H2O: Just Add Water
Rated for: Not sure yet if its going to change
Genre: Adventure, Friendship, Family, Romance
Fandom/Universe: Just Add Water H2O
Characters: Emma Gilbert / Ash Dove, OC's
Pairings: Emma / Ash, Cleo / Lewis
Spoilers/Warning:
Disclaimer: H2O and all related characters are the creation of Australian TV and the producers and OC's are all ME. No infringement intended.
Summary: Takes place after the original trio graduate, go to college and start living their lives separate from each other. There's a new moon pool and a secret to be discovered here.
Status: In-Progress
3 Like a Movie
They haven't spoken to each other since the pool.
Davys is starting to hate the silence as much as she disliked Sofí's constant attention.
"This is going to be fun." Tobias assures walking past them. He's in work mode which means he's barely paid the girls attention except to make sure they were on the boat and safely stowed out of the way.
Davys wonders why her cousin hasn't called him on it but doesn't ask. It's none of her business and she won't be staying long enough to bother getting involved. She doesn't need to alienate the one relative who has bothered to take an interest in her life.
The island they reach looks like something in a movie. Davys hasn't been anywhere but LA. All her travels have been through movies.
"Stay with the group, girls." The guide smiles and shoulders his pack.
Davys has no intention of straying or exploring on her own. "Don't worry." She grabs the pack he hands hers and slips it on. "I've seen plenty of movies. I'm so not going to be the first one to die."
She gets a laugh from him and though she's smiling she really isn't joking.
"This isn't a movie." Sofí grumbles walking past and that's the first thing she's said to Davys since the pool.
"Come on, girls." Tobias spares them a glance before he starts off with the other two scientist and their guide.
Sofí's surprised her cousin hasn't complained about hiking through the island. She figured there'd be some snide comments, a little moaning about the heat or even complaints about bugs… but no, not a thing.
'So maybe she's used to the bugs.' Sofí thinks unkindly and almost immediately feels bad for thinking it. Is it really fair when Davys has it way worse at home than Sofí at her expensive boarding school?
Davys walks past as Sofí stops to take yet another picture. It's some fancy camera that probably cost more than Davys gets to spend on food for the week. Still, it's kinda nice being out of the city and noise. She wouldn't have thought to like being away from it all but nature isn't as bad as she had dreaded.
"Girls! Keep up."
Davys frowns because she's not the one holding them up. "Will you quit snapping pics every 2seconds, Sofí?"
"Hey, no one told you to wait for me." Sofí retorts, slipping the camera strap over her head and hurrying to catch up.
"Whatever." Davys keeps walking but she can't spot the yellow vest her uncle is wearing. She stops.
"Ooph!" Sofí stumbles, her hands automatically latch onto Davys' pack.
"Watch it!" Davys snaps.
"Who told you to stop in the middle of the path?" Sofí demands.
"What path?" Davys can't see it anymore and to tell the truth she hadn't seen it to start with. All she had been doing was following the guide and then the yellow vest no one had told Tobias was not his best color.
"The path…" Sofí trails off looking around but she doesn't see where they got off the little trail either. "Great."
"You got us lost." Davys accuses. "That's just perfect."
"I didn't get us lost." Sofí denies scowling at her cousin. "You did."
"Me?"
"I was following you!"
"You're the one clicking away on your stupid camera!" Davys stomps past her cousin and starts walking.
"Where are you going?" Sofí quickly follows, careful to avoid the branches snapping back at her.
"To find Uncle Tobias." Davys smacks at the branch in front of her. "Is that alright with you?" she looks over her shoulder in time to see Sofí duck the branch she's just let go off.
"Stop trying to kill me!" Sofí yells.
"You wish." Davys turns taking a step back. "If I wanted to hurt you-!" she gasps as the ground drops out under her. She flails, falling backwards into the hole that opened in the ground.
"Davys!" Sofí lunges forward, her hand reaching to grab for her cousin but she's gone. "Davys! Davys!" she drops to her stomach and carefully crawls to the edge of the hole but she can't see into the dark. "Davys!"
"Quit yelling at me!"
Relief floods through Sofí she's not even annoyed with her cousin. "Are you ok? Davys?"
"Define 'ok'?" she snaps. "I just fell into a hole in the ground!" and she hates the fact she can barely see in front of her face. This is when the monster bugs come out and try to eat you. "Shit, I'm so not supposed to die first!"
