#yj s2

[danaascullysgf]

ᴡʜᴇʀᴇᴠᴇʀ ʏᴏᴜ ꜱᴛʀᴀʏ, ɪ ꜰᴏʟʟᴏᴡ. | ʟ.ᴍ

ᴡᴏʀᴅ ᴄᴏᴜɴᴛ: 824 (blurb)

ꜱᴜᴍᴍᴀʀʏ: ʟᴏᴛᴛɪᴇ ᴛᴇɴᴅꜱ ᴛᴏ ʏᴏᴜʀ ᴡᴏᴜɴᴅ ᴏɴ ᴛʜᴇ ꜰᴏʀᴇꜱᴛ ꜰʟᴏᴏʀ.

ᴘᴀɪʀɪɴɢ: ʟᴏᴛᴛɪᴇ ᴍᴀᴛᴛʜᴇᴡꜱ x ꜰᴇᴍ ʀᴇᴀᴅᴇʀ

ᴀ/ɴ: ʜɪ! ꜱᴏ ᴛᴡ: ᴛʜɪꜱ ꜰɪᴄ ᴄᴏɴᴛᴀɪɴꜱ ᴀ ꜱᴏᴍᴇᴡʜᴀᴛ ɢʀᴀᴘʜɪᴄ ᴅᴇꜱᴄʀɪᴘᴛɪᴏɴ ᴏꜰ ᴀ ᴛᴡɪꜱᴛᴇᴅ ᴀɴᴋʟᴇ.

The woods stretched out before you, vast and seemingly never-ending. Towering trees lined the trail in front of you, their shadows making it difficult to see across the path. But with Lottie by your side, the wilderness didn’t feel so scary, at least, not until the ground gave out from under you.

Your foot caught on a hidden root, twisting your ankle in a painful, unnatural direction. A sharp, strangled cry slipped from your lips as you tumbled forward, hitting the ground hard. Your palms scraped against the jagged rocks beneath the dirt, and a sharp jolt of pain shot through your leg.

“Lottie,” you gasped, your breath quickening as the pain worsened, your body unable to keep you steady.

Lottie was there in an instant, her presence like a lifeline. She crouched down beside you, her hands immediately reaching for your leg. Her gaze softened when she saw the way you winced.

“Are you okay?” Her voice was calm, but there was an edge of panic to it you could hear beneath her steadiness.

“I think I twisted my ankle. It really hurts.” You tried to move it, but the instant you did, pain surged through your body, and you groaned, biting your lip to stop from crying out.

Her hands were gentle as she inspected your ankle, her fingertips gliding over your skin with a careful touch. “Let me see it,” she murmured, and her eyes locked onto you as she began to unwrap the scarf from around her neck.

You watched her, the way her face softened into a worried frown. Even out here, with the trees closing in around you and no one else in sight, she made you feel like everything would be okay. You trusted her completely, even now when you were sitting on the ground with a throbbing ankle.

With a few quick motions, she fashioned a makeshift bandage and wrapped it around your injured foot. Her fingers were light and reassuring, as though her touch alone could take all your pain away.

“There. How’s that feel?” she asked, her voice low and soothing.

You tried moving your foot again, but it was too much. You let out a breathy laugh, half in frustration and half in relief. “Not great,” you admitted, wincing at the strain in your voice. “I don’t think I’m gonna be able to walk on it anytime soon.”

Lottie didn’t say anything right away. She just helped you to your feet slowly, her hands guiding you upright. The second you tried to put weight on your foot, your face contorted in pain, and you stumbled against her. She wrapped her arm around your waist instantly, pulling you close and holding you steady.

“Alright. No way you’re walking back like this.” She gave you a small smile, though you could see the worry in her eyes. “Lean on me.”

“Lottie…” You protested weakly, but she was already supporting most of your weight, her shoulder acting as your steady anchor. There was no way you were getting away from her.

“Hey, don’t worry about it,” she said softly, her voice calm. “We’ll get back to the cabin, no problem. I’ve got you.”

You leaned into her, a little embarrassed but so grateful for her unwavering support. The air was crisp, and your heart beat a little faster in your chest, not just from the pain but from the closeness. Her arm still wrapped around you, like she wasn’t planning on letting you go, not for a second.

