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CH 15- Calm, Cool, and Collected

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Adelaide clung to the dark fabric of Ian’s shirt and relished in the warming air. She was still hopelessly confused and more than a little on edge, but she tried to ground herself in the familiarity of her environment. These large, smooth hands were familiar. This shirt was familiar. This scent was familiar. This heartbeat was familiar, albeit faster than normal.

Each one of Ian’s steps sent Adelaide bouncing into the air, and each bounce grew more intense as he sped up. It really ramped up when alarms sounded throughout the building. She could only guess they were for her, and a small, insane part of her was flattered.

Suddenly, the sound dampened and more light filtered into her cave as they entered an elevator. Hesitantly, she looked up to meet Ian’s eyes. He looked nervous.

“Holdin’ up?” he asked.

Adelaide fumbled over her words. This couldn’t be real. Either she was dreaming or this was all some elaborate forced hallucination. She couldn’t imagine anything outside this facility, even though it had only been a couple days.

“I’m going to take that as a yes.”

His hands closed in again, the elevator doors opened, and Ian was off.

A female voice rang out. “Dr. Malcolm, is everything alright?” Clara. Adelaide seized up, afraid that if she so much as blinked, Clara would snatch her away.

“Wonderful. Everything’s wonderful…my dear. Going to grab equipment from my, uh, my car. Back in a moment. Hey. Don’t - don’t go anywhere.”

“Is that-”

“Nope.” Ian never once stopped moving during the interaction, and now he was in a full-out sprint. There was no lying to these people. He was sure Dr. Marshall saw Adelaide in his hands, and if he slowed down, she would act on it.

His mad dash was surprisingly uneventful. He shot past the front desk girl whose name he already forgot, he pushed through the doors, and continued across the lawn.

Just as he threw open his car door, Ian heard shouts coming from a number of men. They probably said something along the lines of, “Stop”, but they were too far away and there were too many of them for any proper words to be made out. He briefly glanced up to see that there were a dozen or so men, they were all armed, and they were all barreling his way. That was no good.

On Adelaide’s part, she was getting pretty good at detaching herself from reality lately. It was a nice way to keep herself sane, because if she thought about the circumstances, or the fact that she was in a human hand, she would become inconsolable.

And so, she felt the bumps and the fabric and the skin and the air, she heard the shouting and the panting, but kept them at a distance. They were just feelings. They were just sounds. Those things couldn’t hurt her.

Ian sped off in the car, and Adelaide only faintly registered the rumble of the engine. She wondered how he was driving with one hand. She refused to look up, afraid that she’d see a Bean above her. Even worse, she was afraid that Bean would not be Ian.

Adelaide had so much time to think during the car ride, but she just felt numb. Her body’s pleas for help that manifested as pain the past few days dulled considerably to a mild ache. The same could be said for her mind, she supposed. The labor involved with processing all of it seemed overwhelming, and so she subconsciously shut it all down.

Until Ian’s thumb absently stroked her arm. It took a couple times for her to even realize it was happening, but when she did, she yanked herself in the opposite direction, only to run into the other side of his hand. Adelaide yelped, pulling herself yet again in the other direction, but she was surrounded on all sides.

She was surrounded on all sides. By a human hand. She was surrounded. By a giant. She was surrounded.

“We’re almost there, Della. Don’t lose it now,” Ian said. His intention was reassurance, but to Adelaide, it sounded like a warning. Don’t lose it now, or else…

She closed her eyes and squeezed her thumbs in her fists, trying to rid herself of the sensation of his skin on hers. When she couldn’t take it anymore, her head snapped up, and sure enough, Ian sat above her.

Adelaide needed air. She scrambled up his cupped palms, looking for a way out. His chin was above her. The sky was above her.

“Della, I’m driving. Please!” Ian didn’t want to button her up in a pocket. He couldn’t button her up in a pocket. But if she didn’t sit still, he was going to crash the car, which not only endangered them, but it would allow plenty of time for those InGen guards to catch up. There was no doubt they were being followed.

Ian cupped his hand closer to his chest, closing off any possible gap that could lead to an escape. “You’re handling this marvelously, Della. Marvelous, you’re…marvelous.”

The brakes screeched as Ian whipped into a parking space, the tail end of the car hanging out into the street. He’d fix it later. He sprinted up to the apartment and banged on the door, waiting impatiently for Sarah to open it. He didn’t dare open up his hand now and reveal Adelaide to the world, not when they were so close to safety. Her little body squirmed around and pushed at his fingers. It was so easy to hold her there, her efforts barely registering on his thick skin. Instead of guilt though, Ian felt a strong determination to keep her away from anything that could harm her ever again. Adelaide was brave and strong and smart and marvelous and all of the other things he said, but at the end of the day, she couldn’t budge a single one of his fingers.

Sarah flung the door open so hard it almost flew off its hinges, and Ian plowed right past her, settling into one of the kitchen chairs. The hum of the refrigerator was the only sound in the room as they all sat there, afraid to move.

Ian shared a grim look with Sarah before he uncurled his hand. It was warm and sweaty from the stress of the last few days and especially the last few hours. He belatedly realized what that might feel like on Adelaide’s end, but there was hardly time to worry about that now.

Adelaide felt like she’d been banging on his hand for hours. She’d been held against her will by so many people so many times now, so she supposed she should be used to it, but it was so alien coming from Ian.

The hand suddenly opened and she found herself in familiar territory - on Ian’s hand in Sarah’s apartment. This was real.

It was hard not to feel the intense gazes of the two Beans in the room. Her body involuntarily and sporadically twitched, warning her that there was danger nearby and she needed to get away. It happened so violently that she wondered if Sarah could see it from across the room.

