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Sick Day/The Tree

The raptor packs met each other and hit it off on a good note. Owen was very satisfied with the outcome and was happy that his girls were thrilled in meeting the boys. Alice thought a bit about her past and still had Josiah on the worry list because he hadn't done anything to deem himself trustworthy yet.

It's been two weeks since the raptor packs met, and everything was going fine. Josiah got closer to Dom and was actually starting to get to Alice. Alexis was finally released from First Aid and was now living life happily with her friends again. Casey had to deal with the strain of the others not believing that he had a girlfriend. Ortiz had decided to leave Jurassic World for a little while, since he knew now that Claire was starting to catch on to what the man actually does. The 'Hide-and-Seek' idea was loved by the Board and they wanted to see if they could set up the Restricted Area, especially around the old Visitor Center, to be a place where the guests could hide and Alice could seek. They wanted to get it open by the summer. But, a beta test of the attraction would be held in another week or so.

It was now Sunday, and everyone was relaxing. Well, everyone but Owen and Claire. Both had caught the flu and were both quarantined by their friends in Owen's bungalow. The doctor from First Aid told them to get lots of rest and to stay away from others because they were contagious.

Ian and the others were hanging at Starbucks again, except now they were with Alexis, who went through a bit of a wardrobe change ever since her attacking. Alexis was now wearing a light tan t-shirt under a denim jacket, skinny jeans, and black high heel boots. Her hair was up in a small high ponytail. She also had a backpack that had a raptor on in with a cheetah print rim.

Casey was having a hard time convincing the others that he had a girlfriend. What was worse was that he didn't have any pictures to prove it, and the mystery girl only skyped him at night, when Casey wasn't hanging with the others.

"You guys, I just don't understand why you are having the hardest time accepting that I have a girlfriend?" Casey asked.

The others looked at him and then Ian said, "Casey, dude, I honestly don't care whether you have one or not. It's the girls you're having a hard time convincing."

Olivia looked at Ian and then said, "Hey, it's not me. He's having a hard time convincing Alexis about it."

Casey looked at Alexis, who was looking at him with a nonchalant stare, and said, "Look, Casey, I think that you're a great guy and all, but, to have girlfriend? Eh, it's not easy to believe."

Casey scoffed at Alexis and then replied, "Alexis! You're just having a hard time accepting that I'm not hitting on you anymore!"

Olivia and Ian both raised their eyebrows and Alexis asked, "What ?"

"You craved the attention."

Olivia and Ian then widened their eyes and Olivia opened her mouth a bit as they heard the insult that Casey gave to Alexis.

"Excuse me?" Alexis asked.

"You heard me. You're in denial of me having a girlfriend because you'll miss all the attention that I gave you," responded Casey.

Ian and Olivia then looked at each other and Ian said, "Well, Olivia are going to head off to-"

"Wherever the wind takes us," added Olivia, "Just as long as it doesn't blow us back here."

Olivia and Ian got up and then exited the place as soon as they could, leaving the other two amidst their tension, which could be cut with a knife right now.

"You found what on Ortiz?" Lowery asked Ryan as the latter reclined into his chair after handing Lowery a manila folder.

"The man wiped himself off the grid before anyone could get a chance to search him up," replied Ryan, "He used to be on the top ten most wanted men in the world, but then, his name vanished off the list."

"No, that doesn't make any sense. How else would he be here then?"

"Unless, it happened while he was already CEO of InGen."

"What do you mean 'while'?"

"Well, I did some more background checks, and, Gabriel Ortiz didn't exist up until a few years back."

"What?"

"The man created a new identity for himself before becoming the CEO of InGen."

"That would probably explain his name bouncing off and disappearing."

"So," began Vivian, "do you think he might have something crazy planned?"

Then a voice from behind said, "Well, if his alibi checks out, then we can only assume, that the man is innocent."

The three of them turned around to see Jones walk in.

"Commander Jones, any updates?" Lowery asked.

"They still need to run Ortiz's alibi. He said that he was never around when Zara committed any of her attacks nor was he here when the vandals vandalized."

"How is it that a man like that can easily get away with such obvious things?" Ryan asked.

"Unless, he's got eyes and ears in here," replied Vivian.

The three men looked at Vivian and Jones asked, "What?"

"Well, what if, if being the big word to focus on, he has a few guys here doing his work from the inside? Hiding certain stuff and evidence."

"That is a very good point Vivian. I'll go and have Security run a whole check on everyone who works here in the Control room, and that would include both you and Lowery I'm afraid."

"Well, then check us first, because there's no way either of us can be guilty."

"Right, I'll be back in a few hours and we'll have that check."

Jones then exited the room and Lowery opened the files, which revealed pictures of Ortiz and a few documents.

"A legal name change?" Lowery asked.

