Hotel: Lex and the kids brought Jake into one of the rooms and laid him on the bed. Lex stood there slowly crying as Jake lay their motionless.
"Well he's still alive at any rate," said Tommy feeling his pulse.
"Yeah but for how long?" asked Lex angrily. Tommy shrugged.
"I dunno. But I remember my dad saying that if a sleeping concussion patient doesn't pull through soon he won't at all," said Tommy. Lex grabbed a hold of Jake's jacket collar and hoisted him partly off the bed.
"You can't leave us you hear me! You promised! You gave your word and I'll be damned if you break it!" Lex shouted at him. With that she tore out of the room while the children watched, slightly worried.
"C'mon, there's nothing we can do for him now but hope," said Tommy leading the kids to the cafeteria.
Jake opened his eyes and looked around at the empty hotel room.
"Hello?" he asked when he suddenly heard his own echo. He shrugged and got off the bed. His whole body ached as he stood up and walked out into the hallway. The last thing he really remembered was leaping to the ground and briefly mentioning something to Lex. Jake stumbled out into the hallway, but still no one was to be seen. He stumbled down the hallway and into the lobby but still no one was to be seen.
"This is just too weird," said Jake shaking his head. He looked around but didn't notice any signs of a struggle and nothing looked damaged in any way. Jake shrugged and continued into the cafeteria where he finally spotted people in the cafeteria.
"Hey guys, what's up?" asked Jake. No one looked at him or noticed his presence.
"Hello!" shouted Jake waving his hands in front of everyone. "Can anybody hear me?"
"I can hear you,"
Jake spun around to see a velociraptor looking straight at him. Jake reached for his rifle but couldn't find it.
"Don't bother, it's not anyplace that you could reach it, much less pick it up," said the raptor. Jake growled and prepared to tackle the thing.
"What good is violence going to do you? You can't kill me, I'm your inner psyche," said the raptor sighing.
"Like I'm really going to trust that coming from a dinosaur," said Jake.
"I'm not a dinosaur I'm an amalgamation of your subconscious," said the raptor.
"Bull," said Jake. "I hate dinosaurs with a passion, why would my psyche appear as one?"
"Because that's the way things are," said the dino simply.
"That's a cop out answer," said Jake.
"And yet you're the only one you know who uses that answer to questions so what then?" asked the dino crossing its arms. Jake growled again and prepared to lunge at the dino again.
"You know that's not going to do anything," said the raptor.
"I don't care, you're a dino and you must die!" shouted Jake. He lunged at the dino only to pass right through it. The next thing he knew he was in another room with Lex sitting on the bed with tears in her eyes as she sat there staring at the far wall.
"What is this supposed to prove?" asked Jake.
"You came here not me!" the raptor protested.
"What's wrong with her?" asked Jake sitting down next to her on the bed.
"Your sacrifice has shaken Lex's core as before she tried to be independent and be able to do thing by herself. However, your selflessness prompted her to rethink her ways and now it's too late for her to ever thank you, or pursue any chance of a relationship with you," said the dino.
"I don't know that," said Jake.
"Yes," the dinosaur said. "You do."
Jake looked at the dinosaur angrily. "What kind of subconscious are you? Are you even one because I don't know all this."
"No I'm not your subconscious," said the dino. "But I am part of your psyche like I said."
"Then what are you?" asked Jake angrily.
"I'm your hatred," said the dino simply. "You hate dinosaurs to the point that you never had room for any other emotions. But now you are feeling other emotions that you've tried to bury and as a result I am here."
"No, I won't accept that," said Jake shaking his head.
"No, I didn't think you would but it's true. Your rage is controlling you and blinding you to the truth," said the dino. "Let go of your hatred, allow yourself to feel emotions!"
"I can't," said Jake through tears. "It's who I am! I can't live without my hatred! If I let go of my hatred I'll be disgracing Jeffrey's memory and I will not allow that to happen."
"If you don't let go of your hatred it will kill you! You will not survive this island; the dinosaurs will defeat you!" shouted the raptor.
"Maybe," Jake said shrugging. "But you forgot one thing."
"What's that?" asked the dino confused.
Hotel: Jake's eyes snapped open. "I HATE DINOSAURS!" he shouted as he jolted straight up. Lex instantly ran into the room having heard his yell.
"Jake you're okay!" she shouted giving him a hug. Jake nodded staring straight at the wall behind her.
"Yeah I'm back," said Jake shaking his head.
"What's wrong?" asked Lex through her slowly fading tears. Jake shook his head.
"I don't want to talk about it," he said coldly. Realizing Lex's hurt expression Jake laughed. "C'mon, I'm hungry let's get some food."
Lex nodded and the two left the room to the cafeteria.
Sorna: "Anything new?" asked John. Ray looked at up at him with weary eyes as the computer performed a self-diagnostic.
"I know it had something to do with the login process. The computer is doing a search to find out any new sequences in the login process that weren't there before," said Ray. "It should be done soon I hope."