Every step felt longer than the last, but you didn’t mind. Because with her, you felt like you could endure anything. You could survive the wilderness as long as she was there to hold you.

“I’m sorry,” you whispered after a while, the ache in your ankle still sending sharp pains up your leg. “I didn’t mean to slow us down.”

Lottie laughed softly, the sound a sweet salve to your worried mind. “Are you kidding? It’s okay. You’re not slowing me down at all.” Her voice softened, and you could hear the affection in it. “I’d carry you if I had to.”

You couldn’t help but smile, despite the pain. “You’d carry me? You sure you’d be able to?”

Lottie huffed out a quiet laugh, nudging you with her shoulder. “I’d find a way,” she said, her voice light, but her eyes steady on yours. “I mean, you’d owe me big time, but I’d do it.”

You leaned a little more into her as you walked, the pain still sharp, but dulled by her help. “I think I already owe you,” you murmured.

“Nah,” she replied, glancing down at you with a small smile. “This is just what we do. You’d do the same for me.”

You didn’t answer right away, just nodded and kept walking with her, one slow step at a time, the two of you making your way through the silence of the woods.

[frnkieroismydaddy]

You know how it is with winter in Canada

[angeluvvs]

𝗻𝗼𝘄 𝗽𝗹𝗮𝘆𝗶𝗻𝗴: first date by blink-182

a/n: based on the rec "Natalie x shy reader dating fluff" @ashtonslefb0ob

content: secret relationship ooo, just straight fluff (as per request, i got you, babe), just a tad bit of angst, nightmares, 1.5k words

sweet secret / natalie scatorccio

now, since when did you ever care about soccer before? and what in the hell made you start? well, the answer is currently weaving a ball between her legs as she laughs on the field, lines of sheen sweat covering her forehead.

one of her signature cocky laughs falls from between her lips as she ends up kicking the ball past van, straight into the goal.

you had become assistant to misty, always helping out with setting up the field and coming along to away games as an honorary equipment manager. all for your girl.

"jesus, nat. again?" taissa says from the edge of the field, panting as she comes closer to nat, who was absolutely beaming at the third goal she made in a row.

she shrugged, fiddling with the ring on her finger that you had given her. "i just have my good luck charm on me today." her words are punctuated by a smile and a wink to you in the bleachers. and it's safe to say you are absolutely preening at the attention.

after about fifteen more minutes of watching her practice, coach martinez calls it for the day, and she immediately makes her way over to you.

"hey, baby." she whispers, leaning in close enough that only you could hear her. "how'd i do?"

your entire body is practically thrumming at the proximity and the gravelly rasp of her voice. it was one of your favorite things about her, how she always managed to just sound good. "mhm, you were great, nat."

she smiled, her fingers trailing over the cool edge of the bleachers, the space between you two growing smaller and smaller with each passing second. "just great? come on, you can do better than that, doll."

if you were blushing before, it was about ten times worse now. your fingers fall to your lap, messing with the hem of your pants as you glare at her through your brows, silently begging her to knock it the hell off. "you were phenomenal," you said through a smile, seeming to please her as she leaned away from you and grabbed her bag, plucking your fingers straight out of your lap and tugging you down the bleachers.

just like every day, nat walks you home (like a sweetheart, might i add). her hand is interlinked with your own, in typical 'best friend" fashion, of course. no one knows yet about the two of you being together, but she swears that she will tell people eventually. eventually just seems years away whenever you have to hide your love for one of the best things that's ever happened to you.

"so, the party tonight, are we all set to go?" she asks, her voice pulling you from the momentary wandering your mind had become so accustomed to.

a frown etches onto your lips, a gentle sigh falling from between your teeth. this was one of the many joys of high school for most, but for you? it was a patriarchal nightmare. and before you could even begin to voice your complaints, natalie beats you to it.

"we don't have to go," she reassures, which immediately sparks a rambling from you.

"nat, no--" that she is infinitely quick to cut off.

