When The Stars Align | A Ben Pincus x Reader Fanfiction

18. Safe Harbor

A solution and a problem

[Y/N POV]

We all walk to the shore with our swimsuits on, ready to swim to Mitch and Tiff's boat.

"Stay sharp. For all we know, Tiff is still in there," Darius warns

Brooklyn and I reach the boat first, and we climb up the slippery stairs.

Everyone starts looking around for anything suspicious or maybe Tiff in a room or something.

I walk over some dents on the floor. When I look down, I see claw marks. I gasp, backing away from it.

"No sign of anyone," Sammy notes

"Or anything at all." Brooklyn adds

"Looks like Tiff had some unwanted visitors." I observe

Darius, Sammy, and I climb up the ladder to the captain's part, where all the controls are.

"The control panel's busted up"

"And so is the radio"

"And it's almost out of gas."

"Are you sure? Did you tap it? They always tap it" Sammy taps the small round screen that tells the gas amount. After tapping it, it shows that the gas is even less than we thought.

"Huh. Well now we're really sure."

"So we have a boat. We just can't use the boat."

"Okay. The northwest dock is just around that bend. If we could somehow make it there, maybe we could find more gas."

We all climb down the ladder.

Suddenly, a doorknob starts rattling in front of Darius and Brooklyn. They both whimper

The door bursts open revealing Kenji standing there and scaring them.

Brooklyn and Darius leap back and scream, as Kenji starts guffawing loudly.

"The height of comedy." Ben says flatly. "I'm gonna head back to shore. Bumpy and I will meet you there. Um, do you want to come with me, Y/N?"

"Sure."

We swim back to the docks quickly. When we reach the shore, I get up and pull Ben after me. Bumpy meets us, and we walk to the northwest dock, where the boat is heading.

On the way there, we are silent.

I just go straight to the point.

"Ben, why did you ask me to go with you? You obviously did that for a reason. What for?"

I see Ben freeze in his tracks.

"Hello?"

"W-well, I was actually gonna tell you something"

"Yeah? Go ahead. I'm listening."

"I was thinking... of staying here."

"Here? But we have to go to the northwest dock." I scratch my head, confused.

Ben sighs and looks away.

"No I meant- I want to stay in Isla Nublar. With Bumpy."

"Yeah. We are staying here. Then we'll take the boat out of here."

"You're misunderstanding this! What I mean to say is, I'm not going back home with you guys! I'm staying here... with Bumpy."

I just laugh. He can't be serious.

Ben sighs and seems to let it go.

Eventually, we reach the northwest dock. A fence stands there and Ben locks it up.