I looked over at the old man in confusion. I thought we picked everyone up on the way here?

He all but ran out into the hallway, the rest of us following at our own paces.

"I thought this was everyone?" I turned to Ian once we were in the light of the hallway.

"I, uh, thought so too," he scratched his head. "Apparently not."

I hummed in response and followed the group out into the parlour.

"Now, you lot are going to spend a little time in the park with our target audience," John said, smiling from halfway down the stairs.

"Grandpa!" A pair of voices yelled from across the room. I looked over to see a young boy around the age of seven or eight and a slightly older girl, maybe eleven or twelve, run towards us. They scaled the stairs in seconds and tackled John.

"Careful with the old man!" He laughed, embracing his grandchildren.

I could tell that Ellie was happy to have the company of children with us but Gennaro and Alan didn't look so pleased.

I wasn't opposed to having children along and it would give us a sense of how the general public would react to the creatures being displayed here but this wasn't a weekend excursion either.

This was a test run to make sure everything was going smoothly and it was an official inspection of the park.

I turned to Ian.

"What do you think about bringing kids along?"

"I don't see the, uh, problem," he replied, watching the family talk amongst each other.

"Alright you lot, let's get this tour started shall we?" John said, getting our attention.

He led us down the stairs and out the front door.

Two cars riding along a metal track in the middle of the road appeared, stopping just in front of the building.

"These will be your transports for the afternoon," John said happily.

"No drivers?" Gennaro asked.

"No. No drivers. They're electric. They run on this track in the middle of the roadway here," he replied, pointing to the protruding metal bar that ran along the middle of the road.

"Totally non-polluting. Top of the line. We spared no expense," he added, grinning wide.

The children, who's names I had yet to learn had already jumped into the first car.

"Look! It's a CD-ROM!" The girl said excitedly, turning to look at her brother in the back seat.

"You touch the screen and it tells you what you want to know," she explained, touching a section of the screen repeatedly.

"Doctor Sattler! Doctor Summers! Come with me," John said, catching my attention.

He led us over to the second car and opened the door.

"Doctor Grant! Come in the second car," He called out to Alan.

I watched as Ian said something to Alan which made him frown before he was distracted by the boy.

Ian came over and leant against the car, standing next to the passengers side and talking to the girl.

I opened the door on the other side and sat in the back of the car on the drivers side.

I saw the girl leave and Ellie bit her lip. I leant forward.

"What did you do?" I asked, grin splitting out across my face.

"I told Lex to ride with Alan because it would be good for him," she giggled and I joined in.

Ian opened the door to the seat next to me and climbed in, closing the door behind him. Before either of us could say something to the other, Alan opened the drivers car door and clambered in.

"Shook the parasites, I see," I giggled to him, patting his shoulder.

"Yeah, how can either of you stand kids?" He asked.

"Kids are great, Alan," I said, laughing.

The car then started moving and I smiled, sitting further back in my seat to get comfortable.

"God, uh, help us. We're in the hands of engineers," Ian spoke up with a chuckle.

Up ahead on the track, I saw a large set of wooden doors. Above the doors there was a sign that said "Jurassic Park." As the first car went through, the doors automatically opened.

"We spared no expense," I imitated John, looking at the doors as we drove through them.

Ian laughed loudly and I smiled.

"What've they got in there? King Kong?" He asked after he stopped laughing.

"During your tour... the appropriate information will be automatically selected and displayed for you."

I looked to the front.

"Simply touch the area of the screen displaying the appropriate icon," the interactive CD-ROM told us.

"The voice you are now hearing is Richard Kiley," we heard John's voice say through the intercom.

"We spared no expense," he added.

"If you look to the right, you'll see a herd of the first dinosaurs on our tour, called Dilophosaurus," the voice said.

Immediately, Ellie, Alan and I started freaking out.

"Dilophosaurus!" Alan exclaimed.

"Shit!" Ellie added as they scrambled to the windows to get a look.

I pressed my hands to the window, trying to catch a glimpse of the prehistoric creature. Ian was beside me, heat radiating from his body like a furnace.

"One of the earliest carnivores, we now know that Dilophosaurus was poisonous... spitting its venom at its prey, causing blindness and eventually paralysis," the voice informed us.

"I wonder who they had to lose to figure that out..." I trailed off absentmindedly. I heard Ian hum in agreement next to me.

As we passed the enclosure without so much as a glimpse of the creature, I leant back, slightly disappointed.

"Damn," Alan banged his fist on the door frame.

"I'm sure we'll, uh, see something better in a minute," Ian said, seeing my disappointed expression.

We continued down the track, making small talk and discussing the different problems and issues with the park so far.

We drove through a dark tunnel and the voice started speaking, startling me a little.

"Our next dinosaur on the tour is the King of the Dinosaurs! The Tyrannosaurus Rex. The T-Rex is one of the most famous dinosaurs ever discovered. T-Rex was a carnivore, which means that he ate meat-"

I drowned out the recorded voice as we drive out of the tunnel and saw the enormous electrified fences.

Alan crawled behind Ian and I and lay down along the back of the car, trying to get a better look.

"Think it'll actually show up?" I asked him.

"I don't know," He replied, eyes trained on the enclosure.

Ian rubbed his chin.

"God creates dinosaurs, God destroys dinosaurs. God creates man, man destroys God, man creates dinosaurs..." Ian listed distractedly with a chuckle.

"Dinosaurs eat man... woman inherits the earth." Ellie added, moving forward to look out her window.

