So I was checking the settings on this blog and realized tumblr has it set so I can’t change certain settings including that the blog is explicit and that it can’t be searched. So once again, everything is moving to my AO3
Okay, so tumblr is giving me a lot of trouble about letting me view the blog because “Sensitive content” so I’m transferring everything over to my AO3 and that’s where I’ll post from now on. My name on AO3 is padfootfreak14
So I know I haven’t posted anything in forever, I just haven’t had any good ideas lately. Just wanted you guys to get a laugh out of the fact that tumblr’s system flagged my photo post with the Megalodon tooth and Raptor Claw that I got in the mail.
Update: They almost immediately reviewed my appeal and found the post did not contain adult content
So the sequel is also a bit short but fits in a bit more to the original requests and parts I’d missed from them.
Life with Owen was rarely easy, not that life without him had been a cake walk by any means. It wasn’t even just Owen, he of course came with a pack of raptors and they complicated things even more. You hadn’t expected to be placed at the paddock on a more permanent basis, but after the first incident with Blue it had been decided that the raptor pack should have an on-site vet for longer than their earliest months. It also hadn’t helped that just about every other vet the park had was terrified of the girls and you were the only one willing to work with them on a stable basis. Owen hadn’t been combative about your appointment as you’d expected to a point. The two of you had gotten to know each other a bit better and the girls needed stability so it seemed like a good enough idea to keep you around.
Blue had recovered from the gate and stun gun incident without any lasting effects, which you and Owen were both incredibly grateful for. Owen’s hand healed well, though thin scars were left from where he’d let Blue bite him. The end result was about the only thing that kept you and Owen from demanding at least half the people that worked at the paddock be fired following the incident. All of them gave the pair of you a wide berth afterwards however. It very quickly became known that anything that might happen to the girls meant crossing you and Owen, which wasn’t a very good idea.
A lot of people had one impression or another of Owen, or they had their assumptions about him. When you first met you hadn’t had the time to have assumptions or form impressions. It went pretty immediately in to work mode followed by getting to know each other. The first night at the paddock the two of you had sat up a long while talking and sharing stories. You found out how devoted Owen was to his charges, how seriously he took the job and how much of a caring person he really was. Following your appointment as vet to the pack you had plenty of time to find out more about Owen and really observe him.
He was bossy, and controlling, and he could be downright infuriating at times. If you didn’t know him better you’d think he was just a huge hard-ass about everything. Which was funny because he certainly wasn’t a hard-ass about getting his paperwork done, or about the mess he seemed to leave everywhere that you ended up straightening up half the time. You did draw the line at anything dealing with his paperwork.
Something else you’d noticed was that as time passed Owen seemed to grow more protective of you as well, especially when it came to the male coworkers and any attention they might’ve paid you. Lucky for him you found the protectiveness a bit endearing. It was one of many things about Owen that you’d started to find endearing since you’d ended up moving in not that far from him after your appointment as vet for the pack. He liked to invite you over from time to time for dinner or just to hang out, and he was always quick to cheer you up when you were having a bad day. He was sweet like that with you, not like the bossy Owen you saw at the paddock.
Tonight would be another dinner night, Owen hadn’t said anything about picking up food so you assumed he was cooking again this time. That was just fine by you, Owen was a hell of a cook and it solved the usual argument over who got to pay for dinner that night. It was essentially the reason the two of you settled for cooking for each other more often than you picked up dinner with the exception being late nights at the paddock. Tonight wouldn’t be a late night but it would still be a few hours until dinner.
Owen had finished up with the girls for the day which left you to do their wellness check to make sure they hadn’t gotten hurt at some point, or reinjured in Echo’s case. A couple weeks prior Echo had made an attempt to fight Blue for dominance and had lost with the cost of a broken jaw and what would be a permanent scar. She was healing well though you also guessed that her jaw would never be quite as straight as it used to be. Charlie and Delta were both doing well and were in tip-top shape. Blue’s position in the order you went in varied. If the girls were wound up you did her first because it calmed them down, otherwise you saved her for last.
You’d bonded a great deal with Blue since the first incident, and you were grateful that she’d taken to you almost as well as she’d taken to Owen. It was practically a miracle considering how she was with just about everyone else that worked there. The reality of it was though, no one would ever hold a hope in hell of having the bond the Blue and Owen had. You’d seen that the first night with the two of them, the sort of trust they’d placed in each other. Sure she trusted you, but not like she trusted Owen. Hopefully the bond was good enough that if the girls ever got loose Blue wouldn’t let them eat you. Not that you were expecting the girls to get loose, but it was still something you’d thought about a few times before.
Once the girls’ checkup was done you stopped in the makeshift office to let Owen know you were heading out before you went home to clean up and get ready for dinner. You hadn’t taken the easy road when you were permanently placed with raptors. While your job was vet and that gave you the chance to simply act as vet and nothing more, you still went out of your way to help out around the paddock in whatever ways you could. Usually that resulted in wanting a shower before you went out anywhere after work was done for the day. You were sure that Owen wouldn’t mind if you showed up fresh from work but you preferred to at the very least freshen up a bit.
You puttered around at home long enough that you gave Owen the time to get home, clean up and maybe start dinner before you chose to head over to his place. It wasn’t a long trip by any means, even walking as you’d chosen to tonight. The weather was nice and you always enjoyed the time to think. Sometimes, like tonight, your thoughts turned to Owen. You admired him a great deal, his work ethic, the way he was with the girls, the way he was with you, the care he had for other people even if he couldn’t really stand a lot of them. He was impressive that was for sure.
“What are you thinking about this time,” You heard Owen laugh, shaking you from your thoughts and making you realize that you’d already reached his place. You looked around anyway just to be sure.
“Okay so I let myself get a little distracted,” You laughed back. You were just going to avoid his question and not tell him that you’d gotten distracted thinking about him.
“You are something else,” He returned, pressing a brief kiss to your lips which you happily returned.
“Yeah but you love it.” It hadn’t been long after you were brought in that you and Owen had started dating. You both admired each other pretty much from the start and had been a relatively quick progression from spending time with each other to dating. You had admittedly been a little tipsy the first time you kissed him but you’d insisted the next day you meant it regardless and there you had it. The relationship was kept fairly quiet and it wasn’t like the two of you really engaged in PDA at work. The girls were more perceptive than that, they didn’t need to see you and Owen all over each other to know that something was going on. It was something you thought also impacted how the pack reacted to you.
Being with Owen was not as easy as if could’ve been if the two of you were more public about your relationship, for either of you. You’d both had to become confident in the stability of the relationship early on or jealousy would’ve come up frequently. Women flirted with Owen, men flirted with you, it was a matter of brushing it off, expressing a lack of interest and occasionally, usually from Owen, stepping in. You really did a much better job of behaving yourself, Owen liked to snap at anyone flirting with you at the paddock and claim it was because everyone had work to do. But again, you found it endearing.
Owen was easy to love though; god was he easy to love. He made it virtually impossible to have a bad day when he was around, he always found some way to make it better. His favorite was sitting with you next to the lake at dusk just letting you rant about the day while he held you. You always found it impossible to still be upset after that. There were nights you’d catch him in the cage talking to the girls no differently than you’d chat to your friend about your day. It always gave you a warm feeling inside to watch Owen and the girls. Hell, just being with Owen gave you that funny warm feeling all the time. It was amazing to you that something so wonderful had come out of something that had been a reasonable terrifying experience.
Velociraptors are estimated to have had a lifespan of 15-20 years. How would Owen's raptor react in the event that they realized just how quickly they were aging compared to him?
No doubt about it, they notice the difference and they notice it quickly. Day by day they grew and Owen never changed. At first they thought maybe it was because Owen was already full grown. But as years passed very little seemed to age about Owen while they could sense their own aging. It upset them, what was wrong that Owen didn’t change but they did. In a world where Jurassic World didn’t happen and Owen were to stay their entire lifespan, the raptors have noticed the small changes in Owen that have occurred over the last 15-20 years but it still distresses them because if Owen was “full” grown when they were little he should’ve died before them.
Bonus: When Owen first started it wasn’t anything he considered. Before the hatching he had no bond with the raptors, but as they grew the bond formed and the girls grew so quickly. Sure they’d live longer than his childhood pet but time just seemed to pass too quickly. Who knew if however the girls were engineered affected their lifespan either.
I wonder what the raptor would think if Owen had a child?
The raptors have their senses, and especially if it’s a situation where the child’s mother is around, they see the child as their Alpha’s offspring, he and his mate. In the wild the pack would be led by a mate pair so it seems normal to them that it’s like that in their captivity with Owen. In the case, for whatever reason, mom isn’t in the picture the raptors are a bit more confused because scent tells them that this is the Alpha’s offspring but where is his mate? In either situation they’d be just as defensive of the child as they are of their Alpha.
I’d write a story for this but I’ve done two and a halfish already. Thanks for sending this in, I’m really trying to get work done on stories but it was super nice to have a little thing like this I could do immediately.
This is a shorty because I really wanted to post something for you guys and I wanted to do it today since it’s the 2 year anniversary of the blog. Hope you like, I’d be more than happy to continue it sometime with a part two maybe.
