Becky Grant had never felt so sick in her entire life, not even when she had food poisoning back when she was ten. OF course, this wasn't the result of bad hospital food, this was the cause of the raptor's disease ridden mouth infecting her system. She was told many times, buy many doctors that she was lucky to be alive.
She didn't particularly feel lucky right now as she, yet again, hurled into the vomit bucket.
Ellie smoothed Becky's hair back with a sympathetic look. She didn't show it much, but she had been worried sick over the girl. While Alan was waiting for Becky to wake up, Ellie had been out in the back of the hospital sobbing her eyes out before going shopping to give the poor child a get well present.
"Hey, kiddo, I got you something," Ellie said once Becky was sitting back up.
"Yeah?" Becky wiped her mouth with a wipe. "Is it a new immune system?"
Alan let out a snort from the door where he watched.
"No, sadly. But it's the next big thing." Ellie took out Becky's bag, one that she thought she'd lost on the island.
"No way! I thought that it was gone forever!" Becky hugged her bag close to her. She used that bag for everything, and loved it as much as she loved her family. It was the one present that her mom had ever given her in life, and it was her most treasured item. "Where did you find it?"
"It was in the theatre, Mr. Arnold found it and gave it to me. I had it in my own bag and forgot about it," Ellie explained with a smile.
"You know, we never did see what you had put in there," Alan mused.
"Eeeh, it's private," Becky shielded her bag from them
"Well known chaotician Ian Malcolm is about to start his press conference, where he explains what happened on that island that took the life of Robert Muldoon, Denis Nedry, John Arnold, and the horrifying tale on how the young teen, Becky Grant, lost her leg. Stay tuned."
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Owen felt his heart stop as he turned up the volume. "Mom!" he called. "You need to see this!"
Barbra walked in with a skeptic look, last time he said that it was only for a wrinkle remover cream. "If this is one of your pranks, Owen, I will get your father in he...re..." she looked at the screen in shock as footage from the InGen helicopter landing aired.
"As you can see, the only occupants left on this flight is Dr. Alan Grant, his daughter Becky Grant, Ellie Sattler, John Hammond, Ian Malcolm. and Lex and Tim Murphy. Becky Grant had been attacked by what the doctors believed to be as a large animal. Ian Malcolm says that it was a large animal, just not one that we're all familiar of."
Ian walked onto a podium and gave a wave as he straightened his notecards. "Uh, hi. Well, well I'll just get right to it, shall I? What happened on that island was man playing God. InGen had created a way to.. to well... to create dinosaurs." The news reporters began firing questions. "Ah, ahah! Let me finish, good God. They spliced dino D.N.A with common species of today, and created genetic modifications of dinosaurs. One of the species was Velociraptor, which got out and killed John Arnold, and took Becky Grant's leg. Now, as for Donald Gennaro, he was killed by a T-Rex, which also cut my leg nearly open with it's foot claws. Now,, now you may ask away." He pointed to a reporter.
"Dr. Malcolm, you honestly expect us to believe that you were on an island with dinosaurs?"
"No, I don't actually- I'd be happy if you did. But I need to get this out into the open because somewhere, people will believe me. And I just hope that it wont be too late by then."
"Dr. Malcolm! How is Becky Grant doing now?"
"Fighting off bacteria from her attack, but otherwise doing better than a couple weeks ago. In fact, I talked to her today. One more person."
"Dr. Malcolm! If what you're saying is true, how are we supposed to live now knowing that there could be dinosaurs waiting for us to see them."
Ian leaned forward. "Ma'am, you go on that island, and you see those dinosaurs I can guarantee you that you will not live long enough to make it off of that island in one piece. Dinosaurs are nice as bones, but in person? You're bladder and bowels will drop before you do." With that, he walked out.
"Oh, my God," Barbra covered her mouth with her hand. "Oh God, poor Becky, poor Alan. What they must have gone through on that island."
"You believe him?" Owen asked.
"No, dinosaurs can't be made honey. But I believe that something big took her leg. I just hope she can recover from it well." Barbra walked off to call the rest of the dig crew.
Owen stared at the screen longer. Something, deep down, believed Dr. Malcolm. A dinosaur, a velociraptor took his best friends leg.
"So why don't you show some respect. Hmm?" Alan's voice sounded.
Owen shuddered. What he wouldn't give to study actual raptors up close now, to see the "six-foot turkeys" in action. He didn't care for paleontology before, but now... now he wanted to do nothing else but that.
How's that? Good, bad? I wanted this to be the moment where Owen get's interested in Raptors since it would give him the exposure to them. I mean, anything in all the films, the only dinosaur I can think of that got news time was most likely the Rex from The Lost World. The raptors aren't really a huge plot to the movies as far as people go, they get mentioned and they're just there as a big "it get's worse". So yeah, this is his exposure. And as promised, some lines that you'll see from the next installment.
"I'm sorry? You're sending a disabled teenager to the island- why?" Ian looked at the old man like he'd lost his mind, though, considering his age he probably had.
"How's it feel to be attacked in a vehicle by a very angry Rex?" I asked with a small, small mind you, smirk. Ian gave me a look.
"Excuse me, asshole! I lost my leg, not my damn hearing and sight!" I screamed, hurling the rock at the man. "Next time say it to my face, I'll hit you with my leg!"
The call of the raptors sounded outside, terror gripped my body as I inhaled, a scream building up. Nick rushed forward and wrapped me in a hug, his hand covering my mouth just in case. "They're outside, it's fine. They don't know we're in here. Calm down, you're not at the park again."
Nick had just wheeled me in as the Rex's roar sounded a few blocks away. The nurses looked up alarmed. "Hi, yes, I'd like to be above ground level real soon while my leg get's treated?" I asked sweetly. Nick snickered above me.
And that's all I have! Let me know what you think, I'm open to any ideas or scenes that you'd like to see in the next installment. I'll have the first chapter up tomorrow, hopefully.