Alex's This and That

Title: A Jurassic Tale: Part Eleven – Wu’s Secrets
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, the t-rex
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 Eleven
Wu’s Secrets

Dr. Wu was back at his primary lab, which had been moved to an undisclosed location, a location that even he was not allowed to know. He was flown in on a plane that did not have windows and was escorted to the complex via a van without windows as well.

He was not alone – he had freezers and containers full of the future. The future of Jurassic World and maybe even the whole planet. He had not told Hoskins or anyone else all that he had done with cloning and hybridization.

He didn’t think the world was ready yet.

~end~

Title: A Jurassic Tale: Part Nine – Carnivore Roundup 1
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, the t-rex
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 Nine
Carnivore Roundup 1

Owen was tasked with rounding up what was left of the predators and putting them in the newly repaired paddocks. The herbivores, what was left of them, were allowed to run free on the plains. There were still some young dinosaurs on the other island, Isla Sorna. Those were brought over as well as some young ones that had survived here.

The old t-rex was still loose as were several raptors though most of them were back in their paddock with Blue. Small predators ranged all over as well but they weren’t nearly as hard to catch as the t-rex and the wily raptors.

They finally decided to hunt the big girl with several armored vehicles and lots of animal tranquilizer. Owen hoped they could entice her to go into her paddock for food since the hunting was a bit scarce on the island right now. She had several large beef cattle waiting for her.

She still had her tracker so they could pinpoint her location and hopefully get her to follow the scent of meat. He drove the truck packed with meat as they neared where she was supposed to be. He cut the engine and waited for her.

~tbc~

Title: A Jurassic Tale: Part Seven – Coming Home
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, Barry, Blue
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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Coming Home

After the disaster, the park closed to the public just as its predecessor had 22 years before. But that was not all there was to it. After a few weeks, many of the former employees came back to try to find and corral what was left of the dinosaurs and to clean up.

Completely stopping all their research was not an option.

Owen Grady was among those invited to come back. He was surprised to find Blue and a few more raptors in their enclosure. What’s more, Barry was already there with them.

“Did you round them up?” Owen asked as he looked over the large beasts.

“No, Blue came back herself and over the next few days, the others trickled in. I’ve been feeding them and taking care of them.”

“How’s my Blue?” Owen asked her.

She made an odd trilling sound.

“That’s my girl.” Owen patted her head.

~end~

Title: A Jurassic Tale: Part Five – Blood Brothers
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:
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 Five
Blood Brothers

Zach heard Gray scream in his sleep again. His kid brother hadn’t slept through the night since Jurassic World. He hadn’t slept through many himself.

Their mom had them both in therapy. The shrink said that kids shouldn’t see the things they’d seen. He said they suffered from PTSD.

Zach knew different.

As scared as they’d both been, as awful as it all had been, it had also been the most fun they’d ever had. They had depended on one another, taken care of each other and they’d seen what brotherhood really meant.

Nobody could take that away from them.

~end~

Title: Beneath the Table, part 2
Fandom: LOTR
Disclaimer: I do not own nor do I profit from these characters.
Rating: G
Author: Alex (alex_cat_45@yahoo.com)
Type: 200 word Double Drabble
Summary: The twins are curious about grown up meetings.

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BENEATH THE TABLE, part 2

Another evening.

And another meeting.

The two elflings were hiding beneath the table. With a bag of mice. And a bag of snakes.

Elrond spoke of darkness approaching them. At least he did until a handful of terrified little mice began to scurry out from beneath one of the tables. It took half an hour to rid the room of vermin and to begin again.

Shortly after that, many little snakes began to slither hither and yon. Even small snakes are scary to some and both elves and men began to cry out in alarm and run from the room until only Elrond and two small hidden elflings remained.

Elrond spoke to the unseen children. “I thank you for rescuing me this time but I shall require your attendance at all of my meetings from now on if this ever happens again.”

From that evening forward, the sons of Elrond were content to study some of Master Erestor’s history after dinner. Sometimes they did their mathematics. They’d even play with Arwen if pressed into it. They drank imaginary tea and danced with her dolls now and then.

Anything, it seemed, was better than a meeting in the Hall of Fire.

~end~

Title: Smoked Turkey Day
Fandom: Supernatural
Disclaimer: I do not own nor do I profit from these characters.
Rating: G
Author: Alex (alex_cat_45@yahoo.com)
Type: 200 word Double Drabble
Summary: Sometimes normal just isn’t in the cards.

