"Just Died in Your Arms Tonight"
A Degrassi Teen Slasher Fanfiction
By Imaj and Skud
Dylan was driving the van packed full of teenagers and camping gear. Paige and Hazel had the most gear, he almost wondered if they had plotted to bring the kitchen sink with them as well. His boyfriend, Marco, sat shotgun with him for the trip. Spinner, the only straight guy invited, was surrounded by girls in the back. He had sat next to Paige, and the two of them had started reminiscing on all the day trips the group had taken a couple years back.
Dylan pulled off the road where Marco pointed out the trail. The sign that formerly said "Campground 8 miles" had a sign that said "Wildlife Reservation 8 miles". Dylan decided to take the road anyway. Pulling off the the main road right behind them was a red car, it had been behind them since Toronto.
"This car is following us." Dylan informed the van full of people, while watching the car in the rear-view mirror. The car looked to be over packed with it's own passengers.
"Shit. That's Jay's car." Alex recognized it instantly, he was after all her ex-boyfriend, "I don't suppose we can't loose him now?"
"On this dirt road?" Dylan smiled at Marco, "Looks like we'll just have to be friends when we get there."
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"I could have probably borrowed Joey's car." Craig groaned, "Tell me again why we're doing this?"
"This car has a 16 speaker sound system." Emma said. She was sitting in the most uncomfortable position anyway, she didn't know what they were complaining about. It was worse since they hit the dirt road, now whatever she was sitting on was jabbing her consistently. She reached under her and pulled it out. It was a knife in a leather sheath. She looked frightened by it, but fascinated she pulled the blade slightly out of the sheath. Peter filmed Emma doing this, he hadn't sat down his camera since the trip started.
"Woah! What would you need a knife like that for?" Manny asked Jay in the front seat, "Or do I even want to know?"
"Put that away." Jay scolded into his rear-view mirror, "It's not a toy."
"That's a pretty big hunting knife." Craig grinned, and snatched it from Emma, "What do you hunt?"
"Nothing. Put it away." Jay reached into the back seat and grabbed the knife away from Craig. He opened his glove box, and shoved the knife in right over a handgun. Manny, being in the front seat saw the handgun and gave Jay a frown. "Protection, all right? It's just for protection."
"Why are we heading onto a Wildlife reservation?" Peter changed the subject. He had filmed the sign coming on to this road.
"Seems like as good a place to camp as any." Jay scoffed, still nervous about the look he was getting from Manny. She was looking at him like he was a criminal.
"Lake Halidora was made into a Wildlife reservation a couple years ago." Emma said informatively, "They have a lot of endangered birds, and fish here. I think it was a smart move, people can be so destructive."
"Yeah..." Manny said still giving Jay that look.
The Van in front of them pulled off to the side. Jay pulled up right behind them. Marco and Dylan got out of the van, so Jay got out too. Past the van another car was sitting, with Toby, J.T. and Liberty standing around arguing. In front of that car was a fence and a large sign, it was blocking the dirt road into the lake camp ground area.
Do Not Enter. Wild Life Reserve.
Campgrounds Closed.
"I can't believe they closed the campgrounds!" Marco exclaimed, "They were the best campgrounds I had ever been to."
"Took you guys long enough." Toby walked up to them, "What are we going to do now?"
Marco looked Toby up and down, then shook his head. Apparently everyone wanted to get in on his wonderfully planned camping trip. "Well, we can't camp here..." He said sadly.
"Who says?" Jay walked by and inspected the fence. It had a chain and padlock keeping it closed.
"It's locked. The campgrounds are closed." Dylan told Jay, not so friendly like. They weren't on the best of terms, seeing as how Jay was a gay basher. Jay walked back to his car and opened up the trunk. He pulled out a set of bolt cutters.
"Then I guess we'll just have to open them up, now won't we?" He smiled at the two of them while showing off the bolt cutters. He was prepared for anything, it seemed.
"I don't think that's such a good idea." Marco said half-heartedly, he really did want to camp here. The entire group watched as Jay ignored him and cut the chain. It unraveled and felt into the dirt, injecting a little dust cloud into the air.
"Private camp ground Reserved just for Degrassi students" Jay bowed before taunting Marco, "Too chicken to do something a little naughty, pretty boy?"
"No. Let's do it." Marco retorted, "The campgrounds are still there, let's do it."
"I'm with you on that, babe." Dylan smiled at Marco. He loved when Marco got a little bit of a bad streak in him, it was sexy.