“Talk to me,” Ian said, and Adelaide’s head snapped in his direction.

Then, a scuffling from behind her caught her attention and her head snapped that way. Sarah now sat in the chair opposite Ian. She recoiled at the proximity.

Upon closer inspection, Adelaide looked rough. “Adelaide, what happened?” Sarah breathed, shocked over her physical state but also the extreme defensive reaction. Adelaide was always jumpy and a little hostile, but this was a clear sign of abuse.

Adelaide’s chest heaved and her eyes darted around rapidly, trying to locate the threat that wasn’t there. It was Sarah. It was Sarah and Ian. It was Sarah’s apartment. It was alright. But no matter how much her mind insisted upon her safety, her body couldn’t agree less, shaking every time either of the humans moved.

“What happened? What did they do to you? What’s hurt?” Ian asked.

Adelaide couldn’t find the words. “I…um…”

“Here.” Ian set her down gently on the table, and she was grateful for solid, stable ground under her bare feet, but their combined downturned gazes and the shadow cast upon her were daunting. She still only wore a makeshift gown, which made her feel naked and exposed.

Ian rested his head on the table, supported by his hands, and Sarah disappeared somewhere. He stared at her. He wasn’t going to say anything more until she did, and Adelaide seemed to realize this.

“I…it was Wu. You already know it was Wu. It was, um, InGen. They were - they were experimenting on me.”

“Why?” Ian interrupted loudly.

Adelaide flinched. “I don’t know.”

Ian sighed, his hot breath washing over Adelaide and ruffling her hair. He started to try again, quieter and calmer to avoid pushing her further away, but Sarah returned with a small, soft towel. She sat back in her chair and slowly set it close to Adelaide, far enough away to avoid startling her.

Adelaide eyed the towel, then Sarah. She could see in Sarah’s eyes that she wanted her to take it. Her first instinct was to decline anything given to her by a Bean right now, but she was cold and exposed, and the towel was warm and provided cover. Though it was soft to the giants, it was scratchy to Adelaide. She pulled it over her shoulders anyway and wrapped it around her middle, relishing the protection it offered, both from the elements and from any Bean.

She remembered she was supposed to be explaining something. It was hard enough with Ian’s intensity, but now she had two sets of eyes on her.

“I mean, I’m fine. I mean everything hurts, but I’m fine.”

“Della, you can’t - you can hardly walk.”

“I’m sore.”

“Yeah, uh, I’ll bet. Come here, let me - let me look at you.”

“Ian. I’m okay.”

Ian reached for her. Adelaide yelped as she scrambled backward, abandoning her towel but in the process tripping over it.

Ian paused, then pulled his hands back placatingly. His eyes went wide as he truly realized the extent of the damage. They did something to her, and she wouldn’t tell him what it was. Very slowly, he lowered his hands back to the table, palms turned slightly upward invitingly. His fingers curled in a natural and relaxed way.

Adelaide looked at the hands. She looked behind her at Sarah. She looked into Ian’s eyes. He wanted her to trust him. He wanted to help her. He saved her.

It all hit her at once. Adelaide’s body finally understood that it was no longer in danger, that it didn’t need to be on high alert, that these hands were friendly. All her defenses crumbled, and as the adrenaline faded, relief and exhaustion took its place.

Adelaide wobbled to a stand and, after multiple attempts, she found herself walking. She walked right into Ian’s hand, and she collapsed into a puddle of tears.

Ian held her delicately to his chest, letting her cry for as long as she needed. “I know,” he said, but his heart hammered in a way he was sure she could pick up. He shook his head at Sarah, a silent plea for help. He was out of his depth.

Sarah shook her head back. Don’t do anything. Just be here.

Eventually, Adelaide pushed roughly at his chest. She was done crying. She wiped at her eyes and sniffled, already embarrassed by her body’s sudden release of emotions.

“Thank you,” she mumbled.

“Ah, don’t mention it,” Ian said. “You alright?”

“Not really.”

“I imagine you’re quite hungry.”

“Not really.”

“I know for certain, um, that that is a lie.”

“So what, are you going to make me eat?” There was a sharp edge in Adelaide’s tone that came from equal parts resentment and fear. It wasn’t too hard to conjure up the memory of what happened when she refused to eat for those scientists. Her chest burned at the thought. You’ll eat when we tell you to eat .

“Um, no…,” Ian blinked, curious why his suggestion warranted the attitude but knowing better than to push. “But you probably should. Are you - are you okay with picking up food on the road?”

“On the road?” Sarah asked before Adelaide could.

“We got away too easily. Way too easy. They know where we are, or at least - at the very least know how to, uh, find us.” As he spoke, Ian absentmindedly stroked Adelaide’s arm with his thumb again. She couldn’t say she was thrilled about it - each touch made her twitch - but she was getting used to it, and the repetitiveness was calming. “And even if they don’t, well, they know where we live here.”

Ian’s words sunk in. Adelaide’s heart stopped.

“Ian,” she whispered. He didn’t hear her. “Ian!”

Ian nearly jumped at the sudden volume that came out of the tiny being in his hands. He held her up to his eyes and she gulped. “They put a… thingin my neck.” She rubbed it distractedly. “It’s, um, I think they might be able to track me…with it.”

The rage on Ian’s face was apparent, no matter how hard he tried to hide it. Adelaide grew nervous. She knew her admission was not the cause of his anger. It was what they did to her that got him riled up, but she couldn’t help feeling responsible. She should’ve told him sooner. She shouldn’t have let him come back here and have her endanger everyone else.

