Listening to the fish

[the_dawnster]

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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[the_dawnster]

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!"

[whattingawhat]

"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."

[the_dawnster]

"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.

[whattingawhat]

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."

[the_dawnster]

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.

[whattingawhat]

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."

[the_dawnster]

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.

[whattingawhat]

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.

[the_dawnster]

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."

[whattingawhat]

Buffy 1
T-Rex 0

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."