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Life be lifin', lovies! 💙💙💙 Thank you for your patience!

🕸️🕷️ Weaving the Web 🕷️🕸️

Chapter 27: Do You Know Where Your Child Is?

“Report.” Wainfleet barked before Ja and Prager cleared the threshold into McCosker’s abandoned crime scene of an apartment. Even though he was speaking to his peers, his eyes never left his superior from where he stood in Spider’s bedroom like a statute. Just standing in the doorway and staring into the empty room.

Quaritch had eerily told Wainfleet to report to the apartment less than ten minutes after they landed. The corporal was still unpacking his gear when he dropped everything to comply with the eerily calm command. The smell of salt and iron hit his nose before he walked into the apartment. Calling it a crime scene was accurate by the roll of hazard tape on the floor by the door. Clearly, it had been left behind after whatever happened there had been investigated...

“He’s not in the hospital.” Ja answered first, huffing slightly from how fast he sprinted to and from the medical wing. “Spider hasn’t checked in since the physical BEFORE we left on mission.”

“No one has seen him in the greenhouses or fields in twenty-six days.” Prager followed up with when Wainfleet’s eyes darted to him, “I didn’t recognize any of the staff. I was told the current team was disbanded and reassigned to satellite labs.”

“Which ones?” Wainfleet asked sharply.

“I don’t know. No one currently there had that info.” Prager said quickly, hoping to avoid a reprimand for getting incomplete intel.

“No incident reports in this unit for the last six months.” Zdinarsk started as she shouldered her way through the guys with her trusty tablet she’d built herself held up to lead the way, “But there was an emergency entry almost a month ago. No camera footage, but RDA security systems aren’t smart enough to get rid of ghost files like those.”

“How close to a month?” Wainfleet asked. If it wasn’t such a dangerous situation, even he would be shocked with how serious and commanding he was.

“Uh...” Zdinarsk typed away on programs of her own design, ‘hackers’ was what she called them despite the colonel’s disapproval. She shrugged slightly and tried to come up with a good enough answer by saying, “Less than thirty days, for sure. That’s when they move to archive and I wouldn’t have found them so quick.”

Despite the all-business attitude of the squad, Quaritch knew even his hardened marines were trying to focus on not looking at the mess around them. Especially without knowing whose blood was splattered around them. The reason he was standing in the doorway of Spider’s room with its windows brightly lit by the sun was because it was the only room that was untouched by whatever the hell happened...

If he had to take his best educated guess, Quaritch assumed the incident started in the kitchen or living room. He could see multiple scenarios play out in his head in the few minutes between laying eyes on the site and alerting his second-in-command. Someone tackled another person with such force that the couch flipped over backwards. The two, or more, bodies continued in this motion...

A glass end table was broken next; it didn’t stand a chance. This was where the first blood was drawn, but not the worst of it. Handprints on the wall that Quaritch was ashamed he couldn’t identify as his son’s or the monster of a foster father’s. There was another set of handprints clawing at the floor after the first set. It didn’t even look like anyone had attempted to clean the place up yet, despite the risk of biohazardous waste.

But why...?

Quaritch’s only assumption for the delay was due to an investigation...

Then why did it look like they cleared out right before he walked in...?

Per his best guess, the scrap moved from the living room to the kitchen after that. Whoever was in the lead was heading straight for the butcher block. Self-defense, obviously. But they didn’t make it. Someone took a hell of a hit to something based on the chipped locally sourced stone countertop. Quaritch never really noticed how Earth-like they were trying to make the city’s housing units. He didn’t remember any of these commodities from his first life. It was just barracks and labs. Nothing more.

“Kid’s not in the cells.” Lopez said from behind Ja and Prager. His voice forced them all to move into the apartment while trying to avoid disturbing even a fleck of dried blood. “Nothing in arrest logs or prisoner transports.”

Everyone except the colonel shot Lopez a glare for his poor choice of words. He kind of shrugged in a ‘what?’ kind of way, even though he absolutely knew he’d be getting a reprimand for his mouth being quicker than his mind. But Quaritch wasn’t angry. It was good to clear arrests within and outside the city limits, including where the arrested might be.

“So, he’s...” Quaritch started to say softly, but loud enough that everyone shut up their mouths and looked at him. “Just...gone. Just...fucking gone. Into nothin’.”

