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She had been told not to explore without her sister. Of course, Buffy was overly protective of Dawn in this place where they knew very little about their surroundings. And maybe since overly protective was her sister's default in regards to her, Dawn should change that to supremely protective. But Dawn had a habit of not listening to her sister and doing her own thing. She was older now, a college student even, and didn't really think most people here even knew what 'the key' was or how they could try to use it.

This is what has her standing at an open door, peeking inside in excited wonderment. She hasn't quite stepped in yet. Mostly, she's just looking in and marvelling at the sight of the Brontosauruses drinking from the lake, their long necks curving and dipping down or rising high up over the ground.

“This is so freakin' cool...” She murmurs to herself, on the edge of stepping in, but also something holding her back from fully doing so. She saw Jurrasic Park. Plus, there's that little voice of her sister in her ear telling her to be careful, not to go off on her own, not to speak to strangers, yadda yadda yadda, blah blah blah and so forth.

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Buffy's brow furrowed at that question as well. They certainly look like sisters now, perplexed sisters, perhaps even worried sisters. "I...don't think so?" She does not sound at all certain.

"No. I'm going with no because if it's sentient then chances are I'm going to have to slay it. " That's just how her luck works. "And I have no idea how to slay a door. You know...beyond kicking at it...or punching it....or hey, maybe I do know how to slay a door."

"I think you do know how to slay a door." Dawn's seen Buffy kick a few doors down here and there over the years. Her sister can slay all the things.

She glances at her sister. "Just... make sure we're on the other side of the door before you try to slay it. Otherwise, we might get stuck in Jurassic Park and we all know how that ends."

"I might even be expert in it." There's a part of her that's pleased by this and another that's aghast at the way slaying inhibits every part of her life. She can slay all things, including the things she'd rather not slay, like alarm clocks--okay, bad example, but the idea remains.

"Definitely not of the good." She's really glad to have her scythe with her today. "PETA would probably frown on me slaying extinct animals but this is not going to be a Summers buffet today."

"No one deserves to die on a toilet." That happened, right? It had been awhile since she had seen the films, but she's pretty sure someone dies on a toilet.

Dawn is circling the lake, looking up at the big Brontosauruses. "They're the biggest but one of the most peaceful. I mean, they don't get all kill kill unless they feel threatened. You know? It's more of a self defense thing."

She makes a face. That totally happened and she kind of agrees with Dawn. "We're definitely posting watch if someone has to go that badly."

Buffy looks up, feeling some of the same awe. "Come on. Let's climb some of the trees. See if we can get closer to them."

Besides, it'd keep Dawn away from their feet, which Buffy is pretty sure is the most lethal part of them.

Buffy would be right. It would take one or two steps to the left for them to squash the both of them. Dawn finds a tree with some particularly low hanging limbs and reaches her arms up. She lifts one foot. "Give me a boost??"

Besides, their vantage point will be better up high. Without hesitation, Buffy moves to boost Dawn up, letting her get a good start before she starts to climb after her.

"I can't remember the sound Dinosaur Boy made for the dinosaurs to get them to sing to him," Buffy says as she settles her back against the tree, her legs along one of the branches.

After that initial boost to get up to the lowest branch, Dawn climbs fairly well. It isn't any worse than sneaking out of and back into the second story window of their house back in Sunnydale, back when they had had a house there. Dawn settles on the branch just above where Buffy does.

"But wouldn't singing attract scary ones too?"

"I'm pretty sure it was a grass eater sound." No she's not. She's just making things up now. "There was definitely singing. Or humming. Something like that."

This is nice and relaxing. Buffy likes this.

Dawn, because she can't really remember whether there's singing or humming or what in the movie, starts humming and singing herself. It's her go-to nervous favorite, because she also isn't sure they won't attract meat eaters, the ants go marching one by one. She sings some words, hums others, craning her neck to look around and see if anything is lured their way. Because what is their life without inviting danger?

Buffy isn't entirely sure they won't attract anything else either, but she's not going to shush her sister, at least not right now. So far, they seem safe enough and she'll let her have that. She keeps watch though, scythe at hand just in case. There's always a just in case with Dawn.

The just in case comes a few minutes later, a creak and a crash.

"Dawn." Buffy says it in warning, listening and looking for anything else. "Come here." She holds her hand out to take Dawn's and draw her close to her.

