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Coraline Carter had once woken up in an alien place. Instead of waking up in her warm bed and clutching Jeremiah the toy horse, Coraline had woken in a cold, damp enclosed room- a prison. She had spent such a long time in there, she had clawed at the walls and cried until finally her daddies came and found her. That had been the worst day on her time on the island, much worse than the time when she had woken as a boy.

Coraline learned from her experiences. She learned not to blindly run in temples when the floor could give way, she learned not to trust creepy mothers who wanted to give you everything and she learned that when you go to bed, you prepare just in case you find yourself in the bad place again. So, she wasn't in the bad place this time but she certainly wasn't in her bed and she was greatful for the wellington boots she wore to bed because the ground would have been cold and damp and hard against bare feet.

"Hello?" Coraline called out, wiping her eyes tiredly as she stretched and yawned. This wasn't her hut and she couldn't see Adam anywhere. He was going to be very angry with her when he found her bed empty again. "Hello? Adam? Is anyone there?"

Coraline walked through the bushes before pausing as she heard a rather loud roar. That sounded like a dinosaur. That sounded like a dinosaur! Oh, wow. She was in dino territory. Oh, bugger Adam was going to kill her. Well, if he was going to kill her anyway at least she could go and have a proper look at the dinosaurs.

"Hello? Mister dinosaur? I won't hurt you," Coraline said as she wandered off towards unknown dangers.

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"Coraline?"

Cassie had been lucky. She'd been up for her morning workout when suddenly the world has blurred around her and she found herself face to face with some small bird looking dinosaur. In a very in superhero like moment, Cassie had screamed and run in the other direction as quickly as she could.

She'd stopped to catch her breath when she heard Coraline's calling for Adam. She moved in the direction she'd heard the other girl's voice. "Coraline? Is that you?"

Coraline sniffed, rubbing her face and nose tiredly. She was snotty and sniffly and she felt rubbish but in an unexpected twist she was in dinosaur territory which was very exciting. Even a miserable cold couldn't hold Coraline back from exploring new places.

"Cassie?" Coraline called out, looking around for the sight of a familiar face. Coraline smiled, sniffing as she spot Cassie. "I'm going to be in a lot of trouble when Adam finds me gone. Did I sleepwalk? I've never sleepwalked before."

Cassie sighed with relief when she finally found the younger girl and put a comforting hand on her shoulder when she noticed the sniffling. A cold in this weather was no fun and she knew better then to assume crying from Coraline.

"No sleepwalking, kid, so I think Adam will give you a break. I was awake when it happened. One minute I was doing crunches, the next I was face to face with a dino. It's just the island being dumb." She wrinkled her nose at the dilemma they were in. "Now we just have to figure out how to get back." And depsite the thrill of seeing the dinosaurs, she did want to go back. She didn't want Anatoly or Chekov or Kon to worry about her or, worse, think she disappeared.

"What type of dinosaur? Big one? Little one? Herbivore?" Coraline asked curiously. Nothing could curb Coraline's insatiable curiousity, not even being kidnapped by a magical island. "Do we have to? I mean, we could explore a little bit whilst we're here. If I'm going to get into trouble anyway then... we could make it worth while."

"Little chicken looking thing. It ran off when I popped up in his face." Or well, one of them ran off and that's all that needed to be said. But as much as she wanted to explore too, she wanted to make sure people knew she was alright first. And make sure Caroline got home safe and sound. "Well, since I have no idea where we're going, we're going to have to do some exploring anyway. And if we go a bit slowly...I won't say anything." Cassie said with a small smile by way of compromise.

"Hopefully it didn't run off to find its mum and dad." Coraline said, wondering which direction they should go. It was very miserable looking and Coraline wasn't quite sure which way to go. Normally she'd just follow the sun or use her maps but her maps were at home and the sun was well miserable. "Good. I hope Adam and Sarah aren't worried. And Harriet, Harriet is my new sister. She's tiny and she cries a lot but she's cool. She's going to be so jealous that I got to see dinosaurs, I mean I hope we see dinosaurs."

