*(y/n)'s POV*

1 Year Later

"I think it goes like this..." Elliot said and he starts to strum the notes on his guitar. I watch his hands then I start to copy him but it still didn't sound right. "That's starting to sound like something." Joel said to me as he walks up to us.

Since mine and Elliot's birthday were so close together, we decided to celebrate in one day. And Joel seemed a bit excited at this as he said he had a surprise for the both of us. And honestly, so were Elliot and I; we were curious at what Joel was hiding.

We look up at him and I scoff. "I suck." I said, disappointed. "Nah...just need to build up your callouses, that's all." Joel told me and I look down at my fingers. "Man." I grumble then I look up at Joel. "All right, c'mon." Joel said. "This it?" Elliot asked. "Yeah." Joel said. "Oh shit!" Elliot and I exclaimed, excitedly, as we set our guitars down and follow Joel.

"We're gonna start guessing." Elliot said as we walked along the trails. "You two wanna spoil your surprise now?" Joel asked him, curiously. "I dunno." We muttered and I place a finger on my chin, as if I'm thinking.

"Is it a dinosaur?" Elliot asked and Joel scoffs, softly, at this. "Stop trying to guess, I ain't telling you." Joel told him and Elliot scoffs. "All right. Is it...an elephant?" I asked and Joel grumbles at this. "Is it a convertible?" asked Elliot. "You two are not gonna guess." Joel said.

"Is it a puppy? Is it a lotta kittens?" I asked. "You mean a litter?" Joel asked me. "What's a litter?" I asked, confused. "A bunch of kittens." Joel replied.

"Then why is it not just called a bunch of kittens?" Elliot asked. "I don't know. It's called a litter." Joel said, slightly annoyed, and we come up to this ledge and Joel pushes a branch back for Elliot and I to shimmy our way through.

"Mind your step." He warned us as we walk up and pass him. "Got it." I said and we start to walk pass him when Joel pushes both of us. "Oops." He said and both Elliot and I let out a surprised yell and fall into the water.

I was shocked for a moment but I swim up and resurface. Elliot comes up a moment later as we hear Joel laugh. "What is wrong with you?" I exclaimed, angrily. "You two should see your faces right now." Joel said, laughing and smiling. "What if I drowned?" Elliot asked, angrily. "You're not gonna drown." Joel said, dismissively. "You gotta work on that confidence, kiddo." 

"Yeah, keep laughing, old man." I said as Joel laughs then points up ahead. "This way." He said. "You're the worst!" Elliot shouts and we start to swim.

"You're swimming's getting better. Remember now, just don't flail about, you gotta--" Joel started to explain but Elliot talks over him. "Push the water with your whole arm. Blah, blah, blah." He grumbles as we meet up with a ledge and get out of the water while Joel walks ahead of us. "Glad to know I'm getting through." Joel said as we come up to a ledge.

"Kids, c'mere. Take a look at this. You see that deer over there?" Joel asked as we walk up to him. "Where?" We asked and Joel points it out across the lake. "See it? Yeah, just through there, look." Joel said and Elliot and I bend down to look to see what he was pointing at. "Yeah, we see it." Elliot whispers and I look over to my right at Joel then at the water, finally get an idea. 

"Looks, like..." I said then I shove Joel down into the water. "Whoa!" He shouts and he splashes into the water and Elliot starts to laugh. "How's that feel?" I asked Joel as he resurfaced, my arms spread out.

"Refreshing." Joel replied. "Yeah, it's not nice getting pushed in, is it?" Elliot asked him. "Well...actually we need to swim through this part anyway." Joel tells us and I scoff a bit. "I got you back, you're angry and upset." I said, annoyed that I didn't get the right reaction from him. "I am very angry and upset. Now c'mon." Joel said, sarcastically, and Elliot and I scoff before we jump in the water.

We swim for a bit then we make it to a small beach and get out of the water. "C'mon, kiddos." Joel said and we follow him. "Is it...our 6th grade history teacher wanting to apologize for being a massive dick?" I asked and Joel turns to me. "I beg your pardon?" He said, confused.