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SMOKED TURKEY DAY


November 24, 2013

“Have we ever had a real Thanksgiving?” Sam asked Dean as they ate burgers from a diner they’d passed on the way back to the bunker.

“Sure, back when we were…” Dean stopped and thought. “Not really. We usually just had turkey sandwiches or something from the store. You know how Dad was about holidays.”

“Since we have a kitchen here and all this stuff, why don’t we have the real thing this year?”

“Sammy, do you know how to cook turkey?”

“How hard can it be? People make them every year.”

*

November 28, 2013

The Winchesters stood outside the Men of Letters bunker, rubbing their watery eyes and trying to breathe around coughs.

“Who knew that burning turkey could make so much smoke? We’ve torched lots of bones and they never smoked like that,” Dean managed to gasp out.

“We were burning them, Dean. We weren’t trying to cook them!”

“Obviously we don’t need to be trying that again. Ganking Demons is less dangerous and a lot less smoky. What d’ya say we find a nice Denny’s or something?”

Sam grinned. “Works for me!”

And off they went in search of the perfect Thanksgiving dinner.

~end~

Title: At Last
Fandom: LOTR
Disclaimer: I do not own nor do I profit from these characters.
Rating: G
Author: Alex (alex_cat_45@yahoo.com)
Type: 150 word Drabble and a half
Summary: Oropher waits.

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AT LAST

Oropher wandered the shores of Aman alone much of the time. He thought about his son, his only son. How had Thranduil fared since he died all those many years ago? He stopped the tall ships when they came into port but none seemed to know Thranduil’s fate.

Elrond and Galadriel arrived and a few years later, his grandson, Legolas, arrived with a dwarf, of all things! But his son was still conspicuously absent.

Then one day he saw a ship on the horizon, the first one in a long, long time. He made his way to the dock and waited. Celeborn disembarked with another elf, but the other elf was too far to the side and Oropher couldn’t see his face.

Then he heard him speak. “The first thing I shall do is find my father. I have missed him these many long years.”

Thranduil cried tears of joy.

~end~

Title: More Persian Each Day
Fandom: Alexander
Disclaimer: I do not own nor do I profit from these characters.
Rating: G
Author: Alex (alex_cat_45@yahoo.com)
Type: 100 word Drabble
Summary: Hephaistion is unsettled by the changes in Alexander.

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MORE PERSIAN EACH DAY

The sun was high in the sky Alexander joined Hephaistion. He had long been in meetings with the Persians. He may have conquered them but they’d certainly won over a part of him that Hephaistion struggled to understand. Every day they stayed here in Babylon, Alexander became less and less the Macedonian king and more a prince of Persia.

“So will you marry one of the princesses?”

“Yes. It will please the people and it will please me.”

“Stateira is a comely girl and very bright.”

“I’m glad you approve. You will be marrying her sister at the same time.”

~end~

Title: For Arwen
Fandom: LOTR
Disclaimer: I do not own nor do I profit from these characters.
Rating: G
Author: Alex (alex_cat_45@yahoo.com)
Type: 100 word Drabble
Summary: He could feel the light go out.

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FOR ARWEN

He would always be haunted by the memories of her. There was no place in all of Eru’s creation that he would not hear her voice or see her face. She had been his sun and his moon for all these many years. Though she was far away, he’d known when her voice stopped, when her light went out. There would never, in the rest of time, be a joy that was not tempered by her absence, by her loss.

He tossed a pebble in the sea as he gazed toward the east, toward Arda.

“Goodbye, my child. Rest well.”

~end~

Title: Zoom!
Fandom: Babylon 5
Disclaimer: I do not own nor do I profit from these characters.
Rating: G
Author: Alex (alex_cat_45@yahoo.com)
Type: 100 word Drabble
Summary: Lennier asks a favor of Garibaldi.

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ZOOM!

Garibaldi was awakened by his door chime.

“Enter.”

Lennier silently entered and bowed.

“What can I do for you at this ungodly hour?”

Lennier looked perplexed for a second then said, “Shall I come back at a more ‘godly’ hour and when would that be?”

Garibaldi laughed despite himself.

“Do you recall when we worked on your motorcycle?”

Garibaldi nodded. He’d never actually expected to get the motorcycle restored but Lennier had taken care of that.

“It would be quite pleasurable to ride it again. Don’t you agree?”

“I do. Let me get dressed first.”

Minutes later, off they sped!