Authors Note - Thank you ShadowedHood your criticism i do not mind it's how you feel about it and i take that from no one. But to me Aria isn't childish it's just who she is i agreed with you on somethings though i will say that. But with school starting back up it's hard to try and work updates in weekly but I will try my best. But I wanna send a real thanks to the people that reviewed and stayed with me from chapter 1 to now. You guys keep me writing I love reading your reviews so I really wanna say thank you, you know who you are but on to the new chapter.
Flashback
Lex walked in the hospital room but stopped seeing Aria talking and laughing with her grandfather she stopped so she could hear better.
"Hey grandad what's so important about Jurassic Park?" She stopped held the blue stuffed animal close to her as she sat on the bed.
"Oh there are so many things important not to mention great things about Jurassic Park." He sighed leaning back. "People thought i was crazy for having this vision to bring Dinosaur life back but they only said that because they where unsuccessful. But me i struck a cord and realized from the smallest DNA comes the greatest and biggest creatures. I just wish i could have only made them greater and tame them more but that one was on me." Saying that Aria began laughing he looked over at his granddaughter in curiosity. "Now what's so funny Ria?"
"How much more great do you they are dinosaurs granddad can't get any better then that. I know It may seem like people want more but the originals are just fine. You shouldn't screw with God's creation to much maybe that's why your plan backfired because that's what you where doing." Aria said.
Hammond sat back looking at his granddaughter in astonishment and chuckled slightly. "You may be dare i say it you may be right that's why i know when you get to Jurassic Park it would succeed."
"You think so?" Aria's head tilted to the side.
"I know so Ria." He ruffled her hair until a knock came on the door he saw Lex and nodded. "Time for you to go i will see you tomorrow."
Aria nodded and crawled up in his wheelchair and hugged him as he hugged her back. "See you tomorrow granddad love you and can you tell me more about Rexa tomorrow?"
"I sure can." He patted her back before putting her down letting her run out as Lex gave a weak smile to her grandfather before leaving. "All of it will soon be yours..."
End Flashback
"Granddad!" Aria yelled jumping up before sighing looking around and saw she was in a bed that looked and felt familiar. Moving her leg she winced a bit and saw it was bandaged up and smiled slightly knowing who did it. She got up and started looking in certain draws for a pair of pants to put on she soon held up a pair of underwear. "Wrong draw." She whispered to herself before finding a gray pair of sweatpants and slowly slipped them on. Limping she walked through the bungalow and out the door to see Owen. He was on a picnic table throwing some jerkey to Delta and Blue who where loving it.
Aria walked down the steps catching the attention of them she limped over to where Owen was sitting and sat next to him. She saw Delta look at her curiously and smiled winking at her making her tilt her head at this. Owen smiled at this before throwing the last two pieces after doing this the went running off a little ways away but they could still see them.
"How long was i out?" Aria rubbed her head.
"You crashed before i did Delta and Blue stayed out here sleeping and you could say standing gaurd, but i heard you screaming you alright?" His eyes shifted over to her.
Aria shook her head. "Had a nightmare you could call it at least i think it was one or i maybe wish it was."
"What was it about?" Owen turned to her looking at her curiously.
"A guy i'm guessing is my grandfather, Hammond something that's all i could remember but i'm not to fond of that last name...i think i know why." She looked over at Blue and Delta who looked to be playing he decided to let her continue and not say anything. "It was like i had three nightmares in one night the first one was about my grandfather. The other one i looked to be older i was in a school and they called me a killer and a freak for having that name." Her bottom lip trembled a bit as tears streamed down her cheeks. "They said my grandfather was selfesh cared about nobody and created monsters and more. B-But that's not the man i saw he was never that to me but the more people talked the more i believed it. I was bullied for years for having that last name if i wasn't getting into arguments i was in fights the fact i loved dinosaurs made it no better. In people's eye's every Hammond is alike and that will never change...nobody knows what i have been through." Aria finished shaking her head crying harder until she felt herself being pulled into a hug. She hugged him back crying in his chest as he leaned his cheek against her head rocking her back and forth.
"Those aren't nightmares Aria that's your memories." He whispered.
"I know i just don't want it to be." She said crying harder he just held her a little bit longer until she broke away whipping her face. "But i have to let it be like that the sooner i accept that i'm a Hammond maybe it will all get better. There is one thing that's for sure old Aria you knew did die that night-" She looked up at Owen who rested a hand on the side of her head tucking her hair behind her ear. "and i don't think she's coming back."
"You are still you no matter what you remember or not maybe the real you mind wise died but not at heart." He rested his forehead against her's. "Stop trying to push and scare me away because it's not working i'm not those people that judged you."
Aria smiled weakly he was reading her like a book right now because that's exactly what she was doing thinking he would he better off. Leaning up her lips where merely inches away from touching his. "I love you."