"Hey, we'll get you home so you can tell her all about." Cassie said as she looked around for any ideas. "And you can help me calm down Anatoly and Kon when they freak on me." With a small shrug she nodded in one direction. " Well, this one is as good as any other. Let's go."

As impatient, frustrated, and scared as Felicity was, part of her reminded herself that running along through a jungle would only make her more lost-if such a thing were possible-which was why she was only walking quickly, trying to find some sign of human life. She was glad she was able to grab a raincoat, if only because being lost in the jungle was bad enough, being lost and soaking wet would be even worse.

A loud roar made her freeze. That didn't sound like any creature she knew of, but she had heard of 'Dino territory' and while the thought of exploring it was appealing-she didn't want to go like this.

Felicity quickly ran in the opposite direction of the roar, figuring that if she was lost she very well couldn't get lost any further.

They'd only been walking for about an hour or so, Cassie letting Coraline explore while keeping her on the same path. By now, she was soaked and her work out clothes offered little protection from the rain so her arms were hugged around herself.

Suddenly, something came barreling out of the underbrush right in front of them. "Wow!" Cassie called out stopping whoever, or whatever, it was. "Hang on there. You lost too?" She asked when she saw it was another lost islander.

Though Coraline loved exploring and exploring in the rain she was quickly beginning to feel very miserable. The only thing that kept her going was the hope that she might see a dinosaur again. Really, if she was going to get sick and in trouble then it was going to be for good reason.

"Felicity!" Coraline called out, her voice giving up as she waved. Coraline coughed trying to clear her throat so she could talk properly. "Cassie, this is Felicity. She's my friend. Did the other mo-the island kidnap you too?"

She was a little embarressed that she'd nearly ran over the girl, especially with everyone telling her to pay attention, but the rain was making it hard to really focus.

She nodded, trying to catch her breath. "I was on my way to the stables when I appeared here."

She held out her hand as Coraline introduced her. "Nice to meet you." Actually, it would've been better had they all not been lost and in
the rain.

Felicity then turned her attention to Coraline. "Coraline, are you ill?" She didn't sound so great, and Felicity could only think it was rotten enough for the island to kidnapp them like this: but do to so with a sick person was worse.

Despite how cold she was, Cassie shrugged it off and gave Felicity a confident, superhero smile. "You too." She bit her lip slightly as she glanced over at Coraline. "You have been dragging a bit. Do you need a rest?" While she wanted to get the three of them out of there as soon as possible, she also didn't want Coraline to over tax herself, especially if they had to run from a dinosaur.

"A little, I'm fine. I just spent too much time outdoors in the rain, I'm okay honestly." Coraline said though her chest heaved as she tried not to cough. Her throat was all tickly but nothing would stop her from seeing a dinosaur even if she did feel miserable. "I- okay, maybe a little rest."

It wasn't like there were any carniverous dinosaurs around at the moment.

Felicity couldn't really say that she was 'fine'. The cold didn't really bother her, but running around in the rain without a clear as to where exactly they were, that she minded. She also just noticed that she was trying to catch her breath.

"I'll be alright, just give me a moment."

She frowned a little when she heard Coraline speak. Being outdoors was one thing, but when one was already sick was another. Felicity hesitated a moment-or two-before taking off her raincoat and holding it out to her.

"Here, tis better than nothing." It wouldn't do much to keep her dry, not when she was already soaked, but it was better than her running around in her nightclothes. Felicity's shirt was long-sleeved and offered some protection.

"How about you girls stay here for a moment and takes a break. I'll scout a head to if there's any clue if we're going in the right direction." Cassie couldn't help a shiver since her exercise clothes were the least of the three of them. "Plus I'm going to freeze if I stop moving. I'll be right back." Taking one more moment to make sure Coraline and Felicity were alright, she moved off into the trees to do a quick sweep.

One more tag from Cora and Felicity then Cassie can bring a dino back on her tail?

