Owen hid behind his designated tree, ready to go on Claire's signal. It was incredible how Claire could come up with a plan despite her anger. That was likely why she did so well managing Jurassic World. She was quick on her feet, and good under pressure.

He just hoped Claire's plan worked. Owen didn't think he or his girlfriend could handle it if they failed.

"On my mark," Claire whisper yelled. Owen passed the sentiment on to the boys who hid behind the next two trees down. Their mother was the lookout.

"One, two…" Claire paused a few extra beats before darting out from behind her tree. "Three!"

InGen was surrounded by armed guards, but they didn't dare shoot. That was one of the many assumptions Owen had made. The guards knew that Owen and Claire were InGen's only hope at finding Blue, so they weren't allowed to shoot.

Claire walked casually towards the guards despite her hasty exit from the tree line. She approached a side entrance that they had spotted doing recon. Two guards stood outside. Both were taller than Claire, one wide with muscle and the other lanky and thin. Owen watched Claire hand for the signal and tamped down any lingering worry he had about her. This would only work if he was calm and focused, which he couldn't do if he was scared that his girlfriend was in danger. Claire was very capable of taking care of herself. She'd proven that on more than one occasion.

The red-headed woman's voice carried across the open grass and into the trees where Owen hid. "Hey, boys. I need to speak with the good doctor."

"Not a chance, pretty lady."

Owen winced. Calling Claire 'pretty lady' was a terrible mistake. Her goal was to use the low-dose tranquilizer darts Owen had stored in the van, but if something went awry, Claire was prepared to use other methods. She and Owen didn't spar in their front yard for no reason.

"Come on, fellas. You can let this pretty lady in, can't ya?"

"Sorry, ma'am," a different guard said. "We're under strict orders not to allow you inside. Straight from the mouth of Dr. Wu."

Claire clenched her fist behind her back. It was almost go-time.

"I'm asking nicely."

The lanky guard laughed. "I really wish we could help you, but we just can't. You can try going around front and checking in at the desk."

"Such a shame, boys. I'd hoped we could do this the easy way."

Claire took one step back and the guards relaxed. They were too stupid to be afraid of a small red head. That was their second mistake. Owen was glad he wasn't those guards.

As soon as the men let down their defenses, Claire pivoted on her left foot and swung her right up and around, hitting the larger man square in the jaw. He stumbled, but didn't fall over.

Tall and lanky sprang into action, attempting to point his long gun at the moving woman. He was clearly fresh out of training and no idea what to do should someone actually try to break in. That was good – InGen wasn't expecting them.

And, thanks to Zack and Grey's computer expertise, InGen didn't see them coming, either. Their surveillance cameras ran on a constant loop to protect the soon-to-be intruders.

Claire laughed at the younger guard's attempts. "Really?" Her right first slammed into his face. He crumpled to the ground in a solid heap. One down, one to go.

"Your turn, buddy. And by the way: I hate being called a pretty lady. I'm so much more than that!"

She definitely was. Claire ducked beneath the large guard's punch and rolled behind him. Laying on her back, she kicked the back of his knees, causing him to fall. He reached for his gun, but Claire was much faster. Her boot dug into the back of the guard's neck.

"Honestly, you should have just let me in."

Claire took a dart from her pocket and released the safety tip. Before the guard could make another move, she stuck the needle point into his neck. Within seconds, the man was fast asleep. The tranq would only last an hour or so, and the other guard would likely wake up first. They didn't have much time.

Claire moved her fingers into the OK symbol. It was simple and a bit cliché, but it worked. Owen, Zack, and Grey jogged across the open field to where Claire waited for them.

"Easy, peasy," she said with a grin. Owen couldn't help it – he pulled her up against his chest and kissed her hard. Watching her take out those guards was hot.

Zack tapped Owen's shoulder. "Okay first of all, gross. Second, we really need to go before anyone comes to check on these guys."

Owen released Claire and she straightened up her shirt. It was caked with mud, torn from tree branches, and clung to her sweat-soaked skin, but Owen didn't care. She looked insanely beautiful no matter what she wore.

Zack and Grey made quick work of stripping the guards down to their skivvies and putting on the uniforms. Luckily, both boys were tall, so the clothes fit okay. Zack was engulfed in the larger man's outfit, but not so much so that he looked ridiculous. Owen would have to ask Zack what his workout routine was. The kid had gained some muscle definition over the years. Not that Owen really needed a new workout, but it never hurt to try new things. With dinosaurs on the loose, strength and agility were more important than ever.

Once the boys were dressed, they used the guard's keycards to enter the building. The light blinked green and the doors unlocked. The foursome headed inside, watching their backs as they moved.

"We need to find the main security office," Zack whispered. "I can find where they're holding Maisie that way."

"Down this hallway, right, third left, right side."

No one gave Grey's instructions a second thought. He memorized directions the way he memorized dinosaur facts. They had seen the InGen blueprints for a split second before putting the plan in motion, and Grey was able to figure out where they would have to go. That was why he was with them and not outside with his mother.

Zack and Grey went ahead to scout each hallway. It wasn't likely that the two boys were on InGen's radar, so they could blend in as security better than Claire and Owen. Their faces were probably plastered on the break room wall.

Only one person had to be tranqed during their journey to the control room. Well, not including the two guys who were in charge of watching the monitors. Claire took them out quickly, and Zack and Grey settled in front of the computers.

The boys were able to divert the feeds remotely, but they couldn't get a good look at the system without risking someone noticing.

"This is the only control room," Zack confirmed after fiddling with the technology. We can unloop the cameras and find Maisie now."

