Chapter 2: The Drop Dead Gorgeous Jerk!

"HEY YOU! YEAH YOU WITH THE CHEST RIG! WHAT DO YOU THINK YOU'RE DOING UP HERE?!"

"My bad, I'll go" I answered politely as I could as I turned to leave.

"Not without an answer you won't!" I stopped dead in my tracks and lifted my head up before turning sharply on my heel to face him.

"YOU! Sir, may very well be in charge of this attraction, but I still demand a certain level of respect" I barked bearing my pearly whites at him like a snarling wolf while I poked his chest with my gloved index finger.

"Oh I'm sorry, but I don't like it when your kind come sniffing up here at my 'attraction'"

"Whoa, whoa, whoa, Owen! I invited her up here!" Barry interjected as he pushed us both back keeping a hand on both of our chests. Both the angry ass hat whom Barry CALLED 'Owen' and myself were panting from all of the yelling, our chests heaving up and down like we'd just gone 8 rounds in a fist fight. Which, I'll be honest, I was ready for one. Again, seriously, who likes assholes? The answer, no one. No one likes assholes.

"Why in the hell would you do that?! You know what they're like!"

"Um, ok fuck you very much"

"Owen, listen to me, she's good people, and she's not like Hoskins at all!"

"Oh yeah? And how do you know Hoskins didn't plant her for a reason!" I raised my hand and gently pushed Barry away as I got in Owen's personal space.

"If I may, Captain Jerk face, he did." I answered with firmly. Everyone stopped and looked at me incredulously.

"What?!" Owen hissed, now bearing his set of gorgeous teeth at me.

"You heard me, I'm a plant. I'm not even kidding, I'm here to push the raptor military potential to a go"

"You mean you lied to me Riley?" Barry asked both pissed off and hurt.

"No, not fully anyways. I was placed here for the reason I mentioned earlier, however, I was stuck on this…and no offense boys, but shit posting, because I am on Hoskins' shit list for refusing to go with said plan. I'm only placating him until I can come up with a plan that will ruin him, so to summarize this lovely conversation… I hate Hoskins, I want to fuck him over ROYALLY for what he's forcing most of us to do, AND I'm on your side." I let out a huge puff of air before turning back to Barry who sighed with relief, as were the boys, and walking back to my Jeep.

"Wait! Come back! Hey!" Owen called after me but I flipped the bird at him, not even looking his way as I sat in the Jeep, and locked it. Owen had come running to the vehicle and pounded on the window before attempting to open the door. I turned the car on, letting the AC run and putting my music on full blast. Something told me I could trust them all, but, I was still scared that I blurted everything out. I mean what if the wrong person overheard me? Oh well, fuck it.

Owen kept banging the palm of his hand against my driver side window where I sat, but I couldn't hear him for love nor money over the deafening sound of Down and Out by Tantric blaring through my speakers. I just kept my eyes ahead and finally about 5 minutes later he threw his hands up in frustration and went back to work.

Sometimes I liked to piss people off, judging people before you actually get the chance to know them…never sat well with me. For these people I'd make the exception of being a bit of an immature prick.

Once he'd left I turned my music down to a dull roar and started to play Zombies Ate My Friends on my LG G3 phone, occasionally looking over at the paddock to make sure people were still alive until I hit my first hour. Once my first hour arrived I paused my music and hopped out of the Jeep, Barry came jogging slightly down the stairs and met me at the first electronic gate. He smiled at me and I smiled back as I joined him and stood beside him and over exaggerated my tug on the first gate. After Barry punched in a code and the door buzzed to let me know it was unlocked I walked in first scanning the tiny boxed in area I suddenly found myself in. Then let Barry know to follow me in. He just laughed at me.

I tugged on the fences a bit making sure to be brief in my actions so as not to lose a limb. Once that was complete I went to the second and final gate and paused. I took my time to scan the area ahead of this one and stayed silent. Watching for any sign of movement or sight of a raptor. A few moments passed. Nothing. I went to place my hand on the gate…

"You know, Owen's actually a pretty great guy" I nearly jumped out of my skin at the sudden interruption of silence before letting my hand drop to my side.