Anonymous said to imagineowengrady:
Can you do a fic where one of the raptors are injured and reader and Owen have to spend more time at the paddock. And they get to know each other better or whatever, thanks!!
estel619 said to imagineowengrady:
Hi! Just found this blog, while looking for Jurassic world stuff. How about an imagine that's reader x Owen, and something has happened to Blue, as she is my favourite raptor, and the reader and Blue bond over it? Rating etc, I'll leave up to you. Thanks!
Adapting to care for dinosaurs had been a bit of a change from having done so at a reptile park prior to relocating to Jurassic World. It wasn’t a bad job; you’d worked with a few of the animals already but your newest assignment might prove to be the most daunting. The park was hatching a pack of raptors for a research project, but part of that involved their trainer being with them from day one. Your job would be to also be present to monitor the health and well-being of the pack as usually they’d stay under veterinary care for at least three months. The goal was to limit outside interaction with the raptors while still ensuring their survival and overall health.
The trainer’s name was Owen Grady, you hadn’t spent much time getting to know him, he accepted your presence as necessity and let you do your job while he tried to do his. All four of the eggs had hatched, Blue, Echo, Delta and Charlie. Each raptor had its own personality to go with their unique appearances. Charlie had beautiful shades of green and stripes that reminded you of iguanas. Delta was a lighter green, with spots like her siblings. Echo had more neutral browns in her skin tone. Blue stood out the most with the beautiful stripe going down her body. She was absolutely stunning. As they grew, Blue stood out as the leader of the four, taking charge almost from the start. You were at the paddock most of the day but whenever you weren’t you were on call in case anything happened, it was the only site you were assigned to until it was decided you didn’t need to be there anymore.
You didn’t realize that Owen was on an on-call basis as well until you got the call that one of the raptors had injured herself and you were needed. Owen had arrived before you and was already trying to comfort the injured Blue. It was unusual for her to be whining and prone as she was, it made you concerned for a serious injury despite any signs of blood.
“What happened,” You questioned to whoever might have an answer for you.
“We think she tried to come through the gate and got stuck.”
“So why is she so still?” If she’d simply gotten stuck and hurt herself surely she’d be in more distress.
“Well she got through and we were worried she might get out…”
“So they used the stun gun on her without thinking how it might hurt her,” You heard Owen snap.
“She’s still a baby you’re lucky that you didn’t kill her! You’ve been told if any of the raptors are distressed you call me and I’ll make a decision about sedation. You don’t use a stun gun unless it’s an absolute dire emergency and I can’t get here. I could have said that on the phone.” You were more obvious about how seething you were than Owen was. Your responsibility was to care for these animals, how were you supposed to do that when these idiots couldn’t even follow protocol or give you the whole story before you arrived? “The rest of you can leave, until I clear here the only ones around Blue are myself or Owen. Leave!” You snapped when they were slow to disperse.
You on the other hand were quick to set your kit down and try to assess Blue’s injuries outside the burn mark you could see from the stun gun. She wasn’t bleeding from anywhere but it did look like she’d hurt her leg, from touch it didn’t seem broken but it was certainly dislocated. It wasn’t something that was going to be fun to fix, not with the claws, and the teeth. You didn’t trust sedation in her current state and you couldn’t just leave her leg until she recovered from the stun.
“So what’s the verdict doc?” Owen questioned from your side. “How’s my girl?”
“Her leg is dislocated and I can’t sedate her to fix it in the state she’s in. So, we have to do it while she’s awake.”
“That’s going to get real ugly. I’ll watch her mouth, just worry about fixing her leg.” That was an almost guaranteed bite, whoever handled her leg would probably be okay but she was bound to bite whoever she could.
“She’s going to bite you.”
“I figured, so you can just fix me up when you’re all set with Blue.” His ward first, his concern for her was touching in that he’d willingly have her bite in to him for the sake of seeing her injury mended. Personally, you hadn’t wanted to volunteer to be near her teeth.
“Alright on the count of three.” You weren’t sure who was louder when you relocated Blue’s leg, the young raptor or Owen when she bit him. She was thankfully still rather sedate from the stun so it gave you the chance to examine Owen’s hand and arm where she’d bit him. “Well she missed the major veins, barely. But you absolutely need stitches. And maybe an x-ray, I don’t know if the crunch was from her, you or both.”
“It was her,” Owen ground out, trying not to jerk his hand away and shake off the pain.
“Come on, Blue will be alright in here while I take care of you. Then we’ll come back and check on her,” You responded, leading him out of the cage. Stitches you’d thankfully leaned early on as part of dealing with certain reptiles. You’d be surprised the wounds some of them could inflict. “If you start feeling woozy let me know,” You added, injecting him with anesthesia and an antibiotic before you started cleaning up around the bites enough that you could work on them. “And you’re welcome to continue swearing away the pain if it helps,” Which he did, in particularly colorful language, finishing with a son of a bitch when you finished the stitches and started wrapping them in gauze.
“Not doing that again.”
“I don’t blame you, though if people could listen you wouldn’t have had to do it in the first place. Bunch of fucking morons, I swear to god if she has any lasting problems I’ll have every one of them fired.”
“Didn’t realize you were so protective of the girls Doc.”
“Y/N, don’t call me doc. It just peeves me. And of course I am, I’m in charge of making sure they stay safe and healthy, I can’t do that with idiots undermining protocol. Besides that, they’re impressive animals and they deserve some respect for that even if they are still babies.”
“Better you know that now than have to learn it later.”
“I have the sneaking suspicion anyone that learns to respect them later is learning it the hard way, and personally I like having all my limbs and appendages so I’ll start early.”
“What did you work with before you came here?” Owen asked rather abruptly.
“Reptiles, why?”
“Figures. You seem too comfortable with the girls to know to be wary of them. Figured you had to work with something similar.”
“I can’t do my job if I can’t be reasonable comfortable with whatever I’m working with. What did you do before you came here?” Only seemed fair to return the question.
“Trained dolphins for the Navy before they realized that animals aren’t flawless.”
“Dolphins to raptors, hell of a jump,” You laughed. “I mean I at least had vaguely related experience.” As related as there could be with extinct animals versus very living reptilian animals, some of which were prehistoric in origin themselves. “Speaking of raptors, we should probably see how Blue is doing.”
Blue was doing well enough all things considered and had thankfully settled for resting instead of trying to cause any more trouble for the evening. Owen wasn’t doing quite as well, you could tell the anesthesia was starting to wear off on his hand.
“Maybe you should go home and get some sleep, I can stay here and keep an eye on Blue.” You offered
“Not a chance, they’re my responsibility and I’m not going to take off and leave keeping an eye on things up to anyone else, not even you.”
“I didn’t think that you would but I figured I’d at least offer.” You returned. “So how did you go from training dolphins to raptors anyway?”
“When they scrapped the program, they were going to release my dolphins in to the wild. Mind you I raised them, they’d have never survived on their own. Masrani agreed to relocate them in exchange for my services and pretty much brought me out the next day.”
“And by your services, he wanted you to train raptors?”
“Special project, see what can be done with them since they’re considered to be so intelligent. No park visitors, no exhibits, just do what can be done with them. Start when they’re young like this, gain their trust early and try to train the pack.”
“Impressive, whether it works out well or not. Does Masrani expect them to listen or be like the other dinosaurs and come when you bring out food?”
“He’s not really overseeing the program but from what I gather they want to see if I can get the girls to listen. Hard to get them to trust me and build on that when they do stupid shit like this and hurt one of them.”
“I think in this instance Blue won’t hold it against you too bad, I bet she knows you were trying to help her. She did let you keep your hand.” You half laughed.
“Didn’t take any of my fingers either,” Owen returned with a laugh of his own.
“I worked with a guy that only had two fingers on his left hand, lost the others to a juvenile crocodile.”
“You’ve just got all kinds of stories don’t you?”
“I’m sure you’ve got plenty of your own.”
“I’ll tell you some of mine if you tell me some more of yours,” Owen offered. It was tempting and a good way to get to know him since you were probably going to be working with him a while.
“Counter-offer. I go pick us up some dinner and when I get back we can swap stories.”
“Sounds like a good deal to me.” Dinner, getting to know you, something to keep his mind off his damn hand and how pissed he still was that someone had hurt one of his girls? Of course it was a good deal. He was hoping you’d be around a while, in part because it was better for the girls to have a routine and regular people, in part because you intrigued him
“Here,” You said after fishing some pain killers from your bag. “I know by now the anesthetic is wearing off so that should take the edge off a bit, and I will see you when I get back with our food.” Owen walked you back to your jeep and waited until you left to return to Blue.
Not sure if the followers are (or maybe my last two stories were terrible) but I’m still here. When I’ll do an actual request instead of one of my sequels I’m not sure, but I’m still here.
Settling back in upon your return to Montana, you’d nearly forgotten about Owen and his promise to contact you soon. As soon as you’d walked away from him you’d been entirely focused on Billy to the point that you hardly left his side, which he tolerated for a little while. Life went on, the Kirbys presumably returned home to Oklahoma and you returned to Montana with Alan and Billy all too happy to forget about the whole thing. Alan and Billy had been quick to reconcile which had solved the concern in the back of your mind of what you and your brother would do if Alan wanted to wash his hands of Billy after the incident on the island. I was almost life back to normal, as if the physical scars weren’t a constant reminder even if you could hide yours under a shirt.
