Chapter 2: Beautiful Girl
She could be at home right now; getting a good week sleep from high school, eating junk food and flirting with summer boys for goodness sake, but no. Her fourteen year old best friend Lex wanted to bring her grandpa's new park.
Audrey Hope, age sixteen and lover of naps and laziness sat in the jeep beside Lex and her little brother Tim. While Lex and Timmy talks excitedly about seeing their grandpa and their gifts Audrey had her head sticking out of window with her red pixie short hair flying spastically in the wind, as her dark green eyes stares at the scenery as it drive by, and a frown to show all how much she didn't want to go to the stupid park.
Finally they have reached the visitors center, where the so called great tour of the park would begin.
Of course Lex and his brother -the hyper little people they were- shot out of the car as soon as it stops and sprinted up the stairs and into the center. Audrey sighs as she gets out of the car as well, carrying her backpack of everything and followed them in, she watches the two jumping onto their Grandpa in greeting, the crowd around them looked up from them and looked to her.
She waved a little nervously as she looks at all of their faces before landing on the youngest one who looked around her age.
'Oh good eye candy.' She thought with a raised eyebrow at him.
His reply was a smirk, which didn't impress her one bit.
Mr. Hammond looks up from the kids and saw Audrey. "Oh, hello, are you Audrey Hope, Lex's friend."
"Yes, It's nice to have finally met you sir and thank you for the gift." she says shaking his hand.
As Isaiah went up behind Hammond, Ian turns to the others and mouthed 'Wait for it' making Alan look at him confused and Ellie to giggle.
"I'm Isaiah Muldoon." he introduced himself.
"Oh? Well In case you went deaf for a second, I'm Audrey Hope." she greets back before moving away from him and started shaking hands with the others, she smiled at Ian.
"I've read your books sir, I'm a fan." she says.
Ian grins looking very pleased and shook her hand, Isaiah on the other hand frowns before looking over to the others.
Ellie and Alan chuckles at the young man as he looks back at Audrey who was now holding Tim's hand and was following Lex outside, the adults followed suit. Jeeps came cruising down the road, and what was freaky was that there was no one driving the car.
Tim and Lex split and looked at the new cars.
Audrey was going to follow Lex when she was suddenly stopped by Isaiah. He grinned; she smirked, and then moved to the left, he followed. She raised an eyebrow before moving to the right, he did the same.
Alan pointed this out to the adults in amazement.
"He's acting like a raptor." he comments in wonderment.
"What?" Donald asks not really listening.
The adults watch this, as the side to side step continues, with Audrey looking annoyed, and Isaiah looking amused.
"It is assumed that when raptor males want a mate, they do this sort of thing to their female, it's like saying 'pay attention to only me'" he explained chuckling.
(FYI: That is not how they do it but just go along with it please.)
"I wonder how he knows that, when all dinosaurs are female here?" Ian wonders outloud.
Ellie shrugs, she thought Isaiah was just being a guy and annoying Audrey, and she wasn't too off the mark. Mr. Hammond only shook his, wondering what Robert would think when he tells him about his son acting like a raptor.
Audrey was fed up. "Yes, Muldoon? What do you want?"
Isaiah just grins at her before walking away, pissing Audrey more. Hammond cleared his throat.
"Dr. Sattler, come with me. Dr. Grant, come into the second car." he said.
"I'm going to ride with, uh, Dr. Sattler." Ian spoke as he walked to the second car.
"Yeah, me to." Audrey went for the car.
"I'll come along, you know, in case trouble comes underfoot and all." Isaiah said following her.
Ian stopped at the car and gave everyone a 'Ta Da!' towards Isaiah. Ian has just proved his point.
Audrey stopped before walking towards the front car, Isaiah didn't follow her this time, only smirk, then frown as she turned right around and was in the second car before he could move. Audrey now sat in the front with Ellie.
"God that dude is a freak!" Audrey said as she put on her seat belt.
Ellie smiled. "I think he was trying to impress you."
"Ms. Sattler, a guy like that doesn't need to impress, all he has to do is walk into the room and everyone would be impressed." she said.
"And you're not?" Ellie asked smiling.
