The Kitchen

Chapter 20

Dad carrying a more awake but still weak Tim and me and Lex come into the deserted visitor's centre. A large sign that says "When Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth. . ." droops overhead. That seemed ironic now that they are practically ruling the park, I thought.

"HELLO?!"But nobody answered. We walked further into the centre and into the restaurant. The food was still set out nicely and untouched. Dad carefully set Tim in a chair at one of the tables. Lex sat across from him. "I am gonna have to find the others and get you to a doctor. Will you look after Tim, Katie?"

I nodded, "Yeah." He looked at Tim for a second. "Your hair's all standing up." He joked. He gently rearranged Tim's hair, which is wild, all over this head. Tim looked up at him weakly and managed a small smile. "Big Tim, the human piece of toast." Tim laughed, and Dad moved towards me. Lex took his place by her brother.

"Dad, how long are you going to be?" I said, worriedly. The animals especially the smaller ones could walk in. It was a little stupid that the doors don't have locks on the inside.

He put his hands on my shoulders. "I won't be long I promise. I'm gonna find Ellie and the others and I'll be right back." He looked at me differently then. Before all this he had never looked me like that but now he looked at me like a father would look at his daughter and despite all that happened in the last twenty four hours, I felt happy and accepted.

"Okay," I said looking over at the kids. Lex had her arm wrapped around Tim and he was leaning on her. They needed me to look after them.

He gave me a small grin. "When we get home, I'm going to be a proper father to you." I nodded and chuckled slightly.

"Thanks, Dad." He kissed my forehead and turned at the kids. "Be back soon, guys. I promise." He left, the doors swinging back and forth until they stopped completely. Tim goes across the room, to an all-you-can-eat table on the other side, and quickly piles some food on a tray. He brought its back to the table. It looked like heaven, it felt really good to eat. I didn't realize how hungry I was until I put all the types' food I could get on my plate.

Lex dug in, munching on veggies, grabbing food with two hands. Tim enjoyed his food, too. I sat down next to Tim as we started to eat. I took a swig of water from my glass and enjoyed my pieces of apple pie and ice cream. We all smiled at each other. Lex was about to eat up a spoonful of lime Jell-O from a plastic egg cup - - but her hand froze halfway to her mouth.

I furrowed my eyebrows to see what she was looking at and I knew what it was. It sounds of something and a silhouette. It looked like a raptor silhouette. Tim looked up, and sees the expression on our faces. We stared over his shoulder, eyes wide, the Jell-O quivering in her shaking hands.

"What?" Tim said a little too loudly. I motioned for him to look behind him. He looked back and then stood up in shock.

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"Ellie!"

Alan walked quickly down the narrow path towards John's compound, eyes darting from side to side, not exactly sure where he's going. From far off, he heard someone's footsteps. He turned, He saw Ellie crouching towards him. She waved to him He furrowed his brow and walked towards her. "Run!" Alan took off running towards her, not even looking back. He raced up, and she ran into his arms. She wrapped her arms around him tightly and they stumbled back.

"Where's Katie? And the kids?!"

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"Timmy, what is it." Lex whispered, we were hiding in the kitchen. Somehow the raptor had opened the door and was inside.

"It's a Velociraptor." Tim said back. I was on the left side and Tim was in the middle. I started breathing heavily. Where was Dad?

"And it's inside…" Lex said in shock. The raptors started making loud noises. I was afraid we weren't going to get out of this one.

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John stood between Alan and Ellie in the bunker, watching as Alan racked the bolts on a ten gauge shotgun. "It's just the two raptors, right? You're sure the third one's contained?"

Ellie turned. "Yes, unless they figured out how to open doors." Alan and John looked at each other.

"They probably do."

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Now the raptors split, taking two different aisles. "Follow me." Lex whispered to us. She started crawling in front leaving Tim in the middle of us. Tim was awfully weak now, we crawled as quietly as we could down a third aisle, around the other side of the counter from the raptors that were moving in the opposite direction. As we pass the raptors, one of the raptors tails smack into some pots and pans, knocking them off the counter. They fall on to us and I gasped loudly. We all kept moving as one of the raptors dipped down, looking through an open cabinet to inspect the racket.

"Timmy. Come on." Lex whispered, as Tim was starting to slow down.

"It's okay Tim. Just try and be a little faster." I whispered. We reached the end of the aisle and round a corner but Timmy was falling behind now, and he accidentally brushed against some hanging kitchen utensils. Both raptors turned, one jumped onto the counter, knocking more kitchen stuff to the floor. A ladle clattered to a stop, and the strange metallic sounds confused the raptors for a moment.

Me and Lex try to get Timmy to move but he wouldn't budge. The raptors were moving right for Tim and he didn't know it. Lex grabbed a utensil and without warning banged it against the floor distracting the raptors. "Oh God," I said as the raptor looked at Lex. Lex seen a steel cabinet behind her, its sliding door slid up and open. She crawled inside, silently.

I crawled back to Tim as the raptors were heading for Lex. The raptors were smashing more stuff around with their tails. We turned and saw a walk-in freezer in the far wall, with a pin-locking handle. As Lex tried to pull the overhead door to the cabinet shut, one of the raptors rounds a corner and sees her reflection on a shiny cabinet front. Lex tried frantically to lower the cabinet door, but it's stuck.

"Come on Tim, hold my hand and run as fast as you can." I took a deep breath and we both make a break for the walk in freezer. I probably could have ran faster but I had Tim and he couldn't run that fast. He was still weak. We both heard a snarl behind us and that encouraged us to run faster.

Lex tugged on the cover, to the avail, the raptor behind us charged after us just open floor space between them and Lex's raptor thud into a shiny surface bearing her reflection. It chased the wrong image thankfully. It sagged to the floor, semiconscious.

At the other end of the aisle, the real Lex screamed as the other raptor bared down on me and Tim. We both reached the freezer, ripped the door open, and we both fell inside. The floor was cold and slick and his feet go right out from under him. We go flying on the floor and the raptor slipped and falls into the freezer too, right past us.

"Hurry." I grabbed Tim and pulled him to his feet and out of the freezer. The raptor made one last lunge, right on Tim's heels, its mouth wide open but Lex slammed the door shut just as Tim is clear. The raptor's head is caught for a second, but it snarled, and retreated and Lex's gets the door shut all the way. The raptor roared and screamed inside. Lex jammed the pin through the handle, locking it in. Me and Lex fall against the freezer door, out of breath but we couldn't stop we had to keep moving. Tim was catching his breath and me and Lex grabbed him and we ran cautiously out of the kitchen. I looked back to see a raptor baring its teeth as we closed the door.

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Alan and Ellie just came into the restaurant area as the three kids ran out from the kitchens. Alan was carrying a shot gun. Tim ran straight to Ellie who she lifted up into her arms. Lex and me ran to Dad.

"Where is it?" Ellie asked.

"It's in there." Lex replied, and grabbed Dad's arm.

"Dad, it won't hold off for long. It can open doors." He looked at me and turned to Ellie

"Control room." She said and Dad grabbed Lex's arm and we rushed to the control room.

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Another chapter out! The last one is on it's way…

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