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Chapter Seventeen
Owen takes out the piece of flesh with the tracking device imbedded into it and makes the raptors take a lungful of the scent they need to track. Barry and the others are ready and waiting when Owen gets onto his motorcycle. Barry gives a nod and the raptors are released, Owen and the band following not too far behind them. There are a few men left behind to keep an eye on things, but I stroll towards the van easily. I get into the passenger seat, and earn a gasp of shock from Claire. I give her a rather frightening smile
"Hey Claire"
I slide the window separating the boys from us
"Hey kids"
They look at us from the back. Zach is cautious of me while Gray is curious. Claire is scared out of her mind
"What are you?"
I laugh, making sure to show off my slightly larger than normal canines that no one notices unless attention is drawn to it
"Wouldn't you like to know?"
I make myself comfortable
"It's a long story. Think you got the time to hear it?"
She gulps and says nothing, but I speak anyway
"It all started when I was merely a small thing in the womb…"
Samantha Jones walks through the laboratory; her heels had turned into soft walkable shoes since she was six months pregnant. However she couldn't just leave her research, she was the best in the field and the break through that was about to be made was too phenomenal for anyone else to achieve. So that was reason she was at work that day.
A younger scientist comes running through
"We have a problem"
She looks over at the young man
"Can you lot do nothing without me?"
Impatiently she shoves by him and walks through the corridors
"Ma'am, it isn't safe! The atom is unstable and could react any moment"
She stops and glares at the assistant researcher
"When has something like that ever stopped me?"
Needless to say that even though everyone else had a mild case of radiation, when it came to me, I didn't really come out unscathed…
After I turned ten in…1996 I think it was, I began to get sick. First it was the common flu and then it became a more frequent event until it snowballed and I was basically just wasting away. My parents had no idea what to do and then came my grandfather, that's John Hammond by the way. Yeah so anyways one of his scientists thought that they could be of help and analysing me and seeing where exactly the problem was. As it turns out, my DNA had been disintegrating, and therefore my immune system became weak yadda yadda yadda and then one of the old quacks suggested that they try and fix my DNA. Boy did he "fix" my DNA. Where was I? Oh yeah, so anyway I started getting better but then I started showing rather weird personality and behavioural quirks, like being able to scent people from a while away, my affinity to chase things around or "play hunt". Not to mention my strength and the overly sharp nails, those really couldn't be ignored.
It was ignored until my behaviour started getting worse and someone took a sneak peek at the files of the quack that fixed me. Turns out they had used some of the stronger DNA of a Rex to fix me, as if there wasn't a problem in the Rex's own genetic code where they had to fill in various other animals already.
But anyways it turns out Dr Quack as I call him, had experimented on other kids as well, orphans that no one questioned about. But how could he not take the chance of being sponsored to figure out a cure for the child of rich parents? He obviously used me to further the study he was working on. My parents were furious at him and pulled out his funding immediately, they kept it going because he so called cured me but when they found out about the torture that he had been inflicting on other kids…well, let's just say that he is rotting somewhere that no one will be able to find him…
"Obviously I learnt to control myself and my behaviour when I was a teen but there are just some things that I like to play around with"
I flashed my eyes at them
Gray leaned in as far as he could reach
"That's so sad, but you're so cool at the same time"
Zach isn't sure if I'm lying or not, but he could take it or leave it.
Claire is staring down
"I'm sorry you had to go through that. I'm sure it wasn't easy for you"
I shrug my shoulders
"Nothing to apologise for, you didn't make me this way. Why do you think Masrani was so on board with the idea of having me work with the Rex?"
She looks at me and then it dawns on her as the true reason why I'm on the island. I smile and look out the window
"I am going to help get you guys off the island but after that consider me done with all things dinosaur related. Expect Masrani's corporation to pay me a hefty sum and I'll go on my own way"
I look at them
"Relax; I don't bite unless I'm threatened"
Gray smiles
Claire's tablet makes a sound and we all look at what is going on with Owen and Barry.
Owen is driving through the foliage with the raptors surrounding him and Zach says to Claire
"Your boyfriend's a badass"
Claire smiles shyly and I don't blame her for it. Owen is a badass and I'm not surprised that she appreciates that quality in him as much as I do.
Owen speaks into his mike
"They got something"
The raptors stop as well as the men and they all file out on Owen's command. There's rustling in the leaves and the raptors are sniffing out the smell they are looking for. Claire goes
"You know what? No, no, no. You guys are not watching this. Keep the window closed"
She shuts it and we can hear the protests from the two boys. We go back to watching the screen
They are all at the ready and the raptors are merely standing there, looking out into the trees. They make a few sounds and then there's an answering call. Intrigued I lean closer. The Indominus steps out of the trees, slowly and looks at the raptors and leans towards them. Then they start communicating. Claire and I look at each other surprised and look down at the screen again, and to our horror, the raptors have turned back.
"They've sided with her" I whisper and watch as they open fire on the monstrosity
"Oh my God"
It falls but gets off the ground again and starts running away from our team. The raptors remain behind and Claire and I watch as they begin to take down our guys on the field. The window slides open behind my head but I don't want Claire to know that the boys are watching with us
Owen whistles and Blue follows him back into the thick plants
"Is everybody dead?"
Claire starts spinning a lie that everyone is fine, and in turn Zach tells her not to lie to him.
"It's okay to lie when people are scared"
"I wanna go home"
Claire reaches for Zach
"Oh, sweetheart, you will okay? I promise. Tomorrow you will be home and your mother will never let me see you again"
Suddenly I smell blood and there is a thump from a bloody hand on Claire's window. We all scream and she fiddles with the keys for the truck. I see the guy open the doors in the review mirror but then one of the raptors comes up behind him and drags him out. Zach and Gray are in the back and I jump out, telling Claire to drive. I jump in the back with the boys and she picks up speed with a yell
"Hold on back there!"