Just A Little Drama

"That over there is the main lab, and that over there is the security room. I usually am in there if you ever need me." Jonah pointed out as he guided the two girls through the massive main building. When Daren, Samantha, and Jessica entered the building after Kevin had walked in they found Kevin and Jonah sitting and having a conversation at a table. Daren, confused to as how Jonah exactly beat them into the building, ordered Jonah to give the girls a tour of the entire main building which usually took about two hours to accomplish. They were only 10 minutes into the tour.

"Ooh, let's go in there!" Jessica clapped her hands together and cheered.

"Let's not and say we did." Sam sighed.

"Awwe come on Sam. You know I'm a tech wiz." Jessica whined.

"Really?" Jonah's attentioned was caught by her words. "Come and show me then." Jonah walked over to the door to the security room and opened it. He held it opened and gestured for Jessica and Sam to walk through. Jessica nearly sprinted past Jonah into the room. Sam, however, was much less enthusiasctic and simply walked into the room. When she stepped inside her jaw instantly dropped. Monitors of every shape and size was on every wall of the room from ceiling to floor. A large semicircle control desk sat in the middle of the giant room. Besides a few chairs and the desk, there was no other furniture in the room. The desk had all sorts of handles, knobs, and buttons on it. Jessica was currently typing something on one of the many keyboards on the desk.

"Jessica!" Sam shouted. She rushed over to her friend. "Do you wan to be fired before we even start? You may break something!"

"I know what I'm doing. This is my element, Sam. Hacking's one of the few things I'm good at." Jessica said without looking up from the keyboard. Her fingers were near blurs at the speed she was typing.

"Whoa. Really impressive." Jonah walked up with a hand on his chin and watched as Jessica typed. "I didn't even think our hardrive could handle hijacking the Hubble."

"You understand what she's doing just by watching?" Sam inquired.

Jonah nodded. "Yeah, pretty much."

"You guys must be...wait...did you say Hubble? As in Hubble telescope?" Sam asked.

"Yep, check it out." Jessica smiled. She hit enter on the keyboard and all the monitors in the room changed to show the same image. The imaged showed a military man, a really high ranking one by the looks of it, picking his nose in high defintion. Jonah and Jessica burst out laughing. Sam held a look of disgust on her face. Once Jessica was able to settle their laughter into chuckles, she explained, "I reprogrammed the Hubble to turn and take pictures of earth for a few minutes. Once it's done, it will return to its original position."

"Where is it pointing exactly?" Jonah questioned.

"Area-51." Jessica said simply, putting her hands on her hips. "The general in the picture is my dad, General Flours. He's been stationed in Area-51 ever since I was a little girl." She laughed again. "He's always had a bad habit of picking his nose in public though."

"Really awesome, Jessica." Jonah complimented. "I could use a second hand like you around here when it comes to the tech stuff of this park. Would you be willing to help me?"

"Seriously? I can be around this stuff all day?" Jessica's eyes lit up.

"Sure. All I have to do is confirm it with Daren and you can work in all the different technology departments you want." Jonah nodded. Jessica let out a girlish squeal and jumped up and down. Immediately afterwards, she started to go back to typing on another keyboard on the control desk.

"I'm going to celebrate by doing something I've always wanted to do. I'm going to hack into the Russian's missle defense system. My dad never let me use the super computer at the base, so I've never been able to try." Jessica squealed with nerdy delight.

"I do that all that time!" Jonah smiled. "Let me join you." He said and started to type on the keyboard next to Jessica with even faster speed than the girl. Sam watched them in shock. They basically had forgot of her existence, and on top of that, they might start a nuclear war by accident. She decided it best for her to leave at this point.

"While you guys start World War III, I think I'm going to go and find Daren and Kevin." Sam sighed. She got no response from either person. "Don't worry, I know the way back to the main entrance." She said standing in the doorway to the hall they had left. Still no response. "Whatever." Sam grumbled and walked out into the hall, leaving Jonah and her friend to hack away.

XXXXXX

"So when are you going to pair us up? I've been here ever since you built this island facility, and yet to be paired up." Kevin asked Daren with a serious tone.

"As soon as Jessica's research partner gets settled. I wasn't expecting her to join us so it may be a while before we have an available partner for her." Daren answered. He paced back and forward.

