Originally Posted by Harron Peasley

Darwin's hair was in his eyes, his mouth was still full of grass that he was desperately attempting to spit out, his back hurt and he was now finding it very difficult to breathe.

And although he was not clever, not smart, and couldn't read properly, the twelve year old knew that he needed to be able to breathe to live.

...CUE PANIC MODE.

He began to struggle underneath the other boy, thrashing his arms about and kicking his legs and trying DESPERATELY to throw him off him. "P-p-plea-se... geddoff me." He could barely manage to talk and he was DYING here. DYING because this boy was MEAN and WEIRD and TOTALLY KILLING HIM RIGHT NOW.

And he, Darwin, wasn't ready to die. Not ready whatsoever! He had stuff to learn and things to do and friends to make and he was pretty sure his Mum didn't want him dead, either. Neither would Brooke and Oskar and his Dad and... well, Emiline probably would, but she just didn't count as a person.

"The t-t-ree?" Now it was time for him to adopt a confused look, and the shock of the idea stopped him from struggling. "Bu-but.. why... why w-would I... want t-to... chase the tree?!" That was an ABSURD idea, and absolutely MAD accusation! Of course he wasn't chasing the TREE, that would probably get him KILLED.

...Well, killed faster than being sat on, at least.

Which he was still not enjoying. Dragging deep breaths, Darwin's confused look deepened. "I'm not... c-calling th-the... tree 'Paul! Th-that's my... Pgymy P-puff's name! An-and he's... running... towards the... t-tree!" And if the boy didn't get off him now and let him rescue Paul then...

Well, he wasn't sure what he'd do, since he was pinned down and couldn't exactly do much. He couldn't even imagine what Spiderman would do in such a situation, because he couldn't imagine Spiderman ever getting into such a situation. He was just a stupid attempt at being his hero right now and that was embarrassing. Maybe he was just not cut out for this Superhero business. :-(

And how this boy had ACCOMPLICES. OTHER PEOPLE who were going to keep him from Paul and hurt him some more. "N-no! EVER-YONE is N-NOT ok-okay. I c-can't BR-BREATHE. And Paul is g-going to d-die." And so was he, but he didn't focus on the fact that because he was talking (however breathless his voice was) that meant that he could totally breathe and therefore wasn't dying. No, that wasn't the case.

LOOK. PERSON RUNNING. TOWARD THE TREE. "THANK YOU. SAVE PAUL, PERSON RUNNING." Because she seemed NICE. She seemed like she really wanted to help him, and not KILL him like this other weird person and his accomplice was trying to.

"Now c-can you... geddoff... m-me?"

Originally Posted by TakemetotheBurrow

O__O Ella's eyes grew wide as the boy underneath Alec started shouting at her. Well he was more attempting to shout as it seemed he couldn't quite put his words together at the moment. "Calm down and take a deep breath." She said quietly, turning her attention to Sophie and the runaway puff and then back to the boys in front of her. She didn't want this other boy to pass out or something or worse, start swinging on Alec, who was still kind of on top of the boy. "He's not going to die, Sophie is good with her wand, she'll stop him. She stopped mine." Yup, Barnabus was now safely sitting on Ella's shoulder. Looking back towards the willow, Ella called over her shoulder to her friend. "Sophie, don't get too close! Use your wand if you have to!" Cause she was good with her wand and Ella didn't want her friend to get wacked by the willow which was swaying menacingly back and forth.

Looking back down again, she heard the boy plea with Alec to get off of him. Why hadn't he got off of the boy yet? Oh no! Had he hurt himself when he tried to stop the angry boy from heading towards the willow? Concern now on her face, she held out her hands to help Alec pull himself up. "Here, I'll help." Cause she wasn't mean like the boy on the ground was making her out to be.