You didn’t even realize that you’d never mentioned more about Owen to Billy than the fact that he’d stayed with you until you calmed down a bit and then took you so the medical bay, at least until the first letter showed up and your brother was staring at you confused. Billy’s confusion turned in to his brotherly overprotectiveness, which was completely unnecessary in your eyes.
“He does know you’re underage.”
“It isn’t like that! We talked for a while when he was helping me calm down and I asked if we could stay in contact. I liked talking to him.”
“You don’t like talking to anyone, that’s why you begged me to let you drop public school.”
“Well I liked talking to Owen but it’s not like he lives down the road and we can hang out. I thought it’d be nice to have someone to talk to that doesn’t already know everything that’s going on in my life and isn’t going to think I’m weird. You’re the one always telling me I need to make some friends.”
“Yeah, some people around here so you aren’t always sitting around with me. Not some guy in the Navy, I just wanted you to live your life so you aren’t thirty wishing you’d have done more than spending all your time with your brother.”
“I like spending my time with you believe it or not. I’d rather be thirty and know I got to spend as much time as possible with the person that has actually been there for me instead of wasting my time with people that probably won’t even be bothered to be in my life more than a couple years. And I don’t care that he’s some guy in the Navy, we clicked. Besides, you’re the one that told him to make sure I was okay and he stayed with me until I was.”
“Fine, but if he tries to convince you to run away with him you tell him to fuck off.”
“You’re ridiculous!” You laughed, sitting down to read your letter.
Hey Dino Girl, hope you guys got back to Montana alright. I’m sure you’ve been busy watching over your brother the whole time and giving him hell for scaring you like that in the first place. You guys are lucky to have each other. Our chat got me thinking, girl like you with your goals figured out, if you’re that specific about what you want to do, I’ll bet you’re just as specific about your favorite things in your preferred fields. So how about it? Dinosaur, reptiles, marine creature? This is the sort of stuff pen pals write about isn’t it? I honestly don’t have a clue. I’ve been hearing some stuff about the Navy wanting to train dolphins, help them detect mines and stuff they can’t see under the water themselves. Sounds pretty cool. Try not to spend all the time with your head in the books though, live a little. Take a trip with your brother or something, just try and avoid islands full of things that want to eat you this time. Sorry this isn’t real long, not much going on from my side. Anyway, tell your brother I said hey. You take care of yourself, not that I think anything in the states will be much trouble for the intrepid dinosaur fighter.
“Owen says hey,” You called out to your brother, laughing at the letter. It also reminded you that as close as you were to Billy, you’d told three other people about your first time on the island, but not him. “Hey, uh. Can I talk to you for a minute?”
“No, you can’t join the Navy.”
“Ha ha very funny. I’d never join the Navy in the first place, I’d be bored out of my mind. So you remember how mom just out of the blue showed up and left me here? Said we ought to reconnect.”
“Yeah, kind of hard to forget someone ditching you with a teenager and then disappearing. I mean shit, if she wanted to pass you off she could’ve just said so. Wouldn’t have been such a bitch to get the courts to let me keep you then.”
“That wasn’t the real reason, at least that’s not the reason she told me. She basically said that I was getting to be too much trouble and that I ought to stay with you a while. Which I guess she obviously meant as she was going to leave me with you and never come back but whatever, fuck her.”
“Too much trouble my ass, you were the quietest fourteen-year-old I’ve ever met in my life. Which might’ve been more terrifying than suddenly being responsible for said person. I assume you’re going somewhere with this.”
“I’d been to Isla Sorna before, right before I came to you.”
“What the fuck are you talking about.” And he was reacting every bit as badly as you expected.
“I had this friend, Kelly. We were supposed to stay with her mom but her mom ditched us with her dad who was going to ditch us with someone else because he apparently had some big important thing to do. Kelly thought it was some work trip so we’d just go along with him, so we hid out in this camper. Only it wasn’t a work trip and he didn’t want us to come because he was going to Isla Sorna. Totally reasonably reason to tell your daughter and her friend that they couldn’t come with you and help out. And before you ask, and you probably already guessed, it was that thing with Ian Malcom and San Diego. Ian is Kelly’s dad. And at first you know, it was really cool because there are these extinct animals in the flesh right in front of you.”
“Yeah, it starts cool and then something tries to eat you. Jesus Christ Y/N why didn’t you ever say something?!”
“I didn’t tell anyone about it until this time around. Alan and Eric were talking and they mentioned Ian and I thought it the story would make Eric feel better since he’d done so well on his own. And then when I was talking to Owen he said something about me holding my own and before I even realized it I was telling him about it and I can’t have them know and just keep it from you. And even them I didn’t really tell the whole thing to, just that I’d been on the island before.”
“Well maybe you should tell it now. No wonder you were so closed off.”
“Well mom didn’t help my trust issues, and neither did Kelly since I never hear from her again after the fact. So it started alright, being amazed by this like stampede of herbivores. Except they were running from InGen who had come there to capture some to take to a park they wanted to build in San Diego. I guess Mr. Hammond had warned the one guy Nick that they might deal with something like this, so that night he and Sarah snuck in to their camp and set everything loose. And I mean that might’ve been fine but on their way back they found this chained up baby T-Rex with a broken leg that they took back to the camper to try and help. I didn’t go with them; I knew what it was. So we were hiding with Ian and Eddie in this thing that kept us up in the canopy and away from where anything could eat us. Sarah wouldn’t answer the phone in the camper when Ian was calling to warn her that the parents knew she had the baby so he left to go warn them. A little while later Eddie left me and Kelly in the high hide where we stayed until Ian came back. I guess the parents found the camper while they were mending the baby’s leg and once they gave back the baby the parents pushed the camper off the cliff. So we had to work with the people from InGen to try and get to this communications compound. The Rex showed up again at the camp because it could smell its baby’s blood on Sarah’s jacket. Ian tried to tell everyone not to move but they all started running anyway and we had to hide in this little cave behind a waterfall where we were barely out of reach. I guess we were lucky because we got to the grass after InGen so the raptors were all busy and we were able to run through. We finally got to the compound where there were more raptors, they almost got Sarah. Kelly kicked one through a window. Nick had beat us there so the helicopter was waiting for us. On the way off the island we saw where InGen had sedated the male Rex and caged him to take to their new park. Once we were back Ian dropped us off and you probably know what happened in San Diego after that. So yeah?”
“That is not so yeah.” Billy returned, coming over to wrap his arms around you. “Let me put you through that all over again.”
“I’m kind of over the first time, it was scary then but for the most part I really wasn’t that close to being eaten by anything. I didn’t think there was any harm in going again, see them from a nice safe distance. It was a pretty good idea in theory when you think some crazy rich people are about to give the dig a ton of money to give them an aerial tour. Besides the worst part about this trip wasn’t the T-Rex or the Spino or the Raptors or any of the other stuff. I thought you were dead. I thought they made me leave you but you weren’t dead and then it just felt like I should’ve fought them harder to help you. And I’m sorry I wasn’t there.”
“I’m glad you weren’t there. You’re my baby sister and I wanted to protect you, nothing else was important to me but that. And I’m sorry I put you through that, all I kept thinking is that you could’ve been killed because of what I did and if I could fix that even a little…”
“It wouldn’t have been fixing it by leaving me with no one.”
“I know, I wasn’t thinking then, I just went for it and it went wrong and all I had was hoping that Alan didn’t let anything happen to you. Then the Navy found me down river and all I cared about was that they made sure you got the hell off that island.”
“Well not to upset you more, but if Owen hadn’t been there I probably would’ve just run back in to the jungle when we hit the beach or just stand there and start screaming whether it brought something out or not. I didn’t want to go back without you.”
“Then I’m glad he was, I kept hearing you screaming for me. So if we can make a deal to never do that to each other again, that’d be great.”
“You better never do that to me again! You’ll just have to outlive me.”
“Not a chance, you’re going to outlive me, we’re going to stay off dinosaur islands and die of old age.”
“Forever single and still digging up dinosaur bones.”
“Hey, I can live with that if you can.”
“I’m glad she left me with you.”
“Yeah, so am I. I don’t know what I’d do without you around nagging me for doing something stupid or telling me to clean up.” Billy laughed back. “Seriously though, I’m glad you’re here Y/N. You were worth any bit of trouble you gave me and then some. Now let’s quit with the sappy shit, go write your boyfriend back.” He laughed again, trying to dodge the pillow you threw at him.
“He’s not my boyfriend you jerk! Forever single remember.” You didn’t really think your brother would stay single forever even if you couldn’t really see what the big deal about a relationship was. It wouldn’t be so bad if he found someone, they’d just have to meet your approval first. Boyfriend or not though, you did definitely want to write back to Owen as soon as possible.