"I don't think the girls will be as accepting as Jonah and me to being paired up." Kevin pointed out.

"Jonah's had his partner for awhile now though. And the girls need one whether they like it or not. It's for their own saftey." Daren said. "Especially since Larry is now hot on the trail of the next reachable Gaurdian."

"I'm telling you, Daren, just send Cipher. He can take care of the job by himself." Kevin said.

"It's too risky. I want no caualities on this mission if possible." Daren argued.

"Also, when do you plan to introduce Cipher to the Jessica and Samantha." Kevin asked. "He's an important part of the team too."

"Why is he an important part of the team?" Sam walked up seemingly out of nowhere. Her arms crossed over her chest and she gave Daren and Kevin a suspicious look.

"Where's Jonah and Jessica?" Kevin asked.

"Having nerdy foreplay in the security room." Sam joked sarcastically. "You're avoiding my question, though. Who's this Cipher guy you were talking about?"

"Well...he's uh...not here...uh can we take a message?" Kevin asked. "OW." Daren hit Kevin on the arm for his moment of stupidity.

"I get the strange feeling you're not telling us something that we probably should know." Sam said with sarcasim coating her words.

"You'll get to meet Cipher later today. He's on another mission at the moment." Daren explained. "When he gets back everything will be explained in excrutiating detail."

"Will you also be explaining the whole pairing up with a partner thing as well when he gets back?" Sam interrogated.

"Well, damn...how long were you standing there?" Kevin laughed.

"Long enough." Sam smiled

"You're going to make one awesome field agent." Daren laughed walking past Sam and into the hall she, Jessica, and Jonah had previously walked down.

"Where are you going?" Kevin shouted after Daren. He had turned down the hall way.

"To go and get Jonah before he launches another Korean nuke at Jupiter." Daren shouted from the hall.

"Actually, I think they may be using Russia this time!" Sam yelled down the hall as she jogged to catch up with Daren.

"There goes Venus." Daren sighed.

"Cool. I'll just stay here then." Kevin said to himself as he grabbed a chair and leaned back in it. He dozed off.

XXXXXX

Daren walked down the hall with Sam now at his side. A few minutes had passed since they had been walking, but neither spoke except for greeting the occassional person in a lab coat that walked by. Sam was detesting the silence between her and Daren, but his mind seemed occupied with other thoughts. Perhaps thinking about how to avoid a nuclear. Soon the silence became too much for Sam and she tried to start a conversation.

"So...why did you decide to become a paleontologist?" Sam inquired. Just for a second, Daren's facial features flashed to expression Sam couldn't quite make out, so she decided to ignore it.

"My dad said he wouldn't pay for college unless I did." Daren stated plainly.

"Oh...well at least your well known in the paleontological community now." Sam said. Daren only nodded. Sam tried to start a conversation again. "So...what was your dad like? Was he anything like you are now in his youth?" Daren twitched at her question. Sam instantly knew she had struck a chord in him by accident.

"My father..." Daren said with distaste. He stopped walking. "My father was a peice of work...Me and him are nothing alike." He turned on the spot to face Sam. She jumped in surprise. "He was almost never home. He was far too busy with his work and expeditions. And when he was home, he and my mother were always on some kind of 'vacation', leaving me home alone! He never found time for his only child. He never listened to my problems, never offered help, never showed he even remotely cared about me, and never, and I mean never, has once ever said he loves me." Daren nearly growled. He paused to inhale a deep breath to valm himself."Only Sarah ever kept me any company." He said in a softer but just as stern tone. Daren turned away from Sam, as if saying his now bad mood was due to her question.

Sam hesitantly put a hand on Daren's shoulder. "I'm sorry...I didn't know. I didn't mean to upset you...I know how you feel. My dad wasn't the greatest father in the world either." Daren chanced a glance over his shoulder. His eyes met Sam's. In them, he could see that she really meant no harm with her question.

"It's...it's fine." Daren sighed turning to face her. "Sorry about my outburst. Me and my dad's history has always been a sensitive subject for me." He looked away from Sam as if to say he was shamed of his behavior.