"Get some sleep you've been up too long. I don't want you operating at less than your best," said John. Ray nodded and groaned as he hoisted himself up out of the chair at Jake's desk. As he was leaving Jake's office, a pinging noise emanated from the laptop. The screen read: ONE INCONSISTENCY FOUND
"What is it?" asked John very curious. Ray clicked on the box and the inconsistency popped up.
"Oh my God," said Ray right after he read it.
Nublar: Jake and Lex sat at one of the tables apart from the children eating some food. Jake sat silently eating a salad while staring vacantly off into space. Lex eyed him nervously while eating her salad as well.
"Are you okay?" she asked. Jake looked at her vacantly.
"Yeah, I'm fine," he said weakly.
"Do you want to talk about what ever is bothering you?" Lex asked worriedly.
"No," said Jake. "Not really."
"Is it me?" Lex asked after a few moments. "Please let the answer be no."
Jake laughed. "Of course not. You've taken this whole situation with the dinosaurs a lot better than I have. You're an inspiration both to these kids and to me."
Lex smiled back. "That's good to hear. So what happened to you while you were unconscious?"
Jake opened his mouth like he was going to say something, but he couldn't find the words and nothing came out.
"Alright," said Lex letting it go. "You'll tell me when you're ready. So what is our game plan now?"
"Well we can't stay here for very long. That Gojirasaurus will be back and next time it probably will break through. If not that dinosaur, then other larger ones might show up like a T-Rex. Don't forget that there are still two rexes loose and one spinosaurus," said Jake talking more easily now.
"So where can we go?" asked Lex. Jake looked at a window to the river beyond.
"We could always float down the river. Course even that has its risks," said Jake.
"Like what?" asked Lex confused.
"I don't know what lives in that river. Back on Sorna we have a few living in the river that you probably wouldn't want to run across at your local stream. I don't know if any were imported here or not," said Jake shrugging.
"You didn't put any on the DNS list?" asked Lex, having finally realized that there was another island where the dinosaurs were being made.
"Considering this island has a jungle river cruise we figured John wouldn't be stupid enough to bring something here that could eat any of the passengers," said Jake. "But with John who can tell?"
"Yeah, I'm beginning to see your annoyance with my grandfather's actions. I have to agree some of his actions didn't make sense regarding the safety on this island," said Lex. Jake shrugged drinking some tomato juice.
"He did what he felt was necessary to make this island financially successful. I'm not going to fault him for that because I'm not in his position," said Jake. "But I do wish he had consulted me or Henry first that's all."
"How long was I out by the way?" asked Jake rubbing his eyes.
"Twelve hours," said Lex. Jake chocked on his juice.
"That long? It felt a lot less than that to me," he said.
"It's the truth," said Lex shrugging. "While you were out I managed to get the kids to get some sleep because I don't know when they'll be able to in the near future."
"We'd better get going as soon as possible then that dinosaur could be back at any moment," said Jake finishing his drink. He walked over to the assembly line where he could put his tray on it. As he realized that there wasn't any power to the hotel, he slammed the tray down and shook his head to bring his thoughts to the present. He grabbed the rifle with its five bullets left. Lex had quickly gathered up the children and they all moved into the lobby.
"Okay let's see that map," said Jake. Tommy came forward and they all looked at it on the floor.
"Okay it looks like there's a boat dock about a quarter of a mile down this path. Unfortunately it's through some heavy jungle and that's not good. I don't know what's hiding in there, but a couple raptors or maybe even a dilophosaur or two. We're going to have to make sure we move straight down that path as quickly as possible and try not to make any noise. With any luck we'll reach our destination without incident but if we do I'll try and lead whatever it is away from you guys while you head for the docks. If I'm not back in three hours and there's a boat take off. If there isn't a boat, walk down the riverbank until you eventually reach the coast and just hang out there. Typically the fiercer dinosaurs don't like being near the waves so you should be fine I would think," Jake mused.
"Okay," said Lex a little bit nervously at Jake's belief that something would go wrong. She then tried to put if off as his usual pessimism regarding dinosaurs.
"Let's go," said Jake folding up the map. He gave it to Tommy and the group moved out.
Five minutes later: Jake, Lex, and the kids moved down the path amongst the thick jungle.
"This heat is terrible," said Jake as he and the others were sweating profusely.
"It's the dinosaurs' natural environment," said Lex. "Well, as natural as it is possible nowadays."
"Yet another reason why I hate dinosaurs," Jake said gasping for air. Lex sighed at another one of Jake's constant dinosaur complaints, but she realized that the edge in his voice didn't seem to be as apparent as before when discussing them.
"Maybe he's beginning to change...maybe," thought Lex. Jake continued listening intently to the jungle for any sign of oncoming danger, but he had to admit to himself that he probably wouldn't know the first sign of any if there was.
