Own Nothing
"So do you just like tattling on me to my Dad, or what?" She asked Tony when he flew in a few days later to install F.R.I.D.A.Y into the security mainframe. "Because I think you enjoy it."
"I've never had a little sister." He replied with a grin as he worked in her office. "I heard you met Dino Dad."
She laughed. "And his rambunctious Raptor Reptile child."
"Oh, nice alteration." Tony applauded her. "You get to pick the tunes, no country, or teeny bop-pop, or that annoying stuff you like."
She snorted. "So your music?"
"Exactly." He smirked. "And news on said child?"
She shook her head. "Negative Eagle two."
"So when are you going to go public?" He asked her. "Pep and I already did the press coverage and most governments are on board with the Earth Revival and have brought in a little funding to the cause. We started construction on the Isle next door and should be up and running in the next two months." He continue to work on the wiring. "Have you picked a new HOS yet?"
She sipped her coffee and hummed. "Rip Roaring Raptor Daddy doesn't want it. So he suggested a few others." She pulled up their files. "Riley Scott is a good choice, calm in nature, a good leader but his psych evals are always iffy." She flipped to the next one. " Smith Smith." She snorted. "His parents must've loved him, smart, Navy and honorably discharged after twelve years in the service. Was a vet then became a dino vet. So he knows the animals and what they would need."
"He sounds good." Tony agreed.
"Yea, but I would also like to keep him as head of medical." She looked at his file. "I know he's been working security detail on his off time. I need F.R.I.D.A.Y. in the labs too for monitoring the docs, make sure they're taking care of themselves." She muttered.
"I can do that. She can go anywhere once I get her up." He nodded as he reached out and made grabby hands for coffee. She rolled her eyes and handed him the coffee, slightly surprised that he allowed her to do so. "Next."
"Alan Martinez. Grew up in Cost Rica, knows the area. Family is a fishing family. He trains all the new security recruits in island survival and basic training. Strong candidate for HOS before Hoskins but was jumped over before and might've felt the burn from it." She hummed as she tapped her coffee cup. "What do you think?"
"It's your show Kid."
"You suck." She muttered and sighed as she read through the files again. "I guess have the lawyer talk to them and have them work together in a trial run and just watch them to see how they work. Because if they can't work well together, how are they going to work when they realize who the real Boss is?"
Tony looked over at her. "You're really enjoying this Batman analogy aren't you?"
She smirked at him over her coffee. "You're just upset because you blew your chance when you told everyone you were Iron Man." She laughed as he gave her a rude gestured and made her way out of the room. "And stop talking to my Dad!" She shouted back at him.
"But we have a biweekly bitching about you Tuesday and Thursday!" He shouted back with a laugh.
"Tyler, Tyler, Tyler, Tyler." Darcy stated as she walked into the lab. "How is my fave lab tech?"
He looked up at her and looked tired. "Do you have coffee?"
She looked down at her new cup that she just replenished and sighed before handing it over. "Be lucky that I like you for your brain." She muttered.
"Be lucky that I like you for your lab." He replied as he chugged it.
"Careful that's hot."
"I know." He coughed as he finished it. "But I haven't slept and I'm almost at a breakthrough." He told her.
She narrowed her eyes at him. "I like my scientists well rested, and typically well fed and smelling good but I know I can't always get all three."
"I took a shower, like two hours ago." He told her and pointed to his desk. "And I have a protein shake and a banana. Mom." He rolled his eyes. "But I was trying to work on the sequence for Mr. Grady's Raptors."
"Don't we have that on file?" She asked him concerned. She stepped up to his desk to look at his computer. "Why are you trying to rewrite it base off of Echo and Delta's DNA?"
"Because Wu took it, InGen took almost everything and we just finished inventory. We're lucky that the Indominus didn't kill more than what it did. Darcy what we have out in the field is what we have." He looked at her. "We're getting samples from governments to create an inventory to start the E.R Project but that could take weeks or months before we're ready. So I'm trying to get Mr. Grady is Raptors as fast as I can."
"Thank you Tyler." Darcy patted his arm and smiled at him. "It means a lot to me that you care so much. But I don't want you to wear yourself thin, so find a stopping point and go get some rest. You can come back after a minimum of six hours of sleep."
He took a deep breath and looked at her. "I heard through the grapevine that you worked with Dr. Foster and you were harder with her."