Sam gave Daren a smile. "I'll be sure to remember that from now on, but don't beat yourself up about getting upset." She grabbed Daren's hand and started pulling him down the hall. "It doesn't suit your character to frown. Plus, I like seeing you smile anyway." Sam stopped a few feet short of the security room door and turned to face Daren, grabbing his other hand in the process so that she was holding both his hands. She had a big grin on her face. Daren couldn't help but return the expression.

"Your cheeriness is contagious." Daren joked. "Sarah's was too." He chuckled, letting his expression show a smile. "I wish you, Kevin, and Jessica could have met her. She was a great woman."

"She had a great guy." Samantha spoke softly taking a step closer to Daren. A soft pink stained her cheeks. Daren was about to speak, but a loud bang from within the security room caught his and Sam's attention. It sounded as if someone were slammed against something metalic. Daren yanked open the door to make sure no one had been injured, but immediately froze at the sight before him. His jaw dropped.

"What? What is it?" Sam asked panicked. She pushed aside Daren and instantly understood what he was so shocked at. Jessica was propped up against the control desk in the middle of the room with her arms wrapped around Jonah's neck. They were immersed in an very intimate kiss. They still had yet to notice that Sam and Daren entered the room.

"JESSICA!" Sam yelled at the top of her lungs. It was almost a scream. Both Jessica and Jonah snapped their heads towards the door. "WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU DOING!"

"Oh my God!...Uhhh..." Jessica shoved Jonah off of her and hastily stood up. Her face was glowing red. Jonah, due to Jessica's push, stumbled backwards and fell over a chair flat onto his back. "I...uhhh...can explain."

"Yes, please do." Sam said. Rage shook her voice.

"I was just...uhhh..." Jessica stumbled over her words. She was like a little girl that was getting chastised by her parents. "...me and Jonah were just...uuhhh...getting to know each other a little better...yeah that's it. We were getting to know each other a little better."

"And I assume that had to involve you using your tongues then, huh?" Daren rolled his eyes.

"No way, we were totally making out!" Jonah said from his position on the floor. He gave a thumbs it.

"I'm going back to the front entrance." Daren said rubbing his temples with his fingers. "I can see this is going to get worse before it gets better."

"You got that right." Sam agreed, storming towards Jessica.

"Samantha, calm down. I'm sorry." Jessica said backing away from her enraged friend.

"You promised me!" Sam nearly screamed advancing towards Jessica. "You promised me that if I got you this job you wouldn't do this! It's absolutely embarassing!"

"I know, and I'm sorry." Jessica whimpered. Her back touched the wall and she could go no further. "You know it's hard for me to control my urges. I'm sorry."

"Urges?" Jonah questioned. He was still laying on the floor.

"LEAVE!" Sam roared at him.

"Leaving." Jonah jumped to his feet in fright and ran towards the nearest wall. The wall slid open exposing a passage way. Jonah disappeared into the mysterious passage and the wall slid close. Sam turned her attention back to Jessica.

"Just because your a borderline nymphomaniac doesn't mean you get to lip lock with every guy you get a chance to be alone with!" Sam scolded.

"Just here me out, okay?" Jessica pleaded.

"30 seconds." Sam crossed her arms.

"We were just hacking at first, but then our fingers touched the same key for the nuclear launch sequence." Jessica began. "Jonah didn't think too much of it, but it set my skin on fire. I started to tingle all over, and began to sweat, and...you know...the usual symptoms happened. I bit my lip and kept glancing over at him, until...until..."

"Until you attacked him with your mouth in a lust driven craze." Sam said coldly with glaring daggers.

"He didn't seem to mind." Jessica said sheepishly.

"JESSICA!"

"I'm sorry, I'm sorry. I didn't mean it." Jessica shook in fright. "I promise it won't happen again. I give you my word." Sam glared at her shaking friend for a few seconds longer before turning to leave the room.

"I'm taking your word that you won't do it again." Sam growled. Jessica sighed in relief. She cautiously followed her still upset friend to the door. Before the girls could even walk through the door, a wailing siren went off in the building. "Great, now what?" An irritated Sam complained.

Her answer came over an intercome. "Samantha, Jessica." It was Kevin's voice. "Get to the front entrance, now." There was a tone of urgency in his voice that neither girl could ignore. They both began to rush out the door and down the hall.

This chapter, as you can probably tell, was mostly filler, though there were a few key things I tossed in that will become important later on. The next chapter will have action...AND DINOSAURS! YAAAY!

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