She tastes funny

[revvinguptheharley]

Who: Harley Quinn, a pack of raptors and anyone unfortunate enough to get in her way.
What: Let's just hope it's not mating season.
Where: All around the island
When: Week seven
Notes: Harley's death and probably a few others

It had started with that button.

Harley loved the button...really she did. She didn't understand why more people didn't play with the button. It had been the cause of such beautiful chaos in the arena.

But the more Harley played the game the more it became apparent that the rest of them were just big party poopers. They wouldn't come play with the button or her. She tried to hunt them down using her fancy new TV watch but everyone just kept moving. It was beginning to be a real drag.

"How can a place with so many tributes seem so empty!?" She cried to the sky.

And that's when "they" arrived.

Eyes blinking out of the shadows. Teeth gleaming in the darkness as they crunched through the bushes with no fear or stealth.

After all, what did they have to fear from Harley?

Not wanting to waste her precious weapons fighting a crew of raptors she tried to out run them. But every time she slowed for too long, inevitably they would find her and the chase began anew.

All too late she realized the cause. The last time she'd hit the button it had hosed her down with something smelly. Something icky.

Something that the raptors apparently liked alot!

And so they began the worlds deadliest game of tag. Harley racing about the arena like the lunitic she was, trying the most elaborate and unpredictable paths, and her raptor suitors in constant pursuit.

Desperate to slow them down Harley's mind turned to the watch she had been gifted by that treacherous red button. Using it to switch from camera to camera she tried to find some of the remaining tributes. Maybe she could pawn off one or two of these grinning goons on them!

 

 

 

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[formersurgeon]

Joan was starving. She had lost the last three people she'd been with, so she was making it on her own. This would end, sooner or later. Likely painfully and bloodily. There were only two ways around that. The first was to eat her fill of the vegetation, and hope the poison was swift. She was unwilling, though, refusing to allow the Capitol's games to drive her to destroy herself. The second was if by some incredible fluke she managed to be the Victor. But that was so unlikely that it was hardly a thing worth hoping for.

So she was making her way through the jungle, moving slowly, conserving her energy for the next camp she might encounter and steal food from.

[revvinguptheharley]

Crashing and smashing her way through shrubs and scattered sticks, Harley hadn't intended on running into Joan, but it was Joan's bad luck that brought them crashing together.

Literally because as Harley looked over her shoulder to see if she was still being followed, her leg got caught on a sneaky living vine. It curled around her and sent her tumbling, bouncing down a small hill and right into Joan.

[formersurgeon]

"OW!"

Joan went down, one foot twisting hard against a root, and she cried out as she felt something in her ankle pop.

Not good. SO not good.

"What the hell???" She pushed herself up to sitting and blinked at the blonde. It was the woman she had met running intel for the alien invasion.

"Harley?"

[revvinguptheharley]

"Where?" She sat up looking around and then realized the joke she had inadvertently made. She laughed sheepishly and looked at Joan.

"Oh hey there J.W. Funny running into you in these parts."

There was a rustling and some low chirping sounds that would alert the women to the Raptors imminent arrival.

"Aw nuts." Harley looked back over her shoulder. "Um...listen, what's your favorite dessert?"

[formersurgeon]

She heard that, and her eyes went wide, her heart starting to pound painfully in her chest.

Shit.

She slowly pushed herself up to her feet, and nearly fell over again when she tried to put weight on her twisted ankle.

"Favorite dessert?" she hissed, limping backwards from the rustling and chirping of what was likely certain death. "Seriously?"

[revvinguptheharley]

"Serious like the holocaust." She sprang to her feet and dug around in a bag that seemed to be made up of bedsheets.

"And I can make those jokes because I'm Jewish."

[formersurgeon]

Another painful limp backwards.

"Fine. Yogurt parfait. Strawberries and blueberries."

[revvinguptheharley]

"Then I owe you the biggest one I can afford when I get back to town."

And without warning Harley leaned down planting a quick kiss on Joan's lips and dropping a poison dart, and a bottle of cheap painkillers into her hand.

And with that Harley had bounded around her and was scrambling into the forest again. The choice would be up to Joan now. "SORRY!" She shouted over her shoulder.

And sure enough, the raptors came thundering down the hill.

[formersurgeon]

Joan was only barely able to register the kiss, the shout, the objects in her hands, before the raptors were charging her. She didn't even think of using the pills. She gripped the dart as a useless weapon, and turned to try to run.