“What kind of thing ?” Ian barked.

“Hey!” Sarah interjected. Even she could see how shaken Adelaide was. “Calm down.”

Ian laughed. “Calm down? They - they broke her, hon. They hurt her. They put a tracker in her neck. I believe I am relatively calm given the, um, the circumstances.”

“You’re talking about her like she’s not even here!” Having said her piece, Sarah shifted her focus to Adelaide. “Can I see?”

For the first time in years, Adelaide wanted to be anywhere Ian wasn’t, and she didn’t like the feeling. She nodded hesitantly, but Ian pulled Adelaide close to his chest again. He couldn’t part with her so soon, not when he just got her back.

“Ian,” Sarah scolded.

Ian tentatively held his hands out, and he felt the small weight leave his hands as Adelaide leapt into Sarah’s. He watched intently as Sarah pulled her away from him. What Adelaide needed right now was a level-headed friend who would listen to her, and he was the opposite of whatever that was. But every time he thought he’d relaxed enough to have a semi-productive conversation, the image of her chained up in the lab forced its way back into his skull. The unbelievable gall of these people to torture someone who, on all accounts, could not fight back. But then he recalled the fear in Adelaide’s eyes when she looked up at him from the table, and the cycle would repeat all over again.

Ian couldn’t take it anymore. He stood up from the chair and expelled his energy by pacing around the small apartment. They needed to leave, but it wouldn’t do much good if Adelaide had a chip in her neck.

God, a tracker . Like some kind of animal.

Adelaide couldn’t even look in the general vicinity of Sarah’s face, but she also couldn’t look at the furious giant stomping around. Her eyes settled on the table far below as Sarah poked at her neck. She tried not to think about just how big and strong her finger was.

Ian stopped his pacing. “Can you get it out?” he asked impatiently.

“Contrary to popular belief, I’m not a doctor,” Sarah said, annoyed. “It’s red and a bit irritated, but it doesn’t look infected. It’s definitely in there, though.”

Adelaide felt the wind of Sarah’s breath on her skin. From the sound of it, this chip wasn’t coming out any time soon. There was nothing they could do.

Ian was back in the vicinity in seconds. “Hey, I’ll figure it - we’ll figure it out. We’ve handled worse.”

“Easy for you to say,” Adelaide mumbled, currently feeling every inch of the friction burns across her skin.

“No, you’re right, that was, uh…ignorant…of me to say…But the fact remains that we will …figure it out.”

Adelaide didn’t see much hope for the situation, but she nodded anyway to appease him.

“Are you sure we can’t get you anything?” Sarah asked as she set Adelaide back down by the towel, giving her a chance to cover back up.

Adelaide shook her head.

“Oh my god. Adelaide?!”

Adelaide perked up. That voice snapped her out of it. Ollie .

Everyone spun around to look at the stunned borrower standing on the counter. Surprisingly, she held her ground.

“Oh, excellent,” Ian said, and he snatched her off the counter to set her on the table.

“Ian Malcolm!” Sarah shouted, as Adelaide yelled, “Hey!”

Ollie fell onto the table in a heap despite the way Ian tried to set her down gently, too concerned with getting away . Even when she was free, she backed up quickly, afraid that he’d grab her again.

“You can’t do that!” Adelaide said, a bit of that spark returning due in part to the familiar sensation of scolding a Bean.

“I would like to reiterate that we’re - we’re short on time……My apologies,” Ian said halfheartedly. Adelaide would hardly talk to him or Sarah, so he hoped she would at least feel comfortable with Ollie.

Ollie glanced rapidly between Ian and Adelaide, working out which was more important, and obviously, Adelaide won out. She dropped all precautions and sprinted at her, pulling her into a tight hug. Almost definitely, Ollie would have stayed in the hug forever, if not for the strong jerk accompanied by a wince from Adelaide. Ollie pulled away, but kept her hands on Adelaide’s arms, afraid to let her go. “What happened?! You look awful!” she cried.

Adelaide couldn’t help a small laugh. At least she was honest. And it may have helped that she was borrower-sized.

It wasn’t the humans' faults that they were the size of humans. Everything they did was magnified, and when they were angry, they came off angry , so it was hard to be around them at times like this. The steam that poured out of Ian’s ears was nearly tangible. Though she knew what he was capable of, Adelaide didn’t ever want to see it.

But on the complete opposite end of the spectrum, she hated the way they looked at her like she was glass, like she was so fragile that she’d shatter if they so much as breathed wrong. She was a big girl. She could handle herself.

Other borrowers, well, they just got it.

“Um, a lot,” Adelaide finally answered. She rubbed at her neck, still convinced she could feel where Sarah’s fingers touched her.

“What is that?”

“A tracking chip,” Ian answered from above. Ollie nearly forgot he was there, zeroed in on the one thing that mattered. Everything else disappeared. She eyed his hands, which stayed firmly at his side, but every other move had her thinking he was going to grab her again. It came so fast, back on the counter. Fast and dizzying and unyielding.

Ian continued. “Which is why we need to, um, skedaddle. Now.”

“Wh- you just got back,” Ollie said to Adelaide, preferring to communicate through the only other person in the room that was her size.

“I know, but this thing…It'll lead them here, and I can’t put you in danger,” Adelaide explained sadly. She truly thought she’d never see Ollie again. She’d never see her warm eyes, never feel her soft skin or her tight curls. Yet, against all odds, here she was, right in front of her, living and breathing and real . And now she’d have to leave again.

Ian leaned forward slightly, making both small people jump. “Actually, it would be best if…Ollie, you all should come with us.”