"I love you to." He met her the rest of the way kissing her and pulled her on top of him so she was on his lap with her legs straddled by his. Owen got it now why she hated that last name and disowned it because people gave her so much grief for it. He didn't get why it wasn't her fault that they named her that but she got tortured for it. It would have taken more time to get information like that from Aria but maybe she was right maybe the old her die that night.
Aria's POV
Every time i kiss him i can't get the urge to stop myself or pull away from him he reads me like a book without even thinking twice. And the words i love you come out so freely when i'm with him even if i didn't remember much. I know he's a person i belong with and i don't want to see hurt which is why i said what i said earlier.
My head was so clouded but those flashbacks hurt more then anything and it wasn't from thinking about them it was because i felt like i was re-living it. Almost like a recurring nightmare that would never go away or disappear and i know why. I was running from something that i couldn't for long and it just caught up to me but no more running if Hammond is my last name then that's what it is.
Owen pulled away trying to get a good look at me. "You okay?"
"Yeah," I whipped the tears with the back of my hand nodding. "I will be." I moved off his lap getting on the ground i saw a blue ball and picked it up before i whistled over to the Raptors who poked their heads up. "Wanna play?"
Delta screeched at me so i was gonna take this as a yes i walked over more close to them getting a good grip i threw it. I laughed at the way they tried to catch it and soon ran after it before it could go far. In the midst of laughing i turned around to Owen who was chuckling shaking the his head. Not looking i felt the ball bounce off the back of my head seeing this Owen went into a fit of laughter.
I poked my tongue on the inside of my cheek turning around to the slowly pointing. "Which one of you threw that?" Both of them tilted their heads as if trying to play the innocent roll.
After a while we went back inside Owen was ransacking through his boxes making me look confused. "What are you looking for?"
"Something to contact Lowery with-got it!" He pulled out a phone and hooked it up before dialing a number. "Hello Lowery?"
"Thank god you guys are safe i thought it ate you!" Lowery exclaimed making Owen roll his eyes before he heard commotion in the background.
"Hey it's me," Claire said. "How is she? Are you guys okay?"
"We're fine and she's doing better remembering day by day just have to wait for her brain to do the rest but what about you guys, you okay?" He asked as i walked over to him he pulled me on his lap wrapping his arm around my waist.
"Good that's good but we found out more about who Leslie crew is and who LH is his name is-"
Owen cut her off. "Luke Hoskins i already know and before you ask he use to work in the Navy with me years ago but back then he went by Richards not Hoskins."
"That answers that part but we know why they want Aria-"
"Because they assume she is the one that knows the code to unlock the old Jurassic Park files that hold the information to Hammonds genetic hybrid that he created years ago." Owen said.
Claire sighed. "Okay what do you not know?"
I looked down hearing what they where saying my grandfather made his own genetic hybrid, but why? I have no memory of having a conversation with him about that but i should. Closing my eyes i tried to think is it really a code or a password getting up i walked to the door letting him continue their conversation. I held on to the sink as my head started pounding it felt like somebody was knocking me in my head repeatedly. All i heard was a bunch of people screaming running and kids that was getting picked on by this Pterodactyl. I rested both hands on my head sinking down to the floor trying to get it to stop i closed my eyes.
"Remember...just let me remember." I mumbled
Flashback
Aria was standing in front of Owen. "Nice to meet you Aria look forward to working with you."
She took his hand and shook it gently. "You to Mr. Grady."
"Call me Owen." He said they broke the hand shake.
"Okay, Owen." She nodded and saw him wink at her she quickly looked down so he wouldn't see her blush.
Owen couldn't help but smirk. "Are you wearing blush or something?"
"W-what n-no i'm not!" Aria quickly said looking up...
"Anna!' Aria called out.
The girl with the shoulder length brown hair turned around she spotted her and smile. "Aunt Aria!" She called out running to her with the blonde following.
Aria smiled as Anna hugged her she had to catch her balance so she wouldn't fall. She giggled hugging her niece tightly. "I missed you to Anna."
Anna broke the hug smiling. "I missed you to and i mean really miss. Oh yeah this is my friend Becca."
"Hi nice to meet you Ms. Aria, Anna has told me a lot about you." She extended her hand.
Aria smiled shaking her hand. "Nice to meet you to and knowing Anna i know she did." Aria's smile quickly turned to a confused expression. "Wait a minute i thought her name was Amy?"
"Who told you that?" Anna made a face before sighing slapping her forehead. "Oh man dad."
"Your father is an idiot." Aria said plainly looking at the girls who started giggling. "Well come on birthday girl let me show you where you two are gonna be staying..."
"The Indominus Rex?" Aria questioned.
Owen looked through the glass. "So what's this thing made of?"
"The base genome is a T-rex the rest is classified." Claire said.
