Alex's This and That

Title: The Price of Power
Fandom: Babylon 5
Disclaimer: I do not own nor do I profit from these characters.
Rating: PG
Author: Alex (alex_cat_45@yahoo.com)
Type: 100 word Drabble
Summary: Vir thinks of what he’d do in Londo’s place.

Title: A Jurassic Tale: Part Thirty-one - Live Free
Author: Alexcat
Type: Gen
Rating: PG-13
Disclaimer: I don’t own them but I do love them. Dinosaurs!
Warnings: Possible carnivore gore
Beta: None
Characters: Owen
Archive: Alex’s Story Book Ao3
Author’s Note: This is a series of drabbles and ficlets based on Jurassic World.
Spoilers: Yes
Summary: Life with Owen Grady as told from several POVs.

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Part Thirty-one
Live Free

Owen and Claire found several nests though they dared not approach them. Some of the nests were those of predators, small ones that had escaped when the Indominus rex was on her rampage and had not been captured afterward.

“What do we do now?” Claire asked.

“We can tranquilize the parents and move them all inside but we need to decide if we are going to keep them inside or let them run free.” Owen thought they should be free but he wasn’t the one who made the decisions here. Claire was.

“I think they should have free run, the smaller ones anyway. We’ll have to make sure they don’t eat all our herbivores but I think we need to let them all have the most natural ecosystem we can provide.”

Owen smiled. He liked the way she talked. She was very different from the corporate drone she’d been before.

“The visitors will have very limited access to the animals, much like those zoos that are really mini habitats. The visitors there watch from afar while the animals live as much as possible as they did when free.”

“I like the way you think,” he told her as he slipped an arm around her.

“I know,” she whispered as she kissed his cheek. “Maybe we could, um, talk about it some more over dinner?”

“Are you asking me for a date?” Owen could be a little coy at times.

“I think I am, Mr. Grady. That okay with you?”

“Yesssss.”

~end~


**Note** This is the end of my Jurassic month of July. i have always loved dinosaurs and really loved the original book and movie. I also liked the new one. Hope you enjoyed the ride through Jurassic World with me. And thanks for reading.

Title: A Jurassic Tale: Part Twenty-nine - Speculation
Author: Alexcat
Type: Gen
Rating: PG-13
Disclaimer: I don’t own them but I do love them. Dinosaurs!
Warnings: Possible carnivore gore
Beta: None
Characters: Owen
Archive: Alex’s Story Book Ao3
Author’s Note: This is a series of drabbles and ficlets based on Jurassic World.
Spoilers: Yes
Summary: Life with Owen Grady as told from several POVs.

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Part Twenty-nine
Speculation

Was InGen growing more dinosaurs than they let on? Were they growing the things he’d seen in Wu’s lab? What horrors had they created with DNA from all the different species of creature he’d seen in that lab?

There were more ethical questions than he could answer, Owen thought. The big question seemed to be was he enabling this by being here, by training the animals?

Since Hoskins and the disaster, he’d been thinking a lot, more than he ever had before.

Perhaps he could at least see what was going on before it got too crazy.

He hoped so.

~end~

Title: A Jurassic Tale: Part Twenty-seven – Tiny Terror
Author: Alexcat
Type: Gen
Rating: PG-13
Disclaimer: I don’t own them but I do love them. Dinosaurs!
Warnings: Possible carnivore gore
Beta: None
Characters: Owen
Archive: Alex’s Story Book Ao3
Author’s Note: This is a series of drabbles and ficlets based on Jurassic World.
Spoilers: Yes
Summary: Life with Owen Grady as told from several POVs.

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Part Twenty-seven
Tiny Terror

For over 22 years, there were sporadic reports all over the Caribbean about odd lizards who were aggressive and attacked people. Many wrote them off to silly tourists or native superstition but there were a few people who knew just what they were.

Alan Grant knew. He’d found the nests on Isla Nublar both times he’d been there. They had to have spread by now and he knew it. He never said anything to anyone though.

So did Owen Grady. He knew his dinosaurs, all of them, and he knew that the ones who had begun to reproduce would have migrated to several islands by now, maybe even further. He read local news and listened to the men who lived locally talk. There was a little chatter from time to time about green striped lizards.

He wondered if he might catch one of them.

He decided to call Dr. Grant.

~end~

Title: A Jurassic Tale: Part Twenty-five – Ready to Go
Author: Alexcat
Type: Gen
Rating: PG-13
Disclaimer: I don’t own them but I do love them. Dinosaurs!
Warnings: Possible carnivore gore
Beta: None
Characters: a pair of pterosaurs
Archive: Alex’s Story Book Ao3
Author’s Note: This is a series of drabbles and ficlets based on Jurassic World.
Spoilers: Yes
Summary: Life with Owen Grady as told from several POVs.

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Part Twenty-five
Ready to Go


Opening day was just a week away! The park was looking good. All the damage was cleaned up and the dead animals had been disposed of. Staff had been hired and trained. The dinos were a little sparser than before but they were all growing and doing nicely.

Jurassic World was more zoo and less sideshow now. The emphasis was on the past and what part dinosaurs had played rather than their future. There was no mention of newer and bigger killing machines at this new Jurassic World.

They were ready, ready for anything.

Claire was keeping her fingers crossed.

~end~

Title: A Jurassic Tale: Part Twenty-three – My Best Girl
Author: Alexcat
Type: Gen
Rating: PG-13
Disclaimer: I don’t own them but I do love them. Dinosaurs!
Warnings: Possible carnivore gore
Beta: None
Characters: Owen, Blue
Archive: Alex’s Story Book Ao3
Author’s Note: This is a series of drabbles and ficlets based on Jurassic World.
Spoilers: Yes
Summary: Life with Owen Grady as told from several POVs.

