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[everyone_takes]

It was probably another really bad idea, one of the ones she wasn't going to be able to tell Danny about, but ever since Hannibal had brought up hunting dinosaurs, Kate kind of hadn't been able to get it out of her head. She wasn't bringing her gun -- as far as she was concerned, it wasn't even hers anymore, she didn't want it -- but she figured he'd take care of that part of the trip. Since hunting seemed to be a thing he'd done in the past, she trusted that he wasn't going to expect her to wrestle one down with her bare hands. She'd sooner climb a giant tree to get out of its way than actually try to take down a dinosaur.

Still, she was going. And she wasn't trying to look especially cute, but Effy's makeup had been there and if she'd put on a little, it was only because it was available. Besides, she was just naturally cute, she couldn't help it. She definitely wasn't going out of her way. Not for dinosaur hunting.

She couldn't very well wear flip flops for this, which was pretty much the only thing she wore, so she'd spent the day before hunting through the box until it had given her a pair of running shoes both suitable and not terribly ugly. Sitting on the front step of her hut, she laced the shoes as she waited for Hannibal, wondering if she should have told someone where she was going. Just in case the two of them got eaten or stuck in a tree or something.

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[hellomynameisfu]

Hannibal wasn't trying to look especially cute, but the greasepaint had been there and he'd put a little on because he was a child, like if Ozzy Osborn had been Peter Pan. It was over his right eye and was a short line, one long line over his eye, and two other short lines. It was a crude but still effective hand flipping the bird.

Other than that, he had all his standard dinosaur hunting equipment. A gun, another gun, a bigger gun than those two, several grenades, rope, and a bag of meat.

When he saw Kate outside of her hut, he gave a wave to her. He was glad to see she was sensibly dressed, and...

"Is it just the fact that we're both sober and you haven't done something you immediately regret with a bunch of shit from people who have left the island or do you look especially cute today?" he asked, peering a bit closer at her. "No, way, you're just naturally really fucking cute. Cuteness just all over your face and body and shit. Never mind. Ignore me, I had cake for breakfast and frosting goes right to my head."

[everyone_takes]

"I am pretty naturally cute," Kate agreed brightly, pleased with herself -- and with him -- even as she looked at the paint on his face and tried to figure out what it was supposed to be. Maybe just some lines to look like a warrior or something and she was about to dismiss it when the shape finally made sense.

"Full finger fuck you," she said, flipping the bird briefly. "Nice. My mom always gave the half finger fuck you, but I never felt like she meant it as much as one means a full finger. There was a few heated family discussions on the subject."

[hellomynameisfu]

"I strongly feel the the method of fuck you fingering is really more important in conveying the nature of the fuck you than the position of the other four fingers," Hannibal said, suddenly falling a little bit in love with this girl and her family.

"There's in your face," he said, angrily thrusting his finger out at Kate, fast with an abrupt stop. Next, he crossed his arms and casually pulled the finger out from under his arm. "Or the casual and almost bored finger fuck you, to let them know 'fuck you' but they're not worth getting actually angry over."

[everyone_takes]

"And you would've fit right in at family dinners," Kate said, laughing as he demonstrated, then nodded her agreement, because the intention of the fuck you usually was the most important part. That had always been Tara's argument anyway, that the full finger was just a finger, because there was no thought behind it.

"So you've got... a lot of guns," she said, surveying all the loot he'd brought. "Do I have to carry one, because me and guns... we're not exactly best friends." She didn't want to have to tell him about Esther, but she would, if it meant she could avoid carrying a gun.

[hellomynameisfu]

"No. Because guns to fuck-all against dinosaurs except scare them with the noise," Hannibal explained. "I mean, you can shoot some of the little ones, but that's not what we're after."

The number of dinosaurs he'd had to kill outside of the ones he was hunting was actually pretty small. Like... zero.

"How well can you throw?"

[everyone_takes]

"Pretty well," she answered. "I play baseball here, mostly because Danny organized it all and who the hell can say no to Danny Williams? Not me." That was mostly due to the fact that Danny was practically her island guardian in a sort of unofficial way, but not entirely. She actually kind of liked it and she was hardly going to go home and play professionally, but it was fun.