Aria brow raised. "You made a new dinosaur but you don't even know what it is?"
"The lab delivers us finished assets, and we show them to the public. Can we drop a steer, please?" Claire asked as the Crane started moving.
"How long has the animal been in here?" Owen asked.
Claire shrugged. "All its life."
Owen looked over at her. "Never seen anything outside of these walls?"
"We can't exactly walk it." Claire rolled her eye's.
Aria looked at the glass confused she saw a tree move but nothing was there. That was beyond weird it wasn't a bird that's for sure. She just folded her arm's across her chest thinking it was nothing.
"And you feed it with that?" Aria pointed to the meat that was hanging from the crane.
"Is there a problem?" Claire asked.
"Animals raised in isolation aren't always the most functional." She shrugged slightly.
Claire turned to her. "You guys Raptors are born in captivity."
Owen nodded. "With siblings they learn social skills. and we imprinted on them when they're born."
"There's trust." Aria finished before walking next to Owen. "The only positive relationship this animal has is with that crane."
"At least she knows that means food." Owen pointed.
Claire nodded walking past the two as they continued to look through the glass. "So she needs a friend, we should schedule play dates? That sort of thing?"
Aria looked at Owen who shook his head. "Probably not a good idea."
"Try bad idea." Aria scoffed...
Aria was running down the foggy walk way with a talkie in her hand talking into it.
"Nevermind that, I need you to open Paddock 9."
Lowery eyes widen making sure he heard her right he tapped somethings on the sceen before pulling it. He looked to the security camera's seeing Aria stopped in front of it. "Paddock 9? Your kidding? After what happened you can't beat serious?" He shook his head in disbelief.
Aria turned her head when she heard a loud roar she pressed the talkie putting up to her lips. "God Damn it, Lowery, be a man and do something for once in your life!" She yelled
Lowery made a offended face. "Why did you have to make it personal?" He looked to the monitor seeing her look up at the camera throwing the talkie away. Lowey sighed shaking his head before pressing the button looking away.
The Paddock opened with loud booms Aria took a deep breath closing her eyes she took a flare out her back pocket. She lit it as the gate slowly rised and heard loud footsteps. The flare was in her hand as she held it out looking up as Rexa began walking out looking at her...
"Then it's settled." Aria clapped her hand's together.
"What is?" Claire asked.
"Well i care about you guys and we can't do it by ourseleves so i'm thinking. That we should probably stick together...For survival that is." Aria said getting smiles from them...
End Flashbacks
I shook my head gasping for air when and felt somebody shaking me looking up I saw Owen in front of me on his knees. "Aria! Aria come on answer me! What happened to you?"
"Indominus, Rexa, my niece everybody." I looked up at him scared as he was trying to understand what i was saying. "And you...i remember." I mumbled hugging him crying in his shoulder as he rubbed my back. Before i knew it i fell asleep i remember them all of them anything before that is fuzzy. I can only recall certain times with my great grandfather but i don't care my head still felt like crap. But i remembered them and that's all i cared about right now a question still remains un registered, what exactly is that code to those files.
Meanwhile...
"Well Owen said him and Aria should be here with the Raptors tomorrow." Claire sighed hanging up the phone walking past she saw Brian asleep on the chair. Smiling a bit at his peaceful look she grabbed a small cover throwing it over him. "Did you get that computer to work yet Lowery?" She asked walking over to him sitting down.
"Trying to these are different from the ones in the lab but give me some time and wait, Raptors as in their Raptors?" He asked.
Claire nodded. "Yeah, and apparently Luke Hoskins made it clear he wanted the Raptors and Aria but he has four of his own that he brought with them."
"So just get the Raptor Squad to take them down." Lowery said.
"Raptor squad? How long have you been wanting to use that one but they can't right now because they have to heal. The other Raptors that where made claws are sharper and teeth."
"Basically they're upgrades from normal Raptors but I just don't get this plan that Wu has set up." Lowery said turning around to face her.
"What do you mean?" Claire asked.
"Like they don't even know if this Hybird of Hammond's would even work or if it's even still there for that matter. Why go through all this trouble and hell for it?" Claire nodded catching on he was making point after point. "Why make two separate teams to basically catch the same thing? Four new Raptors but still want the old ones and that other so called T-Rex just disappeared. Just why all of this for a password to files that might not still be there or even exist."
"That's right but who even said anything about the files in the first place it had to be somebody close to John Hammond. A person that was just as close as Aria was with him and that knows her to.." Claire trailed off. "Maybe we are pointing our fingers at the wrong people maybe Wu is apart but INGen isn't."
"Then who is?" Lowery shrugged.
"I don't know but I feel like I should know like it's staring us in the face but I can't figure it out." Claire said rubbing her temples. "If only we knew more about Aria's past we would know who really had a motive against her."