"You're not Jane's level of crazy, so I'll go easy on you." She winked at him. "If I come back here in an hour and you're still here, I'll drag you out myself." She gave him a stare before she turned to leave.
"Hey Darcy?"
"Hmm?" She looked back at him.
"I'm glad Blue didn't eat you." He told her.
She laughed. "Me too. Now make sure you sleep." She waved goodbye and left.
She was back an hour and half later and he was gone, she checked with another tech and was told that he left to go back to the sleeping quarters.
Darcy took a jeep out to see the rest of the Island while Tony was busy working on the rest on the office building. The lawyers were speaking to the three potential HOS's. Owen was looking for Blue and Lowery was controlling the Island from his dark room. All of her eggs were in a basket. She relaxed in her seat as she looked around through the windows. Her tablet and a gun in the seat next to her as she drove, her trustee talkie in her pocket. "Hey Darcy, I got some activity on the west side of the Island, Owen is already there, but can you back him up?" Lowery asked her.
She pulled the talkie from her pocket. "Yeah, ETA ten minutes." She set it on her lap and turned the wheel to take the jeep to Owen's coordinates. She drove in silences, every so often Lowery would call in to give her more info of where Owen was, but eventually she made it there. She parked the jeep next to his and got out. She grabbed her gun and talkie and looked around. "Owen?" She called out.
A hand reached out and covered her mouth and another arm pulled her close to a body. "Quiet. Blue's out here." He whispered to her. His breath tickling her ear. "She might not let you live a second time."
Darcy nodded slowly and he let her go. She turned to look at him to see him tense and looking around. "So you think you found her?" She whispered.
He looked at her to see her holding a rifle and frowned. He nodded and turned away.
"I didn't bring this out here for her." She replied. "But I didn't want to take any chances again."
"I know." He sighed and scratched the back of his head. "Why is she hiding?"
"She's been in captivity for so long and now she's in the wild. She probably doesn't want to be caged again." Darcy replied. "I wouldn't. We should probably look into making a bigger enclosure, especially since they're making ne Raptors for you."
Owen's eyes shot to her. "You are?"
Darcy nodded as she looked around warily. "Tyler is trying to break the genetic code from Delta and Echo's DNA. Wu and InGen took pretty much everything with them. And if I see them ever again I will hit them." She looked up at Owen. "We're starting basically from scratch with everything, but maybe Blue will feel better if she had little sisters again." She shrugged and turned away from his intense stares. "Unless you don't want to be a Daddy again."
He froze. "That's not it. They're my girls. I'm just worried about Blue."
"I am too. I don't even know her." Darcy replied. "But your girl decided that I was worth keeping alive, so snaps for her." She walked around the jeeps and sighed. "Are you sure she was here?"
"I saw her here yesterday." He told her. He came up behind her and stepped out in front of her and tucked his hands on his hips. Darcy took this moment to admire his backside briefly before she would get caught. She quickly looked up to see him looking back at her smirking. "You're a lot different from other bosses."
"Masrani or Ms. Dearing?" She asked and she could see him stiffened. "Or are you talking about the Navy?"
He snorted. "The Navy definitely."
She broke out into a grin. "Well, I try." She winked at him. She stopped when she saw movement in the trees, she stepped around Owen who followed her look. "Owen." She whispered.
"I see it." He tensed up beside her as he stared into the tree line as it move but they couldn't make out what it was yet. Soon it was moving faster and faster, a form jumped out at them and it was Blue. "Blue." He called out to her. Arms stretched out like he wanted to touch her.
Blue gave Owen a look as she tilted her head and chirped at him, her razor sharp talon claws dancing. She shifted like she was ready to pounce and Darcy knew that movement.
"Blue, don't." Darcy stated firmly and loud. Blue turned and looked at her. Blue's eyes narrowed in on her and she chirped at Darcy. "Look at me. Owen is your Alpha."
Blue pulled herself up and chirped a shrill chirp at Darcy and Owen watched as the two communicated. He was amazed and slightly afraid that this could wrong at any second. "Owen, talk to her." Darcy stated.
