𓆙 Dont Blame Me - Zach Mitchell

『 8 』Van Life Is Not For The Weak

❝ PLEASE BE OKAY DELTA... AND OWEN... ❞

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WE GOT SITUATED IN THE BACK OF THE VAN, only enough room for three on the bench.

"If you need me, I'll be right up front. Just open that window. Okay? Put your seatbelts on." She waves her hands at us but we look and dont see any seatbelts so we shrug at her.

"Okay, so just... Hold hands." She suggests and shuts the two doors to the van, and they slam with a large sound. Gray holds out his hand to me and I take it, then holding out mine to Zach who graciously accepts it.

"So, Alex. I saw you with the raptors in the cage." Zach smirks.

"I felt your eyes on me the whole time, real smooth." I smile at him.

"Well to be fair you did kiss a dinosaur." He pokes.

"Shes always been my favorite. I've grown already so close to these animals in just a few short months. I am definitely worried about this whole mission field test shit." I shake my head. Zach squeezes my hand.

"Hey, shes going to be okay. They're dinosaurs, they will do great." Zach comforts me. I lean my head on his shoulder and smile.

"Um... Nothing's getting in here, right?" Gray asks us both nervously. They start to have a heart to heart brother moment so I slide out from my seat to give them space, walking to the side of the van where a window is. I see Owen with a piece of the Indominus Rex holding it up to each velociraptor cage.

"Please be okay Delta...and Owen..." I whisper to myself as I see them release the gates to the Raptors and seeing the raptors fly out.

"Alex!" Zach whispers to me and brings me back to Earth. He waves for me to sit and watch as they start to slowly open the window to see what is happening. On her screen, theres two Raptor point of views and two soldier point of views. They are heading through the forest patch behind the raptor cages.

"Your boyfriend's a badass." Zach smirks as it shows Owen motorcycling with the raptors. They keep going for a few minutes and they come to a stop, finding something. Claire remembers were there as the soldiers set up their weapons.

"You know what, no. You guys aren't going to watch this. Keep this closed." She shuts the window right in front of us. We sigh as our failed protest attempts didnt do us any good. We kind of sit in silence for a few moments before testing our luck with re opening the window.

When we do, we see the raptors going rogue and eating and attacking people. What the hell happened when we stopped watching? Its only been about five minutes. One of the Raptors feeds, Charlie, eating someone. She then lifts her head to see Owen. Neither of them attack the other, they just look at each other. Then, there is a flash of light and Charlies feed goes dark. I put a hand over my mouth as a tear escapes from my eye. She got blown up, and is now dead. I look away from the screen and am in shock when I hear Gray speak.

"Is everybody dead?" His voice breaks. Claire turns, turning her tablet down.

"No, no, no. Everyone is fine." Claire horribly tries to comfort him.

"Don't lie to him." Zach throws his hand up.

"He's scared. It's okay to lie when people are scared." Claire defends panicked.

"I wanna go home." Gray tears up. Claire grabs the back of his head in a comforting manner.

"Sweetheart, you will, okay? I promise. Tomorrow you will be home, and your mother will never let me see you again..." She rambles but a man lays a bloody handprint on the window and she starts screaming. Zach slams the window shut and turns to Gray comforting him when the same man throws open the van doors.

"They're coming!" He screams as one of the raptors, by my guess Echo, jumps on top of him and starts eating him. Zach places his hand over top of me and Gray to hold us back. Claire starts the van and it starts moving, sending the two off the truck.

"Just hold on back there!" Claire taps on the window cover. The doors are still flying open and two velociraptors are chasing us. I can only assume one is Delta and I feel a pang in my heart. Zach gets up and launches a gas canister at one of them but it just dodges it.

Gray notices the tasers on the side and picks one up but they struggle with it. As the raptor got closed, I could see it was Delta.

"Turn it on!" Zach yells to Gray. I just stand there not being able to do anything.

"I don't know how!" Gray fiddles with the machine still not able to get it on.

"Alex help us!" Zach looks behind at me but sees im distraught.

"I cant I'm sorry!" I cry sitting back down. I dont care if shes trying to hurt us, I cant do anything to harm my baby.

"Now!" They finally get it on as Delta climbs onto the van.

"Delta!" I scream and she looks at me as they stun her with the taser, sending her flying off. My tears quicken as I feel so guilty about that. I see her moving in the distance so I know shes okay which provides some relief.

"Are you guys okay?" Claire asks to the window.

"Did you see that?" Zach laughs opening up the window.

"I can't wait to tell Mom." Gray celebrates.

"Please, no. Do not tell your mother about that, ever." Claire begs him not to say anything.

977 words! poor delta but tbh she was trying to kill them so...