"Me, Elliot and our friend would argue whenever he called the Fireflies terriorts." I said and Elliot nods. "Yeah...We got a lot of detention." Elliot added. "You know you two really need to stop letting people rile you up." Joel said to us. "It's hard when they're dicks." Elliot grumbles and I snorted. "Point still stands." Joel said, firmly, and we continued on.

"Is it...a new pair of sneakers?" Elliot asked. "How many of those do you have?" Joel asked him. "Not enough." He remarks as we walk deeper into the woods.

"Okay. Fuck it. I'm done guessing." I said after a while. "Oh good." Joel said, relieved. "But like...is it a massive comic book collection...no wait...a new DVD collection?" Elliot asked, obviously not given up, and Joel sighs, exasperated. "Yes." He said and we look at him, confused.

"Well, which one?" I asked.

"Just...yes." Joel said.

"How about laser disks? I heard that's a thing." said Elliot, smiling. Joel rolls his eyes and leads us deeper into the woods until we saw a giant statue of a T-Rex.

"What?!?!" I said, shocked.

"Holy shit, Joel!" Elliot exclaimed.

"We're here." Joel said.

"Oh my God! It is a dinosaur!!" Elliot exclaimed with excitement, his hands on his head while I gasped, smile and placed my hand over my mouth. "That it is." Joel said and we turn to him.

"Joel!" We said, shocked and happy. "Surprise." Joel said to us, smiling. "Holy shit! It's a motherfucking dinosaur!" I shout as we walk up to the statue. Then we get close to the statue and I go to the tail end of the dinosaur and began to climb up in it.

"(Y/n)! What are you doing?!" Joel called out to me, worried. "I'm climbing a dinosaur!" I exclaim as I get to the head. "Yeah, I can see that just don't die from falling off of it." Joel calls out to me as I get to the head and stand up.

"Look at me! I'm on a motherfucking dinosaur!!!" I exclaim. "(Y/n)!" Elliot shouts, a bit worried. "Don't jump! Just climb down!" Joel called out to me. Then I let out a roar and jump off. "Hey, hey, hey!!!" Joel screamed as I fall and splash into the water then I resurface and start to laugh.

"Did you guys see that?" I asked the boys, happily. "Yeah, we saw that." Joel said, exasperated, as Elliot lets out a laugh of disbelief. "Holy shit." He said.

"Wasn't that awesome?" I asked as I get out of the water. "Awesome that you didn't break anything." Joel said to me and we head towards the old museum building.

We walk up to the entrance and Joel opens the door and we walk in as Elliot goes up to this old book holder and pulls out a book. "What's this?" He asked as he picks up the little pamphlet and I look over his shoulder at the pamphlet. 

"Uh...a book." said Joel and we look up at him. "It's a dinosaur book." We said, happily, and we walk over to a shelf and Elliot finds a hat.

"Oh man!" He exclaims as he picks up the hat and I find a different hat and put it on. Then we turn to Joel. "Hey, Joel. You wanna try it on?" Elliot asked as he holds up the hat. "I do not." Joel replied and Elliot shrugs. "Your loss." He said and he puts on the hat.

"Whoa! Look at those talons." I said, in awe, as I stared at one of the dinosaur bones. "That is a velociraptor." Joel said, proudly, as he and Elliot walk up next to me while Elliot pulls out his book. "Actually, it's a dee...Dee-oh-nin-y-chus." He reads. "Pretty sure these are velociraptor. Yeah." Joel said as he looks at the dinosaur. "At least that's what they called them in this movie I saw." He remarks and Elliot and I just hum then I head to the office behind the main desk.

I go sit in the desk chair and pick up this old phone and put it on my ear. "Oh, hello, the dinosaurs are busy right now." I said as Joel walks in. "What are you doing?" He asked me and I look up at me. "Oh, wait...one of the dinosaurs is here." I said into the phone then I pull it away from my ear.

