Kelly

Chapter 4

Nick and Eddie march quickly back toward their base camp, their energy and excitement palpable. Ian is furious, which isn't very surprising as usual. My argument with Ian isn't really fading.

"When Hammond called you, why didn't you say something to me?!" Ian said to me while we were walking. Nick and Eddie walk in front of us but they move quickly, to give us a little privacy.

Why didn't I say something to him? Well because first thing he is never around I had Kelly dumped on me many times when he got off to go on business trips. I didn't mind, I really didn't I love Kelly. She's such great company, but he leaves without an explanation and when I do say something he always disagrees with me. On this occasion I wouldn't of told him, he's been in the same situation as me. He would never let me come here.

"Because you would have tried to stop me from coming." I said simply, looking at footprints as we passed.

"I-uh I would have tied you to the bed!" he said, I chuckled.

"Me too." We heard someone mutter in front of us. It was obviously Nick. I saw the looks he was giving me before. Ian didn't like this one bit, "I figured out how the animals survived without lysine."

"I don't care." His simple reply was. Typical he would say something like that.

"If you look at the diets of the herbivore species that are thriving, they eat mostly agama beans, soy, anything lysine-rich. And the carnivores, well, they eat the herbi - -"

In front of me I see Nick put a cigarette in his mouth. "Don't light that. Dinosaurs can pick up scents from miles away. We're here to observe and document, not interact." I instruct.

"That's a scientific impossibility. Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle. Whatever you study, you also change."

"I'll risk it. I'm sick of scratching around in rock and bone and making guesses, deductions about the nurturing habits of animals that have been dead for sixty-five million years. Right or wrong, we're ridiculed because we can't prove anything, we can only make assumptions based on how modern day animals behave. It's frustrating, man. Then you show up and fill my head with stories for four years - -"we came to a log, Ian swiftly jumped over it. It was a little harder for me, Ian helped me over it.

"Stories of mutilation and death! Weren't you paying attention?" he said holding my hand.

"Please don't treat me like I'm some wide-eyed grad student, I've worked around predators since I was twenty years old. Lions, hyenas, jackals, tigers you. They're obsessively territorial, and those territories are all in the interior of the island. The only other place they'll hunt is on the game trails. If we stay on the outer rim and off the game trails, we'll be fine." He let go of my hand,

"They go wherever there's food! They have legs, you know, and on these legs they're known to walk."

"Could you make that a little more condescending?"

"Even run, on occasion."

"You know, I'm not sure I can listen to you right now without wanting to hit you." I said very much wanting to hit him, and make him see sense that its right been here.

"Hit me on the way home. I'm taking you out of here."

"Hey." I got angry now, I pull him to the tree and lower my voice. "What is this? I've barely heard from you for three weeks, now you charge in here on a white horse - - you don't usually care what continent I'm on. What do you think you're doing?"

"You are deeply disturbed. Someone who loves you travels five thousand miles to tell you your life is in danger and you're actually suspicious."

"Yeah I know, but Ian its Isla Sorna, what was I supposed to do? Not take the offer?"

"Yes. When your life is in danger, and when you have people who love you. You don't risk your life, to see some genetic dinosaurs." He said, angrily punching a tree.

"Ian look at me." I said bringing his hand into mine.

"Kara you've seen this place now let's go home together. I promise you we will spend more time together. Even Kelly was asking about you."

So that's what this is about. He's scared of this place, I suppose I've always known after the incident in Isla Nublar.

I sat down at a log, he stood up above me, "I've barely begun. I'm trying to change a hundred years of theory, here. Dinosaurs were categorized as vicious lizards very early on and there's a lot of resistance to the idea of them nurturing parents. Robert Burke calls T-rex a rogue that abandoned its young at the first opportunity. I think I can prove - -"

Suddenly, Nick bolts right in between us, running as fast as he can down the trail, toward base camp.

"What's the matter with - -"We all turn, looking in the direction Nick is running. A plume of black smoke is rising up over the trees.

"Fire!" Eddie shouted. Nick bursts out of the trees and races towards the thick plume of smoke. In the middle of the base camp, someone has neatly built a campfire surrounded by stones. Nick grabs a jug of water to douse it, I run to them, "No! Water makes the smoke billow, use dirt!" Eddie joins in as they kick and rake dirt onto the fire with their hands and feet.

"Who the hell started a campfire?!" Ian asked furious, any animal could be tracking us, now all because of some nut job started a fire. Where they clueless?

"It was just to make dinner."

We all turn towards the source of the voice. Oh my God, it was Kelly. What was she doing here? Why didn't Ian tell me he brought her along? Why would he even bring her along? She was standing in the doorway of the trailer, very sheepish. She was looking a little scared.

"I wanted it ready when you got back." She said looking down nervously at the frying pan. Oh she knows she's busted.

"Uh Ian when you said that you were afraid of this place, I didn't think you would bring your 12 year old daughter with you." I stated, confused. Nick and Eddie where shell shocked. Ian's expression I couldn't read but his eyes were furious. It looks to me Kelly got here on her own, without him knowing. She made a mistake; It looks like she snuck on the trailer. Smart girl.

Chapter 4

Kelly's here and she's in trouble. Uh Huh… Naughty Kelly! Hahaha. I rushed this chapter a little sorry, if it seems too rushed.

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