You got me, as soon as he was well enough I was on him about making me think he was dead and before that I was just constantly hovering. I tell myself that I’m lucky to have him a lot, that I’ve got a brother that cares so much about me. I told him about the first time I was on Isla Sorna, I thought he’d be angrier at me never telling him but he was just really upset that I had to go through that and then have our mother just drop me off with him. And I’ll have you know I do more than just learn, when it’s the off season for the digs Billy usually takes me on some adventure with him, it’s been a bit of a tradition with us but I think this year we might just count dinosaurs as our adventure. That does sound like an interesting application for dolphins, a better use of their intelligence than having them jump and do flips for a sardine. If you can’t guess, I’m not much of a Sea World fan, I really think it’s horrible. I told Billy you said hi, he seems to think that you’re going to twist my young mind to get me to run away with you. Brothers. Right again about the animals, I’m very specific. Favorite dinosaur, surprisingly enough, is the velociraptor, if we’re going to prehistoric but not technically a dinosaur, definitely Megalodon or maybe Sarcosuchus. As far as reptiles I like the stuff in the croc family and I can’t really pick a favorite, though gharials are really interesting. So are Komodo Dragons and Monitor Lizards. Marine life I have to split too because there are so many. Dolphin and Cape Fur Seal for marine mammals, Great White Shark and Whale Sharks. I also like Narwhals, Otters, Sea Turtles, Pufferfish, Pacu, Rays, and the Coelacanth. The last one was around with the dinosaurs and until very recently they thought it was extinct. Sorry, I have a lot of favorites especially when it comes to prehistoric and marine. There’s so much about them that we’ll never really know. But now you’ll have more to write back, tell me about your favorites and all of that fun stuff. We don’t have a lot going on here right now just because Billy needed time to heal and the dig site isn’t the place to do it. Once he’s back up to it though, he smoothed things over with Alan and it’ll be back to business as usual. Stay safe out there.
While you hunted for an envelope you grabbed one of the pictures that you’d printed up from Isla Sorna, one where you and Billy had found a quick moment to make light of the situation and took a few pictures together on the trek. It almost seemed silly to add but after making the promise with Billy and looking out for you, it also seemed like a nice little thing to add in. Before he let you seal the envelope and drop it off in the mail, Billy insisted on adding a quick note of his own.
Anyone else and I’d probably throw a fit about them sending letters to Y/N but she told me how you helped her calm down and looked after her, and you kept your word when you told me you’d make sure she got of the island. It’s nice that she’s at least talking to someone new, give her someone else to go on about thing to and believe me she will. When she gets in to something she gets in to it hard and she likes to talk about it to anyone that’ll listen. Anyway, thanks for looking out for her. She could use someone else in her life that takes an interest. If she’s opening up to you don’t take it for granted, she doesn’t with very many people.
You weren’t sure if it bothered Billy or if he was amused at how excited you got when a new letter came from Owen, but he did seem surprised that there was one for him as well.
I get it, just looking out for your little sister. You aren’t wrong about her going on about something, but it’s endearing that she gets so enthused about it. Y/N is one hell of an interesting girl, but I promise I’m not trying to convince her to run away with me. I’ll take it as a compliment that she wants to talk to me, I’m glad to talk to her too. Better than hearing the shit my ship mates have to talk about, at least she’s got a brain on her.
“Ooh, is Owen trying to get you to run away with him?” You teased “If he is tell him I said I’m not sharing you. But ha-ha, my letter is longer.”
So what you’re telling me is that you really enjoy any animal that will probably kill you, can’t say I’m surprised. Can’t blame you about Sea World either, just seems sad to me. Your brother is something, we talk on the ship for a little while and already I’m trying to steal you away. I don’t know that I have a favorite dinosaur, T-Rex is pretty classic? Clearly I don’t know my prehistoric animals as well as you do. Surprising reptile pick for someone living so far north, they’re still cool as hell if you don’t piss them off, you would’ve loved living by the coast, see stuff like that all the time. Dolphins hands down though, smarter than some of the people I work with for damn sure, they do go for that program and I’d be all over it. Get in the water with them, see how they work. Ever been to the coast? I’m guessing you guys took that picture on the island, looks like a nice place if you don’t know what lives on it. I failed pretty hard on your animal questions so I’ll have to give you something else to satisfy your curiosity.
Finishing the letter would have to wait for later, the two of you were already running late to meet up with Alan as it was. Your response was probably easily twice as long as Owen’s letter had been. T-Rex? Really? Out of all the commonly known dinosaurs there was he copped out and went for the T-Rex. You did give him credit for making up with his terrible answers by telling you more about himself, but you still went on quite a bit about his insight in to dinosaurs. You liked his enthusiasm at the prospect of working with dolphins, it seemed like something he’d enjoy a lot more than whatever they had him doing. Even Billy seemed to warm up to him after whatever Owen had said in his letter, and so a friendship found itself forming between the three of you. Letters weren’t constant but they never failed to bring a smile to your face.
When you turned eighteen Billy gave you a choice, you could have the college experience and move in to a dorm, or stay with him. Staying meant the two of you really needed to upgrade out of the little one-bedroom. You loved your brother dearly but the two of you were constantly on top of each other and there was no such thing as your own place. He wasn’t surprised when you said you were staying, especially when the other option was living in a building with a ton of people you didn’t know with almost no peace and quiet. As convenient as apartment living had been, the two of you still had substantial sums of what you still called blood-money just sitting there. It took a little while to find the most convenient location but in the end the two of you traded up for a house. Plenty of room for the two of you to live, had a guest bedroom, had space for you both to have your own work area. You’d gotten so used to the apartment that it seemed like it had been forever since you lived in a house but this was a definite improvement.
Letters with Owen had started seeming scarce, or maybe it was just because you were always so loaded down with work that it seemed ages before you got that little break. Despite having the ability to submit quite a bit of your work online, most times you preferred to do it in person. It gave you the chance to discuss things with the professor, know that you physically handed them your work and it got Billy to not get on you about spending most of your time in the house or with him on digs. You were only half surprised to get home and hear another voice along with Billy’s it wasn’t that rare for one of the dig pals to come by or something.
“Y/N, come in here. Got a little surprise for you.” That was suspicious, Billy was terrible at surprises and your birthday had been months ago. As far as you knew nothing special was going on either. He better not have gotten a pet, neither of you had time for that right now.
“What is it?” You started questioning, squealing when you entered the room.
“Hey to you too Dino Girl,” Owen laughed
“Hey now!” Damn baby sister jumping on someone…some guy. Girl was growing up too fast.
“Don’t hey now me! You can’t surprise me with something this exciting and not expect me to overreact.”
“You’ve greeted him, you can get down now.”
“Should stay here just because it bothers you,” You shot back, letting go of Owen anyway before turning to said visitor. “Jerk! You never said you were going to show up!”
“That’s the point of a surprise. Besides, I didn’t want to go making promises and have to back out if something changed.”
“I hate surprises, but I’ll let this one go,” You said, turning back to your brother to hug him.
“Yeah, yeah. Try and behave yourself, I’ve got work to do. We’ll go out for dinner later or something.” So he might’ve already made a not so subtle warning to Owen, friend or not, that there would be no funny business going on. It was about the only reason he was willing to leave the pair alone in the first place.
“So you got me, I’m definitely surprised.”
“I would’ve mentioned it before, just didn’t want you to be disappointed if it didn’t work out.”
“I think you’ve been talking to my brother too much now, scheming behind my back. I don’t know if I would’ve been disappointed in something I ever expected to happen in the first place.”
“Have some time off for a bit, didn’t have anyone else worth visiting. Billy was way more okay with it than I was expecting.”
“Uh huh, how many times did he threaten bodily harm?” Please, you knew your brother and his tendencies. He wouldn’t have let Owen come out to see you if he hadn’t set ground rules first.
“He left out the bodily harm threat, at least verbally. Repeated no closed doors, a lot, no night time visit to each other’s rooms.”
“You’re staying here!?”
“Caught that did you. That was his idea.”
“So how long is a bit?” He’d probably be sick of you by the end of the day anyways.
“’Bout a month. Remember that thing with the dolphins I mentioned?”
“Mentioned repeatedly. Of course I remember, you brought up dolphins like I brought up digging up bones.”
“They’re going for it, need some times to get things set up but in the meantime it’s nothing but free time.”
“That’s fantastic!” You laughed, hugging him again. “Congratulations! Oh my god how excited are you?”
“I haven’t decided if I’m more nervous or excited yet.”
“You’ll do fine, dolphins are among the easiest marine mammals to train, and they’ve been working with humans for probably centuries if not more. We don’t always hear accounts of it until someone stumbles on the information. But if they’re going to try with anything dolphins are definitely the best start.”
“Told you she’s got a mouth on her,” You heard Billy call from the other room.
“I’d yell at him but he really isn’t wrong.”
“I think I’ve probably learned more from you in the last year than I did from school. That’s meant as a compliment by the way.”
“I prefer spending time with books than people, at least I’m finding out something new that way.”
“People are overrated; you aren’t missing out on a whole lot. Just do what makes you happy.”
“Okay fortune cookie Owen. Let’s find something to do until dinner, I’ll save showing you my collection until I’m less likely to scare you off.”
