Twisted Lives Within the Twister
Hydra350
Disclaimer: Yeah right if I owned this movie or the rights, then Cary Elwes would've lived.
Summary: Follows the movie Twister, with Bill Harding's cousin Elizabeth Harding. She gets along with everybody in the group. When it comes to playing nice with Robert 'Rabbit' Nurick she can't do it, and vice versa. Maybe that will change later…
"At 7:00 a.m. in Oklahoma City, the temperature is 75 degrees across the state, skies are partly cloudy, the dryline higher over western Oklahoma. Satellite pictures indicate thunderstorms
developing."
A group of storm chasers led by Jo Harding has set up shop off a dirt road. Everybody had jobs to do. Dusty was keeping an eye on the weather screens. Beltzer was trying to help Jo wire up the Doppler Radar. Haynes and Sanders were keeping an eye out on the horizon for anything that might form into a twister. Joey and Preacher were wiring up another Doppler with little to no success. Rabbit, and Laurence were hanging out near the weather van. The only one not really doing anything was the chasers field medic Elizabeth Harding.
"You know El, you could do something instead of sitting around!" Rabbit shouted pointedly at the black haired woman who glared at him.
"Unless you get a splinter, or break your neck there's no use for a medic! For your information I'm collecting soil samples from different places that had twisters set down, AND comparing the readouts! Now fold your maps you Waskily Wabbit!" Elizabeth snapped back at him making Dusty snicker in laughter from his spot.
"Dude you are 'so' not collecting soil…" Dusty teased her and she smirked back at him.
"All these years, and that's all you got Harding?!" Rabbit fired back at her and she grinned at him making him roll his eyes.
Jo Harding shook her head watching this all from on top of the van.
"Okay professor, hang on there, I think I fixed it. I've got it." Beltzer shouted and Jo turned it on making it spark. Beltzer winced slightly. "Whoops."
"This thing is useless! " Jo screamed angrily at the machine.
"Sorry, Jo." Beltzer muttered not noticing the machine was now miraculously working and Jo hollered at him.
"Wait, wait, wait. Beltzer! That's good. Give me a reading!" Jo hollered and Beltzer sighed before he got out of the van to help her.
"Okay , boss lady, hold your horses. Which way do you want it, Jo?" Beltzer asked and Jo thought about the answer.
"Looks like the dryline has stalled. Give me a sector scan west, northwest, look at mid-levels for rotation and increase the PRF."
Jo and Beltzer cringed hearing Dusty from inside his weather van blasting rock music through the speaker on his roof. Jo quirked an eyebrow at the other scene playing out near the other weather van. She smirked and huffed in laughter watching their antics.
"All I'm saying is don't fold the maps!" Rabbit shouted at Laurence who rolled his eyes.
"I didn't fold the map!" Laurence argued with him.
"Yeah, well Kansas is a mess, there's a big crease right through Wichita! Roll the maps!" Rabbit rolled the map up and put a rubber band around it to secure it.
"Well hello, boys…didn't like my map folding skills?" Elizabeth asked coyly and Rabbit stared at her confused at first, but then he got what she said and his face darkened.
"Who said, you could touch my maps?" Rabbit asked tensely and Elizabeth grinned at him innocently.
"So you didn't like my new Kansas state lines?" Elizabeth asked and Rabbit swung the rolled up map at her but she ducked and ran away with a cackle of evil laughter.
Rabbit chased after her fully intent on either beating her to death with the map, or just give up.
Beltzer noticed Jo was watching something and he followed her gaze and he snorted in laughter watching the show. Evidently Rabbit was protective of his maps and while Elizabeth was faster he was pissed off. Rabbit threw the rolled up map at her fleeing back and she fell forward. Everybody watched now because she was holding her leg in pain and Rabbit paled worriedly and rushed to her side.
"Jeez El…I'm sorry I wasn't thinking…" Rabbit tried to check her for injuries when she sprang up and grabbed him in a headlock. Rabbit spent three minutes trying to shake her off until she gave him a sloppy kiss on the cheek making him shriek in disgust. She let him go and he just looked at her with reddening cheeks. "You are so weird…" He shook his head at her.
"Runs in the family…"
"I've noticed." Rabbit walked away only to have Elizabeth jump on his back screaming 'hi ho silver away!'
Beltzer was laughing now and he looked over at Jo who was smiling at the two of them.
"You think they'll ever figure out that they've been pulling the other's pigtails since they first met?" He asked Jo curiously and she huffed in laughter.
"I doubt it."