Fic: Overcome, Day Ten

[emilyfairy.livejournal.com]

Ahhh, here I am again, starting a new 'Survivor' day for the second time in a row. Do not adjust your computer screens, because kalimyre said it was okay.

And that's good enough for me. *g*

So, Day Ten... in which there will be an Immunity Challenge and assorted other things.







Overcome

By emilyfairy and kalimyre

Category: First time, AU, sheer crack

Rating: possibly NC-17, if we can get away with it *g*

Pairing: Ryan/Colin

Summary: Ryan and Colin on Survivor. No, really.

Day One | Day Two | Day Three | Day Four | Day Five | Day Six | Day Seven | Day Eight | Day Nine




Colin wakes to rhythmic drumming on his back. He rolls over, and jumps a little when he sees Dave's crocodile smile. "Good morning, Colin!" he exclaims, moving the beat to Colin's shoulder without breaking it.

"What are you doing?" Colin asks, blinking. He's not annoyed exactly, just surprised.

"Ryan's heartbeat," Dave says. "I learned it yesterday. I thought you'd like to wake up to his heart. Like a puppy with the alarm clock!"

Colin bites back a smile, torn between laughing and giving Dave a big hug. "Thank you," he says, settling for an affectionate pat on the arm.

"Are we going to play today?" Dave asks hopefully. "I still haven't shown you Wal-Mart!"

"Well, kind of," Colin says. "I think we're doing an immunity challenge today, remember?"

"Oh, yeah. And Dave's team is going to win again. Right?"

"We'll see," Colin says, feeling a little guilty.

He hates the thought of blowing the challenge on purpose, especially when there are so few of them left already... But he has to see Ryan, has to touch him, make sure he's all right. And he can't do that if he's here.

Dave's stomach growls. "I'm hungry! Maybe I'll be a bear this morning." And he gets up and lumbers out of the tent, looking for all the world like a bear off to forage for some breakfast.

Colin shakes his head and lets his smile free. Dave is one of a kind, that's for sure.

"Colin!" Dave exclaims, peeking his head into the tent. "There's no one up yet! Can you help Dave with breakfast? Do we have cereal? I miss Lucky Charms!"

Colin sighs and stretches, getting to his feet. "I don't think we have cereal," he says. "But I'm sure I can come up with something."

"Yay!" And as Colin puts on his t-shirt, through the tent flap he can see Dave cavorting around, bending his arms and legs. "I'm a dancing bear! Like the rainbow ones on the bumper stickers with the funny spiky collars! I'm a dancing bear and I need my Lucky Charms!"

Colin turns away for a moment, trying to compose himself. He wonders if Dave would be any good at improv. He thinks maybe he'd like to teach Dave a few games. Dave likes to play after all, and improv's basically one long game of make believe.

"All right, I'm coming," he says. "I can't promise you Lucky Charms, but I'll see what I can do."



More comedy stylings of Dave... What can I say? He amuses me. *g*

Emily :)

Comments

[emilyfairy.livejournal.com]

Wow, that was a little creepy with Dave kinda reverting back a little bit to his medicated days, latching onto Colin like that.

But then redemption with the whole thing about Dave not wanting to be alone, and people abandoning him... *sniffs* Poor Dave. He probably doesn't have any family... Or maybe that's who he was talking about.

Ryan and Colin can be his family! *g*

***

Colin allows himself to be dragged by Dave down towards the river. "Let's skip rocks!" Dave exclaims.

Colin picks out several round, flat rocks from the shore. He dusts the sand off of them, and turns them over in his palms, enjoying the smooth texture.

Dave bends down and grabs a handful of rocks, no matter the shape, and hurls them into the river. "I'm not too good at this," he says, scratching his head. "Why won't they skip for Dave?"

When Colin throws his rock and it skips several times, Dave's eye widen. "How did you do that? Will you show Dave?"

Colin smiles and pats Dave's arm. "Sure," he says. "All you have to do is find a bunch of flat rocks like these." And he gestures to his stockpile.

Dave bends over, picking up one of the rocks and pinches his fingers around it, getting a feel for the size. "Flat like these?" he asks, setting down the rock.

He keeps his fingers held apart and hunches over the shore, comparing rocks against the width of his fingers until he finds a good specimen and holds it up triumphantly. "Lookit! Lookit what Dave found!"

Colin grins as Dave dances around. Watching Dave almost makes him want to dance too, and he lets himself go, body bouncing rhythmically up and down for a few beats. "Good," he says. "Now come on over here and I'll show you how to throw it."

Dave bounds over to him, rock clutched between his fingers to make sure he doesn't drop it. "Okay! I'm here!" he announces.

Colin shows Dave how to flick his wrists just right, with a little twist. After several tries, and a few more rock hunts, Dave manages to make one of his rocks skip.

"Dave did it!" he yells, going into another dance. He spikes one of his rocks like a football player in the endzone, and Colin slaps him five.

They spend a few more minutes skipping rocks together, with Dave doing a passable imitation of the plopping sound they make as they hit the water, and then he seems to grow bored all at once.

Colin's about to throw another rock when Dave snatches it out of his hand, flinging it towards the trees. "Now let's play jumprope!" he says. "Can you do Red Hot Pepper?"

"Um, I'd love to," Colin says, even though the thought of all that exercise on top of the workout he already got earlier at the immunity challenge makes his heart palpatate. "But we don't have any rope."

Dave shimmies up a tree and snaps off a vine. "We can use this!" he yells as he leaps back down, landing on his feet like a cat.

And Colin whimpers, wondering if he can distract Dave with something else...

***

More filler. LOL. I don't know where I'm going with this, so I'll hand it off to you. *g*

Emily :)