A/N: I was hoping to have this chapter posted a month ago, but I never felt that it was good enough. Thanks to the motivation of many alerts and reviews I did focus on this so much more than I would have. After much revising and questioning my own decisions I finally got this and was satisfied. I hope you enjoy :)
Special thanks to JJ-Jefferu for proofing this many many times and putting up with my indecisiveness and disneychic248c for also helping me with some decisions.
I unfortunately did not come up with any of the Jurassic Park scripts nor did I help with any of the production of the movies. I'm just an over-obsessed fan expressing said obsession via fanfiction :)
"Dr. Grant! You should come look at this!" I heard Paul shout as we began folding the sail. Dr. Grant left to investigate whatever trouble they had gotten themselves into this time and Udesky, being nosy, trailed after him.
"Don't worry," I told Billy. "I'll stay and help you." I bent down and continued to help him fold it.
"Thanks, but I'm sure what they found is more interesting. You can go ahead and take a look. I'll be fine."
"No, I think I have had enough interesting surprises today to last a lifetime."
He let out a small chuckle. "You know, you're very beautiful."
"We've been running around this island all day, I'd hardly consider myself beautiful – at least for right now." I told him as I tried brush away the strands of hair that had fallen out of my braid.
~!~
After we finished folding the sail, we stuffed it in his bag the best we could and set off to find the others. Once we found them, we saw what had been so urgent: on the ground lay a small herd of nests.
"Raptor," Dr. Grant whispered and turned towards where we had just entered, hand in hand.
The others began to walk off to get away from the raptor nests. I went to follow them, but the slight pull on my arm stopped me from going anywhere. "Come on,I'd rather the raptors not find us anywhere near their nests."
"You go on, I just wanna get a few pictures."
"You sure?" I asked, hesitantly.
"Yeah, I'll just catch up with you in a minute." I gave him a small nod and let go of his hand so that I could catch up with the others.
"Kid's got resources. Remember what it was like to try to ground him?" Paul was rambling to Amanda to keep her hopes up about finding Eric, and his argument was actually quite accurate.
"I take credit for some of those occasions." I admitted as I tried to hold back laughter. I had to spoil my nephew on occasion. No matter how mad they got at me for not obeying their punishment rules, I never cared. I was just the aunt for goodness sake.
Dr. Grant had turned around and stopped in panic, "Where's Billy?"
"He's back by the nests. He just wanted to get some pictures and told me to go ahead and that he'd catch up." I told him and regretted leaving him alone.
"We can't lose him," he muttered and gave me a stern look.
~!~
"Eric!" Paul shouted once we got into the abandoned building, making me jump.
"Jesus, Paul," I shouted at him the same time Amanda had. She took a small look around, but stopped once she noticed the phone. "Amanda, don't. You know it won't work. Don't bother getting your hopes up."
"What the hell. It's worth a shot, Ray." She walked over to the phone and picked it up, putting it to her ear. I assume she heard nothing seeing as she slammed it back down onto the table with a look of disappointment.
"Sorry 'manda," I muttered as Paul made his way to a vending machine.
"Who's got some change? It only takes quarters. I got, like – I got a buck ten," he muttered. At that precise moment, Billy kicked in the glass of the other vending machine and grabbed each of us some snacks.
"Thanks," I mumbled as he handed me some chocolate that I was sure had expired years ago.
"We will find him," he reassured me when he realized I hadn't bothered with the chocolate. As he wrapped his arm around me, I nodded my head and took in the surroundings of the building, trying to ignore the emotions coursing through me.
"This is how you make dinosaurs?" Amanda asked as she stared around the room in awe.
"No. This is how you play God," Dr. Grant replied as he looked around in disgust.
I continued to look around, fascinated yet terrified at the damaged incubators filled with empty egg shells. I was pulled out of my morbid curiosity and fear took over when Paul had stepped on one of the eggshells.
"It's okay," Billy whispered as he silently laughed at the fact that I jumped in fear. I rolled my eyes and began to walk slightly ahead of him as he took his camera out.
Amanda and I looked at the tanks occupied by unborn fetus' as Billy captured them in photographs. I stopped in my tracks as we approached a tank with the head of a velociraptor. "A-amanda, this doesn't seem right," I stuttered. "Why would they have all fetus' and one raptor head?"
"Shh," she whispered as she stared into the tank with anticipation.
