Keeping The Kids Safe

Chapter 12

"Dr Grant! Dr Grant!" Lex screamed as she tried to get out. The Rex must have got Ian because I couldn't hear anything. Tim was squeezing his eyes shut in pain.

Dad tried not to focus his attention on me not to much, but I could see him looking at me. "Come on, Katie." He tried to usher me out but I shook my head.

"No. Get the kids out first!" I said, clenching my teeth as the glass cut into my skin. He reluctantly nodded and turned back to Lex.

Dad laid on the ground looking inside, and looked Lex who was staring up at him barely conscious, her face covered in mud.

"Are you okay? Can you move?"

"I'm stuck. The seat's got my feet!" Tim shouted in pain.

"Oh God, Dad get him out!" I said and I had a feeling that the Rex would come back soon.

"Tim, I'll get you. I'll get Lex out first." He said, pulling Lex by her arms.

"Dr. Grant! Dr. Grant! Daddy, daddy!" Lex screamed still not calmed down yet. Dad seemed to stiffen at those words but otherwise ignored them.

"Let's get you out." Dad said, he reached in and dragged her out.

"Are you okay? Good girl." He finally got her out and reached back into get me but I shook my head motioning to Tim.

"Tim? Tim?" I said, shaking his shoulder he had fainted. I felt tears coming down my cheeks.

Dad who could just about reach his hand right to his face tapped him gently. "Tim wake up."

All of a sudden we heard a loud scream, Dad whips back out to grab Lex. It was the Rex back.

"Shhh! Don't move! It can't see us if we don't move."

I try to see what was happening but all I could see was the Rex's feet and Dad and Lex huddled together, while it inspected them.

The Rex walked to the back of the car. It bended down, WHAP! Our car car spun as it is pushed from behind by the Rex. Dad and Lex are pushed in front of it. They scrambled around on their knees, trying to keep ahead of the car, which the rex is now pushing even closer to the edge of the barrier. Dad and Lex crawled quickly, but our car was moving faster, catching up on them.

Tim was starting to awaken and screamed. He tries to untangle himself, but hissed. "Its ok, its ok Tim you are with me." I held his hand.

ON THE ROAD.

The T-rex loomed over Lex and Dad who were trapped between the car and the sixty foot drop.

"TIM! KATIE?" They both shouted.

IN THE CAR.

The Rex bended down and sees me and Tim. I pull Tim away, furiously but there's almost no room to move in here. The Rex opens its mouth wide and stretches its tongue into the car. Tim screamed and pushed as the tongue tries to wrap around him. "GET OUT!" I screamed furiously. It retreated and withdrawed from the car.

ON THE ROAD.

The T-rex still tried to get to Alan and Lex, pushing the car, spinning on its roof. Alan and Lex scramble, trying to avoid being caught by the T-rex and crushed by the car. "This way!" The back of the car almost crushed them against the barrier.

"Get back!" Alan said. They moved, as the Rex continue d to move the car toward the edge. Alan finally got on the wall, Lex followed. The T-rex roared in frustration, it bent down for one final lunge at the car.

Alan sore it coming. He grabbed one of the dangling fence cables on the other side of the barrier. "Grab a hold of me!" She wrapped her arms around his neck. He scrambled to the edge of the barrier, and started to climb down. He wanted his daughter with him.

"Timmy! Timmy!" Lex screamed upwards. The car was slowly been pushed to the edge.

The cable was slick with rain, and it's all Alan can do to hang on as he and Lex slide rapidly down. Above them, the vehicle is now teetering over the edge, threatening to drop right on top of them if they didn't hurry. Alan gasped desperately, as Lex has unwittingly started to choke him as she held on for dear life.

"Lex! Lex! You're choking me!" Lex eased her grip on him but still kept tight hold of him. The car groaned nearly over the edge now. Alan looked to the side, there were other cables, out of the line of the car's impending drop. His feet scrambled along the concrete wall, Alan tried to swing over towards one.

"Grab-Grab a wire!" He shouted his voice was hoarse. His momentum carried them back the other way, but on the second swing Lex managed to grab hold of the second cable.

"I got it!" They grabbed the wire, the car fell down past them without any screaming inside. Lex and Alan are clear by inches, clinging to the second cable.

"Timmy! Katie!" Lex shouted, as the car crunched into the leafy top of a tree, resting on its roof some fifteen feet below them. The T-rex stared down at them, but they are safely out of its reach. They looked up to see the Rex giving them a final roar and then they proceeded to climb down.

Alan could only pray his daughter and Tim was alright.

CONTROL ROOM.

John Hammond was livid. "I will kill Nedry. I will kill him." Muldoon burst through the door.

"Well?"

He shook his head, "There's no sign of him anywhere." The game show music is louder and faster now was becoming very annoying.