"Blue." He stepped forward, to be himself at the same place as Darcy, he could see something working inside Blue's head. The way her head tilted as she watched the two humans with interest. "Hey there Blue." He reached out his hand to touch her. She stared at his hand and looked back at Darcy. Darcy took a step forward and reached out her own hand, trying to remain calm. She trusted Owen, he knew what he was doing and so far Blue hasn't tried to kill her yet. Blue chirped at her and took a step forward to meet her halfway. Blue's head butted Darcy's hand and Darcy smiled as she ran it up the Raptor's snout.
"Let Owen pet you." She told the Raptor evenly and Blue eyed her. She flicked her eyes to Owen who was watching them. She lifted away from Darcy and walked slowly to Owen and looked at him and let out a series of chirps that he seemed to recognize.
He smiled and looked at her. "I missed you too girl." Blue chirped again and lowered her head slightly and Owen moved his hand along the side of her head. "Good girl Blue." He told her.
Darcy watched them with a smile as Owen and Blue got reunited again when her talkie went off. Blue looked up annoyed. "Sorry." Darcy told the Raptor. "Yeah Lowery?"
"Hey, did you find what's out there?" He asked her.
Darcy looked at Owen who frowned as he looked at Blue. She sighed and pushed the button. "No, we thought it was Blue, but we must've just missed her."
"Man that sucks. See you back at base." Lowery signed off.
"Why did you say that?" Owen asked her as he continue to pet Blue.
"If we told them that we found her, they'll want to get her back to the paddock and that's too small for her now." She sighed and looked around. "She seems to like this area pretty well, this is close to the old park it's only a mile away. We can maybe close it off and give it all to her. And when the new ones get old enough they can come out here too. Once you get them trained to follow enough commands." She looked at him. "You think it's possible?"
"Why are you doing this?" He asked her.
She smiled as she reach up and touched Blue. Blue chirped and leaned into her touch. "Only people that are going to be here is staff now, so she can run around. And she won't go back to a cage now, not that she's been free for so long. Lots of sanctuaries put animals in bigger pens once they're big enough and she's plenty big. And we have room if we need to expand the space." She looked thoughtful.
"So this isn't because I'm Hottie McRaptor Daddy?" He asked her with a smirk. "Which I've never been called that before."
"I'm pretty sure a lot of people have called you that, just not to your face." She winked at him. She looked up at Blue. "No, it's for her. Because she needs it." She took a step back. "I should get back. Tony is putting F.R.I.D.A.Y. in the whole building and updating the security, so I want to make sure he doesn't do anything crazy." She turned to leave and stopped. "Also. The new security HOS's are starting a trial run, like you suggested."
Owen nodded as Blue walked off from them, bored and wanting to hunt. He watched as she ran off into the trees. At least he knew that she wouldn't be running from him from now on, he hoped. At least she wouldn't be running from Darcy. He snorted. "You Alpha'd my Beta." He repeated what Lowery told him.
She rolled her eyes. "You guys keep saying that and its sounds dirty."
"You were saying HOS." He turned to her as they walked to their jeeps. "Why are you telling me?"
"I want you to watch them, you see what I can't. If they can't work well together, how are they going to work well when they find out that I'm the Boss?" She asked him. "I'm not a man, and they're going to fight me on everything. So I need the right one." She sighed and pulled her hair in a ponytail. "And you won't do it."
"I'll fight you if that'll make you feel better." He told her with a smirk as he opened the door for her.
"Jerk."
"Bossy."
She snorted. "I'll look into putting fencing out here to keep other animals out and to keep her safe. Maybe figure a way for you and Barry to split the share. It'll make more sense for you to be the same handler for all of them." She mused as she sat in the front seat. "That way there isn't too many Alphas."
"You might have to be there too, at the hatching then." He told her.
"What? Why?" Darcy looked up at him.
"Blue proclaimed you her Alpha, hell over me this time. Probably because I sent her away and you got to her first this time. But we're both her Alphas now or did you just miss what happened?" He asked her.
Darcy opened her mouth and then closed it. She let it sink in before her cheeks started to burn. "So she thinks that we're." She moved a finger in between the two of them.
Owen arched a brow and smirk. "Mates?"
She nodded.
"Probably thinks we fit. You're the one staring at my ass every chance you get." His smirked grew wider.
"Oh wow, so you haven't been checking me out?" She asked him.
"Oh I have. I have a thing for woman in power." He told her. "The way you handle Blue." He let it hang there.
"Is that why you don't want to be my HOS?" She asked him. "Because you want to ask me out?"
"To ask out, to fuck?" He shrugged. "Tequila, tomato."