"Yeah, he's a real charmer"

"Look you have to understand Riley, he's been hounded by Hoskins for weeks now he wants reports, and well, you know the whole raptor situation I'm sure"

"I get that he doesn't trust InGen, and I don't much care for my boss either. What I don't like is being judged instantly before getting to know me, and maybe acting like a professional and talking calmly wouldn't hurt. I'm not perfect myself, nor would I ever claim to be, but I have a right to defend myself and not all of us are assholes like Hostile Hoskins"

"I know, I'm sorry"

"Not your fault" He merely nodded at my comment before I raised my head and scanned the area once more. Nothing. Not even a sound, which to be honest was unnerving but hey maybe they were out eating? I grabbed hold off the gate and as soon as my hand touched the cool steel 4 raptors came full speed ahead toward the gate. The grey one with blue stripes was the first to reach me and missed my fingertips by a hair after I ripped it away. The raptors made a few noises in disdain and Barry went to pull me away but I stopped him by putting a hand on his large chest.

The blue striped one titled its head to stare at my lower half, occasionally flicking its eyes up at my face and hands. But every time its eyes would look back down. I slowly looked down to see what it was looking at and noticed it had been staring at my hand gun. I smiled, impressed and quite honestly geeking out over seeing a raptor recognise my weapon, and the raptors period. I removed my holster and crouched down, the raptors eyes never leaving my hands as I placed it down on the ground and stood back up. I pushed it gently out of reach with my boot and let my hands slowly go to my sides.

It finally removed its attention from the gun and looked at me. I understood why it was so fixated on my weapon, I was not only in its territory, but in its territory with a dangerous object that could potentially hurt it and/or its pack.

"Hi there" I said calmly, it turned its head fully up to look at my eyes.

"The name's Riley what's yours?"

It of course didn't respond, nor did I expect it to.

"The one you are talking to is Blue, the Alpha female of her pack" I nodded.

"And the others?"

"Charlie, Echo, and Delta" I chuckled at the militaristic names, still smiling.

"Very nice"

"I didn't name them" I turned my head to my shoulder and shot a confused look toward Barry.

"Then who did?"

"Owen did, he's ex U.S. Navy"

"Hm" was all I could manage before turning back to the raptors.

"Nice to meet you guys, unfortunately I gotta go for now but, I promise to see you guys again in an hour"

Finally the raptor looked me up and down, as if it was somewhat aware of me leaving, before looking at its pack and running back into the brush. Quietly as I could I tugged on the gate and left with Barry making sure to grab my gun and put the holster back on my belt. The day flew by, every hour went the same, I'd check the gates and, the first time they never showed, but every time after that they were standing a bit away from the gate watching as I would leave my gun outside the gates and tug on the fences. Soon enough it was lunch and Louie came by knocking on my car door. I put up a finger to say I'd be out in a second and turned my car off before grabbing my things and leaving the car.

"Where to?"

"Just Tim Horton's, I haven't been there and I only assume you are running low on coffee plus Eliza told me they have some decent food here"

"Good choice, wish I'd married her" I joked as I hopped into the passenger side of his jeep and buckled up. He joined me in laughing as he got into the driver's seat, we waited a moment before my relief showed up then drove off. During the drive I couldn't help but think of the raptors, they were so cool! I mean the fact that they understood I was armed was pretty wicked, but I was mostly excited to see a dinosaur. By now you must be wondering, how has someone who's worked here since opening day not have seen a dino yet? Well ladies and gents, I work pretty much all day every day, my days off are usually filled with running errands and then relaxing in my room by either playing video games or watching a movie until I get tired and pass out.

I want to see the dinosaurs and all of the attractions outside of a shift but I just don't have the time, or anyone to go with really seeing as Louie and Eliza are trying to start a family on their days off. Lucky Lou. My thoughts went back to the dinosaurs and I daydreamed about the raptors as I stared blankly at the window, barely even paying attention to the scenery before me. Eventually my thoughts went to Blue, my favourite by far, but to be fair to the others I hadn't gotten the chance to interact with them much. My thoughts wandered from them to Barry and his co-workers, and eventually to Owen. Owen was an asshole through and through, the NERVE of that guy just barking orders at me like he's king shit or something. My facial expression turned sour, the worst part about him…the part that I hated the most? Was how insanely gorgeous he is!

Owen was at most 6'2 with light brown hair and green eyes as vibrant as the flora on Isla Nublar and a gorgeous bod to boot! I mean, I'd only seen him in his loose fit off-white long sleeve and jeans but…damn...he rocked it! As much as I hated to admit it, from what I saw, he looked like he had a body like Adonis'. Barry shook me from my reverie, literally, and I saw that we were parked at Tim Horton's.

