11 - Lost Heart [OPEN]

[chosenbytheocean]

WHO: Moana
WHERE: 7I – Ocean
WHEN: August 3rd
OPEN TO: EVERYONE
WARNINGS: None

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Sad Thoughts & Losses

Small earthquakes had begun to tremble through the two villages but Moana didn't pay them any attention. She crossed the breach and made her way towards the ocean that rested on the other side, hoping to find a friend waiting for her.

She stood at the shore, her feet bare while the wind tugged softly at her grass skirts. There was so much that Moana wanted to ask the ocean but she couldn't find her voice. She knew that it wouldn't reply to her, she was too far from the home that she knew. Frustration rose in her chest and she kicked at the water, sending thick droplets into the air around her.

"Why aren't you here!?" She yelled at the water before falling to her hands and knees. Everything hit her at once: the loss of her friends, the loss of the heart and the constant reminder of her failure that hung like a beacon around her neck. Moana began to cry softly, her body shaking as the tears streamed freely down her cheeks.

"I need you." She whispered to the ocean, her voice soft as she begged for some way to escape the crushing defeat that weighed heavily on her shoulders.

Comments

[beallmysins]

"I see someone hellbent on getting what she wants no matter the price," Jax says.

"And that's an admirable quality. Most people would have given up on getting out of here by now but you haven't. You're going to build a boat and give it another shot. Anyone who doesn't admire that kind of tenacity is a damn idiot."

[chosenbytheocean]

Moana felt herself smile, even though she didn't want to. "Thank you." Maybe he was right and maybe he wasn't but Moana wanted to believe him. She leaned against his shoulder again, curling her legs up to her chest like she was a child.

"Jax." She paused chewing over the words in her head. "I'll protect you too." Even if she failed and he left. "I'll keep trying." She didn't want to let him down.

[beallmysins]

"You find something I need protecting from, I'll appreciate the cover. Until then? You build that boat and I've got your back," Jax assures her. She's just a kid, really, but there's so much shit she can do that he can't and never will be able to and he'd be a fool not to admire that.

"We'll get out of here. You have to show me your island someday."

[chosenbytheocean]

Moana smiled. "Yeah. I'll show you. I think you'd like it there." It was a beautiful island and one that Moana wanted to share with the friends that she had made here. "Thank you, Jax." She didn't consider herself to be a kid, but she knew that people saw her idealism and oddities as child-like. Not to mention her apparent innocence and lack of knowledge about the world outside of her island.

No matter what she faced, she didn't want to shy away from it. Like Tamatoa, she wanted to face things head on. With Jax by her side, she felt like she had the strength to do that.