Dr. Lloyd asked Claire if she had suffered some type of trauma or injury. All of a sudden, it hit Claire like a ton of bricks. The Indoraptor attack! When he jumped through the glass of the diorama and the large fake tree fell on her and Owen it must have been what fractured her pelvic bone. She remembered that it fell right across her abdomen and pinned her down, giving the dinosaur access to claw her leg open and left her helpless to get away. She had pushed Maisie up seconds before and told her to run. Maisie ran upstairs screaming in fear and the Indoraptor followed her, luckily leaving Claire and Owen somewhat intact and alive. Claire thought back through what happened. She remembered the tree falling across her waist and Owen pulling it off of her. The only pain she felt in that moment, however, was the huge gash in her right thigh caused by the monster's enormous claw. The pain in her leg was so intense it masked the pains she was experiencing everywhere else in and on her body at the time. She remembered feeling faint, like she was about to pass out from the blood she was losing from the gash. She remembered the sight of her brown pant leg turning red from the blood soaking through it. She remembered Owen pulling a rag from his back pocket and placing it tightly down on her leg to apply pressure to the wound to try to stop some of the bleeding. She remembered the rush of emotions she felt in that moment, almost coming face to face with death and needing Owen to know how much she still loved him. She remembered kissing him and how wonderful his lips felt against hers again after so long. She remembered everything that happened afterwards. She never thought about the tree again though. It never registered. Even a few days later when she started to feel the rest of her body aching from all the intense physical shit she'd been through on the island and at the mansion, she didn't pin it on one thing in particular. Claire had chocked up her aching body to a combination of everything they went through. The one tree falling across her waist never triggered her mind again. Now it all made sense though. Although the tree was fake, it was still extremely heavy and lifelike. That must have been what caused the fracture.
She told the doctor this and Dr. Lloyd concluded that if nothing else hit her or fell on her, then that was the cause of the fracture and the pain Claire had been experiencing.
Claire had sacrificed her family while working at the park, never going home to visit her parents or nephews and sister. After the incident at the park she sacrificed her relationship with Owen a few years later to save the dinosaurs and start the Dinosaur Protection Group. Now she suffered the ultimate sacrifice. Her own body. The huge scar on her leg was one thing, but this took on a whole other level of loss she couldn't fathom. So many lives had been lost because of some of the decisions she had made and she still had problems living with that realization every day. Now she couldn't even create a new life herself. A couple of years prior and Claire wouldn't have thought much about this news. She spent most of her life with her mind made up that she didn't want children of her own. Over the course of the past few years her views on this had shifted slightly, however. She spent more time with her nephews after the incident, and the closer she and Owen got, the more she thought of someday having a child or two with him. This was something she kept in the back of her mind, never telling him. She barely admit it to her sister one day when she and Owen were still together the first time and Karen almost died from shock and excitement. Claire shut that down really quickly though. She felt weird at the thought of wanting a child, but she didn't think much of it because she knew if it happened it would be a few years down the road because she wasn't ready for that at the time. When she and Owen broke up she just kept the thought where she felt it belonged...in the back of her mind. She never allowed the thought to travel any farther. Then Maisie came along and Claire didn't know why, but the second she realized Maisie was in danger, she felt the need to rescue her and protect her from anything and anyone who might want to harm her or take her away. Her motherly instincts were much stronger than she ever realized and it freaked her out a little bit. Still, she fell in love with that little girl and vowed to keep her safe and give her as much of a normal life as she could. Thanks to Iris coming through with some forged documents like a birth certificate and social security card, Maisie was seen to the courts as nothing more than Lockwood's granddaughter and Iris's botched version of Lockwood's will mentioned that he wanted Claire to take her in should anything happen to him. Iris felt no remorse for smudging the facts because she knew that Lockwood really liked Claire and so did she. She felt confident if Lockwood were still alive and unable to care for Maisie that he would be comfortable with Claire taking her in. So that was that. After she was cleared of all charges in the animal trafficking legal mess, Claire was granted custody of Maisie. She found herself fighting harder for Maisie than she even needed to, pleading to the judge and explaining all the reasons Maisie would be well taken care of in her custody. Something had shifted in Claire. She couldn't explain it to anyone, let alone herself. But the past few months she did her best to learn what being a parent was all about, and she soon learned that raising a child was hard, but it was a gift at the same time. Luckily, she wasn't alone in learning how to be a parent. Maisie seemed to only bring Claire and Owen closer together and Claire was grateful for that. Now though, more than ever, Claire felt alone. The doctor tried to give her some encouraging words on her way out the door. She even handed Claire a business card for a therapist which Claire threw in the console of her car. It was too much to think about. How could she go talk to a perfect stranger about her reproductive problems when she couldn't even face the facts herself just yet?