Dawn doesn't hear the noises over her own singing. But she knows that tone from her sister well enough. She instantly falls quiet and moves closer, whispering. "What is it? Should've picked Lady Gaga?"

"Save her for the aliens. Maybe Sting for the dinosaurs. They can relate."

While she whisper-banters with Dawn, she's going up on her toes, craning her neck. "I can't see anything but the tops of trees."

Up in a tree. They're stuck up in a tree while the leaves are starting to move and sway and rustle around them. It's seriously right out of a movie as twigs and grass cracks and the trees come alive, but not a creature in sight just yet. "Uh... Buffy? We should've stuck with the Brontosaurus's. For the record."

"I'm not sure we're not still sticking with the brontosaurus'. I'm kind of afraid we're in a failed power situation here." IE the dinosaurs are loose, Dawn.

"It's okay. I can totally be Buffy the Dinosaur slayer."

She gets that IE and starts scrambling down the tree. Because obviously getting on smushing level with their fee is the best plan. "We need to make a run for the door, Buffy!"

"Dawn! Wait!" Because she's not wrong, but Buffy sort of wants to be the first one on the ground. No problem. She leaps from the tree, ducking and rolling when she lands to come up to her feet, stance defensive and on the alert.

"Come on down and stay with me."

"Show off." Dawn calls out when Buffy jumps down first. The ground is rumbling with whatever is moving through the jungle around them. She carefully crawls the rest of the way down and then she's moving behind Buffy, close enough to reach out and grab her should she need to. "The closest. Promise."

She smirks. "Hey remember all those times you told me to go away? How do you like me now?" She thinks she's so funny, Buffy.

Definitely not so funny, Dawn, but knowing her sister is close, Buffy moves a little faster. That rumbling has nothing to do with making her go faster. Nope. Not at all.

"I should have mentioned that doesn't apply when we're being chased by dinosaurs."

Dawn does okay keeping up for a little while, but one particularly big root of a tree sticking up out of the ground and she's careening forward, lands hard on the ground with her face in the ground. She starts to push herself up and the ground rumbles beneath her palms and a loud roar sounds through the jungle, vibrating the air with its force.

Well, things aren't so funny anymore. "Buffy!" She shrieks.

Buffy stops, stooping low to grab Dawn's arm and bodily haul her up. She shoves her toward the door, standing her ground, scythe in hand.

"Dawn, run. I'm right behind you. I just want to slow this guy down."

With that help Dawn is running toward the door. She yanks it open and looks back just in time to see the T-Rex breaking through the trees, limbs crunching like toothpicks, leaves scattering in the wind. Dawn yells back with the door still open, one foot in and one foot out. "Buffy! Come on!" She's not completely leaving without her.

The roar of the T-Rex is deafening. For a moment, Buffy can't move, can't think, can't do anything. She recovers with typical slayer grace, aware that Dawn is waiting on her. She's got to buy them a tiny bit of time.

"Seriously? Use some mouth wash," she quips, darting in with her scythe, almost a blur as she slashes at what she thinks might be a T-Rex equivalent of an ankle. It does the job, making the T-Rex fall back, screaming at an even louder decibel than before.

For her part, Buffy isn't wasting any time. The T-Rex is crying over his boo-boo and Buffy is dashing to the door. She launches herself through it, taking Dawn with her so that they both land in a tangle of limbs on the hotel floor. She kicks the door shut then rolls off Dawn, onto her back so she can just lay there and catch her breath.

For the briefest of seconds, Dawn was sure the T-Rex was gonna eat Buffy. And then she would feel horrible because she was the one that had wanted to go in there. But she should have known better. Her sister was made of stronger stuff, had defeated bigger and badder things. "Go Buffy!" She yelled when her sister went into attack mode. And then there was ninety pounds of Slayer, The coming at her and Dawn moved too slow to get out of the way.

She hits the floor with an 'umph', completely getting the breath knocked out of her. And for awhile she'll just lay there looking up at the ceiling and catching their breath. "So I guess the dinosaur thing is only cool in theory."

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Should have had more faith, Dawnie!

Yeah, sorry about that tackle thing. She was a little concerned about not dying or not getting Dawn killed when she'd made every tackle in the NFL envious with that one.

"It's all fun and games 'til a T-Rex wants to make you a snack."

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