The shadows on my wall don't sleep (They keep calling me)

by TitaniaSarys

FALLEN KINGDOM SPOILERS - As soon as Owen heard the scream, he was on his feet. He dropped his tools and only stopped when he was two feet away from the front door, or lack thereof seeing as his cabin was far from being finished. He only turned to look at Maisie who was sitting next to a crate and helping him sort through bolts and screws. "It's okay, I got this."

1. Chapter 1

Claire couldn't help but yelp as the Indoraptor came closer. She heard its huge legs move, hitting whatever object was in its path, scales scraping against furniture and then stone. It didn't matter how hard she pressed her hands against her ears or how strongly she squeezed her eyes shut, she could still see it coming, could hear it in her head. The unnatural roar drowned everything else and isolated her in her fear.

She couldn't move. There was nothing she could do.

She saw flashes of teeth, sharp shadows dancing in the night and casting nightmares on the walls of the various exhibits. She heard the rumble gathering in its wet throat before it was released as quickly as the clap of thunder, loud and resonating and making her skin crawl. She saw its eyes, a maleficent and cruel gleam shining like the most dangerous and cursed of gems, the line of golden scales running along its entire length like the continuity of a sick joke.

Owen died first.

He pushed Maisie back, didn't have the time to get her to safety. Claire knew the girl was next, she could feel it in her bones as clearly as she could feel the rain on her skin as she did her best to reach them, racing against time, to force her feet to move faster. She ignored the pain in her thigh where the wound was, gritted her teeth and held the weight of the gun in her hands.

But she was too late.

Before she could even lift the weapon, Owen's upper half disappeared inside the maws of the beast, his screams drowned by the gut wrenching swallowing noises the Indoraptor was making. Sharp teeth cut through flesh, blood was oozing on the glass panels of the roof and Claire could do nothing but watch.

She yelled his name as the jaws snapped shut and the lower half of Owen's body fell with a wet sound, guts splaying on the transparent surface, sliding down until they reached the stone, leaving a bloody trail on their way. Claire's gaze was filled with jagged bones and shredded fabric as her tears mixed with the rain.

She heard Maisie scream, had only time to lift her head to see the jaws of the monster snapping towards the child.

She lost more than her voice to the night.