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Set after Jurassic Park III and before Jurassic World.
Chapter One: Being Recruited.
Staring down at the paperwork that had been set in front of her, Clara Murphy pursed her lips as she made sure to check every detail that was presented to her; she certainly didn't want to make any mistakes in signing the contract. Of course, being approached by Simon Masrani had come as a bit of a surprise but Clara knew that things weren't like they had once been when her grandfather had been alive. Carefully checking every inch of the contract before her, Clara took a deep breath before moving to collect the pen that was sat in front of her so that she could sign the contract.
"Are you sure you want to do this?" Masrani asked peering across the table at her, he had always wanted someone from Hammond's family to be a part of the exciting adventure that he had taken InGen on since he had bought out the company. It hadn't been easy to get where he was right now but he knew that everything was going to plan so far; he already had done the impossible by making Jurassic Park into a theme park.
Jurassic World had opened nearly ten years ago, now on Isla Nublar and everything had been going perfectly since then; now his attentions had turned to Isla Sorna and he was going to need all the help he could get with his plan. Masrani couldn't help but be curious about what was going on there, the place had been left alone since the incident in 2001 and he was sure that the dinosaurs there would still be thriving. Clara paused and looked at him, she had given it a lot of thought since he had contacted her a few weeks earlier and she wasn't going to change her mind now.
"Considering your family ties to the place I would have thought you'd have said no," Masrani continued watching her closely while she signed the contract, he was a little bit pleased that she hadn't turned him down. He had considered approaching Alexis and Timothy but the two of them had made it clear in the past that they wanted nothing to do with his work.
"I'm not like the rest of my family," Clara reminded him with a smile, she hadn't been there when hell had broken lose like her younger siblings had been; she always regretted not being able to be there with them when it had happened. Their parents had been in the middle of a divorce and Clara had found herself stuck in the middle since she was the eldest and there was no one else around.
Sliding the contract back over to Masrani, Clara leant back in her chair knowing that there was no way that she would be telling her siblings just what she planned to do. It wouldn't end well and Clara felt like she was honouring her late grandfather by doing this in some way; he had passed away a few years earlier and he had been practically alone.
Masrani carefully checked over the contract and smiled, this was certainly going to be interesting and he had a feeling that it would work so much better than the last research trip. That one had taken place in 1997 and it had been a disaster with InGen sending a team to take dinosaurs off the island to open a park on the main land.
This time Masrani was sure would work out a lot better, he wasn't just going to dump a group of people on an island filled with things that can kill them without any sort of protection. The entire operation had been planned rather carefully and Masrani knew that everything was finally coming into place and he doubted anything could go wrong with his plan. His entire team had been chosen carefully and Masrani wasn't going to allow anything that could put the team in any sort of danger.
"Let me get this straight… you are hiring me to baby sit," Daniel Conrad mused staring at the picture that he had been handed, this was not what he had been expecting when the woman across from him had sat down. He'd been enjoying his evening and now it seemed that he wouldn't get to continue to do so; he leant back in his chair wondering just what had truly made people track him down for this.
The woman in the picture was pretty, he would admit that but he didn't understand why he was being asked to follow her on some sort of expedition that she was taking. Sure, there were some places in the world that just weren't safe anymore but how was that any of his business and why would he want to go there to babysit a grown woman.
"You are one of the world's best trackers… surely this will interest you," the woman stated watching him, her blue eyes sweeping around the seedy bar that they were sat in and she wrinkled her nose; she couldn't believe that she'd had to come here. This certainly wasn't in her job description and she had enough to deal with trying to run one of the world's most dangerous theme parks without taking on work such as this.
However, when her boss had asked her to seek out the man before her, it had been made clear that no wasn't going to be accepted and that she couldn't reveal who was hiring him. Daniel Conrad had an interesting back history and she couldn't imagine just why they would have need for someone with his skill set; sending him to an island filled with dinosaurs would be an interesting enough experience.
Daniel didn't say a word, there was no way that he was going to make this trip and he was sure that they could find someone else to handle this job; babysitting wasn't something that interested him anyway. He would much rather stay here in Hong Kong and enjoy his time before he found a job that would interest him; a research trip to an island filled with dinosaurs wasn't something he was interested in.
"My boss would happily make this trip worth your while," the woman said sliding a cheque across the table, it was quite a lot of money and it was more than she got paid in a year. It was a lot of money and she hoped that this would make him agree, her skin was starting to crawl and she wanted to get out of here; however, she needed to get him to agree first before she could do so.
Her boss had made it very clear that they needed him on side, there was a lot riding on this mission and they couldn't afford to have anything go wrong when they were so close to achieving what they needed. Daniel raised an eyebrow at the cheque but didn't move to pick it up, he crossed his arms and stared at her wondering just when she was going to give up.
"Half now… half later…" the woman insisted tapping her fingers on the table, it wasn't what she had expected and the mission in her mind was pointless. They already had an island filled with dinosaurs that people could observe, she didn't understand why they needed to send a team to Isla Sorna to observe and study those ones.
Moving slowly Daniel lifted the cheque that he had been given and stared at it, it certainly was a lot of money and a lot more than he had expected for such a small job. It made him reconsider his stance and Daniel doubted that he would really have to do much if what the woman had told him was correct; he was going to be listed as the team tracker while on the side he would just have to keep an eye on someone.
"When do we leave?" Daniel asked knowing that he was going to regret this, he wanted to know just how much time he was going to have to prepare for such a trip to the unknown.
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