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Emma tried not to think about what she was doing. She was sitting at the bar waiting for Owen wearing a ridiculous dress she swore she'd never where but kept because it was a gift. Owen had asked her to have drinks. She didn't understand why he had asked her all she knew was she was nervous. They had been friends for several months now and had gotten to know each other fairly well but never had he asked her to go out for drinks the way he had asked her earlier that day. It was almost like a date. When Owen showed up Emma could feel her heart start to pound inside her chest. They both started off with beer but as the night passed they transitioned into some stronger drinks. Before they knew it they were making out at the bar.
Emma was the one that had started it all with six simple words. "You wanna get out of here?" The grin displayed on Owen's face was the answer her intoxicated self was hoping for. They had made it to Emma's bungalow where they fell onto the bed in each other's arms. Their clothing was quickly discarded and they were both ready for what was coming next.
"Hang on…" Owen stopped kissing her and pulled away. "I don't have a condom." Emma grinned and shook her head.
"Birth control." She said before capturing his lips with hers. It was as if those were the magic words. Owen kissed her deeper then trailed kisses down her torso and to the sensitive spot between her legs. She gasped when she felt him kiss her clit. She wanted to scream when he continued stimulating the one spot that would make her unravel. He had stopped just before she reached her peak making her growl. His lips found hers again and she could taste herself on his tongue. She felt his manhood rub against her clit making her grin. She took him in her hand and wondered for a second if he would actually fit. Shrugging off the worry she placed him at her entrance and held her breath as he thrust into her. There was a moment where they just breathed deeply as she adjusted before he slid almost all the way out of her only to go back in, this time a little harder. She wrapped her legs around him and pulled him closer making him go deeper inside her. They both moaned and Emma arched her back wanting more. "My turn." She whispered while kissing his neck. He pulled away and she motioned from him to flip them around.
Now Owen was lying on the bed and Emma was sitting on top of him. She moved her hips with him still inside her. He placed his hands on her hips to help her keep rhythm and she smiled down at him through her mass of messy hair. She put her hands on his chest and leaned down to kiss him once. They both watched one another as the each came unraveled. When they were done Owen had gotten dressed and wished her a good night. A few days after that they were at it again and after a minute's discussion they decided they couldn't live without each other.
The ride from Owen's bungalow to their destination wasn't too dreadfully long. But Emma still found herself thinking about the past. The second they got out of the car Claire started spilling out information about pre-booking tickets and increase in number of guests due to new attractions. It was all very systematic. "Corporate thought genetic modification would up the wow factor."
"They are dinosaurs, isn't that wow enough?" Owen asked as the three of them climbed a flight of stairs.
"Not according to our focus groups. The Indominus Rex makes us relevant again." Both Emma and Owen were laughing.
"Indominus Rex? As in, fierce and untamable?" Emma let out an amused laugh.
"We needed something scary but easy to pronounce." She said as she opened a door and stepped inside. Emma looked at Owen a little skeptically. He put a hand on her back and gently pushed her inside.
Inside there were several observing windows. Emma walked up to one and peered out into the habitat. "So what's this thing made of?"
"The base genome is a T-rex, the rest is… classified." Emma peered over to Claire for a second before looking back at the vegetation.
"You made a new dinosaur but you don't even know what it is?" Owen nodded and looked out one of the windows.
"The lab delivers us finished assets and we show them to the public. Can we drop a steer please?" A guard that was sitting in a chair against the far was pressed a few buttons on a touchpad.
"So how long has it been in here?" Emma asked, still trying to catch sight of the thing.
"It's whole life." Claire replied.
"Never seen anything outside of these walls?" Claire shook her head just as the piece of steer meat was being lowered into the habitat from a crane.
"Feeding it like that isn't going to teach it how to hunt or function properly." Emma mumbled while staring at the dangling piece of meat.
When nothing happened Claire tapped on the glass several times. "Where is it? We were just here… it was just here." She walked over to a touch pad and set off a thermal scan. When all of the screens came back up with errors Emma noticed that Claire's eyes filled with worry.
"Were those claw marks always there?" Emma whipped around and saw that Owen was pointing at one of the walls. She and Claire reached the window she was at and both of them froze. Deep marks went all the way to the top.