"Amanda, come on," I pleaded with her and attempted to pull her away. Before I could get her to budge, I noticed the eye of the head move slightly; changing it's direction of sight. I began to back up slowly and ran into Billy. My sudden movement caused the raptor to take it's opportunity and attempted to attack, but couldn't make its way in between the two tanks.
We began to run for the nearest exit, as if we could actually outrun the raptor. After a few seconds of running, we found ourselves at a fenced in area.
"It's locked!" Paul shouted. Dead end. We went to turn back around, but was blocked by the raptor.
"This way! This way!" Udesky shouted and hurriedly guided us to the left. I noticed that Billy and Amanda weren't with us and panic began to flow through my body. The raptor had them trapped between the door and wall of a cage cell.
"Over here!" Udesky and Paul began to shout repeatedly, hoping to redirect the raptors attention.
~!~
After trapping the raptor, we all began to run out of the compound. "My God," Dr. Grant said in disbelief as the raptor began cawing. "He's calling for help."
"Let's go!" I shouted at him and dragged him out by his arm.
"Head to the herd," Dr. Grant instructed to us as we ran through a field filled with said herd of dinosaurs.
"Rachel, come on," Billy screamed to me in a panicked voice as he attempted to turn around to find my exact location, but failed and tripped sending himself to the ground. Once I reached him and held my hand out for him to grab, he had already been making his own way off the ground. "My bag!"
"Billy, it's just a bag. If we don't keep moving, we will die."
"But- but," he stammered as he continued to search the empty field.
"Billy, I like you and all, but I'm not willing to die because you lost your precious bag."
"Head for the trees!" Dr. Grant began to shout, which seemed to send an electric shock through Billy and he began running once again, dragging me along with him.
"Over here," Billy whispered once we spotted a lone raptor and pulled me behind a tree. "Stay calm." He wrapped his arms around me in hopes to comfort me as we heard Udesky's anguished screams. I buried my face into his chest and took slow deep breaths before climbing the tree.
"Mr. Kirby?" he shouted as we climbed.
"Billy?" Paul replied from somewhere just ahead of us.
"Is Alan with you?"
Paul didn't reply, but once we caught sight of the Kirby's there was no need for it.
~!~
"Oh, my god," Paul muttered as Billy and I got to their tree.
"Mr. Udesky? Mr. Udesky!" Amanda shouted to Udesky's lifeless body.
"He's dead," Billy mumbled, sadly. I leaned my head on him and just stared at Udesky.
"Oh, my God. No, he's not," Amanda said matter-of-factly and began to make her way down from the tree.
"No, wait. Something's not right," Billy interrupted Amanda as she repeatedly said 'no, he's not'.
"We've gotta help him," Paul explained calmly right before a branch broke from underneath Amanda's weight.
"Amanda!" I shouted and rushed after her, carelessly. In my haste to help my sister I had caught my foot in between two branches.
"Rachel, are you okay?" Billy asked worriedly.
"I'm fine! Get my sister!" I cried out.
Amanda had fallen and was swinging by her legs as raptors were jumping for what they hoped to be their next meal.
~!~
"They set a trap. They actually set a trap," Billy said, astonished as he held me close.
"Amanda, I should kill you for that. You scared me half to death," I mumbled into Billy's chest as I clutched his shirt in fear. I heard a faint crack and Amanda let out a sob. "They killed him, didn't they?"
He didn't exactly answer, but the slight up and down movement I felt was answer enough. "How's your ankle?" Billy asked me as he moved my legs so that they'd be on top of his.
"It's fine. I probably just twisted it a little," I told him while trying to hide my cringe from the movement. He gave me a knowing look, but didn't call me out on my lie. We all knew that even if it was worse than twisted, I wouldn't let my small injury hold us back.
~!~
"So, you like me?" he questioned about a few hours after Udesky's death. We found a bigger tree to stay in for the night without too much worry of being found by anything too dangerous.
"Huh?" I asked as I mindlessly picked at the leaves on a branch.
"In the field, you said, and I quote 'Billy, I like you and all, but I'm not willing to die because you lost your precious bag.'"
"Oh, that," I said in realization with no intention of giving him an answer.
A/N: Hope you enjoyed this installment of New Perspective. I am working on chapter 5 and even have some ideas written down for later chapters, but to be honest it may be a while before chapter 5 is posted. Please review and alert; it really does inspire me to keep this going. I am determined to actually finish this story. If you want updates on my progress, my fanfiction facebook is Sweet-t fanfiction. Happy reading/writing :)