"Joel...it's for you." I said as I hold up the phone and I hear Elliot laughing. "Very funny." Joel said and I chuckle. "It's pretty funny." Elliot laughs as I set the phone down and stand up. "Do you get it? Cause you're old." I said to Joel.

"Oh I get it." Joel said as he walks off and I walk out of the office and Elliot smiles at me then we fist bump before we make our way deeper into the museum.

We would look around at all of the dinosaurs until Elliot started to put his hat on one of them. "Guys, look!" He exclaimed, happily. "That is a hat on a dinosaur." Joel said. "It's called a hatosaur." Elliot said and I chuckle as he takes his hat back and Joel rolled his eyes.

Then Elliot put his hat on another dinosaur. "Is this going to be a thing? Please don't let it be a thing." Joel said and Elliot and I chuckle as Elliot takes his hat back then comes up to Joel.

"Hey, Joel." He said.

"Elliot." He said to him, warningly, but too late he put the hat on Joel’s head, who groans. "Don't you dare take it off. Our birthday, our rules." Elliot said, gesturing between me and him, and I chuckle.

"Brachiosaurs ate six hundred pounds of plants each day." I read from Elliot's book, after taking it from him, as we come up to this large dinosaur bones and I let out a whistle. "Imagine the poops!" I exclaimed. "Yeah they had this one scene where, uh...actually one of the guys said: That's a big mound of shit." Joel said before he laughs and Elliot and I join him.

"Okay, what is this movie and when can we see it?" I asked him. "Tell ya what. When we get back to Jackson...movie night." Joel said and Elliot and I smile. "Awesome!" We said and we continued to look around the museum.

We make it to another section of the museum, when Elliot points out a really small dinosaur skull. "Velociraptor." He reads. "Hey, Joel...this is the one you were talking about. The velociraptor." Elliot points out and Joel comes up. "It's so small. Well, don't trust the movies, I guess." Joel said and I go over to a large thick skull of another dinosaur.

"Look how thick that one's skull is!" I said. "Kinda looks like Tommy." Joel said and Elliot and I snorted at this. "I'm telling him you said that." Elliot said. "Please don't." Joel begs before he looks at the skull closer. "Catch it in the right light, boom, Tommy." Joel said and I stifled a laugh.

"Did you go to museums alot?" Elliot asked Joel as we headed up this spiral staircase. "Yeah. Yeah, Sarah loved them. I swear that girl dragged me to every damned museum in Texas." Joel said then we come up to the top of the brontosaurus, which its head was facing us.

"Looks like a giraffe." I said to the boys. "Yeah it does, doesn't it?" Joel said as we stare at it for a moment then Joel takes off his hat and tosses it towards the skull of the brontosaurus, where it lands on it perfectly.
Joel chuckles then turns to us. "I see the appeal." He said and Elliot chuckles. "Told ya." He said and we go to another part of the museum we make it around the corner and Elliot gasps once he sees it.

"Did you know that this was here?!" He asked Joel, shocked, as my jaw dropped at this. "You don't like it. We can head back." Joel said, pretending to sound disappointed, and Elliot laughs. "Shut up!" He said and he walks over to this device and used a crank to turn it, making the plants above us move. 

"That's so cool." I said, smiling. "Hey, Joel, can you name all the planets?" Elliot asked as he spins the crank. Joel chuckles a bit before he clears his throat. "My very educated mother just served us nice pizzas." Joel said and Elliot and I look up at him, confused.

"Uh...did you just have a stroke?" I asked and Elliot laughs. "My: Mercury, very: Venus, mother: Mars..." Joel explains to us and at that point I got what he was doing. "Ohh, okay. I get it." I said and Elliot nods. "Yeah...That's pretty cool." He said then he stops spinning the crank then goes to look at the spaceship replicas. 

