I Would Have Said Yes.

Chapter 14

Billy circled around Eric, making his approach. In the nest, Eric kicked at the hatchlings, but they're undeterred. Billy and Eric only have one chance. "Jump!" As Billy swooped past, Eric jumped and grabbed onto his boot. He is yanked up and out of the nest. But then the mother Pteranodan shot past, tearing out a piece of the parasail in its beak.

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"Dad what do we do?" I grabbed on to his backpack while Amanda, Paul are able to hang on, but so is the Pteranodon, who now climbed our way. We back up as Amanda held my arm to keep me steady.

Dad kicked the Pteranodon in the face causing it to squawk. We ran down the platform as it tried to get closer to us. From a distance I could see Eric falling in the river, but my attention was on the thing that was chasing us. Paul stopped as the platform came to an end and the only option we had was to jump. The cage rattled and broke apart and we went flying down into the water.

"AHHHHHH!" We screamed as the water hit us. The Pteranodon fell after us but was captured by the cage. I resurfaced with a gasp, "Dad! Paul? Amanda?!" I looked for them and they resurfaced. Dad came over to me and we swam to shore.

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Billy tried to gain altitude by bending hard to the right, but the rigging is too badly damaged. He flies right into the canyon wall, hitting hard. Instead of tumbling down to the river, he found himself swinging from his harness the parasail snagged on a rock spire above him. The Pteranodons gathering around him.

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Dad me, Paul and Amanda emerged from the water by the canyon wall. "Dad where is Billy?!" I shouted and Paul and Amanda shouted for their son. "ERIC?!" We ran over a small hill to find their son hiding behind a rock, searching the skies for Billy.

Billy's parachute was caught on a rock and he was stuck with Pteranodons around him. "THERE HE IS! HE'S ARCOSS THE RIVER!" Eric pointed to Billy.

Amanda took Eric tightly in her arms. "Get him out of here!" Paul urged them to keep moving up ahead, the mesh of the aviary meets the river.

Me and Dad scan the canyon, searching for Billy. We watch as he fell into the river, and me and Dad and Paul head into the river to get him. As he resurfaced the gigantic creature lunged at him. Billy dodged away as best he can. The Pteranodon's frustrated bite severed him up into the air, and dropped him.

"BILLY!" I shouted as I ran across the water.

"HANG ON BILLY!" Billy tried to stand up but the Pteranodon pushed him back down.

"BILLY!" I screamed as Dad held me back, it was no use. Billy was being viciously attacked. Billy screamed helplessly, the tears were rolling down my face. "GET AWAY! NOOOO!"

"PLEASE LET ME HELP HIM!" I tried to get away from Dad's grasp.

"We have to go it's no use." Paul said. Another Pteranodon turned its head at us, and we had no choice but run.

Dad pushed me forward to run ahead of him, but I couldn't help but look at Billy. "Dad." I cried.

"Come on Katie, we have no choice." From a distance I could see Billy's blood running in the water.

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Just as the Pteranodons are about to swoop in for the kill, Alan Katie and Paul dive back into the river...and resurfaces on the far side of the mesh aviary wall, gasping for air. Just behind them, the mammoth Pteranodon crashed into the mesh. It teared at the steel, actually ripping it in one place. At the dock up ahead, Amanda and Eric have found a rusty, waterlogged barge that's somehow still floating. Carrying a tarp-covered cage, the boat was meant for transporting dinos up and down the river. Amanda pushes them away from the dock as Alan Katie and Paul climb on board. "Dad, I have to go back." Katie whimpered as she tried to get off the boat but he held her.

"It's too late sweetheart, I'm sorry." She weakly collapsed against him.

The boat started to move then as Paul drove it.

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"Dr. Grant?" I heard Eric say to Dad beside me. I was sitting down on the floor staring ahead. Dad was standing there next to me.

Dad turned around. "Hey Eric, how you doing?" He tried to put on his best face. Dad and Eric sat down next to me. He put an arm around me, trying to comforting me as best he could. Eric looked at me and Dad in sympathy. "I'm so sorry about Billy."

Dad nodded, "Do you know what the last thing I said to him was, your no better than the people who built this place." I closed my eyes feeling fresh tears in my eyes. "It wasn't true."

"He was just young that's all. I have a theory that they are two kinds of boys…" I blocked my Dad then remembering all the memories we shared.

Our first meeting, he was shy and I was shy. Our first project together uncovering a new set of bones. Our first date where he held the door open for me and held my chair out, and presented me with flowers. Our first kiss after our date when he took me home. The first time, we said I love you. Our first anniversary, where we went on vacation to New York. All of our memories washed through my brain.

I didn't even get to tell him I loved him and forgiven him.

The question he asked me. I would have said yes.

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I opened my eyes to the bright light that was shining on my face, to see the sun. "Dr. Grant." We stood up to see the Brachiosaurus and Triceratops eating their meal and some talking to each other. I smiled slightly, as four brachiosaurus came towards us and leant down. "You know something Dr. Grant. Billy was right." I smiled and chuckled as they leant their head down so I could stroke their heads. Amanda and Paul stood in amazement.

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Very sad, for our Billy….and for our Katie….It will get much worse before it will get better I'm afraid.

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