Author's note- Haha another story, but with Jurassic park. I just love this movie, and I love Ian. He has to be my favorite, next to Alan, then Billy. Enjoy!

Disclaimer: I do not own Jurassic Park. Steven Speilberg and Joe Johnston do. I however own Maria Grant and another other OC I decide to bring in.*hint*movie two*hint*

BETA BY -baby-new-year

Warning: The rating will Change from T to M

Badlands, near Sankewater, Montana

Maria sighed and wiped the sweat from the brow. She placed her cowboy hat back upon her blonde locks then went over to her father. She saw some of the workers digging and dusting away at the set of bones they had found. She then took the raptor's claw from her pocket and ran her finger over the point. She stopped walking and smiled for a moment, as she got caught up in her thoughts. She blinked as she heard one of the workers call for her father and Ellie. She let a small smirk adorn her face as she heard her father make a comment about how he hated computers, and clasped her hands behind her back and walked up to the couple, happy her father found someone to care for him.

"Come on, Dad...Computers aren't that bad." She sent Ellie a smile then patted his shoulder and walked down to the tent where the old computer was held. She winced at the sound of the shot going off for them being able to see it. She then saw her father and Ellie make their way into the tent, and watched as he took his hat off. Maria yawned into her hand as everyone gathered around the old computer.

"How long does this usually take?" Ellie asked and leaned into the computer, as Alan looked closer, too.

"Should bring an emitted return, we shot the radar into the ground and boom! Bounces the image back." The man turned the monitor on as Maria stepped closer.

She heard the man talk about how great this program was, and mention that they wouldn't need to dig anymore. Maria let out a snort then glanced at the man. "Now where's the fun in that?" she questioned and heard her father chuckle and pat her back.

"That's my girl!" Alan grinned as she held a smirk on her lips.

She looked closer as she heard her father and Ellie talk. "Dad..from what I see it looks about 5..to 6 feet long, maybe 9 feet in height.?" she squinted her eyes and winced as her father touched the screen and watched as the image started to fade in and out, she heard him sigh.

"They got it in for me."Alan muttered then turned away from it, as he heard Ellie laugh. He then lightly traced the image. "And look at the half-moon face bones in the wrists...it's know wonder, how these guys learned how to fly." He heard everyone laugh around him as his smile fell. He glanced around and looked over at his daughter, who stifled her laugh behind her hand.

"No seriously.." he stood tall then placed one of his hands on his hip then walked to the group. They circled around him. "Alright, maybe dinosaurs have more in common with present day birds than they do with reptiles,"he suggested, and started pace around them.

"Look at the pubic bone." He gestured at the image. "Turned backwards, just like a bird. Look at the vertebrae full of air sacs and hollows, just like a bird. And even the word raptor means-"

"-bird of pray," Maria interrupted and shrugged as she played with the claw of the raptor. She loved talking about them, since this was her favorite type. She saw her father nod and give her a knowing smirk.

"Exactly, Maria" Alan said. He was going to say something else, but heard a voice interrupt him.

"That doesn't look very scary. More like a six-foot turkey," a boy, who had to come here with his parents, stated.

Maria scowled as curled her hands together. As she got the look of the kid, she heard her father sigh and stepped away, knowing he would take care of this.

Alan went up to the child, who was wearing a baseball cap with a multi-colored stripped shirt and brown shorts. He heard the people around him chuckle as they heard what he said.

"A turkey, huh? Okay, try to imagine yourself in the Cretaceous Period." He closed his eyes and placed his fingers on his head. "You get your first look at this 'six- foot turkey as you enter a clearing. He moves like a bird, lightly, bobbing his head. And you keep still because you think that maybe his visual acuity is based on movement like T-Rex: He'll lose you if you don't move." He smiled and shook his head.

"But no, not Velociraptor. You stare at him, and he just stares right back." He pointed to fingers right at the boy's eyes.

"And that's when the attack comes. Not from the front, but from the side." He brought two of his fingers that were on the boys head in towards the center of his face. "From the other two raptors you didn't even know were there. Because Velociraptor's a pack hunter, you see. He uses coordinated attack patterns and he is out in force today. And he slashes at you with this." He took out a raptor claw he had in his pocket like his daughter, and showed it to the boy, who started to shake lightly.