Really, if Billy’s unnecessary protectiveness hadn’t scared Owen off and he didn’t mind you being a frequent rambler, your collections were nothing. That month was fantastic, the boys swapping stories, being able to say something to Owen and not have to wait for a letter back. Half way through the three of you even went on a short trip. The only downside was having to share Owen’s company with Billy most of the time, funny how quickly your brother had gone from suspicious of him to being all buddy-buddy. You were of course a little let down when he finally had to leave, but Owen promised to visit again some time and in the meantime it would be back to writing letters and maybe moving up to the occasional phone call. You still insisted to Billy that Owen was your friend first, rather childishly if you might say so, but those two never would’ve spoken again if it weren’t for you.
The planning worked surprisingly well, you wrote to each other less but since he was doing preliminary preparations for the work he’d be doing you were able to speak often on the phone and conversations were by no means short. If it meant you were tired in the morning so-be-it but you got so wrapped up talking to him that you’d lose track of time. With Billy the two of you had a common ground that was often discussed, but with Owen it was often one of you teaching the other something new or sharing something that had happened that the other wasn’t around for. So, when the opportunity arose, you jumped at the chance to go out and visit Owen. He couldn’t swing enough time to justify coming out to Montana but you had some open time and you’d get to see what he was up to. Billy was less than excited at the aspect of you going off on your little trip, especially without him and especially when you were going to be alone, with Owen. It was a solid week of irritating big brother before you finally left with the promise to call him as soon as the plane landed so he knew you got there alright.
“What, no chaperone?” Owen laughed when he greeted you at the airport.
“I kept waiting for him to change his mind and insist his nineteen-year-old sister couldn’t possible go off on her own.” Wow had he changed in the last year. Friend or not you weren’t blind, Owen was an attractive guy, but last time you’d seen him he hadn’t seemed quite so…muscular? His hair was a bit shorter too.
“Nineteen already?” He teased.
“It’s weird that it’s been two years already, it doesn’t feel like it. This last year though.”
“Yeah, I missed you too Dino lady,” He responded, wrapping you in a tight hug.
“How come I’m Dino Lady now? What happened to Dino Girl? And when did you get so ridiculously strong, jeez.” You laughed, squealing a little when he lifted you.
“Well you’re a mature young lady now, can’t call you girl forever.”
“I give you permission to, Dino Lady makes me sound like I’ve got a hoard of them or something like the cat ladies. You keep talking about that and I’ll start calling you Billy. He’s getting all dad on me now and it’s weird. I get it, I’m ‘growing up’ but it isn’t like I became a legal adult and took off or something.”
“You’re his baby sister. I mean come on, he’s been taking care of you since you were what, fourteen?” Owen responded, letting you go to take your bag. “Now you’re an adult, doing things by yourself. Probably weird for him to get used to.”
“Then he should stop encouraging me to go out and live my life while I’m young. As far as I’m concerned I’m young another ten years and then I should consider settling down and not adventuring maybe. I probably still will. And you didn’t answer my other question.”
“I didn’t know you thought I wasn’t before smart ass. Job is going to be more physical, good idea to work out more. You aren’t exactly getting feeble yourself.”
“Dinosaur bones can be heavy, and it’s always fun to see the look on the college boys’ faces when the girl is lifting more than they are. Not that I think I have anything to prove to them, but still.”
“Hey, you don’t have to justify it to me, I already knew you were a tough girl. I don’t think Billy has much to worry about, you’ll be giving them hell more than he will.”
“He doesn’t need to worry in the first place because I’m not interested. I don’t have the time for some guy that’s going to expect me to have time to be with him all the time and have all these expectations of me. I’ve got my own stuff I’m working on and it isn’t worth the time and effort of finding someone that’ll work with that. Besides, I’m just fine on my own.”
“Not interested doesn’t mean he’s got nothing to worry about, he’ll worry anyways and look out for you because he knows how a guy thinks and I’m sure he hears them talk. And be honest, how much do you really tell him?”
“They can talk all they want, just let them try something with me. And if you’re talking about what I think you’re talking about, of course he knows I’m staying with you.”
“In my little one-bedroom place, just the two of us.”
“I didn’t give him specific details…”
“Because?”
“Because even though he knows you and he trusts you he’d get all weird and parenty over me, staying alone, with you in your little place. It wasn’t worth having to convince him that the weird idea his brain gives him about us are ridiculous. I’m obviously never going to completely convince him, which is why when he was lecturing me before I left I told him if I got really bored and decided I wanted to bang you, I’d make sure I was safe about it.”
“Are you trying to make me wreck this car?!”
“It was worth it to see his face! I’m telling you he’s got it in his head and if I can’t convince him otherwise that was my last option to shut him up. Maybe you shouldn’t get so flustered about it.”
“I’m driving and I was not expecting that to be what came out of your mouth.”
“Please don’t get awkward about us being boy and girl now.”
“I’m not! How did you even get him to let you come after you said that?!”
“He stomped off actually, when he came back he said that if I came home pregnant he was going to hunt you down. He can’t tell when I’m joking obviously, but I’m not coming home pregnant so he can calm down and not have such a cow.”
“He can’t tell because when you joke you say it like you’re serious and you do it to see how we respond. I’m on to you.”
“I didn’t say it like I was serious that time, I said it really obviously sarcastically. Which reminds me, I know you told Billy you were going to sleep on your couch while I’m here, I’ve heard you talk about that couch you aren’t sleeping on the couch.”
“You are really demanding, I’m not putting you up on my couch, you get the bed.”
“Or we could just both sleep in the bed, like mature rational adults. Billy can assume whatever he’d like but I don’t see any reason we don’t just share the bed, unless you’re hiding some jealous girlfriend I don’t know about. In which case I’d like some warning so I don’t get mauled by her or something for getting too close to her man.”
“Everything we talk about and you think I’d have a secret girlfriend?”
“That’s the only reason I can possibly come up with as to why sharing would be an issue. My brother isn’t going to show up, he’s got work and even if he didn’t I didn’t tell him specifically where you live. Mostly because this is my first alone trip and I want it to stay an alone trip where he doesn’t get to have any part of your time.”
“So really, you’re the jealous one.”
“I’m not jealous, just stingy and don’t like feeling like a third wheel.”
“Alright not jealous, we share the bed. We can even pretend your brother doesn’t exist while you’re down here. What’s that look for?”
“I told him I’d call when the plane landed,” You responded sheepishly.
“Call him!”
“I am, you distracted me!” Billy however, wasn’t the least bit surprised that you forgot even if he didn’t buy your store that Owen distracted you with a Grizzly Adams beard. You weren’t surprised either that he wanted to talk to Owen, even after you insisted he was driving and of course Billy didn’t want him distracted did he? “What?”
“He told me to try and not feed you to a shark if you talk too much.”
“He told me before I left that he was going to tell you that you could feed me to a shark if you wanted to. That horrible liar. Next time there’s a snake at the site I’m going to let him think it’s dangerous and not help him.”
“Even though the only venomous snake in Montana is a rattlesnake and he should be able to tell the difference?”
“He doesn’t like snakes remember, he doesn’t wait around to see if it makes noise he just books it or yells for me to get it away. And apparently I’m the only person on these digs that actually knows how to properly handle a snake so you don’t get bit.”
“I don’t think anyone else is doubling in herpetology either. Still can’t decide?”
“I think I’m going to just do both actually, most of the course work is pretty much the same aside from the geology stuff for paleontology. And they go together, unless we find evidence that dinosaurs weren’t really like reptiles at all which is entirely possible.”
“You are incredibly ambitious.”
“Says the guy who is going to train dolphins to find underwater dangers, that’s way more ambitious and way cooler.”
“Agree to disagree.”
“You’re terrible in an argument you know?”
“Maybe I just don’t want to argue with you. Well, here we are,” Owen returned as you pulled up to his place.
“Oh my god this view is so fucking amazing, I might have to prove Billy right and run away and stay with you here forever. Wow.”
“I forget that the only other time you’ve been this close to the ocean you were in a plane.”
“That was amazing too, in a holy shit look how amazing and vast this is sort of way. This is just right in front of me and it’s so amazing.”
“Don’t ever lose your enthusiasm, you have no idea what it’s like to see that amazement on your face.”
“Have you ever seen something that’s just so incredible that you can’t describe it. Like for the rest of your life you’ll remember that thing or place or person and just think about how it made you feel.”
“Once.”
“Aw, not sharing?”
“Maybe later, warning you now inside isn’t going to be one of those things.”
“Actually this is still nicer than the apartment I shared with Billy for four years. I like it, minimal but still personal. Half expected a poster of bikini girl on a corvette or something.”
“Clearly you think I’m too much like your brother then.”
“No bikini posters actually, lots of scattered papers and books and paleontology stuff but no half naked women. Even when I first moved in. He’s lived like a monk as long as I’ve been there. It’s weird.”
“I hope you aren’t looking for an answer from me.”
“I should’ve told him to get some while I was away!”
“This is why he told me to have fun with you isn’t it. ‘That handful is your problem now’ he says. Makes sense now.”
“You know you love it! I don’t think the two of you would know what to do without me.”
“No, we probably wouldn’t.”
“Nicer than Billy, he said he’d have carried on living a sane life with peace and quiet. Horrible lie, he’d be bored without me.”
“We both would. Any preference for dinner?”
“Not really, I’m trusting you not to feed me something gross but this is your turf so it’s your problem to decide.”