We all looked at her, Alan and I grinning.

"We'll try to tempt the Rex now. Keep your eyes on the fence," a new voice appeared in the car.

I heard a bleating noise and looked up to see a goat being risen up on a platform.

"Is it going to eat the goat?" I asked in horror, mouth agape.

"T-Rex doesn't want to be fed. He wants to hunt," Alan said, watching the goat.

"You can't just suppress 65 million years of gut instinct," Ellie agreed.

The goat sat down on its platform, remaining quiet for the moment.

Ian turned back to the front for a moment before moving forward to peer into the camera.

"Uh, uh, now eventually you do plan to have dinosaurs on your, on your dinosaur tour, uh, right?" He asked, licking his lips.

"Hello? Hello, uh, yes?" He added, tapping the screen and raising his hand in question. I giggled and pulled him back to sit back down in his seat as the car started moving again.

"Don't be rude," I smiled, patting his shoulder lightly. He smiled back and shrugged his shoulders.

"See, see, now Tyrannosaur doesn't obey any set patterns or, or park schedules. The essence of chaos," Ian said to me, drumming a rhythm onto his pants and the car door.

"I'm still not sure about Chaos. What is it?" I asked, turning to face him completely.

"Oh, oh, it, uh, it simply deals with unpredictability in complex systems," he answered, tapping my arm. I nodded, still having no clue what that meant.

"The shorthand is, is, the, uh, Butterfly Effect," he added.

"A butterfly can flap its wings in Peking and in Central Park you get rain instead of sunshine," he played with the cuff of his leather jacket.

I looked at him blankly before breaking out into a grin and raising my hands to show I didn't understand that at all.

"Did I go too fast?" He grinned, showing me his straight white teeth.

"I, I go too fast. I did a fly-by," he laughed, curling my hair around his finger. I blushed.

"Hey, hey, Doctor Sattler, would you, uh, would you pass me that cup of water?" He asked Ellie. She passed it to him and turned around to see what we were doing.

"We're, uh, we're going to conduct an experiment," he explained, turning to face me.

"We should be still... the cars bouncing up and down," he imitated the cars erratic movements.

"But, uh, but that's okay," he put the glass down for a second.

"Now, put your hand flat like a hieroglyphic..." he trailed off, helping me place my hand like he wanted it. His skin gave off heat like a fire.

"Now, let's say a drop of water falls on your hand," he said, smiling and looking into my eyes.

"Which way is it going to fall off?" He asked, picking up the glass and glancing over at Ellie who was now watching us intensely.

"Uh, thumb, I'd say," I responded while watching him dip a finger into the glass.

"Thumb?" He checked.

I nodded. He lifted his finger and let a droplet of water fall onto my hand. It rolled off backwards.

"Okay, okay. Freeze your hand. Don't move. I'll do the same thing, start with the, uh, with the same place again," he rubbed the water off my skin, causing me to involuntarily shiver. He must have noticed because he smirked and shifted his gaze to my eyes.

"Which way is it going to roll off this time?" He asked, smirk still in place.

"Uh, uh, uh, same way. Back again," I stuttered under his intense gaze.

"Same way?" He checked.

"Yeah," I nodded, watching as he brought up his hand again and let the water drop onto my hand.

He gasped with a large grin.

"It changed. Why?" He placed the cup down.

"Because tiny variations," he grabbed my hand in both of his and cracked a half smile.

"The, uh, uh, orientation of the hairs on your hands," he rubbed a finger along the back of my hand.

"The amount of blood distending your vessels, imperfections in the skin..." he trailed off.

"Imperfections in the skin?" I asked, raising an eyebrow. He grinned.

"Microscopic. Microscopic," he assured me, enclosing my hand with both of his and raising it to his lips, smirk-grin still in place.

He lifted a hand from mine and raised two fingers.

"They never repeat and vastly effect the outcome. That's... what?"

"Unpredictability," I guessed. He smiled again.

"Good. Good."

All of a sudden, Alan jumped out of the car, even though it was still moving.

"There. Look at this. See? See? I'm, uh, I'm right again. Nobody could have predicted that Doctor Grant would, would suddenly jump out of a moving vehicle," he laughed, watching the car door swing shut.

Then Ellie jumped out, running after Alan. I heard her call his name.

"See? See? Again," he said, mostly to himself.

"That's, that's Chaos Theory," he lifted the glass of water and took a sip, turning again to face me.

"Did you, uh, did you understand it better with an, an, example?" He asked.

"Yeah," I smiled. The car stopped.

"Do you, uh, want to see what everyone's doing?" I asked, pointing behind us at the rest of the group.

"Uh, uh, we could stay here. We're by ourselves..." he trailed off suggestively. The way he was smiling told me that he was joking though. I laughed.

"Okay, come on Romeo. That's enough of that. Put your charm away now," I giggled, stepping out of the car and waiting for him to join me.

I jumped out of surprise when his arms wrapped around my waist from behind me.

"Only if it's working," he whispered in my ear. I shivered.

"Tone it down a notch there. You'll use up all your moves," I giggled, escaping his grasp. He grinned down at me charmingly and gestured for me to lead the way.

"After you, my lady..."

I giggled and curtsied, bowing my head slightly. He shook his head with a smile and ushered me over to the track where the others had disappeared to.

I started to walk down the dirt road and after a minute or so, I heard a low grumbling sound. My breath hitched and I pushed away the reeds concealing the view of what was inside. I gasped.

Updated on the 8th of August, 2015.