III

Third person pov

Finally the jeeps stopped by the main building and Jane along with the others stepped out, following Hammond inside. When Jane's eyes landed on the inside design and two big dinosaur skeletons, one of those skeletons being a t-rex about to bite brachiosaurus, she gasped. Above the two skeletons is a writting, saying 'WHEN DINOSAURS RULED THE EARTH'.

"G'day. Now, the most advanced amusement park in the entire world incorporating all the latest technologies. And I'm not talking about rides. Everybody has rides. No, we've made living biological attractions so astounding that they'll capture the imagination of the entire planet." While talking, Hammond lead them up the stairs. Jane would listen but she found these skeletons more interesting than what's Hammond saying. 

"Oh boy, they're beautiful." Jane breath out, stopping walking and making Alan bumb into her, grabbing onto her shoulders to keep her standing.

"These skeletons?" Alan asked, looking the way Jane does. To answer him, she nodded. "Yeah"

"When you get to see the living t-rex, then you'll have sparks in your eyes." And like Hammond said, Jane's eyes sparkled at the thought of her seeing the t-rex soon and eagerly followed the old man to some kind of room reminding them of small theater. 

"Why don't you all sit down? Donald, sit down. Here he comes. Well, here I come." They did as Hammond said, Jane sitting between Ian and Ellie. They watched the man in white walk down next to the screen, where appeared second Hammond but in suit, and they like talked. 

"Hello."

"Say hello." Even though they found it wierd, they said 'hello' or waved at second Hammond.

"Hello, John. Yes, I've got lines." Real Hammond pulled out cards with something written in there, maybe what he has to say.

"Well, fine, I guess. But how did I get here?" Screen Hammond asked.

"Well, let me show you. First, I'll need a drop of blood. Your blood." Screen Hammond reached like his hand to real Hammond and he touched the screen where Hammond's finger is, pretending he took a blood from him.

"Ow. That hurt."

"Relax, John. It's all part of the miracle of cloning." Right as real Hammond said that, on the screen started appearing more Hammonds, coming from the first Hammond's back.

"Cloned from what? Loy extraction hasn't recreated an intact DNA strand." Alan turned to his friends sitting on his left, all four of them leaning closer to each other to hear what the other one is saying. 

"Not without massive sequence gaps." Ian added.

"Paleo DNA, from what source? Where do you get 100 million-year-old dinosaur blood?" Asked Ellie for all of them.

"Well, we're about to find out." Giving them the answer no answer, Jane turned her attention back to the screen and the adults as well. They watched as something called Mr. DNA flew from screen Hammond's finger and it started explaining how they've got dino DNA and are able to make living dinosaurs. 

It ended by an egg cracking and from it appearing brachiosaurus. "This score is only temporary. It all has very dramatic music, of course. Bum, bum, Bum, bum. A march or something. It hasn't been written yet. And then, the tour moves on." Hammond pressed something on controller and the bars moved to trap them in their seats, something like at parks on rides. They started spin to left and Jane's eyes widen in interest at the sight of laboratory, mostly men but also few women are working there inside. However, the dinosaur eggs are what caught Jane's interest. She would like to look at them closely, even better, by there when they hatch. But they had not even ten seconds to look at the lab.

"Wait a minute. How do you interrupt the cellular mitosis?" 

"Can't we see the unfertilised eggs?" Alan and Ellie asked, also being interest in the lab and it's techniques. But the only Hammond said is 'shortly'. Jane frowned at his answer, having no patience to wait any longer. She wants to see the eggs now. Thankfully she isn't alone in it. 

"One, two, three." At three the four pushed the bars trapping them and made their way into the lab, Hammond and the lawyer following them.

"Good day, Henry." Hammond greet some scientist man writting something and he greeted back. Jane ignored them and ran to where the eggs are placed, her hands grabbing the edge while trying to get a better look at the eggs, but her height prevents her from doing so. Her attention was taken by an egg shaking, meaning it's about to hatch. They came right on time!

"Guys, come look at this!" Waving the adults over, they surroundned the eggs but their attention is mainly on the shaking egg. 