"I like Tequila." She replied with a smile. "Just to clarify though, are you with Ms. Dearing?"
"Not any longer." He told her. "It was short lived. Trauma filled romances don't lived to see long term relationships."
"I see." She blinked. "Well, if you're going to ask me out." She turned around to fully sit in the seat of her car and placed her gun in the passenger seat. "I get off at seven tonight. I don't do in office romances. They're tacky and Tony is there until 6:30 so." She looked at him. "You can make up your mind about it."
He nodded as he stepped away from the door and let her close it. She started up the jeep and pull out. She turned and drove away. He watched her go with a smile on his face. "This could be fun."
"I Alpha'd his Beta." Darcy stated as she handed Tony and Lowery a coffee each and sat down behind them.
"I've been telling you that!" Lowery stated loudly as he drank his coffee. "Wait, I thought you said you didn't find Blue."
"Off topic here. Pay attention." She glared at him. "I think Alphas might clash."
He choked on his next sip on coffee. "Oh shit."
Tony looked up from where he was sitting on the floor amongst all the wires and frowned. "What's going on?"
"Smoakin' Raptor Papa and Boss lady might be gettin' on later."
"I don't know. Maybe." Darcy looked down into her own cup of coffee. "Oh god."
"Your Dad is going to kill you." Tony stated with glee. "You're smooching on the Raptor man. I have to see this."
"No. And besides, ball is in his court. And he probably won't do anything." Darcy gave them looks.
"Why do you tell me these?" Lowery asked her. "I don't really want to know them."
"Because you're my only friend here." She looked at him with a smile. "I can't tell Tyler, what if Owen does something and Tyler decides to fuck up his future Raptor children. I couldn't do that to him. Those are his babies."
"You need new friends." Tony stated as he continued to work. "You were made for this Island, I don't care what your Dad says."
"I normally ignore what he says, 56% of the time." Darcy told him honestly. "Most of it is just crap about how he almost died here, then Chaos Theory, his love for all of us. And then maybe some useful things." She rolled her eyes. "I lived with Mom most of my life. I only saw him on holidays and birthdays."
It was almost nine o'clock at night and Darcy was working in her office, she was behind on paperwork for Pepper. She almost wondered if she could send off a request for an assistant but she didn't want one until she went public yet and she didn't like being in the office until everyone went home anyway. "You know Stark didn't leave until 8:30, I think he was waiting for me." Owen stated as he leaned against her office door.
She snorted. "He said that he had some finishing touches he needed to do in the lab that had to be done when everyone went home. But I'm sure he was waiting for you." She replied as she read through some paperwork. "Give me just a minute." She finished reading the last paragraph before taking out a red pen and marking it up. She set it aside and looked up at him as she capped the pen. "I was beginning to wonder if you were to make a move." She watched him.
"I'm a very patient man, when I want to be Dr. Lewis- Malcolm." He stated as he stated intensely at her. He watched as she fidgeted at the use of her titled and he smirked. "Blue came back to the trailer."
She raised her eyebrows in surprise. "She did?"
"I could tell, because the door was ripped open and it was torn up inside, she made a nest in my bed. You were right about not staying there until she was caught, it wasn't safe." He told her. "It's also in the perimeter of where you wanted to put the new fencing."
She nodded and made a note to talk to Tony about it. She finished writing it and looked up at Owen who was watching her. "Anything else Mr. Grady?" She smirked, if he was going to use her title, she was going to use his.
"I saw that Scott, Smith and Martinez started the rounds today, this afternoon and I'll keep an eye out." He told her.
"Thank you." She replied as she twisted the pen in her hands, his eyes watching her with amusement. "Is that all?"
"When Dr. McSmith gets close to a breakthrough on the Raptors, I'd like to be updated. We have to make some minor repairs to the paddock, which I will submit the forms to admin for along with my reports. I just want to make sure we're prepare for their arrival."
"Of course. I'll keep you updated." She told him sweetly.
"That's all." He smiled at her. "I'll see you tomorrow Doc." He gave her a small wave and turned to leave.
"You're kidding me?" She asked him.
He turned back and looked at her. "I'm a patient man Darcy and you have a whole Island on your shoulders right now. When you're ready. I'll still be here."
She sighed and watched him leave before she picked up the phone and called her sister. "Kelly, I need some girl talk."