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Chapter 18 - [18]

Tim enjoys his food, too, but isn't eating as voraciously as his sister,

Lex grabs the plastic egg that Tim had grabbed her finding that it is filled with lime Jell-O, she grabs a spoon from the table and spoons out a spoonful of lime Jell-O from the plastic dinosaur egg cup, but her hand freezes halfway to her mouth.

Tim looks up, and sees the expression on Lex's face as she stares over his shoulder, eyes wide, hands trembling so much, so that the Jell-O quivers on the spoon.

"Lex, What is it, what's wrong?" Tim asks but Lex Tim turns around, behind him, one of the silhouettes on the mural is of a dilophosaurus, in crouched pose it's fan and mouth opened threateningly, it's so life like you can almost hear a chittering sound and the fans moving, then it moves forward, and three more of the same animals enter the restaurant through other doors that were left open.

"Tim…run I'll distract them…" Lex murmurs her voice a low tremble, as she trembles with terror, "I can't, you go…I'll distract them…I love you Lex…even though you are an annoying computer Geek." Lex has tears running down her face now, remember the shape Tim's ankle is in.

"I love you too Dweebitops." Lex murmurs back and for the first time since he was little Lex wanted to be the one to hug Tim.

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Outside of the visitor's center Alan walks along a narrow path and finds an idling Jeep, walking up to it, he finds the remains of someone…a man, with some sort of sticky substance staining what is left of his clothes.

"Venom…those shoes, were what Harding was wearing yesterday…venom, why does that sound familiar?"

Alan's eyes narrow as he quickly walks the path towards the emergency shelter marked on the map, his eyes darting from side to side, not exactly sure where he's going will have anyone inside either.

Suddenly he hears someone shouting to him, he turns, he sees Ellie…and Alec, Alec is covered in blood, his pants are shredded down to the point it looks like he's wearing a loin cloth and they are both jogging towards him, "ALEC!" Alan yells even though he knows better and starts running towards his son, and girlfriend.

There's a hearty sound as Dad slams into me hugging me like his life depended on it. The man starts crying and I suddenly feel horrible for not returning to him sooner the amount of pain he must have been in at the thought of losing his son.

"Sorry it took so long Dad, but I heard an explosion and I was like that's either Dad messing with a computer or Ellie being a total blonde." I joke and the man laughs and cries at the same time making an unnerving sound as Ellie laughs but also says an offended "hey!"

"Dad, where are Lex and Tim, you didn't leave them on their own did you?" I ask him quickly as the man tries to get ahold of himself and moves from hugging me to hugging and kissing Ellie.

"I-in the restaurant." Dad stutters through a voice thick with a storm of turbulent emotions.

"Fuck, Okay…go with Ellie to Hammond's bunker load up a couple of guns and wait for us there." I say to the man starts to refuse, but Ellie stops him.

"I-I can't lose him again Ellie, I just can't." Dad starts to break down again.

"Dad, you can have a breakdown later Right Now, I need you to do what I say, now go with Ellie load up some fucking guns and be ready to get the fuck outta of here."

"I."

"Alan, come on…Alec saved me from a dozen raptors. He knows what he's doing, trust him." Ellie says in a way that stuns the man but also sways him as well.

"I just, be safe Alec." Dad mutters in a defeated way as Ellie drags him away, Ellie looks over her shoulder at me a gentle look and a mouthed go, but there is a hint of fear hidden in her eyes when she looks at me, but I shrug it off.

I head towards the visitor's center at a sprint, a bad feeling in my stomach even though the raptors are dead, except for the babies in the nursery.

'Make sure Tim and Lex are safe and then go get my precious Little One.' I think as I pass through the large front doors, take steps two at a time up to the second floor.

Reaching the restaurant I hear them before I see them, Dilophasrus eight of them in total, two hidden in such a way by pillars that they're hard to see, the six are surrounding Tim and Lex who are hugging each other sitting on the floor, summoning my umbrella.

There is a non-lethal, lethal, extremely lethal, and bring down a building settings, an aiming reticle like in a game that appear in my vision like a HUD.

Setting it to extremely lethal, I take aim, and squeeze the umbrella handle to fire, and feel the kick of approximately a 30-30 as a red blur of energy explodes from the tip of the umbrella taking out a Dilophasrus, remaining firing again and again until the six are dead, my shots completely silent.

I open the umbrella and use the umbrella rush ability, slamming into one of the two Dilophasrus who look around confused at why its packmates just dropped to the ground, knocking it into its companion. I take aim and fire two more shots killing the two remaining Dilophasrus.

