VI

Jane's pov

With my hand I wipe the sweat from my forehead, straightening my back. My ass is starting to become sore from sitting for almost an hour. Me and Owen are currently at his place, working on our machines. I'm almost finished. Mine don't have much to fix unlike Owen.

The past hour after the incident we hadn't spoke much words. Comfortable silence loomed over us. My thoughts are elsewhere, thinking about what happened not a long ago. I could be dead. I thought. They had free room to eat me. But they didn't. What made them let me go? Is it that stuff I injected into myself 22 years ago? Or is it something else? What's so different about me from others? Why no dinosaur killed me yet when they had opportunity.

"You want to talk about it?" Owen broke the silence and I know he's looking at me. He must've noticed the distant look on my face.

"About what?" I tried to play dump, hoping to avoid talking about his raptors letting me live.

"You know about what. You're unusually quiet. And you does it only when's something bothering you." Of course he know me better than anyone. In the end he's my best friend. I sigh.

"It's, what's making me different from others? When you and the new guy were inside the paddock, they didn't hesitate to attack, well, the kid, but then Blue jumps at me and then let me go? Why?" I talk while giving half attention to cleaning the mud from my wheels on my machine. I continue after short pause. "It's like with Rexy 22 years ago. She had the chance to kill me but no. She let me go, just like your raptors. And I don't know why."

I never told Owen about the part with the three liquids. Until I don't know what are they, he don't need to know. Owen is quiet for a while.

"I don't know, too. But it's better than have you gone. Looks like instead of 'men charmer' you are 'dinosaur charmer'." Owen's voice lack with sarcasm and I can hear him smiling with amusement. I can only roll my eyes with smile, because it looks to be true. I appreciate dinosaurs more than men. Won't tell why.

I turn my head at Owen, making a dramatic hurt face with gasp. "And I thought I charmed you the first time we saw each other. You hurt my feelings so bad." I place my hand where my heart beat, faking hurt.Owen stands up and walk up to me with smirk, getting on one knee and picking up my hand like the royal fictional princes to princesses.

"I'm terribly sorry for hurting your feelings, your highness. Your undying beauty blow my eyes whenever I look at you-u-u-u." At the end Owen start laughing, not being able to play 'serious' anymore and i with him. These are the moments I love. When we joke or flirt with each other for fun, take my mind off things and the stress and just relax.

Our laugh dies and silence again fall upon us, and my mood drop too when I remember another thing. Owen notices it and sit beside me on the long chair, wrapping an arm around my shoulders.

"Don't think about it. It will give you stress and stress will give you wrinkles." I almost laugh at that. Almost.

"It's not that." Owen look confused for a while before asking.

"Again another nightmare?" I nod. Owen knows about my nightmares and what is every one about because I tell him everytime I have one, except the ones where is he too. Few time he even witnessed me having one and I'm thankful when he was there. "What was this one about?"

I remain quiet at first, bitting my bottom lip. "I was back in the main building at the Jurassic Park. Rexy, my uncle, Ellie, Ian, Tim and Lex were there." I pause, a distant look on my face again. "They all were dead. Bittes and scratches covered their bodies. And then jumped at me a velociraptor. It felt so real that I mistaked it with reality when I woke up."

I don't have to look to know Owen's giving me a sympathetic look. He squeeze my shoulder. "When I saw them there on the ground, without a hint of live in their eyes, I lost the reason to life and only wanted to lay there with them. Dead."

"Don't you dare to say things like that, sweetcheeks. I don't know what I would do if I lost you." Owen says like a stern parent. Suddenly a certain person jumped on my mind.

"What about Claire?" I know I got Owen when he put on innocent confused face. But I know better. He still has hots for her. Good for me. It's one of the topics I like to tease him with.

"What about her?"

"Don't play dumb with me, Owen. I know you better than you yourself. I know you still have hots for herrr." I tease with smirk, nudging him.

"I don't have hots for her anymo-"

"Don't even think about trying to tell me I'm wrong!" I quickly added when Owen opened his mouth to object, silencing him. Knowing he can't win this one, he looks down with slight red cheeks. I turn my head when I hear the sound of coming car.