"it's fine, babe. we can have a sleepover at your place." she says, eyes coated with thick, smudged eyeliner meeting your own in the most sympathetic way possible. she knows how bad those parties can be for you and even feels slightly bad she had pushed to go to one with you in the first place. "we can watch some shitty romcom and make out and have the best night of our lives, no party included."

her words elicit a small warmth blooming in your chest, the tug of her hand in yours grounding you as you offer a small nod. "okay."

the copy of bound that you borrowed from your parents is finishing up as you pull away from nat, breathing heavily and laughing at some stupid comment she made. both of you are in a set of pjs you let her borrow, the bright colors looking way too good on her.

you sigh and check your clock on the side of the bed, seeing that it was well past 1 in the morning.

"shit," you mumbled, picking up the half-empty bowl of popcorn and bringing it to the kitchen as she followed, her steps ever so slightly hinting at a tired linger.

her arms wrap around your waist as you dump out the rest of the popcorn, nuzzling her face into your neck with a gentle murmur. "you're so soft."

a giggle releases from your chest, rolling your eyes as the bowl is forgotten entirely, and she drags you right back to your room. you could never get too far away from her. she shoves you down onto the bed, draping all of her limbs over your own, small kisses pressed to your neck as she mumbles something about being tired.

the peace of such a domestic moment has you feeling the same way, placing a gentle kiss on her head as you both drift into sleep.

the next day, you two wake up and board the plane, both still feeling the aftereffects of your grogginess in full effect against your bodies. a sharp jolt of the plane has you feeling slightly more awake, anxiously eyeing nat.

"did you feel that?" you whispered, to which she replied with a soft mumble that it was okay and just continued to rub your hand more.

you nodded, looking out the window to see the plane slightly angled downwards. that's not normal. a moment later, a red light flashes above the head, the sound of the PA ringing out in a warning that something had malfunctioned. you stopped listening after those words. all that mattered was that the plane was going down. fast.

nat's words become muddied in your ear as you feel the steady descent grow quicker and quicker, green trees coming into view as oxygen masks drop down in front of you. you quickly fumble to put yours on, tears beginning to sprout in your eyes, as you pull natalie closer.

the impact is jarring, leaving you ever so slightly dazed and dizzy. you feel a tightness in your leg as you try to follow natalie out, her tugging you up out of your seat. only, you are stuck, fighting against the metal that holds you down as you scream, pleading for help.

the sound of your own ragged breathing wakes you up, a cold sweat dripping down your shirt as the realization comes to you: you're in bed. safe.

tears still overcome you, a sharp ache in your head forming as your heart does absolutely nothing to stop its frantic pounding against your chest. you feel a hand grip your wrist, that same familiar rasp filling your ears.

"breathe, baby, breathe," she instructs, her free hand going over your chest and rubbing it. "tell me five things you can see." she starts, coaching you through the panic as your eyes meet hers.

"i can see���" you start, swallowing the spit that accumulated in your throat. "you, the window… the bed, my room, and…" you stop for a moment, tears flooding your vision. she waits for you to finish, just brushing her hands against your skin. "and… my hoodie on the floor."

she smiles, whispering ever so softly to you. "good job, that was great. four things you can touch." she prompts.

"You..." you say with a smile, immediately flicking back to that frown that had set in your face. "the comforter, my shirt, and… and the pillow."

she continues this for a while, allowing you to acclimate back to what you remembered. she questions you for a moment, trying to find out what had you coiled so tightly.

"the plane… i had a dream that it… crashed." you admitted, tears ready to spring from your eyes once more. she shook her head, brushing her fingers against your cheeks.

"doll, i promise, that won't happen. i'll be there with you the whole time, i swear. we'll be alright." she reassures, cool eyes meeting your own in an ocean of sapphire. a new pang arises in your chest as you whisper delicately,

"when are we going to tell people about us?" you ask. the question seems to take her back a bit, eyes widening and fingers stilling on your skin. she sighs, nodding slowly.

