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THE LOST WORLD
Chapter One
It was a dreary day on the plateau just like the day before and the day before that, a heavy rainstorm had set in a few days earlier and hadn't stopped since. The explorers were bored stuck inside the treehouse with nothing to do but eat, sleep, read over and over again. It got to Marguerite first; she comes out of her room.
MARGUERITE: I'm going for a walk.
Roxton who'd been falling asleep in the chair wakes up.
ROXTON: You can't go out in this weather, you'll catch your death...
MARGUERITE: If I stay inside I'll die of boredom anyway.
She walks in to the elevator. Roxton picks up the rifle and stands up.
ROXTON: You can't go alone.
MARGUERITE: That's okay, you don't need to hold my hand.
She descends in the elevator. Challanger comes up from the lab with Malone in tow, they watch Marguerite leave.
MALONE: Where's she going?
ROXTON: Taking a walk.
Challanger looks up in surprise from some papers he's reading.
CHALLANGER: Your letting her go alone?
Roxton gets in the elevator.
ROXTON: No.
* * * * * *
The rain has finally stopped so Marguerite comes out of the cave she was exploring; she walks out empty handed. She looks up at the sun.
MARGUERITE: Finally!
She carried on walking until she came to a stream; she splashes her face with water. The bushes behind her start rustling, she turns round and aims the gun at the bushes.
MARGUERITE: Roxton? Is that you?
She slowly stands up and walks towards the bushes.
MARGUERITE: Roxton stop fooling around.
She parts the bushes to see an entrance to a small cave. She walks inside keeping an eye out for any unfriendly inhabitants. At the back of the cave she catches sight of something glistening.
MARGUERITE: What have we here?
As she walks closer she sees some jewels glistening in the wall, she pries on out and examines it, and out of the corner of her eye she sees some stone steps. She about to climb them when a MAN appears at the top of the stairs.
MARGUERITE: Who's there?
A bullet whizzes past her ear, she ducks behind a nearby boulder.
MARGUERITE: What the hell do you think your doing?
The man walks to the bottom of the stairs and aims the gun at Marguerite, she shoots at it. The man comes into view; he's got a wild look in his eyes.
MAN: Help me.
He drops the gun and falls to his knees; the cave becomes cold and a mist forms above the man it moves towards Marguerite it circles her then disappears. She walks over to the man and kneels down beside him.
MARGUERITE: Are you all right?
MAN: I'm dying.
* * * * * *
Roxton walks in the direction that he heard the gun shot.
ROXTON: Marguerite?
From inside the cave she shouts Roxton's name.
ROXTON: Where are you?
She comes out from behind the bushes.
MARGUERITE: Here.
ROXTON: What were you doing in there?
MARGUERITE: Just looking around.
She sees the mist form across the stream.
MARGUERITE: We should get going.
ROXTON: Anything interesting in there?
MARGUERITE: No, just a cave, nothing special.
They start walking when Marguerite stops.
ROXTON: What's wrong?
MARGUERITE: I left my pack in the cave, I'll catch up with you.
ROXTON: Hurry up.
She runs back to cave Roxton whose about to continue decides to wait for her instead.
* * * * * *
Marguerite enters the cave and looks around cautiously.
MARGUERITE: Tim?
He walks out from the shadows and stumbles towards her, she comes to his side and steadies him.
MARGUERITE: I told you to lie down.
TIM: You can't tell anybody about this place, it's too dangerous...
MARGUERITE: I won't, you just need to rest, and I'll come back tonight with something that'll make you feel better.
TIM: That won't help.
She helps him lie down on the floor leaning against a rock.
MARGUERITE: It might stop your fever...I have to get going.
She turns to go he grabs her arm.
TIM: Be careful this things dangerous.
MARGUERITE: I will, I know, just rest now.
She walks back out of the cave to where Roxtons waiting.
ROXTON: Where's your pack?
MARGUERITE: I didn't bring it, I'd completely forgot, I thought I had it with me.
