Chapter XII | Old Friends
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"Claire?"
The red-head turn to eye the now young adult who's walking towards her, a smile formed on her face as she brought her into an embrace. "How are you? Look at you, all grown up." She exclaimed as she place her hand on her shoulder.
Emily chucked at that. "Yeah."
"I can see you two have know each other." Eli said to them.
"Yes we did. Three years ago." Claire replied.
"She was my boss." Emily deadpanned.
Eli nods his head as he lead the girls to his office where a large computer desk as he stood next to it; " There was a tracking system in place at the park." He show the hologram of Isla Neblaur. " Radio frequency ID chips in each dinosaur." He explains.
"I remember." Claire said. For Emily she knew that Spartan removed his ID chip, which makes it difficult to find him.
"Right, so if we could access that system, our ability to locate and capture those animals safely, will increase ten-fold. We need your handprint to access the system. But what I really need, Claire... ...is you." Eli explains. Now Emily feels left out. "Moving endangered species isn't exactly legal. But it's the right thing to do. No one knows this park as well as you do and we need that expertise."
"How many can you save?" Emily asked.
"Eleven Species." He replied. "For sure, I mean, more, if we can. But time is against us I'm afraid. There is one animal, in particular that poses a real challenge for us." He pulled up a profile of a familiar dinosaur.
"Blue." Emily mutter out.
" I didn't know she had a name. But Blue, is potentially the second most intelligent piece of life on this planet. And she's the last of her kind. She must be preserved." Eli explains.
Emily snorts. "She can pick up your scent a mile off. You will never capture her." She told him.
"Well... We thought you might know someone who could help. Maybe you two can convince him."
Emily smirks, she know just the guy.
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Claire drove both herself and Emily towards Owen's property where the former Raptor trainer himself building a house, the girls get out of the car as they walk towards him. Emily smirked as she saw Claire fixing herself up.
"Hey, Owen!" Claire called out, but Owen ignored him as he continue building. "Owen!"
Owen groaned as he place his hammer away before he turns to the girls, " Back for more, huh?" He wave his hand, "Hey, Em."
"Owen." She greeted him back with a wave.
"Can I buy you a beer?" Claire asked him.
"You mean bring 'em, or we gonna like, go somewhere?" Owen questioned.
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At the bar, the friends sat together in a booth with drinks. Emily ordered a Blueberry Mojito instead of an alcoholic drinks like her college friends. While for Claire, who's drunk as she laughs about her breakup with Owen.
Emily tried her best not to record the situation going on, she manage not to do so while drinking her drink."- You left, because I told you to." Claire argued.
"And then, I left. Because you didn't wanna live in a van on the side of the road." Owen explains.
"No, no, no. Because you wouldn't let me drive the damn van for 5 minutes." Claire told him that made Emily snickered.
Owen shrugged his shoulders, "I'm chivalrous. What can I do?" He asked while drinking his beer.
"You are so stubborn." Claire mutter.
"Well. Look at you now. You're saving the world." He told her.
"Well, I'm trying, at least." Claire said.
"Well, you're doing good so far." Emily chimed in.
Claire smiled at her, "Thanks." She then turns to Owen. "You can't just run away from everything, Owen."
"So, you're what? Dating an accountant now?" Owen changes the subject. " An insurance actuary? Your skin looks nice." He commented, "Dermatologist?"
"Owen." Emily tries to cuts him off.
"Does he check you for moles?" That made Emily giggled which Owen smiled at her at that.
"This is not why we're here, okay?" Claire jumped in, seemingly done with this conversation.
"Yeah, I know why we're here. Lockwood's little flunkie called me. Rescue op. Save the dinosaurs from an island that's about to explode. What could go wrong?"
"Really man?" Emily asked.
"I'm going." Claire told him.
"Don't!"
"I don't have a choice." She told him.
"What, of course you have a choice!" He exclaimed.
"So what, I should just... Build my own cabin, play pool and drink beer all day while these dinosaurs go extinct?" Claire questioned him.
"Yeah. I like pool." Owen mutter.
"Blue is alive." Claire told him, somehow she manage to hit a nerve in him. "Jesus, Claire."
"You raised her, Owen. You... You spent years of your life working with her. You're just gonna let her die?" Emily asked him, she knew that she'll never left her Indominus Rex die on that island.
"Well, yeah." Owen replied.
"Come on. You're a better man than you think you are." Claire tried to reason with him.
But he just snorts. "You should write for fortune cookies."
Claire let out a sigh at her failed attempt to reason with him, "Forget it. I... There's a chartered flight leaving tomorrow morning. You're on the manifest. I just thought I should let you know." She then grab her thing as she stood up to leave. "Come on Emily."
"Yeah." Emily stood up and left with Claire while leaving Owen behind.
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Later in the evening Emily sat in her bed, laptop in her lap as she watches video back in 2012 where a baby Spartan was showing. She clutches his baby tooth when he's around six months old, now he's around eight years old now.
"This is Spartan, he's... four weeks old know? I can't remember." Emily giggled at her fourteen year old self. "Anyways we're learning a new trick today, are we boy?" She squealed as she rows of small teeth digging into her arm. "Ow! Can you go get your sister? Can you go get Hazel?" Spartan jumped from her lap as she squawk out two times before an identical version of himself appear but with hazel eyes (hence the name).
"Hey girl." She cooed as she stroke her head, but for Spartan to screech at her to get back.
"Oh someone's jealous." Younger Emily laughed as she saw the sibling fight.
The young adult close her laptop as she saw her half packed luggage at the corner of her room, she made her decision of leaving with Claire to Isla Nublar to rescue the dinosaur. Mostly Spartan, there's a slim chance that he might not recognize her. It has been three years since the last time they saw each other was the fight between Blue, Rexy against Spartan.
She sets her alarm for five in the morning as she place her laptop on her desk before going to sleep.
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Around six in the morning — Emily woke up as she put on a dark blue colored crop top with black jeans and boots, she place her blue plaid jacket on while tying her hot pink hair in a pony tail.
She grab her luggage as she left her room and made her ways towards a room where her father is sleeping, she quietly walked inside before placing a gentle kiss on his cheek. "I'll see you later, dad. I promise." She whispered to him before tucking in his blanket.
She got out of his as she did the same thing to her grandfather before going outside to her car, she placing her luggage on the passenger seat before hopping inside — she start the car and headed towards where Claire is.
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She met up with Claire and her co-workers to an airplane that's headed to Isla Nublar, she was surprise that Owen was there. Claire introduce the two an asian woman named Zia Rodriguez and a young black man around Emily's age, maybe a year or two older named Franklin Webb.
Emily notice his nerves were off the charts as he clutches his bags tightly in his hands, "Nervous?" She asked him.
"Would you ride a thousand pound horse with big wheels on the sides?" He frantically asked her.
"Well, I did train a dinosaur that's larger than a T-Rex that escape his pen and made a rampage throughout a park." She replied.
Franklin's eyes widen at that. "We're not compatible." He told her.
Emily chuckled as she chew her gum, "You're cute."
Most of the flight, Emily looked out the window as she thought of her beloved Indominus ran through her head. I'm coming boy.
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