"after nationals, love. after we win." she promised, fingers tightening around your wrist once more before gently linking with your own. "we'll be okay; we'll do it together."

and with that, she helps you lie down, cuddling you up into her chest. you fall asleep to the sound of her gentle breathing and the prospect that yes, you will be alright. just the two of you.

what's the worst that could happen?

if you are ever feeling anxious, that method is called the 5-4-3-2-1 method and it works so well at grounding people. please use it if you need to.

au revoir! have a great day, a great night, or a great life! <3

[sparkthespork]

Honestly my one of my favorite things about Yellowjackets is that it’s like the “high-school-stereotype turns out to be more than that” trope, but turned up to such a grotesque and horrifying degree. Like-

“Turns out the popular girl has her own weaknesses/insecurities!” Yeah and she literally freaking dies for them.

“Wow! The rebellious punk girl we were all afraid of is actually really nice!” So let’s turn her into this borderline divine figure, entrust her with our lives and follow her deep into the wilderness as she’s the last one to hold onto a sliver of humanity and not turn into some primal, depraved animal.

“Oh! So the weird childish kid is actually capable of things!” Mm hmm, capable of MURDER. Capable of holding the cards of life and death itself in her little hands and becoming so needed yet so feared.

“That strange quiet kid finally finds her voice!” AND STARTS A CULT.

I could keep going but just- Y’all that retro 90’s energy of exploring the high school trope coupled with the utter gruesome obscenity that is their situation… It so does it for me. Everyone’s become so suffocated in their little boxes that the only way to break out is in a dramatic frenzy where they start killing each other. Glorious.

[samulet67]

Yellowjackets / 2×09 / 3×09

[alex-the-bringer-of-chaos]

Ik that the technical point of no return was in s3, but they fully intended to murder Nat, Misty pulled her away (to save Nat, but still) when she tried to save Javi, and all the girls let him die. I don't care that they needed to eat, this whole hunt, they went after her, and cruelty with Javi made it clear that the snowball just got bigger and bigger.

Don't blame my man Ben on getting the fuck away from them girls. As he said after seeing them lose more and more humanity:

[deep-friend-love]

WATCHING YELLOWJACKETS SEASON 3 AND MISTY WAS SO EXCITED THEY MIGHT HAVE HELD AN INTERVENTION FOR HER BECAUSE THAT WOULD MEAN THEY CARED OH MY HEART </3

oh my god i think im gonna throw up my shayla :(

[amberpriceenthusiast]

None of the girls truly survived the wilderness btw. They all died out there

[you-wanna-save-the-corn-nuts]

i think abt this photo every dayyy like hell yeah you did liv you acted van into a survivor ✨✨

[natslovi]

ok. i think everyone is being kinda dumb with saying like “oh there’s 5 seasons they’re gonna get rescued in season 5!” like. we’ve SEEN new winter shots in season 3 trailers and promos and stuff and we’ve SEEN them in second winter and it’s like. don’t u guys wanna see post rescue?? don’t u wanna see what happened after they got back?? like ik i do. and like yeah i’ll miss the wilderness but like obvi there’s gonna be flashbacks back to it? like it won’t be the main focus but like. use ur brains pls. we have 2 seasons left we’re in summer rn ofc they’re gonna get rescued?

they skipped spring and if they skip fall(which i think they’re gonna do, or at least have one ep in fall) then it’ll go straight to winter and then rescue. personally, im super happy abt this bc it means we’ll get to see how they got rescued and post rescue and prob more chance to see wiskayok as they’re in the wilderness and how things are going on there(also antler queen reveal and pit girl reveal this season yippee!) ppl will be FUMING cuz they’ll be mad they skipped a lot of their time there(which i think they’ll obvi go back to) and they’ll miss the wilderness but AGAIN. FLASHBACKS !!

[virgoactias]

a little throwback to season 2 because im rewatching it but i’m eternally obsessed with the scene in which frozen jackie asks shauna about how her relationship with jeff started and then says that they were fighting because jeff wanted to have sex with her followed by the line of dialogue that goes something like

s: i didn’t know.

j: yes you did.

because yeah.. she actually DID know that despite jackie never telling her and that is why now the hallucination jackie is telling that. because shauna knew that all along and her subconsciousness is now bringing that up

[hannahwatcheshorror]