"Speaking of the devil, your girlfriend is here." Right away Owen stand up to face the white car parking. Definitely not having feelings for her. Dumbass. Claire exits the car in her white outfit and those damn heels like I remember her this morning.

"Mr. Grady. Jane. I need you to come take a look at something." Claire walk up to us and I turn in my seat to face her. The sentence is meant for Owen so i guess I'm not that needed.

"Why are you calling me Mr. Grady?" Owen ask slightly annoyed, crossing arms on his chest.

"And why are you calling me Jane?" I tilt my head, knowing I told her this morning to call me Jay.

"Owen. Jane." She fix herself at Owen's name, saying mine in way that tells 'Im calling you Jane and that's it'. I roll my eyes. Bitch. "If you're not too busy."

"I'm pretty busy." Owen says before taking a sip from my coca-cola. My face turn annoyed.

"He's not. What's up?" I smirk to myself, knowing Owen's cursing me in his head. Instead I look at Claire.

"We have a new attraction. You already know, Jane." Inza, my hybrid dinosaur I'm taking care of, jump into my mind first. Claire gets interrupt by my best friend.

"That's not what you said the last time I saw you." My eyebrows shoot up. What did I miss?

"I'm talking about dinosaurs, Mr. Grady."

"Owen." He cuts in.

"A new species we've made." A fly start annoying and flying around Claire. Owen walk up to her and catches the fly, using his 'badass charm'. He still trying to say he don't have hots for her? Please.

"You just went and made a new dinosaur?" Owen turn and grab a screw.

"Yeah, it's kind of what we do here. The exhibit opens to the public in three weeks. Mr. Masrani wanted me to consult with you." He walk back up to his 'girlfriend' with cocky smirk.

"You wanna consult here or in my bungalow?" I almost gag when he say that, only getting choked on the coca-cola I was handed back. I don't mind funny flirting with Owen, but it's different when he flirt with someone else. Eww.

"I'm still here, you know?" I call out, only to get ignored. Motherfuckers.

"That's not funny." Claire copies my disgusted face.

"A little funny." Owen laugh and walk to the back of his bungalow.

"We'd like you to evaluate the paddock for vulnerabilities."

"Why me? Why not Jay?" We hear Owen ask.

"Because Jane's already training the dinosaur. I guess Mr. Masrani thinks, since you're able to control the raptors..." Clair go follow Owen when he show up from behind the corner, completely ignoring the first part Claire said.

"See, it's all about control with you. I don't control the raptors. It's a relationship. It's based on mutual respect. That's why you and I never had a second date." I can only watch the two talking and bickering.

"Excuse me? I never wanted a second date." Claire protest.

"Who prints out an itinerary for a night out?"

"I'm an organized person."

"What kind of a diet doesn't allow tequila?"

"All of them, actually. And what kind of a man shows up to a date in board shorts?"

"It's Central America. It's hot." They look like an old married couple. Guess I will have to make them one.

"Okay. Okay. Can we just focus on the asset, please?" At this I perk up, my face turning into frown.

"Don't call her asset." I stand up from my spot and slowly walk up to her. "You know, there's this thing. They're alive, just like us. And none of us is asset, so neither are them." Claire is quiet for a while, only now remembering I don't like the word 'asset'.

"I'm fully aware they're alive." Finally the red headed woman speak up.

"You might have made them in a test tube, but they don't know that. They're thinking "I gotta eat. I gotta hunt. I gotta..."" Owen show with his hand fucking. I know he's making a scenar of himself and Claire in his head. "You can relate to at least one of these things. Right?"

Claire roll her eyes but if you look close, you can see that little smile on her face when she walk up to Owen. "I'll wait in the car. You might want to change your shirt. They're very sensitive to smell." And with these last words Claire turn around and went to her car.

I turn to Owen with crossed arms and look that say 'still not having hots for her?'. Owen only shrug his shoulders, going to change his shirt. He really does stink.

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Claire parked by Inza's paddock that's still being built and where I was this morning. When Claire said 'new attraction', I knew she's talking about Inza. She's the newest member to the park.

We exit Claire's car and I see Owen look it up and down.

