!! REWRITTEN VERSION OF DINOSAUR GIRL !!
❝you're insane!❞
❝oh, that's the best part about me,❞
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ariel grady, adopted along with her brother by the raptor king himself. experimented on by a lab when she was young, also trying to bring back the dinos...
the rex got up and pinned the t-rex to the floor ready to bite at its neck, killing it. there were small raptor noises that were to be heard, making us look over and see blue, gaining speed to jump at the i-rex.
the t-rex got up before pushing the i-rex into a building before pulling and throwing it about. we ran through the different shops before halting as blue got thrown into the one we were in. we watched as the t-rex was dominating that i-rex and slammed it into the group once again, it sliding to the edge of the road.
a simple nudge would knock the hybrid into the cage of the mosasaurs. blue and the t-rex had it cornered, apparent the mosasaurus was hungry. she jumped up out of the water and latched her jaw around the neck of the indominus, pulling it under the water after she got off the main street.
blue took a couple of steps back before the t-rex showed no interest in her and made its way to the other side of the island. i sighed and placed my head on zach's shoulder. owen stepped forward and shook his head at the raptor, it nodded and ran off down the main street towards the innovation centre.
we all walked out to watch the raptor disappear into the park.
everyone had been evacuated off the island and it was bright outside. peoples family members had come to pick them up or were reunited. this was going to get a lot of bad press in the paper at some point later in the week.
i was sat on the stretched across from zach, cody and claire. i was having my bandages being changed, as they were done poorly around my leg but it was good while i was in a moving ambulance, hitting raptors.
"thank you," i said to the medic before he went off. i put my hands in my pocket before pulling something out. it was a picture of cody and a letter. he must have slipped it in my pocket before he got... blown up.
i opened it up before starting to read.
i didn't want to start this off with a dear ariel, that felt to formal even though we would talk to claire like she was the queen. you're probably reading this because you found it in your pocket or at home, i wrote two and left one at the house or your pocket. they are the exact same, for your information.
or you are reading this because i'm dead. either died on the mission or for some other reason. i wanted you to know that i loved you so much, you stuck by my side when we were in that lab and when we were at owens house. even though we were not biologically related i still treated you like you were family.
as much as i hated being in that lab i am rather grateful for it. that's because i got to meet you, when we were put into owens care i said the therapy didn't help because i didn't want to admit something as stupid as talking to someone made it all better.
when we were employed and helped dad down at the raptor paddock, we never told anyone but owen and i had taught the raptors to growl to a happy birthday for your birthday, but you got sick and took the time off work.
when i came out to you and owen, i felt more comfortable than ever and when i got my first boyfriend, you threatened to beat everyone up if they called me anything ro said anything bad about me being gay. i have never been more grateful for anything because you made me feel more comfortable.
owen, i didn't give him a letter. mainly because i couldn't find the right words to say it but you can give this letter to him so he can read it. but we never called him dad because we were too afraid to get attached to him and so something but then i realised that even if everything went wrong he was still dad in our hearts especially after what happened to both of our old parents.
so in conclusion. god i feel like i'm writing an english essay. i'm going to miss you so much, i will stick by you in spirit form if i'm dead and in human form if i'm alive. i love you all, cody.
i put the letter on my lap and cried for a minute, got i will miss him. the pain will be in my heart forever, there will be a hole there forever. "ariel?" someone asked. i looked up before standing up, instantly regretting it as i felt dizzy.
"yes?" i asked, realising it was zach who said my name. i went into full panic mode once realising that his parents were standing in front of me. "this is the person who i was talking to you about on the phone," he said.
i smiled at his mother who let out a couple of tears before hugging me. "thank you. thank you so so much, for looking after my boys, i can tell you care for them just as much as they do for you," she said, i hugged her back before tears slipped out of my own eyes.
"if you need anything, we will be here for you... oh zach she's prettier than you described," she said, i laughed before zach groaned and covered his face. "do you- where is your dad, grey told me you have a dinosaur trainer dad," the boy's dad said.
"yeah, i do, owen. but he's-" i then spotted him talking to claire. "talking to claire," i finished. "oh, i'm karen," the mother said. "ariel, but you can call me any shortened version, i don't mind," i said, shaking her hand that she put out.
"i'm scott," his dad said. grey grabbed ahold of my hand before shaking ti, once again. "won't owen be all tangled up with finding a new place, and to take some stress off him doing that, will ari be able to stay at ours?" he asked.
