Re: Jurassic Park: Gwen & Peter
"There isn't always a cure, Peter." She liked to keep positive. She liked to embrace hope; she believed in hope. But she was also a scientist, and some things didn't have cures yet. This wasn't even a cure; it was a reversal of a deliberate alteration on the cellular level. Science had come a long way, but there were still aspects of the human body that it didn't know how to replicate, and simple cells fell within that category. There was a reason Doctor Banner still turned into the Hulk whenever he felt extreme emotional response; there wasn't a reversal. She'd spent a lot of time staring at data and samples regarding the goblin serum, and she didn't have a lot of confidence in a solution that didn't require maintenance, and she didn't trust Harry to keep up a maintenance regimen.
She smiled when he said Harry couldn't just stay like this, and she nudged his shoulder with her own as he stood. "You totally want to steal my hope and optimism thing, bug boy. You wait until I'm down, and then you swoop in and try to be all Mister Hopeful-Man." But he was staring a little. And maybe she noticed because she was staring a little. And those two things totally canceled each other out, and it was like no one was staring at anyone.
Anyway, walking. Walking was something that needed to happen. She took the map, and she headed in the direction of the gate.
The road was dusty and a little overgrown, but she stayed in the dead center, as if distance from the far-away walls would help. It would've been faster with the cars, but the cars were in the other direction, and she was pretty sure that the canopy of trees would've made their journey to the cars one endured under pitch black. This was better; at least they had some lingering daylight. But she didn't like the chill along her spine, and she moved closer to him. "I'm sorry I made things uncomfortable earlier," she finally said, as she swiveled her head and tried to determine if she was imagining those very heavy footfalls to the East. Maybe it was just thunder. She looked up. Rain? Did it look like rain?