Hope you all enjoy even though there's pretty much no action going on here.

Disclaimer: I do not own Jurassic World/Park. All OC's except for Kavita belong to Macx.

In all honesty the last thing Hamada expects is to see a human girl flagging his men down from the treeline. The jeeps come to a stop and weapons are trained on her.

"Identify yourself," Hamada calls.

"Kavita Ramdial. Intern for the raptor paddock," she calls back.

"You're Owen's intern?" he asked, just for confirmation. He's seen Kavita before but the person who is in front of him is mud covered, streaked with greenery and blood splattered. He's pretty sure that might be some bone fragments in her hair.

"Yes," she nods. "You're Hamada, right? From ACU?"

"Yes," he said.

"Good," she said, shoulders relaxing. "You got water?"

"So I've reviewed the CT scan from Lauren and compared it to scans done previously," Anika said. She's in the room with all the preternatural and unsurprisingly she has everyone's attention. "From what we can tell, nothing is actually wrong with any of you. There are no significant changes to Lauren's brain from what she had before. And since none of the animals seem to be affected, I'm going to guess that there have been no changes there either."

"No significant changes still mean changes, right?" Josh spoke up.

"Yes," Anika agrees. "I think your headaches are caused by a feedback of some sort. Something is actively blocking your abilities and the by-product of that block is causing the headaches."

"Whatever it blocking us though is weaker," Owen said.

"It seems to be getting weaker, yes," Anika said.

"Perhaps it has a time limit," Nancy suggests but Owen has a different idea. His girls are out hunting. This block probably has a biological originator.

"Perhaps," Anika said, "We'll study the scans some more but I wanted to give you all an update." Her eyes flickered to Owen and he nodded in thanks. Anika left the middle of the room as the other workers all turned to discuss the new information.

"You're free to go," Anika tells him. "But don't do anything stupid," she cautioned him.

"I won't," Owen said. Anika nodded and Owen was about to head out the building when his phone rang.

"Owen," he answered.

"Owen it's Carter," Carter replied.

"What is it?" Owen asked.

"Hamada found your intern. She flagged them down. She's fine. The pack are still moving though. Your Intern says she suspects they'll rest for a bit before getting into another scuffle but that there is another hybrid they're probably going after."

"Are they on their way back?" Owen asked.

"Yep," said Carter. "Your intern is a bit dehydrated and she's wounded. Also, she says she's got information."

"Did she say what information?"

"Not yet. And Hamada thought we'd want to hear it first."

"Fine," said Owen. "I'm on my way to the control room."

"Be careful," Carter cautioned. "There are still mercenaries put there that we haven't caught. Masquerading as tourists in a pretty good cover. I'll try to meet you and Claire there as soon as I can. We're still rounding up dinos that aren't ours right now."

Owen grimaced. "I will."

He ended the call and made for the control room at a brisk pace. There were quite a few of Carter's guys at strategic points and they nodded to Owen as he went past. There was the sound of muffled gunfire from a paddock and he stopped, half-turning to go there.

"It's under control," One of Carter's guys told him. "We've got three units there and there's only eight of them in the paddock."

Owen still paused, everything in him telling him to go there, to protect but Carter's men knew their jobs, security was their job. His was another type of security altogether. After a moment he gave a stiff nod and continued on his way to the control room.

"Claire!" he said as the doors slid open.

"Owen!" she said startled. She walked over to him and gave him a brisk hug. "Are you alright?"

"Fine," Owen said, ignoring the way he wanted to keep squinting to keep the light from driving a spike into his head. Claire gave him a look that said, she clearly didn't believe him but didn't call him out on it.

"Carter's on his way back and Hamada is ten minutes out," she said.

"Good," said Owen, "Give me an update. A real one. None of this bullshit watered down stuff." Claire actually cracked a smile before she smoothed it away.

"Three encloses are still in contest. We have the rest of the perpetrators in custody but none of them are talking. ACU's man is still in surgery. Hamada's men are tracking your girls and Hamada himself is on his way with your intern who apparently knows some more than we do. Carter and his men are tracking down at least three groups of compy's who don't belong to us. They've cleared out one and are currently dealing with another but the third group hasn't been caught yet and they're ranging close to the park. We've got men situated on the boarder where the might come out through."

"Now anything from your end?"

"Just that whatever is blocking the bond has been getting weaker. Anika said that something is actively blocking the bond and the feedback form that is causing the headache. But the girls are hunting something and I have a theory that these hybrids they're hunting might be the source of those blocks. I could be wrong through," he shrugged.

"Hmm," said Claire. "Let's see what your intern says."

"Did anyone check her background?" Owen asked, still suspicious.

