One of Them (Jurassic World fanfiction)

III

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It's deep in night, the sun long settled down as it's now something after 8pm. It isn't twice times warm out here, the fire not being much of help either, but from how deep lost in thoughts I am, I manage to ignore the coldness bearing my body, focused on our conversation with Claire.

Her words whirrled around in my head over and over, repeating every now and then. And when I hear Owen sitting awake in the van and watching old videos from Jurassic World, I know he's troubled too.

I knew about the volcano warming up and growling on the island, yet I didn't do anything about it. I didn't know why. And now we have a chance to save the creatures living there, yet I can't bring myself to say it's actually a good idea.

Yeah, I love Rexy, and Blue, and other dinosaurs. I have unusual relationship with them that no other human ever had with a dinosaur. I could maybe even survive if I were stuck by myself on the island because I'd have Rexy to protect me, but it's only me. No one else.

No other human alive would survive like me, and I fear that if we save the dinosaurs and don't make sure people are safe from them, which I'm certainly sure it will turn bad corner like every time, then it will put humanity in danger. Serious danger.

Yet I can't help and feel guilty for thinking these thoughts about letting the volcano kill them. I have Rexy in there. My second longest friend I ever had. She may not be human, but I don't care. She's more important to me than normal person would imagine.

I have spent over nine years working with her on our relationship, and just throw it all aside like these years never concern me is just rude and not-right. I can't bring myself to just let her die. To let them die. They doesn't deserve death just because humans decided to experiment and play with biologic chemicals to create a long extinct creature. It just isn't fair.

I turned my upper body to take a look at the van, lights still turned on in there so I suppose Owen is still awake. Turning back after defeated sigh, I stare into the fire blazing before me and giving me enough warmness to live through the cold night weather.

All of sudden something loud echoed from the forest into my ears, catching my attention and I sprung onto my feet, looking around at the part of the trees I heard it come from. I'm not certainly sure if I heard right or I'm just hallucinating but it sure enough sounded like roar. Rexy's roar. Though it's most probably only my mind playing tricks on me and maybe was just some kind of animal. Bear maybe. In the end they hadn't rescued the dinosaurs from the island yet so she can't be here.

But just to make sure, I called into the forest. "Rexy?!" My voice trailed over the sky until it got lost in the darkness. And nothing. No response. I'm definitely making up things.

She's not here. She's on the island. And she won't be in this world if she won't be saved before the volcano explode.

Just now I realized how much I miss her, to the point it made me imagine I heard her roar I used to hear every day on the island. I can't let her die. I just can't. I've already lost Inza, my uncle, I can't lose her too.

Sighing in saddnes and disappointment I turned back to sit down on the trunk, going to keep watching the fire when Owen appeared out of nowhere with his laptop in his hands, placing it on his lap as he sat down next to me. And I noticed paused video on the screen.

He held unreadable expression, however I know he has debating fight in his head about the situation as well. When Claire mentioned Blue, I'm pretty sure it got under his skin as much as it got under mine when she mentioned Rexy.