The one who wants to wear the crown... (( OPEN ))

[Emmet]

~Tod~

He actually didn't even have a reason he just wanted to know. After all he is a ferret, curiousity is a curse on him. "So I actually can adress you as an equal with a name instead of just another lab rat!" Tod shouted back wondering if that was a good enough reason.

[Jasmine]

Jasmine failed to hold back a scowl. "I am just another lab rat," she muttered. "That's the truth." A pause, then she sighed and said, "But if you insist, my name is Jasmine." With that, she turned away and continued to swim, searching intently. She ignored the growing, dull ache in her legs. It was too soon to tire. Much too soon.

[Emmet]

~Tod~

Tod shrugged inwardly as he swam off keeping Jasmine's name in mind, huh guess i'm a lab ferret. hehe quite funny to think about for some reason. Tod thought to himself as he swam off. He glanced around looking for anysigns of shallow looking water. Tod dared to dive down and look for the platform underwater, come on, it should be at least viewable. Tod thought as he was still underwater. He came back up for air and looked around to see if Jasmine found it or not.

[Jasmine]

As soon as the ferret's head broke back through the water's surface, Jasmine opened her mouth to speak. "Should we search in a grid? It'll excite the whitecoats, for sure, and they'll probably toss us in more tests, but we'd be more likely to survive for another day." She waited for the other's reply, then added, "And what's your name, ferret?"

[Emmet]

~Tod~

Tod stared for a second at Jasmine, "*scratchy voice from water* I'm Tod. *cough* there we go, ahem, Tod is my name Lady Jasmine." he said politely then answered her other question, "and yes, I think we should search in a grid." Tod took a deep breath still trying to clear out the water in his throat. "it's at least worth a shot, and besides I think I could survive some more tests if thats what the whitecoats desire." Tod added.

[Jasmine]

"Lady?" Jasmine repeated with a half smirk, half sneer. "That's a new one." She glanced around, then began to make her way towards one side of the pool. "I'll start over here. You start on the other side."

[Emmet]

~Tod~

Tod's grin faltered when it sounded like Jasmine mocked him with how he adresses females. After she swam off Tod dove back under the water trying to not use all his leg strength to prevent himself from sinking. He thought he saw the platform but when he swam towards what seemed like a platform turns out it was just the edge of the pool which was a really high wall impossible to climb. Tod came back up to the surface spitting up water, "where is that damned, platform?!" Tod yelled in frustration and exhaustion. Tod sighed calming down trying to stay positive in the pursuit for the platform and just listen to Jasmine's orders.

[Jasmine]

Jasmine ignored the faltering of Tod's smile, instead focusing on the task at hand. She gritted her teeth, thinking of nothing but keeping her legs moving, swimming forward along the wall of the pool. "Keep looking!" she called. "Keep swimming, even if you think you can't anymore!" The last sentence was to herself as much as it was to the ferret - the ache in her legs was getting harder to ignore with each stroke.

[Emmet]

~Tod~

'keep swimming, even if you think you can't anymore!', sounds pretty discomforting when you say it like that ,Jasmine~ Tod thought still searching as his legs were aching now.
 Then Tod touched something with his back paws and it felt very flat. He swam backwards a couple of inches and stretched his feet and he touched it again. "Hey, Jasmine! I found it!" Tod shouted to Jasmine who was still searching. He swam off the platform and dove under the water again to make sure and he was right, it was the platform. Sadly only big enough for one of the two. Tod was bigger than Jasmine. Oh, great... should I let Jasmine use the platform first? Or turn the tables now? Or maybe just try to share it? Ugh, things like this gives me a headache... Tod thought.

[Jasmine]

"I found it!"

Finally, Jasmine thought as she turned in Tod's direction and started out toward him. I don't know how much longer we would have lasted. She got to the ferret's side and swam around the platform, examining it. "Only big enough for one of us, of course," she muttered. "What do we do?"

Kill him yourself? Let him wear himself out? Let him on? The options flashed one by one in her mind. Could we try to share it? Hang onto the sides, maybe. She was so busy wondering what to do, she didn't see the wave coming until she was hit by a wall of water and swept off to the far end of the pool with a startled squeal. Fighting to keep her head above water as another wave battered her against the glass, she searched wildly for Tod among the suddenly violent waters.

[Emmet]

~Tod~

The sudden violent waves caught Tod off guard as Jasmine was swept away with a squeal. "Jasmi--!" His shout was cut off as he was crashed with a wave making him swallow water and thrown away from Jasmine's direction and the platform, 'that took a while to find the platform too!' Tod thought angrily fighting to keep his head elevated until some of the waves stopped but only for a second leaving Tod struggling to search for Jasmine until more waves hit him backwards into the edge of the pool making Tod become disoriented on what he was doing.

[Jasmine]

Oh, no, oh no, no, no, no.

Jasmine fought back a surge of panic inside her, at the same time fighting a surge of dark water around her. She struggled to keep her head above water, coughing. "Tod!" she managed to yell before going back down. She resurfaced again spluttering, paws churning. Where's the platform? I have to get to the platform, damn it! Her dark fur seemed to weigh her down, the waves clawing at her, trying to drag her to the bottom.

Fight!

The word exploded in her mind, filling her with a white-hot determination. Fight! If you win, you live! If you lose, you die! Fight!!

She pumped her legs, and she was swimming, battling with the current. The platform was here somewhere, I know-

A jolt shook her. She froze, and was immediately picked up by a wave and washed back to where she had started. No, no, please, not now, don't do this to me now-! She felt herself losing control of her body, no matter what she did. Against her will, she began to swim around the side of the pool, away from the area the platform was... towards Tod.

I forgot, she thought bitterly as her body moved towards the ferret. You only live if the whitecoats let you. It doesn't matter whether you fight, whether you win or lose. In her mind, she sighed. Will I die, now?

[Emmet]

~Tod~

Tod heard his name being called by Jasmine, but the waves were bringing her right to him, 'oh, what do I do?! I could just find the platform again and let Jasmine drown... But the whitecoats want a show I suppose... Ugh, they love entertainment and observing from afar." Tod thought and swam to Jasmine pushing against the waves as hard as he can barely making it by her side.
"What do you recommend we do!?" Tod yelled over the waves as he swayed near Jasmine hoping she can hear him.

[Jasmine]

I recommend the whitecoats stop messing with my head, Jasmine snarled in her mind. She tried to speak, to warn Tod that the whitecoats had taken over, but she couldn't even force her mouth open, much less form words. She felt like she was watching herself from outside her body as she paddled up to the ferret... and, to her horror, lunged forward through the water and snapped at his long neck.

Don't make me fight him! she cried inwardly. He'll kill me, damn it! Her jaws closed around the ferret's foreleg. Inside her mind, she screamed outrage. They were sentencing her to death... unless she broke free.

[Emmet]

~Tod~

After doing a pained screech Tod, reacting on instinct to defend himself he brought down his own fangs on the scruff of Jasmine's neck drawing out some blood, 'turning on me already? I should've seen this coming!' Tod mentally shouted at Jasmine as he started doing a small low growl biting harder into the back of her neck trying to pry her off of himself. Then a hard wave crashed into both Tod and Jasmine making them break apart once more.
As Tod was thrown underwater by a wave he spotted the platform and swam for it climbing atop of it keeping a good grip to the corners looking for Jasmine still even having a lingering thought to save her and himself or just attempt to kill her if she got close to the platform.