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blackswaneuroparedux · 2 years ago

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On track he was always the toughest of tough competitors, tough sometimes to the point at which I’d wonder how could such a nice bloke out of a car grow such horns and a tail inside one,

Stirling Moss on Jack Brabham

Sir Jack Brabham's three world championships ( 1959, 1960, 1966) were the product of both his engineering expertise and driving skill. His first two titles, in rear-engined Coopers he helped develop, confirmed the obsolescence of front-engined Formula One cars. His third title, in a Brabham, made him the only driver to become champion in a car of his own make. His last win came at the 1970 South African Grand Prix, after which, aged 44 and with 126 races behind him, the triple champion retired to Australia. His now-defunct team was sold to future Formula One supremo Bernie Ecclestone while Ron Dennis, Brabham’s erstwhile chief mechanic, went on to transform McLaren.

At 18 he joined the Royal Australian Air Force in Adelaide, where he wanted to learn to fly but was instead trained to fill a wartime shortage of flight mechanics. Upon his discharge, in 1946, an uncle in the construction business built him a workshop in Sydney, where Jack opened his own engineering establishment.

Jack's introduction to motorsport came through a friend who raced midgets on dirt track ovals in 1951. Jack helped him build a new car and when his friend decided to stop driving Jack took over and became a regular winner. In self-prepared midgets he won four successive Australian championships and was the 1953 hillclimb champion in a British-built Cooper-Bristol. Two years later his growing ambition to expand his motorsport horizons brought Jack to England. A meeting with John and Charles Cooper, constructors of his successful Australian car, led to a friendship and partnership that would propel the tiny Cooper Car Company and 'Black Jack' Brabham into the forefront of Formula One history.

With Brabham providing the inspiration (he helped persuade the Coopers to take the rear-engine route into Formula One racing) and the perspiration (he built up his first chassis in Cooper's workshop) the tiny British cars with the engines in the back sped to the front in an era previously dominated by big, front-engined Italian and German roadsters.

In the Brabham-led team's first full championship season of 1958 the debut win for a Cooper came courtesy of Stirling Moss, who drove Rob Walker's private entry to victory in Argentina.

In 1959 Moss won twice, but Brabham's victories in Monaco and Britain together with his consistently high placings resulted in the Australian winning a drivers’ title that some thought owed more to stealth than skill, an opinion at least partly based on Brabham's low-key presence.

As much an engineer as a racing driver, with wartime experience working as ground crew in the Royal Australian Air Force, Brabham was never one to hog the limelight or seek attention. Always a man of few words - his nickname 'Black Jack' referred to both his dark hair and his propensity for maintaining a shadowy silence - he avoided small talk and was undemonstrative in the extreme.

Brabham may not have been a big talker or particularly flamboyant but he was as shrewd as they come. Behind the wheel he was anything but shy and retiring. He put his head down and drove exceedingly forcefully, opposite-locking his car dirt-track style, and was not averse to deliberately showering gravel in the face of a too closely following pursuer. His aversion for the limelight became more of a problem in 1960, when he completely dominated the nine-race series, winning consecutively in Holland, Belgium, France, Britain and Portugal, en route to his second successive championship.

Following an unproductive 1961 season, when the Ferraris were all powerful, Brabham left Cooper to form Motor Racing Developments, in partnership with the talented Australian designer Ron Tauranac. The MRD Brabhams were quickly successful in several categories of racing, particularly Formula Two where for several years they dominated, affording the opportunity for many drivers to advance their careers. The Brabham Formula One car, which first appeared late in 1962, became steadily more competitive as the team leader personally perfected the chassis set-up and fine-tuned the Climax engines. In 1964 Brabham had the satisfaction of seeing his team mate Dan Gurney win in France and Mexico.

For 1966, when the new 3-litre formula came into effect, Brabham persuaded an Australian company Repco (a manufacturer of automotive components) to produce a Formula One engine from a venerable Oldsmobile V8 design. Equally ancient was Brabham himself, or so it seemed to the media and his much younger rivals who used to kid him about his age. Prior to the 1966 Dutch Grand Prix, his first race after his 40th birthday, 'Geriatric Jack' Brabham hobbled onto the starting grid at Zandvoort, wearing a long false beard and leaning on a cane. Sportingly, several of his laughing opponents helped him into the cockpit of his Brabham-Repco, which happened to be on pole position.

Tossing aside his beard and cane Brabham proceeded to win that race, a feat he also accomplished in France, in Britain and in Germany - on the notoriously difficult and dangerous Nurburgring - a victory he felt was the most satisfying of his career. Thus in 1966 Brabham became the first (and still only) driver, to win the championship in a car of his own make.

Jack Brabham, whose final victory came in the 1970 South African Grand Prix when he was 44, chose that season to retire as a driver. The Brabham team was sold to Bernie Ecclestone and Jack returned home to Australia, where he busied himself running a farm, a car dealership and an aviation company, and helped his sons with their racing careers. His contribution to British motorsport was officially recognised in 1985 and he became Sir Jack Brabham. He passed away peacefully at his home in May 2014, aged 88.

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CH 3- Bringing Animals from a Long Time Ago Back to Life

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The Beans piled into two separate grey and red Jeeps with logos on the side that read ‘Jurassic Park’. Ian ended up in the backseat next to Alan, with Adelaide stuck between them on Ian’s shoulder. Alan was staring again, so when Adelaide happened to glance up at him, their eyes met. She hated that she looked away first. She didn’t want to appear scared, even if she still was. Beans wouldn't take her seriously if she didn't stand up for herself. Yet she couldn't force herself to look back at him.

“You have something to say?” Ian asked. Adelaide looked up, but he wasn’t talking to her. He was talking to Alan.

