(Chapter 1 of my rewrite of my Jurassic World fanfic. I hope you enjoy it! I own nothing but my OCs.)

"Charlotte come here!" Owen grinned excitedly as he carefully picked up the terranium from the back seat of his car. "I brought a surprise for you."

His new wife of barely ten months came running out through back door of the bungalow hurriedly slipping on her flip flops when she heard Owen's voice.

"What is it? Is it one of those dino tooth necklaces they had in the gift shop?" She asked giggling with anticipation until she saw what it was her husband had brought home with him.

Inside the little clear plastic terranium were five, scaley, sleeping baby velociraptors no bigger than a chameleon. "Aren't they great? They just hatched this afternoon and I've been assigned to work with them. I even got to name them." Owen beamed as he looked down at his prize.

Charlotte stared at the little creatures her husband held without saying anything for a moment. "Are they...are they going to live here in the house?" She asked not looking up at Owen as she asked.

Owen nodded his head. "Yup. Just for a few months and then they'll get moved into the park in the new paddock InGen's building for them." Slowly he bent to lower the terranium to the ground then wiped his hands on his jeans.

"Now I know what you're thinking Love, but they need us Charlotte. They don't have anyone else who can raise them and I'm the only one who volunteered. Will you help me with this Baby? Please?" He asked placing his hands on her arms and drawing her closer to him.

Slowly Charlotte looked up to meet his gaze and when Owen saw the fear glinting in her cool brown eyes he faltered, but then Charlotte smiled.

"What are their names?" She asked in a soft voice that told Owen she was trying her best to hide her nervousness.

Owen smiled back at her and drew his wife in for a kiss before bending over the terranium again. "This one...with the green stripe down her neck? I called her Charlie after you." He opened the lid of the terranium and picked up one of the raptors in his hand.

"Charlie? Wake up and say hi to your new Mommy." The new Raptor Trainer cooed s he held the creature up so that his wife could get a good look at it.

Silently, Charlotte stared at the little baby for a moment. "Hi Charlie." She whispered after a couple minutes.

The Raptor stirred and croaked sleepily in response not waking from her slumber or uncurling from the position she had taken upon being nestled into Owen's palm.

Both Owen and Charlotte chuckled at the little animal. "Cute right?" Owen raised an eyebrow mischievously at Charlotte.

"Oh Owen...she's beautiful!" Charlotte gushed, starting to lose her fear. She leaned a little closer towards the little dinosaur, despite the lingering nervous feeling in the pit of her stomach.

Even though she knew Charlie and her sisters would soon be big enough to consider her and Owen a meal, she couldn't help being in awe of her right now.

"Just like you." Owen turned and looked adoringly at the woman who had not only agreed to marry him, but also agreed to move to Isla Nublar with him after he got offered a job despite her family's reservations about it.

Even though he knew she was still nervous, he couldn't help feeling a surge of pride and affection for his wife for at least attempting to accept the newest little members of their new family.

"Can...Can I hold her?" Charlotte asked still eyeing the little dinosaur with rapt attention. Owen's smile widened. "Sure. Just be careful with her claws. They're really sharp." He warned, gently transferring Charlie into his wife's waiting hands.

As she was moved, Charlie let out a sneeze. "Ohhh!...God bless you." Charlotte giggled crooning at the little creature in her hands as she curled up in her palm.

She started to pet her on the back when Charlie suddenly jerked up and snapped at her fingertips.

"Whoa! Careful!...She's got teeth too." Owen chuckled though the worry was plain in his eyes as he watched Charlotte jerk her hand away.

She laughed too despite the fact that her heart was racing. "I'll keep that in mind." She carefully lowered Charlie carefully back into the terranium and studied the other three raptors who were inside.

"What are the other ones called?"

Owen smirked and bent to look into the tank with her. "This one's Echo and the little one on the other end there is Delta. And this one..." He reached into the terranium again and lifted out the biggest little Raptor out of the hatchlings.

"She's going to be the Beta of the pack. I call her Blue. For...obvious reasons." He held her out so that Charlotte could see. Charlotte eyed her with a cautious smile, noting the blue markings on her silvery skin.

"Which one's going to be the Alpha? Charlie?" She asked glancing back at where she had left the other little raptor.

Owen chuckled and shook his head. "No. I'm the Alpha, Babe. Once they get bigger I'm going to start working on pack drills with them. Just like if they were in the wild. Who knows? Maybe the park will open a Velociprator show if we get good enough." He grinned and pet Blue along her back before putting her down with her sisters.

Charlotte looked up at him with a smile that did not quite reach her eyes. "That sounds great Owen, but aren't you afraid? What if something goes wrong?" She worried wringing her hands together on her lap.

Owen sighed and gently set Blue back into the terranium. "There's always a possiblity." He murmured thinking a minute before reaching over to take one of his wife's hands from her lap.

