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If he didn’t want them then that was fine with her, or at least she would ht now she needed to make sure that he was okay so that she could yell at hi the hell out of her

"Chris!" she cried as she half-ran-half-stumbled after him as the current threatened to knock her on her butt

He went beneath the water as it dragged him back the way they ca so dae rock sticking out of the water Praying she didn’t miss hi herhim away and frorabbed his ankle, praying he hadn’t sed too much water, she slaed to hold onto Chris through the ainst the rock, ignoring the way the sharp edges dug into her skin and pulled Chris towards her Once he was close enough she grabbed hied him until she could pull him out of the water and into her argled to get her arave up and instead grabbed him by the backpack that he thankfully hadn’t lost in the water and dragged hi current every inch of the way

"Please be breathing, baby," she said, struggling not to cry He had to be okay He was a big tough guy and this was just a ed to drag him halfway out of the water, but that was all she needed

"Chris? Baby?" she said, trying to figure out what to do

Why the hell hadn’t she taken that First Aid course at the Y? Oh, because there was a Buffy the Vahtly mini marathon on television that she just couldn’t eek

She wiped the water off his handsoh his hair as she tried to figure out what to do A raspy sound caught her attention and she sighed in relief when she realized it was co should scare her and in fact did, but right now she was just so da that she decided to just take what she could

"Baby, can you wake up?" she asked, leaning over hiroaned, but other than that just lay there She looked around the thick woods for help that she daet hih the woods and to safety

They were so screwed

She didn’t know First Aid, didn’t know squat about navigating her way through the woods and she was pretty da to be able to lift hiood foot taller than her and had to outweigh her by a hundred pounds God, what the hell did they feed hiled to step out of the water and drag hi with her

It becaet hiround She needed help that et hiet sick fro soak and wet, but it was the only thing she could think of to do

Fiveon the da to find the baggie with his two phones and his wallet She grabbed the one on top, the silver one that didn’t ieek-like need

"Da She grabbed the sleek black one and noted the blinking green light He probably had a ure out how to open the da