"Oh god." Claire whispered. "She had an implant in her back, I can track her in the control room." She started walking towards the door quickly leaving Emma and Owen behind.
"You don't think it really could have gotten out like that do you, Owen?" He didn't say anything her only walked over to the guard. "Owen?!"
"Can you get someone down here so we can get inside there?" He asked the guard.
"We already have someone on their way. Shouldn't be too long." And just on que and man with a hard hat came walking in. His badge said that he was one of the main constructors for the cage. He was the first one that went inside the habitat.
After a while Owen looked back at the guy. "I'm going in there."
Emma's eyes widened. "Owen!"
He looked at her. "Stay in here okay?" She didn't nod, she didn't really do anything except stare at him as if he was a complete moron. She sat in the viewing room and watched as Owen and the other worked walked out into the cage and towards the wall. She didn't realize it but she was biting her nails.
There was static coming from a speaker system. Emma realized it was someone talking. "…Paddock 11…. to… evacuate." Then more static. She looked back out to where Owen and the two other men were and felt her heart sink when she saw them all start running back towards the door. She watched as the bigger man turned around suddenly and made a b-line to the large gate. She couldn't see through the vegetation but she could see that the trees were moving as if something big was going through them.
"Shit!" Emma screamed. She ran to the touch screen that Claire had used earlier and searched for the controls to open the doors. By the time she had found them the bigger guy had already gotten the main gate open. When she saw that Owen was getting closer she the pressed the button to make the door close and held her breath. When Owen got out she let out a sigh of relief but once again had fear in her heart when she watched the Indominus Rex storm through the small opening. She wanted nothing more than to run out the front door and make sure he was okay but she didn't know this dinosaur. She didn't know how its sight or smell was. She could easily end up like that other worker… dead. With each step the animal made the floor shook. Soon they faded but Emma couldn't bring herself to walk to the door and see the destruction. When the main door opened she almost collapsed. She ran over and met Owen with a grateful hug. He put his arms around her, holding her close. He smelled like gasoline. "You smell awful." She felt his chest shake with a short laugh. "Those two men, they're dead aren't they?" She felt him nod and she pulled away. "What the hell was that thing?"
"I don't know. But they have a lot of explaining to do." He held out his hand for her to take. Emma hesitated a moment but out her hand in his and let him lead her to the door. "We need to stick together." She nodded in agreement and they both walked outside and got into the remaining, working car. Owen drove and headed to the main control center.
There was no waiting around or being polite when they got there. Owen tugged Emma along and stomped right in to the control room. "Sir, Ma'am, I need to see a badge." The guard was ignored and the two walked straight past him.
Claire was standing just at the entrance with a worried look on her face. "What the hell happened out there?" Owen asked. "There are thermal cameras all over that paddock, she did not just disappear!" The guards were at their sides and were pulling on their arms.
Claire let out a sigh. "It must have been some kind of technical malfunction."
"Technical malfunction my ass!" Emma yelled.
"Were you not watching? She marked up that wall as a distraction, she wanted us to think she escaped." By now the guards had let them go and Owen was walking up to Claire with anger in his eyes.
"Hold on, we're talking about an animal here." She said making Emma want to scream.
"A highly intelligent animal." He told her.
"Four-hundred meters to the beacon." One of the people sitting at the controls said. They all looked to the large screens to see that the people sent out to track the Indominus Rex were getting closer. All of the animals on the island had trackers implanted in them once they left the lab.
"You need to call this mission off right now!" Owen told them.
"You are not in control here!" Claire shouted.
"You are putting people in danger because you're being a stubborn ass! Call it off!" Emma cursed under her breath when no one did anything. She looked back at the screens and watched while hold her breath as the group got closer to the flashing red dot on the screen.
The men on the mission were equipped with cameras so the people in the control room were getting a live feed. The leader of the group had the others stop as he continued closer to where the tracker was beeping. Emma watched as his camera focused on something in his hand. "The blood is not clotted yet, it is close." His voice came over one of the speakers.
Emma put her hand over her mouth. "What is that?" Mr. Masrani asked.
Owen stepped in front of him so he could get a better look at the screen. "That's her tracking implant."