She starts walking, Roxton looks at her unsure that she's telling the truth, he looks at the cave then follows her.
ROXTON: I heard gunfire earlier.
MARGUERITE: I thought I heard something, it was just a precaution in case something decided to jump out at me.
He stops her from walking.
ROXTON: Stop lying to me.
She turns and faces him angrily.
MARGUERITE: I'm not.
ROXTON: I can tell.
MARGUERITE: And since when can you read minds?
ROXTON: I just know.
She leans in towards him and talks quieter but still angry.
MARGUERITE: You couldn't handle what I know.
ROXTON: You can't be telling the truth because every word that comes out of your mouth is a lie.
MARGUERITE: Stay away from me or you will sorry.
She storms off, Roxton watches her leave with dread on his face, when he starts following her it's started raining again.
* * * * * *
Marguerite steps out of the elevator without Roxton, Malone and Veronica are just serving dinner. They look up as Marguerite walks in.
MALONE: Where's Roxton?
She smiles charmingly at everyone.
MARGUERITE: I don't know.
They sit down at the table.
VERONICA: He went out looking for you this morning.
MARGUERITE: I left him gawking at something about 15 minutes ago. I'm sure he won't be long.
They hear the elevator and Roxton walks out dripping wet. Challanger joins them and sees Roxton he starts laughing.
MARGUERITE: Well look what the cat dragged in...So did you know that, that was going to happen?
She indicates his dripping clothes and the rain. The others who had started laughing didn't seem to hear the comment.
ROXTON: This isn't funny.
MARGUERITE: You could have fooled me.
He walks into his room and closes the door. Outside thunder and lightening accompanies the rain.
CAHLLANGER: Nobodies going to be outside in this weather for a couple of days.
Marguerite watches the rain, worried. Malone sees her look.
MALONE: Is everything all right?
MARGUERITE: I'm fine, I think I'll just go sleep, I'll see you all in the morning.
She walks into the bedroom and quietly closes the door, once inside she gets the pack and stuffs some blankets inside.
A few hours later she comes out of her room. Roxton is asleep on the chair and the others are no where to be seen. She sneaks into Roxton's room and finds his extra clothes she stuffs them into the pack too. The she creeps back into her room and waits.
* * * * * *
Later that night she steps out of the treehouse and makes her way back to the cave, any noises she might have made where masked by the heavy rainstorm. An hour later she is back inside the cave. Tim is still on the floor where she left him earlier. He's still asleep. She takes one of the blankets and covers him with it; she takes another, folds it up and puts it under his head. She makes a fire beside him, she takes a wet cloth and dabs Tim's head with it, and he slowly rouses.
TIM: I feel so weak.
MARGUERITE: Really? You look great.
TIM: I'm so cold.
MARGUERITE: In a few days you'll be up and about like nothings happened.
He smiles at her and takes her hand.
TIM: Liar.
MARGUERITE: I know someone who can help you, if...
TIM: It's too dangerous.
MARGUERITE: Tell me why, who did this to you?
TIM: ...A spirit, a tormented spirit...he was killed and his body hidden by his killers, he inhabits peoples bodies...the longer he is without his own body the more angry he gets...he drains their life, he killed my friends, he used them to find his own body...they couldn't do anything, they had no control over their actions.
MARGUERITE: When I saw him he was a mist...
TIM: He can last a few minutes without a body, he'll have inhabited a bird or dinosaur but only for a time. The he'll look for someone else.
MARGUERITE: Well he must be fussy or he'd have taken me.
TIM: Maybe he thinks you couldn't do the job properly.
They both laugh.
MARGUERITE: I brought some food and dry clothes that you can change into.
TIM: I'm not hungry.
MARGUERITE: You need to keep your strength up.
TIM: Why? I'm not going anywhere.
MARGUERITE: I don't want to force feed you...
TIM: (Laughs) Okay.
She hands him some fruit.
MARGUERITE: Are you warm enough?