Season One Recap

SEASON TWO RECAP 

e1 - Friends, Romans, Countrymen - It is a harsh winter for the lost girls in the cabin, Shauna keeps talking to the frozen corpse of Jackie while Taissa's sleepwalking gets worse and hurts Van. The Adult Survivors are still struggling to cover up the murder of Adam (see s1e9) who is on the news and now has citizen sleuths looking into his death (oh no!). Adult Shauna realizes that Adam had an art studio and it might behoove her to look inside. Adult Taissa is confronted with the results of her sleepwalking (killing the family dog) and her wife gives her an ultimatum: her job or her son.  Adult Shauna and Jeff find a lot of paintings of Shauna so it is good they went to Adam’s studio. Natalie and Travis continue to map the area while looking for Javi but he has been missing since Doomcoming (s1e9) so prospects for him being okay are very dim. Tiassa and Van exchange I love you's which is very powerful but Taissa is going through a terrible bout of her sleepwalking. Adult Taissa is also struggling with her sleepwalking and she discovers her dead dog shrine and vows to be better. Adult Shauna finally burns her journals and Adams ID but not well enough that her daughter doesn't find the ID! Shauna eats Jackie's ear. (Wack)

e2- Edible Complex - Shauna is haunted by her dead friend Jackie which is freaking everyone out but Shauna is wondering if it isn't time to eat the dead... Taissa's sleepwalking almost leads her off a cliff but thankfully Van is there to save her. Travis is still obsessed with finding his brother, Javi, so Natalie pretends to find his bloody clothes to indicate the boy is dead. Our helpful policeman Kevyn is here to tell Adult Shauna that they have some questions for her about Adam but she dodges them pretty well. Elijah Wood enters as a new mysterious guest who is taxing Adult Misty badly. Adult Lottie tells Nat the story of how Travis actually died, it was an accident, he was only hanging himself to talk to the spirit of the woods or whatever but then the machine wouldn't let him back down (oh no!). Adult Lottie was there when it happened but couldn't do anything, she even saw Laura Lee (see s1e8) but she was dead and horrible and when Lottie turned around Travis was dead. The girls finally decide it is best to let Jackie rest by ceremonial fire and back in the 2020's Adult Shauna's daughter spills the beans to a random guy at a bar who turns out to be a cop who figures out what Shauna did to Adam! Oh no! Adult Taissa gets in a car wreck with her estranged wife. Back at the cabin things at the fire aren't going too hot (literally) when a big blanket of snow falls on Jackie from the tree, this creates the perfect conditions for cooking and the girls all wake up to a meal. Coach is the only one who does not cannibalize Jackie's corpse in this starvation feast and he now seems much more afraid of the girls.

e3- Digestif - The girls must face the horror of their actions in the daylight and are now wondering what to do with the remains of the remains (put ‘em back in the plane, out of sight-out of mind). Adult Taissa is okay after the accident but her wife is not, while Shauna and Jeff process big feelings about why Shauna cheated (ugh) in the first place and then they get their car stolen. Elijah Wood, Walter, with the help of Adult Misty, questions Randy about Nat's disappearance. Nat takes Jackie's bones to the plane and almost gets stomped on by a moose while the girls plan a baby shower for Shauna. Adult Jeff tells policeman Kevyn off but Kevyn just doubles down on the cheating wife theory while Shauna gets the car back by threatening a little gun violence. Coach has dreams of what could have been and the girls collect “His” blessings in the form of birds that killed themselves on the cabin. Adult Lottie has a vision of death to come, blood honey to be more precise.

e4- Old Wounds - Taissa keeps sleepwalking to trees with the mysterious symbol carved in them and Van wants desperately to talk to Lottie about it but Taissa won't let her for some strange reason. Adult Taissa wakes up having driven somewhere in her sleep, which is very disorienting! The cabin gang get into a disagreement about who/what is at fault for the lack of food so Nat decides that her and Lottie will duke it out. Adult Misty and Elijah Wood (Walter) continue their search for Natalie and are hot on the trail of Lottie's cult. Adult Shauna comes clean to her daughter about (almost) everything after Shauna discovers she couldn't keep hiding her secrets much longer (Jeff was NOT pleased about this). Adult Natalie helps a new friend with her angry mother and rescues her fish. Nat, with the help of everyone from the cabin, tries to get the frozen moose from the lake but it slips from their grasp while Lottie tries not to freeze to death. Somehow, Taissa's sleepwalking had been leading her to find Javi! Travis is very happy but confused because of what Nat did in s2e2 with the bloody pants. Our episode ends with Adult Tai meeting up with Van!