"So you think this is somebody's sick plan to get payback at Aria?" Lowery asked.
Claire nodded. "Yeah think about it all these other people are just apart and INGen is just benefiting from it. But there is somebody at the top pulling the strings and that started all this, but who?"
The Next Day
Owen felt sunlight in his eyes and slowly opened them and saw he was still in the kitchen leaned against the counter. Looking down he saw Aria was still curled against him neither one of them let go he lifted her hair up. The cut was healing the swealing went down it didn't look as worse as it did before but his mind flashed back to last night.
He was talking to Claire about Luke and heard something loud fall in the kitchen. Running in he saw Aria mumbling holding her head on the floor he didn't know what happened or what she saw. But whatever it was it gave her memory back he was happy because she remembered but was she really the same after this. Feeling her hand twitch he looked down and saw her eyes where open as they shined from the sunlight.
"How do you feel?" Owen asked rubbing her back.
"My head feels like hell but I guess the good part is that I remember mostly everything." She sat up so she was now looking at him and smiled putting her hand on the side of his face. She brushed her fingers across the stubble on his cheek even though she remembered she still felt different. "Thank you by the way."
Owen looked at her confused. "For what?"
"For staying even when we all thought I was never going to get it back." She said.
"Yeah well when your with a person that would do the same for you without thinking twice about it your decision should be pretty clear." Owen nodded before reaching in his pocket holding out the necklace. "This belongs to you."
Aria took it smiling before putting it on. "Feels good to wear this again."
"So, do you remember last night?" Owen asked.
"Yup I spilled all I remembered about why that last name was like a secret nightmare that I never woke up from. I never accepted it...until now guess this was my wakeup call that I needed. Maybe I needed to lose my myself for a while to find out who I really am." Aria said playing with the locket piece. "But even without my memory somebody still got some."
"I was just trying to help get your memory back." Owen smirked putting his hands up in defense.
"Is that what you call it?" Aria asked.
"Yes and in my defense I did ask you for permission." He pointed out making Aria poke her tongue on the inside of her cheek while smirking. "And you of course said yes."
"Oh hush." She waved him off before standing up along with him.
"Lets get dressed get what we need and head over to Paddock 9 Claire and everybody are waiting I'm gonna go check on the girls." Kissing her forehead he walked out front. "Blue put that down." Owen scolded letting the door close behind him.
That was all Aria heard before she heard Blue screech in retaliation making her chuckle slightly to herself before heading off to get ready. She took a shower coming out Owen jumped in while she was getting dressed.
She put on a pair of dark blue jean shorts, a gray tight v neck long sleeve and a pair of tennis she brushed her hair out before up in a pony tail. Putting on her fingerless gloves she reached under the bed as Owen was coming out the bathroom looking at her curiously.
She pulled a black rectangle case out and unlocked it showing guns and other weapons. It was something she kept around just in case and Owen never minded the idea but could only be used for emergencies. She pulled out two guns and two sets of back up amo for both of them she loaded one up aiming it.
"Should be okay at least we both have a gun now." She said putting it on safety and in her back pocket along with the shock stick on her side.
Owen nodded as he wore black tennis, black jeans, a white wife beddah and a short sleeved black button down that was opened up before hooking the handgun on his side. He picked up his other one so it could be reloaded again he had to see what did she know about Luke.
"We found out about LH and who he is." Owen said.
Aria nodded. "Yeah, I heard you and Claire talking you said the guy name was Luke Hoskins."
"Right apparently Hoskins has a son I know the guy but the thing is I knew him as Luke Richards not Hoskins." He said loading up his gun.
"Doesn't make sense how could he hide out like that and what's his motive anyway." Aria asked already not liking the sound of the guy. She watched Owen gaze shift down as a flash of anger hit his eyes. "Is there something your not telling me?"
"Luke isn't here for just the park or the code files he plans to take you and Blue back when he goes." He finished loading his gun up only to look up and see a confused look on her face. "I don't know why either but I do know it's not happening no mater what plan they come up with."
Aria tried thinking she never heard of a Luke Hoskins what the hell would he want with her unless somebody else was pulling his strings. She closed her eyes trying too think maybe she seen him before his first name sounded familiar. But Hoskins and Richards she never heard those two before. Her eyes soon widen as her head starting to hurt a bit...his name Luke for short that wasn't his full name.
"Hey," She looked up to see Owen now in front of her "He's not getting those files, Blue or you I promise, Okay?" He tucked a strand of hair behind her ear that was out her pony tail she nodded smiling slightly. He hugged her resting his chin on top of her head and she laid her head against his chest.
She had to tell him that Luke wasn't just Luke to her his name at that time it was Lucas her ex boyfriend...
That was chapter fourteen leave me a review of what you think about this chapter but, until next time!
Chapter 15 - Not A T-Rex Roar