"I should've listened to my sister when she said that I should stop working so hard otherwise it would kill me. If she only knew...," thought Jake with a smile. His sister knew that he worked for Ingen but not to what extent. John made all the paperwork seem that all of his scientists were in fact just clerks back at San Diego. As a result, he had gone to extreme lengths to make sure that none of the scientists would ever reveal their secrets behind the dinosaurs. Not that it really mattered, the dinosaurs were patented by Ingen and Biosyn was long since absorbed into Ingen after Nedry had ratted out on Dodgson to get a lesser sentence in jail. John had made quick moves to acquire the company and since Biosyn was facing several federal investigations, John managed to wave them off and Biosyn's board of directors gladly sold the company to him and promptly left the country vowing never to deal with biogenetics ever again. Still, John wasn't taking any chances even though most other biogenetics companies didn't even want to bother with making dinosaurs, their main interest was in curing diseases. Jake sighed wondering again whether joining Ingen was really such a good idea. He had friends who worked for Pacific Pharmaceuticals and they had begged him to join them, but after hearing John's plans for the future of genetic engineering, Jake knew he had to be a part of it and he was. It was not that there was any real problems working for Ingen, but after Jeffrey's death he had thought about it more and more often until he had cured DX and just stopped thinking about what he was doing altogether.
"What're you thinking about?" asked Lex risking their safety for a little silence.
"Whether or not I should've joined Ingen or not," said Jake.
"What do you think?" asked Lex.
"I don't know. On the one hand I've brought smiles to hundreds of kids and adults alike. On the other hand I killed my best friend. It's tough to know what exactly will ever balance it out," said Jake.
"Well if you hadn't joined Ingen we'd be stuck at here without you," said Lex.
"Maybe," Jake conceded. "On the other hand, Nedry might've sabotaged your initial tour and you could've died."
Lex nodded at that statement. "Somehow I think Dr. Grant would've helped up survive the island somehow."
"We'll never know," said Jake. "We'll never know."
Suddenly a loud boom shook the ground. Jake snapped up his rifle.
"Shit! Everyone stick together and keep moving!" shouted Jake. The thundering grew louder and louder and the ground began shaking heavier and heavier.
"Here it comes!" shouted Jake as a massive shadow fell over them. Lex screamed as a head appeared over the trees.
A few moments passed...
"Oh for the love of God," said Jake shaking his head in humility. Above the trees a brachiosaur head peered down at them. Lex instantly began laughing along with the kids.
"Ugh," said Jake lowering his rifle and walking down the path in shame while the massive dinosaur watched them go.
"Oh c'mon it was funny!" said Lex chasing after him with the kids.
"That's not funny," said Jake pointing to the grinning thing. "That's...stupid."
"Oh lay off you've been to tightly wound as it is. Sometimes it helps to laugh every once in awhile," said Lex.
"I'll laugh if we survive this island deathtrap," said Jake shuddering.
"Oh get off your high pedestal and come back to Earth," said Lex shaking her head. Jake shrugged.
"I don't make any excuses for what I am," he said shrugging with a light smile. Lex just shook her head smiling as the trees parted revealing a chain link fence surrounding a dock with a large warehouse on the waterfront.
"Chain-link fence," said Jake sighing. "Getting a little cheap aren't we John?"
"I don't think he planned on the dinosaurs escaping," said Lex.
"Well he should have," said Jake. "I warned him time and time again about how it could happen."
"Well there's nothing we can do about it now, we just have to survive that's all and fix it later," said Lex.
"Oh will we ever," said Jake shaking his head as he pushed open the gate. He then walked over to the warehouse when suddenly he heard a familiar clicking sound.
"Lex," said Jake simply.
"Yes?"
"Run as fast as you can into the warehouse, find some isolated room, and lock yourself in," said Jake.
"What? Why?" Lex asked looking around confused.
"We're being hunted," said Jake simply swinging up the rifle and cocking it. "Go now!"
Lex and the children bolted as a green blur leapt off the roof. Jake swung the rifle up and blasted the raptor in midair and its stomach flew apart as it slammed into the ground nearby while Lex and the kids entered into the warehouse. As soon as they got inside, they noticed five raptors all surrounding the river cruise boat that they had intended to take down the river. Outside, three shots were heard and then silence as the raptors lunged at Lex and the kids, claws outstretched.
Sorna: John, Ray, Henry, and Robert were in Jake's cubicle discussing the keystrokes that had set off the sleeper virus. Donald had been in there earlier but he had left fuming once he found out what it was.
"I don't believe this," said Robert pacing back and forth. "I don't fucking believe this!"
"It's true," said Ray incredulously in Jake's chair before he began laughing in shock. He then held up his hands to his head and just stared at the desk.
"God if he found out," said Robert. "He'd go insane! He literally would!"
"How could Nedry have known though?" asked Henry. "I thought he didn't have any foreknowledge of what was going to happen to him? And even if he did, there was no proof that that login would ever be used on this island!"
"He must've known or suspected something before he was captured," John reasoned. "But you're right there was no proof that that login was ever going to be used on this island again. But if and I do mean if it was used, Nedry knew if he found out he would go insane and as such Nedry would've won. It's magnificent is what it is."
"And yet ultimately your fault," said Ray. John nodded.
"Yes, yes it was. Oh Jake...I'm so sorry. I never should've had you come to this island," said John to the heavens. On the computer it read:
Login: Jake L. Whitacre
Command: Login ID Confirmed
Additional: Correct Prompt Accepted, Sleeper Virus Activated
Notes: Congrats Jake you've released your own worst nightmare-Nedry