Guys I am so sorry it took me a century to update again! My sister broke my computer so yeah it's complicated. But anyway, here's a short chapter (sorta). hope you enjoy it.
Oh, also thanks for all the support, you guys are the best, please keep going :)
The first thing that came to Beca's mind was that, funnily enough, that wasn't the worst date she's ever been in.
The second thing was that the stupid dinosaur had totally ruined her game.
The third was that she was going to fucking die.
They sat there for minutes; until it was dark enough they couldn't see their own hands in front of their faces, but the sounds of fight and the animal's cry of pain continued to fill the night. Beca could feel her muscles tensed and both of them finding hard to breath. She pulled back the tears and cleared her throat, trying desperately to remove the fist that seemed to be gripping it.
All of sudden, it was too cold inside that unknown gyrosphere.
"What's an Indominus Rex?" Chloe finaly found her voice to whisper, and Beca heard the rustle of the girl getting nearer her on the couch, she felt the urge to wrap her arms around her and cry like a little kid.
"The new dinosaur they created in the lab. Owen talked about it with me. This thing is deadly." Her voice cracked "It must have escaped from its paddock"
"Nice"
"We need to get out of here"
"To where? I can't see anything! It is so dark." Beca could hardly see Chloe's face, but she knew the girl was looking around and squeezing her own hands together nervously "Don't you have headlights or something?"
"Yes, but I won't turn it on with that thing out there"
"Let's go right."
And Beca felt the bubble moving right, she gasped.
"Wait, no! There are woods there, let's go left" she found the controllers and pushed it to left over Chloe's hand.
"Why don't we go back? That's from where e came from!"
"Dude, we didn't go straight here, there are trails and turns you know."
A fight began, both of them pushing and pulling the controller for different directions. Some curses "ouch's" and "let it goo" could be heard.
"Can you be quiet? That thing is going to-''
Suddenly, a loud violent noise and an impact on the ground shook their bubble. Beca's heart hammered on her chest as she felt the fear grow inside her and paralyze her for a second.
"Fuck"
And suddenly they were going blindly to the right.
"No, no, no, right is not a good idea. There are trees everywh-"
CRASH.
"Told you"
"Shut up"
"Go into the woods, now we are here."
"I'm trying but I am not seeing anything!" Beca is sure Chloe just lifted her hands in frustration.
"It doesn't matter because she can see us" she retorts.
"Who?"
"The dinosaur, you dumb"
"Hey! It's not my fau-"
And then the demoniac sound of Indominus Rex chasing them filled the air again, making Beca's hands sweat and her poor heart skip a beat one more time. She found controls, meeting Chloe's hands, and tried to get them out of the tree. She went right and sensed the free way in front of them that led to the woods, but it was too late, they were hit strongly on the back and felt themselves being thrown in the air.
"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH"
Let alone being quiet. Both of them were screaming as the bubble flied through the air, hitting trees and who knew what, being thrown every way. Beca was pretty sure she was going to vomit when she heard dinosaurs' sounds and knew what were throwing them like they were some kind of dodgeball ball.
Finally, she felt they were falling, free falling. She gripped at Chloe's arms and closed her eyes, with the other arm she prevented herself from being crushed into the bubble roof, but there was no way she could avoid feeling her stomach being lifted and finding her brain.
They reached the ground with a strong bump that hurt Beca's back seriously. She gasped for air that had escaped from her lungs, making a faint noise, finally, she searched beside her with one of her hands, looking for Chloe, her hand found one of the girl's legs and shook it
"I'm okay" Chloe answered the touch, realizing what it meant "What just happened?"
"I think it kicked us" her voice came out like a squeak.
"Rude"
"I understand if you never want a second date with me" Beca laughed nervously, supporting her head on the couch backrest.
"Oh my god this is so not the time" but she could hear Chloe was chuckling.
"Sorry, that's just me. Once I started laughing in a funeral"
"You're so weird"
"Thanks" Beca tried to move, but her body protested with pain, she gasped and groaned, her hand finding its way to her lower back and pressing it.
"Jesus, are you okay?"
"Don't know about him, but I am. Help me find my phone"
She felt Chloe's hand searching the bubble and grabbing something near her right thigh.
"Here" something was pushed into her free hand.
"Thanks" Beca grabbed it turned it on, noticing how the screen was cracked. She wrinkled her nose and used the light to illuminate Chloe's face "You're bleeding" she noticed and her hand reached out for a second, but it faltered again, falling. She was finding it difficult to reject the urge to touch Chloe.
"It's fine, just call for help already."
