Texas Was You

Dallas VS A T-Rex

Jason's pov

I'm awoken when Todd yells Land Ho!" I slowly open my eyes, Dallas tucked safely in my arm, her head buried in my side. I shake her awake. She sits up and yawns. I feel the raft hit solid ground. I jump in the ankle deep water and pick Miranda up off the raft and put her on dry land.

Miranda's pov

I smile seeing some vines, nonmoving thank goodness. They're detatched from anything but I can use it as a rope. Maybe even a lasso if need be. I twirl it together and attatch it to my belt. Jason smiles with his hands on his hips. "Now you look more like you with a lasso at your hip." He says. I smile. It's almost desert like in the distance so we get to walking. Todd kept glancing around worriedly. "Dude is there something you aren't telling us?" Jason asks. "Remember how those bugs were extinct on the surface but not down here?" Jason's face goes pale.

Jason's pov

I remember back at camp he said something about dinasours. And if those bugs aren't extinct here, that means- My thought is cut short when I hear a really loud roar. Todd's eyes get huge. I grab Dallas's hand. "RUN!" Todd shouts, grabbing the twelve year old's hand. We take off running in different directions and I try to catch my breath against a huge rock. I hear the roar again. I know it's a dinasour. It has to be. There is stomping that makes the ground shake and me lose my balance. "Jason!!!!!" Dallas screams pointing behind me. I shakily turn around and to my shock and horror, a fucking tyrannosaurus rex!!!! "Holy shit!" I gasp, wide eyed. She tugs on my arm and we run. I wonder if Todd and Nathan are okay. "Dammit I hope the boys are okay." I whisper, fearfully looking over my shoulder. "Stop!" Miranda yells. I look back in front of me and realize we've reached a cliff edge. "Shit!!! What the fuck do we do!?!" The t-rex was closing in. It roared so loud I had to cover my ears.

Miranda's pov

I unhooked my lasso. Jason's eyes go wide. "What the hell are you doing?!" He shouts, grabbing my arm. "What I was born to do." I whisper, pulling free and running. I jump off the side of one of the rock formations and land on the scaley back of the t-rex. "DALLAS!!!!!" Jason yelps terrified. I lasso the gigantic mouth of the beast and tried to steer it away from Jason. My eyes go wide seeing us get closer and closer to the edge.

Jason's pov

"DALLAS!!! NO!!!!" I scream horrified seeing her topple over the edge on the dinasour's back. I shakily drop to my knees. "Oh my God! Miranda, I can't believe-" "Jason! Help!" I peer over the edge shocked. She was gripped onto a root in the edge of the cavern. "Holy!" I gasp, reaching for her. I can't reach! "Bring your other arm up!" I say. She strugglingly does and clasps onto my arm. I pull her up and over the edge, both of us breathing heavily and collapsed to our backs. "We..... We did it!" She gasps. "You just rode a fucking t-rex! To bad no one will believe this back home." She smiles, her hands resting on her chest. I'm surprised to see her phone in her hand. "Think again, cowboy." She tosses me the phone and I see a selfie of her on the dinosaur. My jaw drops and I bust out laughing. "Only you, Dallas, only you." We get back up and Todd and Nathan run over. "I thought for sure you two were goners. Damn that was amazing!" Todd says. I laugh. "That's my girl, tough as nails, rough and ready, don't take no crap from nobody. Hey she could have me knocked on my ass or worse my knees in only a few seconds." I say, trying to catch my breath. She laughs and pockets her phone. "You mean like this?" She asks, making my eyes go wide. I back up. "Dallas, don't you dare!" She laughs and I take off running. I feel her rope around my waist in seconds, making me fall backwards on my ass. I glare ahead of me and cross my arms. "Dallas!" I snap. She laughs and so do Nathan and Todd. She unties me and I stand back up. "You little ass." I say dusting myself off. "Ok enough fun, let's get going." I'm physically drained. "Hey is it safe to take a couple hours nap?" I ask, already sitting down, my back against a rock. "Yeah since you got rid of that t-rex." I smile. Miranda lays her head in my lap and yawns. I run a hand through her hair and close my eyes, leaning my head against the rock. "My grandfather was a drinker back in the day he put 'em down, but a war is known to change a man and the whiskey is known to change a man but that's not me, I rarely drink from the bottle but I smoke a little weed." I whisper sing. Todd smiles while patting Nathan's head who was laying in his lap. "Hey you know Kenny Rogers' the gambler? That's Nathan's favorite song." I smile and nod wishing I had my guitar. "Ya got to know when to hold 'em know when to fold 'em, know when to walk away and know when to run! You never count your money when you're sittin' at the table, there'll be time enough for countin' when the dealin's done!" The little boy smiles. "How'd you get down here?" I ask. The smile fades and the boy hides his head. Dallas stirs in her sleep and clamps a hand around her lasso. "It's been seventeen months. I'd really rather not talk about it." "Okay." I rub Dallas's back and she calms slightly. I still wonder. What made her throw up a few days ago?