"We've been pre-booking tickets for months. The park needs a new attraction every few years in order to reinvigorate the public's interest. Kind of like the space program. Corprate felt genetic modification would up to the wow factor." Explained Claire as we followed her and up the stairs to get to view room.

"They're dinosaurs. Wow enough." Owen says.

"Not according to our focus groups. The Indominus Rex makes us relevant again." Owen, who's walking in front of me, laugh.

"The Indominus Rex?"

"We needed something scary and easy to pronounce. You should hear a four- year- old try to say 'Archeornithomimus'. Either way Jane call it Inza." I huffed in annoyance when Claire called Inza 'it'.

"You should hear you try to say it." We follow Claire inside and I close the door behind me. Claire tap something into the tablet while Owen look out the giant window to try and see Inza. But she's nowhere to be seen. Probably again camouflaging.

"So what's this thing made of?" Owen ask.

"The base genemone is a t-rex. The rest is classified." At the last sentence Claire hesitate to say it out loud. Not even I know what is Inza made of and I'm supposed to be her trainer.

"You made a new dinosaur, but you don't even know what is it?"

"I'm Inza's trainer but they won't tell me anything. The only Wu said is that they make dinosaurs and others show them to the public." finally after a long time of me being quiet I spoke up, having crossed arms on my chest and looking out the window in the attempt to spot move. I'm sure Inza is watching us but not showing up. What's her plan? Everytime I'm here by the window or in her paddock she shows up.

"Wait, so this is the other dinosaur you said you are training?" From looking out the window Owen look at me, eyebrows up.

"Exactly. Drop a steer, please." I tell the chubby guard sitting by the controller.

"How long has the animal been in there?" Owen ask, concered look on his face.

"Before they put it here, it was in different paddock for different species under Jane's care. They transferred it here after a year." I remember the time they shot like five sleeping darts into Inza to put her to sleep and put her into this paddock because she was giving fight and didn't want to leave my side. Believe me, it wasn't the best sight for me.

"Never seen anything else outside of these walls?" Owen continues asking.

"We can't exactly walk it."

"And you feed it with that?" Owen point at a meat being lowered down for Inza.

"Like this or by me. Depends on when I'm here." I respond.

"Is there a problem?" Claire turn her head to Owen, who didn't return it.

"Animals raised in isolation aren't always the most fuctional." Yeah, I know that too. There isn't much I can do.

"Your raptors are born in captivity." To Claire's statement Owen answer.

"With siblings. They learn social skills. And I imprint on them when they're born. There's trust. The only positive relationship this animal has is with that crane." I give Owen side eye. Does he do it on purpose or he forget everytime I'm Inza's trainer.

"Hellooo. Plus me. She has me. I imprint on Inza and her brother when they hatched. Unfortunately Inza killed him." I say it like it's the most simple thing in the world. Owen look back out the window.

"Then we can only hope it's not that bad." That's good to hear. If I wasn't here for Inza, who knows how would she be then. Claire tap the window, getting frustrated by Inza not showing up. "Where is it?"

"In the basement? Is there a downstairs? Maybe it's in the rec room."

"No. She must be somewhere in her paddock. She was here this morning." I walk along the window, trying to spot the white dinosaur that can camouflage. "She's probably camo-" I get interrupt by the camera system beeping it can't see Inza, confusing others. What's her plan?

"Oh, shit. That doesn't make any sense. These doors haven't been opened in weeks." The chubby worker says.

"Were those claw marks always there?" Owen suddenly call and I run to his side to see claw marks on the wall, just like he said. They weren't there this morning. Something feel off about this situation. Something isn't right.

"Okay, that's it. I'm going in." I decide and turn to go but Owen grab my arm, stopping me.

"Are you crazy? You cant. It's dangerous." His grip only tightens when I try to wriggle out.

"I'm her trainer, Owen, she won't hurt me. There's no need to worry about me." Owen see in my eyes the seriousness and stubborness I recieved from my father and know he can't fight with me about this, so he let me go. With one last look I left the room.

Hey, guys! Sorry for not posting new chapters. I've been busy and didn't have any chapters written but now I'm catching up. Soon will be another chapter out. Bye!<3