Welcome to Jurassic World - Part 6

The breath of the giant beast still hung in the air. A mix of fresh blood and rotten meat. Tim concentrated on her breathing. She was not going to vomit, she was not going to vomit.

"Are you OK?"

The sound of Owen's breathy words made her blink. Her eyes feeling gritty. She hadn't dared to move or blink since from the corner of her eye she had seen the massive head come down to ground level, mouth open like it was tasting the air.

She had to force herself to unclench her jaw - her teeth aching - and speak.

"Yeah," she whispered, the slight amount of fumes from the fluid covering them making her voice even tighter, "You?"

The already bone breaking grip on her hand tightened even more.

"Just fine,"

She turned her head in time to see him take in and let out a deep breath.

"So that was the new exhibit?"

He turned his head to look at her.

"Yip,"

"Huh," Tim just looked at him for a bit. Her mind freezing under the knowledge."I'm no expert but I don't think it was a good idea,"

"Nope,"

"I mean, that thing was huge,"

"Yip,"
Silence fell again and she rolled her head back so she was looking at the sliced rubber tube she had to thank for being alive. She took a deep breath. The first she had drawn since seeing the door to the enclosure sliding open. That was all that was needed for the hysteria to take a foothold.

Tim began to giggle. It started of as a tickling feeling in her throat and grew from there.

Owen's own chuckle joined hers and he released her hand only to roll into his side and wrap her in his arms. His face buried in her neck she could feel the breath of every chuckle that burst from him.

It took a minute or two for Tim to get herself under control again and to breath properly. Her chest shuddered as she forced herself to breath deeply and evenly. In and out. In and out.

When had she covered her eyes with her arm?

She couldn't remember, but she lowered it now and to her surprise it came away damp. She scrubbed at her eyes with dirty fingers, sweeping away the last of any sneaky tears that she had shed during her giggles.

"We're alive," she told the rubber tube.

She could feel Owen nod his head against her and then press a kiss to her skin before drawing away slightly.

He looked down at her.

"Yes we are,"

Tim looked on in horror as the Asset Containment team were slaughtered one my one. There life signs on the screen going from erratic in their panic to flat lined in moments. The camera footage still being fed through to the room was jumpy but crystal clear as she watched men fly through the air to land in trees - her imagination providing the snapping of spines - the speakers filling with their cries of pain and panic.

Tim shook her head in disbelief. She knew why Claire had put her foot down when Owen had barged into the room with her close at his heals. This had been her show of strength. She was making it clear that she could make the decisions and handle anything that came her way. Well this time she had been wrong and she had cost those men and women their lives by sending them to face a creature they were not equipped to deal with.

Non-lethal weapons? Tim could only presume that Claire had seen the animal up close - although not quite as up close as Tim and Owen had not too long ago - surely she knew what it was capable of doing?

From her vantage point at the back of the room she watched as Owen prowled back and forth in front of the screens like a caged lion. Explaining the animals behavior.

How could they all be so calm and slow about dealing with this?

Owens didn't raise his voice as he spoke. The initial anger calming down into something cooler, deadlier.

These people were nuts! She had seen the damage the animal had caused. It had swallowed a man in one bite! It had just taken out a highly trained team made up of - she could only assume - ex-service men and women, and they were worrying about the park not opening again if they got everyone off the island. Absolutely insane. Get everyone to safety and worry about the stock market later!

They didn't listen to Owen and she watched as he swiped a hand angrily across the top of a workstation knocking small figurine from their spots as he walked towards her.

She could just make out his words to Simon Masrani when he paused on his way to her and they made her shiver.

"I would have a word with your people in the lab. That thing out there… that's no dinosaur,"

He held out his hand towards her and she took it without thought, stepping into the elevator with him and standing close at his side. The last thing her eyes focused on was the row of flat lines that had once been heart beats.

The door slid noiselessly shut.

"There was nothing you could have done," she spoke softly, the tension in Owen's shoulders making her own back ache at the sight of it, "You did what you could to help them,"

"It wasn't enough though," Owen's voice was hard but his hand continued to hold hers gently as the doors to the elevator opened and he pulled her onto the ground floor.

"Where are we going?" she asked, as they weaved around tourists who were staring through the glass walls at the working scientists. She had been looking forward to doing just that, but it looked like her vacation was taking a turn she hadn't been expecting.

"We are finding you a way of this island,"

It took her a moment or two for her brain to make sense of his words and when she did she stopped walking so quickly her hand slid from his his and he kept moving forward a few steps.

He stopped and turned, a frown on his face.

"Tim-"

"I'm not going anywhere, Owen," she told him firmly, not giving him a chance to get a word in.

"Tim, listen-"

"No," she stepped forward and poked him hard in the chest with a finger, "I am not going anywhere, and you had better get used to it,"

He thought she was going to let him pack her off. Well, he had another thing coming. She could shoot a gun with the best of them and was not going to leave the island when she knew she would be leaving twenty thousand others in danger. No sir.

He just stood, his eyes wide and mouth agape.

"Well," she huffed a breath, "Now that we have that sorted out, lead the way,"

Gradually his mouth closed and his lips stretched into a smile.

"You are something else, you know that,"

Hi everyone!

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