“Oh, no, I- I was just...sorry.” Alan looked embarrassed.

Adelaide tried for a smile. “He’s just trying to get under your skin,” she explained. “Don’t worry about it. I get it. I’m interesting.” She also wanted to demonstrate that she could stand up for herself and did not need Ian to defend her (even if she was grateful for it. But Alan didn’t need to know that.)

Alan returned her smile, but just then, the Jeep took off, jostling Adelaide from her spot on Ian’s shoulder. She clutched his collar with white knuckles to prevent a nasty fall. That might have been the time to climb down into Ian’s pocket so she wouldn’t get thrown clean off his shoulder, but after that whole fiasco on the helicopter, neither party was eager to bring up the idea and revive the tension so soon.

Though they weren’t going very fast (by Bean standards), the rushing wind was enough to make Adelaide's eyes water and her body shiver. She’d never been in a car with no doors or roof before. She didn’t even know they came like that. What was the point of having doors then, if they weren't needed to make the car work? Humans came up with the weirdest things.

So, Adelaide sat down and continued to hold on with all her strength. The hilly, off-road terrain was not her friend, leaving her with a number of close calls. As much as she wanted to ask about where they were going, or just look out at the new landscape, she couldn’t afford to break focus. Ian and Alan didn’t seem to want to talk anyway. They already had their own tension building for whatever reason, and Adelaide wanted to stay out of it.

When the Jeep rolled to a stop, Adelaide released her grip, stretching out her sore fingers. She heard Ellie going off about some giant leaf up in the front of the car, then saw Alan rise out of his seat. Adelaide turned to follow his line of vision, and every word, every thought that floated around in her head disappeared. She was left speechless as she stared up at this...this animal. A dinosaur, Ian had called it? She couldn’t remember, but it was much bigger than anything she’d ever seen before, bigger than the trees. It made the Beans look small.

It moved slowly and gracefully and stood about forty feet tall, its elongated neck making up most of the height. And above all else, it was absolutely beautiful.

Alan and Ellie were out of the car before Adelaide could even blink, but she was more comfortable staying back. As awed as she was by this dinosaur, she had to respect its sheer size and likely unimaginable power.

“I’m good to stay back here, if you, um...” she said to Ian. If you want to go. Adelaide personally didn’t want to have to make a break for it when that thing decided she looked like food.

“You don’t need to worry about that one,” he said distractedly. Nothing really took Ian by surprise, so when Adelaide heard the awe in his voice, she glanced up at him. The last time he looked this impressed was when he discovered her.

Ian chuckled. “You did it. You crazy son-of-a-bitch, you did it.”

He explained the trip to Adelaide before they left. Something about genetics and engineering and dinosaurs and a whole bunch of stuff that flew over her head, but it all boiled down to “bringing animals from a long time ago back to life”. Those animals were called dinosaurs. Adelaide didn’t know much about them, but if they were extinct, she didn’t see how it was possible to reverse that. And since Ian was doubtful, she was even more doubtful. Clearly, they were wrong.

They watched in stunned silence while Alan, Ellie, and the old man had a conversation out of earshot. Eventually, with a lot of coaxing, they all climbed back in the Jeep. Alan and Ellie seemed to have a lot to talk about, so Ian offered to move to the front seat. Not wanting to interact with another new person, Adelaide darted across the back of Ian’s neck to his other shoulder so she didn’t have to look at the driver and the driver didn’t have to look at her.

“Hey, hey, hey!” Ian said, flinching at the light movement across his skin. He hated it when she did that. He always thought she was gonna fall, but the thick, sturdy collar of his leather jacket provided more stability than she needed. Ian reached up to scratch the tingling sensation left behind on his neck.

The rough terrain still had Adelaide clinging to Ian’s collar, but the ride was much shorter this time. She watched the dinosaur for as long as she could as they drove away, not wanting to forget the feeling it gave her when she first laid eyes on it. If the rest of the park was anything like this, they were in for a wild weekend.They stopped in front of a massive concrete building with thatched roofing. A series of steps led up to the front door, which was surrounded by a gorgeous carving of a dinosaur skeleton.

Ian hopped out of the Jeep and jogged up the stairs, bouncing Adelaide with each step. His hand reached up to cup the air around her, making sure she didn’t fall. Adelaide hated stairs.

They entered the building, and Adelaide could see that it was only partially complete. Workers painted the walls and scaffolding hung everywhere. That didn’t make the space any less impressive, though. The circular lobby was big and open, and giant skeletons hung from the ceiling. It would probably be really nice when it was completed.

Ian hung back behind the others to inspect their surroundings. Adelaide didn’t mind. She didn’t know what a lot of this stuff was, but it was cool to look at, and she was sure Ian would explain it to her later whether she wanted him to or not. Plus, standing in the middle of that group of humans made her feel small, even on Ian’s shoulder. He was a tall guy by Bean standards, so when she was on his shoulder, she stood at eye level for the old man and lawyer, and just below eye level for Alan and Ellie. Even then, she knew that height was an illusion. If she stood next to them on her own, she would barely come up to their ankles. So, Adelaide liked it when Ian broke off from the group. It gave her more room to breathe.

That peace was short-lived though when Ian suddenly took off toward the stairs. He took them two at a time to catch up with the group. When he slowed down, they caught the tail end of the old man’s speech.

“So, what are you thinking?” Ellie asked Alan.

"That we're out of a job,” Alan responded.

"Don't you mean ‘extinct’?” Ian said. Alan ignored him and Ellie smiled politely but Adelaide booed him. He sure was proud of himself for that one, judging by the look on his face, and she simply couldn’t let that slide.

