Written in Bones [ Jurassic World]

Expedition

The suitcase on the bed was half full as Lily sat looking at her closet.

"What do I even pack?" she asked blowing a wisp of her hair out of her face. She fell back on her bed and turned her head to see her childhood companion, a stuffed stegosaurus named Steggy. She lifted him up and cuddled it.

"I remember when I brought home that dinosaur for you." Harold said leaning in the doorway. She looked over to him.

"You were as small as him." he walked over and sat on the bed as she pushed herself up. "You brought Steggy everywhere."

"I was dinosaur obsessed." she smiled. She played around with Steggy's floppy soft spikes.

"Is Mum still mad?" she asked.

"When is your mother never not mad?" Harold pointed out.

"I don't understand. She told me to get a job that didn't involve digging or the museum. I listened, didn't I?"

"I think your mother's pestering is just her way of hiding the fact that she's worried. I'm worried for you too."

"But you told me to take the job!"

"Easy, I didn't mean it like that. I wanted you to take the job, Lily. But I'm going to worry about you regardless, I'm supposed to. It's in the parenthood rule book."

"I'd like to see this book." she teased.

"You ought to try and talk to her." Harold told her finally. Lily grimaced.

"You mean listen while she yells?"

"If you don't get it over now, she'll just make a scene at the airport."

"Fine." Lily huffed.

Lily knocked on her mother's door. "Mum?" There was no answer.

"Mum..." she opened the door to see her mother reading in bed. Marianne didn't bother looking up. Lily rolled her eyes as she walked over and sat beside her mother.

"Will you talk to me?"

Marianne pursed her lips before placing the book down. "What is it, Lily?"

"Why are you acting like this?" Lily asked her. "I'm doing what you wanted. I got a job, a well paying job."

"You call it a job...going from playing with the bones to playing with the actual dinosaurs. That's not a job Lily."

"Well, I'm sorry we all can't be happy sitting at a desk!" Lily said hotly.

Marianne glared at her. "Do whatever you want, Lily, but in the end, you can't make a career out of dinosaurs."

Lily stood in the airport with her father after her mother's refusal to go see her off. She heard her flight being called to board.

"That's me." she said.

"Well, you're not going anywhere until I get a hug."

She giggled before she wrapped her arms tightly around him.

"I love you Dad."

"I love you too deary. Now you take care of yourself, ya hear?"

"I will."

"Take loads of pictures and call me whenever you like. Even if I'm at the factory, I'll sneak off to the loo."

"Ha, alright Dad. Will do."

"Now hurry along before you miss your flight."

"Bye Dad."

"Bye Lily."