"Perfect timing. I'd hoped they'd hatch before I had to go to the boat." 

"Henry, why didn't you tell me? I insist on being here when they're born." Hammond pulled hospital gloves on and came closer, watching the newborn dinosaur hatch while talking to it in 'baby' voice. When it's head broke out, it gave a weak shriek. 

"They imprint on the first creature they come in contact with. Helps them to trust me. I've been present for the birth of every creature on this island." Hammond laughed and the little dino started looking around at every person that's surrounding it. 

"Hi, little one." When it's eyes landed on Jane, she couldn't help and greet the small dino. It's beautiful and amazing adventure seeing a dino hatch. It gives her the happines like when she dig out an interesting piece of skeleton or fossil. 

"Surely not the ones that have bred in the wild." Ian intervene, appearing on Hammond's right to get a look at the creature entering the world. 

Henry, the scientist, stood on Alan's left. "Actually they can't breed in the wild. Population control is one of our security precuations. There's no unauthorised breeding in Jurassic Park." Jane furrowed her eyebrows, trying to puzzle what this scientist mean and an idea poped in her head, turning her head to ask Henry.

"So every dinosaur you created and hatched is one gender?" Henry grinned with nod, impressed by the 7-year-old thinking.

"Correct. All the animals in Jurassic park are female. We've engineered them that way." Jane's attention was again taken by the dinosaur when it shrieked. Henry handed Hammond handkerchiefs to clean the newborn dino while explaining. "Blood temperature seems like about high 80s, maybe."

When they got out the dino from it's egg, Jane picked it up and examined it, interested how can something living last in there for idk how long. But that's like in woman's belly. She ran a finger along the inside wall, sticky slime staying on her finger and making her grimace at the feeling of it. "Ew."

"Uncle, look." Alan was about to take it from his niece, but the machine that's turning the eggs grabbed it from Jane's hands bafore Alan could touch it and placed it back in the nest, leaving the Grants fazed. 

"Rude. I don't like that thing." The youngest girl grumpled to herself, her uncle hearing it as he's standing right behind her. 

"Same here." 

"But how do you know they're all female? What, does somebody go out in the park and pull up the dinosaur's skirts?" Ian asked the scientist, Jane laughing at the image of it. Imagine a velociraptor having pink tutu skirt and someone looking under it.

"We control their chromosomes. It's really not that difficult. All vertebrate embryos are inherently female. They just require an extra hormone given at the right developmental stage to make them male. We simply deny them that." Henry explained to them, mainly to the one who asked as he sat on a chair. 

"Deny them that?" Ellie asked. Having enough of watching the dino eggs, Jane started looking around the lab, hoping something catches her eye while listening to Ian.

"John, the kind of control you're attempting is not possible. If there's one thing the history of evolution has taught us is that life will not be contained. Life breaks free. Expands to new places and it crashes through barriers, painfully, maybe even dangerously but there it is."

"You're implying that a group composed entirely of female animals will breed." Henry tried to understand what Ian mean, putting it all in shorter sentence.

"No, I'm simply saying that life finds a way." Jane tilted her head at Ian's thinking, backing and feeling she hit a table and leaned on it with her arms behind her back, feeling something like stings in her arm but shrugged it off, watching her uncle pull on gloves and take the newborn dino from Hammond. She can see in his eyes the amazement of holding a 100 million-year-old creature that once was extinct. Well, not anymore. 

"What species is this?" Henry look up from what he was writting, looking at the dino then at Alan.

"It's a velociraptor."

"You bred raptors?" Henry gave Alan only nod. Jane bit the inside of her cheek, eyes fixed on the dino everyone seems to watch. What once was only stinging started to hurt when she leaned even more and 'owed', turning around and pulling her arm off what was that. And her eyes widen in horror when she found three injections half empty, meaning the other half of those liquids were injected into her. How could she not notice it? Was her arm numb or something when it didn't hurt at all? 

"Oh shit." Ignoring how it even happened, the troublemaker pushed the set of injections further away from her and hope no one saw her. The second thing she's hoping in is that the three different liquids which were accidentaly injected into her won't have any affect on her or kill her. God know what sort of liquids these are. Rather not gonna tell anyone otherwise this trouble will blow their minds. Better keep it secret.