e5- Two Truths and a Lie - Some of the girls in the cabin are beginning to follow Lottie and what she has to say which is freaking the stragglers out. Adult Shauna's daughter goes on a date with an undercover cop but she snoops and finds out he’s a cop so throws him off the scent of the truth. Adult Taissa and Van talk about Taissa's sleepwalking problem. Misty gets her best friend killed out in the cold because she shares her deep dark secret from F Sharp (s1e2) about the plane's emergency transmitter, so, off the cliff with her friend, I guess (but Misty will lie about how the friend disappears). Adult Shauna tries to throw the cops off her scent but they are too clever for the lies laid out in front of them. Adult Misty breaks things off with Elijah Wood (Walter) because he knows too much about her (and Adam (gasp!)) and then attempts to join Lottie's cult to save Nat. Adult Van is presented with sleepwalking Taissa who is another beast entirely. Back at the cabin it appears that Shauna is going into labor during a snowstorm, oh my! Also, there was a darkness in the forest coming for them (or from them) and it is back in the present times with them now, oh no!

e6- Qui - Shauna is in labor! And there are problems with the labor! Oh no! The placenta came out first when usually it comes out second! Oh no! But she has the baby okay! Hooray! Adult Shauna and her daughter are brought in for police questioning and Shauna lets loose that she was sleeping with Adam. After some trouble getting the baby to latch, Shauna finally gets him to drink her milk. Adult Taissa and Van arrive at Lottie's cult around the same time Shauna barrels in. Shauna wakes up to the baby being gone and maybe the whole cabin eating it? OH NO! Turns out the baby being alive at all was just in Shauna's dreams since she passed out giving birth, her baby did not survive birth. Very sad but also explains quickly why Adult Shauna doesn't have a 20 something year old son in the present... Yikes either way. The episode ends with her clutching her dead child and asking if we can hear it crying.

e7- Burial - Everyone in the cabin is very sad after the loss of the child, Shauna is taking it especially hard (obviously). Coach is having severe hallucinations about his ex, Paul, while Shauna puts her baby to rest outside under some rocks. At Adult Lottie's cult the gang is picking out different treatments to begin their “healing”. Misty overhears that some of the girls think she killed her friend, Crystal (because she did) so Misty starts a search party for Crystal and some other girls express interest in eating Crystal if she is found dead which concerns Misty. Adult Taissa, not enjoying her therapy, confides in Lottie about the sleepwalking. Adult Shauna, also not enjoying her therapy, confides in Lottie about her daughter. Misty tries to find Crystal's body but cannot and instead intercepts Coach trying to kill himself and she stops him. Adult Van admits to Taissa that she has cancer and only has months to live (sad!). Adult Lottie is seeing a lot that isn't there and it is really freaking her out. The Adult Gang gets together and discusses what they learned in their therapies with some tequila from Van's car (and surprisingly Nat is upset) they all dance in the snow. Back at the cabin Lottie lets Shauna let all her anger out on Lottie's face and Shauna beats the hell out of her. A call from Jeff confirms a body has been discovered and the cops think it is Adam, oh no! "Does a hunt that has no violence feed anyone?"

e8- It Chooses - The hunger is starting to drive the girls in the cabin mad while in the present all six (6) survivors now know the original four (4) helped Adam disappear. The cops go into Adult Jeff and Shauna's home and turn the place over because they found Adam's body (but they won't find anything at the house, right?). The cops grill Adult Jeff about the murder but he stands strong even in the face of all the awful pictures. The six (6) survivors air all their recent secrets with one another while Callie (Shauna's daughter) and Jeff share a beer together and Jeff tells her that Shauna had a baby in the woods who died. Speaking of babes in the woods, the girls in the cabin have a lottery to see who has to DIE TO BE MEAT and Nat draws the black card so they start to HUNT HER. Coach is out finding Javi's hideaway while this is happening, by the way. Javi finally begins to speak again and says he will take Nat somewhere safe but on the way he falls through the ice. Everyone just lets him drown because the "wilderness chose" which is rough, and then they collect his corpse to eat.

