A/N: After Jurassic World came out last year, I started this as a means to help me escape my writers block. It's not very well written, and could use some more editing, and I'm aware of that. It's just something I made for fun, honestly. (And yes, there will be more than one chapter). This story is going to work...a bit differently than just following the movie strictly. At the tender age of eleven, I discovered the two novel's Crichton wrote that ultimately became the Jurassic Park series. As much of a fan of the movies as I am, the books are so wonderfully put together and have so many elements I wish had made it into the first two films.

Jurassic World felt so...rushed to me. All the movies have. Everything seems to happening in just a 24 hour time span, and that bothers me a bit. Dinosaur diversity in the films is also slim. In the novels, there are soooo many different species that should have made it into the films, but alas, they didn't. So with this particular story, it will indeed follow the movie, however I will be adding in things I feel would have led to a far more interesting story.

I truly hope someone enjoys this story. Enjoy!

WEST JORDAN, UTAH

December was a time where Christmas cheer was all over the place, decorations went up, and semester finals happened for students. People went away on vacation to ski resorts, only embracing the winter.

Christmas vacation for Leah Hawthorne meant packing tank tops and shorts in her luggage instead of heavy winter gear. Where she was going was hot year around, something she enjoyed and knew she would miss after the three week vacation was up and she had to return home. It was still a somewhat new routine for her, but she had no complaints. Humming, she grabbed a few more items of clothing and threw them into her already full suitcase, pushing them down to flatten out as much as possible. She huffed when the suitcase wouldn't close, sitting down on it and pushing down again, zipping it quickly when she didn't meet anymore resistance.

"Alright, now Owen will meet you at the airport as soon as you land, so you won't have to worry about waiting around." Leah looked up as her mother came in, checklist in her hands. "I have everything with the bank sorted out, so you'll have food money for the whole vacation. Don't spend it all on souvenirs like last time, okay?"

Melissa Hawthorne was a kind and patient woman. Of course like any parent, sending their child somewhere by themselves to stay with relatives while they stayed behind made her nervous, even if it was the second year sending her only daughter off to visit her brother.

Her husband had died when Leah was only four. It had been a hard adjustment, and growing up without a father was hard on someone so young. Her brother Owen stepped up to the plate though, visiting as often as he could and calling whenever he had the chance, just so Leah wouldn't feel like there was no father figure in her life. While the visits were sparse due to him being in the Navy, she was grateful for Owen trying to be involved and help the situation, and she would eternally be grateful to her brother for that. After he left the Navy, she'd hoped he'd settle down in Utah with them, get a house or apartment in town. However, he was offered a job in Costa Rica not long after, and the pay was very nice. She didn't blame him for taking it and living down there. He'd been there for almost four years now. Every year he'd invite her and Leah down to visit, but Melissa always had to send Leah alone because of her job. Being a wedding planner was a tedious task, because winter and summer were when most people wanted to get married.

And every week this month there were at least two weddings she was scheduled to organize.

"Maybe Owen will be able to come visit us sometime soon if he ever feels comfortable leaving behind his big lizards."

Leah snorted, giggling a bit. "Velociraptors, mama." She corrected, setting her suitcase upright.

Melissa smiled cheekily, pressing a quick kiss to Leah's hair. "We better hurry. Your flight leaves in two hours."

"Right." Leah hummed, throwing her shoulder length pink hair (it was naturally blonde, and the pink was already fading away somewhat) into a messy bun. "Oh, I left some instructions by Pepper's cage. When to feed him and stuff." She called after her mother, looking into the cage at her pet rat and smiling. "I'll see you in three weeks. Try to be nice to mom, okay?"

She quickly turned on her heel, racing out of her room with her suitcase while her mother grabber her purse and car keys. "Alright, let's get this show on the road. Phone charger?"

"Check."

"Phone?"

Leah pulled the phone out of her back pocket, adjusting the backpack hanging off of her shoulder. "Check."

"Plenty of underwear?"

"I've literally got half of my closet in my bags." She laughed, walking out to the car and opening the trunk, slinging her suitcase inside of it before shutting it. "I think I'll be okay. Plus Uncle Owen has a washer and dryer, so I can do laundry as much as I want."