Wainfleet glanced at his comrades as everyone shifted under the heaviness in the room. His ears flicked back and stepped forward. If anyone was going to speak up, it would be his oldest friend. He cleared his throat quickly and said as affirmatively as possible, “We will find your son, Miles.”

Quaritch finally took his eyes off his son’s empty room and looked at his men. He spoke eerily calm, even his ears and tail remained rigid instead of betraying his immeasurable rage by twitching. “Yes. We goddamn will.”

No one spoke as the recoms left McCosker’s abandoned apartment to regroup at the barracks to wait for Mansk to return from the last, and likely most difficult, place to find answers: General Ardmore. Mansk’s stoic nature had always been perfect for emotional situations and Quaritch knew if he saw her...?

Well, he actually didn’t know what he would do...and that was the most terrifying part.

Quaritch was still deadly silent, even as his men argued amongst themselves about what must have happened. No one was bluntly saying Spider must have snapped, but there were some elusions to it. And it was a completely valid theory. If that had happened, Quaritch wouldn’t have been informed. No, they would want him to abandon the mission and rush back to base. However, someone would have been there on the tarmac to deliver the news of his son’s imprisonment or demise.

He could think of a few people who would LOVE to break that bit of news...so why the complete radio silence?

“General Ardmore is not on base.”

The arguing stopped and all eyes fell on Mansk as he entered the conference room the recoms used for debriefs. Quartich’s eyes slowly rose up from staring at the table so intently he’d been forgetting to blink and his eyes were dry enough to hurt when he finally did.

“Come again, lutenient?” Quaritch asked, still terrifying in his surface serenity.

“General Ardmore isn’t on base, sir. She’s left aboard Iron Sky One eighteen days ago with a skeleton crew in a northwest direction with no information regarding the destination.” Mansk reported dutifully, trying to will the sweat dripping down his temple. The quietest soldier was close to his armor cracking under the pressure of delivering his report.

Eyes slowly shifted back and forth among the group, not sure what to do next with Quaritch’s silent, single nod.

“Thank you. You’re all dismissed.” Quaritch said as he stood and started walking around the table. While everyone quickly moved out of his way, Wainfleet took a chance and tried to stop his friend with a hand on his shoulder. Everyone jumped out of their blue skin when Quaritch fisted Wainfleet’s shirt and slammed him back against the doorframe with such force they’d have to check for dents.

Wainfleet did nothing to fight back and just held his hands up in surrender. His back was screaming from the impact but he gritted his teeth so not to show it.

“Dismissed.” Quaritch repeated once he stowed his dangerously bared teeth and collected himself enough to not see red dripping in his vision. He let go of his friend’s shirt, torn slightly from how tight he held it and continued out of the conference room. Out of the barracks. Out of the whole goddamn military wing.

Spider was gone.

His BOY was GONE!

Quaritch’s heart was starting to beat so fast, it made his head spin and breathing hitch in his throat. Was this a panic attack? Was this what his son suffered on a regular basis? He picked up the pace of his already fast walk without even trying. Movement seemed to be the only thing keeping him conscious as he started to feel his lungs unable to inflate.

By the time he reached the lift to take him down to the lower levels of the Blue Diamon labs, he was dripping in sweat, and the sound of rushing water was making his ears tingle. He tried to think of all the times his boy was showing these same symptoms. How many times did his poor kid suffer this internal battle?

Collapsed was an underwhelming way to describe Quaritch’s arrival at the Blue Diamond’s lab. He didn’t even have the wits about him to realize it was empty and dark and abandoned. He staggered into the empty lab, attempting to grab onto a large table in the middle of the room for support, before crashing to the ground and complete, breathless nothing.

It was at least an hour before the colonel came to with a hand shaking his shoulder from where he’d passed out on the cold, tile floor.

“Miles! Jesus Christ, what the fuck happened?!” Wainfleet’s voice eventually pierced through the haze as he pulled his friend’s arm up to get him to sit up. He patted Miles’s chest to help stimulate him awake.

“I just...I, uh...” Quaritch said as he closed his eyes tightly against the ringing in his ears as he tried to remember the lift ride down to the lab, “I came to...I think I was looking for the kid’s friend. He’s a lab guy-...blood lab guy. His name’s...Derik? No, Devin-”

Wainfleet regretfully cut him off, “They’re not here, Miles...not even in the Sci-Ops active roster.”

“What...?” Quaritch said groggily as this really pulled his focus. What kind of twilight bullshit zone was he in that a legitimate science unit had also ‘vanished’.

