2. TRAITORS AMONG US

Edward Campbell emerged from the backroom. He took a quick look at Tosha and Jeffery at the other end of the jet. The two were just looking out the side windows, not talking. Campbell returned to Eric and the others. He sat down sighing.

"What's wrong," Ross asked.

Campbell leaned forward. "We may have a problem," he whispered.

Eric looked at Campbell, very worried. He was already very scared about the Velociraptors, and now there was a problem. This wasn't good.

"What kind of problem," Hunter asked grabbing Eric's hand to try again at keeping him calm. Hunter was very good at that. He seemed to always be able to help Eric. There was one time that Eric had spent the weekend with him and his wife and their new dog that they had gotten just earlier in the week had tried to attack Eric, because it didn't like strangers. Hunter's wife wasn't at home at the time to get the dog to stop, so the two had to stay in a nearby closet until Alice got home. Hunter had to keep Eric calm for three hours while they waited for her to get back from work. Eric had survived that experience even with the dog constantly barking at the door and beating on it as well.

"I just got off the Sat-Link with Dr. Ventral," Campbell replied. "Apparently, someone tried to kill the President of Kenya right in Nairobi. That was where he was supposed to go to testify at a court house against Roland Tembo."

"Is the President alright," Eric asked worried.

"He survived," Campbell replied shaking his head. "But the Kenyan army has gone mad. Alex was unable to make it to the court trial that he was supposed to be at today. There's something else Dr. Ross..."

"What's that," Ross asked concerned.

"Apparently Charles Munro has gotten involved in all of this," Campbell replied. "He may be working for a traitor in our park."

"Munro is still living," Ross said shocked. "I thought for sure that he would've been killed by arch rivals by now."

Munro had dozens of those. Perhaps the largest being Ross' former boss, R. B. Travis from E.R.T.S. After Munro took the diamonds that he and Ross had found at the Lost City of Zinj, he sold them to Intel, Inc. After Travis found out, he went to Africa himself in a mad hunt for the man. Travis was enraged and would stop at nothing to get his hands on those diamonds again. However, the heat in Africa got the best of him and he eventually suffered a heart attack. He died a few days later. E.R.T.S. was then taken over by Travis' son, Mike Travis. The company to this day still existed in Huston, Texas, but was struggling to stay in business.

"What are you talking about when you say 'a traitor in our park'," Eric asked.

"I've known about a possible traitor for a long time," Campbell replied. "However, I wasn't sure whom it was until now."

"Who do you think it is," Eric asked.

"Tosha," Campbell simply replied.

"How can you be sure," Ross asked.

"She is the one that hired Munro," Campbell replied. "Something's going on with her and I want to know what and soon. For now though, I don't want any of you to feel or seem concerned with this. I don't want to attract suspicion to us knowing what she's up to ok?" Everyone nodded. Campbell smiled. "Good. I'm going back over there to try to find some information out myself. Enjoy the rest of the flight."

"Don't you think it's a bad idea to try to go over there and figure stuff out," Hunter asked. "It could be dangerous."

"Don't worry about me," Campbell replied. "I'll be fine." Campbell left the three people and rejoined Tosha and Jeffery at the other side of the jet.

"Well," Ross said, "If it's not gray gorillas, it's crazy people."

Hunter laughed. "Right." He looked down at Eric. He was now gripping Hunter's hand very tightly. "You going to be ok?"

Eric looked up at him. He shook his head. "Yeah."

* * *

Campbell sat down beside Jeffery. He sighed loudly and smiled. "So Tosha is the person that has been trying to interfere in the project," Campbell thought. There had been rumors of a possible traitor within the company for about a month. Campbell had heard that some of the incidents dealing with escaping Velociraptors weren't because of the gray gorillas. There had been some sort of sabotage. The raptors had been let out of their cages to roam around the park freely. By the time the workmen finally tranquilized the animals, several of the storage sheds were destroyed, three Hadrosaurs were dead, and two people were injured. Thankfully no one had been killed.

When Campbell had approached Nick, his top computer programmer, about it, Nick had informed him that he was on his coffee break when the raptor fences had been cut off. Campbell believed him, for Nick had been his best friend for the past seven years. The both of them had been a part of Earth First together, and became partners when they opened Zinj Bioengineering. Campbell was the CEO and Nick was the chairman. Besides being chairman, Nick was also great with computers and photography. That was why he was chosen as top computer programmer. As an extra add in, he did the pamphlets, pictures, and other tourist things, since he was a video documentarian. Campbell knew that there was no way that Nick could've been a traitor.

He never liked Tosha, but he would've never realized that she was the traitor after all that she'd done for the company. He had always recognized how controlitive she was and how she seemed to always think she was in power, but he would've never suspected her of betrayal. What exactly was it that made someone a traitor though? Someone whom was greedy and jealous of how rich and powerful Campbell was. He would've never thought in his wildest dreams that Tosha would've tried such a futile thing, but she had.

"So," Campbell said, breaking the silence between the three people. "How are you both doing? You're not sick are you?" Tosha didn't usually have problems with flying, but Jeffery hadn't ever gotten used to flying. He usually had to go to the bathroom at least once during each flight. Once, he was unable to make it in time, and created a huge problem for the janitors to clean up.