"Will you calm down?" Sofí calls down.
"You're not the one in the hole, Sofía so you shut up!" Davys hisses up to the light. She tries not to move but getting up seems smart. Maybe it'll make the bug monster think twice if she's bigger than it?
"Hold on, I'll get the rope and pull you up." Sofí calls down.
"Hurry up." Davys shifts, turning in a circle under the light from the hole above her. "I hate bugs and I hate dark holes in the ground even more."
"Hate is such a strong term." Sofí notes. "Dislike is much better."
"Are you shitting me?" Davys looks up incredulous. "I'm in a fucking hole and you're correcting my grammar?"
"Every moment is one you can learn from." Sofí uncoils the rope from her pack and looks for a tree close enough to tie it. "What else do you dislike?"
"Right now?" Davys glares. "You!"
"Hey," Sofí calls down. "I'm the one with the rope whos trying to get you out of the hole you fell into." She points out. "I'd be nice if I were in your shoes."
"I wish you were in my shoes." Davys mutters. "I'd leave your ass here." She glances at the shadows that don't seem so dark but she's still not about to go exploring.
"I heard that." Sofí says getting up. Her first step away from the hole sinks up to her ankle in the dirt that starts to crumble. "Oh no." she gasps before the ground breaks up and she's falling in.
Davys ducks away from the dirt and rocks falling over her head.
Sofí coughs, swiping at the dirt on her face as she blinks up to the clear sky visible through the trees.
"Nice of you to drop in." Davys scowls, hands on her hips. "How the hell do we climb out now?"
"How about; "Sofí, are you ok? You're not hurt are you?" Because that's what people do when someone else falls into a hole in the ground!" Sofí yells getting up.
"You're yelling." Davys points out. "I'd say you're fine. But now that we're both in the hole we are screwed."
"Why don't you think of a way out." Sofí bends to dig through a dirt pile and pulls out her pack thankful it hadn't been too far from her up top.
"Yeah, I'll MacGyver us a ladder, just a sec." Davys takes off her pack, yanking it open.
"I like that show." Sofí smiles.
"I don't care!" Davys snaps and quickly jumps to her feet brushing at her leg, screaming. "Get it off! Get it off!"
"What?!" Sofí drops her pack and rushes towards Davys but she backs up jumping and kicking at the sandy ground. "Davys!"
"It's on me!" Davys stumbles on the rocks that fell in with them and smacks into some roots. She screams louder feeling them give way at her back and then she's rolling over on sandy dirt.
"Davys?" Sofí's voice drifts through the opening. "Can you hear me?"
"Holy shit." Davys blinks, absently swipes at the sand on her face and scans the rest of her little cave. She's startled when her pack comes flying through to land at her side.
Sofí tugs more of the roots out of the way and steps down only to slide to the bottom where Davys is huddling.
"Wow." Sofí looks up and around, hand already grabbing the camera.
"Will you stop with the pictures?" Davys demands. "We should be looking for a way out."
"Relax." Sofí stands up and starts exploring. "You likely scared off the other bugs with your screaming."
"That's not funny." Davys snaps getting to her feet. She carefully inspects her pack before slipping it on again. "I hate bugs."
"I've never seen a rock like this before." Sofí taps it, curious.
"You shouldn't be touching anything." Davys warns. "It could be full of alien bugs or some dormant primeval goop. Who knows what's going to come out and try have us for dinner."
"You watch too much TV, Davys. That stuff isn't real." Sofí scoffs.
"Right, well those writers had to base their 'fiction' on something." Davys groans as Sofí starts moving towards the crack in one of the softly glowing walls of the cave. "Didn't you hear anything I said?"
"I feel a draft." Sofí points out. "This could be our way out."
"No." Davys shakes her head. "That's out way out." She points back to the hole they fell through.
"Go right ahead." Sofí smiles and slips into the crack. "I'll meet you outside."
"You don't even know where you're going!" Davys calls rushing to the crack. "This is how those girls in The Descent died! Sofí!" she closes her eyes and bangs her head on the smooth rock. "This is where the audience starts yelling at the dumb blond to turn the fuck around and forget about exploring."
"We aren't blonds!" Sofí calls. Davys scowls hearing the amusement in her voice.
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