? Broken Strings {A Chaos Theory x Male Reader Story - Ben}

Y/N groans, slowly opening his eyes as he comes to. He looks around for a moment, his thought fuzzy as he tries to figure out where he is. That's when he feels the water rushing at his feet and his eyes dart out the window.

Y/N places his hand on the cold glass and looks out the window to find them sinking down to the bottom, water rising all around them.

The others slowly come to their senses as well, desperately trying to get out of their seatbelts, they scream when the same dinosaur from before slams its head into the side of the van viciously.

"Okay, okay..." Ben takes deep breaths, trying to calm himself down, "So, let's just, uhm..."

"What do we do!?"

"Wait..." Y/N leans forward to watch as the dinosaur struggles to keep itself up, clearly unable to breath or swim well. As soon as it begins to sink down, he lunges for his seatbelt, "Now's our chance!"

Yaz, Sammy and Ben go for their restraints as well, fumbling to undo them under the pressure. The predator makes another feeble attempt at the van, hitting it back and causing it to tip up.

"It's stuck-- my seatbelts--" Ben begins to panic.

Y/N makes quick work of reaching over his boyfriend and undoing his seatbelt for him. He turns around quickly to check on Yaz and Sammy before undoing his own. Water drips down from the bottom as the four of them silently pause to check for the dino.

"Okay, everything is gonna be fine." Y/N reassures his friends, "All we have to do is--"

The dinosaurs tail slams against the front window, leaving a large crack in the glass.

"No!" Sammy cries as water begins to seep into the van.

Everyone scrambles around the car, panicked with the increasing urgency of the situation. Ben tries to use his hands to plug up the shattered glass while Sammy and Y/N tug at the door handles, the water rising to their shoulders.

The door to the back of the van slides open and Yasmina struggles to shove it closed as water flushes in.

The other three rush over to help her, all cramming together in the back seat. Once the door is shut, the dinosaur begins flailing around and slamming on the van again, Sammy clutches onto Yaz and Y/N.

"I can't have the last thing I see be Ben's soggy van!" She cries.

"It won't be!" Y/N reassures, "Just--"

The dino uses the van to give itself leverage as it pushes off and swims towards the surface. The van sloshes around the water and slams into a rock, pushing the back passengers side door open.

Water fills the entire van as the four of them make their escape. Swimming out the door and rushing up towards the light at the surface of the sea.

As they breach the water and desperately crawl onto land, Y/N takes a quick look around to make sure everyone is there. The feeling of barely being able to catch his breath and his wet clothes clinging onto him as adrenaline runs through his veins faintly reminds him of when they had been shipped wrecked after Nublar all those years ago.

Ben kneels at the edge of the water and retrieves the one other thing that survived the crash. His green dino air freshener, floating right there in front of him.

"Oh," Ben frowns, "My baby." He looks out into the dark water, where he knows his van lies beneath.

"I'm sorry about your van, Ben." Y/N sighs, patting him on the shoulder.

"Ciao, cara mia..." Ben whispers out into the darkness.

"Okay, that's enough." Y/N rolls his eyes and gets to his feet, holding out his hand for Ben to get up as well.

The four of them stand up and begin trekking up the hill back to the main road.

"Well, I guess I'm not returning any of your calls now." Yaz jokes, holding up her totaled phone.

"No problem," Sammy chuckles, "Me neither." She holds up his equally wrecked device.

"No amount of rice is fixing that." Y/N smirks.

"I'll take those." Ben smiles, swiping the phones out of their hands.

"He's got a thing with phones." Sammy explains to Yaz, "It's like a hobby of his at this point."

Ben gleefully chucks the phones down the hill, listening to them crack with a satisfied grin.

Y/N's attention is grabbed by the sound of growling and zapping, the same from before they had fallen into the water.

"They're still up there." He whispers, looking back at the others.

"Let's go." Ben nods confidently.

The group creeps up to the edge of the bridge, observing as the alleged DPW men try to contain the dinosaur with their shock prods.

"We've gotta get on the truck." Ben decides in a whisper, looking up at the unoccupied DPW truck.

"What!?" Sammy and Yaz whip their heads around, matching his volume.

"Ben's right," Y/N nods, "They tried to kill us. We should find out why."

"I mean..." Sammy peeks around unsurely, "They do already think they got rid of us. They won't suspect a thing."

"Oh, I'm so gonna haunt them from behind the grave." Yaz seethes.