"I'm fine," Jeffery replied. "I took a nerve pill before the flight. I'll be ok."

"Glad to hear it," Campbell said smiling. "How about you Tosha dear?"

Tosha gave a short smile. "I hate it when he calls me dear," she thought to herself. "Perfect," she said.

"So, do you have any questions for me about the park? You normally do." Campbell was ready and willing to answer something. He loved to talk about the park to everyone including his own employees or possible traitors.

"The only thing I want to know is whether or not the hotel is ready."

"Yes it's ready dear," Campbell chuckled.

"Good," Tosha implied smiling. There had been rumors that Tosha and someone else had a relationship when no one else was around. It was against company policy for anyone to be dating, but of course Tosha didn't care and obviously whoever the other person was didn't either. Campbell would've stopped it, but as long as it didn't interfere with their work, he would let it continue. He wasn't too sure about all of that now though.

"I know of something that needs to be discussed," Jeffery implied.

"What's that," Campbell asked.

"Are we going to allow the tourists to see the Site C labs," Jeffery asked.

"Absolutely not," Tosha almost yelled. This caused the guests to look back at the other people.

"Why not Tosha," Campbell asked suspiciously, and flapping his hands and the tourists so they wouldn't make Tosha suspicious of them.

"Because that place is a mess," Tosha replied. "Why would anyone want to go there?"

"To discover the history of Jurassic Congo," Campbell replied smiling. "I'm positive that Eric will want to know about the history and see that place with his own eyes."

"That's true," Tosha said shaking her head. "But are you sure that it isn't too dangerous to be trying to go there?"

"Well," Campbell replied thinking about his answer to the question. "There aren't any animals remaining in the underground section, with the exception of our aquatic creatures. That's reason enough to go into the old InGen complex."

The parks workmen had tried several times to move those creatures with no success. Every time they tried moving the Megalodons, they would manage to destroy the containment units they were held in. One of the Megs died before it could be tranquilized and returned to its holding area. The Liopleurodons, however, wouldn't even fit into the containment units. They would've been able to move the smaller ones easily, but they didn't want to separate the adults from the younger ones. So, for now, they were going to keep the aquatic creatures in the Site C building.

"Plus the people will just want to look around at the beginnings of our park," Campbell said, completing his thought. "Besides, it won't be dangerous."

"Unless someone falls into the underwater paddocks," Tosha said expressing anger.

Campbell sighed. "Darling, you really need to calm down and relax a little."

"There isn't any time for relaxing," Tosha implied. "Edward, this is going to be the first time that civilians have been to Jurassic Congo for crying out loud! We have to make sure that everything is down pact. I saw a lot of potential in this park when I joined the project and I still do! I do not want to see Jurassic Congo go down the toilet like Jurassic Park did."

"Then why are you the one betraying us," Campbell thought to himself.

"At least this time there isn't a rival company like Biosyn," Jeffery implied.

Campbell chuckled. "But in a way Biosyn lives on through Matt Rossiter."

Matt was Campbell's first guess as the traitor. He was the son of the now deceased, former CEO of Biosyn for crying out loud, and he was now working at Jurassic Congo!

"I hate that boy," Tosha said. "He is bad luck."

"You just say that," Campbell began, "because he's Jeff Rossiter's son."

"Don't you think that Biosyn is a curse," Tosha asked.

"I don't believe in superstition dear," Campbell replied. "Just because they're related by blood doesn't mean that they have the same sorry luck. Besides, Matt isn't that bad of a guy."

"Well he did try to blow up one of our power conduits once," Jeffery said. "We could've lost everything, because of that!"

"You know very well that that was an accident," Campbell said. "He could've been killed in the blast if it had actually blown up. Do you think that he would commit suicide just to destroy our park? I find that very unlikely."

"All the same, we should watch out for him on this trip," Jeffery implied.

"We have to watch after everyone on this trip," Campbell said. "Anyone that will be on this trip this weekend could be a potential Dennis Nedry. I'm more cautious of whom I get to work for me and who my experts are. That's why I had most of the say in our visitors. I picked a younger Paleontologist for the fact that he is new blood and not cynical. I chose Karen Ross for her intelligence and knowledge of the Congo. Eric Kirby was the next choice not only because Dr. Ross is his aunt, but also that he is the only person that has ever seen Jurassic Park that would want to return. And of course Alex was chosen because I trust him."

"You seem to be the only one that trusts him," Tosha said.

"Yes I guess so," Campbell said. Why was Tosha acting this way? She didn't seem to be a traitor at all. She seemed more calm then anything else, like she didn't know what was going on. He knew that she saw him go into the back room to talk on the SLUS. She should've realized right there that he and Alex were on her trail now. She just didn't seem nervous over something bad that she had done. She was putting all of her nervousness into the protection of the civilians. What was going on with that woman? What was her plan? All of these questions drove Campbell crazy. He needed to rest. He wasn't going to get much once they arrived in Kinshasa. "I'm going to take a short nap. Wake me if something happens." With those words Campbell went out into a dark slumber and dreamed of his park.