And fell. Hard.

Three of the raptors broke away from the rest and circled her. Joan made a stab at one of them, but the dart was effortlessly batted away. They moved around her, chittering. She was shaking, but managed to push herself to her feet, to stand and face the death that prowled around her. She looked up at the sky, hoping Sherlock and John were not watching.

Then the dinosaurs descended on her, and she screamed as she was ripped apart.

[grandmas_gurl]

Did she come near Ruby on purpose? Or was it a simple oversight, someone slipping beneath the trees temporarily outside of the cameras until.... "Harley?"

The werewolf wasn't really to know, either way. She didn't even know about the watch, really. All she knew was sudden blonde girl. And raptors. Lots of raptors. It was times like this she wished for her super powers... or at least to smell like wolf, instead of human. She didn't think they tasted as good.

[revvinguptheharley]

Oh no! Another friend?

"Hi Ruby!" She shouted as she shot past. "Bye Ruby!" She added dodging around a tree and then shaking her fist at the sky "CURSE YOU RED BUTTON! WHY MUST I LOVE YOU SO!?"

[grandmas_gurl]

"Harley?" is about all she can manage to say. Then she's running, too, feet slamming into the ground as the sound comes on herb - and the presence. DInosaurs. "What ddi you do?" she called, not daring to look behind her.

[revvinguptheharley]

"I pushed the button!" She panted exasperated with her situation. "It sprayed me with stuff, now they won't leave me alone!" She whined. "They're cute and all but not my type!"

The raptors snapped and snarled hot on their heels.

[grandmas_gurl]

"The big red dangerous button?" More than exasperated now. Frustrated. A little angry. What had Harley been thinking? It could - perhaps would, now - kill all of them.

[revvinguptheharley]

"Well of course!" She shot back sounding just as exasperated. "They GAVE us a big red button of random doom. How come I was the only one with ovaries big enough to use it? Up till now it was working out great!"

Around another corner. That would give them a few seconds more as teh creatures were not great at sharp corners.

[grandmas_gurl]

"Until it tried to kill you," she pointed out, sounding just a touch less than impressed with Harley's reasoning. Hadn't anyone ever taught Harley that red buttons made things go boom?

Ruby rounded the corner tightly, already searching for another corner they could turn. They needed water - non-toxic water - if they were going to get this stink Or a stronger scent... If they could survive to a garden, or maybe a bathroom... well. Strong scents were required here.

[revvinguptheharley]

"Don't suppose you could go all inner-wolf on the outside on them could ya?" She panted as they came to some stairs and she lept down five steps at a time putting even more distance between herself and her fanged pursuers.

[grandmas_gurl]

"Not without a full moon," she growled. And a whole lot of magic. "I think you should keep running."

[revvinguptheharley]

"Deal." And with that Harley summoned up her strength and tried to shove Ruby into a closet as they got close enough.

"I'll keep running and you stay here and avoid becoming dino food!"

This is so late. Oh well.

[earthborn]

Harley Quinn was not known as a particularly subtle or stealthy person. There was a reason for that. Inasmuch as there was probably a reason that she was crashing through the underbrush towards Shepard like some kind of steam-powered Rhino, at least.

Shepard's reaction was about as well thought-through and subtle; she took a moment to gauge the approach, then stepped out from behind a tree at the last minute with her arm extended to catch Harley by the neck.

Better late then never :P

[revvinguptheharley]

It was so perfectly comical that Harley would burst out laughing when she saw it on the instant replay later.

Her eyes went wide and she couldn't stop in time. The feeling of her throat crumpling from impact was just a blink as the rest of her body was dealing with the world suddenly spinning. Her feet flew ahead of her and up into the air as the force of her speed carried her into the air.

She landed on her back winded and wheezing, eyes watering, but the damndest thing is she looked like she was laughing.

[earthborn]

Shepard remained calm, and put her boot on the girl's neck to pin her. Harley was neither the first nor likely the last person she'd knocked over. It was with easy care that she unbuttoned the sheath and drew her knife, considering the best angle of entry.

"Any last words?" She pressed down a little harder, just to be sure that the answer was no, "Didn't think so."

[revvinguptheharley]

Harley was in fact, unable to speak. So all she could do was grin in a befuddling way and point mouthing the words "Behind you."

Because Harley may have had some distance on them but in the space of time it took Shepherd to knock her down and prepare her for death, the pack of raptors came crashing through the brush practically ontop of them.