Ray will you please switch off that damned music!" He stomped his stick on the floor in frustration. He rubbed his head, he was very worried now. Ray's cigarette was practically burning his lips, down to almost nothing in his mouth. He hovered over Nedry's computer terminal, which was a mass of incomprehensible commands that scroll by quickly as he futilely examines each one of them. Muldoon paced and Ellie was sitting down on the chair stared at Arnold in amazement.

"Are we getting anywhere with these procedures of yours? I mean, what's hanging us up?"

"I ran a key check on every stroke Nedry entered today. It's all pretty standard stuff, until this one…"

Ellie stood up and joined at them at the computer. "What one?" He pointed to his computer screen, to a specific series of commands. The others crowed over his shoulder and stared at the screen.

"Keycheck /space -o keycheck off safety -o. He's turning the safety systems off. He doesn't want anybody to see what he's about to do. Now look at this next entry, it's the kicker. .obj. Whatever it did, it did it all, but with Keycheck off, the computer didn't file the keystrokes only way to find them now is to search the computer's lines of code one by one."

"How many lines of code are there?" Ellie asked, dreading the answer.

"Uh about two million."

"Two million, great. That would help."

John turned to Muldoon. "Robert, I wonder if perhaps you would be good enough to take a gas jeep and bring back my grandchildren."

"Sure." He nodded, and headed for the door.

"I'm going with him." Ellie said, they headed for the door, John turned, staring out the windows at the front of the control room. He's gone pale, and he's sweating, wrapped up in million thoughts. Behind him, Ray Arnold's voice calls to him, but he doesn't hear it.

"John….John." John leaned on his cane, and for the first time he looks like he's actually using it.

"John." He turned, finally hearing him. "I can't get Jurassic Park back on line without Dennis Nedry."

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The rain has all stopped now. Alan and Lex were at the bottom of the large barrier leading up to the park road. Like it or not, they're in the park now, and are surrounded by think jungle foliage on all sides. They're both beaten up, and Alan's face is covered in blood. He's bent over a big puddle, splashing water on his face, rinsing the blood off and trying to bring himself to.

Poor Lex was scared as hell. She stands behind Alan ramrod straight, her breath coming short, desperate gasps. Her eyes were wide, and she doesn't look like she can move. As Alan got rid of the blood, his injury doesn't look so bad, just a gash on his forehead. He turned and looked up to the tree the Explorer fell in. It's stuck there, nose down in the thickest top branches. Lex's gaps are getting louder. She's terrified, "Dr. Grant." She whispered, He touched her, but it's awfully awkward, more of a pat on the head than anything strong or reassured.

It made him realize how bad he is with Katie. He would be a better father to her after this. If they survive this that is. She responded to the contact, hurling herself forward and throwing her arms tightly around his waist. She clamped here, holding on for dear life.

"Lex, you gotta be quiet, please. Shhhhh." He hugged her back. This seemed to quiet her.

"Because if we make too much noise, he's going to hear us and come back." She nodded frantically.

"Katie! Timmy?!" He shouted up by the trees were the car was. He heard a cracking sound. He looked up to the tree again. The Explorer had fallen a few feet lower into the branches. Alan looked down at Lex, who is sitting on a rock.

"Dad….Dad…." She whispered staring off to space. He felt a pang of sympathy for her.

"Shhh….I'm right here, Lex. I'm going to look after you, but I have to go and get your brother and my daughter. I want you to stay here and wait for me, okay?"

"He left us! He left us!" Referring to Gennaro.

"That's not what I'm going to do." He said and led her into the tunnel of water that was running. She got up and sat in it. He nodded and walked to the tree. It was all about keeping the kids safe no matter what.

"KATIE! TIM!"

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I winced rubbing my head, while I faded in and out of consciousness. "Ow." I whispered, my head was banging. I looked to where I was and I was shocked to see that I was in the trees.

"Katie." A voice whispered. I looked and it was Tim.

"Hey Tim are you ok? How hurt are you?" I asked trying to move. My body was aching all over.

"Tim? Katie?" It was Dad who came up to the car and looked in. He left out a sigh of relief when he seen me and then looked at Tim.

"You both alright?" He asked. We nodded slowly.

I noticed a stain on his shirt. "I threw up."

Dad looked at me and then back at him. "That's okay. Listen, give me your hand."

Tim doesn't move. "Come on Tim. We won't tell anybody you threw up. Just Dr Grant your hand okay?"

He slowly reached out, Tim reached too, but they're still about a foot apart. I was closer to Dad as he grabbed hold of the steering wheel, to pull himself further in. The wheel turned, on the branch, the front wheel turned losing a bit of their grip on the thick branch they're resting on. My stomach turned.

I helped Tim over to Dad and Dad grabbed his hands. He held on to him, getting an arm securely around his waist. They climb down a branch. "Ok just stay here, hold on to the branch while I get Katie." I heard him say to Tim.