"And what? She clawed it out?" He nodded towards Emma.
"How would it know to do that?" Claire asked from behind them.
Owen took a step closer, eyes still on the screen. "She remembered when they put it in." Emma looked back at the screen and watched as everything started unraveling. Suddenly there was a lot of shouting coming from the groups feed. She heard the word "camouflage" and suddenly felt a little nauseous. One by one the life lines of the group went flat indicating that the Indominus Rex had gotten them, indicating that they had a huge problem on their hands. "Evacuate the island." Owen turned to Claire and Mr. Masrani.
"We'd never reopen." Emma could tell Claire was in shock but that literally was the last thing she thought she'd say.
"You made a genetic hybrid, raised it in captivity, she is seeing all of this for the first time. She does not even know what she is." He was pacing, something he only did when super angry or stressed, that much Emma knew. "She will kill everything that moves."
"You think the animal in contemplating soul existence." It wasn't a question that came from Mr. Masrani, it was a guess.
"She is learning where she fits in the food chain and I don't think you want her to find out." Owen replied. "Now, asset containment can use live ammunition in an emergency situation. You have an M134 in your armory put it on a chopper and smoke this thing!"
Claire looked at him in disbelief. "We have families here. I'm not going to turn this place into some kind of warzone
"You already have." Owen and Emma said at the same time.
"If you're not going to help there is no reason for you two to be here." Owen let out a frustrated sigh and walked over to Mr. Masrani while Emma looked at Claire.
"You need to stop trying to protect this thing and start trying to protect the people on this island." Emma's voice was low enough so only Claire could hear her. "You better watch yourself." With that she stepped back and followed Owen to the elevator. "What are we doing?" She asked once the doors closed.
"I don't know." He looked shaken.
She put a hand on his arm. "Look at me." When he didn't she put her right hand on the side of his face and made him look at her. "Owen." His eyes landed on hers and she rested her free hand on his chest, feeling his heart pound under her palm. "You're okay. It will be okay you hear me?" He nodded without taking his eyes off hers.
The elevator came to a stop and they both stepped out, making their way to the main area of the innovation center. After walking through a hallway and out a few set of doors they were back with the guests. "We need to find someone who can get the word out." They shoved through groups of people in search of one of the higher us guards. Keeping up with Owen was hard to do especially when Emma was half a foot shorter than him but she did her best. She felt like she was running to keep up to him but she didn't say a word.
"There's one!" She said while pointing out a man in a black suit observing the crowd.
Owen had gotten there first and started talking with the man. "You need to contact asset control and take care of the situation." He wasn't talking loud or anything but anyone walking past them would have heard him.
"I'm sorry, Sir, I only take orders from two people and you're not one of them." Emma's jaw dropped as she stared at the man.
"We are trying to save people, you prick." His eyes landed on hers and he took a step towards her.
"Ma'am I am going to ask you to calm down before you cause a scene and worry the guests." She looked at Owen in disbelief.
"You don't understand…" The guard grabbed her arm but she jerked free just as Owen grabbed her other arm.
"You think we're the only thing you need to worry about right now?" He asked, still holding on to her. "Back off." He pulled Emma with him as they walked away from the guard with some guests staring at the curiously. "No one's going to help us." She shook her head in agreement.
They stopped walking and Emma scanned the crowd of people, stopping when she saw a familiar face. "Hey, is that…"
"Claire." Owen called out making the woman turn towards them.
She looked relieved to see them despite being annoyed with them not ten minutes before. "I need you two."
Emma let out an amused laugh. "Of course ya do." But when she say that she was truly worried Emma stopped being a snooty bitch. "What's wrong?"
"I need your help. My nephews are out in the valley, please, if anything happens to them…" Owen pulled her to the side so they weren't standing in the middle of the crowd.
"How old are they?" Emma asked before biting on her index finger nail nervously.
"The older one he's like uh, high school age." She motioned above her head to indicate his height then lowered her hand to show the height of the younger nephew. "The younger one is... he's…"
"You don't know how old your nephews are?" When she didn't say anything it took all of Emma's strength to not start laughing. Owen sighed. "Alright." He then turned to Emma. "You have your keys?" She nodded slowly. "Good, we're gonna be needing your car."