"But I'll have Barry the field expert helping me and we'll take all the precautions as the girls get bigger. The paddock they're building for them is going be over twenty feet tall too. Way above how high they'll be able to jump when they're full grown."

Charlotte nodded her head. "I suppose so." She looked up to meet his gaze and tried hard not to think about the scariest scenarios that were running through her mind even as she tried to keep them at bay.

Owen shifted and put his other hand over the one he was already holding. "Honey...if you're really that worried, I won't keep them here. I'll call Barry first thing tomorrow morning and ask him to pick them up before I leave for wor-."

Charlotte cut him off suddenly with a hand to his lips. "You don't have to do that, Owen. I know what this means to you and I knew what I was getting into when I agreed to move down here with you. Well I mostly knew." She smiled and tried to push away the rest of her nervousness.

"The point is, I'm really happy for you and...I really hope everything keeps working out for you with this new job...and these babies." Charlotte stole one last look at the terranium and smiled at the little creatures who drowsily wriggled about.

Owen relaxed then when he heard her say that and leaned over to kiss her appreciatively on the cheek. "Thanks Sweetheart. I do too." He looked back at the terrarium and reached towards Blue again.

...

[Five Years Later]

"It's the world of the past meeting the future. A world where the impossible is suddenly now possible. Welcome one and welcome all. Welcome...to Jurassic World." Claire Dearing's precorded message sounded throughout the park as Charlotte quickly made her way towards the Raptor Paddock early in the morning.

She had to have heard that spiel at least 100 times by now, but Charlotte loved it. She loved nearly everything about the island she and her husband lived on. Especially the girls.

"Well! If it isn't the Raptor Mama. Here to check on the kids?" Barry grinned upon seeing his friend's wife walking across the gravel lot towards the Paddock entrance.

Charlotte waved back, skipping a bit as she got closer to large enclosure where her and Owen's "girls" lived since they got too big to stay in the yard at her and Owen's bungalow.

"You know it! Can't skip a morning with my babies!" She called back to Barry who'd begun working for Jurassic World not long after the Gradys arrived. He was a good natured man, who'd worked with animals before coming to Isla Nublar and understood the true nature and value of the dinosaurs unlike a lot of the suits who ran whole park.

"Except they're not really babies anymore." Barry chuckled, hopping down from the back of his truck with a medium sized crate in his hands.

"Owen's already gotten started on feeding time. Take this with you! It's Blue's new favorite." Barry responded, taking a pouch from the crate and tossing it at Charlotte who caught it as she passed by.

Charlotte beamed back at him gratefully. "Thanks Barry!" She opened the pouch to investigate its contents as she continued walking towards the holding stalls where the raptors were kept outside of training exercises and park exhibitions.

Owen was already there tossing a couple dead ferrets at Charlie and Delta, the latter of whom was greedily snapping through the bars for feed.

"Delta..." Owen spoke to her reprimandingly when the slightly smaller raptor nipped her sister in an attempt to get an extra bit of breakfast.

"Stop that. You'll get enough to satisfy you. Echo!" He called to the third raptor who was hopelessly trapped behind her two sisters in the small pen.

"This one's for you!" Owen spoke directly to her, ignoring Charlie and Delta's attempts to snap up the food first.

Charlotte chuckled as he tossed the ferret into the cage and Charlie and Delta immediately tried to go for it at the same time.

"Good catch Echo." Charlotte praised coming to stand next to her husband as Echo managed to snip up the goods. "How are all my good girls this morning?" She asked crouching down so that was looking each raptor in the eyes.

Blue, Delta and Echo all growled in response and Charlie snapped her jaws in kind of a half aggressive half playful action.

"Junior." Charlotte shook her head at Charlie as a fourth screech preceded the appearance of her favorite of the pack. "You behave yourself...Hiya Blue." She turned to address the beta of the pack.

"Hi, I'm fine. Thanks for asking." Owen joked, leaning over and hugging his wife from behind with a chuckle. Charlotte laughed and turned happily to return his embrace, pressing her nose into his shoulder as he pressed a kiss to her forehead.

"Well hello...Are you wearing that cologne my Mom sent for Christmas?" Charlotte asked after Owen ran a hand through her hair.

A light blush colored his cheeks at the question. "Maybe. Do you like it?" He asked, reaching to tuck a stray strand of hair behind Charlotte's ear.

Charlotte shrugged a shoulder and leaned forward to get another whiff. "Hmm. Yeah it's real cinnamony." She smiled and Owen chuckled.

"Well then how about after I finish running the morning drills with the girls, we go get breakfast at the Cretaceous Cafe? It's half price day." Owen suggested, reaching into his feed packs for another ferret.

Charlotte's smile slid from her face a bit at this as she reached to open the feed pack Barry gave her.

