"So, is our date still on for tonight?" she asked slightly breathless to the redhead. Both Claire and Owen were still stunned at her, how could they not? She just sedated the Indominus Rex who was camouflaging herself. "Claire?" she said and the girl in white nodded. "Sure. You'll pick me up at 7, right?" Claire said and for once, she didn't force a smile but she kept a straight face. "Yeah, see you later, Dearing," the woman with dark brown hair that only reached the nape of her neck said as she left them. "Is that why you don't want a second date?" Owen asked while she had to restrain herself from rolling her eyes in disbelief. "She just made the ground shook and this is what you ask?" Claire snapped. "Okay, so she could tell that the Indominus was hiding herself, probably she had a Carnotaurus DNA. Is that why you didn't want a second date?" again, he asked. "Well, we both know that she has a flat chest, she acts like a guy and apparently, she's been trying to ask me out since our disaster date," Claire said. "But seriously, you're going out with Kay. Kay Malcolm, who is by the way, 2 years younger than you," he pointed out. "Mr. Grady, I think that your job here is done. I should take you back to your bungalow," she said while forcing a smile. He scoffed but eventually followed her to her car.
"I guess that the paddock is fine but she's an intelligent animal. She could hide and even fake an escape. I think Kay is the perfect one to take care of the Indominus," Owen said to her. Maybe it's time to tell the truth. "Actually, Kay had imprinted on them." He raised an eyebrow at her last choice of word. "There were two but the other one ate her sibling," she explained. "You can't imprint on those kinds of dinosaurs," he told her but she shook her head. "Guess Kay broke that law," Claire stated. Before he could say anything else, the car stopped and he knew that means he must go outside. "She was there when the Indominus was born. She didn't look terrified; in fact she had a curious look as she stared at those dinosaurs. Dr. Wu disagreed at first when Kay said she wanted to imprint on them but she growled; literally growled which made him surrender. She didn't have much time with being busy at making sure the T-Rex paddock is safe, the Mosasaurus tank won't crack and I guess she forgot about them," Claire told him. "Oh. Okay, um, have a nice date," was all he said before he got back to his bungalow. She noticed something when he said the word 'date', his voice cracked slightly but she didn't bother. Then she went back to the control room.
Mr. Masrani wasn't so happy when he heard that Kay, niece of Ian Malcolm is going to be the one who will take care of the Indominus. But he eventually agreed after he heard Claire said that because Mr. Grady insisted. "I hope that 32 years old woman could take care of the Indominus," he had say that to Claire who only nodded while her mind wandered at what to wear for her date this evening.
"You look…voluptuous," the words rolled out of her tongue just as she saw the beautiful redhead wearing a red dress that hugged her curves showed her cleavage. "You're not so bad," she replied. It was true, at least she's wearing something appropriate not like Owen. She shook her head, why is she thinking about Owen? "Well, this is pretty much the only formal outfit I have," she said gesturing to her white shirt that was hidden under her vest and coat then her trousers. "So, did you make an itinerary?" Kay said, surprising Claire. "No, I didn't have time to do it. I agreed to go out with you yesterday night and today was busy," she said blushing.
She remembered how he scowled when she showed him the itinerary but then his face quickly turned into a grin as he told her that they better hurry if they don't want to be late for the first thing they would do. "Claire, you're in daze," Kay's voice quickly broke her reverie. "Where are we going?" she asked and Kay smiled softly. "We could go to the small restaurant that's pretty popular for dating," Kay said. She walked to her car and opened the door for her. "Thank you," Claire said as she sat down in the passenger seat. Not long after that, Kay came in and started the car then drove to the so called restaurant.
After dinner, Kay insisted they should just take a stroll around and enjoy Isla Nublar which Claire reluctantly agreed. "Tell me about you," the girl with dark brown eyes said. "About what?" the girl with green eyes asked. "Anything you want to tell me," she answered. "Well, I'm 34 years old, I was born in Madison, my parents are deceased, I have an older sister whose name is Karen, two nephews, Zach and Gray, and I only had two boyfriends in my life which only lasted less than 5 months." Kay's hand suddenly held hers, which surprised her at the sudden contact. "Why would they let go someone like you?" she asked and Claire blushed slightly at that. "I don't know. They said I focused too much on school back then," she said. "I like that you're focused on your job. That way, we could always meet because I am a part of your job," Kay said lamely. But at least it made Claire chuckled. "How about you tell me about yourself?" Claire asked. "I never knew my dad. My uncle, Ian was my father figure. My mom, Rita, still worries about me a lot since I was little until now. I'm 32 years old, I'm an only child. I never had a serious relationship but I dated a lot of people since I was 14." Claire wasn't that surprised to hear that. After all, Ian Malcolm was known well of his marriages and divorces so probably his personality went with Kay.
"Now tell me about you when you were a teenager," Kay said as her hand tugged at Claire, dragging her to some small store. "I don't want to talk about it," Claire said. She remembered that she hardly had friends, she wasn't in a certain social group, and she felt like an outsider. "Oh, who cares? I never had real friends in San Diego or even San Francisco. I was in trauma ever since I moved to San Francisco and started high school there, so I pretty much asked people out just to forget that I saw an actual T-Rex in San Diego. Then my life went downhill after I started to smoke around 15 years old. My mom took me to some kind of therapy and that's when my life went back uphill when I was 16. So tell me yours," she finished as she took a stegosaurus doll. "Do you like this?" Claire forced a smile and nodded. "Stop bullshitting, I know you don't like it." Then why did you ask? Claire thought. Suddenly, Kay's grip on her hand tightened slightly and she realized that her hand somehow felt like it was made to be held by hers. But his rough and big hand felt much more comforting, she remembered how Owen held her hand and she was sure that her heart would have beat faster if he wasn't wearing board shorts.
"What do you think about this one?" her eyes met a raptor toy. That only reminded her of Owen and how he took her to the raptors paddock, obviously not giving a care of the itinerary, then showed her his girls. She wasn't really interested but Delta was staring at her then went down to Owen and her intertwined hand, somehow, Delta looked at her as if she was…part of the Alpha. "You know what, I'm buying this souvenir for you," Kay said and Claire's eyes went wide. "No!" she said frantically. "I mean, no," she said in much calmer voice. "I don't care, you're taking it," she said as they got to the cashier and she bought it.
"I didn't really have friends; I was always focused on getting straight A at every subject. I may have a boyfriend but we weren't really serious. He cheated on me with a popular girl and I didn't care. I once went to a party but it was only because Karen insisted that I should go with her and socialize but I only hang around in the porch. Thankfully though, Karen realized how uncomfortable I am so she decided to leave the party early for me. Ever since that, I never went to parties anymore," Claire said. Kay nodded. Next thing Claire knew, they were already in the parking lot not too far from Kay's car. "So how long have you love Owen?"