I looked over at Alan who was sitting in the passenger's seat, sleeping while I drove. He must've had a long night. He came back in the early hours of the morning, not wanting to talk about his presentation. The poor guy was working so hard to keep his line of work alive. I wished I could help him out, just by doing something. I felt so useless as a wife letting him do all the work.

"Honey", I said gently patting Alan's leg. "Alan, wake up. We're back."

He stirred in his seat and yawned as he opened his eyes. He yawned as he pulled his hat up from over his eyes.

"I think we're in for a surprise", I said. "When I spoke to Billy last night, he said he wanted to show us what he found."

"He's found something?" Alan asked.

We got out of the car and walked out to the fossil site. We smiled as we saw Billy with one of our young female scientists in training. That was pretty much all we had for a team. Nothing but college kids. The dinosaur that had been dug up was giving me the creeps. A velociraptor curled into the ground with its mouth wide open.

"Billy, I don't think I'm doing this right", the girl said brushing at the bone.

Billy smiled as he got up and picked up a toothbrush. He showed to her bush a little bit at a time.

"I can never tell what's rock and what's bone", she added.

"Technically, it's all rock", Billy said. "The calcium in the bone's replaced during fossilization. But, you can feel the difference."

He took her ran and ran her fingers over the bone and rock. I smirked and looked at Alan. That was the same trick he used when he proposed to me.

"Been giving him some pointers?" I asked.

He shrugged with a smile as he walked over to Billy.

"Dr. Grant", Billy smiled getting up. "Maggie. So, how did it go?"

"Well, it's not too late to change your major", Alan sighed.

"Not good?"

"Worse. We're going to have to pack up in four weeks."

"Three", Billy said. "I had to rent some equipment."

I shook my head with a sigh. Why did life always have to be financially difficult? Billy smiled as he led us to the tent with all the computers and equipment.

"You like computers, right?" he asked.

"I like the abacus, Billy", Alan sighed.

"I'm the computer genius in this marriage", I chuckled. "Alan's not computer compatible."

Billy chuckled as he looked at the computer screen. We saw the image of a raptor's skull as the computer scanned a certain part of the skull.

"Meet the future of paleontology", he said. "It's a rapid prototyper. I entered the scan data from the raptor's skull, the computer breaks it down into thousands of slices. This thing scopes it."

We watched the machine carve something out of wood. Once it was done, Billy pulled it out to show the exact same pattern from the scanned part of the skull.

"I give you the resonating chamber of a velociraptor", Billy said. "Listen to this."

He took the chamber and blew into it. Chills ran down my spine as Alan and I listened to the noise. It sounded much like the raptors we encountered back on Jurassic Park. I looked at him seeing the same haunted look on his face. Billy looked at me, seeing the fear on my face and immediately stopped. Alan took it in his hand and looked at it, admiring every little detail.

"This is great, Billy", he said. "Really it is. Too bad to say it's just a little bit late."