"That sounds wonderful, but unfortunately I have a prior engagement at around 9:30 today." She said regretfully as she walked over to where Blue was.

Owen dropped the ferret back into his pack at that, causing Echo and Delta to screech protestingly. "You do? What do you have at 9:30?" He asked, looking a bit confused and worried.

Charlotte turned and shot her husband a look while carefully palming a dead squirrel in her hand. "A make up piano lesson. Remember? Elliot had a fever last week so his parents rescheduled for him today." She responded softly walking closer to Blue's cage.

Owen lightly smacked himself in the forehead. "Oh right! That's today. Uhhh How about..10:15ish then? They serve breakfast till 11 on week days and our drill should be over by 10." He asked, lightly scratching his head as Charlotte made a clicking sound to get Blue's attention.

Almost immediately the beta raptor bounded forward and bared her teeth, growling a greeting to Charlotte as her keen eyes caught sight of the dead squirrel she held out in her hand.

"10:15ish sounds perfect." Charlotte smiled as she tossed the squirrel to Blue and the raptor caught it neatly in her jaws. "I've been craving some of those banana nut pancakes for awhile actually." She turned to beam at her husband while Blue snapped at the fence indicating her desire for another squirrel.

"Well then it seems we have a date." Owen smirked, snaking his arm around Charlotte's waist and pulling her in closer.

Charlotte gasped as she had been about to toss Blue the last squirrel in her pouch. The Raptors screeched as well as if protesting the hold back in the rest of their meal.

"I guess we do. But we should probably finish feeding the girls first before they decide to come and get it themselves." She smirked back at Owen before turning to toss the last squirrel into Blue's side of the pen.

Owen chuckled and tossed over a couple more ferrets to the other girls. "All right you heard your Mama, Girls." He called back to the pack as Delta and Charlie tried to go for the same ferret again.

Charlotte chuckled and walked slowly closer to Blue, holding her hand just over her nostrils so that she could take a sniff.

Blue made a purring sound as the familiar scent hit her senses. Charlotte smiled affectionately as the creature bumped her palm with her nose.

"That's my Blue." She crooned as the beta raptor let out a growl, snapped her jaws in a way that could be misinterpreted as aggression and bumped her nose on the fence against Charlotte's hand again.

Charlotte gave her another gentle pat then pulled her hand away. The other raptors clawed and screeched at fence as if also demanding her attention.

"Hey hey!" Owen reprimanded, whistling to get their attention. "Come on! You know better than that. Delta! Down!" He ordered when the smallest raptor tried to start climbing the fence.

At Owen's command, the pack obediently backed down.

Charlotte turned and smiled, crouching to get an eye level with Charlie. "Aww don't worry. Mama hasn't forgotten about any of you." She soothed as she tossed Charlie a squirrel then grabbed two more for Delta and Echo.

When Delta took a little snap at her through the fence, Charlotte took a step back. "Delta." Her tone turned into a warning like a Mother reprimanding a misbehaving toddler.

"No Ma'am. You know better than that." She waited till Delta backed down, then she tossed her a squirrel. "That's better."

Owen laughed a little. "You know maybe Barry and Anna have a point about us and the Raptors." He came to join Charlotte's side and put his own hand over the fence where Delta still was.

"It is a little weird."

Delta came to sniff his hand obediently. A low growl reverberated through her throat.

Charlotte's smile widened and she leaned her head against her husband's shoulder. "Well I don't think we could have asked for a better family." She half joked, grabbing Owen's arm to check the time on his watch.

"Your Mom sure doesn't seem to agree with that sentiment. She actually called me the other day and tried to subtly drop in the baby question." Owen responded, looking over at his wife when he felt her fingers close over his arm.

"I'm not surprised. Last time we talked, she said she and Dad are getting worried that your job here is preventing us from really settling down." Charlotte sighed as she cupped her hand around the face of Owen's watch.

"Cause you know, an island full of dangerous beasts is no place to start a family, let alone bring your new bride." She said, making air quotations with one hand.

When he heard her sigh, Owen pulled his arm away and turned to look at her. "Do you think that?" He asked, his tone telling Charlotte that he was a little worried that she did.

Charlotte looked up and shook her head. "No, of course not. I mean, it may not have seemed like the most ideal situation four years ago, but right now I couldn't imagine us being anywhere else." Turning she smiled at the Raptor Pack who were now no longer paying much attention to Owen or Charlotte since they had their fill of food now.

"Or doing anything else."

Owen followed her gaze. "Sooo...you'd really be okay if we never had kids and...just raised Raptors until we're old and gray?" He asked slowly with a hint of a smug grin on his face.

Charlotte looked down, thinking about it for a moment before smiling. "As long as I still get to volunteer for feeding time in between my piano and singing lessons." She responded, making Owen laugh a little.