Ian just nudged her with a knuckle in response, making her waver in place. She clutched his collar tighter. “Hey!” she exclaimed.

He didn’t say anything as they all made their way into another room with a big screen and some comfortable-looking plush chairs, similar to a movie theater. The old man ushered them in, and they sat down so that Ian was on the left, Ellie in the middle, and Alan on the right. Gennaro sat behind them, and Adelaide was on the shoulder between Ian and Ellie.

Adelaide glanced up at Ellie on instinct but for some reason could not force herself to look away, even when the screen started playing something. It wasn’t like she would understand the movie, anyway. Ellie was.... really pretty, if Adelaide ignored the fact that she was over one hundred feet tall. At some point, the old man told them to say hello to the screen, and the awkward look on Ellie’s face when she did so was kind of endearing.

Only when Alan and Ian leaned in to whisper to each other did Adelaide snap back into focus, lest she tumble off the front of Ian’s shoulder.

“Cloned from what? Loy extraction hasn’t recreated an intact DNA strand,” Alan said.

“Not without massive sequence gaps,” Ian agreed.

“Paleo-DNA, from what source? Where do you get a hundred-million-year-old dinosaur blood?” Ellie asked.

Adelaide’s eyes bounced back and forth between all of them, trying to extract words from those sentences that she recognized but with no luck. Gennaro shushed them. Adelaide turned around to give him a knowing look that said she too had no idea what they were talking about and would like them to stop. When his eyes locked on her, she repressed a shudder and shrugged as if to say, ‘I don’t get it either.’ Gennaro gave her an awkward smile, like he appreciated her backup but was still unsure if she was real. He returned his eyes to the screen. Hmph.

Adelaide tried to pay more attention as the movie explained the park and how it worked, but it was hard to focus. She stole glances at Ellie every now and again, unable to restrain herself. And Ian would not stop fidgeting. He was amused but not entirely convinced, and when his mind fired up so did his body. He could never sit still when he tried to work out a problem, which was usually entertaining, especially when Adelaide had the option of sitting elsewhere, but currently stuck on his shoulder, she wished she had a seatbelt.

Bars suddenly lowered over the giants’ laps as the theater started... moving? Did movie theaters actually move ? She’d have to ask Ian later if that was normal. Regardless, Adelaide hadn’t seen anything like that before and she let out a nervous laugh. Ian instinctively reached up to keep Adelaide from falling, but there was no need. Her grip was secure, and they weren’t moving that fast. She pushed his fingers out of the way since they blocked her view - she wanted to see what was happening.

As they left the original room and slowly passed by another room full of scientists, Adelaide wondered absentmindedly if the glass was two-way. She could see them all hard at work, but could they see her? She hoped not. Her parents always warned her that scientists were one of the worst breeds of Bean. They were really smart and curious, which meant they wanted to study and dissect borrowers and had the means to do so. She supposed Ian was technically a scientist, but everything he did was math-based and theoretical. The people in the laboratory came straight out of borrower horror stories- stark white coats, serious, focused faces, and terrifying equipment she didn’t know the purpose of.

The giants in the theater started talking genetics again, but Alan finally said a sentence that she understood, catching her attention.

“Can’t you stop these things?”

The old man explained that it’s a ride, so no , but the three giants in front all seemed to have the same idea. Alan, Ellie, and Ian lifted the bars and took off toward the room where the scientists were. Adelaide was just along for the ride, she guessed.

They entered the lab despite the old man’s protests, and the air instantly got a couple degrees colder. He greeted a young man named Henry, and they all gathered around a machine that rotated some giant eggs. Ian pointed at one that was wiggling around. It was going to hatch.

“Oh, perfect timing,” Henry said. “I was hoping they’d hatch before I had to go back... to...the..........boat.” He trailed off as he spotted Adelaide. “Um...what - who - who is this, Mr. Hammond?” he asked the old man. Hammond. Maybe Adelaide should have asked for his name already, but there never really was a good time. Regardless, she uneasily wrapped her hand around the hilt of her knife, ready to lash out. She should have gotten in Ian’s pocket back when she first saw the scientists.

“Oh! This is, uh... Adelaide. She’ll be accompanying Dr. Malcolm.” Whatever he thought of that fact, Hammond’s voice didn’t give Adelaide any hints. “Perhaps you might be the right person to tell us what she is though,” he laughed.

“I see,” Henry said, ignoring the joke and approaching Ian and Adelaide. “Hello, Adelaide. I’m Dr. Henry Wu.” Ian faded into the background then disappeared completely from Henry’s mind as he reached for Adelaide. Adelaide threw up her hands with a short cry and Ian stepped back, also raising his hands defensively. Her parents were right. He was going to grab her and strap her down for some experiments. She immediately started shaking, bracing for impact, but it never came. When she looked up, Wu still stood there, hand outstretched but with a new look of surprise plastered on his face.

“I’m sorry,” he said. “I just meant to shake your hand.” He paused. “May I?”

Adelaide took a second to respond and calm her hammering heart. She couldn’t tell if he was lying, and she really didn’t want to let this Henry Wu guy anywhere near her, but it would be rude to say no, especially in front of everyone else. She needed to look like she had some semblance of control. So, she nodded and lowered her knife.

The tension in the room was thick, and everyone held their breath as they watched the interaction unfold.

Slowly, Henry reached for her again. He eyed Ian to make sure he wouldn’t do anything (Ian could put off a menacing energy when he wanted to) before closing the gap. Gently, Henry pinched Adelaide’s outstretched hand (and forearm for that matter) between his index finger and thumb, giving it a miniscule shake that still managed to yank her shoulder out of its socket. “I must admit, you are fascinating,” Henry said as he pulled away. There was a hunger in his eyes that made Adelaide uneasy.

