Among the Shadows of Death (a Jurassic Park fic)

Chapter 4

Knocking was heard along with a voice, that Alex identified as Ian, calling out his name. He stood up and opened the door to be greeted by a smiling Ian and the blinding daylight behind him. "Morning! Ready for another day with the capitalist dressed in white?" Alex only groaned from annoyance in response to the thought. "Give me 5 minutes"

First half of the day was spent in the other parts of the lab, like housing the birth of an infant dinosaur, after that they would go on the tour in the park itself.

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The cars were perfectly aligned and ready for them to take off. "Damn, the systems they have here are rather lit, not gonna lie." Alex said to Ian who was standing beside him, closer (for some reason and) to hear him talk better. "What? They're just cars aren't they?" he asked with an unsure chuckle. "Huh? No, don't you see that rail? The cars are being moved by that mechanism. I don't know the specifics but I know enough for it to be pretty cool." "..hah, you could actually be right about that. Smart indeed." he turned to the other, looking smug "impressive" that praise was just enough to make guy have dusted cheeks :P

While Alex was getting in the second car with Ian following him inside of it on the backseat, he saw poor Alan getting followed by the children. "Heh poor man, Alan" "Hm? Ah woah, the kids seem to like him. You a fan of 'em?" "Me? KiDs?? Nah, not at all. I mean I get along with them alright. They also like me for some reason. People even say that I'm good with kids, like hello??" It was just so obvious how Ian started to adore this man more and more, I mean even Alexander saw it (with moments though). "Good with kids is a green flag, doesn't matter if you love them or not" This man is so hard in denial if he thinks that's a green flag. The front doors opened and in came Alan and Ellie with Ellie teasing him about the kids.

A familiar voice started speaking from the radio. "Hey, is that-" "That is the real Richard Kiley that you're hearing now on the radio. We spared no expenses!" Hammonds voice is heard over the speaker. The tour started and they chit-chatted (half flirting ofc lolol) about basic stuff like favourite food. Richard kept ranting in the background which they all gladly ignored until it mentioned the first dinosaur. "To the right, you will see a herd of the first dinosaurs on our tour, called Dilophosaurus." "Woah dilophosaurus?" All four of them tried to see the creatures as Richard continued "One of the earliest carnivores, we now know Dilophosaurus is actually poisonous, spitting its venom at its prey, causing blindness and eventually paralysis, allowing the carnivore to eat at its leisure." "Psh- yeah sure. Venom?? They haven't found any proof of that shit anywhere." Alex corrected to himself, Ian looked at him with an amused smile. The birdman noticed and got embarrassed "you know..because of the incorrect DNA and stuff..it's.." , Ian was charming with that smile and a distraction to Alex. "Sorry, It's just-" "Oh I don't mind, I'd rather know the truth." "This makes Dilophosaurus a beautiful, but deadly addition to Jurassic Park."

Curious if there would be another remark, Ian watched Alexander with care, trying to notice any facial changes showing annoyance towards the audio. Nothing happened, not towards the audio no. He noticed that the spectated began to look in the opposite direction as if he was shying away. Ian could swear he saw a blush creeping on his cheeks. The pinked face looked back at him. Stared for a moment. And then said "Enjoying the view or something?" "Myeah I will say, my view is quite the catch" with that toothy grin. Alex did not want to get played. He wanted to get even, to not be the only one with a blush on his cheeks. "Whoaw, didn't know you were looking in a mirror." Now that caught Ian off guard. He gulped and chuckled out of embarrassment trying to keep his smile. Trying to be slick he tried looking away to hide his blush and avoiding eyecontact. Alexander took his pride in flustering the man. "Hmm? Are you alright Dr. Malcolm?" he tried in his most caring voice but with still a playful facade showing. Looking back at him Ian felt attacked and everyone stayed silent with disappointment because of the lacking dinosaurs.

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They approached a gigantic fence surrounding the Rex's habitat."The mighty tyrannosaurus arose late in the dinosaur history. Dinosaurs ruled the earth for hundred and fifty million years, but it wasn't until the last..." "Will you turn that thing off?" Alan asked. Silence took over once again. Ian was staring at the ceiling and started to think aloud. "God creates dinosaurs. God destroys dinosaurs. God creates man. Man destroys God. Man creates dinosaurs..." Alex eyed Ian as Ellie continued for the man "Dinosaur eats man. Woman inherits the Earth." This caught the three men in the car off guard "hA- bwhaha. Oh my- shit." Alex laughed "Hahh you should have seen your faces" he answered as the others looked at him, Ellie did so with a proud smile.

"Hold on, we'll try to tempt the rex" said a voice from the intercom, interrupting the conversation. Just like he said, a goat came out of the ground. Alan sighed disappointed "A T.Rex doesn't want to be fed, it wants to hunt. You can't just suppress sixty-five million years of gut instinct." They were practically sitting on eachothers lap trying to see something. As Alexander tried to see the beast, he had to place his hands carefully on the seat to avoid awkward situations or falling.

The man turned his face to address Ian only to realise that the distance between the two was barely existing. Ian felt him staring as he looked him back in the eyes. Staring in Malcolm's dark eyes -that apparently had lighter and darker spots in them- was mesmerising. Ian staring back didn't help and when realising, "ah, sorry" Alexander got flustered and turned away to his seat. The mathematician stared flushed at the seat before him and then looked outside only to turn to the camera.

"Uh, uh, now, eventually you do plan to have dinosaurs..on your, on your dinosaur tour, right? Hello? H-Hellow?? Yes??"" He knocked on the camera and after some trying he sat back down, smiling.

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~ Lixian

PS: if you're still reading and you made it to this note, have a very nice (rest of your) day or night! Thank you for staying so long!! 

PSS: For the Camp Cretaceous fans out there; I have a fic for that as well! Though the chances of me posting that one are even less than me continuing this one and uh haha...yeah about that-