DISCLAIMERS

1. I DO NOT OWN JURASSIC PARK/WORLD. This is just for fun.

2. This is a femslash story. If you don't like that sort of thing, you won't like this.

PART 1

As her car sped down the road, the driver's mind was running even faster.

Lex Murphy could not believe she was doing this. What was she doing?! Bombing down the highway, trying to stay within the speed limit, on her way to San Diego. And for what?

To see the one person she never wanted to see again. And at the same time, desperately wanted to.

To say she was in a paradox at the moment would be an understatement.

It all started three days ago, when she watched the news. What she feared - and knew - would happen, finally did. Jurassic World collapsed. Lex remembered sitting infront of the television, tears streaming as she watched the reports. Dinosaurs escaping and running amok; buildings and structures destroyed; hundreds, if not thousands, dead.

Lex knew it would happen. It was only a matter of time: she tried to warn anyone who would listen - and even those who would not - for years. It was just a matter of time before the biggest, most successful theme park of all time crashed and burned, just as the original Jurassic Park did in 1993. Only this time, it was not down to one man's greed... but rather a whole company's.

Inbetween sobbing at the news, and getting in contact with Alan, Ellie, Ian and of course Tim, Lex listened to what exactly happened. How the park's investors wanted "the next big thing", and got it tenfold. From what Lex had gleaned, the Indominus sounded like a true monster. Intelligent and articulate, with "extra features" she gained from her multi-creature hybrid origin. Lex remembered Alan explaining how the original dinosaurs created used frog DNA to "fill in the gaps"... but this I-Rex was clearly much, much more than that.

However, what exactly those abilities were were unknown. As had happened with the original park, and Lex was all too aware would happen, most of the details were under lockdown. Lex and Tim heard the word "classified" more in the immediate weeks after the '93 incident, than at anytime in their lives before or since.

Lex was devastated. She knew this would happen! Why did Simon Masrani not listen? How could everyone involved be so blind to the inevitable storm? Lex was saddened evenmore to learn Masrani himself was among the lost. She was always at odds with the man, but prayed he would see the light before it was too late. He never did, and now it was too late. For him, and everyone involved.

Following the tragedy, the park was abandoned. History repeated itself. Lex was horrified at the thought of two islands with dinosaurs running around freely. She dreaded to think what would happen next. From her and her brother's dealings with InGen twenty years ago, she knew the corporation had a vested interest in Jurassic Park/World. Only, its interest was not geared towards "entertainment". Even two decades ago, Lex knew InGen had connections with the military. It did not take much imagination to picture the company selling certain "assets" for war. The pressure of continually fending off the parasites was one of the things that finally killed her grandfather.

However, despite all that... none of that was why Lex was doing what she was doing right now. She was speeding to San Diego for one reason. For one person... and one person only.

The woman who captured her heart in that one solitary week Lex could never forget... then trampled her heart into the ground.

Claire Dearing.

Their brief time together was incredible. Lex fell for the beautiful redhead harder than she had for anyone before, which made it evenmore painful when it all fell apart. Indeed, Lex was crushed when she learnt Claire ran Jurassic World, the one place she hated and feared with her life. That proved Lex could never be with her; she would not and could not be involved with anyone connected to that deathtrap. Except... if that was truly the case, why was she now rushing to see the woman?

Lex knew why. She knew very well: she was still emotionally connected to Claire. Despite what happened, despite her best attempts to forget the redhead, despite the months apart... Lex still felt as deeply for Claire as when they were together.

She... loved...

Shaking her head, Lex thought back to what got her into driving like a madwoman to San Diego. After a couple of days simply trying to learn what happened at Jurassic World, Lex finally caved and tried to discover what she really wanted to know: was Claire amongst the casualties? Nothing was said of exactly who died - apart from Masrani, obviously - and Lex naturally feared the worst. Unfortunately, all attempts to find out who survived met in failure. No agency she called would give her any names. From the news, she learnt the staff who did survive were being questioned - interrogated? - in the courthouse at San Diego. When Lex called there, she still got no results. The staff identities were "classified".

Which led to what Lex was doing now. All she needed to know was that Claire was alive. She would damn well hold the courthouse hostage, just to find out. She did not need to see the beautiful redhead. She just needed to know she survived.

Lex did not need to see her. She...

She wanted to see Claire more than anything in the world.

Lex continued down the highway, her emotions in turmoil...

TO BE CONTINUED