“Prager went back to the greenhouse to get more intel from the people who were there and they said it was the Blue Diamond team that was dissolved.” Wainfleet explained.

“So...” Quaritch tried to piece together as his friend pulled him to his feet to lean against the table that was covered in a sheet to avoid collecting dust. “Where are they...? Dead?”

His son was gone. His man watching his son was gone. His commander was gone. And now the closest person to his son outside himself and the squad was gone?

Had Quaritch imagined he even had a kid in the first place?!

Fortunately, Wainfleet answered and confirmed Quaritch wasn’t completely crazy.

“Disbanded and scattered to satellite labs.” Wainfleet exchanged slowly so Quaritch’s mind could catch up as he officially came to, “Ja came across a ‘Devin Harklan’ admitted overnight to the hospital after suffering a broken arm and injury to his eye about a month ago. Z took a look and found he’s been transferred to a satellite lab south of Bridgehead.”

More and more of Quaritch’s general knowledge was returning the longer he was upright. He didn’t feel like blood was rushing to his head and he could breathe normally.

“South.” Quaritch remarked.

“Yes, sir.” Wainfleet confirmed quickly.

“There ain’t shit south of here a guy like him could be useful for.”

Wainfleet went silent and nodded. They both knew that, while it was good to have medics of any kind in the field, most of the satellite labs were for anthropologists and botanists. The Blue Diamonds came out to Pandora with the squad to make sure their new recombinant bodies worked and kept working to get the job done. They weren’t like the avatar teams that sometimes had to follow their subjects into the field.

The recoms always came back to the city, so there was no need to send out their caretakers...

“I got somewhere to be.” Quaritch said as he stood up, fully feeling his body and mind syncing again. While he still had terror in his heart about his missing child, his mind had never been filled with more determination in two lifetimes to find his Spider.

#atwow #atwow fanfiction #atwow spider #spider quaritch #recom quaritch #weaving the web #ao3 writer

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jeanniebug623 · 3 days ago

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Umm.......yea, I could see it going this way! I'm so ready!

Need her to out freak him by being batshit crazy

#avatar #avatar fire and ash #avatar varang #avatar quaritch

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jeanniebug623 · 10 days ago

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Stop, they are SO cute! 💜💜💜

Artfight Artwork! OC Edgar Lopez from DanynotDevito with my OC Quinn💜🥰@danynotdevito

I love them so much coz they are so cute q.q

#avatar 2009 #avatar the way of water #na'vi #na'vi oc #signfromeywa #artfight 2025

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jeanniebug623 · 13 days ago

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are you gonna continue with wild son??

Yes, yes, yes! I am absolutely continuing Wild Son, it has not been abandoned! I’ve started the next chapter but life be lifin’ hard these days. I’m sorry for the delay, I promise I am working on it. 🤗 I love punk rock Paz, I’m far from done with that story! And I can’t wait to bring in Spider! 🕷️💙

I’m also about halfway through the next chapter of Weaving the Web! 🕸️🕸️🕸️

#atwow #atwow fanfiction #atwow spider #spider quaritch #miles quaritch #miles spider socorro #wild son #weaving the web #ao3 writer

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jeanniebug623 · 14 days ago

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I thought the lore was it took six years for an avatar to grow, but I could be wrong or that could change for whatever reason…it’s sci-fi, they can do what they want. 🤔

I totally agree it would be temptation for Spider and a grand gesture from dear old dad to give baby boy what he’s always wanted. Quaritch has lost a lot of favor with the RDA after the SeaDragon incident. The RDA harvests resources and Spider has proven to not be a great resource. To Quaritch, Spider is worth everything. Creating an avatar for his son, who is known to support the Na’vi and actively helped turn the tide of the sea battle (no pun intended lol), would be dangerous for the RDA. Granted, his human body would be with the RDA so it’s a short leash. But I feel Spider’s loyalty lies with Kiri and the Na’vi and he would take the threats, and consequences, to his human body.

If Quaritch does present him with an avatar, I want Spider to say no. I want him to accept himself and the message would be awesome. 💙 So many awkward misfit teenagers growing into their own and accepting who they are? I would love that for Spider to tell his dad that he’s fine the way he is and he won’t be bought or sell his soul. 🥰🕷️💙

There are a lot of similarities between these two shots - from the room set up to the way Spider holds himself refusing to looks at Quaritch. But there are also a lot of differences - from the way Quaritch is presented (he doesn't loom over Spider in the second picture) to the setting itself.