They could have brought Blue in to track their daughter, but it would have been hard to hide an angry dinosaur. Much easier to hide angry parents and cousins. Blue wasn't happy with the command, but she obeyed Owen and stayed at the tree line.

Zack flipped through hundreds of camera feeds. Each member of the group took a monitor and watched for any sign of Maisie.

"Stop!" Claire yelled after a few minutes. "Go back one."

Zack obeyed, and everyone looked at Claire's screen. Sure enough, Maisie was there, looking small and frail in a hospital bed. A needle stuck in her arm.

"Is that blood?" Owen asked, pointing to the bag hanging on her IV stand. It was impossible to tell in the black and white video, but it definitely looked like blood. "What are they doing to her?"

Claire rubbed Owen's back. "Whatever it is, it stops now."

Zack put the monitors back on their loop and Grey spouted out directions to Maisie's room. It was only a couple of hallways down, on the right. Unfortunately, there were a ton more people in that area. Luckily, they were wearing lab coats, not security uniforms.

"What do we do, Aunt Claire?" Zack asked as they peered around the corner. "We can't take all of them."

Claire nodded. Owen could see the wheels turning behind her eyes as she revised her original plan. Though, truthfully, the plan had only gone as far as the control room. It was always going to be improvised from that point on.

"There's only one thing we can do," Claire said. "We make a run for it."

"What?"

"We run. They're scientists. They'll chase us, but hopefully at least one of us will get to Maisie first."

Owen studied his girlfriend's face. Her features were set and determined. There was no talking her out of this plan, and if the rest didn't agree, she would have run on without them.

"Fine. On three, we run."

Claire counted them off. "One. Two… Three!"

Owen, Claire, Zack, and Grey took off down the final hallway towards Maisie's room.

"Stop!" "Wait!" "This are is restricted!"

The scientists yelled after them, but none actually tried to stop them. They called security, but it was too late. Less than a minute later, all four of them were at the door to Maisie's room.

"You don't want to do that," a familiar voice said. "Open that door, and we won't hesitate to eliminate you."

Owen had his hand on the knob. Through the window, he could see Maisie asleep in the bed. She had to be in a drug-induced sleep to stay quiet through all of the chaos in the hallway.

He swallowed down tears threatening to spill over. These monsters were doing tests on his daughter, and they wouldn't get away with it.

"We came for Maisie. She belongs with us. You have no right to her."

"Maisie is an experiment, not a human. The judge never should have sent her with you. You don't know what she needs."

"What she needs?" Claire screamed. "What she needs are her parents. Not some scumbag scientists running tests on her blood!"

Dr. Wu chuckled. "You never understood what I did, Claire. You never appreciated me. And now you think we're running tests on the girl's blood. If you had only listened…"

Claire grabbed the man's collar. Owen didn't bother trying to get her to back off. If she hadn't done it, he probably would have. "You listen. Give us back our daughter, and we won't report you for this. We'll tell authorities we found her in the woods."

"Give us Blue."

"Not a chance."

"Then Maisie stays with us. Go ahead and talk to the police. They won't believe you, and the ones that will, we've already taken care of. You'd be surprised how little it costs to buy loyalty these days."

That explained why the police weren't doing more to find Maisie. They had known where she was the whole time. A week had gone by with no sign of their daughter, and the police just kept lying to Claire and Owen, acting like they were looking.

Owen's ears burned with rage. "Wu, I'm telling you once, and only once. Give. Us. Back. Our. Daughter."

"No."

Then all hell broke loose.

And it wasn't Owen or Claire. Not even Zack or Grey.

Red lights filled the hallway and an alarm screeched from speakers high on the walls. Owen, Claire, Zack, and Grey covered their ears, but it did nothing to drown out the horrid sound.

"Wu, there's been an intrusion."

The scientist pointed to the four people in front of Maisie's door. "Yes, I see that."

"No," the guard said. He held up a tablet for Dr. Wu to see. "A different kind of intrusion."

Before anyone could respond, a horrifying scream sounded from down the hall. In response was a familiar sound.

"Blue!" Owen cried. His raptor turned the corner and ran full speed towards her master. She hit the guard with her tail and squared up to attack Dr. Wu, but Owen called her off.

"Wait. Blue. Halt."

The dinosaur glanced at Owen, then back at the doctor. She snarled, but didn't attack.

"That's a good girl." He turned his attention to Dr. Wu. "Now, we are going to go in there and get Maisie. She's coming with us. If you try to stop us, I won't call Blue back."

The doctor shook, but not in fear. Rage filled his eyes.

"It doesn't matter," he spat. "We don't need her or the raptor. We have something else, something bigger. You won't see it coming. None of you will!"

Owen didn't have time to consider the threat. He finally opened the door to his daughter's room, only Maisie was no longer in the bed.

The small girl jumped from behind the door, brandishing a surgical knife. She stopped herself before using the weapon.

Tears fell immediately. Owen and Claire collapsed to the floor and pulled Maisie in for a group hug. Zack and Grey joined them.

"I'm so sorry, sweet girl," Claire said through her sobs. "You are never leaving our sight again."

The girl giggled. "I'll have to leave eventually, Mom. Just, not for a long while."

This brought a smile to both Claire and Owen's lips.

"Come on, then," Owen said, standing and holding out a hand to his daughter. "Let's go home."

Maisie nodded. "I've been waiting a whole week for you to say that."

Owen held her hand tightly. Claire may have been joking, but he didn't plan on leaving Maisie's side for a very, very long time. Now that he knew what it was like to lose her, he would make sure it never happened again.

No matter what it took.