- SEVEN: FIRST GLIMPSE

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paddock 11
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The construction crews were on break as Claire, Owen, and Noora got out of the car. Percy had gone to the control room, as he needed to get some information on the dinosaur before he checked it's vitals. Owen stared up at the towering walls, looking unconvinced and more than a little uneasy.

"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. Kinda like the space program." Claire walked over to the flight up steps leading up to the observation tower.

Owen and Noora followed.

"Corporate felt genetic modification would up the "wow" factor." Claire informed the two.

"They're dinosaurs. "Wow" enough." Owen and Noora were not amused. Noora had remembered working with two of the dinosaurs, they were beautiful and seemingly kind and protective creatures. Until the first ate its sister. Of course Noora didn't know about That and was simply told she wasn't aloud to work with the dinosaurs anymore.

"Not according to our focus groups. The Indominus rex makes us relevant again." Claire smirked. Owen couldn't believe his ears and grins.

"The Indominus rex, Noora why didn't you tell me you were working with them?" Noora simply shrugged.

"We needed something scary and easy to pronounce. You should hear a four year old try to say "Archaeornithomimus."" Noora had frowned. "You should hear you try to say it..."

They entered the observation room. Supervisor Nick, who Noora used to see all the time was sitting at his desk on his lunch break, munching a sandwich.

Besides them he was the only one present. They walked over to one of the windows. Noora looked around the habitat from the safety of the observation room. Trying to find the beautiful creatures. But all she could see was a dense jungle.

"What's this thing made of...?" Owen asked

"The base genome is a T. rex, the rest is... classified." Noora rolled her eyes. Claire didn't know what it was made of.

"You made a new type of dinosaur but you don't even know what 'it is?" Claire was annoyed at Noora's comment, and questioning.

"The lab delivers us new assets and we show them to public."

"How is that any good if the public dosent understand that it could be a dangerous predator" Noora asked.

"I wasn't asking for your opinion was I? Can we drop a steer, please?" Claire asked nick. An annoyed Nick pressed a button.

"Why don't you file down the judgement, I'm not the one possibly creating new enemies for the human species" Owen chuckled, before he started his questioning.

"How long has the animal been in here?"

"All its life." Claire responded.

"Never seen anything outside of these walls?" Owen asked

"We can't exactly walk it... but there was one person, Noora, who worked with them when they were newly hatched they grew rather fond of your daughter and seemed to want to protect her at all costs" There was a rumbling noise outside as a huge crane lowered a hunk of beef down from above.

Noora started to grow concerned. "And when I was gone, you feed it with that?" She asked pointing at the crane.

Claire wasn't getting what Owen and Noora might have been thinking, she seemed bemused and still mildly annoyed.

"Is there a problem?" She asked the two.

"Animals raised in isolation aren't always the most functional." Owen said.

"Your raptors are born in captivity..."

"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. At least she knows that means food." Noora spoke like she was talking to a baby.

The father and daughter duo seemed to hey increasingly concerned, but Claire wasn't sharing there opinion. Instead she adopted a patronizing and sarcastic tone.

"So she needs a friend? We should schedule play dates? That sort of thing?" Claire joked.

"Probably not a good idea." Owen spoke his demeanour darkening. Noticing the dinosaur hadn't emerged from the jungle to eat the meat, Claire leaned over and taped on the glass.

"Where is it...?" Claire asked impatiently. Now it was the Grady duo's turn to be sarcastic pains in her ass.

"What, is it in the basement? Is there a downstairs? Maybe it's in the rec room." Owen commented.

"Maybe it's getting it's fork and knife, you know how dinosaurs love to be elegant" Owen smiled at his daughter who crossed her arms and looked at Claire was a look of indifference. Ignoring them, Claire shook her head.

"It was just here. We were just here." Claire whispered.

"Yes and suddenly two twenty foot tall dinosaurs disappeared without a trace, you sure you and Masrani weren't imagining things?" Noora asked.

Claire went to one of the thermal imaging consoles and activated it. It performed a scan of the jungle. After a moment it emitted an annoyed buzzing sound and flashed the readout "NO THERMAL SIGNATURES DETECTED."

Noora eyebrows furrowed as her heart beat picked up.

The other computer screens arranged around the room began to beep in alarm and they all showed the same words. They're not detecting any body heat inside the paddock. The Indominus rex wasn't showing up.

