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OOC: [from here]

"This is the worst vacation ever."

"Danny!" Danielle screams.

"That's ectoranium!" cries Jack. "Hold that shield, son!"

"Danny," Maddie says in a carefully controlled voice, "we're going to back up now. Move with us, okay, sweetie?"

Danny nods, teeth gritted, and drifts slowly backward, away from the glowing green rocks.

Jack and Maddie shift rocks aside as they go, clearing their own path and keeping the ectoranium chunks as far from the children as possible.

Still shielding Jazz Danielle also starts to slowly inch backwards, giving Danny and their parents room to clear the rockfall.

By the time they're fully clear and Danny is able to drop his shield, the passage is completely blocked.

Danny drops to the ground, reverts to human, and doubles over, panting, with his hands on his knees.

Dani is the first one to find her voice.

"...the hell was that?"

"Evidence that we're on the right track," says Jack with grim satisfaction.

"Jack!"

"You guys were nearly killed," Jazz puts in.

"Exactly, Princess. If they want to keep us out of this tunnel that badly, then I want to know why."

"What?" Dani screeches again, only this time more out of anger than surprise. "You can't be serious, Dad! This is supposed to be a vacation!"

"A working vacation, sweetie..." says Maddie in a conciliatory tone.

"That means work and vacation," snaps Danny, his breath recovered. "Not three days of walking around mines and having rocks dropped on our heads!"

"I want us to do something together as a family, something fun!" Dani jumps back in. "Not something that's going to result in me or any of the rest of you getting killed! Damnit, if I had wanted to be used as a tool I would have just stayed with Vlad!"

Edited 2010-08-08 00:20 (UTC)

Everyone looks stricken at that.

"Sweetie, calm down..."

"No!" Good and angry now, Dani stands up and goes ghost again. "If you guys want to cause some more cave-ins, go right ahead; you can just do it without me. I'm gonna go wait in the car."

With that, one angry halfa zips out of the mine and flies back to the RV.

Danny goes ghost as well, then thinks better of it.

She's his clone, after all. He knows when she needs a few minutes.

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