Chapter two

This is the second chapter of the Jurassic park story which will be set during the time when Ian and his group head off on their operation to observe the dinosaurs of Site B. this chapter features the meeting between Tim and the bowman family and the hours spent with them.
So I hope you'll enjoy this chapter of the Jurassic park story and keep an open mind.

The next Morning.

After having breakfast with his family, Tim told his Mum that he planning on going out for the day to see some friends of his in the city.
His mum Bethany took his word for it and then allowed him to go. "Ok, so do you have someone going with you to the city, I don't want you going out there alone."
"Yeah, I spoke with Grandpa and he says he has a guy named James Ormond acting as my escort into town and he's been filled in on my little day out into the city.
"Ok Tim, as long as James Ormand goes with you into the city I'm fine." said Bethany.

"Cool thanks mum, I promise to behave myself whilst I'm out." He said to his mum, he was about to go over to the hangers and then pick up his jacket when Lex approached their mum.
"Mom, Is it ok if I can walk Tim down stairs to the car?" She asked.

"Sure thing sweetie, just be sure to come back in once Tim is in the car." said Bethany.
Lex nodded to her mum before she turned around and started walking Tim out through the door, they went along the hall towards the elevator.
Whilst they waited for the elevator to arrive, she asked him.
"Tim, can I ask you about this visit into town, is it a visit to the Bowmans' apartment?"

Tim looked up at Lex, and then looked back down and was feeling a little guilty before he spoke his mind. "Well between you and me, one of the Bowmans has invited me over to their apartment for a small chat last night. I didn't want to tell you anything encase you might speak to mum."

"Tim I think its not a good idea for you to speak with them, I mean you hardly know them or anything and all of a sudden you take an invitation to their house." said Lex.

"Well I don't want to be rude to their daughter, I mean she invited me over.
I just wanted to make a good impression to her and her family, and I want to say that grandpa is a naturalist. Plus I think its good for me to speak with someone who has had experience with dinosaurs, other than us." said Tim, when the elevator arrived and the doors automatically open up. He stepped into the elevator with Lex, who was a little annoyed with her brother's decision to go out to the Bowman's apartment.
As the elevator took them down to the ground floor, Tim and Lex spent the ride in silence in thought before she turned to him and then spoke.
"Alright Tim. If you think its right for you to pay a visit to the bowman's, then I hope you don't expect too much on the visit and more. Anyways just be sure to tell her and her parents about Grandpa's secret plan to save the dinosaurs of the Island."

Tim looked up at her as the doors opened and just after they stepped out, Tim turned around and came to her.
The two embraced for a short moment before Timmy looked at Lex.
Stepping back from Lex, he nodded to her request. "I will." Tim said and then turned to the doorway before he went outside to wait for the car and Lex followed him out to wait with him. The two waited for a short few minutes as the morning sun shined brightly before they saw the car come into the drive.
"Thanks Lex for letting me go with my plan." Tim said before he went to the car door. When he opened the door he turned his head to look at Lex when she spoke.
"It's ok. And Tim. I'll see you around and hope you'll tell me about it." said Lex.
Tim nodded before he went into the car and closed the door whilst Lex turned around and walked back inside.
As soon as Tim was inside the car, it made a turn onto the road and drove away from the apartment, heading along the roads across the city and along the streets towards their destination.

Meanwhile outside the City.

At the Bowman's apartment, Deirdre was just at home relaxing whilst the servants were at work.
She was sitting on her couch relaxing in her top and trousers and reading a magazine when Cathy came from her room, all dressed up for a special occasion and she came to her mother.
"Um mom." said Cathy. "Yes Cathy darling, is everything alright?" asked Deirdre, closing her magazine to sit forward and look at her daughter who spoke responded.

"No nothing's wrong mom, I just have something to tell you." said Cathy. "Ok then what is it?" asked Deirdre.

"I...I invited a friend of mine over to our apartment."

"You what?" asked Deirdre. "He's a boy who lives here and I've invited him over for a chat." said Cathy.
"Darling I'm not sure if you should invite a boy over here without me knowing him, I mean for all I know he might be a street boy or something. Do you remember when I warned you about going along the beach alone?" said Deirdre.
"Mom, it was a few weeks ago and I think he means well.
And from what I've learnt is that this boy is a middle class boy and he comes from a good family, but his parents are divorced and he says that he had some encounters with those dinosaurs on the Island himself. He also wanted to meet you in person as well as meet me so I thought it weird but he thought it was appropriate."

"Well I'll be the judge of that when I meet him in person. Look Cathy, I don't want you to end up meeting some street kid who is going to be dropped off by his parents. And if he's hiding anything then I'll have him thrown out immediately at the first chance I get, do you understand." said Deirdre.

