Jurassic World : A Good Day to Be Dying

Chapter 9 : Full contact

Jurassic Park Visitor Center

At the garage of the Jurassic Park visitor center, Barry, who had opened the garage door, keep an eye out for anything that might come in there. Gray sat on the passenger seat of Jeep 29 as Claire stood next to her youngest nephew. Noticing Gray's somber look on his face, Claire asked with some concern, "Gray. You're okay, sweetie?"

Gray looked up at his aunt with a somber expression on his face and his eyes had a look of dread. "I don't know, Aunt Claire." Gray said in a low voice. After a moment of silence, he confessed in a quiet tone, "I'm scared."

After seeing his eyes, Claire bent down so their eyes were met and leveled. Claire gently said to him while putting her left hand on his right shoulder, "Don't worry. We'll make it out of here alive. I promise that." It wasn't a lie to make him feel better. It was a promise she will do for Gray, Zach and Karen.

Gray nodded to his aunt. He hope Claire will keep her promise to get him and Zach off the besieged island. Then he asked somberly, "Did you know that Mom and Dad are getting a divorce?"

Surprised by the question, Claire asked in confirmation, "You know about that?"

Gray gazes at Claire and somberly confirmed, "Yes. I goggled the letters sent by their lawyers before me and Zach came here."

Claire sighed upon Gray discovering that his parents are getting a divorce. She knew it had to be painful for him at his young age. "I'm sorry." Claire apologized sincerely. Gray nodded. Noticing Gray's worried look, Claire knew that Gray needed some reassurance over their situation on the island and said softly, "Gray." Gray looks up and met Claire's eyes as she gently stroked his hair with her right hand as she continued softly, "I promise I won't let them get to you or Zach. I will keep you both by my sides for always until we get off this island, where you can reunite with your mother and father."

Gray somewhat felt better by his aunt's sincere reassurance as he looked at Claire. "Okay. Thanks." Gray said, slightly less anxious over the situation. As Gray said that, Owen and Zach arrived. Zach was carrying the battery from the Kawasaki Teryx4 vehicle that he and Owen were to get.

"Owen..." Barry said in relief as he saw Owen returning with Zach, who was carrying the battery.

After seeing Zach carrying the battery, Claire came to Owen who was holding his Marlin Model 1895SBL rifle. "Letting my nephew do all the lifting, Owen?" Claire asked with some sarcasm in her voice.

Owen rolled his eye over Claire's sarcasm and said with a trace of annoyance, "Well, someone needs to be armed to ensure your nephew and the battery get here safely." Then he added in more normal tone, "Besides, I helped him out get the battery out of that vehicle."

"Hmm...right." Claire nodded. Then she asked seriously, "Find out what happened to that maintenance vehicle?"

As that was happening, Owen puts down the rifle and unlocked the hood of Jeep 29. "Looks like it was hit by heavy machine gun fire, probably from one of their choppers. The driver and his partner were dead, but the battery is still intact." Owen said to her as he earlier looked inside the wrecked vehicle and saw the two people inside it were killed by heavy machine gun from the helicopter that was above them.

"Yeah, took us a few minutes to open the hood and get the battery out though." Zach stated as Owen opened the hood of Jeep 29.

"Let's hope it will work in this vehicle." Barry stated to them, hoping that they will get it working so they can out of there.

Zach looks down at the engine and sees the dead battery. He turned to Gray and asked, "Gray, you remember when we fixed up Grandpa's old Malibu, right?"