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After the group of six left the nests, they continued their trek towards the coast. After noticing that the other members were starting to lose energy and kept falling behind Charlotte offered them some snacks. They had refused the food but accepted the water. Unfortunately, by the time everyone had gotten a sip, the water was empty.

"I told you that those bars suck." Billy whispered to her as she took a bite, making a face at the bitter taste.

"This is all the girls had in the trailer. Besides, they're healthy" She then gave up, spitting it out. "And disgusting. I think the girls are starving themselves."

"I think they're saving room for the bar food. What did you even eat when you were stuck at the camp last time?"

Charlotte shrugged, she remembered that there was actually food last time that she had eaten. The dig site normally only provided a breakfast of oatmeal so the diggers were on their own for the other meals. "I guess whatever Rachel brought back from the town. And a lot of lunchables." She laughed.

"Ah. so you did try the bar food." Billy pointed out as she rolled her eyes.

"You should really stop talking about food when all we have is bland protein bars and trail mix full of raisins." Charlotte responded to her companion.

"Then we'd have nothing else to talk about." He joked at the younger girl who shook her head before realizing that he was right. They hadn't really had an actual conversation before. Their entire friendship was Charlotte keeping to herself as Billy and her sister tried getting her out of her shell. If anything Billy was Rachel's friend, not Charlotte's.

"I hate when you're right."

He started laughing as the group made their way to a ravine with a silver building in the center. It looked exactly like a structure that Charlotte expected to find abandoned in the zombie apocalypse.

"I bet there's a very good chance Eric's in there. I'd bet my bottom dollar." Charlotte shared a look with her uncle who looked extremely doubtful. But she nodded encouragingly at Paul despite her own disbelief.

They past dozens of abandoned cars, but most were damaged beyond repair with dented bumpers and shattered windows. Most of them even had ivy growing from the engine, which Charlotte found extremely eerie. "I guess we can't drive." Charlotte mentioned to her companions.

"Too bad, we could have gotten to the shore quicker." Her uncle replied as he trudged on towards the building. As they entered each member took note of the overgrown ivy that covered the walls.

"You should be taking picture of this." Charlotte said to Billy as his eyes wandered around the lobby. She carefully slid her hand on the ivy, studying the intricate twists of the plant.

"I'm not going to waste my film on weeds because you think they look cool." Charlotte made a face at him, walking away before she could see him take out his camera and position it at one of the walls.

A sudden flapping cause Charlotte to screech, the other members turned sharply to discover that the noise that had startled the girl was a flock of birds.

"Awww." She smiled as she saw the nests of birds in the rafters. Alan looked at her in confusion. "I like birds. Just not when they scare me."

"Is it okay to yell now?" Amanda asked Charlotte as she smiled.

"Sure."

"Eric! Are you here?" Paul yelled out followed by Amanda yelling out their son's name.

"I think he would have heard Charlie's scream anyway." Billy laughed as he patted Paul on the shoulder in a display of comfort. "This place seems pretty abandoned."

Paul and Amanda exchanged a hopeless look. "There's still plenty of places he could be." Charlotte tried to comfort the pair. "We'll keep looking."

As they continued walking the halls they were met with a couple of vending machines.

"Food." Charlotte moaned as she made her way over to the machines. Paul started pulling coins from his pocket.

"Let's see. I've got about a dollar seventy- five. How about you guys?" Charlotte shared an amused smiled with Billy right before his foot broke through the glass. He checked the dates off of the candy.

"Thank God for preservatives." He handed some chips and a milky way to Charlotte who smiled and thanked him, as he handed the food to the others.

Alan pushed open a pair of doors, leading the group into a large room filled with with rows of giant, glass cylinders. Many of them held small dinosaurs, they looked like embryos and Charlotte couldn't help but feel bad for the extent animals that would never live. hen it hit her, they were standing in a laboratory.

"This is how you make dinosaurs?" Amanda asked as she walked around the frozen creatures.

"This is how you play God." Alan responded with a horrified expression etched on his face.

Billy looks around the lab. He can't help but be impressed as he sees the flesh of the animals he has studied for looks disgusted and a little sad as she stands next to her uncle.

"Okay if I take pictures?" Billy asked. Alan nodded in confirmation while Charlotte shook her head.

"You don't have to ask my uncle permission."

Billy shrugged while he set up his camera, loading it with new film while putting his bag down onto a close desk.

Charlotte had decided to join Amanda looking at the cylinders. Most had dinosaurs in various stages of their life, they looked like toys in the murky water. They paused at one cylinder that held a raptor head. It looked so lifelike, and even more so as it moved between the glass to attack the two women.

"Amanda!" Paul screamed, trying to get to his ex.

"Charlotte! Back out! Move!" Alan called to the two as the team started running far from the creature.

"In here!" Paul yells at the group as he leads them to a room filled with cages.

"They locked them up. Uncle Grant!" Charlotte yelled as the group pushed their way into the room.

"Not the time to yell about the distreatment of animals Charlotte!"

"It's always the time!" She yelled back as she ran into the room.

They slammed to door shut but there was only a second of calm before they heard the sound of a raptor trying get in. They split up into different cages. Charlotte was separated from the group and ended up in her own cage. "typical." she muttered as she tried to hide herself in the furthest corner. She could hear Amanda yell push from a few cages down and the next thing she knew she was being ushered out of the building. As they escaped the room she paused with her uncle when they heard a familiar sound. It was a low rumbling coming from one of the velociraptors.

"She's calling for help." Her uncle said to her as she could only nod in astonishment.

As they reached the treelike they heard responses from multiple sides. They raptor in the cage was being avenged. The group stood the middle of the raptors, unable to see them the group spun around. Charlotte could only think about her impending doom until she saw the look of amazement in her uncle's face before realizing that this was what he believed in. He always knew that the raptors had a further developed communication tactics then other dinosaurs.

A small group of raptors emerged from the tree line as Alan yelled at them to head towards the trees. They keep running.