"Mini Grant, come on." She snapped her head Ian's way, glaring at him but noticing others aren't in the lab anymore and ran after him, grabbing his out streched arm and following others outside. 

"Stop calling me like that." She hiss through grit teeth, trying to ignore the man in black cocky smirk.

"Never gonna happen." 

~•~

The next thing she knows is standing outside with her uncle, waiting for what will happen. A shriek of velociraptor came from the securited paddock and ran through Jane's ears, making her cringe. 

"Dr. Grant, Jane! As I was saying, we laid on lunch for you before you go into the park. Our gourment chef, Alejandro-" Hammond, who finally caught up with the two Grants and others following, was cut of by the older Grant.

"What are they doing?"

"Oh. Feeding them." Hammond's answer sounded like it's the most obvious thing in the world. Jane raised an eyebrow at the cow being picked up and held above them. Poor cow.

"Alejandro's prepared a delightful menu for us. Chilean sea bass. Shall we?" Jane ignored the old man and followed the cow closer being carried above the paddock, others following right after her. She wanna see how the raptors kill their food. When the cow was lowered into the paddock, they could only see the leaves shaking and hear the sound of the cow being torred and eated massively. Jane cringed in disgust at the sound of meat torred and bones broken. Now she's glad for her height.

"They should all be destroyed." A sudden man's voice spoke from their left and man in jungle outfit and hat approached them.

"Robert Muldoon. My game warden from Kenya. Bit of an alarmist, but knows more about raptors than anyone." Hammond introduced the man to them as Alan went and shook with him hands, ready to ask questions. 

"What's their growth rate?"

"They're lethal at eight months, and I do mean lethal. I've hunted most things that can hunt you, but how these things move." Muldoon answered, leaning against the unelectrified part.

"Fast for a biped?" Alan continued asked.

"Cheetah speed. 50, 60 miles per hour if they ever got out in the open. And they're astonishing humpers." If she had pen and paper, Jane would write it down so let's hope she won't forget these informations. They will be useful someday later.

"Yes. That's why we're taking extreme precautions." Hammond interrupt, turning to Ellie then to talk as Alan kept asking Muldoon. That left Jane and Ian, standing in front of each other.

"If velociraptors and t-rex had a fight, I wonder who would win. But that depends of how many raptors attack." An idea poped in the 7-year-old head and suggest, making the man in black look down at her.

"You think? Let's say 3 or 4 raptors attack the mighty t-rex who has to fight them of all by herself. Who do you think would win?" Ian croushed down to Jane's height, waiting for her response as she started to think. 

"I think t-rex would be smarter and stronger to take them down, but it would take her some time to do so." Ian's eyebrows shot up in surprise at Jane's thinking. Never met a kid that would be so obsessed with dinosaurs, mainly t-rex. 

"We bred eight originally, but when she came in she took over the pride and killed all but two of the others. That one, when she looks at you, you can see she's working things out. That's why we have to feed them like this. She had them all attacking the fences when the feeders came." All of their attention again took Muldoon.

"The fences are electrified, right?" At Ellie's question Jane looked at the fences, the same writting saying 'DANGER 10 000 Volt' so she suppose they are. With these fences raptors can't get out without being electrified.

"That's right, but they never attack the same place twice. They were testing the fences for weaknesses systematically. They remember." Jane pressed her lips in line at Muldoon's words, whipping her head around when a sound from the paddock sounded. Straps that once held the cow pulled from the paddock torn and without the cow. 

"So they're highly intelligent." Stated the youngest one of them, taking a breath when she looked away from the torn straps. 

"Yes. Well, who's hungy?" At this Jane's stomach grumpled, having not eaten since morning. She was too tired to bring herself to eat and relies on the food here. 

"Let's go then. Mini Grant is being hungry." Jane squeled when Ian picked her up from looking at the paddock and held her on his hip, ignoring the glare she's giving him and smirked.

"Hey! Put me down."