Chapter three

Costa Rica

Inside the Helicopter

The helicopter was silent for a moment.

"so umm…. Who-who are um.. those two?..?" Rita whispered to john while pointing at Ellie Sattler then Ian Malcolm.

"Well, Rita this is Ellie Sattler and Ian Malcolm they will be helping us for a few months" John said

Ellie and Ian both waved at Rita.

Another moment of silence

"so how is everyone?" Dr. Wu asked wanting to break the awkward silence

"Allan and I broke up" Ellie sighed

"What?" Ian said with disbelief "what happened?"

"Well, he didn't want to have kids and… well, it just wasn't working out so.. yeah"

"Speaking of relationships I got a new girlfriend" Ian said proudly

"Really? What's her name?"

"Sarah, Sarah Harding."

"Oh, well, congratulations!" John smiled

Everyone on the helicopter was talking except for Rita and Muldoon.

Muldoon was looking out the window his eyes locked on the sea 100 feet below them. Although it made him feel a little uneasy, he felt relaxed by the beautiful view.

Rita was still on the floor with her arms wrapped around her legs. She felt very nervous about this trip. She knew her best friend Milo was coming but she only knew two people on the helicopter and one of them she just met. But, for some reason she couldn't stop staring at Muldoon. It could've been for many reasons.. But she didn't know why.

'Maybe it's the length of his pants..' Rita thought. She then shook her head in disgust 'really?, are you kidding me?'

Robert glimpsed over at Rita. Rita looked away from him quickly. 'Oh, god. Please don't notice me looking at him!' she thought.

"Are you alright?" Robert asked

Rita looked at him " w-what? Oh, Y-yeah I'm- I'm fine.. Yep.. Fantastic heh.. heh…." she stuttered. She turned away, slapped her hand on her face and looked back at him. 'great, now I got to talk to him..' she though

"so.. John told me you're the current game warden.."

"y-yeah.. that's me.."

Robert looked at her then at john 'THIS is the current game warden?!' he thought.

"So, tell, me.. What do you think of the raptors?" he

Rita looked at Robert. Her face seemed frightened but calm. "The raptors?"

"The raptors..." Robert repeated.

"Um.. t-they don't look…t-too d-dangerous" Rita lied. She really thought they were the most dangerous animals in the park after she had a bad experience with their leader. But she didn't want to bring that up.

Robert scooted to his left and patted to the right "let me show you something.."

Rita got up carefully and sat next to Robert who started unbuttoning his shirt

Ian looked at Robert and Rita confused and pointed at them. "Is he going to?.."

John put his hand on Ian's arm and put it down. "No, no.. He's probably showing her his scars to warn her about the raptors"

Robert opened up his shirt. His whole torso was covered in thick scars. Some were horizontal and some were diagonal. There were probably about ten scars in total. Rita raised her eyebrows

"You know who did this?" he asked her in a serious tone.

"Raptors?" Rita guessed

Robert nodded and began re-bottoming his shirt

Rita's eyes became wide with fear. "oh my god…" were the only words she could say

"yep. That's why you shouldn't get too close to one.." Robert said as he finished buttoning his shirt.

Rita put her head down " I-I know.."

"what do you mean?"

Rita sighed.

"Well, w-when I f-first cam her I-I was looking at-at the dinosaurs. I um.. was s-studying their.. b-behavior and well, I went to t-the raptor's who were only in a c-cage at the time… so I sat there…there was this one r-raptor…it was just staring at me… and not doing anything e-else and I heard john calling me s-so turned around… it was nothing major really.. a-and the next thing I know.. I turn around….. and it jumped on the metal bars trying ..t-to kill me… I didn't get h-hurt but…"

Rita took a long pause.

"… It scared me…. I don't like talking about it…"

Robert looked at her. "Figures…"

"What does that mean?"

"Nothing. Nothing.."

Another moment of silence

"So, you're from Africa right?"

"Yes I am" Robert said proudly

"I was in a hunting trip there in 1971 I was in Nairobi." Rita said

"I was in Kenya at that time."

"Yeah, god, I love it there.. It's just so beautiful!"

Robert looked at her confused "you're not stuttering anymore.."

"hm? Oh, that just means I'm used to you."

"what do you mean by 'used to me'?"

"well, we just had a conversation did we not?"

Robert nodded.

John looked at everyone. "Ok, put on your seatbelts it's going to be a little bump-"

Just before he could finish his sentence the Helicopter started shaking a bit.

Everyone put on their seat belts. The only one struggling with the seatbelt was Rita. "Fucking rich people man.." she muttered under her breath. Robert helped her out.

The Helicopter then started to land.

They were finally there.