a/n: hey everyone. Keeping this note short, just wanted to say thanks again to TheHungryGamer for the review which got me started on this again and thanks to everybody else for their support. I appreciate it so much and am really grateful that you took the time to let me know what you think of my writing. here's the latest chapter, hope you enjoy it...

ON WITH MEH STORY!

-All five stood for a moment, panting and breathing heavily, Jade tugging out a compact mirror and checking her heavy eye make-up.

"da…fuck…uou…doing?!" Charlie panted. She ignored him, and he sat down on the ossy root of a tree.

Jim turned to Lex to ask if she was okay, and saw Tim doing the same. She looked furious and desperate, and also a little resigned.

"A-fucking-gian" she murmured, before slumping back against a tree, hands against her knees as she struggled for breath.-

Jade raised a sophisticated (and darkly shaded) eyebrow at Charlie's disbelieving face and snorted a little. She tossed back her blond hair over her shoulder.

"It's called make-up babe. Try a little, it might help with that transvestite look you have going on."

She turned away, tucking her compact back into her pocket. Charlie's mouth dropped and he stuttered angrily.

"Oi nahhhh I ain't no...no..no tr- tranny!"

Jade was already flouncing off in the other direction, hair bouncing down her back. It was a weird contrast to the black of her clothing and the make up she wore.

"Hun, that was a double negative. Looks like you are."

"Wai...double what naw?!"

Lex rolled her eyes as Charlie went stumbling after Jade and slid a little further down against the tree trunk she had situated herself against. Tim started forwards;

"Lex I-"

"-go stop them."

Something in her tone as she cut him off half way through seemed to get through to him and a look of over-whelming guilt crossed his features, crinkling his eyebrows. He closed his mouth and nodded soundlessly, turning and making quickly after the other two. Jim watched the go, and then crouched carefully in front on Lex, taking his hat off and holding it in his hands so he could see her face.

"What did you mean...again? What's going on Lex?"

She had been watching her brother making his way across the tree trunks, but now she turned back to look him in the face, directly in the eyes.

"I've been here before" she gestured around with her arms. He nodded, having guessed that already.

"What happened?"

"It was my uncle's...he was a famous guy, made loads of these theme parks and stuff, for kids. He had a flea circus at one point."

A ghost of a smile flickered across her face. Jim smiled to see it, and settled back onto the ground cautiously instead of crouching uncomfortably.

"What happened?" His voice was soft, careful. he placed the hat on the ground in front of him. Lex picked it up absentmindedly and fiddled with the edges. He waited, seeing how her eyes were getting dreamy, and knowing she was going somewhere in her mind that had been locked for a while.

"Well...it was supposed to be the biggest thing of his life. He was going to make millions. Come on, everybody would pay to see dinosaurs. Me and Tim, we were here as a sort of test, seeing if kids enjoyed it. it was great but this fat bastard who worked on the computers decided to steal a load of the embryos that were going to be grown into dinosaurs. He'd been offered a lot of money for them, and so he closed down all the computer systems so that none of us could stop him. All the security on the enclosures- the electric fences, you know, - were shut down and all the dinosaurs started to come out and attack. Most people died. Uncle was killed, and a few of the workers..."

She smirked.

"And the fat bastard."

Jim saw that the smirk held no humor.

"Why'd you come back? If you knew what was here, I mean."

She frowned, looking serious and confused.

"It was just supposed to be strictly commercial. I came for Tim, didn't want him to come alone. I want to know why the hell we were trying to land."

He stood up, brushing his trousers off and extending his hand towards her. She looked up at him for a long moment before taking his hand and allowing herself to be pulled to her feet.

"Well...why we're here we may as well look around right?" he attempted a grin. She gave hi a dark look and he held up his hand in mock surrender, before grabbing at his throat and clawing at the skin there, rolling his eyes in his head and gargling, making guttural, desperate choking sounds, staggering and sinking to his knees.

"Jim? What are...Jim?!"

he bounced back up, grinning. "just kidding. Looks can kill and all. No? ...Haven't heard it?...ok..."

She aimed a punch for his shoulder and scowled as she missed, turning instead and going off after the others, to along a few gaps in the trees, where she could see Tim trying to get in the middle of a fight with Jade and Charlie.

"hey" Jim called after her.

"Hey! my hat...gimme my hat!

Jaa-aaaade! My hat!

...ok. you can have it for a bit. As you asked so nicely"