Audrey looked at Isaiah who was going into the kid's car.
"Oh I am, I just don't have the time of day with that Guy." she said before putting on her glasses and began on working on her camera.
Ellie shook her head before laughing at the face Isaiah and Alan was giving to both of the girls. Annoyance was the expression.
The tour began.
"Oh, God help us. We're in the hands of engineers." Ian Malcolm groaned as the driverless car began to move.
Audrey snorted. "Good to know I'm not the only one who thinks like that."
A dude on speaker began to speak.
"During most of your tour, the appropriate information will be automatically selected and displayed for you. Simply touch the area of the screen displaying the appropriate icon." it said.
"Hey look!" Tim said pointing to the door.
It was not hard to miss, but then again, Isaiah been through this lots of times. He looked back at the second car and huffed in confusion. Lex watched him in amusement before looking to the gate.
"Are we going to hit that?" she asked.
Isaiah looked over to her with an Are-you-serious! Look then said. "Apparently you have not been in a tour."
Lex narrowed her eyes at him before looking back at the gate.
"Welcome to Jurassic Park." it ended, and the gate opened.
In the second car, Audrey was ready with her camera, and had moved herself to the way back of the jeep and lay there with her camera at her side and watched the trees go by then looked to the gate. It was huge and solid hard there even fire torches.
"What have they got in there, King Kong?" Ian asks.
"Hopefully cause if he spots Ellie he could protect her from the dinosaurs." Audrey says with a grin.
Ellie smiles at the girl. "Oh you wonderful child can we keep her Alan?"
Alan snorts and looks away from the girls.
The gate closes behind them, Audrey suddenly had the feeling that something big was going to happen and she hoped it was a good thing.
"If you look to the right, you will see a herd of the first dinosaurs on our tour, called Dilophosaurus."
"Dilophosaurus!" Dr. Grant asked in surprise before looking out the window.
Dr. Sattler was also surprised. "Oh shit!"
Audrey blinks at her before smirking and aiming her camera through the window and into the view. The guide tour was giving fact about the dinosaur; however, there were nothing to be found.
"Alan…where?" Dr. Sattler mutters.
Dr. Grant banged the door in disappointment. "Damn."
Audrey felt the same as she lowered her camera in disappointment, how can she become a photographer if there is nothing but the view to be found, however, she did take pictures of it, it look pretty anyway.
When were now in the T-Rex paddock, and there was nothing to see like the first one.
Ian sighs and began counting his fingers. "God creates dinosaurs. God destroys dinosaurs. God creates man. Man destroys God. Man creates dinosaurs."
Dr. Sattler spoke up after a few minutes. "Dinosaurs… eat Man. Woman inherit the earth."
The two guys looked at her, Alan smiled at her.
I like that. Audrey thought with a smile as she and Dr. Grant lay beside each other at the back, looking through the window.
God creates dinosaurs.
God destroys dinosaurs.
God creates man.
Man destroys God.
Man creates dinosaurs.
Dinosaurs eat Man.
Woman inherits the Earth.
Suddenly a voice came on speaker.
"We'll try to tempt the Rex now. Keep watching the fence." he said.
Isaiah was watching the fence from the front seat.
And from out of the ground came a goat. Audrey saw this and winced.
"Ooh, Lex is not going to like that." she whispers.
"Why?" Ellie asks with a worried glance to the car.
Audrey shrugs. "She's a vegetarian."
"Oh geez." Ian groans.
First Car
Lex looked horrified. "What's going to happen to that goat? He's going to eat the goat." she sounded horrified.
Funny thing was that she was looking at Isaiah like it was his fault. He put his hands up at her.
Tim looked from behind her. "Excellent."
Donald looked dazed. "What's the matter, kid? You never had lamb chops before?"
"I happen to be a vegetarian." Lex said, using Audrey's tone.
"Don't worry, I doubt the Rex will come anyway, and from then on we'll be seeing dinosaurs just like you." Isaiah says looking right at the goat.
Lex looked at him for a second before looking back.
Second Car
The goat continues to bleat.
"T-Rex doesn't want to be fed, he wants to hunt. Can't just suppress 65 million years of gut instinct." Dr. Grant spoke to himself.