"Yep," replied Ryan, "before Gabriel Ortiz, there was Eduardo Gonzalez."

"This is crazy. Why would he change his name?"

"Beats me, I've been trying to figure it out, but, I gotta dig a bit more into it later. Right now, how are Claire and big brother Owen?"

"Oh, I haven't done my hourly checkup with them yet!"

Lowery then grabbed the phone and dialed Claire's number.

Claire and Owen both felt miserable. Both were in Owen's bungalow trying to get rest so that they could recover from this unfortunate flu. Claire was lying on Owen's bed, while Owen was lying down inside of his trailer, next to the bungalow. Claire heard the phone ring and slowly moved her arm to grab it. Once she grasped the phone, she checked it and saw that it was Control. It was Lowery. Claire pushed the green button and then put the phone on speaker as she gruffly said with a stuffy nose, "What Lowery?"

"Just doing my hourly checkup. How are you feeling?" Lowery asked.

"The same as I did an hour ago."

"Well, how's Owen?"

"I don't know. He's been in his trailer for most of the day today. He missed breakfast and hasn't come inside to check on me or anything."

"Well, can you check to see if he's not dead, please?" asked Ryan.

"I'll go and see. Now, stop doing hourly checkups please?"

"Sorry Claire, Doc says that we have to do this and Sarah wants to keep up with Owen's health."

"Fine, whatever. Just, we'll keep in touch you guys."

"Right, talk to you later Boss."

"Goodbye Lowery."

Claire then hung up the phone and set it next to her head. She really didn't want to get up. Aside from the fact that she was sick, she was just too damn comfortable right now. But, maybe having another warm body with her might help with the recovery. She just needed some Owen. She also had to admit that she was a little worried. Owen hadn't shown himself today at all. Something was definitely wrong, especially since Owen missed breakfast, which he never does. The man loves food too much to skip a meal, especially the most important one of the day.

Claire slowly got out of bed and then made her way to Owen's trailer. She got there in a good few minutes and then opened the door, only to find Owen, still sleeping. She stepped up to him and then put her ear next to his nose. He was still breathing. Meaning that he was still alive. Thank goodness. Before Claire could do anything else, she felt a hand grab her forearm and yank it forward, making her fall on top of Owen.

"What are you doing in here Claire?" Owen asked with a rough, and breaking voice.

"Just checking on you," she replied, "I haven't seen you all day. I was a little worried."

"Well, I'm alive. Now, I need to get some sleep."

"Owen, you've been sleeping for a majority of the day."

"Yeah, but Doc said that I needed to get rest to feel better."

"Owen, sleeping isn't going to instantly cure us you know? Yes, we need sleep, but that doesn't mean it's our vaccination against this flu."

Owen slowly cracked open his eyes and rubbed them a bit. He let out a gruff sigh and then turned looked at the redheaded CEO that was still on top of him.

"You can get off now Claire," he said to her.

"But, I'm so comfortable here," she whined.

Owen let out a small scoff and the tried pushing Claire off of him. To his surprise, Claire was able to hold her ground.

"Jesus Claire, how much do you weigh?" he asked.

"Excuse me, but I'm actually rather light. You're probably just too weak at the moment," Claire retorted.

"Oh no. Look at these guns and tell me if I'm weak."

"Muscle means nothing Owen. You can be all muscle but still be weak."

"Please, I see that way you look at my muscles Claire. You know that I'm not weak."

"Did you run away from a T-Rex in three in heels?"

"Claire, how does that even pertain to what we're talking about at all?"

Claire thought about it for a few seconds before responding, "It doesn't. I just didn't want to keep going down this road."

"I'm not weak. I'm strong, and jacked."

"Jacked?"

"Yeah, I'm buff."

"No, you're just ripped."

"What? No, I'm just buff."

"Let's just say that you're jacked then. Sounds like a mixture of both."

"You can't do that!"

"I so can. It's a word Owen. And I am right anyway, because A, you're arms and your back are huge, and B, I've seen your abs Owen."

"Ah, little Miss Dearing been checking me out?"

"What? No, Owen, remember the day we showed each other our scars? You lifted up your shirt and you had scars on your chest and midsection."

"Oh yeah."

Claire rolled her eyes at Owen before slowly getting off of him.

"Okay, so, what do you say we eat?" she asked.

Owen replied with a grunt and turned over to get more comfortable so that he could sleep again. Claire was not going to hold up with Owen right now. Claire grabbed Owen's legs and literally dragged the man out of bed.

"Ugh, fine. I'm up Claire, I'm up!" Owen whined as he shook his legs a bit and then stretched out his whole body.

Claire smiled and then sniffled. She pulled a tissue out of her pocket and then blew her nose. She then accidentally dropped said tissue onto Owen's face.