Both climbed into the car and drove the 20 minutes to the airport, Christmas music playing on the radio while both chatted. They lived in a convenient part of town, so everything was in close distance to their home. The airport was crowded, people hurrying about to catch their flights for the Christmas holiday. People flying in to visit their relatives or people flying home from school or something. After everything was cleared, Leah turned to her mother, holding her plane ticket close to herself.

"Now, remember to call me everyday."

"Mhm."

"And take plenty of pictures. Document your adventure."

Leah smiled. "I will."

Melissa smiled, hugging her close and kissing her hair. "I'm gonna miss you..." She murmured, smiling softly as Leah hugged her tightly. "Christmas without you just isn't the same...oh, I wish I could come!" She huffed, tearing up a bit. "I've been wanting to go since Owen started working there. He says it's incredible."

"I wish you could too." Leah looked up at her with a pout. "Uncle Owen always complains that you don't visit him enough."

"Try not to drive Owen too crazy, alright?"

Leah laughed softly, pulling away from the hug and kissing her mother's cheek. "I'll try not to."

Melissa scanned her face again, cupping it gently and pressing a kiss to her forehead gently. "See you in three weeks."

"In three weeks." Leah nodded, heading for her terminal and looking back to wave one more time.

"Don't forget to wear sunscreen. And drink plenty of water!"

Leah laughed to herself, shaking her head as she rounded the corner. "Bye!"

A popular vacation spot year round for families was Jurassic World. It was about...oh, eleven years old now, having first come to completion in 2004. It was the third and only attempt at the park that had succeeded, unlike it's predecessors back in the 90's. After the original incident with Isla Nublar and then the incident in San Diego, most of the professionals out there concluded that having a park full of prehistoric animals was merely a recipe for disaster. People died in both incidents, InGen was sued by the relatives of said people, having to pay for it and for the families to keep silent about it. And of course their stock dropped because of it. However after what happened in 1993, both island's were abandoned, and the dinosaurs left behind took over. So the San Diego initiative was put into place in 1997 after the park failed inspection in 1993. InGen brought in a Tyranosaurus and its infant from Isla Sorna, the neighboring Island to Nublar that had most of the labs on it where all the Dinosaurs were intended to be created, born in, and brought over to Nublar for the original park. John Hammond's nephew, Peter Ludlow, (the then new CEO of InGen), thought that Jurassic Park: San Diego would bring in the revenue needed to get InGen back on its feet. Unfortunately for him, his plan failed. The T-Rex got free, damaged most of downtown San Diego, caused several casualties and many accidents, and even ended up killing Ludlow.

Isla Sorna was now more of a wildlife preserve. And John Hammond had wished to keep it that way.

Simon Masrani acquired the rights to InGen in 2003. Production of Jurassic World began that same year, and Masrani Global began to create something that InGen had failed at doing twice. In the interviews he'd done, he thought of the production as fulfilling John Hammond's dying wish. By Summer of 2004, Jurassic World was completed and opened to the public for the first time. Eleven years later, it was still running just fine. Of course, it had snags but what major theme park didn't have snags? Critics gave it five stars, yet there were still those that were skeptical and thought it was unwise to even keep the park open. Ian Malcolm, one of the survivors of the 1993 incident had been interviewed on the matter, and each time he was asked about, he always said it was destined to fail. Same went with renowned paleontologist Dr. Alan Grant, who had gone so far as to write a book about the first park and his experience with it, and why it had failed and would never work not matter how many times anyone tried it.

It had worked though on the third try, and it was incredibly successful. It made millions each year, and tourism grew more and more as the years went on. And it was deemed safe, so no one had anything to fear.

As Leah took her seat, she pulled a book out her backpack and sighed, popping some earbuds into her her ears, settling in for the long flight. She took a look at the cover and smiled, tracing the letters on it with a finger slowly. She'd always been fond of dinosaurs, so when her uncle acquired that job at the park, she had been so excited to go and see what all it had to offer. She'd not gone through the whole park before, and usually she stayed near Owen while he did his work with the Velociraptors. It was interesting to watch, especially when they didn't behave for him. However it was always so exciting to see how intelligent the beasts were, and it made watching them all the more enjoyable. Owen would sometimes let her throw their food to them if they did a good job, and that was always a fun experience.

She looked out the window as the plan began to take off and sighed, opening the book in her lap and turning to the first page.

A/N: Hmmmm, I just felt like trying something new. This chapter was short, yes. Next chapter will be a bit longer. And posted very soon!~