“Out for dinner it is.” Dinner was followed fairly quickly by going back and you falling asleep. It had been a long day, a long flight so one minute you’d been flopped on his bed talking about god knows what and the next minute you were out. When you woke up you curled up under the covers and curled up against Owen. How he was already awake was beyond you.
“Well I’ve got to be about the most boring guest ever.”
“Didn’t figure you’d be up for much yesterday, surprised you didn’t fall asleep in the car.”
“Oh my god you have a picture of us on the ceiling above your bed!” You said, noticing the taped up photo on the lower ceiling above the head of the bed. “Don’t I feel special.”
“Old habit.”
“Well I still feel special that the trip meant enough to you that you keep a picture of it where you can see. I keep mine on my desk, not sure what Billy did with his. I had so much fun with you guys.”
“Never a dull moment around you Brennans.”
“I’m really glad we stayed in contact. Now it just feels like there’d be this missing piece if we hadn’t. And I feel like I’m being super sappy right now.”
“I get it, I think I would too. Probably shaped like a shark.”
“Aw, I’m surprised you didn’t go for dinosaur.”
“Shark gets them both, got your prehistoric and your marine life. Miss Megalodon.”
“Don’t knock Megalodon, that thing would fuck some shit up if it was still around. You’d think twice about wanting to step foot near the ocean.”
“I know better than to knock the fifty-foot mega shark, extinct or not. Put it right there with knocking you on my list of things that are a bad idea.”
“Owen Grady! Are you implying that I’m as threatening as a Megalodon?!”
“You might be worse. Ow! I meant it in a good way.”
“How is that to be taken in any sort of good way?!”
“You can be very intimidating when you choose to be. I’m just saying I wouldn’t want to be on the receiving end.”
“You haven’t even seen me trying.”
“I’ve seen you when you’re not. You want to spend all day going back and forth about whether or not you’re intimidating or are we going on your grand adventure. Because I seem to remember promising something exciting.”
“I can just argue with you while we’re on the adventure.”
“Just get ready,” Owen laughed, getting out of the bed. “I’ll be making breakfast.”
Finally wrote the part 2 reader pov for Cease and Assist! Let me know if you’d like the part 2 owen pov
You didn’t get anywhere near the paddock before you found out where the girls had gotten off to. Claire had already taken off away from the paddock in the truck, but that didn’t give them safety from the girls. You couldn’t be sure where Charlie had run off to after your encounter with her or even Blue but Delta and Echo were in pursuit of what they saw as their next meal. You were more amazed that the trio was able to beat the girls back before you and Owen were even close enough to interfere. It wasn’t much but it bought the time you all needed to get back to the park and hopefully somewhere safe.
You had almost forgotten all about Hoskins and his idiotic notions, his delusions that they could create their own dinosaur to use as a weapon. He didn’t see how horribly that had gone with Indominus, how many people had died because of what they did. No, he had every intention of stripping the lab and starting over somewhere else now that they’d destroyed a place that had once been wonderful and happy. He’d turned your girls in to the thing that everyone feared for his own benefit because he thought he knew better than everyone else. Or maybe his plan all along had been for Owen to lead the girls to Indominus. You didn’t miss the silent fury on Owen’s face, or the way he kept you all within arm’s reach and away from Hoskins. You had half a mind to step away from Owen anyway and slap that look right of Hoskins face, and perhaps you might have, were it not for the unexpected visitor.
Despite having nearly given you heart failure, Delta showed no interest in you. From the moment she stepped in to the room her attention was fixed on Hoskins and you could see the intent in her eyes. You knew what was coming, Delta had always hated Hoskins as it was and at least for the moment she had chosen to go after what she perceived as an immediate threat to her alpha and the person that had long been a bother to her. You stepped far enough away from Owen to shield Zach and Gray from seeing any more than what they’d already seen and the moment she struck the five of you took the chance and ran. With the threat gone, Delta’s attention went right back to her fleeing prey but the momentary distraction Gray gave her with the holoscape didn’t do much in way of helping. Blue was already waiting outside, Delta coming out and blocking a rear escape while Echo and Charlie boxed you in from the sides. You expected them to attack, maybe you and Owen could distract them long enough for Claire to take her nephews and run but you doubted it.
The pack waited for Blue’s command, any indication from her to make a move. After seeing what happened with Indominus you were expecting her to turn on Owen, take out her old Alpha first and then they’d go for the rest of you. You’d often admired Owen’s relationship with the girls, but never as much as you did at that moment, as soon as Blue was free from the camera set up strapped to her head her demeanor changed and so did her sisters’. You felt Charlie’s head brush up against your arm a moment before their attention snapped forward towards the lagoon. What brought about the change in who they took command from you weren’t sure, what you were sure of was that the look Blue gave Owen was her way of saying she was going to defend her Alpha and the hell with Indominus. You nearly screamed when it threw her against a building as if she were nothing more than a rag doll. The sharp whistle from Owen sent the other girls in to action and while Owen led Claire and the boys around the fight you ran to Blue.
You didn’t have much hope for getting off the island, sure the girls were deadly but Indominus was worse and they could only do so much and there was no way now you’d make it to the helicopter. If that’s how it was going to end, then so-be-it but you weren’t going to just leave Blue lying there. She was still breathing and her limbs moved weakly but it was enough to let you think she was just stunned. It probably didn’t matter in the long run but you’d been with the girls so long and you couldn’t stand the thought of losing them to some hybrid monster.
“That a girl Blue, you did so great just like we knew you could.” You hadn’t been this close to Blue since she was little, hadn’t been able to run your hand down her side like you did. “We are so proud of you and I know you can hear me so I need you to get up. The girls need your help; Owen needs your help. We are going to stop this thing but it’s gonna take all of us and that’s okay. That’s okay because if it gives those boys a chance to get away then it is worth it to me but I really need your help Blue. You girls are the real power, Owen and I are just the delicate humans and we need you right now.” You didn’t even know if she understood you but you had to try something. Owen was going to run out of bullets that you didn’t think were even doing anything and the girls could only keep Indominus distracted for so long. You could see a flash of movement and realized it was Claire running down one of the corridors, consideration of what the hell she could be doing turned to realization when you remembered what that path led to.
You contemplated moving, running to Owen and taking shelter but what little distraction Echo and Delta had been providing was gone and you felt the bile rise up in your throat when the flames of the grill burst up. As Indominus approached the stand that Owen and the boys were taking shelter in you thought to scream, yell, do anything to get it away from them. They were just kids; they had lives ahead of them but this was the risk you took when you came to the island. That one day it could come down to being eaten by one of its inhabitants. You were moments from your intended distraction when you heard the footsteps, felt the rumbling through the ground. The roar of the T-Rex that Claire had released was one of the most welcome sounds you’d heard all day. “I’m sorry” You muttered to Blue. When the Rexes started fighting you didn’t hesitate, bolting as fast as you could to rejoin the others. If that woman could lure a damn T-Rex to buy time, if you could all get through everything you’d gotten through that day, you would get off this island.
As you watched Indominus pin down the Rex, you considered how old she was. She’d done an admirable job against the larger aggressor but it wasn’t enough, she was going to lose and the group of you had to move before she did. Just as you moved to pull the boys and tell them to run she appeared, screeching and full of rage Blue came running. Her appearance and attack distracted it long enough that the old Rex could get back up and regain the upper hand with Blue’s help. Those girls knew who really ran this park and they weren’t going to let Indominus win and neither it appeared, was the Mosasaur. You’d seen her take sharks of the crane but seeing her come out of the lagoon like that. It made the whole thing feel like some extreme dream. The T-Rex wasn’t an immediate danger, she wouldn’t see you unless you started moving but she knew Blue was there and for a moment the fear you held for yourself transferred to Blue and you were sure the Rex would turn on her, but it turned and wandered off. It broke your heart just as much watching her with Owen, seeing the look on her face when he shook his head. You had to leave; leave the island and your girls and everything you’d built there. She ran off, calling for her sisters, if they were even still alive.
The ride back to the mainland was quiet. All of you had too much on your minds to want to say anything and so many things that didn’t yet have answers. Did Barry make it off the island? What would happen with the park, with the animals that were still there? Despite the catastrophe not nearly as many people were killed as could have been. The park had been quick to respond and the worst of the injuries to the visitors had been by the Pteranodons, which ACU has been even quicker to try and get under control. Perhaps the public would understand, maybe if they announced it they’d blame InGen. You weren’t sure about any of it. You would understand if the park never reopened but you worried about the girls, about the other dinosaurs. How long would it take for the food supply to die out? How long could they really all last without intervention. Part of you was terrified that if they did decide to try and rebuild that they’d send in a team to neutralize the loose carnivores, that they’d send people in and they’d kill the girls after everything they’d done to save you. And they had, sure they terrorized you and tried to eat you first but in the end they fought with their lives to protect you and it didn’t seem fair that they be rewarded with death.
Getting to the mainland alleviated one concern, Barry had gotten safely off the island as well. It did lift your spirits to see Zach and Gray reunited with their parents, and to see the relief on the face of Claire’s sister when she saw that Claire was okay. You still had to remind yourself that it could have been so much worse and that you should be a little more grateful at how things turned out. You vaguely heard one of the boys mention Owen and when Claire’s sister made to come over you opted to join Barry. Nothing you’d done had any impact on anything that happened and things were just starting to feel awkward for you.
