"Got it, just your mom, So want to have dinner with me tonight?"
"I'd like that." Lex smiles happily at me.
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Just as the server is bringing Lex and I our meals Lisa comes over carrying a large cellphone that is like someone glued four standard bricks together and put buttons on it.
"I'm sorry you two, but Alec it's important a small group of poachers have been spotted on Nublar, the ACU stationed there have detained them but Nublar's commander was shot and things aren't looking good for her. And Jessica Harding is refusing to return to the island without at least Rexy's presence there to keep the other animals in line." Lisa comes over and informs me making me bury my face in my hands and groan, "Can't, the wheel on the bus fucking turn for just one day on their own?!" I groan out a curse, I hear Lex stand up from the table come over and start massaging my temples.
"It's okay Alec, I understand." Lex murmurs and I straighten up, "Want to come to the island with me?" I ask her but she shakes her head no.
"I'll go to Sorna, once you're done building it but I'm never going back to Nublar again, ever." I smile at her as I stand up from the table and pull out my wallet. "Get us some to go containers and here's money for the food and a tip." I say to the server as I hand him two, hundred dollar bills.
"R-right, I'll be right back with your food sir." He stutters and takes off and I gotta give him credit he's back within five minutes, with a receipt and my change.
"Keep the change, it's your tip." I tell him even though the tip is around eighty dollars, looking around I really don't care much for this extravagant looking restaurant and would much prefer a burger shack or a pandarossa.
"Thank you, so much." He says to me and I nod while wrapping my right arm around Alexis's waist and carrying our food with my left, leading her out of the restaurant to the Horizon Industries suv parked out front with one of my ACU/Security personnel driving us around.
"Airport, Jake." I say to the man and he nods in understanding.
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Back on the island I stand outside of a holding cell with two would-be poachers inside, one of them is unmistakably from money, the other looks like he's spent a lot of time in Africa illegally hunting lions.
Looking at the door behind me, willing it to lead into the jungle attached to my loft.
"Alright I'm going to let you two go after you sign a couple of forms admitting to what you intended to do here, which is committing multiple crimes, including since these animals are my property, multiple counts of grand larceny with each animal's value being that in the millions. If you sign this form I'll let you go free and not pursue either of you legally." I say to them both as Sarah my ACU commander here on the island who they shot brings me two thick stabled stacks of paper, I healed her from her gunshot wound something she is eternally grateful for, and something I'm further protected through since I basically have a small army right now all made up of military veterans and former mercenaries whose injuries made it so that they couldn't continue.
That's where I came in taking in homeless Vets healing them, giving them new training and a new purpose in life.
"Here are the contracts, sir." Sarah says to me while glaring at the rich guy who was the one who actually shot her, mistaking her for a dinosaur…which frankly is impossible.
"Thank you Sarah." I thank her.
"You're welcome sir."
"You're saying that if we sign these and never come back you'll let us go free and clear?" The actual poacher asks me and I nod.
"Hand me the paperwork then."
"I would prefer to have my lawyer look over this…" the rich guy says, making me smirk at them.
"Don't be a dumbass, this is his private property he has a right to kill us and the Costa Rican government won't do shit to him."
"I."
"Just sign the fucking documents so we can get our here before he changes his mind!"
"Fine! Hand me the damn papers."
Within a couple minutes I received both packets of paperwork, something that Jessica and I had come up with for dealing with scum like this, I know I brought up trophy hunt to Muldoon but those would be highly monitored and not on my research island, or the park island but one of the other four of six islands.
Sarah opens the door to the cell for them and I open the door into the forest where the girls are, once they're through the door the poacher notices something off, "GIRLS DINNER TIME!" I holler and Rexy roars and I shut the door.
Sarah stares at me for a moment, "Got something to say Commander?" I ask the woman who shakes her head no.
"No, Sir!" She salutes me and then leaves me alone in the empty holding cell. I open another door to my Loft into an observatory-like room that gives me a perfect view of the jungle.
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"Wh-what was that?" The hunter's rich client who hired him asks.
"I don't know but it's massive…" The hunter murmurs back and the bushes around them start rattling, a shadow runs in front of them but it's too fast to make out, it continues to dart around them.
The hunter runs into the ferns abandoning his client, only for Little One to pounce on him, his screams fill the air of my Loft as I watch over the girls while Rexy chases the poor rich guy until he trips and falls on his face and just lays on the ground whimpering, before Rexy eats him.
Sighing softly, "Well that was a boring hunt…for the girls." Standing up from the chair in the observatory I head out of it and end up by the large bay door.
I wait for the girls to finish off their meals, and they come running over to me wagging their tails looking for praises, "You girls did such good jobs hunting those dirty poachers, I'm so proud of both of you, now let's wash off their filth." I say to the two girls while turning on the warm outdoor water hose, with a gentle scrubby brush on it.
Cleaning up Little One first, and then onto Rexy picking out bits of cloth from between her teeth.
"Yes you did good too Rexy." I give her some more praise and scratch underneath her jaw making her shiver in happiness, Little One starts clicking and nosing me for attention so I start giving her some love too.
"And you did good too Little One, you girls make a perfect hunting team."