"Yes mom. There's another thing, he won't be arriving by his mother's car. In fact, he's hired a driver and he'll be meeting me down stairs within a few minutes if you'd like to meet him." said Cathy.

Deirdre looked at her daughter as she thought it through for a moment, her motherly instincts twirling some thoughts and such which has been making her so worried ever since the incident on Isle Sorna. How scared she was to see her daughter get attacked by those lizards and what she was like when she was in the hospital.
She thought it out before she decided to give her answer.
"Very well then, just let me go and get my shoes and then I'll take you down stairs." said Deirdre, placing her magazine aside before she stood up from her couch and then walked along the hallway to her room to get her shoes on whilst Cathy went over to the door and waited for her mom to appear from getting ready.
A while later, Deirdre came out of her bedroom fully dressed as she walked along the hallway, she met with her daughter and got the keys to the door before she went out the doorway and then towards the elevator to meet with Tim Murphy, the boy Cathy was talking about.

Outside the apartment

The sun was shining bright with the doorman standing outside the doorway on duty when Mrs Bowman and her daughter came to the door and the doorman turned around to open the door for them to come outside to wait for the car.
They looked around and waited for almost a short while, and then at the last moment the car arrived.
When the Car stopped at the driveway, the driver stopped the engine and opened the driver's door as the passenger door opened and both the driver and the boy stepped out of the car.

Tim murphy stepped out of the car to look around the place before he closed the door to see the two young women standing outside the apartment, and they approached him. "Hi there." Cathy said, waving to Tim who waved back to Cathy before he spoke and introduced himself.
"Um, can I just introduce myself, I could probably guess that you might know who my grandfather is but my name is Tim Murphy, I'm John Hammond's grandson." said Tim.
Deirdre suddenly became suspicious with the boy standing before her as her daughter Cathy approached the boy and then she spoke. "Tim, that's a nice name. My name is Cathy Bowman, its nice to meet you, and that's my mom."
Cathy said, pointing to Deirdre who stood there watching her and the boy standing with her.
"Yes, and its nice to meet you in person Cathy, I hope that I'm not making any trouble but I do mean well."
"Its ok, um my parents were not happy with what the lizards that your grandfather's company had created on the island and on the fact of my injuries." said Cathy.

"Oh, well If your mom wants me to leave then i'll gladly do her this favour but I'm not apart of InGen or any of its assets and I'd rather be of no ill burden to her or you." Tim said aloud so that Cathy's mom could hear him.

Hearing the boy's words, Deirdre was feeling rather a little less hostile to him and so she decided to see why the boy has come. she stepped forward to see the boy Tim Murphy and then spoke.
"I appreciate your kind words. But I still hold a grudge on InGen for developing man eating lizards and I'm willing to give you a chance to have a few words with my daughter, since she was the one who invited you in the first place."
She looked at him, her eyes looking from top to bottom before she looked up at his face and then spoke again.
"Come in Mr Murphy. We'll have a talk together and get to know each other since you've made the trouble of coming anyways and whilst you're here you could tell me your mum's phone number so I can call her."

Turning around to head inside the apartment, Deirdre and Cathy headed for the door whilst Tim and his escort followed the two to the door and then went inside with Mrs Bowman and his daughter. Heading into the elevator, they all went up a few floors before they reached the floor where the Bowman's apartment is stationed and then they went out through the doors.
They then went along to the Bowman's door and then went inside.

Once the two settled down, Tim told them a little about himself and how he's living with his mother since the divorce.
When Cathy asked Tim about his previous experience when he once visited Jurassic park on Isle Nublar.
He answered her by reciting his time in detail about his adventure from when he first came to Jurassic park to see his grandpa and he met with Dr. Alan Grant in person. And that day he got to see a real life triceratops before later that night things started to go wrong and he and his sister Lex got attacked in their car by the female Tyrannosaurus rex and How Alan saved his sister before the t-rex pushed the car he was in over an embankment.
The story of his experience seemed to have caught Deirdre's attention a little as she went to get a drink of juice in the kitchen.
But it intrigued Cathy as much that she went to sit on the couch next to Tim and from her side she listened to the story intently, Tim then proceeded to tell her of the night when He and his sister Lex spent the night in the trees and got the view of the Brachiosaurus grazing on the leaves of the trees and bushes.
The next morning, he and Lex got to touch a brachiosaurus' nose and face when Alan pulled the tree branch to them so they could have a close look at it.
As he spoke, he shared the time of how Alan had found almost a dozen broken dinosaur eggs.
That Grant concluded that the dinosaurs have been breeding even though all the dinosaurs were girls, which occurred because they have the genetic coding of frog DNA — West African Bullfrogs can change their sex in a single-sex environment, making the dinosaurs able to do so as well.
And he concluded Ian Malcolm's theory that life finds a way.
Deirdre Bowman stood by the corner drinking her glass of juice whilst watching Tim as he then told his story further which took the trio to the field where, on the way back to the visitor center, they encounter a herd of Galliminus, when suddenly the Tyrannosaurus emerges from seemingly nowhere and kills one.
He then proceeded to tell her of when he and his sister fought off two velociraptors in the Parks main kitchen, in doing so he lured one of them into the freezer and locked it up before he went out through the dining room to the control room with his sister, meeting with Alan grant and his friend Ellie Sattler.
With the story ending with his sister restoring power in the control room and how they were saved from the raptors by the t-Rex, Deirdre was left baffled by the story of his adventures whilst Cathy was very intrigued by it that she was the one to speak.