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Part Twenty-three
My Best Girl

Owen patted Blue’s cheek while she was in her feeding harness. He clicked his little clicker to let her know he was happy with her. She seemed to understand this.

“You know, we have some new baby raptors. They’re small but already hunting game.”

She made a sound. Again she approved.

He continued. “Maybe someday you’ll have a place to roam free on the island. Like they do now.”

She made her own clicking sound, a gentle one as to assure him that everything would be all right.

He patted her head. “You’re my best girl, Blue. My best girl!”

~end~

Title: A Jurassic Tale: Part Twenty-one – Tim
Author: Alexcat
Type: Gen
Rating: PG-13
Disclaimer: I don’t own them but I do love them. Dinosaurs!
Warnings: Possible carnivore gore
Beta: None
Characters: a pair of pterosaurs
Archive: Alex’s Story Book Ao3
Author’s Note: This is a series of drabbles and ficlets based on Jurassic World.
Spoilers: Yes
Summary: Life with Owen Grady as told from several POVs.

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Part Twenty-one
Tim


Tim Murphy had read the sparse news from Isla Nublar with both curiosity and horror. Hadn’t anyone learned from twenty-two years ago? He seldom thought of their adventure at Jurassic Park these days. He was married and had one daughter and another child on the way, so there was little time for purposeless thought.

He lost interest in science and dinosaurs after Jurassic Park. He’d gone to law school instead, preferring academics to anything in the out of doors. He hadn’t even been camping since he was nine. He’d never even mentioned it to his wife.

So why was he thinking of it now?

He called Lex and asked her if she’d read the news. She said she’d heard something about it but had tuned it out. She pointed out that he should do the same.

He agreed.

Then he called the airline and booked a flight to San Juan.

~end~

Title: A Jurassic Tale: Part Nineteen – A Real Adventure
Author: Alexcat
Type: Gen
Rating: PG-13
Disclaimer: I don’t own them but I do love them. Dinosaurs!
Warnings: Possible carnivore gore
Beta: None
Characters: Gray Mitchell
Archive: Alex’s Story Book Ao3
Author’s Note: This is a series of drabbles and ficlets based on Jurassic World.
Spoilers: Yes
Summary: Life with Owen Grady as told from several POVs.

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Part Nineteen
A Real Adventure

Gray Mitchell still had dinosaurs all over his room. His mom tried to take them away, saying she was sure he’d feel better without them.

“Mom, I still like dinosaurs. It’s not their fault that people are stupid.”

She left him alone but it was clear that she thought he was still traumatized.

He picked up a toy replica of a velociraptor tClaire had sent to him before the trip and smiled. He’d had an adventure! And found out he had a cool big brother as well.

He couldn’t wait until the park reopened. He hoped Claire invited them back.

~end~

Title: A Jurassic Tale: Part Sixteen - Zhenyuanlong Suni
Author: Alexcat
Type: Gen
Rating: PG-13
Disclaimer: I don’t own them but I do love them. Dinosaurs!
Warnings: Possible carnivore gore
Beta: None
Characters: Owen, Claire
Archive: Alex’s Story Book Ao3
Author’s Note: This is a series of drabbles and ficlets based on Jurassic World.
Spoilers: Yes
Summary: Life with Owen Grady as told from several POVs.

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Part Sixteen - Zhenyuanlong Suni


“Owen, have you see this?” Claire held out her tablet to him. Pictured was a creature that looked much like a velociraptor with feathers.

“Are we gonna get some of those?”

She shook her head. “Nowhere to put birds right now. Look what happened when the pterosaurs got loose.”

“Still, I’d love to see a live one, wouldn’t you?”

“They call it Zhenyuanlong suni and it was found in China. It might be a long as two meters.”

Owen whistled. “That’s pretty big.”

He handed her tablet back. As he walked away, she said almost to herself, “It could happen.”

~end~

Title: A Jurassic Tale: Part Thirteen – The Birdman Calls
Author: Alexcat
Type: Gen
Rating: PG-13
Disclaimer: I don’t own them but I do love them. Dinosaurs!
Warnings: Possible carnivore gore
Beta: None
Characters: Claire, Alan Grant
Archive: Alex’s Story Book Ao3
Author’s Note: This is a series of drabbles based on Jurassic World.
Spoilers: Yes
Summary: Life with Owen Grady as told from several POVs.

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Part Thirteen
The Birdman Calls


“This is Dr. Alan Grant. To whom am I speaking?”

Claire stared at the phone in her hand. The second legend from the old days to call in two days. What was going on?

“This is Claire Dearing, the new senior manager of Jurassic World.”

“Is Henry Wu still making monsters down there?”

“Dr. Wu is not at this facility now so I can’t answer that.”

“Rumor has it that your giant Indominus Rex had raptor blood, among other things. Are you all batshit crazy?”

Claire smiled to herself. She knew of Dr. Grant’s fondness and fear of the efficient killing machines and she shared his horror of what Wu had done. Objectively, though, the animal had been magnificent.

But she wasn’t going to tell him that.

“I don’t know the answer to that, Dr. Grant. You’d have to ask Dr. Wu yourself.”

“I would if I could find him. Is Owen Grady still working for you? I’ll bet he was pissed when he found out that thing was part raptor.”

So the story about Owen was true!

“Yes, sir. Mr. Grady does still work here. He is at the raptor enclosure. We have some young ones hatching soon and he wants to be there to imprint them.”

“Well, as long as he’s there, I don’t think things will get too out of hand. Tell him I said for him to watch his belly. That retractable will get you every time. ”

“I’ll do that, sir, and thanks for calling.”

~end~