"Right" she turned the phone on her hands, trying to find a better angle on the crackled screen and started to ramble "If there's a dinosaur out of cage they already know. Here, they tried to contact me with the code, I need to call them… Where are we?"
"I think we fell"
"Thanks, genius."
"I can hear water"
"Right. A waterfall, that must make things easier to-damn!"
"To damn?"
Beca snorted.
"There's no signal. I'll leave Owen a message, but we have to reach a higher place to send it." Her voice died and she was searching for air again when the pain made itself noticed. "Fuck, I can't breathe, I want to get out of this"
She felt Chloe's hand grabbing her arm when she mentioned to open the door. Beca flinched.
"It's freaking dark outside, and for all we know that thing can be anywhere, let's stay inside for the night"
"This thing is suffocating me"
"So you want to sneak in this forest in the dark?"
"Yeah"
"Beca, your confidence is going to kill both of us."
"You're probably right. Let's go"
"Can't we sleep here for real?"
"You can't help to sleep with me every single time?"
"It's stronger than me" the phone light was enough to allow Beca to see a wink.
This fucking flirty wink. She closed her eyes and tried to catch her breath, shaking her head.
"Chloe, do you feel like sleeping?"
"…no"
"Thought so." Beca said, turning grumpy "My bubble is entirely broken anyway, it's better to keep moving because if something finds us, and it will, this thing here won't hold a scream"
Beca began to move, she opened the gyrosphere's box for emergencies on the panel and found two — one of them broken — lanterns, a walkie talkie, curatives and four smoke flags. She closed her eyes and made a silent pray before turning on the lantern. Beca didn't want to see a dinosaur staring at her in the dark.
She turned it on and faced nothing but plants.
Beca sighed in relief and lifted her feet to try to kick the broken glass for a hole large enough to allow she and Chloe to get out. But as she did it, the pain on her lower back was enough to make her scream. Sensing the danger, she brought her shirt to her teeth and bit it, squeezing her eyes shut, muffling her scream.
Beca felt Chloe arms on her armpits, pulling her close. Her back found the softness of the girl's lap.
"You're not fine" she heard Choe whisper, the girl's chin somewhere on top of her head.
Beca felt herself sweating and she knew her face was as white as a ghost.
"Take off my shirt" she muttered.
"What?"
"I can't breathe"
She felt Chloe cold hands pulling her shirt off her. Beca was hurting enough to not care about what bra she was using and if it was cute.
"This is awkward" she tried to laugh but ended up gasping.
"We are even then." Chloe said, getting more comfortable, the girl lifted her knees and supported them with her feet on the couch. Beca saw her reaching for the lantern and turning it off "I guess we don't have and option but stay here for the night now"
Beca snorted and tried to make herself comfortable in Chloe's arms, she fit her body perfectly between Chloe's legs and tried to fill the embarrassing silence "So, how did you get that scar?"
"Sorry?"
"That scar on your forehead." Beca replied, impatient "Tell me the fascinating story that will make me fall in love with you and stuff"
Chloe fell silent for a moment.
"I ran through a glass door as a kid"
"That's dumb"
She felt Chloe chuckling under her.
"You reckon I should invent another story?"
"Definitely"
"I'll think about it" The girl said already with a pensive tone. "Tell me you the fascinating story of how you got a job here"
"Hum, let's see. Well, a couple of years ago I came to visit and I saved my family from being eaten by this super freaking dangerous dinosaur"
"Seriously?"
"No, I won an election on the internet"
"Loser"
"Look who says it, the gotta-run-with-my-head-through-a-glass-door winner" Beca allowed herself to give a twisted smile "You're totally the incredibly cute dumb, yet hot cheerleader or maybe acapella group cliché"
"Well, for your information I actually am a member of an acapella group. We are aca-awesome and national champs"
"Wow, wicked!"
"Shut up already"
Beca woke up feeling a soft wind on her somehow vulnerable skin. She opened her eyes slowly and found herself wildly surprised to see not her messy flat around her, but the jungle.
As the previous night came back to her she realized a light breathing movement coming from under her. Apparently, the soft spot she was laying on her stomach wasn't her couch, but an actually living being.