"Hey, Joel. Guess what was the first animal to go to space was?" He asked. "I don't have to guess, it was a monkey." Joel said and Elliot shakes his head. "No, it was fruit flies." He said and Joel gives him a confused look. "Yeah, in 1947. It was to see radiation exposure at high altitude. They lived through it." Elliot explained and Joel gives him an impressed look.

"Daggum, boy, you are smart." He said and Elliot smiles. "Thanks!" He said. "Oh great. Now he's gonna parade his intelligence around now. Thanks, Joel." I said, sarcastically, and Joel chuckles. "Hey, Joel knows intelligence when he sees it." Elliot said, smiling, and I roll my eyes. "And that's why I'm here to knock you back into reality." I said as I lightly punch his shoulder. 

Joel shakes his head at us and Elliot and I share a laugh before we continue on with the tour.

As Elliot looks around the space stuff, I go sit down on a bench and just take in the sight before me. I pull out my notebook and began to draw some the display until I hear Joel and Elliot talking. I look over and see that Elliot was sitting in one of the land rover and Joel had one foot up on the display platform, leaning against it.

I smiled then began to draw them. "Whatcha doin' there, kiddo?" Joel asked me as he comes up to me. "Well since we don't have a camera...I thought I draw this..." I said as I hold up my notebook to him, showing the drawing of him and Elliot at the land rover. "Well how about that? That's really good, (y/n)." Joel said as Elliot comes up. "Damn." Elliot said and I smiled. "Thanks." I said and I put away the notebook in my backpack.

Then we walk over to another area and Elliot picks up an astronaut helmet. "Oh cool!" He said and puts it on. "How does it smell in there?" I asked him. "Like space...and dust." He replied then he goes over to this shuttle and tries to open the door. Joel goes over and helps him open it then turns to him while I set my hat down on a nearby bench and grabbed a different space helmet and put it on.

"After you." He said and Elliot climbs in then Joel gestures for me to get in as I walk back over to them. I get into the seat in the middle while Elliot was in the one on my left then Joel climbs in and gets the one on my right. "What the heck?" Elliot said in awe as he and I push buttons and make noises.

"Wow!" I said as we look around. "Would you look at all these buttons." Joel said as we just look around the set up of the shuttle. "It's so badass. Man. Could you imagine just..." Elliot said then he laughs and I start to make noises of explosion, like the sound of a rocket taken off.

Then Joel holds out a tape cassette to us. "Happy birthday, kiddos." He said and we look at it. "What is this?" Elliot and I asked, gesturing at the tape. "This is something that took a mighty effort to find." Joel said to us and I smiled at him

"Take it." Joel said and I take the tape and hand it to Elliot. He pulls his Walkman out of his backpack and inserts the tape. He pulls off his helmet and sticks one earbud in his right ear and hands me the other earbud and I put it in my left ear.

Elliot puts the helmet back on and holds the Walkman up to his chest, before Joel places a hand over and places it over my right hand. I patted Elliot's arm with my left hand and the two of us look over at Joel.

"Close your eyes." He instructs us. I furrow my brow at him and he smirks. "It'll be worth it." He assured us and we turn our head forward and Elliot pushes the play button.

Thirty seconds and counting.

We turn to Joel, my jaw hanging open, and Elliot starts to giggle with excitement as I smiled. Then we turned our heads forward and closed our eyes.

Astronauts report it feels good. T-minus twenty-five seconds.

Twenty seconds and counting.

T-minus fifteen seconds, guiding is internal.

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Ignition sequence starts

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All engine running.

Liftoff! We have liftoff! Thirty-two minutes pass the hour, liftoff on Apollo 11!

As I had my eyes closed, it was like I was imagining being in that rocket and blasting off into space. I open my eyes once the recording was over and looked over at Elliot, who had a big grin on his face.
Then I look over at Joel and he gives us a small smile. "I do okay?" He asked us.

"Are you fucking kidding me?" Elliot asked, softly.

"Seriously?!" I said at the same time and we begin to laugh.

"You're welcome, kiddos." Joel said and we sit there, basking in the happy moment, before Joel looks around.