"You know Ry, we've been parked here for about 2 minutes and during that and the whole ride…you've gone from at peace to at war with yourself"

"Oh, sorry let's head in" I responded quickly as I went to take off my seat belt and open the door. But before I could get out Lou grabbed a hold of my arm and pulled me back in so I shut the door.

"What?"

"What's going on?"

"I don't know what you're talking about but we can talk after work, right now we have limited lunch time and my inner fat kid is screaming at me to eat…and y'know, your wife is kinda waiting for us and staring at us right now, impatiently I might add…" I said as I hopped out of the Jeep before walking to Eliza. She greeted me with a nice big bear squeeze which I happily returned, once Lou finally made it to us we walked into the Tim Horton's, ordered, and then sat down to eat.

"So something weird is up with you"

"What the shit Eliza, you too?!" I shouted in frustration, I looked around and saw everyone staring at me weird and sighed.

"My bad folks!" I apologized before turning back to Eliza and taking a bite out of my sausage English muffin and glared at her.

"Me too what?"

"Lou just said the same thing, I'm fine ok?"

"No, not ok. Ry, you look like someone just pissed in your coffee"

"Maybe they did"

"Riley" She said warningly and I sighed.

"Just Hoskins as usual"

"What now?"

"What Hoskins isn't enough of an explanation? Weird."

"I mean what did he do this time?"

I snorted.

"Be himself?"

"Riley isn't being honest with me either Liza"

Eliza placed her hand gently on mine and smiled softly at me and a kind expression.

"Don't do that"

"Then tell us Riley, we worry about you"

"Ugh. Fine. The guy that runs the raptor pen, er, Owen? Yeah, met him today. He's kind of a big dick"

"Oh! Owen Grady!"

"I guess so"

"Wait THE Owen Grady?" Lou asked in astonishment.

"Am I missing something here you guys? Because I feel like I'm missing something here"

"Owen Grady is only like, the most attractive guy in this park! Aside from my husband of course"

"Aw, thank you baby, but she ain't wrong Riley. Dude is hot, hell I'd even bang him if that were my thing"

"I'm beginning to wonder"

"Joking aside, you should be chasing that"

"Did you guys seriously just gloss over me saying he's a dick? Because he is, y'know in case you missed that"

"What did he do that's so bad?"

I finished my sandwich and told them what happened with mine and Grady's little incident. When I finished they looked at me for a minute before looking at each other and nodding. It was creepy sometimes how in sync they were with each other, I mean one look to each other and they knew what the other was saying.

"Well, it did seem like he tried to apologize Riley, and Owen's actually a nice guy"

"What?! Lou are you seriously taking his side right now? How do you even know him?!"

"Last year's Christmas Party, the one you were too sick to come to, and I've hung out with a few times after work with him. He's actually pretty chill."

"Plus, Owen did try to talk to you" Eliza chimed in.

"He could've been trying to yell at me more, I don't take shit from anybody"

"Be that as it may Riley, but I think you're more attracted to him than you care to admit. Give him another chance, if he's a dick again then fine, he's a dick"

"I sense a but coming"

"But…if he ends up apologizing, you should try and get to know him, who knows what could happen"

"And lets be honest here Ry, you can be a dick too"

"Only if they deserve it, and what exactly do you think will happen?"

"You never know" Lou said with a wink and I all but choked on my coffee and spat some out. I quickly wiped it up and grabbed the other sandwich I ordered.

"I think it's time I got back to work"

"Ok spinster" Eliza sang.

"Shut up"I said curtly as I Lou and I left to head back to my post. Once we got back I said my goodbyes and went to walk over to my Jeep, and there was Barry talking to Owen standing next to my door. Barry noticed me and waved to me so I waved back, while Owen didn't even look up at me he just stared at his feet intently.

"Riley! Come here!"

*A/N: Hey guys! Shout out to Apollofan210, Liaskane, Katy1986, Kara Valmont, MariLucia, and stjarna22 for all your support! I'm really glad I've gotten even this much positive feedback from this story, so thank you guys! Hope you guys like this one too. I hope to crank chapter 3 out by either today or tomorrow, but given it being the weekend and tomorrow being my birthday, the latest it should be out is Sunday or Monday.*