Trying not to appreciate those (fucking wonderful) arms around her and the hands on her back — because, obviously, she hated physical contact, right? — she tried to sit up. "Hey, Chlo" she called with a hoarse voice, pushing the arms from her body and feeling they burn the trace they touched "We need to move"
"We need to move? I need to move. I've been awake for the past hour stuck under you" she heard a muffled voice
"Don't act like you don't like it" Beca muttered and managed to sit up, temporarily straddling Chloe's waist lubberly. She felt the girls eyes on her and her cheeks getting red as she turned her back to the redhead "Don't look, I am nude"
"Don't worry, I've already noticed during the whole night"
"Perv"
Beca looked around for her shirt and realized for the first time how fucked up her bubble was. She moved her feet and poked some broken spots sadly with her toe, feeling a knot on her throat.
She probably gasped the knot out when she felt cold fingers drawing traces on her bare back.
"I like your tattoos" She heard Chloe say in a low tone that made the hair on her neck stand up. As her fingertips continued to travel on her skin where the tattoos were made Beca found it really hard to control the insanely hot flush and her heavy breathing. And her whole body as well.
"Personal boundaries are just like glass for you, right?" she managed to say under her breath "You just run through them."
Chloe's hand fell and a childish laughter filled the silence. "You'll never let it go."
Beca turned around to face Chloe with an evil smile on her face "Glad you know"
She wasn't ready at all for the wide smile on Chloe's face when the girl bit her lips and moved slightly forward "You're cute"
"Hum" Beca didn't quite know how to answer, but, fortunately, her eye's dropped on her shirt on Chloe's lap, she rolled her eyes and finally put it on, grabbing her previously lost Jurassic Park cap that was laying on the ground near them as well.
"Seriously?" she whispered to the cap, giving it a disapproval look.
She found herself 20 years ago stuck in the Park she used to admire, the Park with loose dinosaurs that killed people.
Beca started murmuring absently curse words involving Hammond, Boss Masrani, dinosaurs, and herself, until she sensed Chloe's eyes on her. She looked up and felt the blush cover her face at the sight of the funny look the girl was giving her.
"Let's go" she muttered moody, grabbing the for-emergency-things she had found the night before, moving towards the exit and doing grimaces.
"How's your back?" Chloe asked
"All right"
As soon as they managed to get out of the bubble they heard a loud noise probably coming from one of the dinosaur's mouth. Beca shuddered and notice how the air had gotten cold and how it was so much harder to breath with so much threat and fear in the oxygen.
Chloe's hand found her wrist and held it tight. For a moment she felt her muscles getting relaxed, she wasn't alone at least, things could be worse. It was good to know someone was there, just by her side.
"Where should we go" Chloe whispered
"You wait here while I get water for us" Beca muttered "Then trees will give us shelter"
Beca moved and Chloe's hand slipped to hers, grabbing it and moving closer with her. She looked behind to see an uncertain Chloe looking around and stumbling clumsily. She must have known the girl wouldn't just wait alone.
Chloe liked the way Beca walked protectively in front of her instead of side by side because she was so goddamned scared. She also liked that the shorter girl didn't got rid of Chloe's hand after a while, but actually hold it tight, squeezing it eventually when they heard any suspicious noises.
They were walking about maybe 1 hour (or it seemed to be for Chloe) when she stopped on her tracks and made Beca stop as a consequence.
"We don't even know where we going" she cried "We are walking for like an hour!"
"An hour? Wasn't it two?" Beca said, rubbing her hands on her forehead like a cute confused kid.
"I thought you knew this park!"
"Yeah I know the parts I am allowed to go! And some parts I am not, but anyway, these are dinosaur-loose lands! We passed an attraction gate, so we must reach another any minute"
"How can you even know this?"
Beca stood in silence for a second, changing the weight on her feet, Chloe freed her hand from Beca's
"You don't"
"Hey, I am doing my best"
"It's not enough! We still can die and stuff!"
Suddenly Beca was furious, she, with all her glorious 5'2 were aggressively motioning "If you don't like my best you should try to go by yourself!" the girl shouted.
Chloe was taken aback. She was about to ask Beca if she was just going to leave when a roar dangerously close made itself heard before her.
"What is that?" she said, but the answer was already clear at Becas horror face.
Suddenly the girl's hand was on Chloe's back and Beca was pushing her to the front, Chloe got the clue and started to run to the opposite side of the noise, she heard Beca running behind her and finally got the guts to ask:
"What are we running from?"
"T-rex"
"TWO dinosaurs meat-lovers loose in this island?" she asked in exasperation, trying to run faster.
"More than that" Beca catch up with her
"More?"
Beca stopped in front of tree and looked behind, breathless.
"The T-rex paddock is the nearest attraction from the visitor's center. If it is loose they evacuated the island"
"And what does that mean?" Chloe stopped too, feeling her legs shaking slightly
"That means they released the dinosaurs." Beca said, breathing heavily "All of them"