Welcome to the Jungle

Chapter 8: How to Train Your Dinosaurs

Notes: Chapter WARNING: A little cursing by a very pissed off Alex!

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Kara opened her eyes and rubbed them tiredly before sitting up in her still drenched clothes. She then noticed how the sunlight had grown deem and weak. This wasn't good at all. She instantly turned to the other two sleeping figures beside her. "Mike? Alex?" She called them both, only Alex stirred awake.

"What?" Alex yawned and looked at her watch. "It's been- oh shit! We slept for two hours?!" She jumped to her feet and almost kicked at Mike and yelled, "Hey! Wake up you jerk!"

Mike just grunted quietly and refused to open his eyes. Kara leaned over him and observed the beads of sweat glistening on his forehead. His fever was back again.

"Oh, no! Mike? Can you hear me?" Kara shook his shoulders gently. He only mumbled indecipherably in return.

"What's wrong with him?" Alex sat down across her and frowned at Mike. She was very pissed at him for that stupid plan of his.

"His wound is infected. He needs antibiotics!"

Alex massaged her temples in frustration and kicked at the sand beneath her boots. "We were supposed to be back at the Headquarters by now! But thanks to "Mr. Cape Tricks" here, we have no car, no radio and not even a fucking knife to defend ourselves!" She threw her hands out in the air angrily.

This was bad. This was really bad. She was using the f word.

"And now he's dying!" Alex continued as she glared at Mike in disdain. "Hey, you're not dying this easy Mister! You hear me? Cause I'm the one who's gonna kill you!"

Kara stretched her hands protectively over Mike, fearing that Alex was going to choke him any moment now.

"Wow, wow, wow! Calm down Alex! We'll figure this out."

"We'll figure this out?" Alex scoffed. "Do you even know where we are in this godforsaken place?! Do you happen to have a fucking map?"

"No, but if we go on a higher ground we might see where we are. This island isn't THAT big."

The suggestion seemed to be reasonable since Alex's nostrils stopped flaring and she hummed in agreement. "Let's move then, we're losing light."

Alex and Kara put each of Mike's heavy arms around their necks and pulled him along between themselves as he dragged his feet. He was in a limbo. Somewhere between states of consciousness, half-awake and half-asleep. Although, he leaned more towards the latter. His skin was flushed and his eyes were drooping and fluttering of their own accord. A moment open wide and a second later closed. It wasn't the hangover kind of fuzziness, or the exhausted kind of haziness, it was a feverish state. He was struggling to gain awareness, trying hard to keep himself upright and move his feet as much as his barely awake mind allowed in order to help them move forward.

Kara prayed none of the dinosaurs to cross their path because they would be such easy preys in this slow prone state. After a while, Alex stopped next to a rather tall tree and announced she was going to climb it in order to find out where they were just as Kara had thought of.

They resumed their track after Alex climbed down and continued silently in the direction she pointed at. They stopped occasionally when Alex wanted to check if there were any buildings or maybe communication devices around.

It was completely dark now and every sound made them jump. They went past some huge unmoving dinosaurs cautiously. Luckily they were sleeping soundly and never noticed them. When they reached a boulder, Alex called for a break and Kara praised the lord quietly because her back was about to break from carrying half of Mike's weight so long. Especially for the past half hour, he didn't feel cooperative anymore and was leaning more weight on them. No one had ever mentioned weightlifting was in the job description for reporting or else Kara would have worked out a little prior to coming here. The mess her life had become.