e9- Storytelling - We see Travis' reaction to Javi's death (very sad) and Shauna having to bleed Javi's body (yuck!). Coach learns that Nat let Javi die in her place and is heartbroken, he leaves. Callie and Adult Jeff go to find Shauna at Lottie's cult but the cops are there too! Adult Jeff does a false confession to Kevyn but Elijiah Wood (Walter) is back and he is poisoning the hot cocoa (see The Bad Seed). Lottie questions if the woods really do want what is best for them once Javi has been butchered and cooked but Misty doesn't care about Lottie's feelings. In the present the Adult Survivors gear up for another hunt to appease the woods or whatever strange force drives them and Shauna draws the black card. Everyone but Adult Shauna don wilderness masks and grab knives and begin to turn on Shauna (much like Shirley Jackson's The Lottery). Callie shoots at Lottie for hunting her mother which stops the hunt. Lottie proclaims she is no longer the leader, that the wilderness has chosen Natalie since it didn't let them kill her. Adult Nat's friend (s2e4)  comes in with a long gun and threatens them all because she doesn't know what is going on so Misty charges her with a syringe of poison, Nat jumps in the way and takes the full dose. "[Death] It's not evil, just hungry (like us)." Adult Natalie totally dies which is a bummer because I really liked her. The cabin catches fire and it was sort of implied that maybe Coach set the fire but who knows we'll have to watch the next season!

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[pintsofguinnesmakeyoustrong]

you don't see a person as a person when you see them do something bad.

[jilyandbambi]

yeah, if 6 teenage girls and 1 teenage boy had emerged from the Canadian wilderness after 19 months with a 1 year old baby in tow, there would've been no escaping the media hellstorm. They would've been on 20/20 within 3 months. One group interview and a few candids of Shauna holding the baby would've been the price they'd all have had to pay in order to be left tf alone because while in 2023 society pretends to care about trauma, PTSD, and teens' mental health, this was the 90s--when Nicole Brown Simpson was blamed for her own murder, Lorena Bobbit was a late-night punchline, R. Kelly marrying 15 y/o Aalyiah was an open secret, grown men were calling into radio stations to speculate on 16 y/o Britney Spears' virginity, and Monica Lewinsky was doxxed and getting death threats for sucking off Bill Clinton.

What I'm saying is:

Seven teens (the girls + Travis) surviving against the odds for 19 months is the epilogue to a tragedy with enough unanswered questions to keep true crime nerds speculating & reporters digging.

But them being found with an infant? Had it come out that one of the girls was pregnant and gave birth during the ordeal? That's mainstream tabloid fodder. The kind that not even "papers of repute" would turn their noses up at. Barbara Walters, Lesley Stahl, and Mike Wallace would be beating each other and TMZ down to get the first interview, the first photo of the baby. NBC would've backed a U-Haul full of money onto the Shipman's, the Martinez', and the Sadecki's front yard (because speculation as to who the actual father really was would be kept going until it came directly from the source). Did she know she was pregnant when she got on the plane? Who else knew? What was it like giving birth? Did any of the other girls get pregnant? How many of the girls did Travis do it with? Weren't any of them afraid of the same thing happening to them? Did doing it help them cope?

And it wouldn't just be the media. Doctors, child development specialists, psychologists, sociologists, and academics would be calling non-stop to get Shauna and the baby to participate in clinical trials and studies.

The only way they'd have been left alone is if they'd done a televised interview and ended it by pleading to be allowed to go on with their lives in peace

[rickyriddle]

I've seen scene compilations of these two separately, but most of their speaking scenes are together, so I thought it could be nice to have a compilation of them together in full. I only put scenes where they are both in it and speaking. This is for Season 2 only.

[alex-the-bringer-of-chaos]

The scene flashing between Shauna giving the necklace back to Jackie and putting it on Nat. The score. The delivery of "You're gonna have to look me in the eye" by Sophie. The labored breathing by both Sophies. Travis saving her because she saved him when Shauna had her knife on his throat in s1. The girls hunting her down just like they did in s1. Javi sharing a look with his brother and running to help Nat. Perfection!