Jurassic World: A New Beginning

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The group sat in silence in a small circle, Andrew was hugging his legs with his sight locked over his shoes; after a few minutes of screaming, Barry had told Bea what Andrew had told them about why he was alone and once he was done Bea narrated what had really happened.

"Let me see the map" whispered Owen, his voice stern and harsh, and Barry could see he was making an epic effort to not beat Andrew on the spot.

Bea looked at Owen and finally handed the map to someone in the group, her fingers tingling with loss as the paper left her hands and Owen took it; the young woman turned to Zach who was sitting next to her and rapidly took his hand, he looked at her and gave her a soft squeeze, there was no way she could understand how much relief he felt now that he was next to her and he knew she was somehow safer than she had been a few hours ago.

"You're saying other people had this map?" whispered Barry, Bea turned to look at him and nodded "But I thought there was no one else here except you and us"

"I thought so too" whispered Bea, Zach turned to Andrew, the InGen worker was still looking at his shoes, humiliating written all over his face.

"Ok" said Owen after a few seconds of looking at the map ""If we leave now it will take us a couple hours to get to Lowery"

"Can you try the radio again?" asked Bea, she looked at her brother, her hand still holding on to Zach as if he was dear life.

"There's still no signal" explained Owen, Bea looked at him for a few seconds before she looked down at her lap, her heart was pounding hard in her chest, the feeling that with every second Lowery was alone something bad could happen intensified.

"He's going to be ok" whispered Zach, Bea turned to look at him, his face inches away from her and unconsciously Zach looked down at her light rosy and glossy lips like he had done since the first day and Bea had an urge to kiss him and hug him and never let go; a horrible need to feel safe in his arms like she hadn't felt in the arms of any other boy that was not Barry or Owen.

"I love you" Zach thought as he looked up from her lips to her soft yet scratched face. "Just tell her" but he couldn't, he couldn't be that selfish and tell her how he felt when he could see she was terrified to what could be happening to Lowery.

"Kiss him" Bea thought, she slowly pulled her hand away from his hand and placed it over his neck gently, her eyes soft and for a moment the people and the place around her disappeared.

"Can you stop touching each other? For a second?" barked a voice, Bea grunted internally before her hand dropped from Zach's neck to his lap and she turned to look at her brother

"I haven't seen him in a while, leave me alone" barked Bea.

"You haven't seen me either" Owen frowned, "I don't see you hugging me and all that"

"Stop" barked Barry, because he knew what it meant to Bea that someone was finally giving her the respect she deserved, because he knew all that Owen and Zach ignored and he knew all that Andrew had gone through months of investigation to know too.

"Can we go now?" Bea spoke again "I promised Lowery I'd go for him as soon as I could"

"Ok, you said his ankle is bruised" Owen said, he glanced at Andrew "Because of you," he turned to Bea "Can he walk?"

"No" answered Bea "Well, yes" she passed her hands over her face before she spoke again "He can walk if he leans over someone and he does it very slowly" she glanced at Zach and then at Owen "He could lean over one of you" she frowned and snapped her head to Andrew "Except you, you stay the fuck away from him"

"I said I was sorry" whispered Andrew, he stretched his legs and looked at Bea, in her furious glance she still looked beautiful.

"I don't believe you" she hissed, she leaned forward "I don't believe anything you have said since all of this started"

"Ok" said Barry, his voice rising over Bea's "The first thing we need to get to Lowery and back to the boat fast is that we can't start fighting anymore" he looked at Owen, who rolled his eyes and then turned to Bea "I know he's a liar and all but think about getting help for Lowery"

Bea ripped her eyes from Andrew and turned to Barry, she pressed her lips into thin lines and then slowly she nodded, she reached for Zach's hand.

Owen rolled his eyes, he wasn't sure how he was supposed to feel about Zach and Bea, he had never really spend much time with any of her boyfriends since he had been in the army and then on Jurassic World so this was a totally new experience and he wasn't sure how he was supposed to feel about all of this.

The raptor trainer pushed himself up, Barry was already on his feet, after him Zach and Bea pushed themselves up and finally Andrew followed; Owen tried his best not to look at Andrew because he could barely stand to do it, he was doing his best not to beat the crap out of him for leaving his sister behind.

"What about the raptors?" asked Andrew, Barry looked at him.

"What do you mean?" he asked.

"Bea said something about raptors" explained Andrew "We don't have anything to defend ourselves"

"I have a hand gun and so does Owen" explained Barry, he wanted to punch Andrew just as much as Owen wanted to but he was realizing that he had to be the bigger person in the group and that meant trying to ignore his killer urges to Andrew.

Bea and Zach looked at each other, they both knew how little a hand gun had helped Hoskins with Charlie.

"It's gonna be ok" whispered Zach, he took both of Bea's hands and a soft smile stretched on his face.

"I hope so" she whispered back.

But Bea should have known better from the look the raptor gave her; the same look it had as it watched the group start to make their way to the Tech Center.