“Um, thanks?” she said.

Since there was no real threat of danger anymore, most of the giants’ attention was back on the now-hatched egg, and Hammond’s voice pulled Ian, Adelaide, and Henry back into focus. “I’d love to ask you some questions later, if I may.” Henry ventured.

“Sure,” Adelaide said, but she hoped that it never came to that. It looked like she was safe for now, but she trusted Henry about as far as she could throw him. Nobody who wore a white coat could be trusted.

Hammond boasted about being there for every dinosaur birth, which brought them to the topic of breeding. Henry explained how all the dinosaurs were female, prompted by a series of questions from Ian. Ian clearly had more on his mind, and if Adelaide had two thousand questions, she knew Ian must have had double as much.

“Put me down. I want to see it,” Adelaide said, nudging Ian’s neck with her elbow. Ian didn't move for a second, contemplating whether the argument would be worth it. He didn’t want her anywhere near the freshly hatched dinosaur, but who was he to stop her? And he needed to move around anyway, too much on his mind. So, he set her down on the ledge of the incubator, next to Hammond’s elbow and took off.

Adelaide didn’t like that he left her on her own as soon as she was put down, but she wasn’t going to complain. She asked for this. And if Ian truly didn’t believe she was one hundred percent safe, he wouldn’t have left her side, which gave her a little confidence.

Gennaro stepped up and filled the empty space that Ian left, standing directly behind Adelaide. Nerves crept up on her, surrounded as she was and with Ian out of arm’s reach. Now she had to watch behind her, too. Head on a swivel.

Once she knew for certain that Gennaro wasn't planning to reach out and grab her, Adelaide turned her attention to the baby dinosaur. It let out an ear-piercing cry that made her jump back. Gennaro chuckled at her, and she shot him a look before she could convince herself otherwise. Luckily, he didn’t take offense.

“Scare you?” he asked with a raised eyebrow.

“No,” she said defensively, and she heard him snicker.

Adelaide didn’t know what she expected, but this was the most disgusting thing she had ever seen. It was bony, slimy, and pink. It looked sickly, and if not for the razor-sharp set of teeth and intelligent eyes, Adelaide probably would have considered killing and eating this thing. She wouldn’t have gotten that much meat from it, but it looked like an easy enough kill.

Hammond turned to Adelaide and she froze. “Would you like a closer look?” he asked, noticing the way she stared at it and mistaking her analysis for curiosity. He held the baby dinosaur in his hands, waiting for an answer.

“Oh, um...,” she floundered for words. She wasn’t used to being directly addressed by Beans besides Ian. Most Beans saw her kind as less than, as something that wasn’t good enough to speak to Humans. But now, they all waited for her to say something. “No thank you,” Adelaide mumbled. She felt close enough to the monstrosity and wanted to get no closer.

As Ian made his way around the table, he stopped by Dr. Wu. “But, uh, again, how do you know they're all female? Did someone go out into the park and, ah, lift up all the dinosaur's skirts?” Adelaide rolled her eyes, but when she saw Ellie laugh at the comment, she laughed too, though maybe a little too hard. What exactly was Adelaide laughing at? She wasn’t sure, but she knew it wasn’t Ian’s joke. She saw Ian look at her quizzically, which made her duck her head and blush.

While Wu explained something about chromosomes or hormones or something, Ian completed his circle around the table and kept going, scooping up Adelaide along the way and extracting a small yelp out of her. He didn’t ferry her to his shoulder, rather, he kept her cupped to his chest as he sat down in a conveniently located chair.

“John, the kind of control you're attempting here is, uh, it's not possible.” John Hammond. That’s his name. “ If there's one thing that the history of evolution has taught us, it's that life will not be contained. Life breaks free. Expands to new places and crashes through barriers. Painfully, perhaps even dangerously. But... uh, well, there it is,” Ian said. Adeliade felt the vibrations of his voice through his chest.

“There it is,” Hammond repeated. He didn’t seem very happy. Most people weren’t when Ian spoke.

Great, Adelaide thought. We finally start to see some cool stuff and he’s gonna get us booted off the island. She didn’t disagree with him, though. Ian was right, just harsh.

Adelaide thought they’d move right along, but Wu asked, “You're implying that a group composed entirely of females will... breed?”

No, don’t provoke him. Please don’t provoke him.

“No, I’m simply saying that life...uh, finds a way.” Ian said.

Alan asked another question, pulling the focus off Ian.

“You’re gonna get us kicked out,” Adelaide whispered.

“This is what they’re paying me to do, Della. Ask the hard questions. I thought you, um, thought you didn’t want to be here anyway.”

Adelaide was quick on the defense. “I don’t.” But that was a lie, so after a pause: “I do,” she admitted. “I’m still nervous, obviously - I don’t think if I can trust these people, but this stuff is kind of cool. I mean, extinct animals? What other borrower can say they’ve seen a real-life dinosaur?”

“Ha, not many humans can say that either. Of course, it’s all ‘cool’ until, well, something goes terribly, uh, terribly wrong.”

“You’re such a buzzkill,” Adelaide said. But even if Ian was frequently a buzzkill, she trusted him with her whole heart. If he was worried, she should have been too. “You really think something bad’s gonna happen?” she asked earnestly.

“ Something will happen, that’s for sure. It’s - it’s inevitable in a system this complex. May not be today...or tomorrow, may not even be terrible, per se, but-”

“Life finds a way,” Adelaide repeated.

