"I cannot believe you lost the map," scolded Annie.

"And I can't believe you gave it to me in the first place!" he replied angrily. "Seriously Annie, you've known me for 2 years, did you really think that was a good idea?"

"I kept tripping trying to read the damn thing! Besides, I thought even you would be able to hold onto a map for longer than a couple of hours!"

"OK, let's just stop, we're going around in circles," he told her.

"… which we wouldn't be doing if you didn't lose the…"

"I MEANT the arguing!"

"Oh."

They stood in awkward silence for a moment, before Annie sighed and sat down on a nearby rock. Putting her head into her hands she asked "What are we going to do Jeff? We could be miles out from the others by now."

He was trying his phone again, but was still having no luck getting a signal. He'd been annoyed once arriving at the campsite to discover he couldn't dial out, but now he was pissed. "Whose bright idea was this whole thing anyway?"

"Don't look at me; I'd rather be at home studying for finals! Pierce was the one who was complaining that we hadn't included him in anything lately. I think Troy and Abed suggested the trip because they wanted to shoot something for a film later tonight."

"Oh of course it was the wonder twins!"

"Well no-one forced you to come Jeff!" yelled Annie, standing up to walk away.

"Didn't they? If I'd have said no then I wouldn't have heard the end of it!" he replied, turning away from her as well and bringing his attention back to his phone.

"Well, don't yell at me. Like I said, I'd rather be- AH!" she cried suddenly, holding her ankle as she hobbled to sit back down.

"Wow, she trips even when she's NOT reading the map," Jeff mumbled, not looking up, and maybe not sounding as concerned as he could have.

"Jeff!" Annie whined. "It really hurts."

Jeff sighed and looked up from the screen, feeling guilty once he saw her face. She really did look like she was in a lot of pain, and thought he saw her eyes filling with tears. He put his phone in his pocket and walked up to her, kneeling in front of her to get a better look.

"Ok, let me see," he asked, reaching out to take her shoe off. He was concerned when he had trouble pulling her foot out of her sneaker; it seemed like her foot had already swollen. "That was fast," he murmured. Pulling back her sock his heart nearly stopped when he saw the two neat puncture marks, less than an inch apart from each other. "Umm, ok…" he trailed off.

"What is it?" Annie asked, her face now buried in her arm to hide her face from Jeff; she was really in a lot of pain.

"I don't want to alarm you; that really is the last thing I want to do under the circumstances. But do you know anything about snake bites?"

Annie's head darted up to face his, her eyes red from the tears. She too looked at her ankle and there was no mistaking the marks. "Oh God Jeff," she exclaimed, looking into his face. She felt sick, though it was hard to tell if that was an effect of the venom or if she was just panicking. She shook her head to try and get her mind back on track. "Um, no. I mean, I know the basics but the general rule of thumb is to get the victim to hospital as soon as possible."

"You didn't see what kind it was did you?" he asked her, carefully undoing her laces as loose as he could in order to get her sneaker off.

"I didn't even realise it was a snake, did you see anything?"

The guilt was eating away at him, if he hadn't been ignoring her and looking at his phone he might have seen what kind of snake it was… maybe even stopped it from biting her. "No, I didn't see anything," he replied simply, focusing on the task at hand. He carefully slipped her shoe off, and was alarmed at the size her foot had already swelled. He had a sudden thought, and crouched down to a better angle.

"Jeff? What are you doing?"

"Sucking the venom out, hang on" he told her, but before he could get his mouth close enough she kicked him away with her good foot.

"Are you insane?" she cried.

"What? People do this all the time!"

"Yer, in movies Jeff. This is real life, not only will it do nothing to help me but you'll get yourself sick too!"

"Annie, if it slows the venom down by even 10 minutes I'm doing it," he told her slightly frantically, going in again for a second attempt. That's when she slapped him... hard. He pulled away holding his cheek, surprise and hurt evident on his face. Tears sprung to Annie's eyes as she pulled him in for a hug, which she was grateful he didn't pull away from.

"I'm sorry Jeff, but it just won't help," she whispered into his hair. They sat for a few moments like this, each enjoying the hug a little more than they should have, before remembering that they had a situation to handle.

"OK, so, most likely a rattlesnake don't you think? I think I heard Pierce say something about making sure we zip up our tents so they wouldn't get in," Annie said, wiping the tears from her cheeks. Jeff took a moment to consider it, but shook his head.

"Wouldn't we have heard the rattle?"

"Well, we were being pretty loud," she replied quietly.

After a beat Jeff replied, "OK, so, our best guess is rattlesnake. Do you know what we need to do?"

Annie guided him through strapping her leg with his belt, not too tight that he cut off the blood flow but tight enough that he might help restrict the flow of the venom.

"OK, what next?" he asked.

"You're not going to like it," she warned him.

"Annie, 4 minutes ago I was willing to suck poison out of your leg, I'm pretty sure I can handle anything you throw at me."

"You need to leave me here and go find help."

"... except that."

Annie sighed, and looked up at Jeff from her sitting position on her rock. "Jeff, I can't move and you need to get me some help!"

"I am not leaving you here all on your own. That's it, discussion over," Jeff told her. "Now, is there a reason that I can't carry you?"

"Well, no, I guess not," Annie replied, not really wishing to disclose the reason she DIDN'T want that to happen. She could already feel her pulse speeding up and she didn't see how she would be able to keep her heart rate down when she was THAT close to him. Besides, the last thing she wanted to do was throw up on his chest. She didn't have much time to worry about that though as Jeff walked over to her and carefully lifted her from her rock and positioned her comfortably in his arms.

"See, was that so hard?" he asked her with a smirk.

Oh boy, you have no idea, she thought to herself as her heart skipped a beat.

"Hey, Annie, you ok?" Jeff asked, concerned when she didn't answer.

"Sorry, yes I'm ok. Nauseous though so go easy," she warned.

Jeff nodded, "Do you think you can watch my phone for a signal?" he asked her, using his knee to support her back while he used his now-free hand to get his phone out of his pocket. Annie nodded and took the phone, cupping it to her chest so she could watch it with ease. Once Jeff was satisfied that Annie was as comfortable as she was going to get he started walking through the trees, trying to think of the best way out of this mess.