"No, no, it's your coat. I'm fine honestly." Coraline said, trying to push the coat back. Coraline's arms were freezing though and she felt awful. Gripping onto the fabric she sighed and took it from Felicity. "Thank you."

Coraline nodded as Cassie motioned she was going to go on ahead. This was the least fun adventure she'd had. She'd expected loud noises, big battles, dinosaurs and really cool things but instead she just felt awful and wanted to go home. Well, go home after she'd seen a dinosaur of course.

"Do you think Cassie will be okay on her own?" Coraline asked curiously looking off in the direction Cassie had gone.

It was just as well she took it, Felicity was close to insisting on it-and trying to not feel like her sister Nan.

She resisted rubbing her arms. It wasn't that the weather was cold, it was just that being soaked just made her feel chilled.

As to to her friend's question, she really didn't know. Cassie seemed very accomplished during school, but that couldn't be the same as outside with nothing but the clothes on their backs.

"I should think so." She answered, trying to keep positive. "She wouldn't have suggested going on her own if she wouldn't be."

Of course, it could've just been that she saw the two of them as children-even though Coraline was 13 and Felicity well on her way to being that age.

A part of it was that Cassie did see them as kids. And while she knew very well that they were very capable kids, Cassie felt just as responsible for them as she would Anatoly if he'd been stranded out there with her. She was Wonder Girl and she had the training to deal with situations like this so it was her responsibility to get them out, a responsibility that she took very seriously.

Cassie scouted ahead a little ways then climbed a tree to get a look around. She saw the mountain and tried her best to figure out the best way back to the non-dino infested part of the island, all the while looking out for signs of dinosaurs. Once she had a plan, she dropped down out of the the tree and froze as she felt the tell tale signs of something watching her. Apparently, while she'd been looking for dinos far out, she'd missed the rather tall one that was now scooping her out from about 40 feet away.

"Crap," she said under her breath, before taking a deep breath and taking off into the jungle, in the opposite direction from Coraline and Felicity. She ran and ducked and hid in trees until she thought she'd lost it. With a sigh of relief, she headed back to where she'd left the other two girls.

"Alright, I think I know..." She began when she heard a familiar cry in the jungle behind her. Apparently, she hadn't lost the dinosaur after all. "Forget what I know! Up in the tree now!" Cassie said urgently, as she pulled the girls up and began helping them up into a nearby tree.

Felicity was a fast runner. On the island, and without being confined to her stays, she was able to run faster and longer than she had been back home. When she heard the cry, and felt Cassie pull on her arm, she found herself running even faster.

How she managed to not trip over the branches and roots was anyone's guess, but it wasn't something she thought of at the moment: she only thought of getting away as she scrambled up the tree. Her shoes slipped against the surface of tree, and she had to mostly resort to gripping onto the branches.

Under different circumstances, she would've thought that the gymnastics class had finally come in handy.

Coraline raised an eyebrow at Cassie before opening her eyes wide as Cassie started telling them to get into a tree. Coraline paused as she heard something. There was a noise, a noise that sounded like a very close dinosaur and a very close hungry one. Running for the tree, Coraline half stumbled as she ran for safety.

Coraline pulled herself up into the tree, glad for once that she climbed trees often despite all the scratches and grazes and cuts she got. Climbing up quickly, Coraline ignored bits of tree hitting her face as she clamboured up and checked behind her to see if everyone else was up the tree safely too.

"Cassie? Felicity? Are you okay?" Coraline said clinging to the tree and watching as the dinosaur approached. Wow, that was so cool. So cool and completely terrifying. "It can't get us up here can it? Because I think Adam will tell me off quite a bit if I end up being a Coraline burger."

Cassie kept pushing them up, helping them when they faltered, until she thought they were high enough to avoid the dinosaur. She straddled a branch under the other two and had a broken off branch in her hands at the ready in case she had to defend them. "I'm okay. You two find a place you can hang out for a while. Who knows how long it will take before it looses interest in us." She didn't take her eyes off the approaching dinosaur, her body tensing and ready for action as she slipped into Wonder Girl mode.

