Prologue
"We're here." The sound of the car door closing shut echoed through the inner yard of the apartment building and left a determined feeling in Claire's stomach as she spoke the words. She didn't know what was going to come, and that scared the hell out of her, but she stood in front of her old apartment building and the sense of familiarity helped calming her nerves a little. Soon enough she was joined by Maisie, who had taken matters into her own hands and climbed out of the jeep herself. The girl gasped, taking turns in looking from Claire to the skyscraper like house back to Claire. "Is all of that yours? It's huge! Like, it's bigger than grandpa's house, and that's impossible!" A throaty chuckle went through the driveway as Owen appeared behind the two of them, hugging Claire from behind and running his free hand through Maisie's hair. "No darling." He grinned down at her lovingly. "Claire only owns one of the many apartments in there." He emphasized the "many", dropping his voice and making it sound like a bear's grumble which made both Maisie and Claire giggle.
Claire was more than thankful he'd come with them after they'd left the destroyed mansion. As all of Maisie's legal custody holders had passed away, Claire hadn't even wasted a second and immediately decided to take the girl home with her, and after watching Blue leave she didn't have the intention on staying at that godawful place even a second longer. She'd grabbed the little kid's hand and ran towards a lonely, abandoned truck, the only one to still stand after a bunch of dinosaurs had ran all over the yard. Claire didn't know what exactly she'd expected Owen to do or not to do, but she figured she'd counted on him the second she'd started running towards the car – and then he'd sat next to her on the passenger seat, an unreadable expression on his face.
The redhead cleared her throat to get rid of the impending flashback of the last 48 hours. "Let's go home." She muttered, more to herself. She felt Owen's strong hands on her shoulder and it made her breathe in and out and look at everything from a certain distance. It made her feel safe enough to return to that four room apartment with the tasteful decoration, a big "Save The Dinosaurs" poster over her black leather couch and a double bed she'd only ever used one side of with the soft blanket. Back to normality it was. Or at least back to as much normality as you could have with fifty dinosaurs roaming around and your ex-boyfriend and a clone kid living together with you.
A/N:
This is the first longer project I'm working on and I think I have some kind of commitment issues with stories that have more than two chapters, but after watching JWFK I was so intrigued to write this I couldn't hold back. I actually have four handwritten pages but took to rewriting them as I'm really unsatisfied with most of what I wrote, so you have to be patient with me while I try and write a better version for you all. Reviews would be awesome!