“Some fucking day wasn’t it?” You sighed “But hey, we’re alive at least, more than I can say for Hoskins.”
“You didn’t,” You knew Barry was joking, pissed or not neither you or Owen would’ve killed Hoskins unless it was an extreme circumstance.
“Nah, your girl Delta did though. Guess she got sick of being call a boy, really didn’t like when he tried to talk to her like he was her Alpha.” It nearly choked you up talking about the girls.
“Always said, give her the chance and she’d be the first one to take a piece out of him. I’m glad none of them got either of you.”
“That was all Owen, still not sure how he pulled it off but if anyone could’ve gotten us the hell out of there it would’ve been him. I’m just the assistant.”
“The hell you are.” If the way Barry was laughing was any indication he’d seen Owen coming well before he startled the hell out of you.
“I really hate you both right now, I think I’ve been terrorized enough for one lifetime thank you very much.”
“You missed the real fun parts.”
“I was almost blown up! And I had to come get you without knowing there was some crazy hybrid dinosaur on the loose a few hours after I had to watch you almost get eaten by your raptors. You don’t get to try and compete with me over who had the worse day.”
“Don’t get her started.”
“Hey, I admit I should’ve mentioned why I needed you to come pick me up, I wasn’t thinking about it at the time.”
“I don’t want to talk about this anymore.” All it was doing was upsetting you more, reminding you how terrified Owen had you, reminding you of everything that had gone wrong. You weren’t sure how much longer you could maintain the mask you were wearing to make people think you were alright. It wasn’t until Barry wandered off to see if there was anything he could do to help out that Owen pulled you in to him and you nearly caved right there.
“Let’s get the hell out of here, Claire said they’re putting us up at some hotel and I don’t know about you but I just want to take a damn shower and get some sleep.” He didn’t wait for you to respond “I get it Y/N, I do and I know you’re holding up as much as you can but how about you let me worry about you for once. We’ll go to our hotel room and figure it out from there.”
“Our hotel room.”
“Hope you didn’t think I was letting you out of my sight again, you did more than enough for my yesterday and I don’t plan on leaving you alone. It’ll hit you eventually and I’d rather be there to make sure you’ll be alright.”
“I get first dibs on the shower and after what we had to put up with there had better be fluffy robes and a mini bar and room service.”
“We might’ve gotten a nicer setup than everyone else, just saying.”
“Can’t have had anything to do with you saving the park director and her nephews.”
“Got us room service and a full size bar didn’t it?”
“A full bar?! Food! I think we need to go now.” You hadn’t eaten since the bagel for breakfast the day before, you felt absolutely disgusting and you needed a drink. The hell with any awkwardness or gossip or anything else you wanted to be out of that warehouse and in that hotel room as soon as possible. The hotel wasn’t the Hilton, not that you’d ever stayed at a Hilton, but for you it was paradise. You weren’t sure what everyone else’s rooms looked like but as promised the room you were sharing with Owen was plenty nice, had a bar and already had a tray of something to munch on until you felt like ordering an actual meal. The hot shower did wonders to sooth some of your sore muscles and wash away the mess you were sure you looked like. The robe would have to do, as soon as Owen threw his clothes out of the bathroom you put them with yours in the laundry bag and set them out to be washed. They weren’t exactly in amazing shape but it was what you had with you and you couldn’t very well go out in nothing but a bathrobe.
Maybe drinking wasn’t the wisest idea but you hoped it would help take the edge off a bit, maybe settle your nerves. As relaxing as the shower had been, you felt completely drained and you could probably down a whole bottle and that feeling wouldn’t go away. You didn’t plan on overdoing it, you just needed something else to focus on while you were alone, which was really only making you think of your nights at Sunrio or Margaritaville. You hadn’t even finished your first glass before you gave up and settled for curling up under the covers of the bed.
You were understandably confused when you woke up, not entirely sure were you were or what the warm weight was wrapped around you. It came back to you in small flashes: training with the girls, going to Owen, everything that happened after, everything that had been your life for years just crumbled at your feet. Everything you’d kept bottled up was starting to escape through the expanding cracks in the bottle, you didn’t notice the first choked sob was enough to wake Owen up until you felt him twisting you around to face him. You were already too far gone to care who was there with you and his hand rubbing small circles on your back wasn’t helping.
“Just let it out, I told you I’d be here when you needed it.” He’d be there whether it was pleasant for him or not, you realized. At the most basic, the two of you had been friends for a long time and you couldn’t imagine it was a great feeling having someone close to you screaming and sobbing in to your chest. Even still he kept his arms around you, his grip giving you some small form of comfort and security. “You’re okay,” He soothed when you finally stopped sobbing. With your head half buried in his chest you missed the confused look on his face when you started laughing.
“I’m sorry, it’s just…are you even wearing anything right now?!” When the hysteria calmed it left you with the realization that while you were wearing a robe Owen certainly wasn’t. It also served to turn your face redder than the crying had. You jumped when Owen declined a verbal answer and opted to move your hand. “Ah, towel, right.”
“Would’ve been out of line to just jump in to bed with you otherwise. Despite the reputation I do have some tact.”
“We both know that reputation is garbage, I don’t know why I even thought that.” God he was so warm.
“Wishful thinking,” He teased, kissing the top of your head. “How’re you feeling?”
“Drained, distraught, confused. I’m not even sure anymore. I don’t know what we do now, what happens with the park, what happens with the girls.”
“No one else knows right now either, Claire said if she hears anything she’ll let us know but with Masrani dead, right now she’s highest up so they’ll have to go through her to do anything. I just asked her to let me know if anyone is going back.”
“You plan on going back?” Not that you wouldn’t yourself, maybe.
“If they’re sending someone in, I can’t risk them running in to Blue. They won’t see her as anything but a threat. I owe her that much.”
“We both do, that little hiccup aside they saved our lives. I wouldn’t feel right letting someone go in and punish them for something that wasn’t their fault.”
“I’m not letting that happen, if they’re going to abandon the park fine but they aren’t going in and touching our girls, I told Claire that already; she agreed with me.”
“That’s comforting,” You responded. “It is, I’m being serious. She brought the damn T-Rex out like it was nothing, no one is going to get past her. If she’s got our back with the girls then I trust that.” The thought struck you that you weren’t even sure how many of the girls were left, Blue was the only one you saw before you left, the other three you hadn’t seen since the start of the right. “I hope they’re okay,” You muttered.
“We can hope for Charlie and Delta but Echo…” Sweet Echo, maybe not really sweet she really enjoyed trying to swipe at people through the gate but still.
“I’m not giving up on her either, maybe she rolled away or it wasn’t that bad but right now I need to think that they’re okay and Blue is looking out for them and they’re just waiting for you to come back. I can’t think about the idea that she suffered like that. I just can’t.”
“You could be right, it wasn’t something I wanted to focus on so maybe she is fine.” He doubted it but he couldn’t take that away from you. He also couldn’t say for sure that Echo wasn’t okay, he really hadn’t been staring in to the flames to see if one of his girls was being burned to death. “You probably saved Charlie you know that.” That blast had been right where she’d been standing before she moved at you.
“I thought she was going to tear my face off. I don’t even know what I was thinking, I just didn’t want to believe that just like that they forgot all about us. She just came to me, pressed her face against mine and ran off.”
“You scared the hell out of me you know that.”
“Join the club, you calling me was absolutely the worst phone call I’ve ever received and then the feed cut out at the aviary! I didn’t know if you were alive or dead or if you were lying there hurt until you got back to the park and…” Kissed Claire. “I was so fucking worried.”
“I’m sorry. Look that shit with Claire… I don’t have something I can say to make that better, I wish I did but I don’t.”
“You don’t have to apologize to me.” If he could never bring it up again that’d be even better.
“The hell I don’t. It should’ve been you the second I saw you were alright. It wasn’t…I don’t have feelings for her okay, and she has even less for me. It was stupid and a well-deserved kick to the ego.”
“I don’t see how that possibly could’ve been a kick to the ego, kissing an attractive bad-ass seems like it’d be an ego boost to me.” He was trying to apologize for obviously hurting you and here you were being bitter.
“It could’ve been worse. It could’ve been you telling me it was a mistake, it was awful and I tasted disgusting.”
“You did.”
“Cold, I deserve that.”
“You tasted like dirt, sweat, jungle and gasoline. I’m not saying it was bad but you can’t expect to do that to a girl when you’re surrounded by things trying to kill you and have her say it was fantastic. I mean rea…” Owen was well on his way to making it a habit to abruptly kiss you when you were trying to say something. Had you been standing your knees probably would’ve given out…again. As surprised by it as you still were, without the mess and the danger and everything else you let yourself enjoy it, let yourself lean back in to him. “That one was better,” You muttered when he pulled away.
“I don’t know why I waited so damn long to do that.” Dear god the way his lips felt on your neck. “Should’ve done this so fucking long ago.”
“Yes, you should have. Or I should have. We both could have died and we would’ve never known. I just didn’t want”
“You should’ve have had to wait until I was afraid I’d never get the chance to say it again”
“So say it now. With your words Owen not your lips, wonderful though they are.”