"I don't think we've much choice in the matter." Felicity had no intention of climbing around like a monkey in this weather, at least not when there was the risk of a dinosaur coming at them. Really, 'hanging out' was their best option."

In Williamsburg, most of her lessons were instructional, and while this was far from learning how to be a gentlewoman as it could be, that didn't mean she lost how to learn that way. The branch above her was a bit thick, but with a grunt she managed to break it off-it wasn't a sword, but she could hardly afford to be picky.

"What if it's a dinosaur that can jump? Because there are dinosaurs who can do that, I'm sure of it." Coraline said, looking warily down at the dinosaur who looked like it was eager for Coraline burger with a side order of Felicity fries and Cassie shake. Coraline hated waiting, whether it was waiting to be rescued or waiting for a dinosaur to lose interest. "Ugh, I'm bored. Go away dinosaur!"

Cassie wanted to shoot Coraline an annoyed look but she wasn't about to let her attention waver from the dinosaur who was sniffing around the base of the tree when it wasn't looking up at them. "We'll find out soon enough."

The dinosaur loitered for a while, pacing around the bottom of the tree as if trying to figure out a way to get to them. Then, a noise in the distance seemed to catch its attention and it went off to investigate. Cassie just hoped it wasn't something for it to eat to keep it busy and not more lost islanders.

She waited a few more minutes before giving the all clear. "Okay...I think it's gone. You guys climb down, I'll keep watch just a bit longer." And so she'd be in a better position pull them back up into the tree if the dinosaur decided to come back.

Felicity almost scowled when Coraline suggested such a thing: it wasn't that she could prove there were no jumping dinosuars, but if there wasn't she'd rather not imagine them either. She didn't understand how she could be bored either, but then she herself was too worried about their current situation to be bored.

The feeling didn't leave when Cassie gave them the 'all clear': it might not be all clear, the dinosuar could be in hiding and waiting for them to come back down. However, her muscles were starting to cramp from waiting in the tree for so long. She dropped the stick she was holding and carefully and slowly climbed back down.

Coraline was used to life threatening adventures. Sitting around and waiting for danger to pass really wasn't her style. She liked to meet monsters and throw (cats) things at them. Coraline sighed when Cassie said she could start climbing down.

Being quiet and careful Coraline clambored down and dropped from a low branch to the floor. She didn't shout now the dinosaur had gone, she didn't want to bring it back again.

In Cassie's experience, while fighting monsters was fun, waiting in safety for the danger to pass was the smarter thing to do. And with two younger teenagers to look out for, Cassie opted for smarterr. Not that she was sure she wanted to go after a dinosaur even with her super powers.

Once both girls were on the ground and she was certain that the dinosaur wasn't coming back, Cassie began to climb down herself. It might have been how wet the wood was or the worn down tread on the bottom of her sneakers, but something caused her to slip when she put her feet on a lower branch and before she knew it, she was falling to earth. When she hit the ground with her leg at an awkward angle, the only reason she didn't scream from pain was because the wind had been completely knocked out of her to the point she could barely breath for a few long moments.

Felicity only realized that she was holding her breath when her feet finally touched solid ground and she was able to breath again. She waited for the others, rocking back and forth on her heels, hands gripping at her jeans as she waited for the others to climb back down.

She breathed a bit easier when Coraline reached the ground-she was almost certain that she would attempt jumping-but when she saw Cassie's foot slip against a branch, she barely had time to stop herself from crying out.

"Cassie!" Coraline said as she dropped awkwardly to the ground, her leg crumpling oddly. Coraline knew that wasn't right and the look on Cassie's face confirmed it. Coraline didn't feel scared or sick or anything anymore, she was detirmined. She had to help Cassie. "Are you okay? Did you land funny? Can you move your leg? You haven't broken it, have you?"

Cassie could only lay back on the ground and breath for a few long minutes, her hands clenched in the dirt under her as she desperately tried not to scream. After a bit, she attempted to move but all of her senses were clouded by pain. "Holy Hera..." was about all she got in answer to Coraline's questions.

