The helicopter ride back to the Costa Rican mainland was uncomfortably cramped but I also enjoyed it because it was an excuse to snuggle with ALexis and her friend Charlotte, both of whom were definitely a little too cuddly.
Dad didn't seem to have a problem with Ellie snuggling against him as close as she possibly could without sitting in Dad's lap.
Charlotte and Lex are currently leaning over me and having a whispered conversation with each other about Lex's crazyDinosaur Cowboy boyfriend, but it's okay because I'm crazy in a hot and cute boyfriend way.
Which are words I never thought I'd hear from a woman who cloned herself…but hey, it's not like I knew enough about her situation to even begin to understand why she didn't make a baby the natural way.
'Honestly that was the worst part of the movie to me when Wu drops the boom that Charlotte cloned herself.'
I preferred the version of a grieving father unable to cope with the loss of his baby girl, resurrecting his dead daughter through cloning and trying to replicate the life she had lived previously, though that was a flawed plan because Maisie could never be Charlotte just like Charlotte could never be Maisie.
But when you're old, rich and grieving, throw your money at whatever you want and hope it sticks.
On another note I'm not really all that comfortable with Ellie's cuddly attitude with Dad, not after she's been looking at me so differently since first the power station and now with Rexy, I feel that the looks she's giving me while cuddling Dad are meant to make me jealous or something.
Tim on the other hand is making his move on Jessica Harding, okay truthfully the kid is sleeping with his head resting on her tits, while sitting on her lap, but she doesn't seem to mind and has even wrapped an arm around the kid to hold him in place, Muldoon gave up a seat for me to sit in, said he'd rather dangle his legs over the pond than have to sit so close together with anyone…especially Malcolm.
Hammond is up front in the co-pilot chair, but truthfully having Lex and Charlotte both practically sitting on my lap is not the most comfortable thing and it's not because they're heavy…but because well…they aren't.
But it's because I'm seventeen and they are both gorgeous, so you know, no boner control whatsoever.
Arriving at an Ingen helipad near the beach teams of medical staff in bright emergency responders colors wait for us, Lex's mother is here and hovers over children hugging and kissing them for dear life and then repeating the same process with Charlotte, before her governess, who is fucking gorgeous mind you and her Father Sir Lockwood embrace the girl.
A man in maybe his early fortes with a blonde girl with a nice body but with a swelling belly from pregnancy walks over to Lex, Tim and their mother.
And Lex's happy smile at reuniting with her mother vanishes, "Why are you here, with her?! You left us to make a new family, you're not wanted here!" Lex screams at her father and as I'm about to go over there and be whatever comfort I can be for Tim and Lex my Dad rests his hand on my shoulder, I turn to look at him and he shakes his head slightly telling me not to get involved, I want to ignore him but also feel that he's right.
"Oh shit!" I mutter my mouth dropping open as Lex decks the man with a left hook, when he tries to step forward and hug her, I shake my dad's hand off of my shoulder and start to move closer, the man's face turns red lip split and bleeding he starts raising his hand to hit her as his teenaged pregnant secretary looks like she's about to pounce on Lex as well, Lex's mother is yelling at her ex-husband not to touch her daughter
The world seems to slow down and I move faster than I did when running towards Dad and Tim when they were about to be eaten. Or when I was leading Rexy away from everyone else, moving Lex behind me, receiving a shocked cry of surprise from the girl as suddenly I'm standing in front of her.
Lex and Tim's father's closed fist connects with my jaw and there is a cracking of bones. The man cries out in pain and grabs his wrist with his left hand.
"My turn." I say and my right fist connects with his jaw. I feel his jaw bone break against my knuckles, teeth and blood spray from his mouth on his way to the ground. Lex screams no, "No Alec, don't do it, he's not worth it!" Alexis' shout reaches my ears a little too late to be of any good.
"Ahh, shit." I groan as I look at the man knocked out cold on the ground with blood leaking out of his mouth and his right cheek sunken inwards.
Muldoon bursts into laughter from behind me, my dad lets out a resigned sigh, others are just looking on in shock.
Tim is the one who breaks the silence that has descended over the helipad, "Holy Shit, you just knocked him out!" Tim exclaims and I look at him. The kid is smiling at me, a couple of Ingen security guards come over and try putting me in handcuffs but Hammond waves them away.
Tim's mother gasps, "Timothy Alexander Murphy, watch your language young man or I'll rinse your mouth out with dish soap!" She hollers at Tim but Tim giggles happily.
'Really his middle name is Alexander and your daughter's name is Alexis?' I think but feel Lex poking me just between my shoulder blades rather insistently, I suddenly feel really self-conscious and worried.
'Welp, this will be the end of our very short lived/forced relationship.'
"That's what you deserve for trying to hit my daughter, you piece of shit." Lex and Tim's mom curses drawing a mock gasp of surprise from Tim, "Mommy you swore, does that mean your mouth is going to get rinsed out with dish soap?" Tim asks in such a mockingly adorable way, I didn't know how to feel but I definitely…didn't…laugh my ass off.
I hear Lex's mother start to say something back to the little smartass but I zone out as my eyes meet Lex's they're watery with fresh tears, yet she's smiling at me, and then she's hugging me tightly.
"Hug me, Dumbass." Lex mutters as she tries to hug me tighter, interlocking her arms behind me and pressing her face against my naked chest, I wrap my arms around her and feel her crying against me, which makes me run my right hand along her hair giving her head pets.
