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" Gonna head off with out me huh?"

He gave a weak smile and winked, reaching over to slide his hand onto hers. He was glad to have her back, specially on land. For the first time he was glad for his change, with out his nose he wouldn't have found her, and he dreaded what would have happened if he hadn't shown up. He would have reached up to hold her, but his now blue shoulder prevented him from doing so.

Chubbs started to tell the tale of everything that happened so far, he had no idea about any explosion.

" First I woke up in the jungle on a log. I figured Sabin put me there, then I decided to run back and see if ya were okay. I found that Aji lady, the pretty idian one? Anyway, she was buried in the ground. I get back to the duplex and its locked up tight, I thought I might have done something to you so i tried to ram the door down and i couldn't"

He looked down at his feet, feeling ashamed that he couldn't get to her when she could have needed him alot.

" Then I tried to get to the labs, thinking they had to have kidnapped you. The fence wasn't electrafied so I climbed it, and i pounded on the door, but no one answered. The islands got no power and it's all locked up. I tried to ram in the lab door to find you but I got no where. Then I got back to the duplex and spent like an hour trying to track you down by nose. I found ya out on the water and swam out to ya. You were all kinda outa it, lil loopy. Ya bit me too, I think ya were hungry. I finally dragged ya to shore and brought ya here, it's the only place i new of fresh water wise with access. The village is like fort knox, total lockdown"

Chubbs looked down at her arm and nodded as she spoke.

" You looked like you've been out there a while, a lil cripsy"

He just rested on the grass and closed his eyes, holding onto her hand. He was okay as long as he held it.

" I'm just resting, I need a lil while... I figure others are out there, I saw no one home"

Chubbs nodded half heartedly, he didn't want to drag his a** all the way back to the damn beach again. But he figured he would get it out of the way and sat up. With a grunt he got to his feet and edged down the bank and splashed his legs to rid it os sand, and his face to wake him up some. He had no clue where to sleep tonight, he just needed some warmth.

" Okay.. let's get it done"

Chubbs walked bat to the spot the were not long ago, holding Joliette's hand in his. He sat down as soon as he made it near the bank, he had a branch from a thorn bush in his hand. He wondered if Joliette wondered why he nabbed it. It was all part of his plan to get dinner.

Chubbs was quiet for a while, he broke a large thorn off his twig and sat plucking at his shorts leg with it. It almost looked like he was bored, but he had been slowly taking the thread out of his shorts on the seam. While he did that, he smacked his hand on the ground, lifted it up slowly and and with his claws pulled up a small beetle and rested it on his leg. He plucked some more until he had a long length of thread. With a reach he grabbed up a stick and tied a thorn to the thread, then the thread to the stick, and put the beetle on the end of the thorn. With a smile he dropped the thorn into the water and sat and waited with his bush made fishing rod.

Chubbs smiled as she leaned against him, he kissed her on the forehead and switched the rod to his other hand so he could hug her with his good arm. He gently rubbed her shoulder, trying to warm her up. He felt something jab his thigh and reached between them, feeling around in his pocket. Inside he found his lighter, something he forgot to take out when he went to sleep.

He flicked at it, there was fuel in it still, even after going for a swim. It didn't spark, but it had sand in the way. Chubbs blew on it and tapped it, hoping it was all clear and flicked it again. The lighter sputtered out a flame and Chubbs grinned.

" What ya say to a campfire?"