The Heir

Chapter Nine

We got into a car and started driving to the amphitheater that my cousin was finishing. Ian stopped the car and we all got out, running to the infant. I smiled at it and cooed, "You want you and your daddy to go back home? Yes, you do!" Ian helped me get the baby in the car as I held onto it. 

Ian got in the driver's seat, "If the adult sees us again with his baby, isn't her going to be like: You!" Ian said with a deep voice, making me laugh, "There may be some angry recognition. And he might take my wife away again. Do we want to risk this?" I smiled and held the infant as it wiggled, "Who knows, it might just be happy to see us."

Some security guards pointed their guns at Ian, "Hey! What the hell do you think you're doing?" I glared at them, "We're taking the kid and you're fired." The guards looked at me and lowered their guns, "Mrs. Hammond!" Sarah looked at me, "How will the adult find us?" Ian nodded, "Follow the screams." 

We drove down the road and I pointed, "Found Daddy." Ian looked at me from the rearview mirror, "I was here the whole time." I cackled as Ian moved to where the Rex could see us and Sarah sighed, "It's too drugged!" Ian growled, "He won't know we have it unless it makes some sound!" I whistled loudly and looked at the infant, "Sorry, little buddy. This will hurt." Before I could even punch the little bugger the male roared and Sarah whispered, "He knows." Ian reversed it as the adult male followed us, in a rage.

Sarah held onto the bar, "Ian, slow down a little!" Ian shook his head, "I don't think so!" The infant roared and I grinned, "The little man is almost fully awake. You know where you're going?" Ian pointed, "The waterfront's on the other side of these warehouses!" I smile, "Well, I would say make a way through." Ian turned right, crashed into the warehouse, and stopped to lure the adult.

Ian helped me out, "Okie dokie. You have to follow her now." I started running through the warehouse with the infant in my arms as Ian and Sarah followed behind me and the T-Rex crashed through, madder than ever. 

We ran past my cousin who was in his car and up to the boat to put the baby back in the cargo hold. I saw that my cousin was confused as we ran back off the boat and he yelled, "Cousin! What have you done with it?! I want that infant!" All three of us jumped into the water and started swimming to dry land, I laughed as I swam to see my cousin walking into the cargo hold to get the baby Rex back, "Fucking moron." I heard the roar of the adult male as my cousin's screams filled the air. 

We ran back onto the boat and closed the cargo doors as Sarah tranquilized the adult. The adult looked into my eyes as it slowly lowered and Ian hugged me tightly, "I say that we never agree to meet your father again." I nodded into his chest, "I agree." I turned and nodded at Sarah, who nodded back as the cargo door closed.

---------------------------------------------The Next Afternoon-------------------------------------------------------

We all sat on the couch with the newest member of our family, Owen Grady, who is seventeen, and watching the news. Owen, turns out was excited to hear from me and turned down all those couples so I could adopt him. The people at the orphanage were surprised that we wanted to adopt a seventeen-year-old boy, but Owen was excited. The news reporter zoomed into the cargo hold of the ship, "There's a really first-rate shot of the deck of the ship and the cargo hold that, for the moment anyway, contains the animal itself, presumably with the infant alongside. By our calculations, they would be nearing the halfway point of this trip." 

I looked at Kelly and Owen, who were sitting in between Ian and me. Owen hasn't stopped smiling since we brought him home and showed him his room. All his to decorate. I slowly fell asleep but jerked away when the reporter mentioned my father.

"We're going to take a look at our interview earlier today with John Hammond. He's the former head of InGen Bio-Engineering, who passed it down to his daughter, Clarissa Hammond, now known as Clarissa Malcolm, the man now woman who is now forward spearheading this movement not only to return the animals to their island but to keep the island itself intact."

I smiled at the interview of my father as he talked, making a mental reminder to visit him, "It is absolutely imperative that we work with the Costa Rican Department of Biological Preserves to establish a set of rules for the preservation and isolation of that island. These creatures require our absence to survive, not our help. My daughter has shown me that. She was right the whole time and I wish for her to forgive me for not believing her. If we could only step aside and trust in nature, as my daughter's husband once said to me, 'Life will find a way'. With InGen in my daughter's hands, the world will be a better place."

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A couple of months later, my father passed and I only wish that Owen and Kelly got to spend more time with him. I made up with my father after my harsh words to him and I didn't have the guilt of hate after he passed. My father is proud of me and I am proud of him. He's paved the way for new science.

But Jurassic Park will never happen. You can't pay me to make it happen. I just wish my father told me why the dinosaurs didn't want to harm me. He mentioned Henry Wu on his death bed, but wouldn't go into details. I guess I'll have to find him and get answers myself.