The walk towards the coast was fairly easy, the path was flat with very few stones and the scenery was beautiful to look at. Charlotte tried to see the good things about the plants were pretty, the sky was clear and there was something fresher about the air. It would be a gorgeous place to die. That thought had been bouncing around her head as she started to lose hope that they'd make it out alive. She tried to even her breathing as Paul tripped for the hundredth time. Amanda stopped so abruptly that Charlotte almost ran into her from where she was dragging her feet.

A loud ringing could be heard as the group all stopped to search the area.

"Is that..."

"My phone." Paul answered Charlotte question as he frantically searched the insides of his pockets.

"You had the phone the whole time?"

"Where is it?"

"I don't know. I don't have it with me." Charlotte began searching her backpack for the phone.

"It's not in my pack."

"When did you have it last?" Amanda questioned them both. Charlotte gave her an annoyed look.

"I never had it."

"I don't remember."

"Think."

Paul concentrated as the ringing got louder and group exchanged irritated looks at one another as they watched Pauls scrunched up face.

"The plane. I got a call on the plane, put it in my coat pocket, and..." The expression on his face turned from concentration to a sad realization.

"What?...WHAT!?"

"I loaned it to Nash. He must have had it on him when he..."

The realization of where the phone was hit the four at the same time.

"Great." Charlotte said as she ran a hand through her hair. "Just great."

"Mom! Dad!" Charlotte could barely hear a someone screaming at the group. She spotted her uncle and the boy the same time that Amanda and Paul did. They broke out in smiles, looking at each other.

"He's alive." They whispered as they tried their hardest to stay in their spot. They had just noticed the fact that a large dinosaur stood between them and their son. Charlotte could see Amanda slowly inching forward.

Charlotte was less quiet though. She screamed a strangled cry of relief as she saw her uncle standing there. Immediately after recognizing her mistake her hand flew to her mouth, giving Billy a panicked look as the Kirby's expressions told her to shut up.

There are a few moments of silence while all the members of the group stare at each other through the clearing. It felt like hours had passed, the lack of movement was becoming unbearable when a shrill sound of a phone cut through the air.

With the sound of the phone the dinosaur started moving away from both parties. With the danger gone Charlotte watched as Eric started running towards his parents. Charlotte gave in and ran to meet her uncle. She stopped just in front of him before hesitantly wrapping her arms around him.

"I thought you died." She whispered as her uncle returned the hug. "These things will never kill me." He responded as she laughed.

Charlotte glanced at the Kirby's as she let go of her uncle, wiping at the tears on her cheeks. Billy walked up to the two.

"We need to keep moving." Her uncle said before Billy could say anything.

"Boy am I glad to see you." Billy breathed out at his mentor. "Hey you got my bag. Want me to carry it?" As Billy asked these questions Alan continued to give him a look and shut him out. Charlotte exchanged looks between the two, not understanding her uncles sudden personality shift.

Alan slowly began unzipping the bag. Charlotte could see Billy visibly pale the content of the bag was revealed. Charlotte looked over to see raptor eggs filling the brim.

"Raptor eggs." Her uncle announced in a calm, even voice. "Did you steal raptor eggs? Now it all makes sense." She could see her uncle's intern wince at his tone.

"I swear, if id known you were going to end up with them," He stopped as soon as he realized how that sounded. "It was an impulse, I thought they'd be worth a fortune, enough to fund the dig site for ten more years. It was a bad decision but I made it with the best intentions."

"Sometimes the worst things imaginable have been done with the best intentions. As far as I'm concerned your no better than the people that built this place." He looked over at the eggs, one had broken, covering the others with the unborn embryo.

"You can't just take them Billy!" Charlotte faced her friend. "These animals live her, their life is here. If you brought these back they'd be experimented on!"

"Not to mention the danger we are in." Charlotte nodded in affirmation, eyes growing wide as she imagined the possible danger the raptor eggs would create.

Alan walked away, motioning for the Kirby's to follow him. Charlotte hesitated as she stood near Billy but quickly followed her uncle.

"Charlotte, wait!" She heard behind her, stopping she turned to glare at the man who had called her.

"What?"

"I was trying to help."

"Help what? The site? There are other ways to get money. Fundraisers, car washes, haircuts. Not stealing dinosaur eggs!"

"I know. Call me an idiot. An asshole. Stupid. Tell me I screwed up because I know I did." He tried reasoning with her as she walked away, following her uncle.

"What you did wasn't right." She sighed, her anger diminishing slightly as she saw the regret in Billy's expression. "I guess I understand why you did this though." With that she sped up to increase the distance between the two, deciding she needed to cool off.

They walked for hours in silence. The Kirby's seemed entirely uninterested in why there was tension between the other three were in their own world. She could see Amanda pressing down at Eric's messy hair a he pulled his body away while his father laughed. Occasionally Charlotte would look back at Billy, who had started walking behind her and Alan and saw him glancing at his camera bag. Charlotte was just about to grab it and throw it when a large structure emerges in thieir sight. They continue the trek inside the building. It was covered in windows to look out at the canyon beyond it, but unfortunately the thick fog wouldn't allow the group to see anything far away.

Alan look down a spiral staircase, slightly discouraged that there was nothing to see. but lead the group down it

" We climb down to the barge and follow the river out to the ocean. With any luck, the Costa Rican coast guard will pick us up."

"Then we go home?" The young boy asked his mother who squeezed him against her.

The group continued down to the ramp but stopped as Alan started down the stairs only to have them break under his feet. Luckily Paul had been close behind him and pulled him out of harms way. Charlotte could hear the clanging of the staircase fall down the ravine.

"You okay?" Amanda asked as Charlotte gasped, stepping towards her uncle.

He nodded in response. "How about if we try this way?" Charlotte looked to his side and saw a catwalk coming out of the mist. The thought of walking across to the unknown terrified Charlotte but she tried not to let the fact discourage her.

"Do you think it goes all the way across?"

"One way to find out." She heard her uncle respond to Amanda. Both of them step on the catwalk ready to make the march across. A slight creak came from the catwalk as they both froze.

"We'd better do this one at a time." Alan said, motioning for his niece to go ahead of him.

"Oh. Okay." She responded when Billy gave her a light push towards the path but not before sending her uncle a concerned look.

She walked slowly, carefully putting one foot in front of the other. It wasn't long before she made it across, sighing in relief before calling out that she had made it over. Her uncle was the next person she saw as he walked across with much more confidence than she had.

"Come on over. One at a time."

"Okay! Come on, Eric!" Amanda had appeared out of the fog, shaking so bad that Charlotte rubbed her back trying to get the older woman to breathe more evenly.

"That was terrifying." She responded to Charlotte's comfort.

"I know."

They heard the quiet voices on the remaining members followed by the sound of footprints not far away. As the three were waiting for the next member to successfully cross the bridge they heard Eric call out, "mom".