Jurassic World : A Good Day to Be Dying

Chapter 13 : Plants? No thanks!

Botanical Gardens

Meanwhile, in the Botanical Gardens, Zara, Claire, Zach and Gray were in the chairs as Owen was getting four bottles of water over and the SEALs and Sasha were standing guard. As he put a bottle down on one chair, Owen came over to Claire and said to her while handing her a bottle of water, "Here you are, Claire. I don't know about you, but I'm really thirsty as hell."

Claire smiled a little as she took the bottle and said, "Are we all."

While Claire was removing the cap of the bottle, Owen said to the Mitchell brothers. "Think fast, boys." Then he tossed one bottle of water to Zach. Then the other to Gray and they both caught their bottles.

As Owen sat down in a chair near Claire from a respectable distance, Claire had a sip of water. Owen drank some water. As Zach and Gray drank some water, Owen tossed the boys a couple of snack bars that he already got.

"Thanks." Zach said to Owen as he and Gray opened some snacks.

"No problem." Owen acknowledged. Claire smiled as she saw her nephews having some snack bars that Owen gave them. She still felt amazed by the attachment she now feels for them. Then Owen came to her and offered a snack bar. "Want this?" Owen asked.

Claire took the snack bar and said, "Thanks." As she was unwrapping the snack bar, Claire added while looking at Owen, "What a rough day."

"Yeah, sure is." Owen replied in agreement as he ate the snack bar. Then Claire ate a little of her own snack bar.

As she finished chewing the snack bar she ate, Claire had a haunted look on her face. Owen noticed her troubled look and asked, "Are you okay?"

Claire looked at him with a somber expression on her face and stated sadly, "Owen..." She trailed off her voice for a little bit. Then she continued, "...everything we went through... everything those maniacs did..." Claire was feeling sad over everything she lost and remorseful over everything is now happening.

Owen saw the look of guilt in her face. He said in a sincere tone, trying to sympathetic to her, "Claire...I know."

Claire nodded. Not wanting her nephews to see her in such emotional state, she got up from the chair. Seeing what Claire was up to, Owen followed her. Claire stopped and looks at her nephews. "Aunt Claire..." Zach asked, wondering what she and Owen are doing.

Sensing their concern for her, Claire looks down on her nephews. "Stay there. We'll be back." Claire said to her nephews. Although Zach and Gray don't know what they were doing, they nodded silently. Owen nodded to the Mitchell brothers to do what their aunt said to them. They went to the part of the catwalk where the stream meets. Claire looks at reflection of herself on the stream of the garden. She nearly had tears in her eyes that she was trying not to shed. Owen stood by her as Zach and Gray watched from the corner.

Claire looks down at her reflection and she sees that she is a mess from the outside with her red hair messed up and had dirt on her face and in her upper chest above her purple tanktop. Her eyes are moistened and she tried to keep the tears from shedding. She was on a guilt trip to the point where she might just fell apart. Claire said to Owen in a low, somber tone, "Jurassic World was the only thing I knew for an entire decade, advising Masrani, and doing so much work. Then my sister sends my nephews to me so that they can enjoy one weekend...just one weekend...with me! Now...?" She trailed off in a bit. Owen looked at her as he sees that Claire was on the verge of tears that are about to come down. Then Claire continued, "Now... it's all gone. Because of them. Because of Mills. Because they want to destroy this park and kill everyone in it, just to prove some worthless point which means nothing at the end of the day, just to spread fear and sadness into the families of the victims...!" What Claire said about what Nolan and his organization are doing in Jurassic World is true. She knew what Nolan wanted was to spread anti-dinosaur fear into people just to get his revenge over the death of his family and to bring sadness to the families of the victims of perhaps one of the worst terrorist attacks in the world. Then she finished while her voice was breaking, "And now they're going to get my nephews and my assistant...!" Then Claire broke down and started to cry softly as she put her right hand to her eyes, ashamed that she broke down during a terrorist situation.