Chapter 2

"Give me your jacket!" Ellie shouted to me as we tried to cover up the bones quickly as possible. The sand was beginning to destroy all the hard work we put in to discovering the bones and keeping them clean.

I jumped up and ran across the dig site to where the caravan was. I covered my ears as the helicopter was still in action. "Stop the copter!" I shouted at the person insdie, and I ran into the caravan.

"What the hell is this?" I said as I got in and the door slammed behind me, there was a oldish guy with white clothes on and white beard and a he had a walking stick. Dad was furious.

" ?" Dad said.

He looked Hammond looks around the trailer approvingly, at the enormous amount of work the bones represent. He then looked at me and smiled.

"Am sorry for the bad entrance, Miss. Who might you be?" He asked softly with a smile.

"Am Katie. Katie Grant." I said shaking his hand.

"Dr. Grant I didn't know you had a daughter." He said turning to a still furious Dad but he was calming slightly.

"Well I only just found out about him a couple of months ago." I said to him.

He was about to say something when Ellie stomred in ready to pounce. "Okay, who's the jerk!"

"Uh, this is our paleobotanist, Dr Ellie..."

"Sattler." I finished for him, Ellie was regretting the word she just said.

"Dr Sattler. Ellie, this is Mr. Hammond John Hammond."

"Ooh..Did I say jerk?" She smiled shaking his hand.

"I'm sorry for the dramatic entrance once again, but I'm in a hurry. Will you have a wee bit of a drink now and then?"

John Hammond begins to walk into the kitchen, making himself at home. Ellie follows him tries to help. Dad settles behind the table. I just stand where I am and cross my arms.

"Come along then, don't let it get warm! Come on in, both of you. Sit down. And you Miss Grant. Come along. I know my way around a kitchen. Come along."

Ellie goes around towards Dad. She grabs a bottle of water.

They look at each other, really aback by this guy's bravado, and site down. Ellie turns to look at me and I shrug to say I have no idea. John dries the glasses.

"Well now, I'll get right to the point. I like you. Both of you. I can tell instantly with people; it's a gift. I own an island off the coast of Costa Rica. I leased it from the government and spent the last five years setting up a kind of biological preserve down there. Really spectacular. Spared no expense. It makes the one I had in Kenya look like a petting zoo. No doubt that sooner or later our attractions will send kids right out of their minds." Mr Hammond said taking a sip of the glass of champagine.

"And what are those?" Dad asked, Really dad?

"Small versions of adults, honey." Ellie mumbled and winked at me and I smirked. He gives her and me a dirty look.

"Not just kids…for everyone. We're going to open next year. Unless the lawyers kill me first. I don't care for lawyers. You?"

"We, uh, don't really know any." Ellie told him.

"Well, I'm afraid I do. There's one, a particular pebble in my shoe. He represents my investors. He says they insist on outside opinions."

I was curious now, "What kind of opinions?" I asked.

"Not to put a fine point on it, your kind. Let's face it, in your particular field, you're the top minds. If I could just get you two to sign off on the park you know, give a wee testimonial, I could get back on schedule."

"Why would they care what we think?"

"Yeah What kind of park is this?" Dad asked.

John smiled, "Well, it's right up your alley." He handed Dad a drink and was about to hand me one, before Ellie stopped him.

"She's sixteen, she doesn't drink. Right babe?" she said turning to dad but he was too engrossed in what John said.

Ellie took the drink off him, "Look, why don't you both come on down for the weekend. Love to have the opinion of a paleobotoanist as well. I've got a jet standing by at Choteau." He turned to me. "Maybe you could come too, you would be the first teenager in the world to see it."

"No, I'm sorry that wouldn't be possible. We've just discovered a new skeleton and.."

John pours himself a drink. "I could compensate you by fully funding your dig."

"This would be an awfully unusual time.." Dad tries to protest again.

"For a further three years." That stopped him and he Ellie looked at each other for a moment before both nodding.

"Where's the plane?" Ellie said a huge smile breaking out on her face, they clinked the glasses together. Dad grabbed Ellie in a hug while they laughed.

XOXO

The next day I got up before anyone in the house. I was usually the first up; I got dressed in to some comfortable clothes a pair of jeans, a blue and white checked blouse and a pair of converse. I grabbed my back pack and put a few toiletries in them and a change of clothes.

I shut my door and walked down the stairs, Dad and Ellie were getting ready as I heard them in their room. We had to go to the airport were a private helicopter would take us to meet John in San Diego, then we would fly to Isla Nublar.

I made myself some toast and grabbed some fruit and sat down on the bar stool drinking some OJ. I wondered what dinosaurs we would see there or if John was trying to get us there and their were no dinosaurs. But John wouldn't lie about that would he?

I heard footsteps on the stairs, I finished my OJ and Ellie came in with a smile on her face. She was wearing some beige shorts a blue tank top and a pink blouse over it which was tied in a knot at the front of it. She also wore timberlands. Good choice Ellie.

"Good morning." I Said handing her some freshly made coffee.

She took it with a smile, "Thank you Katie."

"I made some for Dad aswell. Is he coming down?"

She sat down on the stool with me and grabbed a piece of grape. "Yeah he is just on the phone with John, we will meet him about 2 o'clock."

"Great." I looked down at my one piece of toast left one the plate.

"Hey you ok?"

"Yeah. It's just it's going to be a little weird spending the whole weekend with him." I said, me and Dad have never spent a whole night in the same room together before, he is always busy with the digging or out when he comes home, I'm either asleep or out with friends.

"Maybe this weekend will be good for the three of us. You and Alan might closer and finally talk." She smiled.

"Yeah maybe." I said. I only hoped it would be that easy.

XOXOXOXO

Sorry it took so long.

Hope you liked the chapter.

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