"What did you actually lose the dinosaurs?" Noora asked, surprised.

"Oh, Shoot." Owen walked over to a window at the far end of the room.

"That doesn't make any sense. These doors haven't been opened in weeks." Nick spoke in alarm. Across the room, Owen pointed out the window.

"Were those claw marks always there?"Claire turns and came to look at what he was pointing at, Noora gulped.

"You think it...?" The Realization hit Claire and she began to tremble. "Oh, God!"

Noora had shook Claire. "Hey! Cherry top! Calm down, and get to the control room" Claire had nodded as she bolted out.

"She has an implant in her back! I can track it from the control room!" Claire yelled.

Owen and Noora watched her go, then turned and looked back out the window. By the rear door of the paddock, they could see numerous deep scratch marks in the concrete going up high.

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Claire's car
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Claire was in her Mercedes, she raced back to the main area of the park, and talked on her cell phone.

"We have an asset out of containment! Put ACU on alert! This is not a drill!" She yelled.

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the control room
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Lowery and Vivian were chatting. The Mikaelson's and Masrani were watching the screen. Well only two of the Mikaelson's. The others watched Percy at a computer, downloading all the information on the dinosaur they just saw.

"Even though I didn't meet him until I was thirteen, I definitely considered Carl to be, like, more of a dad than my real dad..." Lowery said. But Vivian wasn't listening as she was sending heart eyes to Percy.

"Noora's so lucky" she pouted as she said that. They heard a beep. On the park map, a blinking red dot indicated trouble in the Restricted Area. The phone rang and Lowery answers it.

"Yeah, hello?" Lowery answered.

"Lowery... get me coordinates on the Indominus." Lowery and a Vivian exchanged confused glances, and the Mikaelson's watched Percy stand up as he started to rapidly type and click on the computer.

"Okay, yeah, uh... let me do... uh, I'm doin' it right now." Lowery gulped as he too started to type and bring the map to the control room's main screen.

PADDOCK 11

Owen, Noora and Nick entered the main area of the enclosure through a side door. Warily, they walked through the jungle to the back wall, where another worker, Ellis was inspecting the claw marks.

Owen and Noora were alert and Nick looked nervous, but they make it over to where Ellis is without hesitation.

Owen felt the deep grooves with his bare hand and the three men stared up at the massive wall looming over them.

"That wall's forty feet high. You really think she could've climbed out?" Nick was skeptical.

Noora thought that was impossible, they would have to climb at-least twenty more feet.

"Depends..."

"On what?"

"What kinda dinosaur they cooked up in that lab..." Owen said as he looked at Nick.

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control room
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The tracking device indicated esd on the map that the dinosaur was still in Paddock 11.

Lowery grew confused "Wait, what the hell? It's in the cage..."

"Well, that's impossible. I was just there!" Claire said through the phone.

"Claire, I'm telling you, she's in the cage...!" Masrani looked up and saw a video feed of the Paddock 11 interior that showed Owen, Noora, Nick and Ellis still inspecting the claw marks.

After a moment the others do, too. The Mikaelson's eyes widened and hearts dropped. Percy had stood up in alarm. "Noora" he whispered.

"What? Wait a second, there are people in there..." lowery said frightened.

"GET 'EM OUT OF THERE! NOW!" Claire gasped, as she yelled out a command.

Percy had took the persons who was next to him's head set. "Noora!" He yelled. Klaus noticed how he had grabbed some car keys and rushed out but Masrani stopped him.

"We have professionals"

"That's my fiancée, to you she's nothing but a number but to me, she the love of my life, so move before I make you" Percy said. Many peoples eyes widened at what he said to the owner of the theme park.

"Paddock 11, this is Control! You need to evacuate the containment..." Vivian was frantic.

Hope had whimpered. Would her sister die?

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paddock 11
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Vivian's voice came through Nick's radio all garbled.

"...area... ...Paddock 11... ...dock 11, do you copy..." Nick answered. He didn't seem concerned, although Noora was already glancing around, feeling suddenly uneasy, her wolf instincts were kicking in. Her eyes flashed red once more as she looked around. Owen sensed something as well.

"Yeah, what's the problem?" Nick asked, casual.

"It's in the cage! It's in there with you!" Vivian yelled.