"Oh my God, I'm so sorry Owen," said Claire as she grabbed the tissue off of her boyfriend's face.

"You know what? I don't even care," replied Owen as he slowly got to his feet.

Owen then exited the trailer, with Claire following behind him.

Alice was playing Hide and Seek with Dom, and this time, Dom was at the top of his game. Dom was the hider, and Alice was seeking. This had to be Dom's best run of being a hider, because, Alice hadn't found him in a few minutes. It worried Alice a little, she even began to think that something bad had happened to him. Like, maybe Josiah ate Dom or something. Alice shook her head from the crazed thoughts and then continued to search for the Indominus hatchling. She sniffed the air, but Dom knew how to hide his scent. Alice was impressed. She then checked the ground for any tracks of Dom's path, but most of it was obscured thanks to fallen leaves and the bushes.

Dom was hiding in a hole inside of a tree. The hole was the one where Gray hid from Alice the first time he and Alice played Hide and Seek. The hatchling was holding his breath, only quietly breathing through his nostrils. He cooled down his body temperature in case Alice resorted to using thermal radiation to find him. He also camouflaged a brown color to blend in with the bark of the tree. The tree that Dom was hiding in was a bit old, and honestly, it could go down any second. If the tree went down, then Dom would be exposed, out in the open, for Alice to see. He hoped that the tree would hold up until then.

It had been around twenty minutes already, and Alice was close to where Dom was hiding. But, she had decided to give up. She wouldn't be able to find Dom anytime soon. He was very good at hiding, and Alice hoped that he could give her some pointers in where to choose the right and perfect hiding spot. Alice then barked at Dom to come out and that she had given up. She also told him that he one and assured him that she wasn't joking. Dom began to trill happily as he trotted out from the tree. Dom chirped at Alice that she needed to get better at her finding skills. If she was going to be finding guests when Hide and Seek opened to the public, she would have to be at the top of her game. The main rule was that Alice couldn't use her radiation sensors, as it would be cheating of course.

Dom began to bark happily that he was the best hider ever and that he had won the fifth round of Hide and Seek for the day. Dom wanted a good piece of meat for it, but maybe he would get a different reward once Alice told Owen whenever Owen returns. Alice slowly shook her at the gloating hatchling. But, she had to admit, Dom was very good.

Through all the gloating and acceptance of losing to a hatchling, both Indominus didn't notice the true matter of caution at hand. The tree that Dom was hiding in, had finally decided that it was time for someone to yell timber. The old roots of the tree began to snap and the tree began to slowly fall.

Alice saw that the tree was going to fall on Dom and let out a warning bark at Dom and told him to run. But, Dom instead looked to the tree that was going to fall on him and got startled by it. Alice began to run to Dom, but she wouldn't be able to reach him in time. Dom had curled up and covered his eyes with his tail. The tree was only feet from fully collapsing on top of the hatchling, and it seemed like Alice would have to deal with the loss of yet another sibling.

Then, just before the tree fully fell on top of Dom, Dom realized that nothing had landed on him yet, and that the tree should have fallen on his already. Dom moved his tail and saw white scales above him. His initial thought was that it was Alice who had saved him, but, Dom was wrong. It was Josiah. Josiah was holding up the falling tree and was a bit shaken from the impact the tree gave to his back.

Alice got to Josiah as fast as she could and then moved the tree off of him. Josiah moved away from Dom and then Alice stepped forward and nuzzled Dom lovingly. She was very happy that Dom was alive and well. Thanks to Josiah of course. Alice looked over to the pained Indominus and then chittered her thanks to him. Josiah said that they didn't need to mention it and he then slowly proceeded away from them. But, before he could fully leave, Dom began to bounce around him and told him thanks, while Alice walked alongside the hurt Indominus and saw that he was a cut on his back, most likely from a broken branch that was still attached to the tree. Alice told Josiah that he needed to get it checked and cleaned immediately. Josiah knew that, but there were no vets around. The wound would get infected before they even get the chance to look at it. Alice then knew what she had to do. She had to help out Josiah until they could get someone's attention, most likely Lowery's attention. Alice then told Dom to go and find a camera and do his best to get Lowery's attention. Dom then nodded his head and quickly disappeared into the brush in search for one of the many cameras scattered around the paddock. Alice then told Josiah to lie down, and the male Indominus did as he was told. Alice then proceeded to clean the wounds herself, and Josiah watched as she did so. He was surprised that she was doing this, mostly because he was still a stranger to her. But, Josiah guessed that this was her way of saying thanks for saving the hatchling.

A/N: Turtles! How are you guys doing? Well, I hope that you guys liked this chapter and I hope that you come back for more! Review if you'd like and stay tuned for more to come!

'Til Next Time!-TM341