"Technically, he is a she, but, I can see your point." Audrey said taking a picture on the scene. "They know to hunt and not to be fed by anyone; they need to learn to survive, and not be spoiled."
Alan looks over to Audrey for second before looking to Ellie. "Ellie, can we keep her?"
Ellie laughs, followed by Audrey and Ian.
They waited for a few seconds, now even the goat was bored and lay down. Ellie, Ian, and Alan went back to their seats.
Along with the other people in the second car.
Ian goes to the camera at the front.
"Uh, uh, now, eventually you do plan to have dinosaurs on your, on your dinosaur tour, right?" he asked the camera.
"Hello?" he called, knocking on the camera, "H-hello."
Audrey shook her head, Mr. Hammond must hate the dude. Ian sits back with a groan, but with a smile, Alan looks away sighing.
"See, the tyrannosaur, uh, uh, doesn't obey any set patterns or, or park schedules. The essence, uh, of chaos." he concluded with a beat.
Audrey may be a fan of his book, just not of his, that's for sure. She moves to sit in between the two men as Ellie spoke.
"Um, I'm still not clear on chaos. Wh-what does that mean?" she asks.
"Oh, oh, it simply deals with, uh, unpredictability in complex systems…" and so Ian begins the busting of the moving to Ellie.
Alan and Audrey roll their eyes before looking out the window. Audrey scrunches her eyes to see in the clearing of a field.
"Dr. Grant, are you seeing what I'm seeing?" she asks.
Alan nods before walking out of the car, Audrey follows suite, along with Ellie. Then as did everyone else.
They all follow Alan and Audrey, Tim decides to continue talking to Alan, Lex is trying to get closer to him, and the rest just follow suite.
Isaiah and Audrey walk side by side as they followed the trail.
"So, how did you get yourself here?" Isaiah asked.
Audrey looks at him for a second before answering. "I'm friends with Lex and Tim, I usually baby sat them for their mom and I became good friends with Lex as she started high school, and she wanted me to come along to this park saying I can take pictures."
"Okay let me get this straight, if I ask you to walk into the T-Rex forest on the promise that you can take pictures of it, would you have said yes?" Isaiah asked.
"No, Uh, unless there's like protection from them besides staying still." she answered, "So what about you?"
"No I would absolutely whatsoever, would not go in there for a few pictures." he answered smiling at her.
When he had said 'absolutely' Audrey could hear an accent picking up a little.
"No, not that, I mean how did you get here?" Audrey asked.
"Well, my dad is the game warden here for the raptors and such, he brought me along with him, I sort of raise the little dinosaurs a bit before giving them to the professionals, but dad thinks it was a brilliant idea, since raptors will remember me from raising them, I'll be safe." he explains. "Though I will not even try that out with them."
Audrey smiled at him. "Let's hope you don't."
He smiled and they continued on, what Ellie saw, was that Isaiah was walking closer to Audrey, and Audrey let him do so. She grinned at the two, along with grinning at Alan with Lex and Tim.
When Audrey got closer, she walked faster, past the others. "Oh my god."
Isaiah smiled before following her. They finally came to the clearing, and there, lying on the ground, was a Triceratops.
She kneeled to the ground, in front of the beast and laughed softly. "Hi there."
The dazed dinosaur looked to her and groaned loudly. Audrey felt like crying. Isaiah kneeled beside her, giving the dinosaur a pet. She was hesitant before doing the same, when the others came; Audrey stood up and started taking pictures of it.
Isaiah stayed where he was, looking at the triceratops. "Hey there Melody."
Melody the triceratops, responded, blinking slowly at him.
Audrey finished circling around, stopping to watch Isaiah with the dinosaur, couldn't stop herself; she took a few pictures, with Isaiah alone or with the dinosaur. When he looked up to her, he smiled smugly. She quickly looked somewhere else, feeling herself blush at that moment.
She looked to everyone else and began taking pictures of all of the people's expressions of awe.
It was certainly something to have in her album.
Dr. Sattler was going to stay with the sick girl as the tour continued; her spidery-senses are coming back up again.