"I'm not Rexy." I hear her muffled exclamation and am about to stop, "I didn't say stop." comes an offended/muffled exclamation from Lex, making me chuckle.
Feeling a tap against my shoulder I turn my head slightly and find Lex's mom who looks like Lindsay Lohan in her late 30's but with red hair like her daughters.
"Hi I'm Lisa, Tim and Alexis's mom, it's so nice to meet you, Tim has been telling me about you, and all that you've done for him and Alexis, and I am eternally grateful to you as a mother. And I don't mean to be rude but my daughter needs to get checked by the doctors." Lisa says and Lex groans out.
"Mmmooommm, not now!"
"Don't get lippy with me young lady just because you have a handsome boyfriend now. You are my daughter and I'm the boss of you." Lisa retorts in the most motherly way I can imagine.
"Ughh, you're the worst!" Lex groans and reluctantly breaks the hug and begins to get escorted away by her mother with members of the medical staff, and Tim.
Tim let's go of his mother's hand and gives me a hug, "You'll come see us later right?" Tim asks shyly.
"Of course I will, buddy. Now you better go get looked over…by the Docs we had quite a few close calls, Little Man." I reply to Tim with a smile as I ruffle his hair fondly.
The kid beams while looking up at me, before running after his mother and sister who have both turned to look at me.
"Now that they are out of the way, I believe it is time for us to discuss the future of Jurassic Park with you." Hammond says as he walks up beside me, Dad clears his throat.
"With your father present of course." Hammond clears his throat and includes dad.
"Before I agree to anything I'll need full legal representation that is independent from you and Ingen that is solely concentrated on me and what's best for me." I reply to Hammond who's eyes gain a bit of a cold glimmer to them before the first genuine smile I think the man has given me appears on his face.
"I think you and I are a lot alike in many ways Alec, it will be a pleasure to be in business with you." I feel a shiver of disgust at that.
'I am nothing like you, you bastard.'
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Time Skip
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It's been about a week since we left Costa Rica after two weeks of staying in isolation because of how close we were to exotic species.
Before we were able to return to America.
Ingen pained us handsomely to keep quiet about what happened on the island and to now sue them.
I've been talking to Alexis and Tim over the phone since we left Costa Rica and today I'm meeting with an up and coming hotshot lawyer Ian Malcolm recommended to me named Jessica Pearson, at a nice little bistro in Manhattan.
Walking inside of the Bistro, there is no mistaking Jessica Pearson, even if she is twenty plus years younger than in the show.
I can see that Jessica is reviewing the offer of employment paperwork that Ingen's lawyers sent over.
'Damn…she's gorgeous…' I think as I walk over to the table she's sitting at.
"Jessica Pearson?" I ask as I pull out a chair and sit-down across from her, she looks up at me, "Yes, Alec Grant I presume?" She asks and she's very professional in her attitude at least at first.
"Yup, that's me."
"So, what are you some students from one of my Dad's lectures, did my father put you up to this?" Jessica asks me and I'm left blinking stunned by the question.
"Who?"
"Ian Malcolm, did that deadbeat asshole put you up to this?" Jessica asks me and I can tell my answer will determine whether or not we can work together, and if this Jessica is anything like the Jessica from Suits then I want her fighting in my corner.
"Malcolm did give me your number after I expressed a need for legal counsel that I could trust. He told me only that you were a year or so out of law school and already making a name for yourself. You being his daughter never popped up, and frankly I don't fucking care who your parents are. If you're as good as Malcolm painted you as then I want you on my side watching my back. So can you look past your father's hand in this meeting or are we done here? Because I don't have time to waste on daddy issues getting in the way of my business." I say to Jessica and I mean it, as I really don't have fucking time to waste answering pointless questions, I'm supposed to be moving to Connecticut in a handful of weeks.
Jessica smirks at me, and god is it sad that I find it incredibly sexy.
"Here's our contract…I'll explain it to you." A very long drawn out conversation later I have Jessica Pearson as my general counsel.
"This contract is full of loop holes, and clauses for Ingen to use. They're trying to give you these assets as leases that they can seize from you at any point while giving you a premium choice option on future asset leases. This whole deal is…problematic." Jessica starts to explain to me, I put my hand up to her.
"Jessica, I need you to be my Viking warrior, not my hand holder, give me a general sense of things, then go out there slay my enemies, and get me the best possible terms you can, that won't leave me getting rapped over a barrel." I say to Jessica honestly and she smiles at me.
"I think I'm going to enjoy working with you Alec…" Jessica says to me with a smile on her face and I smile a smile I learned from Little One, it might just be a little too blood thirsty…
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Three months later.
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Meeting with Jessica after a day of classes, "Hey Jess." I greet with a smile as she meets me at a nice little Italian place in East Windsor.
"Hey Alec." Jessica greets me with a friendly grin, "So how's my Viking warrior princess doing?" I ask her teasingly as I sit down in the booth across from her, she gains a bit of a dark flush but rolls her eyes at me and laughs.
"I got you full ownership of assets 0927-5579, and 0716-1100. The current salary for the job of containing loose assets is set at ten million, with an additional million dollars a year salary for remaining on call/being a consultant…this is the absolute best I could do." Jessica says to me and I feel my brain shut off.