@jeanniebug623 noticed Quaritch is sitting on something covered in material this time and this BTS shot of Cameron shows what it is - an examination bed. This is an examination room. There is actually some kind of lab set behind that window.

It may even be this lab below. I've seen it called lab in Bridgehead but it wasn't anything official so it can still be on the Factory Ship. I would expect Bridgehead to have bigger examination rooms. And that curvature. No need to do that in Bridgehead.

I've also seen this set be called Bridgehead lab but those are clearly the High Camp lab we saw in A2.

It's the same as in these A2 screenshots below

There is way more clutter here, especially around the tank and there are no thick pillars like you see behind the tank in the earlier photos. So the avatar tank Spider is looking at is unlikely to be here.

Especially, that is looks like they will clear some of this space to put a separate room inside the lab where they'll have Pandoran atmosphere. This photo shows JDM in the mask in a room inside the room that we know had Earth's air before. I bet they built that to examine Spider after he gets the upgrade. They try to figure out what's up with him.

I think this is where Spider is when Jake and Neytiri have their conversation about him.

What's interesting is that Spider would be in Pandora's air when in this lab but when we see him captured by RDA he doesn't need a rebreather with CO2.

He doesn't have it when he lands back in the NeuroSect room. It seems like Quaritch is with him and they are not staying the time.

Those white lights are on the side of the thing itself as we saw in A2.

Spider certainly doesn't have it in the A3 still they released but Quaritch does so they are in Earth's atmosphere.

Maybe Spider will actually get the upper hand even over the Na'vi with his new gift and is able to function in both atmospheres without any issues. This would make sense with the symbiont theory as it would probably be less sensitive to low CO2 than something complicated like a full Na'vi.

There is one more thing but it is pure speculation on my part. All I have is a guess but it is very spoilery of true.

It is possible that these photos with Spider looking into avatar tank and lying in it are in the same lab we see behind the window in the Empire Magazine still. It has thick pillars behind it that look very current RDA architecture and nothing like the thin supports of the High Camp lab.

People always said this is just BTS and Jack and JC are just playing with props but now I wonder that maybe Quaritch will actually be offering Spider and avatar. We don't know how long it actually takes to grow and avatar so it maight be possible in the few months Quaritch and Spider are apart.

On one hand it would just be Quaritch going back to his old ways. He has tendency to find what the other person wants the most and buy their loyalty this waay. For Jake it was his legs back. For Spider it would, of course, be something he wanted basically his whole life. Even now with his gift there are things that would be easier if he had Na'vi physiolgy and size.

Spider migh have to chose between trying to keep running from RDA for the forseeiable future as they want to have his gift for themselves. Or he can have what he always wanted but he would have to stay with Quaritch and abandon his friends.

On the other hand Quaritch is probably completely genuine with this gift and just wanting to give his kid all he ever wanted. No intention to ask him to change or betray anyone.

And yet this is still a manipulation because he's finding a way to get what he wants and keep Spider with him. And he puts Spider in complete turmoil. But then what's a deal with the devil if it's not truely tempting?

Maybe this is why Quaritch looks so pleading and excited in that still. Maybe that's why Spider is not happy at all.

#spider socorro #recom miles quaritch #avatar 3 #avatar fire and ash #avatar 3 spoilers #avatar 3 speculation #spoilers

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jeanniebug623 · 15 days ago

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Oh, wow! I never noticed the examination room BTS with James Cameron in all the times I’ve looked at BTS still. So cool to see speculation come full circle.

And I always had a hard time with Spider being offered an avatar cone to fruition. The time it takes to create one - is Spider just going to hang out with the RDA while it grows? I know Quaritch would want that, but that would heavily rely on Spider giving in to the RDA. They wouldn’t create an avatar for a POW. I find it hard to believe Spider would actually side either the RDA in the long run, but the future films with answer that.

As you mentioned, Spider’s upgrade gives him some advantages that humans and Na’vi don’t have. It made me think of this BTS:

I wondered if this was Jake’s ultimate escape from capture since he’s not decked out for battle. The only jewelry he’s wearing is his necklace with the river stones from a time with Neytiri from the first movie. No armbands, no weapons, etc.

That looks like Spider in the background in a uniform. If he managed to slip away from Quaritch’s gaze, could he have been able to help Jake escape in a disguise?

Ugh, so many theories!