"A six-inch retractable claw, like a razor, on the the middle toe. He doesn't bother to bite your jugular like a lion, say... no no. He slashes at you here." He slashed at the kids chest "Or here..." He then slashed at the boy's groin.

Maria winced lightly and covered her eyes. "Aww, Dad..." She heard her father continue.

"Or maybe across the belly, spilling your intestines. The point is, you are alive when they start to eat you. So you know, try to show a little respect," Alan stated as the boy nodded and quietly said an okay to him. Alan then shrugged his shoulder at Ellie and his daughter.

The three started to walk together up the hill to the small trailer. "Wow, Dad." Maria said, letting out a small laugh.

Ellie nodded and laughed, too. "Hey Alan, if you wanted to scare the kid you could of pulled a gun on him."

Alan shrugged his shoulders then smiled at the two. "Yeah, I know...Kids...you wanna have one of those?"

Ellie laughed as Maria snorted. " I don't want that kid, but a breed of child, Dr. Grant, could be intriguing. I mean, what's so wrong with kids?" Ellie asked.

"Oh, Ellie, look, they're noisy, they're messy, they're expensive," Alan said as he continued to walk.

"HEY! DAD!" Maria narrowed her eye's as she watched her father.

"What about Maria..?" Ellie asked

"She's different, she was a good child..Didn't cry, but others..Oh! They smell!"

"They don't smell!" Ellie laughed.

"Some of them smell." He looked over at his daughter, who was laughing.

"Oh, give me a break!" Ellie stated to him, still laughing.

"Babies smell!" he said but felt his daughter grab his arm.

"Dad..what if I want a baby..Will you stay away because he or she would smell?" she tried to hide her smile.

Alan groaned and looked at his daughter." You won't..you will be watching over me for the rest of your life." Before his daughter had a chance to reply, the heard the sound of a helicopter followed by sand blowing everywhere. The workers scrambled to the site so nothing would be damaged, and the three ran down to the helicopter to tell the person to stop the engine. Maria saw her father yelling at the man to shut the helicopter down and watched the man point at the trailer. Maria looked around for Ellie, then saw her father run down to her and they both stepped into the trailer. When they walked in the came to find a older man wearing all white and had a white beard was digging throughthe fridge. She was about to ask why the man was in here but her father beat her to it.

Alan scowled as he watched the man hold something in his hands. "What the hell do you think you're doing in here!?" The man in white looked started for a moment as he held a bottle of champagne in his hands and popped the cork. Maria gasped lightly and pushed her father aside.

"Hey!...We were saving that!" she growled. pointing her finger at him as her green eyes flashed with anger. She knew that the helicopter was his, and that it nearly destroyed the dig site.

The man smiled as he held the champagne up. "For today, I guarantee it," he said as his eyes sparkled from under his glasses and he laughed lightly. Maria then watched her father stalk over to the man and pointed his finger into his chest.

"Who in god's name do you think you are?" she heard her father harshly ask.

"John Hammond, and I am delighted to meet you in person...you too, Miss Grant."He gasped his finger then shook it as the two stood with a shocked looks. He let go and blew dust of his hand, then walked over to the cupboards. "I can see my 50,000 a year haven't gone to waste." Both of the still stood their standing in shock as the man name John Hammond poured them some of the champagne. Just then the door to the trailer swung open as Ellie stormed in.

"Okay, who's the jerk!" She said as Alan went over and place his hand on her shoulder.

"Uh..this our paleobotanist" Alan gave a half smile to Hammond. "Doctor Satler."

Maria leaned against the table and watched the three interact, she started to fade in and out of the conversation and sipped at the drink she had that Hammond had given her, she then snapped out of her haze as her father called her name. She blinked a few times then noticed that Ellie, her father and Hammond where all staring at her. "Umm... Hi..?"

Alan went over to her daughter and smiled lightly. "Honey... Hammond said if we go with him to sign off of the park, that he would fully fund our dig for three years...And I told him, while you were spacing out, that we'd only go if you did." He placed a blonde curl behind her ear and looked at her with hopeful eyes as he waited for her answer.

Maria chewed her lip, looked back into her father's eye, and broke in a smile then let out a small laugh. Why the hell not!" She let out a small sequel as her father pulled into a tight hug. Ellie hugged them, too, and Hammond looked at them with a smile.