Dad took a moment to come back up the branch for me. He smiled but it wasn't a true obviously. I hesitated but he held out his two arms to me. "Daddy," I whispered, I was scared. What if I fell? Or the dinosaur came back while we were trying to get out of the trees? I felt safe in the car….

I looked at Dad's smiling face, and his arms. He had changed suddenly like he was interested in me and speaking to me. He actually looked like he cared about me and that when the car went down he was worried. "It's ok." He said.

I carefully got up from my seat, trying not to lean my weight on the front screen. "I've got you Katie. You're ok now." Dad wrapped his arms around me tightly and lowered me on to the branch next to him.

"Thank God, Katie." He kept his arms around me and I hugged him back tightly. I felt safe, and I was finally getting the hug that I have always wanted but unfortunately not in the best situation. We slowly went down to where Tim was. When we got down there, I grabbed Tim in a hug.

"You're ok!" I said, and he wrapped his arms around me tightly.

"Okay, that's not so bad, ah Tim?" Dad said. We started make our way down.

"Yes it is."

"It's just like coming out of a tree house. Did your dad ever build you a tree house, Tim, eh?"

He shook his head. "No."

"Me too." Dad agreed. "And me." I said. We started to climb down, and I helped Tim with his footing.

"Okay. Well, the main thing about climbing is never, never look down, never." He explained calmly.

"This is impossible. How am I going...I can't make it. This is...it's about fifty feet." Tim said starting to panic.

I held Tim's arm as we went down. "Its' ok, me and Dad will help you."

"What if the car falls?"

Just then as if the car knew we were going to say that. It groaned forward on the branch, which sags in our direction, we looked up. The car begins to shift dramatically towards us.

"You had to jinx it." I said and sighed. Dad looked at us.

"Oh, no! GO, Tim, Katie go! Go!" We climbed down, as fast as we could, as the big branch that is supporting the car creaked ready to give way any second.

"Katie, go hurry!" Dad screamed as I tried to help Tim. But he had him with him and motioned me to go on my own, I nodded.

"Faster! Faster!" The branch broke, and disintegrated, and the car fell straight at us.

Dad and Tim let go of the branch they're on and fall, into another branch a few feet down. The car smacked into the bug branch we just vacated, and stopped there. I fell down and hit my head again on another branch. Dad and Tim half climbed, and half fell down the tree now. They slipped on the resin-covered branches, just trying like hell to get out of the way.

"DAD!" I screamed up to them. The second branch broke, and now the car smashed and crashed through a network of thinner branches, headed right for us. It hit open space and goes into free fall. Dad turns, and put up his arms in defence and the car stopped, slamming into a thick branch just above him.

"It's ok. Just keep going Katie." He said, and him and Tim started moving quickly again before it could come down further. The new branch started to creak. I focused on getting to the ground which was only a few feet from me now, and we looked at each other.

"Go Katie!" He said to me, and we all jumped to the ground hard. "Ow!" Tim and I said. I swear I am going to get the worst migraine. Dad grabbed Tim and me and we fall to the side, just as the car smashed into the earth, nose first, standing upright that way. They look up in relief, but the damn thing's still heading for us, now tipping over falling straight at us and there's no way we have time to get out of the way this time, so Dad covers us and jumps on top of us.

CRASH! The jeep fell on top of us. Dad amazingly unhurt, looked up confused. I realized we were inside the jeep again, saved by the hole sunroof.

"Well we're back in the car again." Tim sighed with relief and was trying to catch his breath.

"Well at least you two are out of the tree." Dad said lying on the ground exhausted. This will be a long night.

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I heard Jurassic World is amazing! I can't wait to see it, I heard that Blue the velociraptor has a bond with Owen now that WILL be interesting to watch. I'm actually watching the three Jurassic Park movies at this minute. I'm on to the second film now. I spent half of this watching the first one but now I am on, The Lost World. Hope everyone likes the chapter. Alan has finally started to see sense and his focused entirely on keeping his daughter safe and becoming a better father to her. Once again thanks to everyone who is following and favouring and reviews I'm getting.

I hope Jurassic World is as great as everyone says it is. But nothing can beat the original can it? I think that Jurassic Park 3 goes really fast, like it's not even as long as the first two. Is it me? Also I think The Lost World goes on forever.

I hope to update at least once a week, with this story and my other story, An Adventure To Remember. I will be posting the sequel to this as well, I'm not sure when though. I'm still thinking of a name for it. Maybe you all can give me some suggestions? Obviously it will take places in Jurassic Park 3. I'm going to have Katie have a long interest aswell. Guess you all know who that will be…. ;) Our beloved Billy Brennan, I felt quite sorry for Billy in the third movie. But I understand why Alan reacted the way he did. Billy knew what the raptors were capable of and he chose to still take them. Ok I'm going to rambling now lol.

I'll let everyone know how I liked the movie when I update next…. Ahhh can't wait to see it:D

This is the longest Authors note ever.

Once again hope everyone likes the chapter.

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