The Chase

Chapter 13

When we got back to Lex who was in a tunnel full of running water, she ran to her brother and started crying again. Me and Dad let them some privacy for a moment. I took a sip of water that was running, not caring if it was safe or not to drink. I was just so thirsty and exhausted.

"Let me see your forehead." Dad said, and he turned me to face him. He took a piece of his shirt and ripped it and he wetted it and carefully dabbed the cut on my forehead. I winced, "I'm sorry, Katie."

I shook my head, "No its ok."

He interrupted me. "Not for the cut, I mean for not being a father to you. I just didn't want to accept it, and when the car went down-"He cut himself off and looked to the ground.

"It's alright Dad. It hurt every time you would push me away. I understand why though. You've never wanted kids and finding out you had a sixteen year old daughter out of the blue would be hard to accept."

He didn't say anything.

"I forgive you." I said, and shivered slightly.

"Thank you, from now on I'll be a better father to you. But for now we need to keep the kids safe and calm." He said looking back at the kids who were huddled together still looking around.

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Muldoon and Ellie raced down the park road in an open-topped jeep. Neither of them spoke, they just stare ahead grimly, wondering what they're about to find. They round a corner and come to the top of the hill, where the attack took place. The jeep skidded to a stop and they jump out. The road is rutted, muddy mess. The cement block house is a pile of rubble, one of the Explorers is gone. The other stood untouched, both doors hanging open.

"Oh, God. Where's the other car? Where's the other car?" She repeated looking around. She feared the worst and hoped to God it wasn't true. She ran to the Explorer looking inside it, Muldoon followed looking around.

"ALAN!"

"DR GRANT!" Muldoon walked towards the wreckage of the outhouse.

"ALAN! KATIE!"

Ellie looked at the wreckage of the outhouse too and put a hand over her mouth in disgust.

"I think this was Gennaro." Muldoon said, and she agreed.

She walked backwards away from the lawyers remains. They heard a distant roar from behind the trees. "I think it's ahead of us."

"It could be anywhere with the fences out, it can go in and out of any paddock it likes." Muldoon cautiously said, shining the torch everywhere.

They heared a moaning sound from somewhere in the wreckage of the restroom building. They realized and rushed over to it. They threw pieces of wood away from the person and realized it was Ian lying on his back, semiconscious among the twisted wood and cement.

"It's Malcolm!" Muldoon said, and Ellie kneeled down to Ian.

"Ian, Ian," She tried to get him to open his eyes.

He shined his light along the length of Malcolm's body, his shirt is soaked with blood, but his right leg is even worse off. The right ankle was bent outward at a strange angle from his leg, the trousers flattened, soaked with blood. Ian's belt had been twisted around his thigh.

"He's put a tourniquet on. Ian, Ian."

Ian groaned as she touched him, groggy. "Remind me to talk John for a lovely weekend."

The T-rex roared again, it sounded closer now. Ellie and Muldoon look at each other.

"Can we chance moving him?"

Ian leaned up on his elbows and looked in the direction of the roar again. "Please chance it."

After a brief struggle, Muldoon laid Ian as carefully as possible in the back of the jeep.

"Where are the kids?" Ian asked, Ellie looked around, she was scared to death something might have happened to them and Alan and Katie.

"Lex! Tim! Katie!"

"Alan?!"

She turned and looked back at the empty road. She's on the verge of tears, but was fighting them back. No please God!

"Dr. Sattler, I've seen a lot of animal attacks, people just disappear. No blood, no trace. That's the way it happens." Muldoon said sympathetically.

Ellie didn't believe this for a second, Alan was smart he would have got away with the kids. "No, no, no. Don't say that."

She walks to the edge of the road, her eyes following the deep ruts the Explorer made when it went over the edge. Muldoon gets ready to leave. "Ellie, come on!"

She notices the other explorer on lying upwards. "The other car!"

Ellie's and Muldoon's flashlight beams spray light by the base of the tree.

"Dr. Grant!"

"Alan! Katie?" They find the wrecked Explorer. Muldoon peered inside, looking for anything.

"Do you see anything?" Ellie said.

"I don't know." There was nothing inside the explorer. They noticed foot tracks. Lots of them. One was much bigger than the other two. She sighed with relief. They got out but T-rex roared again, closer. "Thank God. They must have got out."

Ian laid out in the back of the jeep, felt something strange. He looked down, at the one of the T-rex footprints in the road. It was filled with water, the water in the puddle vibrates rhythmically. Ian knew what this meant and his eyes widened. He looks around, frantically.

"Uh anybody? Anybody hear that?"

Ellie who was still looking around, to Muldoon's chagrin, she accidently drops the flashlight on three sets of footprints in the mud.

"Look." Muldoon rushed to her to see what it was and she picked up her flashlight. She followed the trail the footprints made. They lead into the jungle and disappear.

Meanwhile Ian was staring, wide-eyed, at the rings in the water, which were getting bigger now.

"It's a…an impact tremor is what it is, it, uh…"

BOOM. BOOM.

Ian tensed, "Ok I'm fairly alarmed here!"

Ellie and Muldoon are still looking around not seeming to notice what he was implying.

"We gotta get out of here. Let's go…we gotta go, we gotta get out of here, right now! Go, go! Let's hurry, right now!" He said waving his arms to them, and they immediately rushed over.

The booming was louder now and faster. Ellie and Muldoon get into the jeep, Muldoon in the driver's seat.

"Move now! Let's go, let's go, right now, right now!"

As on cue, the tyrannosaur smashes out of the jungle foliage, it busted onto the road, and ran straight at them, moving at least thirty miles an hour.

"GO GO GO!

Muldoon fumbled for the keys, turned the jeep over, and slammed it into gear. He dropped the clutch, hits the gas, and tears ass out of there. The jeep is slow to work through the first few gears. Terrified, Ellie dared to look down, to the side view mirror, which tells her "Objects Are Closer Than They Appear."

The T-rex is still gaining on the slowly accelerating jeep. All three of them stare back at the rex in terror. "Must go Faster, faster!" Ian said, turning to Muldoon while keeping an eye on the approaching Rex.

"Shit, shit, shit, shit!" Ellie screamed in panic as the Rex was really close to them now. Ian had his arm across Ellie as to protect her.

"Bloody move!" Muldoon screamed at Ian who had moved on to the gear stick.

"Must go faster, go, go, open it up, 5th gear, 5th gear! Here it comes! Stand on it! Fifth…stand on it, 5th gear, go!" Which meant they don't see the half-fallen tree branch right in front of them, blocking the path of the road. Muldoon looked back first.

"LOOK OUT!" Ellie screamed and they all ducked as they went past the fallen tree. The windshield hits the branch and shattered as the jeep flied ahead, really picking up speed now. The T-rex just runs right through the branch, and smashed it entirely. They're bounced around pretty badly losing ground now, the dinosaur makes a final lunge for the jeep and crunched the left rear quarter panel…but Muldoon slammed it back into gear and guns it. The T-rex finally gave up, fading into the distance. They drive in silence for a few moments, all scared out of their wits. Ellie looked back in front of her sighing with relief.

"Think they'll have that on the tour?" Ian said, as they drove back to the visitor centre in silence. The only noise they could hear was the Rex giving a last roar.

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