The Tour Begins.

Chapter 6

After our rather unappetizing meal took a walk along the corridors to meet ''them'' John wouldn't tell us who they were, the corridors were getting painted and pictures and artefacts were getting placed in the corner covered by a sheet ready for when the parked opened officially. Ellie linked me as we walked down the stairs passing the skeletons of the dinosaurs again.

"You five are going to have a little company out in the park. Spend a little time with our target audience. Maybe they'll help you get the spirit of this place." John said excitedly looking around for ''them''

"What does he mean by "target audience"?" Dad turned to us. I shrugged, we will find out I guess. We heard shouts then and John turned toward the door of the center and throws his arms out expansively.

"KIDS!" John smiled, two kids standing in the doorway to the center break into a broad smiles. The boy, is about nine years old; which was probably his sister, looks around twelve.

"Grandpa!" They race across the lobby and into Hammond's arms, knocking him over on the steps. Ellie grinned and looked at Dad, I looked at him to see his expression wasn't the least bit impressed.

"We missed you." The girl said, hugging John, "Thanks for the presents." The boy said,

"We love the presents!" The girl said yet again.

The girl and boy's name was Lex and Tim. They were quite good kids by the looks of it. Lex told me on the way out that she was a computer hacker and Tim loved dinosaurs. He admired my dad because of the book he released a couple of years ago. As we walk outside the entrance we notice two modified Ford Explorers moving quietly, with a faint electronic hum and straddle a partially buried metal rail is the middle of the road. They pull to a stop where we are gathered. Ellie is off to the side with Lex, introducing herself warmly.

"Have a heart gentlemen. Their parents are getting a divorce and they need the diversion." John whispered to Dad, Ian and the lawyer. I see Dad frown abit.

The lawyer looked at the car, "Hey! Where are the brakes?"

"Brakes? No brakes, they're electric cars, guided by this track in the roadway, and totally non-polluting, top of the line!" John said.

"It's interactive CD-ROM. Look, see you just touch the right part of the screen and it talks about whatever you want." Lex said from inside of the car.

"Spared no expense have fun. I'll be watching you from the control room." He turned to Ellie "Come along, my dear. You'll ride in the second car, I can promise you you'll have a real wonderful time."

Ellie smiled, "Oh thank you so much. So you'll see you later then." John held the door open for her and she got in. I go towards her as John turns and head back towards the Visitor's Centre.

"Hey Kate." She smiled at me, and I smiled back.

"You excited?" I nodded, "Are you?"

"Yeah of course, I keep wondering if this all some dream we are in." She said as Lex came over to us. I saw Ian say something to Dad and whatever it was Dad didn't like it. Ian got in the car next to Ellie. Dad was getting spoken to by Tim, which was so cute because Dad was trying to be nice and trying to get away at the same time. Me and Ellie watch as Tim follows Dad in the first car. Dad gets out and walks over to the car I am standing by.

"Because they sure don't look like birds to me. I heard a meteor hit the earth and made like this one hundred mile crater someplace down in Mexico - -"Tim says.

"Listen, ahh…" Dad said, looking at me and Ellie for help, we shrug and smile.

"Tim."

"Tim. Which car were you planning on - -"Dad said impatiently.

"Whichever one you are." Tim said kindly. I smiled, "Awww Dad you have an admirer."

"Lex why don't you ask Alan to ride with you, it would be really good for him." Ellie said, winking at me. I laughed, "Yeah."

She looks at us for a moment, "Ok."

Dad glared at me, and goes to the front car again, opens the rear door, and holds it for Tim, who climbs in the back seat, rattling on and on.

SLAM! Dad closes the car door on Tim. He turns and head for the rear vehicle and bumps right into Lex.

"They said I should ride with you because it would be good for you." Lex said, Dad looks over at us, and motioning me over. "Uh oh," I said to Ellie. Lex went in the front car with Tim.

"Thanks for that." Dad said, trying not to smile. Was I getting a smile from him? I smiled on the inside. "Hey it was Ellie's idea."

He chuckled, "Yeah I figured. Listen do me a favour and sit with the kids in the other car, just so they aren't left with the lawyer. The last thing we want is to deliver John's grandkids crying their eyes out cause Gennaro scared them."

Oh, so you don't have to spend time with me you mean. I thought but didn't say it.

"Sure ok." I said feeling a little tearful, he squeezed my shoulder gently. "Thanks Kate." He walked over to the second car.

Looking out of the window of the first vehicle with Lex and Tim messing beside me and the lawyer at the front, I thought of all the things that me and Dad could do if he accepted me as his daughter. We could do the normal things a father and daughter do. We could go on vacation together, me Dad and Ellie together like a family. We go shopping, he could take me to see the oldest dinosaur bones ever existed.

A tap on the shoulder shook me out of my thoughts and I realized that it was Tim. He smiled excitedly like a kid on Christmas day. "We're moving!"

We were moving aswell, as we looked ahead of us it seemed like we were approaching giant gates with the sign JURASSIC PARK on it. "We gonna hit that?" Lex asked, her eyes glued to the gates. We pass through two enormous, primitive gates, torches blazing on either side. We looked up through the glass roof as we passed it.

"Welcome to Jurassic Park. You are now entering the lost world of the prehistoric past, a world where creatures long gone from the face of the earth, which you are privileged to see for the first time." The voice said through the speaker.

The minutes passed as we quietly drove through the woods nothing but the wind blowing the trees and bushes. Lex and Tim were still chatting excitedly and the lawyer was sitting with his arms crossed with a look of annoyance on his face.

This will be a long tour….

Chapter 6 completed. This wasn't a bad chapter to write actually, we see Katie's feelings and emotions are starting to come out now that Alan has basically told her to get in the other car with total strangers so she doesn't have to be with him. He doesn't see it like that, he simply sees that there's other kids in the group now she can go with them and look after them so they aren't on their own with Gennaro. Her relationship with him will change soon! Or will it? ;)

I made a new cover for this story, I tried my best to make it good. Also my other story The Life Of Elena Parker will be on HIATUS until I finish this story, but I haven't no definite date of when I finish this but there will be probably be around 10-12 chapters of this. I don't know when I'll post a sequel to this because I want to go back to my other story, but don't worry I'll defo have the sequel up soon. Katie will have a love interest which will be Billy :) YAY! Who doesn't love Billy?

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