"Wow, I have to admit you must have had such an adventure. did you get to see the Brachiosaurus up close?" asked Cathy.

"Close enough to touch it." Tim Answered, which had Deirdre intrigued at the fact that Tim had such an encounter.

"Well I have to say that its such a remarkable story you've told us Mr Murphy. In fact I feel just a little bewildered by your experience with dinosaurs, whilst I had such a fear and more. I guess you have won me over with this story, so might I ask if you'd like to stay for lunch this afternoon?" Deirdre asked as she walked into the lounge with her glass half full after hearing the whole story which has certainly won her over.

Tim turned to look at her before he turned to look at Cathy and then turned back to Mrs Bowman, he answered her.
"I'd be happy to stay, thanks Mrs Bowman. could I use the phone whilst I'm here?"

"Yeah sure, there's a phone at the corner in the lounge. I'll see if the cooks have a lunch selection for the day and then have the servants show you the menu for lunch, I hope you and Cathy will have fun together and behave yourself." said Deirdre. Soon after Tim went to the phone in the corner to call his mom and to tell her that he's at a friend's house.

A While later.

After talking to his mom on the phone for a short time, Tim handed the phone to Deirdre and went with Cathy who showed him around the apartment whilst her mom was Deirdre started to have a chat with Mrs Murphy, Cathy then took Tim to her room where they spent the time there talking together.
They shared their interests and what they wanted to be when they grow up, Tim spoke of his parents divorce and how hard it was for him.
They spoke together about the events that followed after the incident at Jurassic park, but Tim made a funny comment on his nickname; Tim Murphy the human piece of toast, and how Alan saved his life and brought him to the visitors centre.
As they spent the day together, Tim and Cathy started to become good friends.
Having lunch with Cathy and her mother, they spent the time talking about charity and protecting the dinosaurs from the outside world, Deirdre had begun to feel convinced to help give support to John Hammond to not only to keep the dinosaurs on the island but to keep the island itself intact.
After lunch Cathy and Tim shared a couple of fizzy drinks in her room and played a couple of games together, hearing the two of them having fun in her daughter's room Deirdre began to trust Tim and the incident of Isle Sorna began to fade off as she was happy that Cathy now has a good friend in the United States.
Soon after the hours, Deirdre's husband Paul Bowman came home to hear about the visitor who came to visit them.
On hearing this news about Tim Murphy being here from Deirdre, Paul turned to the hall room and then called for Cathy to come.
She came out of her room with Tim following her from behind.
When they came forward and presented themselves Cathy introduced Tim to her father, Paul looked at Tim who stood before him and then he spoke.
"I appreciate your visit to our home, and that you went to some trouble to give your apology to us."

"And I accept your appreciation sir. My grandfather is looking to make one last effort for redemption for his actions and choices. I believe that He has nothing to do with InGen which has been taken over by my older cousin Peter Ludlow, who is at this moment probably making a plan to bring these animals on Isla Sorna here. can you imagine the disaster that it might bring here?" said Tim. Paul looked at Tim as he took in Tim's warning.
After a short moment of thought, Paul looked at Tim and then asked him. "Is there any chance that I can get in touch with your grandfather, Mr Murphy?"

"Yes, why is that?" asked Tim.

"Because I would like to have a long chat with him to set up a meeting to find ways to support his plan in preserving Isla Sorna." said Paul Bowman.
Deirdre approached her husband when she heard his request and then spoke. "Do you think its a good idea?"
"Honestly if there's anything worse than having our daughter attacked by animals on the island, its having dinosaurs roaming around the streets and running amok. So in any case I refuse to let that happen, would you?" said Paul. "No of course not." said Deirdre.
"Good then its settled, so Tim do you think you can get your grandfather on the phone?" asked Paul, looking at Tim who responded. "Yes." he then went to the phone and started dialling the number for his grandfather's house.
He waited for a minute with the other line ringing before he received an answer from the butler, Tim told him if he could speak to grandpa.
Once his grandpa was on the phone, Tim explained the whole story to him before he handed the phone to Paul Bowman who began to tell him that he was made aware of your last effort to redeem himself and that he would like to support him in this plan.

The next couple of days.

