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[blissimmunity]

Friday morning meant clinic duty for Carolyn and clinic duty for Joshua later in the evening. He's had a house guest for a couple of days and he has been a most gracious host. After breakfast, Carolyn heads off for her shift and Joshua decides to stay in the Compound until his shift. He could find another book to peruse and avoid another lecture

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[blondieburke]

At least Joshua is a little more prepared than Juliet. She's just out of the shower, wrapped in a towel. Her hair is dripping wet around her neck, and when she picks up her tank top and shorts she's suddenly in the jungle.

She blinks a little and turns around, clutching her clothes against her chest as she tries to figure out what happened. Backing up, she turns and has no damn idea where she is. She's only been on the island a few days but she tries to stay calm. Maybe she's not as far away from things as she thought.

"Hello? Anyone?" And she's still holding onto her clothes, hoping the huts are close.

[polly_okeefe]

I had been with Zell when it happened. One moment, I was taking a break from the Children's Office, the next I was out here. In the jungle. In the rain.

The rain suggested I was still on the Island. I'd simply shifted places. Hopefully not times. But where was I? And how would I get back to the Compound? Zell must be frantic by now! Poor Zell--

It dawns on me that this part of the jungle is wilder than what I'm used to. I see no paths, no lights, no callboxes. In fact, other the rain and the cries of animals, it's utterly silent--

"Hello? Anyone?"

I turn towards the voice. I have to admit that I'm spooked, and I can really use some human company, right now. "I'm here!" I shout. "I'm coming--"

I stumble upon a woman, wrapped in a towel, her clothes -- growing wet by the second -- limp in her hands.

For a moment, I gape. I suppose there are worse moments to be snatched in such fashion.

"Sorry," I said, pulling myself together. "Are you okay? The Island snatched me too."

[blissimmunity]

Joshua hears what is either a bird or what he hopes are the sound of human voices. He turns in that direction and hopes it's not just a bird.

"Hello?" he calls out and then he sees two women coming into focus. One of them looks an awful lot like his house guest, Juliet. The other looks like a young woman that he may have seen around the compound. He jogs over, careful not to trip over all of the vegetation.

"Juliet?"

[blondieburke]

"I'm okay, just a little..." She blinks through the rain and down at her state of undress. "A little wet." Then she hears Joshua, and really it couldn't get any better.

"I'm okay," she says softly to him, swallowing a little with an embarrassed smile. "I'm just going to..." She clears her throat and turns away from the two of them to move behind a tree. Pulling the shorts on under the towel, it's a little hard because the clothes are wet and clinging, but she finally manages to get the tank top on, too.

Coming back out, she's still holding onto the towel as she looks at the two of them. "So. What happened?"

[polly_okeefe]

"The Island," I said, looking around, trying to orient myself. "It brought us here. Brought us together. It's another of its little games." But what game, I thought. What?

A nervous feeling grew in the pit of my stomach. I had a disturbing idea.

[blissimmunity]

"Well at least we know we're all from the island. And it's a good guess that we're still there given this rain. Though I don't know how we'd be certain until we see something familiar."

"I'm Joshua, by the way," he says, realizing they should get introductions out of the way before some more island magic started up. "And this is Juliet."

[blondieburke]

Juliet gives a little bit of a wave, very glad that Joshua is there now. And she's starting to feel just as uncomfortable as the other woman looked.

"We're in the middle of nowhere - I think. Which direction is the Compound?"

[polly_okeefe]

"I'm Polly," I said, with a brief wave. "Polly O'Keefe." I looked around, fighting the panic that is rapidly rising. "I can't figure out where the Compound is. We can't see anything in all this mist and rain."

"Look," I said, turning to the others, "I've heard stories. The Island has done this before. A few years ago, my Daddy got snatched from the Compound, along with others." I swallowed, hard. "They were dropped in Dinosaur territory and forced to make their own way back."

[notdrfrasier]

Carolyn had just leaned over in order to examine someones cut in the clinic when suddenly she was outside, being rained on and surrounded by trees, bushes and other plants. Eyes widening she straightened and looked around. "What the...." she muttered and quickly snapped off the latex gloves, shoving them into her back pocket as she took a step forward.

She had no idea what was going on, but she already knew she wasn't going to like it. Her lips press together and she turns around slowly trying to figure out just where she was. She'd been all over the island and she didn't remember anything like this... Was she even on the island anymore? She didn't even know.

Sucking in a deep breath she moved forward, pushing through the foliage as she did so. "Damn it!" she cried as a branch thwapped her in the face. "Hello?" she called out, reaching up to rub her now sore cheek. "Is anyone there?"

[blissimmunity]

Joshua understands the severity of the situation of being in Dinosaur territory. And somewhere in the back of his mind, he registers the funny, funny joke of a former V being stuck in Dinosaur territory.

He's about to suggest they form a plan to get out of here, if it is Dinosaur Territory, when he hears something. "Did you hear that?" he asks, turning in the direction of the sound as he can best estimate it with all this jungle. It would have been easier if he were still a V, but life isn't always easy.

He motions for them to follow cautiously. If they are in Dinosaur Territory, they don't need to walk right into one mistaking it for a person. But he's certain he's heard words and that he recognizes the voice.

[blondieburke]

Juliet's still staring at Polly like she's crazy because she just mentioned the word 'dinosaur'. Dinosaurs. Of course. Because being suck on this island isn't bad enough, now she's been relocated into potential dinosaur territory.

She's about to make a comment on that when she hears the voice too, so she turns and looks at Joshua before following him carefully. "It sounded like a woman," she whispers.

[polly_okeefe]

I followed the other two closely. I didn't want to lose them in this jungle. "It's probably somebody else who got snatched and dropped. We should call out to her."

[notdrfrasier]

Carolyn growled under her breath as she continued to push her way through the foliage. This kind of stuff really wasn't her thing. At all. While she didn't mind going on the occasional mission, she'd always been more comfortable in the actual medical lab.

Almost tripping over a root, she cursed loudly. "OK..." she muttered, pausing to try to once again figure where she was. First thing she needed to do was find a path of sorts, right? Sounded like a plan to her. And so that's exactly what she started to do.

She hadn't moved far when she heard a rustling off to her right. Oh great... "Please don't be some hungry animal..." she whispered to herself and cautiusly began to edge toward the sound. "Hello?" she called out again.

[blissimmunity]

He does recognize the voice and with a quick glance behind him to make sure he hasn't lost the other two, he moves forward and calls out. "Carolyn?"

Hopefully nothing else has heard her.

[blondieburke]

Juliet's fully surprised when she sees the familiar woman, though she has no idea why since that's just what the island does, apparently. Pick up and drop off people as it sees fit.

"Carolyn," she says in relief, glad it's not a damn dinosaur. "Are you okay?"

[polly_okeefe]

Great, I thought: all three knew each other. I was a stranger here. Now I know how Squall felt.

"I'm Polly," I said, waving at Carolyn. "Does anybody have any idea which way gets us back to civilization?"