TIM: A little, I should be asking you that, you're the one that's shivering.
MARGUERITE: I'm fine, never felt better.
TIM: Won't your friends be worried about where you are?
MARGUERITE: No...Their asleep, they'll never know I'm gone.
TIM: It'll be morning soon.
MARGUERITE: There's hours left yet...will you be okay here by yourself?
TIM: As long as you promise to come back tomorrow, I'll be fine.
MARGUERITE: In that case, I'll be back bright and early.
TIM: Looking forward to it.
He lets go of her hand and watches her leave, without the pack.
* * * * * *
Marguerite gets back to the treehouse soaking wet. She finds a towel and starts drying her hair. Challanger walks up from the lab, she hurries to her room but he catches her, she turns round.
CHALLANGER: Did you go outside in this weather?
MARGUERITE: I lost an earring earlier, I went looking for it.
CHALLANGER: At night? In a storm?
MARGUERITE: I didn't want it to get dirty.
He looks at her suspiciously.
MARGUERITE: Goodnight.
She walks back into her room and closes the door.
* * * * * *
The group are sat around the table the next morning, all except Marguerite.
VERONICA: Shouldn't we wake her up?
CHALLANGER: She's probably tired after walking around half the night.
Everyone looks at him.
MALONE: What do you mean?
CHALLANGER: I'm exaggerating, she was just outside for a few minutes last night looking for some item of jewellery she'd lost.
Marguerite walks out of her room, looking tired.
ROXTON: Speak of the devil.
MARGUERITE: What was that?
ROXTON: Nothing.
She sits down, away from Roxton.
MARGUERITE: Really Roxton if you can't say anything nice, don't bother saying anything at a...a...atchoo.
MALONE: Bless you.
MARGUERITE: Thankyou.
She has a drink, Roxton watches her.
ROXTON: Didn't you sleep well?
MARGUERITE: I slept fine.
ROXTON: I'm suprised walking around outside last night...
Marguerite glares at Challanger, who looks away.
ROXTON: ...I'd have thought you'd be sleeping all day.
MARGUERITE: Well then you thought wrong, didn't you?
ROXTON: I also though you could follow a few simple rules, I was wrong about that too, wasn't I?
MARGUERITE: I was out for five minutes...
ROXTON: And in that five minutes something could have happened...
MARGUERITE: Something like you realising I can take care of myself.
She looks outside and realises the rain has stopped.
MARGUERITE: I'm going for a walk.
She gets out of the chair, as does Roxton.
ROXTON: Your not going alone.
MARGUERITE: What are you going to do? Tie me to a chair until I agree to you walking me around?
ROXTON: Don't tempt me.
She gets into the elevator, Roxton goes to follow.
CHALLANGER: Let her be...Malone and I will be going outside in a little while, we'll make sure she doesn't get into any trouble.
* * * * * *
Marguerite makes her way towards the cave again when three raptors jump out of the bushes; she aims her gun at the first one and shoots it dead. When she turns round the other raptors gone. As she carries on walking she feels the ground shake a little she turns round and about 300 yards ahead she sees a T-Rex.
MARGUERITE: This is not my day.
She starts running in the direction of the cave and the T-Rex starts to run after her. She hides behind a tree and the T-Rex stops it looks around trying to find her. The two remaining raptors that are tracking her jump in front of her, T-Rex sees them and starts forward. Marguerite shoots the other raptor as the other one hides, she starts running toward the east with the T-Rex and raptor following her, she runs to the edge of a thick group of trees and comes to a stop at the top of a waterfall. She turns to run the other way when the T-Rex stops 200 yards ahead of her. The remaining raptor makes its way towards her from the right. She shoots it in mid air as it jumps to attack. While the T-Rex starts to walk closer.
* * * * * *
Malone and Challanger who are walking in the direction that Marguerite went earlier look up towards the waterfall in the direction of the gunshot.
MALONE: Who's that on the edge of the cliff? Is that Marguerite?
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