“Life finds a way,” Ian agreed.

He deposited her on his shoulder and with that, they were ushered out of the building with the promise of lunch. Good. Adelaide was starving.

Once they were out of the lab, she had to physically shake the bad vibes off her body, then she felt safe to whisper what she'd been thinking in Ian’s ear. “Those scientists made me feel gross.”

“You and me both,” Ian said. “He's a geneticist, though. They're all - they're all insufferable... Trust me, I uh, I won’t let him anywhere near you.”

“ I’m not letting him anywhere near me either. The knife’s coming out next time.” Adelaide swung her knife and stabbed some invisible enemy.

Ian chuckled. He knew from experience that Adelaide could defend herself just fine, but that wouldn’t stop him from defending her until his last breath.

When they got outside, they were met with a loud, animalistic shriek. Hammond tried to stop him, but Alan took off toward the sound, so they all aimlessly followed. As they got closer, Adelaide saw a massive paddock of some kind. Whatever made that noise was inside, and it sounded like there were multiples of them.

They all watched as a live cow was lifted in a crane over the edge of the paddock and into its interior. Hammond explained that they were feeding “them”.

Everyone rushed up the steps to watch, and the shrieking noise became so loud that Adelaide had to plug her ears. Through the foliage, she could see the cow get absolutely shredded to bits by a few animals. Then she realized, those weren’t just any animals. They were the adult versions of that baby dinosaur they saw back in the lab.

Adelaide thought she would have been able to kill the thing, but now she found that laughable. The speed with which they attacked the cow from all sides, working together to tear it apart. She wouldn’t stand a chance, even against a baby. They all watched with disgust painted across their faces, but nobody could seem to look away. The raptors left behind no trace of the cow, save for a few bones. Adelaide was no stranger to violence and blood, but this was on a whole new level, and she would have been fine if she never saw something like that again.

“They should all be destroyed.” A voice startled them, and they all turned back to see a new man approach. Adelaide stiffened in place, ready to defend herself or slip into Ian’s pocket. She didn’t miss the way the scientists stared at her back in the lab. At that rate, the whole island was destined to know about her by the end of the weekend. She would have to be prepared for anything.

The man stepped up to them and Hammond introduced him as Robert Muldoon, a game warden from Kenya. And boy, did he sure look the part. He wore a standard khaki uniform with a big, western-style hat and some sort of holster strapped to his belt. If Adelaide had to guess, it held a gun larger than her body. Adelaide did not mess with guns.

Muldoon’s stance was casual enough, but he emanated an intensity that said he was ready to pounce at any moment, ready for action.

Muldoon eyed everyone in the group, including Adelaide. She felt her breath catch in her throat as their eyes met, but his gaze just moved right along. If he was shocked to see her there, he didn’t show it. Alan instantly walked over, filled to the brim with questions for Muldoon. He answered them to Alan’s satisfaction, and from what Adelaide gathered, these dinosaurs were called “raptors”, and they were incredibly fast, strong, and intelligent.

“That one, when she looks at you, you can see she’s working things out. That’s why we have to feed them like this. She had them all attacking the fences when the feeders came,” Muldoon explained. He addressed everyone when he spoke, including Adelaide.

“But the fences are electrified though, right?” Ellie asked.

“That’s right, but they never attack the same place twice. They were testing the fences for weaknesses systematically. They remember...”

Muldoon caught Adelaide staring. “You’re a tiny, right?” he asked casually.

Adelaide sputtered. That wasn’t what she called herself, but he said the word with such confidence, such familiarity. She glanced up at Ian to see if he was heard what she heard. Though it was hard to tell from the angle, his expression almost certainly mirrored her shock. “Uh-”

“Yeah, I know about your lot. Don’t worry. Your secret’s safe with me,” Muldoon said.

Adelaide blinked rapidly as if to clear away her clouded thoughts. His words only increased her confusion, but his eyes were kind. Those were eyes she could make friends with, unlike...others.

Just then, the harness that previously held the cow lifted back into the air. It was covered in blood and guts and had completely fallen apart. Ian let out a small sigh underneath her. He was not happy with this place, or the way he was being ignored, and Adelaide figured they were all going to hear about it soon.

Hammond jumped in. “Yes, well, who’s hungry?”

Adelaide certainly wasn’t. Her thoughts were too preoccupied to even think about eating now. For one, she wondered about Muldoon. He didn’t stare, he didn’t gawk, he didn’t need an explanation of her existence. He treated her like a normal person. Adelaide really appreciated that, but she also wondered why. He had obviously seen a borrower before. In that case, she’d have loved to know how that went down, particularly for her own safety, but also out of curiosity. Or maybe he just minded his own god damn business. Either way, Adelaide found herself hoping she could talk to him later. That in itself was something to dissect, since she’d never felt that way about a giant before.

More importantly though, Adelaide wondered about the raptors. She remembered the cold, snake-like eyes of the baby she encountered. She recalled the methodical yet vicious way they mutilated that cow. They would have made short work out of her. Suddenly, it felt like electric fences were not enough. If literal giants found themselves scared of these raptors, if they were that dangerous, what was Adelaide supposed to think? Muldoon was right - they should be destroyed.

Adelaide shivered despite the hot, sticky weather. No, she wasn’t hungry at all. Rather, she felt quite sick, and she wasn’t so sure she wanted to stay on the island anymore.

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#jurassic park #ian malcolm #g/t #giant/tiny #jurassic park g/t #in which we meet Muldoon and Dr. Henry Wu #I actually like Wu but he just kinda turned out This Way(TM) for the sake of the story #TW: Very mild gore

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