"Anyway, I can throw," she said. "Why? What am I throwing?"

[hellomynameisfu]

"Awesome, here. It's a grenade," he said, tossing it to her. Even if she dropped it, it wouldn't go off. But it was fun to toss grenades at people who weren't expecting it. Fun for him, not usually for them.

"That's how you kill a dinosaur. They roar at you and you pull the pin and throw it in the fucker's giant mouth."

[everyone_takes]

"What the fuck?" Kate asks, fumbling with the grenade, trying to convince herself that it's not real, he wouldn't just throw a real grenade at her. But when she finally has it in her hands and is turning it over to look at it, she can't quite get there. It's a real grenade and he threw it at her.

"Don't they blow up, then?" she asks, trying not to sound like she's freaked out. "How do you make their heads into furniture if they blow up?"

[hellomynameisfu]

"It's modified a bit so that it doesn't go off until it's in their stomach," Hannibal explained, probably more amused than he should be at her reaction to the grenade. It was kind of a dick move to pull.

"Don't worry. Do you think they'd let soldiers run around with those if they blew up easily? We're pretty safe from being blown up so long as you don't pull the pin."

[everyone_takes]

"Don't pull the pin, that's a pretty easy rule to follow," Kate said, looking at the grenade for a second long before she looked up and grinned again. "This is all fucking insane, I love it. Let's go."

She had no idea what was going to happen, if she was rushing headlong into something incredibly dangerous, but she figured Hannibal would be able to keep her safe. He'd done this before, after all. "Don't let me die, okay?"

[hellomynameisfu]

"Kate Gregson, I like your style," Hannibal said with a wink as they started to head off into the jungle. Hannibal was drawn to crazy girls like matter to a black hole and a tiny part of his brain told him that going off to hunt dinosaurs with a girl who thought it was 'fucking insane' yet loved it was a bad idea. Hannibal usually didn't listen to that part of his brain though.

"I would not bring you out here if I wasn't going to make sure you came back alive. Just keep reminding yourself that you are way too hot and interesting for me to let you get hurt."

[everyone_takes]

"The island would be a much more boring place without me," she agreed with a grin, stepping over a log and reaching out to steady herself on his arm as she did. The fact that she got to touch him was just an added bonus and she tried to avoid actually squeezing his arm to test the muscle. Mostly she succeeded.

"Do you do this a lot?" she asked. "Because this place can get pretty boring, so if I like it, I might want to do it again." Even if she didn't love it, the view was totally worth it.

[hellomynameisfu]

Hannibal reached out a hand to the small of Kate's back to help steady her while she walked over the log, because he was a motherfucking gentleman like that.

"Every once in a while I really flip my shit and freak out that nothing has tried to kill me in a while. It's fucked up, but I can't stand it. I'm broken in some massively fucked up way that I can't just sit around and be normal."

[everyone_takes]

"Oh my god, would you ever have fit in at family dinners," Kate said, laughing. "Seriously, if we're having competitions for most broken, you and my mom could compare the most fucked up things you've done and see who comes out as the craziest. It'd be fun."

She missed Tara so much most of the time. She even missed all her alters.

"So is that a yes? You do this a lot and I can totally tag along if I want?" she asked.

[hellomynameisfu]

"I'm not sure most of what I've done is really dinner table appropriate," Hannibal said, scratching the back of his head as he thought that over. "Most of my fucked up moments involve shit like vampires and murder and which condiment is the best condiment to include with oral sex."

Come to think of it, maybe that last one was actually dinner table appropriate since it had to do with food in a way.

"And sure, you can come whenever you want. Or if you're feeling bored come find me and we'll hunt or visit that magic cave thing those kids found."

[everyone_takes]

"Wait, no, back up for a second," Kate said, looking over at him as they walked. "Which condiment was it? Because one of my mom's alters totally has an opinion on that and I'm ninety percent sure she's tried to discuss it at the dinner table."

