The First Time I Saw You

Chapter 10

Just like any enterprise, Jurassic World constantly offered its employees all sorts of capacitations to help them develop their skills and encourage growth within the company. In most cases, these courses were optional unless administration or Human Resources found it crucial for employees to attend a specific one for any matter that needed reinforcement.

The constant incidents regarding the employees' neglect when approaching assets, had been what had Operations Manager Claire Dearing and their legal advisor at the park's medical facility. Their youngest Stygimoloch was a little temperamental and despite being a herbivore, this asset had proven time and time again to be very instinctive and wouldn't hesitate to head butt someone if she felt like it.

A recent personnel rotation had a guy with three broken ribs on a hospital bed. He was used to cleaning the petting zoo — it wasn't called 'Gentle Giants' for nothing — after all, those babies wouldn't harm a fly; but he had stupidly ignored the warning on the gate advising to be cautious when entering the arena.

Unfortunately for this guy, both Claire and the legal advisor were more interested in protecting the integrity of the workplace rather than his well being. He hadn't died, that's all that mattered to them. The injured employee had been handed a handbook before his induction back when he had first joined Jurassic World; the book had a general description on asset behavior, therefore the little incident was indeed the guy's fault, having approached the dinosaur without the recommended caution.

Claire agreed to set up several 'refreshers' on how to approach the assets. She, of course, found this aggravating since it was going to consume a lot of her time to schedule this course for every single employee, as she needed to make precise timetables based on all their shifts. After all, the park still needed some personnel at the attractions while some others were attending the courses.

The redhead was now locked up in her office, sitting on the edge of her desk with Owen trapped between her legs while he made sure his lips tasted every inch of her neck and her cleavage, his hands slowly running up her thighs under her skirt. It was very evident to him that her mind was a little distracted and she wasn't really caught up in the moment. "Is everything okay?" He finally pulled back.

Claire nibbled on one of her nails and nodded, after a few seconds she sighed and shook her head. "I'm sorry." She shot him a sad look and hopped off her desk. She fetched the old employees handbook she had on her desk — it was the one she had gotten back when she had officially been hired in 2005. She fixed her skirt and sat down on the couch.

Owen followed her and gently caressed her lap, "I got one exactly like that, too; read it once, handed the stupid form, and I have no idea where it is now." He confessed.

Claire smiled softly and, leaning close, she nuzzled his neck and took in his scent. "I know...I thought this thing had information on all assets." She sighed and dropped the book onto the table in front of the couch. She was thinking it was time for an update, Owen had just made her realize they had been printing the same book for seven years or so.

"You know it's no secret that one of your 'assets' decided to go bowling with one of the cleaning guys." He ran his fingers through her hair and set his hazel eyes on her, hoping she'd turn and make eye contact with him.

"You are a dinosaur behaviorist, aren't you?" She tilted her head back, letting it rest over his shoulder. The way her green eyes were looking at him, told him she was about to ask him a huge favor. And god, he didn't know what the favor was, but there was no chance in hell he could ever deny anything to those adorable freckles and hypnotizing eyes.

Owen nodded softly, watching her lean over and feeling her hand run around his neck while she brought him down for a kiss. Claire let her lips smack soundly against his, her tongue tasting his in a kiss that left him speechless and humming to himself after she pulled back.