"Okay, get in the car fellows, and my dear lady." J.T. Opened the passenger door for Liberty. She smiled at him and got in, Toby rolled his eyes and opened up the gate for all the cars to head through. The cars went through one by one, past the sign that told them not to enter.
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The group set up camp in the best site that they found. It didn't look like the site had been used in a very long time.
Spinner was spending a lot of time around Paige, and they were flirting. He was doing most of the flirting. After he finished helping her set up her tent, she offered him a drink of her bottled water. He took it and smiled at her.
"So, where's Darcy, Spin?" Paige asked. Asking about Darcy always made his face twitch slightly. He was torn, in love with two people.
"Bible Camp." He said simply, he looked sad at the memory, "She has a summer job there."
"Did you two work things out before she left?" Paige asked seriously, "If I had known you and her were still... well, if I had known I probably wouldn't have done what I, we, did."
"No, no. It's fine, Paige. Darcy and me, we weren't..." Spinner tried to explain, "It wasn't like me and you Paige. We have... you know, Biology and stuff."
"I think you mean, Chemistry" Paige smiled. She wondered if he did that on purpose just to get corrected.
"Whatever." He ran his hand back through his hair, "I could drive up to Banting on the weekends, it's only a few hours away..."
"Spin..."
"Paige, do you mind if I steal Spinner for just a few minutes?" Craig hopped up next to them. He was bouncy and full of pep.
"Sure thing, he's all yours." Paige handed Spinner over to Craig, and used the distraction to escape the awkward moment, without seeming like a total downer.
"I could use some help cutting down this tree over here. It's already dead, it'll make some excellent firewood." Craig explained, leading Spinner toward the dead tree. "What was that with you an Paige? You getting back together? I heard about the night you two shared, and man, I say it's about time." He grinned at Spinner. Spinner grinned back proudly.
At the tree they took turns kicking and pushing it. It moved easily, and splintered with every bash. It was dry wood, great for a fire. Spinner told Craig how he hoped he could have a distance relationship with Paige. How he wanted to be with Darcy, but he was afraid he had messed everything up. Craig warned him about being in love with two girls, he had been through the worst of what that does to a guy.
They brought the wood back to the camp. Manny gave Craig a huge hug when we walked up, he dropped the wood and hugged her back. Ellie was giving the couple an uncomfortable look. Craig couldn't help it, he was a ladies man.
"You guys brought wood! That is so... rugged." Manny said seductively, pulling him into a passionate kiss right in front of Ellie.
"Hey Manny, have you seen Paige?" Spinner asked after he put the wood down. Manny shrugged that she hadn't, and went back to macking on Craig.
"She was with Hazel over by the lake." Ellie pointed in the direction she had seen the two of them last. Spinner nodded his thanks.
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"That is so cute. Why not go for it?" Hazel asked Paige, they had just been talking about what Spinner said.
"I don't know. It just feels... wrong... you know?" Paige twisted her mouth to the side in thought.
"Betcha would have been more than ecstatic if I had made that offer." Alex appeared out of the woods from right behind them. She had obviously heard their whole conversation. She was awfully cocky, and looked to be out to hurt Paige. Hazel stepped up.
"Listen in on conversations often, freak?" Hazel glared, "Go find someone else to bother, we don't want you around."
"Really?" Alex stood right back in Hazels face, "I don't want to be around you plastics anyway." She looked directly at Paige, "Why don't you just get back with him. I guess you guys always did have biology or whatever."
"Hazel, it's okay..." Paige pulled Hazel back from Alex and faced her on her own, "You broke up with me Alex. You ended it, not me. So quit spying on me, it's creepy and it makes me uncomfortable!"
"Whatever. I'm out of here." Alex walked away, back into the wooded area. It was strange how she was so good at disappearing into the trees. Paige wondered if everyone could do that, or if it was just another one of Alex's strange talents. She smirked.
"You are so still into her." Hazel frowned, "Spinner is a better idea, trust me."
"Maybe your right." Paige looked seriously at the trail they had followed down to the lake. Spinner was pushing branches out of the way and heading down toward them. Hazel gave her a 'you should go for it' look. Toby was with Spinner, he had a bottle of sun tan lotion in hand.
"Ladies?" Toby grinned, holding up the bottle, "Anyone need a rub down?"
Paige and Hazel looked at each other and started laughing. Toby was such a hopeless virgin. Spinner pushed Toby out of the way.
"How's the lake?" He asked the two of them, trying to be smooth.
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To Be Continued...