"Whaddya say we keep looking around, huh?" He asked us. "Yeah, I guess." Elliot said and I climb out first then Joel and finally Elliot. "That was awesome!" Elliot said, happily, then we turned to Joel, who was holding his hand out.

"Welcome to Earth." He said and we see there was two spaceship pins in his hands. We smiled and take the pins and put them on our respective backpack before we begin to look around some more.

We head towards the back door and Joel opens it. We go through and see the other half of the museum, but there was a long drop and a pond down below. "Look, there's more museum stuff over there." Elliot said as he points at the building. "Yeah, I never checked that building." Joel said to him

"Well, let's go." I said, excitedly. "And just how do you two plan on getting yourselves over there?" Joel asked us. Elliot and I share a look and he winks at me, takes my hand and we run then jump down into the water below. "Kids!" Joel screamed, fearfully, as we hit the water then we resurfaced and both of us laugh at this.

"Do you two ever give anyone else this much grief?" Joel asked us. "Get down here!" Elliot calls out as we turns to look up at him as he stands on the edge. "No!" Joel shouted at us. "Hey, who's birthday is it?" I asked him. "You two can't keep doing that." Joel yelled.

"We want a good splash." I said and Joel sighs. "Come on! We got more exploring to do!" Elliot calls out and we see Joel moving away from the ledge before he started to run and jump. 

"Geronimo!" He shouts as he jumps down and splashes into the water and I giggle. Joel resurfaced and we began to swim over to the other side and come up to the stairs that lead to the entrance.

Elliot goes to the door but it wouldn't open. "Damn it. It's jammed." He said and I look to the side. "Hey, boost me up there!" I said as I point at the open window. "Yeah, I don't know." Joel said, unsure, as Elliot looks up. "I'll open the door for you guys. Come on, we can't chicken out now." I said and Joel sighs and, reluctantly, stands under the window and boosts me up.

I climb over and get inside only to see that there was a pile of crap stacked up against the door. "Okay, bad news. There's shit blocking the door." I said. "Well, see if you can find us another way in. We'll walk around the outside." Joel hollers at me. "Okay, be safe!" I said. "You be safe!" Elliot said. "There are dinosaurs around!" I shout and I began walking into the building.

The first thing I see was a statue of a moose surrounded by a pack of wolves. "Oof. Stay strong, buddy." I remarked and walked over to a doorway, only to see a message written on the wall.

I killed for them

"Oh, this guy needed a hug." I muttered and walked to another part of the museum and heard something rumble off in the distance. "Shit." I muttered and I pull out my pistol and began to walk cautiously as I heard more crashes. 

"Come out, fucker." I growled under my breath as I wake over to this large hole in the wall and walked through it. And then another message on the wall.

There is NO light

I crawl through another hole and gasped when I saw statues of wolves. It did startle me but once I realized it was a statue I scoffed at it. "Stupid fake animals." I growled and I hope over this barrier and land on the floor when I heard a loud squeal to my right.

I turn just in time to see that it was a pig or a warthog as it barreled through and knocked me down. It scurries off and goes into another part of the museum.

"Shit." I muttered as I get up and grab my flashlight then shined it on this wall that had just one word written on the wall and an all too familiar logo painted above the word.

"(Y/n)!" I hear Joel call out but I was too shocked to reply. "(Y/N)!" Elliot shouts and I shake my head. "I'm here." I said and Joel burts through the door, followed by Elliot who walks up to me

"The hell was that?" Joel asked me as Elliot hugs me. "It's just...some animal." I said and Elliot noticed my gaze. "What are you...?" He started to ask and he looks at the wall and he stops and stares at it. 

The Firefly logo was painted on the wall and underneath it was the word Liars. The three of us stare at it for a moment before Joel and I share a look then he turns to Elliot. "Well, let's get a move on. I want to get a fire going before it gets too dark." He said to us as Elliot continues to stare at the logo.

"Come on." I said, softly, to him as I pat his shoulder. He looks at me and I give him a small smile before we walk out of the building.