Author's rant: ::SOB:: You know what...? I created Tory just to prove to you people that kids can die at J-Park too... But then I started working with the chara and writing and then... ::sniffles:: I was kinda putting that part off for awhile actually... Well I'll have my usual, long rant at the end of this chapter cuz I doubt you are really interested in this thing and want to get on with the ficcy.

Chapter 13

Julia's body numbed along with her mind as she watched Tory's body fall from the spino's claw. His eyes lay half open and his chest was now a hole that spilled his blood into the river, turning it red. Her body fell limp and she began to drift into the rivers current, not noticing the cage fall on its side, trapping her from air unless she swam to the door.
She didn't care that she couldn't breath, and she ignored the burning in her lungs. The only thing that saved her from drowning was Eric grabbing her arm and pulling her from the cage.
To Eric, her body felt limp. Like she had died, or fainted. Which, while it seemed out of character for her, he didn't doubt that it could happen. He felt like passing out himself, but the time on the island had taught him not to wait. Common sense taught him as well.
He managed to get her to the shore, that was when he could no longer stop himself from looking to see what was happening with the superpredator. He severly regretted it. He didn't want to see this. Every terrifying thing witnissed on the island was nothing compared to this.
He was about to see his father ripped to peices by a vicious predator.
Billy had to grab both Amanda and Eric as they both desperatly tried to run to the crane Paul was on in the middle of the lake. He didn't like the idea of seeing the man die this way but he couldn't let them die as well.
Alan watched with macarbe facination as the ancient monster snapped at Paul as he climbed higher. An oil slick from the wreckage of the barge caught his eye and the paleontologist immediatly began scanning the water for anything he could use to somehow stop the spino. Two things caught his eye: Julia sitting on the river bank holding the satallite phone they had found earlier and a flare gun.
Deciding to ignore Julia, he grabbed the flare gun and carefully aimed for the oil slick. His body jerked as he was hit with the recoil after firing the flare. The flame that erupted from the oil slick served its purpose as the spino ran away from the flames.
"DAD!" Eric screamed in horror as the crane collapsed from under his father. He stopped trying to escape Billy's grip and his legs nearly buckled as what he just saw slowly sank in.
Amanda immediatly grabbed for her son, unable to think of anything else then her only family left. Her mind was completely shattered. Even while being divorced she had felt a slight attachment to Paul and his adorably nerdy "Mr-Play-It-Safe" character. She couldn't help but think of everytime she had laughed with Eric or her friends about him.
"...The spinosaur might circle back. We have to leave." Alan said as gently as he could.
"No! What about Dad!?" Eric cried out frantically.
"Eric," Amanda said, trying to be calm, "We have to leave. Your father wouldn't want you to stay here, where its dangerous. He loves you to much."
"He loves you too, Amanda." Julia said flatly. She was the girl they had first met again. Cold and brutally honest. Although she had chosen a gentler truth to tell them this time. She didn't even look at them. Her eyes were locked on the water and seemed misty, like she wasn't there anymore.
The humans all stood silent, unsure what to do, when loud splashes hit their ears.
Eric turned and was unable to believe he was really seeing his father right in front of him. Both he and his mother ran to him and circled the arms around him.
The family was reunited once again but this time Julia got no joy out of it.

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Thanks for reveiws etc. etc. What is to come in the next chapter? Alan calling Ellie and while it is a short convo it will be a sweet one! ::sighs:: I feel like such a jerk for killing Tory... But I have "author magic" so who knows what might happen! J-_- I guess I am gonna have to be realistic if I want to be a good writer... Well please reveiw and give me your thougts! On the past, present and future of the fic!