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In the bunker John Hammond stands off to the side of Alan Grant and Ellie Sattler as Malcolm sleeps on the steel table in the middle of the room, "Doctor Grant, I don't believe that's necessary, the power is back on with Roberts help the animals can be contained once more." Hammond says as Alan, and Muldoon load two ten gauge shotguns.

"You're a damned fool, if you think this place is savable!" Alan growls at the man having half the mind to put the barrel in the man's mouth pull the trigger and splatter his brains all of the walls in here.

"I concur with Alan, even if his son did manage to tame and ride a Tyrannosaur." Muldoon grunts, drawing the looks of everyone in the bunker.

"What did you just say?" Alan asks the man, "Your son tamed and rode on the back of a tyrannosaurus, saved my life…it was a bloody amazing terrifying sight it was, then he went on to fight a damned Raptor with a combat knife."

"This is preposterous, story telling. Why would you make up such lies Robert?!" John bellows.

"Look here you fat, lazy, worthless arrogant bastard, I don't make shit like that up." Muldoon says as he pokes John in his pot belly with the barrel of a fully loaded shotgun.

"You haven't even asked about your grandchildren yet, do you even care about them at all?" Ellie asks John Hammond accusingly.

"Ahh, uhh well Doctor Grant is here so I assume they are fine, are they not Doctor Grant?"

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"So…save me anything to eat? I'm starving." I ask the two who are staring at me with their mouths hanging open as I close my umbrella and will it, to return where it came from.

"ALEC!!!" Both Lex and Tim shout as the two scramble to their feet slipping on the bloody floor and charge me.

Both Lex and Tim let out an oomph sound as the collide with me their arms squeezing me as if their lives depend on my being here, which it might as things haven't been exactly like the movie, I wrap my arms around the them and hug them back as tightly as I can without hurting them.

Lex rips herself out of my returning her hug, "You left me, you promised you wouldn't leave me, I mean you left us, you promised." Lex cries and Tim steps back and gives me a look like hug and kiss her already you Geek.

Stepping forward I hug Lex around her waist and cup her chin with my thumb brushing just below her bottom lip and my index finger hooked underneath her chin, "I know, and if the situation happens where me leaving gives you, Tim or my Dad better chances to live, I'll do it again...but I will always come back... can't leave my girlfriend alone for too long she's like Dinosaurnip or something." I joke and capture Lex's lips before she can retort, she bites my lip hard but then sinks into the kiss and melts against me, her arms sliding underneath mine and interlocking behind my back.

I...we lose ourselves a little in the kiss enough so that Tim has to clear his throat to get our attention, "So uhh, you're Umbrella is kinda cool can I get one?" Tim asks me while he furiously blushes while also looking a little disgusted at the same time.

"About that, promise not to tell anyone about that?" I ask and both nod silently, "You're ankle is hurt badly." I notice and let go of Lex kneel down Infront of Tim, lift his pant leg slightly but he winces and hisses in pain at just the fabric brushing his skin.

"Tim, I'm going to tell you something and do something but you have to keep this one hundred percent to yourself, okay?"

"O-Okay." Tim says back while bobbing his head up and down, and I channel my desire to heal him, through me and into him.

Tim let's out a sharp sound of relief within seconds, "H-how?" Lex asks and I stand up shrugging, "Don't know just always been able to do it, don't tell anyone though...I haven't even told or showed my dad."

"No, I mean how are you alive?" Lex asks me with an indescribable mixture of emotions in her voice.

"Well, about that...you see I've always had this ability...to bond with animals... it's rare it doesn't work with all of them, but when Rexy was chasing me... something just seemed to click and before I knew it Rexy was acting like a puppy and we were playing..."

"Wh-what, who's Rexy?" Both Tim and Lex ask before an expression of understanding dawns on Tim's face.

"The, T-rex Lex." I say in as soft and gentle voice as I can and... silence just stunned silence.

"Y-you made friends with a T-Rex?" Tim asks me in an awed tone.

I shrug, "Yeah, she's actually really playful and an attention hog, but she's just so big..."

"I hate you, I hate you, I hate you, I hate you." Lex starts muttering over and over again like a broken record.

'Oops, I think I mind broke her and not in the fun way...' I joke though this is a very serious situation, "Lex think about it, they're around people all the time and I'm sure with Charlotte here she probably plays with the babies all the time." Tim starts to explain, but Lex just isn't responding, "Uhh, Tim...I think Lex just needs a minute..." I say gently curbing the kid's enthusiasm.

Picking Lex up in a princess carry she cuddles against me and nuzzles her cheek against my chest, "I don't hate you." Lex murmurs making me smile, "Good, wouldn't want to lose my girlfriend the same day I got her." I tease and Lex huffs against my chest.

"Now, let's go get my Little One from the hatchery." I cheer like a proud father, totally stealing Owen's thunder as a RaptorDad.

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