pretty cool. What about Greg?" he wondered, "does he bounce all round the place too?" Once Suni was settled, he let her know when Banshee was about to take off, and the ikran quickly climbed into the sky. It was easy enough to spot the city - the lights from the buildings that had their electricity back stood out easily against the never-changing gloom - and Banshee was quickly winging his way towards it. Stark Tower was a handy enough navigational point, and Jake was able to send them in the right direction almost instantly. "I'd give you a tour, or go the long way to the Temple if the light was better and you could actually see anything!" he said, speaking loud enough that he'd be heard over the wind.

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maternalforce
2017-07-21 04:22 am UTC (link)

"I know. It must be the island." Sunila offered as an explanation. "Just don't try smacking your head to get the memories back. That only works in cartoons and maybe on Gilligan's island." She joked.

"They're both very cool. Greg can climb too, but doesn't spend as much time at as his brother. He's more analytical than Alex, spends more of his time figuring out how to grow food, coming up with new strategies for battle, that kind of thing. I suppose he's more like my dad or your Tom." Sunila reached out through the force, keeping herself connected to the island as they went higher. It was so dark and quiet without the fighting below. She needed to be sure the island was still there. "Is there a plan to fix things?" She asked. He had mentioned the sun being broken, but it felt as if the island itself was broken. Stuck in the dark. "The island can't last without light and heat."

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