"Yes," said Claire, "And she came back clean. No large financials transferred, no ailing parents, siblings etc. that might give her motive, no connections to any other company, nothing to indicate that she's a part of this."

"Someone can cover tracks if they're good," said Owen.

"We're digging deeper," Claire assured him.

Just then an update came from ACU to let them know one of the enclosures had been recaptured and the mercenaries caught.

"Good work, gentlemen," Claire said. Owen stood behind Lowery eyeing the cameras that overlooked the continuing conflict.

A few minutes later, Carter himself strode into the room.

"Owen, glad to see you're up."

"Glad to be up," Owen replied, honestly. "Where's Hamada?"

"He'll be here in a few minutes," Carter said. "I want to hear what this intern of yours has to say."

"I'd like to here what she has to say herself," Owen growled.

The next few minutes were tense but soon enough Hamada and his men appeared, brining with them Owen's intern. Owen glanced at her and took note of bedraggled state. Her face was cleaner than the rest of her with mud caked around the edges. She'd obviously used some water out of a water bottle to wash her face. She was still slinging water from the bottle and she had Owen's rifle hanging from one shoulder.

She capped back the bottle and unslung the rifle and held it out. "Sorry for taking it but I kinda needed a gun."

Owen stepped up and took his rifle from her and then in one smooth movement settled the gun on his shoulder and aimed it at her head. "You get one chance to tell me if you had anything to do with this. You lie to me, my finger will pull this trigger, you understand?"

Claire moved behind him but swallowed her protest. Dead silence reigned. There was not a person in the control room that didn't know it was he alpha of the island who was speaking right now.

Kavita swallowed but lifted her chine and looked Owen in the eyes, fearless even though she knew exactly what position she was in.

"I had nothing to do with this," she said firmly.

Owen studied her and then after a long moment, lowered the rifle. "Alright," he breathed. "Tell me about my girls."

"They're mostly fine. They're sporting a couple of injuries, Echo and Blue the most. Echo lost an inch or two of her tail in the last encounter. She let me wrap it but that was all. Blue's got some nasty bite on the back of her neck but I didn't offer to treat it because I didn't think she'd let me. But otherwise they're fine, and functional. I think they were going to rest before they went to the other hybrid or whatever it was. "

"How did you know?" Claire spoke up, "Because you must have known."

"About preternaturals?" Kavita replied. She shrugged. "Masrani told me."

Owen stared at her surprised. "And why would he do that?"

"Is that important right now?" Kavita sighed. "I've got info pertaining to now."

"Fine," said Carter, "Tell us your info and then tell us after." Kavita nodded.

"Dr. Wu left some of his research behind on how he tailored the raptors to Owen's brain, so that they'd bond. This attack is the product of another genetic company who he sold the research to, while he was alive but he died before he could give the final set. Apparently though he put the rest of that research on a hard drive, that he hid, somewhere here on the island. They're looking for it. Also they figured a second attack would discredit the park and cause it to close which would of course work out for them. I think there was more stuff on getting dinosaur DNA that they didn't have before."

"Why the hybrids through?' asked Claire.

"Part of the attack, to discredit Jurassic World," Kavita replied, "But also because while they couldn't figure out what Dr. Wu did to make the raptors receptive to Mr. Grady, they managed to figure out a way to disrupt the bond but they could only do it with living creatures."

"So, the hybrids are what's blocking the bond," Owen said grimly. Kavita nodded.

"That's why the pack is hunting them out. And it was done, primarily in an effort to knock you out of play," Kavita said. "But I don't think they planned on the raptors taking initiative on their own." She paused. "Actually, with the grenade there wasn't supposed to be a pack anyway."

"But there are other keepers," said Carter, mind whirling, "And they wouldn't have taken the chance that they might have somehow used their charges to defend even if Owen was out of play. "

"That's the way I read it," Kavita replied. "Now can I please get to a damn bathroom; my bladder is killing me here."

When Kavita was led out of the room, Owen, Claire and Carter all stared at each other for a moment.

"This is a damn mess," Carter said, rubbing a hand over his face.

"I need to get to my girls," Owen said.

"And we need to figure out where Wu hid that research," Claire said. "I don't know if you recall but Vic Hoskins wanted to use raptors in a battle field. At least he was hedging on the idea. What if these people want to do the same and they manage to make raptors which can be tailored to soldiers?"

There was a horrified pause.

"Yeah," said Owen, "We need to get to that research before they do."

Just then Carter's radio crackled. "Carter," he said.

"Sir," said one of his men, "There's a group of men here who have just landed in a helicopter. They say they're sanctioned by Masrani and are waiting for you to confirm it."

Carter's eyes flickered to Claire who instantly dialed Masrani's number. After a few moments, on the phone, she nodded. "He sent them," she said.

"Well let's go meet them," Carter said, "Outside."

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