Make it Through the Chaos

Chapter 7-I Am Not Who I Was

Chapter 7-I Am Not Who I Was

"Lilly," I heard Ben whispered as he moved beside me. My head was spinning with thoughts and realizations. I had been suspicious of the DPW since Brooklynn's death, they had just gotten there so fast; almost like they knew it was going to happen. It had been one of the reasons I had gone back to work for them. However, I had never admitted that to anyone. I wanted to stay close to the system. That, and they offered me a traveling position where I could work on my own; which seemed ideal at the time. But now, I couldn't help but wonder how many of the dinosaurs I had caught ended up being used for things like this.

"What?" I whispered back, not moving my eyes from the dinosaur asleep in front of me. "You've been working for the DPW. Did you have any idea this was happening?" Ben questioned, I looked over at him not really sure how to feel about the question. "Why would I know about this," I hissed, and Ben looked at me realizing what he had implied. "I didn't mean-" he began but I cut him off. "I had my suspicions. I always thought it was weird the DPW arrived at the scene of Brooklynn's death so quickly. I have tried to look into things when I could, but with my job, I don't really work with any other DPW officers. I show up, I take down the target, someone comes to pick it up, and then I leave," I explained, and Ben let out a sigh.

Suddenly the dinosaur in front of me began to move, I flinched, instinctively grabbing Ben's arm as the dinosaur lifted its head, it let out a snort before flopping back down, going back to sleep. "Huh," Ben said looking at the dinosaur confused. "Probably, sleep apnea," he shrugged. "How much longer, can that stay asleep?" Sammy whispered. "We should be okay for a while. They try to use enough tranquilizers to last the trip," I answered.

"Maybe we can at least find out where we are," Yaz said, before she stood up, moving over to the slats in the trailer. She slowly, walked toward the discourse using it as a step stool to get a look outside. "See anything," I questioned. "Just a whole lot of open road. Can't make out any signs or anything," Yaz answered. "Okay great. Can you please come back now before the tranqs wear off and that thing wakes up?" Sammy called. Yaz nodded getting down and walking back toward us.

As I stood up I felt the hairs stand up on the back of my neck, and then a loud roar rang through the trailer. I turned around and saw one of the Becklespinaxs from earlier, and it was not happy to see us. It began to bang on the gate separating the two stalls. Sammy noticed the lock slipping and quickly ran to grab it, Yaz helping her. A few seconds later the truck came to a stop. We all froze, waiting for a few moments before the doors opened, we quickly hid, and once the DPW officers were busy with the Becklespinax Sammy opened the hatch we had come in through, and we all slipped out of the trailer.

We hid under the trailer as they offloaded the other dinosaur. "We should find a phone" Sammy whispered once the officers were far enough away. "Darius and Kenji need to know we found the guys who've been hunting us," she added. "Okay, let's go," I whispered, as I walked out from underneath the truck. I flinched as large overhead lights came on. "Back, back," Ben said, as all four of us ran back behind the truck. I began to walk in the opposite direction as more lights came on, but then I heard Yaz gasp, I moved next to her to see what she was looking at. "Oh," I muttered, realizing where we were as my eyes landed on a large fenced-in watering hole, filled with dinosaurs. "That's a lot of dinosaurs," Sammy said.

"Hey!" a man yelled, and we all jumped, I spun around on my heels, and Sammy and I both stepped forward to protect Yaz and Ben. "Civilians aren't authorized to be here," the man said stepping closer to us. As he stepped into the light I recognized him. "Hold on a sec," the man said looking at me and then the others. "I know you. You're part of the Nublar Seven. And Lilly?" he said looking surprised. "What's going on? Is Darius with you?" he asked in a softer tone of voice. "How do you know Darius?" Ben asked.