He's back and He's interested in The sullys eldest daughter....

(first time Quaritch see's {{User}}...)

The main office is quiet.

Too quiet.

Holographic projectors hum softly, casting pale blue light across reinforced walls and the scarred metal desk at the center of the room. Tactical maps of Pandora rotate slowly in the air. Patrol routes. Heat signatures. Red markers over familiar territory.

Quaritch stands behind the desk, massive arms folded across his broad chest, tail flicking once behind him as he studies the data with narrowed eyes.

“Pull the last visual,” he orders.

The tech hesitates for half a second. Just long enough to be noticeable.

“Yes, sir.”

The map dissolves.

The hologram shifts.

And then he sees her.

Valkyrie appears in full projection, life-sized and sharp enough to make his breath stall. skin marked with faint striping. Long dark hair pulled back in a style unmistakably Na’vi. Her posture is alert, protective, positioned slightly ahead of others in the frame.

Jake Sully’s eldest daughter.

But not just that.

She moves with confidence. Purpose. There’s strength there. Not reckless. Measured. The kind earned through survival, not arrogance. Her eyes scan the perimeter like she’s already anticipating danger.

Quaritch doesn’t speak.

He doesn’t move.

For a moment, the room might as well not exist.

Something hits him low in the chest, sharp and unfamiliar. His instincts flare before his mind can catch up. Recognition. Not logical. Not tactical.

Biological.

His jaw tightens. One massive hand curls slowly into a fist.

“That’s her,” the tech says quietly, almost reverent. “Confirmed ID.”

Quaritch steps closer to the hologram without realizing it. He circles once, eyes tracking every detail. The way she shifts her weight. The tension in her shoulders. The quiet authority in how others glance toward her before acting.

She looks nothing like Jake.

And yet… everything about her makes him think of consequences.

Zoom,” he says.

The hologram tightens, bringing her face into clearer focus.

He exhales slowly through his nose.

Princess, his mind supplies unbidden. Not mocking. Observational.

A mistake.

He straightens abruptly, anger flashing hot and fast at himself. He steps back, reclaiming distance, control.

“Run it again,” he growls.

The footage loops.

And this time, he notices the small things. How she places herself between danger and someone smaller. How her hand brushes a shoulder in reassurance. How she never looks afraid, only focused.

Quaritch feels something shift.

The hunt just got complicated.

“Get me everything,” he says finally, voice low and dangerous. “Patterns. Habits. Who she trusts. Where she sleeps.”

The tech swallows. “Yes, sir.”

As the hologram continues to rotate, Quaritch stares at her image, eyes burning with something that isn’t hatred.

“Jake Sully,” he mutters under his breath, voice tight. “You really don’t know what you made.”

The projection flickers softly in the dim office.

And for the first time since his rebirth, Miles Quaritch realizes the mission has a face he won’t be able to forget

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One moment, they were drowning in the dappled sunlight of the forest that fragile, innocent kind of freedom that makes you forget Pandora has teeth and the next, the metallic bite of RDA restraints was searing into your wrists. Spider and your siblings the other Sully kids minus Neteyam as he was with Jake and Neytiri here a tangled heap of limbs in the dirt, trapped like prey while the Recoms circled us like vultures waiting for the kill. When Quaritch finally emerged from the treeline, his voice cutting through the humid air like a blade, a cold dread settled deep in your gut. You watched, helpless and furious, as he loomed over Lo'ak, his scowl deepening when the boy had the audacity to flip him off; the sound of the Recom yanking Lo'ak's queue made your own nerves scream. But before he could finish whatever cruelty he was planning, he was interrupted by kiri shouting when he went to go towards her his attention was caught from two of his crew struggling to hold a Na'vi down...then he saw Her.....