Finally, biting her lip almost to point of making it bleed against the pain, Cassie pushed herself up to an almost sitting position. "I've never broken a bone before," she said softly, finally getting a good look at her leg. "But that angle isn't natural."

When Felicity was nine years old, a startled horse had stepped on her arm, breaking it. It wasn't the same as a leg but the angle was painfully familiar, enough that her arm started to ache again.

She tried to ignore it as she hurried over, trying to get a better look.

"It looks broken." She said, examing it as best she could-which wasn't much given the circumstances. They had used leeches on her arm to reduce swelling, but even if there were leeches here they didn't have time to find them. "If we can reset your leg, hopefully it could hold long enough till we get some help."

She wasn't feeling to well: maybe from cold, or having not eaten, but anyone looking at her would've noticed that Felicity's complexion had taken a slightly green color. All she noticed was that she was trying to not throw up.

"No, you don't want to do that. It'll hurt and it might make things worse!" Coraline said the idea of resent the bone both terrified Coraline and really intrigued her. Coraline wanted to help, she wanted to be a doctor but she didn't want to make it worse for Cassie. She wasn't a doctor yet but she had done a Brownie badge in first aid. "We just need to wrap it and then check that blood is still getting to Cassie's toes and she can feel it or wiggle them. Okay, I'm really sorry Cassie it's going to hurt for a while but we'll get you back to the clinic."

Coraline checked Cassie's foot and leg being careful when she touched it to check the circulation. Coraline sneezed and wiped her hands on her pants as she tried to concentrate on Cass.

"Okay, we need something to hold Cassie's foot like fabric and sticks. Cardboard is better, that's what we used in Brownies but I don't think dinosaurs have time for arts and crafts. We'll get you fixed up Cassie then we'll get you home. It'll be okay."

It already hurt so that wasn't a problem. Cassie's concentration was drifting in and out but she did hear the part about wiggling her toes. Biting her lip as she concentrated, she managed to move them slightly before crying out softly. "Toes are...moveable."

She took a deep breath and look at the two girls with as steady a gaze as she could manage. "It's okay. Coraline's right, we should..." She gritted her teeth for a moment, "wrap it then get going. We can't stay here unless that dino comes back."

Felicity looked at coraline. "If it's already broken it already hurts."

They were right in either case, but cardboard was useless in such weather. They had fabric atleast, well, she and Coraline anyway, and they had sticks, or well, they could look for them.

She started looking for a sharp stick. "Come on, we could make bandages using strips of fabric."

Coraline bent down pulling the bottoms of her pyjama bottoms out of her wellies. Coraline tugged the fabric, ripping it in her hands up to her knees. It was hard but it wasn't as hard as some of the things she had done. She was cold but she wouldn't get any sicker for shorter bottoms and they'd be home soon. And then Adam could take care of her or tell her off either way.

"Here, we'll use this." Coraline said, holding the fabric tightly as she looked for sticks that would help. Being very gentle Coraline touched Cassies legs and started to wrap it. "It'll be okay Cassie, you'll see. And maybe when we're back you'll get lots of magical kisses, you know the kind that makes you better."

Coraline might have been thirteen but she still believed in magical kisses.

Cassie gritted her teeth and laid back again, trying not to make a sound against the pain as Coraline began wrapping her leg, though the thought of magical kisses made her laugh soundlessly, though the laugh died quickly when she released the first thought in her head had been Kon...not Chekov.

So instead, she concentrated on taking deep, even breaths until Coraline was done. "Thanks Coraline."

Felicity had never heard of 'magical kisses': when she or any of her siblings were wounded, they may've been given a few words of encouragment or a hug or a pet, but no kiss. She didn't think it would've made much of a difference either way, but she also didn't think it was the time to argue.

She set about finding sticks for them to use, setting them between the bands of fabric that Coraline wrapped around Cassie's leg.

She wondered if anyone was looking for them.

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