Of course, T's opinions varied from day to day, but Kate remembered the conversation about all the ways in which she wanted to use mustard all too clearly. "So, you know, still valid dinner table talk in my house, apparently. I mean, I'm sure my dad tried to put a stop to it, but that didn't always work out for him."

[hellomynameisfu]

"Your family is seriously messed up," Hannibal said, although he couldn't help but grin as he said it. "I love them already with my entire heart. My heart just fucking grew 2 sizes to encompass all the love I have for your family that I've never met."

It hadn't even occurred to him that there were families like that. Sure, he knew some of them were really messed up, but Kate's sounded messed up in an almost okay way.

"And the answer is either Heinz Ketchup or Grey Poupon mustard, although personally I think honey, which is not a condiment, is best because it sticks and therefore doesn't go away too quickly. I mean, if I'm going down there I plan on making sure I do a thorough job. Ketchup is gone way too fast."

[everyone_takes]

"God, you're weird," Kate said, although it was clear by her smile and her tone of voice that she absolutely loved it. A second later, she wrinkled her nose, having thought about what he was saying for longer than a second.

"I'm with you on honey, but ketchup? Really? I mean, yeah, ketchup on a hamburger, I'm on board, but I'm not sure I'd want it slathered on my lady junk, you know?"

[hellomynameisfu]

Hannibal grinned back at Kate, glad that she didn't seem too put off by the conversation. This would be a long walk out to dinosaur territory otherwise, but Kate seemed up to it.

"Well, it's not for you, it's for the sir or madam with their head securely nestled between your thighs," he said. "And ketchup is unique in that it contains all 5 major tastes, so no matter how you taste down there, it's always complimentary."

[everyone_takes]

"That is still one of the weirdest things I've ever heard," she decided. "Maybe I'm just not that interested in ketchup or going at it with other woman and so I'm not the right audience for this end of the conversation. From the other end? Still don't want ketchup all over my bits. I think the smell would just get to me, even if what was happening down there was really, really good. It's just... ketchup."

[hellomynameisfu]

"Right? It's kind of the texture, it's not thick enough, it's too much like lube," Hannibal said. The amount of weird shit he knew about because of sex and just being willing to do weird stuff was rather large.

"But Kate Gregson, I promise that if I ever go down on you, I will only use the finest quality honey, if anything at all, and to never use ketchup no matter how good an idea it seems at the time."

[everyone_takes]

"I would really appreciate that and, rest assured, I would totally do the same for you," she said, except now she was thinking about sex with Hannibal, which was a really good thing to be thinking about, but it was also kind of distracting. She was going to end up falling flat on her face if this kept up.

"Unless you really wanted me to, I guess," she said, her mouth still trying to go where her brain was attempting to steer them away from. "But I still wouldn't understand it."

[hellomynameisfu]

"Huuuhhhhhh... okay," Hannibal said, needing a moment to steer his mind away from lingering on thoughts of sex with Kate. They were dinosaur hunting and he should probably keep his mind focused on that for the time being. That was pretty important to focus on.

"Deal," he said, turning to shake her hand.

[everyone_takes]

"Deal," she agreed, shaking his hand and finding it was really difficult to not just forget all about dinosaur hunting and kiss him in the middle of the jungle. It wasn't like she'd been making the best decisions lately anyway and she was pretty sure he wouldn't mind.

She really wanted to see the dinosaurs, even if she didn't blow one up, but this conversation had kind of distracted her. The dinosaurs were cool, but this could be a lot more fun.

"Huh," she said, then looked ahead again. "How much further?"

[hellomynameisfu]

Hannibal just stared at her for a moment, wondering if she was thinking the same thing he was. He didn't want to assume though. Just because a girl was open about sex and willing to shake on the fact that neither of you would use ketchup on the other person's junk if you went down on each other did not mean she was willing to give it up.

"Not far," he said. "But hold on, first..."

Hannibal leaned in close to her, moving slowly until his lips were right next to her ear and he whispered...

"There's a snake behind you. Don't make sudden movements, just slowly keep walking forward."