It was on the same night when Ian Malcolm and his friends had managed to escape the Isla Sorna only to discover that Peter Ludlow's hunter Roland Tempo has captured the tyrannosaurus rex and was now bringing it to San Diego, Tim spent the couple of days in his room at home after Paul Bowman personally escorted him back to his apartment building where his mother was waiting outside their door to have a talk with him about what she said about going to see them.
Even though Mr Bowman had put in a good word with Tim's mother about how he appreciated her son's kind treatment with his daughter Cathy and following that day she and Tum had become good friends, she was plenty mad about Tim not telling her who his friend was.
So Tim didn't feel all too bad when She grounded him for a week instead of the rest of his life.
After that he spent only most of the time reading a couple of books and doing his homework, until Tim's mother Bethany came to the room with the phone in her hand and then knocked on the door before she spoke. "Tim."
"Yes mom." said Tim looking to the door.
"You got a phone call, its from a friend named Cathy Bowman." said Bethany. On the mention of the name, Tim stood up and walked up to answer the door. Bethany handed the phone to Tim before he put it to his ear and then answered. "Hello Cathy, how are you doing?"
"Hey Tim, I'm good thanks for asking. I thought that I could give you a call to see how is life being grounded treating you?" said Cathy.
"Oh its not bad really but its just been a little boring but luckily its only for one week. Your dad was a great person. He talked my mom into grounding me for only a short week instead of a long time. I wouldn't blame her if she did so because of what I did, I mean I wanted to set things right." said Tim.

"Yeah and you did just that with your visit to our house. by the ways my mom thought you were adorable for presenting yourself as a friend. I hope she might not get the wrong idea and use her matchmaking skills to set us up." Cathy replied, making Tim laugh before he spoke.
"Well speaking of which, I was wondering if we could hang out together sometime?"

"Um, I'm not sure if its such a good Idea Tim, Because to tell you the truth my parents will be making plans to head back home to England pretty soon and I'm afraid that I might end up getting involved with you in a relationship which could end up being a long distance relationship." Cathy explained to Tim, who was a little disappointed but can see what she was saying clearly enough.

"Oh, I see. I have to admit I didn't want to hurt you by getting involved but I might want to start seeing you at some point, maybe during the summer time. you could show me around London and we could just hang out as friends or more. So do you still want to hang out?"

"Sure thing, I'm not busy tomorrow and I'll have to ask my parents if I could go meet you at your place and my driver can take us anywhere we fancy for lunch. of course I do fancy a local place in the city." said Cathy.

"Great then we are set, so I'll e-mail you my address tonight and tomorrow we can meet at around eleven at my door." said Tim.

"Agreed, anyways I got to go now. I'll talk to my parents and then check my e-mails tonight for your message." said Cathy.

"Ok, I'll talk to you later. bye Cathy." said Tim, once Cathy said bye to him he hung up the phone and placed it on the table, thinking to himself that he now has a date with Cathy Bowman.
That night he went to the lounge to speak with his mother about the date he set with Cathy Bowman.
They spoke for a good hour of the night whilst Lex was in her room doing some computer hacking as well as her homework.
After listening to Tim's plan, his mother Bethany was a little curious about where else he was planning to take her.
"So are you thinking about taking her to see a show or something?"
"We haven't discussed it yet but I was considering taking her out to the local restaurant in the city if that sounds ok."
"Oh ok well whatever you decided its up to you, But I think you'll do fine with something that you and her might have not been in before." said Bethany. "Ok." said Tim.
"So have you got her a small gift?" She asked.
"Yes, I decided to get her this small bracelet that I thought would be pretty on her." Tim said, showing her the box with a small bracelet which had small dinosaur tokens along the rims of the bracelet. When it met with her mum's approval, she spoke her thoughts. "Well it is a pretty thing as long as you didn't spend too much on it." said Bethany.

"Actually I got it at a cheap price at the shops the other day, after I visited the Bowman's apartment, I took a trip to the shops and decided to see what I can get when I saw the bracelet in the local jewellers, the price was going down to a reasonable price." said Tim.

"So you bought it?" said Bethany.

"yeah." said Tim.

"Ok, well I'll tell you what I'll come down with you to meet with Cathy and her escort tomorrow, and then afterwards you can go with them into the city. But I want you to treat her fair and behave yourself. besides I'm only letting you off the hook of being grounded for this one day since you decided to ask this girl out." said Bethany.

"Mum, I know how to behave and her escort will be with us the whole time so you have nothing to worry about." Tim assured her, which put her at ease with the idea of her son starting to grow up so fast.
Afterwards they talked some more about restaurants and areas that he and Cathy can hang out the whole of the night before Bethany and Tim went off to bed.

That's chapter two done for the time being, its a little short but I will be sure to add some more different things to the next part of the story so be sure to have a read at it and leave your comments. see ya and thanks.