“I don’t know what the hell I did to deserve you in my life, but I’m grateful you are. Hey, you wanted the words don’t look at me like that.”
“You’re going to make me cry again you sap!”
“I’m serious, I don’t know what I would’ve done if something had happened to you. It isn’t that I just want you. I need you, I love you, and I don’t care what we do next as long as I get to have you with me.”
“Same,” You whispered shakily, trying to blink back the tears that he’d brought on.
“Use your words,” He teased softly.
“I love you too, even if you are a pain in the ass that worries me too much.” You acquiesced. “And if you’re going back for the girls I’m going with you.” And you did. What probably saved the park more than the quick reaction was Wu’s arrest. He had after all created Indominus and withheld vital information about it which led to its escape and rampage, which in turn resulted in the breach of the aviary. The public was all too happy to vilify the man who placed his own ambition above the safety of others and accept the compensation that Masrani Global offered to those affected by the incident. The first step still needed to be assessing the damage to the park and seeing what, if anything could be done. Structural damage was largely contained to Main Street, the fencing around the lagoon needed repaired, as did the aviary and one of the large glass windows that had been part of the lab. Assessment however depended on workers being able to safely do so.
After a roam around the island, Rexy had returned to her den in the paddock and was more than easy to contain. The other carnivores were safely enclosed if not agitated and hungry but that still left the matter of the raptors that everyone was petrified of. Despite his close encounter with Blue, Barry returned with you and Owen to see what could be done about the girls, a feat made somewhat easier by their tracking devices and a tablet. While Owen and Barry planned, you forced yourself out to Main Street, carefully treading around rubble until you reached the restaurant. It was better to get this out of the way, accept that you’d failed Echo, move on and do what you could for the remainder. You braced yourself for the smell of burnt flesh and for the sight of the charred corpse with the crooked jaw. She’d obviously moved at some point after being thrown because she wasn’t on the grill top. She wasn’t next to it in the inside either, she wasn’t hidden under an overturned table, behind the counter, in the kitchen or the meat cooler. She just wasn’t there. It had been easy enough for Owen to find you, he knew you’d want to see Echo first but he also knew after checking the trackers that you wouldn’t find her.
“I can’t find Echo,” You rasped when Owen walked in. You weren’t sure if you were hopeful that she’d escaped just fine, worried that she’d been so badly burned there was nothing let or the possibility that the Rex or one of her sisters had used the body as a meal.
“I know you can’t. I can’t tell you what shape she’s in but unless they managed to ditch their trackers and we didn’t notice it then, Echo is with Delta and Charlie.”
“What about Blue?” She’d been the only one you hadn’t worried about.
“Keeping a perimeter and watching over them. So let’s not keep them waiting.” ACU insisted on accompanying the three of you, before Owen even had the chance you gave them a warning they wouldn’t forget about what would happen if they hurt one of your girls. Not that they were very inclined to venture inside the zone that Blue had been patrolling. She was far enough away that it was easier to just go to the girls and assume that Blue would arrive when she realized you were there.
The pack, as it turned out, had returned to something that was familiar to them. They’ve avoided the paddock but set up their little base out by Owen’s. It made sense, there was fresh water and while it hadn’t been too horrible long they were probably hunting any little birds or mammals they could find. It seemed eerily empty when you pulled up, the windows in the jeep down so you could listen out for their distinctive calls. Eerie enough until a head popped in through the window, nearly giving all three of you heart failure, especially since it had been your window.
“Charlie! Not okay!” Your heart felt like it was about to beat out of your chest, you hadn’t even heard or seen her approach. Her call echoed through the vehicle plenty loud enough. “You really couldn’t do that outside?!”
“Whoa whoa whoa, what are you doing?”
“Breathe Owen, I’m getting out before she tries to tear the door off, if she was going to eat me I think she’d have done it instead of scaring the shit out of me.”
“Or she’s waiting until she doesn’t have to pull you out the window.”
“Barry, you’re just jealous that Charlie decided to like me.” You returned before nudging Charlie with the door to get her out of the way and getting out of the jeep. “Hey baby girl, I was hoping we’d find you here. Where’s your sisters?” As if on cue Delta appeared, healing wounds from the fight visible on her body but she seemed more interested in Barry than she did you. But still no Echo.
“Alright, this is weird.” Owen commented when he got out of the jeep and leaned on the hood to keep an eye on you and Charlie. You opened your mouth to warn him that Echo was coming but her stumble in to the side of the jeep proved warning enough.
“Echo!” You cried out before escaping Charlie and running to the other side of the jeep to check on her. She hadn’t completely escaped being burned, you assumed the cause of her stumble was the burns on her leg that were trying to heal but still looked pretty bad. It must’ve been painful enough that she didn’t even keep that leg straight. “Now your mouth and your leg are crooked! What are we gonna do with you?” Echo’s response was simple, shoving her head between you and Owen and chirping softly. “We missed you too sweetie but you’re too big for this.”
“How cute,” Barry chimed in when Blue arrived and shoved herself in what minimal space was still left in the huddle.
“You guys are too big I can’t breathe and the mirror is digging in to my back!” It was weird and uncomfortable being trapped between two massive raptors and the jeep, especially when they had you pressed against the side mirror. Complaining to the girls only served for them to reposition and shove you and Owen together.
“Thank you girls but we don’t need your encouragement anymore.” Owen half laughed, kissing you anyway. “So if that’s all, we do have to put you back in the paddock.”
“I know!” You laughed when all four raptors shot Owen an indignant look. “But we want you girls safe and that’s the safest place for you. And we really need to get Delta and Echo patched up better. Pretty please?”
It still took considerable goading to convince the girls to get back in the paddock and even once that was done Delta and Echo wouldn’t let the vet near them so they had to give you and Owen instructions from outside the cage. More than once you thought Echo was going to snap at one of you but she stayed calm enough that she laid still for Owen with her head in your lap. It had been years since you were this close to the girls, just as many since one of them curled up to you. It hadn’t been since they were still pretty little. You still doubted that cuddle time with the giant raptors was something that was going to be put back in to the schedule but you were happy to comfort Echo while Owen made sure her leg would heal alright. Barry was just as happy to stay outside with the vet. But at the end of the day there they were, all four girls safe and sound while their three caretakers threw out anything and everything that InGen had left.
One thing that wasn’t changing was that the girls would not be on display. The public still didn’t know they were even on the island and it was just better all-around if it stayed that way. It would be just like it was before minus InGen’s monitoring and interference. Owen would keep working with the girls, Barry would be there to call him out on stupid ideas and you’d probably end up making sure they took care of themselves and that paperwork actually got turned in. You’d actually insisted to Owen that things stayed that way, you were good at making sure those little things were done and you enjoyed doing it. Just because your relationship had been elevated didn’t mean your job had to change. It was a good way for you to move on and put the past behind you, at least for the most part though you could never get yourself to go to the steakhouse again after that and you had a new appreciation for Rexy and the Mosasaur. Even Claire’s occasional visits to the raptor paddock were a welcome change, it was good to see her loosen up a bit and the three of you had shared a unique experience. At the very least it was a way to talk about it without having to do it with people that didn’t know the whole story. An unlikely friendship, but a valued one at that.
At the end of the day you had back everything that was important to you. You had Owen in a way you’d only ever dreamed about, you had your job with the park, you had your friends and you had the raptor pack and favoritism from Echo and Charlie. There really wasn’t anything else you could’ve asked for and any time you looked back on that day it was just a reminder that you’d gotten incredibly lucky and it just made you more grateful to be where you were.
Writing for real this time, had a little breakdown at work last week and decided the best way to bounce back from that was remove all distractions. So the games system went back up to my room, I adopted another cat (I swear he’s not distracting) and started up sequels for two stories that I’ve been meaning to do for a while. A bit easier to work of something existing than dive headfirst in to a new request. I’m also featured on an imagines directory blog @masterofimagines Their mod contacted me about it and I figure it couldn’t hurt to be featured in a great big directory. They don’t post imagines or anything like that themselves, but if you’re looking for an imagines or drabble blog for a certain thing they make it really easy to find.
So I know I haven’t posted anything in forever, and I actually do have some requests sitting in my inbox and for most of the summer work wasn’t even scheduling me so I had plenty of time. Rather than writing I spent that time on my mental health. Despite the stress of having to pay my bills with no hours, it was a very effective summer that coupled with effective medication left me feeling refreshed for the first time in a long time. More than that, it’s left me with the real desire and enjoyment of the things I used to enjoy, from enjoying video games to reading and though it was slowest to come back that also brought back the enjoyment of writing. I haven’t gotten anything written yet but I just wanted to update you guys and thank you for sticking around while I handle my stuff. I encourage any of you struggling with depression and/or anxiety to seek help, my doctor was an incredible help and gave me quite a few options outside of prescription medication that can also work to help your mood. Additionally, if any of you every need or want to talk I’m always here, you can contact me on this blog or my main (padfootfreak14) and I’d be happy to talk to you.
Special surprise for me today. Ebay hadn’t even marked these as shipped and I went out to get the mail awaiting my 3DS copy of Lego Jurassic World and found a mystery box containing these. Definitely wearing the Deinonychus claw, the others will go with my collection
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