I had gotten everyone safely to shore, but everyone was still very shaken up. Sam and Gail were crying, Cole was on the verge of a nervous breakdown, and Lia hadn't said a word.

"What the hell was that thing?!" Cole snapped

"Anaconda." I told them

"Oh great!" He said

"There's snakes out here that big?" Gail asked

"Yes but-"I started but Cole cut me off

"But what? It swallowed him whole!"

"Calm down and listen for a second." I told him

"No, you calm down! You listen! BEN WAS JUST EATEN BY A FUCKING SNAKE OKAY? A FUCKING SNAKE! Oh God, oh God I mean. Did you see that thing!?"

"Cole!" Jack called to him trying to calm him down but he was still on a rampage

"Mitchell listen to me men. I watch the Discovery Channel. I'm telling you we got no chance! I'm telling we're like mice in an aquarium you understand. We're gonna die girl. WE GONNA DIE!" He screamed in front of Sam in until Jack grabbed him

"Cole! Calm down okay?" Jack said to him and he nodded

"Jack I'm okay, I'm okay. I'm gonna sit right here I'm sorry, sorry." He said sitting down but he was still shaking and had tears in his eyes

"Alright listen anacondas are territorial, a snake that size will hunt a large area. There won't be another one for miles. We gotta get to the boat, it's not that far. So if we keep moving and stick together we should be fine." I told them

"We should be!?" Cole snapped

"How big do they get?" Gordon asked

"That was the biggest one I've ever seen by far, a freak of nature. The odds of running into another one that size are astronomical."

"Yeah but how do we know that the one that got Ben won't come after us?" Mitchell asked then Lia spoke up for the first time

"It takes them weeks to digest, a meal like that he'll be sleeping it off for a while." She spoke

"Let's just get to that boat and get home." Gail said that had to be the smartest thing I've heard her say

"What about the orchid?" Jack asked and we all looked at him like he was crazy

"You've gotta be kidding me." Malia said to him

"It won't be in bloom for another seven years." He said

"I don't care Ben is dead. We have lost someone." Malia snapped at him

"She's right this expedition is over Jack!" Gail said

"Now hold on a second Gail, there's a lot of money at stake here." Mitchell said I just scoffed and turned away from them

"I don't care as Wexell-Hall's representative I am calling the expedition off." Gail said to them

"You don't have the authority." Jack argued

"Check your contract!"

"In case you haven't noticed we're in the middle of the jungle. As of right now your authority is what we say it is." Jack said

"Look Ben was my friend and I got him into this and nobody feels worse about this than I do." Jack said with fake sympathy I rolled my eyes

"But if we turn back now Ben's death would be for nothing."

"Look Jack I'm with her I gotta get the hell out of here man." Cole said

"Let's just get back to the boat, we can regroup and make our decision then." Sam said

"Fine." Gail said then started walking, and everyone else followed until it was just me, Tran, Malia, Jack and Sam

"Jack maybe Gail's right." Sam said to him

"She's just scared. Once we get back to the boat she'll be okay" Jack said that when I stood and went over to him

"Once we get back to the boat this expedition is over. The only place I'm taking these people is to safety." I told him

"Hey, hey, hey we had a deal." He said

"Keep your money doc! Someone is dead we're officially in over our heads, and I'm not putting my family in danger for you to find a flower." I snapped at him

"You just said we wouldn't run into another one of those things."

"And we probably won't but I can't guarantee it. So I'll get you to the boat and after that we're done." I told him them we left to catch up with the others.

Once we got moving again thing were moving pretty fast. Cole was ranting about some special he saw on TV about anacondas, I let him go on for about five minutes before I was at my wits end

"Will you shut the hell up!?" I said and he shut up for about two minutes before he started up again

"Calm down that's probably his way of coping." Bill said to me

"He won't have to worry about coping in a minute because I'm gonna kill him." I said and Bill shook his head

"I'm so sorry about all of this Lia."

"Bill this is not your fault don't let them make you feel that way." I told him

"Not about them, about you. I'm the reason you're out here it's my fault you're in danger."

"No, no, no we're not doing that now. We need to stay focused and get ourselves to safety. Just know I don't blame you Bill I chose to come. We're gonna be fine." I said then Bill stopped and pulled me into a tight hug. I wrapped my arms around him

"I love you." He said then kissed me

"I love you too even though you stink." I said and pushed him off. He let out a small laugh

"You love my manly smell." He said

"Sure keep telling yourself that." I said as we kept walking. When Sam walked up on the side of us

"I'm sorry about Ben." Bill told her, I knew he felt really bad about all of this

"I never should've stayed on the Mendranang." He admitted

"What do you mean?" She asked him confused

"We figured he wouldn't tell the others but we thought you knew." I said to her

"Knew what?" She asked looking at me and Bill

"Byron offered me an extra 50 grand to stay on the river. I told him it wasn't safe but he wanted to risk it." Bill told her. She turned to say something to Jack but Bill stopped her

"Don't blame him." He said

"I do." I spoke up and Bill gave me a look

"It was my call, I took the money. I thought I could get us through. You want to blame anyone? Blame me."

"Bill." I said but he just kept looking ahead. Then once again we heard Cole screaming about something. We turned around and rushed back

"Cole calm down!" I shouted at him and he did just a little Bill had to restrain him so I could see what was on him.

"It's just a leech." I told him as Bill handed me his lighter

"Oh hell no you ain't burning me!" He said trying to run but Bill held him still. I tried not to laugh at Tran's face or the fact that the rest of them started checking themselves

"You burn me I'll kill you." Cole began chanting as I took the lighter and lightly ran it over the leech until it let go and quickly pulled it off

"OW!" He shouted

"Are you okay now?" Bill asked letting him go

"Yeah I'm fine. Wait Malia what are you doing? Why are you going under my shirt?" He asked as I lifted the back of his shirt to revel that his back was covered with leeches Bill looked and let out a whistle

"Anybody got a blow torch?" He said

We stopped and Cole sat on a rock and sat behind him and got to work is his leeches.

"It's really not that bad you know." I said to him

"Not that bad? I have bugs on my back sucking my blood. How is that not bad?"

"Well leeches are now more commonly used in eastern medicine to suck out poison, or an infection." I told him

"Can we please stop talking?" He asked and I just nodded. We had been here for almost 20 minutes. I was almost done. When I heard Tran shout

"Stop!" He said to Mitchell who was about to put his boot back on.

"Careful." Tran told him and turned the boot over and knock on the bottom until a spider fell out. They all jumped

"Oh shit man." Cole said

"It that thing bit you you'd be lumpuh. Paralyzed like stone for two days." Tran told him, then raised the boot the kill it when Jack grabbed a specimen jar and caught it.

"What do you call this fella?" Jack asked

"Laba laba batu." Tran told him

"Laba what?" Cole asked confused

"Stone spider." I told them

"I may have just discovered a valuable new anesthetic agent for Wexell-Hall." Jack said and I rolled my eyes

"No forget Wexell we can get this at the highest bidder." Mitchell said

"Is there anything that you people ever think about besides money?" I asked them but got no answer.

"There." I said to Cole as I pulled off the last leech

"Alright show and tell is over. We gotta get to that boat, so put boot back on and come on." Bill said going back into captain mode which I found rather sexy but it wasn't the time or the place.