"I don't see why not." He leaned in to give Charlotte a kiss and she obliged though Owen barely suppressed his disappointment when she broke the kiss far too soon.

"Sorry." She apologized almost immediately, her eyes moving back to her husband's watch again. Owen followed her gaze.

"Do you have to go?" He asked, knowing the answer before Charlotte nodded.

"Yeah, I guess I'll meet you at the Cretaceous around 10:15?" She reluctantly pulled away and started to walk away from the Raptor Paddock, waving one last time at the girls. Owen followed as the pack growled a response.

"Absolutely! I'll try to save us our favorite table." He promised, wiping his hands off on the legs of his pants as Charlotte stepped onto the gravel lot. "Sounds great." Charlotte smiled gratefully as they passed Owen's bike which was parked next to Barry's truck.

Owen stopped when he looked around and didn't see his wife's car parked anywhere. "Honey did you walk over here?" He asked with a slight frown.

Charlotte turned back towards him over her shoulder. "Yeah, I always walk here from the house. I need the exercise." She shrugged.

Owen started to shake his head. "But, it's over three miles away. Do you want me to give you a ride so you won't be late for your lesson?" He asked, nodding at his bike.

Charlotte took only a moment to consider his offer. "What about the girls? Don't they need to get warmed up before the big man shows up to do his evaluation?" She asked, referencing to the Head of InGen Security who was currently pressing for the militarization of the Raptors.

Owen shrugged one shoulder. "Barry can get them started while I take you. Come on." He turned to get on his bike and nodded for Charlotte to follow him.

Charlotte sighed. "I don't like the idea of you not being here when he comes. Nothing against Barry of course, it's just...only you seem to know how to get Hoskins to leave when his welcome is worn out, which might I add is wearing out faster and faster with every visit."

She walked over to Owen's motorcycle and carefully threw a leg over to sit behind him.

"Yeah you're right about that." Owen laughed before getting serious again. "But I'm sure it'll be fine. Hoskins' appointment is at 9:15. I'll be back in plenty of time to keep him under control." He revved the engine and kicked off, glancing back briefly as if to make sure his wife was hanging on even though he could feel her arms wrapped around him.

"Besides I don't like the idea of you walking up to six miles back and forth from here by yourself just to get some exercise." He leaned forward a bit and Charlotte leaned with him, pressing her cheek against the small of Owen's back.

"Whatever you say Mr. Alpha." She murmured, still worrying for the raptors as she always did on the days of Hoskins' regular inspections.

It was no secret that InGen had plans for eventually turning the Velociraptor pack into a weapon for military use since Owen had been hired almost straight out of the Navy to work with them.

The thought of someone using those magnificent and unique creatures as tools for war made Charlotte's heart ache and her blood boil all at the same time.

Especially since an arrogant, self-important man like Hoskins was in charge of bringing the Raptor Training Program to light.

"You've gone awful quiet Baby." Owen commented as they picked up some speed on the road back towards their bungalow. "You okay?"

Charlotte nodded her head. "Yeah I'm fine. Just...thinking." She murmured, turning to the side to watch the seashore roll by as they got further and further away from the park and closer to their home.

"Thinking...about what?" Owen asked, frowning as he eased to a stop in front of a stop light. Charlotte shook her head.

"Nothing really. I'm probably just overthinking stuff-."

"Charlotte." Owen cut her off, his head slightly turned back in her direction and his tone telling Charlotte he was not buying into her dismissive words.

"Fine, I'm just worrying about the raptor pack again. That's all. About what will happen once...well you know once the training program ends and InGen turns them over to the military." Charlotte looked down at the ground as she spoke.

Owen inhaled tensely as the light turned green and he kicked off again. "Yeah it runs through my mind a lot too. Especially after each of Hoskins' Progress Evaluations. I don't know if it's just me, but it seems like he gets more and more excited each time he comes back to the Paddock."

Charlotte snickered softly at that and cuddled closer to him. "Honestly, I probably wouldn't be dreading it so much if it was someone other than Hoskins in charge of it all." She sighed as the they reached the edge of their neighborhood.

Owen nodded in agreement. "Yeah, but it'll still be a long while yet till it all happens. Try not to think about it too much right now okay Honey?" He turned his head back towards her again as they pulled up in front of the bungalow.

Slowly Charlotte nodded her head. "I'll try." She responded non-convincingly. Owen chuckled at the slightly pitiful look on her face before giving her a kiss.

"That's my girl." He told her adoringly. Charlotte smiled and lingered on the back of the motorcycle for a second.

"Take good care of our babies okay?" Owen chuckled as Charlotte hopped off the bike.

"Don't worry. As long as I am the Alpha, no one hurts my pack." He promised, starting up his motorcycle again and turning back towards the park.

"Not on my watch."