Jurassic World (#Wattys2015)

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Bea and Zach climbed on the back of the ambulance look alike car, Gray was already sitting inside over a metal box; Zach turned around and closed the door with force, if Claire did start driving, the last thing he wanted was for the doors to swing open, when he turned around, Bea had sat down next to Gray and they were talking about Owen's raptors.

Zach sat down next to his brother's feet and leaned against the metal box, he looked around the car, this clearly wasn't an ambulance, it looked like a tech kind of car but he wasn't sure that the things inside the various boxes and containers were just computers. Next to Bea and Gray a small sliding metal window was pushed open scaring Bea who jumped against Gray, making Gray hit Zach's cheekbone with one of his knees.

"Shit woman, you scared the living days out of me!" barked Bea as she turned to find Claire staring at them from the other side of the small window, her hand over her chest as Claire gave Bea an apologetic smile.

"Are you guys ok back there?" asked Claire, she looked at Gray and then turned her eyes back to Zach as he rubbed his cheek.

"Yeah" answered Gray "What happens now? How long do we have to stay here?"

"We have to wait until Owen calls us to tell us we can head to the park" explained Claire "That means when they have an idea of where the I-Rex might be"

"Do you think the girls will find the I-Rex?" asked Gray, he leaned over his knees and looked at his aunt.

"I really hope they do" whispered Claire.

"They'll find her" answered Bea, she looked at Gray and gave him a smile when he turned to look at her. "I promise they will"

"Could that thing kill the raptors?" asked Zach, Bea looked at him and then looked down at her hands, she was going to leave that answer to Claire.

"Yes" Claire said, she glanced from one of her nephews to the other "She could, she's incredibly strong," she made a pause "Not to mention incredibly smart"

There was a silence, Claire scanned the faces of the three youngsters and begged that Owen and his raptors could track down the I-Rex and kill it; she was lost in her thoughts when the ringing of a phone snapped her back to reality.

Claire rapidly turned around and grabbed her phone that rested over the passenger seat, but it wasn't her phone, she frowned and turned to look at the kids.

"It's mine!" sang Bea, she pulled her phone out of her shorts and answered as Claire looked at her "Hey, how are you?"

"Who is it?" asked Claire.

"Lowery" answered Bea "Yeah, Claire wanted to know who it was" Bea frowned and bit her lower lip "Umm, yeah, yeah I get it"

"What's happening?" asked Claire.

"He needs to talk to you" explained Bea, she passed Claire her phone "Says he can't get a signal to your phone"

Claire frowned, she took Bea's phone and pressed it against her ear as she looked down at her phone, it was working fine, she shrugged and listened to Lowery.

"What do you mean they are taking things?" asked Claire, her frown got deeper.

"They are taking files, Claire, they are deleting things too!" exclaimed Lowery to Claire.

"Can you find a way to stay in the control room?" asked Claire, "We are on our way there, do you think you could hide there?"

"What do you think I'm doing right now?" asked Lowery "I'm hiding here but they have guns, I hear them talking about some money and some deal with Wu, or something like that"

"Deal? What do you mean a money deal?" gasped Claire "Do you have any clue of what's happening down at the lab?"

"No" said Lowery, his voice getting lower "I think they came up from the lab, they have files from down there"

"Lowery" started Claire, she covered her face with frustration "Stay hidden, I'll get there and we can figure this out, but be careful"

"You are the one that has to be careful" said Lowery "That I-Rex abomination is out there"

Claire chuckled and hung up, she took a deep breath before she uncovered her face and handed the phone back to Bea.

"Things are getting worse aren't they?" whispered Zach.

"They are" answered Claire.

"It's Hoskins, isn't he?"

Claire looked at Bea, she didn't have to nod for Bea to understand that it was Hoskins the one making things worse.

It always was him.

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She looked around the thick forest, as she had made her way through the trees she had heard less and less things moving around; not that it really bothered her the silence that was starting to take over her surroundings.

She got in all fours and narrowed her eyes, above her the sun was starting to get lower, a tingling all along her body told her that danger was starting to approach, she crouched further into the ground and stood still as she listened closely, finally after a few minutes of waiting she heard it.

A hoard of soft sounds was making its way to her, but the sounds were getting closer and stronger; she narrowed her eyes even more and then turned her back to the direction of the sounds and made her way towards a bunch of thick trees; they could provide her cover.

With extreme agility, she walked into a thicker part of the forest doing her best not to make a sound; still walking on all fours she ventured into a part of the forest that had started to be engulfed in shadows, with the sun setting the shadows would eventually provide a better cover, but there was no way she could know that.

Or was there?

She felt a shiver run down her whole body as she took in the information of the surroundings and then she slowly started to merge with the foliage around her; the danger approaching had no idea what waited for them in the thick, dark forest. She crouched as low as possible and kept her full body alert to any kind of movement and the approaching noise.

Her yellow eyes flashed as a sun ray hit them, but she didn't flinch.

She never flinched.