Crumpled Horned Plot Bunnies
A Harry Potter fanfic by Andrew Joshua Talon
DISCLAIMER: This is a non-profit fan based work of prose. Harry Potter is the property of J. K. Rowling and Warner Brothers, please support the official release.
1993
Lex and Tim practically ran into Harry. They'd escaped the Raptor in the kitchen. But the Big One was still behind them.
Lex suggested the control room, and they'd run for it, shutting the doors behind them. Which is where they ran into Doctors Satler and Grant.
Doctors Satler and Grant had come into the Visitor's Center to try and help them. Doctor Grant had armed himself with a shotgun, and they made it into the control room. Unfortunately, all the systems were still off... And the raptors could open doors.
Right outside, one raptor shoved against the door, as Grant and Satler tried to hold it back. Harry tried to get to the gun, tried to get it to Doctor Grant...
"SHOOT HER!" Grant shouted. Harry pointed the gun at the glass, tried to target... His hands were shaking... He tried to pull the trigger...
Nothing happened! The raptor reared back, to bust on in through the door...
The locks came online, and clicked shut. The raptor pounded against the door... But it held.
Harry looked back in amazement at Lex, working at a nearby computer terminal. She grinned broadly, proudly.
"I told you I was a hacker!" She cried. Tim laughed, as did Harry. Grant and Satler got up and looked over their shoulders-Though Grant took hold of the gun. Harry relinquished it. He opened his mouth to apologize, but Grant rested a hand on his shoulder.
"It's okay," he said, "you did okay."
Harry flushed, and smiled bashfully. He was tired, bloody, exhausted, scared... But to know someone had pride in him, despite his screwing up...
"Phones are online!" Lex cried happily.
Grant picked up the phone and dialed Hammond in the emergency bunker. Harry kept an eye out the windows. The Big One was still there, hissing in thought. Two more raptors joined her.
"Tell them to get the damn helicopters, Hammond," Grant said... Just before the Big One kicked in the glass, shattering it.
"THEY'RE COMING THROUGH THE GLASS!" Tim shrieked. Doctor Grant dropped the phone and opened fire with the shotgun, twice. Both shots went wild, the raptor pulling back into cover. He cursed, and tossed the shotgun aside.
"Jammed!"
Harry looked up. Lex was already scrambling for the ceiling panels. Doctor Satler helped her, and they got a panel off.
"Into the ceiling, NOW!" Grant shouted.
They climbed through air ducts and the upper part of the ceiling for what seemed like hours, though Harry knew it wasn't that long. Lex nearly got caught by a raptor jumping up, but he grabbed her with Doctor Grant and yanked her up just in time.
They made it to the main lobby, and climbed out onto the dinosaur bones arranged in the center of it-Staying high, getting away from the raptors...
Who jumped onto the skeleton, and sent them all falling to the floor.
Harry groaned, as Grant tried to help him get up. The raptors were closing in around them.
"Speaker! Speaker, do you hear me?"
Harry's jaw dropped. He looked around-Nobody else reacted to the voice. A familiar voice...
"Yes," Harry hissed, "we're in the Visitor's Building-The Raptors have us cornered... Please help!"
A pause.
"Old Smile's hatchling's hatchlings are with you?"
"YES!" Harry fairly screamed, "WE'RE GOING TO DIE UNLESS YOU HELP US! PLEASE!"
"Harry?" Grant muttered, looking in confusion at the young British Boy. Even as he and Doctor Satler kept the children away from the raptors with their own bodies. They had no time. A look of triumph burned in the Big One's eyes, as she lunged-!
And a pair of massive jaws snatched her up. The Rex chomped down on the Raptor, and then tossed it aside. The other Raptor charged, screaming, and tried to leap onto the Rex's neck.
Harry remembered Doctor Grant talking about the Raptors-How a kick from them could slice through even elephant flesh.
"LOOK OUT! YOUR NECK!" Harry hissed. The Rex strode forward, and the Raptor hit her side instead of her neck. The Raptor clawed and bit, as the Rex roared. Grant and Satler shepherded them all outside... To where Mister Hammond, the injured Ian Malcolm... And Uncle Vernon waited in a Jeep.
"BOY! COME ON!" Vernon shouted. He was covered in grease, his sleeves rolled up. He was absolutely filthy, and carried a shotgun. He looked right at Harry, and raised his shotgun.
"HARRY! DOWN!"
Harry saw the look in his uncle's eyes... And dropped like he was diving on his broom. The shotgun roared twice... And Harry looked back and up.
The third Raptor fell back, staggered, blood pouring from its head and chest. It slunk away, as Vernon fired two more rounds after it.
Vernon himself got out of the Jeep, and hurried over to Harry. He pulled him up.
"You all right, lad?" He asked.
"Y-Yeah, yeah," Harry managed. Vernon sighed in relief, and led Harry to the Jeep.
"Bloody hell, these Americans," he muttered, as he settled in with Harry. Hammond gunned the engine, and off they went.
"They're not all bad," Harry said, still in a daze.
Had that actually happened? Had his horrible uncle actually saved his life? His life?
"What happened?" Harry asked, "where did you go?"
Vernon worked his bushy, messy mustache a bit in silence, before answering.
"I hiked to the Command Center... Nearly got eaten, once or twice. I did what I could here. The bloody Jeep mechanics left too, so I had to fix this one to get it running again... Well..."
He looked aside, suddenly realizing the awkwardness of the situation. Harry continued to stare at him. Vernon sighed heavily, still scanning around with his shotgun.
"A place like this... Makes you forget a lot of silly shite, huh boy?" He asked.
Harry nodded slowly, still tempted to pinch himself.
"Yeah... Yeah, it does," he replied.
Vernon looked over at Harry, and shrugged.
"Well..."
"Yeah..."
They fell into silence again. Vernon shook his head.
"Let's... Not tell Pet about this. She'll just worry."
"Probably," Harry admitted.
It's a bit rushed, I know. Very barebones. But I don't really know where to go from here with this story. Maybe you can though.
