[IC] City Comes to the Country (Tyler Night and Whitelily)

[Tyler Night]

He looks down at her.

"Well, it is only a couple minutes away so you don't have to worry about waiting too long."

Suddenly a buzzer starts going off and people start making their way over to the splash zone.

"30 seconds to the dump."

He says with a smile and walks up with Ele. As he stands there he raises his arms and leans back. The buzzer blares until the sound of rushing water is heard. The rush sounding very intense but rushing over the tower it comes down with just a small splash down. He takes it with a smile on his face. He sprays some of the water from his lips and shakes his head.

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With a cautious smile, Ele closed her eyes and braced for the water to come down on her. It wasn't as intense as she had expected, and Ele laughed as she was immediately soaked. Opening her eyes, Ele put her hands up when Tyler shook himself,

"Hey!"

She laughed leaning away from Tyler. When the water stopped falling and the air was dry again, Ele removed the swim cap carefully and shook out her dry hair. She set the cap on the side of the pool and began going towards deeper water, looking over her shoulder at Tyler and smiling at him.

[Tyler Night]

Smiles back at her and follows her in. He stands in full view of her and chuckles as he pops his pecs at her.

"Too bad that thing is so tight, they have a 30 foot tall water slide here that goes 22 miles per hour."

He braces himself against the side of the pool.

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"Oh dear God!"

Ele rolled her eyes at Tyler and laughed as she sank down into the warm water while he leaned against the side of the pool. She shrugged apologetically,

"Well you can still go on it, I'm fine here really."

She truly was, the warm water was soothing, and Ele was enjoying the relaxing feeling of just floating in the water. Tyler's physique surprised her though, for someone who seemed like he didn't work out, his body certainly said otherwise. Ele herself wasn't a gym rat, she liked her curves, but she kept herself toned with yoga and pilates when she had access to a her machine.

[Tyler Night]

He laughs at her exclamation, sinking into the water more.

"I am fine just relaxing for now."

He lets himself float up to the surface.

"I will go later when I get more energy. Maybe you will be ready then?"

He looks over to her smiling.

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Ele shrugged and did a few circles around then went to stand next to Tyler.

"I want to, but the swim cap hurts my stitches, so unless I can keep myself from going underwater I may not be able to go today."

She looked apologetically at Tyler,

"Sorry."

[Tyler Night]

"We can check to see if they have something with more give or something if you want."

He puts his arms up on the edge of the pool near her but not behind her.

"No need to apologize Ele, it can't be helped."

He watches as a kid comes flying out of the tube of the slide in a raft. He smirks and says.

"Hey, looks like you can ride down in a raft or inner tube now."

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Ele did feel bad that Tyler had taken her here and she was unable to take full advantage of the park, but when he pointed out the kid coming down in the tube, her face lit up. Instead of plunging underwater, the tube kept the kid afloat and out of the water,

"That would work!"

She said excitedly, straightening up and smiling.

"Want to go get in line?"

[Tyler Night]

"Of course."

He says with a smile. He walks out of the pool and looks back at her.

"You should probably sit behind me, still gonna get splashed with water."

Walking up to the steps, he looks up.

"20 steps up."

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"No problem!"

Ele said happily, jogging up the steps in front of Tyler and getting in line. Closer to the top was a pile of single and double innertubes. Ele grabbed a double, taking into consideration that Tyler was probably right about the splashing,

"I have no shame in using you as my splash guard, by the way."

[Tyler Night]

"I have no problem being your splash guard."

He smirks at her and walks to the tube with her. The man operating the slide holds the tube in the slide. Tyler climbs in and leans back against the divider. The divider having a hard plastic piece holding him rigid. The Operator says.

"Slide all the way forward and hold onto him around his chest and put your legs over the divider."

He gives her a few seconds to get in position then says.

"Launching."

Pushing the tube into the tunnel, before they realized they were diving into darkness and being whipped around as they slide. For less than a second they are hit by sunlight as the fly through the tunnel going to the outside then coming back inside. As they come through the tunnel the light from the end of the tunnel becomes visible just seconds before they are dumped out, being sprayed with water.

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Hesitating at the direction to hold onto Tyler, Ele gingerly put her arms around him and positioned herself accordingly. She could feel Tyler's chest rising and falling with his breaths, and even his heartbeat under her palm. AS they were launched into the tube, Ele squeaked and soon they were shooting through the dark.

"Oh my gosh!"

Ele gasped as they rocked back and forth and sped down and into the light. As they were sprayed, Ele laughed and ducked her head behind Tyler, her head between his shoulders.

"That was so fun!"

[Tyler Night]

"That was a blast!"

He says with a laugh. He stands up, helping Ele out and slicks his hair back once again.

"Uh oh, I see a little blood on your bandage."

He walks out with her.

"Think we should clean it a bit and get some new gauze on there."

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"Oh,"

Ele said, raising her hand to her forehead and moving to get out of the pool. She waded out and stood on the side,

"Is there a first aid kit nearby?"

[Tyler Night]

"Should be."

As they are walking away one of the workers notices the blood as well.

"Do you need some help?"

She asks. Tyler nods and says.

"Yeah. I was just looking for some. Think we need to get her wrap changed."

"Okay, come over to the nurses station, we will get it sealed up."

He looks at Ele and nods. The worker walks over to the station, grabbing out the first aid kit, pulling out some gauze and tape.

"The tape is waterproof, so, hopefully you won't need to change it for the rest of the day."

She says as she prepares the patch.

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"That would be great,"

Ele said, sitting still for the nurse as she changed the patch. Ele looked at Tyler, a thankful smile on her lips. When the nurse was finished and Ele patched up, she followed Tyler out,

"I still don't quite understand this whole 'nice guy' thing,"

She admitted as she found a spot to sit on the edge of the pool, her legs dangling in the water. Looking at Tyler, Ele gave a teasing smile,

"But really, are you like this with everyone, or just girls?"

[Tyler Night]

"I am like this with everybody. Typically more friendly with girls but I am just a friendly person in general."

He smiles and sits down with her.

"Chalk it up to living with a single mom who brought me up to be friendly and kind with everybody until given a reason not to be kind or friendly."

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"but there's a difference between being friendly and doing what you're doing for me."

Ele sighed and looked down at the water, kicking her legs a little bit,

"I guess I should listen to that old saying, 'don't look a gift horse in the mouth'. I guess what I'm really getting at is... Thank you, for helping me. You could have left me at the hospital, but you're sticking around. In a new place, that's really helpful."

[Tyler Night]

"Well, it is the right thing to do. I was there to get you to safety, it just seemed to fall into place that I would be the one to help you out and I ended up being the one to continue helping you out."

He smiles at her.

"It is nice to see a semi familiar face even if it is just a day or 2 old to you."

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Ele nodded, leaning down and cupping water over her legs to warm them back up. She was coming to see Tyler as a steady place while her life was being rocked with the accident, her concussion, and how he had defended her against her boss made Ele realize he was a strong, safe harbor. He wasn't the storms that had battered her in the past, but Ele was still guarded. She was fiercely independent, and relying on someone scared her more than being alone,

"Want to go on the slide again?"

She asked, looking at Tyler from the corner of her eye,

"With this water proof tape on I can be in front this time."