Raptor and I (Rewritten) Chapter 3
Disclaimer: I do not own Jurassic Park but I do own the OCs.
A.N: Thanks for all the reviews. They do help me plan out of the story. Sorry for the slow update. I spent the last few days going out with friends and only had time to write a little everyday. Hope you guys enjoy this chapter.
Attention: This is continuing from the previous chapter, so it is still 1 year before the movie.
Arnold's Pov
"Where is the old man Hammond?" Rae asked as she plopped into the office chair next to me in Control Room.
" I don't know. John is free to go wherever he wants to. It's his park." I replied, hiding the fact that I did know where John had gone to since he wanted me to keep it a secret from her, something about a surprise. Oh well, it's not my business.
" Oh." She replied as she slumped the upper half of her body onto the table, preparing to take a nap, like she has done for the past 3 years after lunch.
"Rae! There you are! I was looking all over for you!" John exclaimed as he stepped into the control room with a young man following him.
"Boss!" Rae cried, sitting up straight, " Robert walkied me saying that you are looking for… JOSH!" I looked on in confusion as she got out of her chair at amazing speed and threw her arms around the new guy in a bear hug.
"Hello squirt." The new guy laughed as he also wrapped his arms around her and spun Rae around.
"What are you doing here?" Rae asked when her two feet were back on solid ground.
"Mr. Hammond here offered me a job here in his park about two weeks ago." The guy replied. So he was the new keeper that John was bragging to me for the last 3 weeks.
"I believe some introductions have to be made before going into the details." John chuckled, " Josh, I would like for you to meet Arnold and you already know Rae."
"Nice to meet you man." Josh greeted me with an outstretched hand.
"Good to meet you too. " I replied, smiling around my cigarette.
"Rae dear, I want you to show and guide Josh around." Hammond instructed, " You two will be in charge of caring for the Dilophosaurs, Raptors and Triceratops."
"Sure." Rae replied, nodding.
"Alright then. Off the two of you kids go." John waved them off cheerfully.
Rae's Pov
" I can't believe you are here Joshy Boy." I said, using his dreaded nickname.
"Well, you better believe it, cause I'm here to stay and don't call me that Rae Rae. Josh replied, using my dreaded nickname as well.
"Ew! Don't call me that!" I cried, punching him in the shoulder.
" Haha! So where are you leading me to oh great tour guide." Josh asked, rubbing the sore spot where my fist had hit him.
"We are going to the staff dormitory to drop off your bags and then we start the afternoon chores." I replied. The walk to the staff dormitories was pretty fast and we soon found Josh a room three doors up from mind as my room right at the end of the hallway.
"We are going to get a jeep from the garage and then first stop is the triceratops." I informed Josh as we left the dormitories.
"I can't believe that this place even exists." Josh said with amazement, "I could barely even believe my own eyes when Hammond and I drove in just now."
"I know right. Took me a while to get used to it too." I replied, signing out the key for jeep number 7. I got into the driver's seat while Josh got into the passenger's seat. Gunning the engine, we pulled out of the garage and made out way down the dirt road to the triceratops paddock.
Triceratop Paddock
"Here are 4 sets of uniform, you PPE, walkie, torchlight and 99 caliber." I said, passing the said items to Josh. We were in the keepers' office at the Triceratop Paddock to get Josh his supplies.
" Is there anywhere I can go to change into one of these?" Josh asked, taking a set of uniform and placing the rest of the items onto the table.
"Yea, the toilet is back there." I informed him while pointing at the direction. Josh nodded and left to change. While waiting for him, I started to transfer bundles of hay into 2 wheelbarrows.
"Alright. I'm done. Now what?" Josh asked, returning from changing and was attaching the other equipments like the PPE, walkie and such onto his person.
"Since we are partners I will you a brief summary of what we have to do everyday. In the morning, it's the Raptor's first, more details I tell you when we go back there but that is until lunch. After lunch, it will be here, with the triceratops. All we have to do here is to distribute these bundles of hay throughout the paddock as enrichment and just observe them to ensure that they are all healthy. Once that is done, its time for the Dilophosaurs, tell you more later. After that, it is back to the raptors." I briefed him.
"Question! I know little about those dinos that you just listed, especially the one that starts with a D." Josh said.
"Don't worry. I'll tell you what to look out for. The rest of the details you can read up tonight. Hammond will have books for you to read." I told him.
"Okay. Let's get started shall we?" Josh said, picking up one of the wheelbarrows.
"Let's go." I answered, picking up the other one. I scanned my card for the entrance into the paddock and we both pushed our heavy wheelbarrows inside. We made our way around the paddock, occasionally tossing a bundle or 2 of hay out.
"So what do I have to know about these guys?" Josh questioned.
"Hmm.. They are herbivores, live in herds, are really big scary cats, look our for their horns and if they charge at you, run for you life." I replied with a grin.
"You are really summarizing it aren't you." Josh said, giving me deadpan look.
"Yup. That is the basic. Behaviour wise, you can read up about it but it takes time to really get it along with some practical observations." I answered.
"How about the other two dinos?" Josh asked, wiping sweat of his forehead.
"The other two. I will tell you went we get there." I replied as we continued with our work.
"Well we are done. Time to go to the Dilophosaurs." I said as I stretched in the keepers' office where we had returned the wheelbarrows. Josh and I left the room, making sure to lock the door and went to the jeep. It only took about 10 minutes for me to drive us to the Dilophosaur paddock.
"Okay, for this one we need to suit up." I informed Josh as we walked away from the jeep and made our way for the keepers's office.
"Suit up? Why?" Josh asked, looking puzzled.
"Cause these buggers are spitters." I replied, opening the door.
"Okay…" Josh replied, as I rummaged through the cupboards.
"Here! This will be your suit." I said, handing over a full body overall and a helmet that had a face protector screen thingy.
"What the hell is this for?" Josh exclaimed, looking at the helmet in disbelief.
"You'll see. Now suit up!" I grinned, pulling on my own set.
"You have to stop watching How I Met Your Mother." Josh replied looking at me while pulling own his own set.
"I love that show." I said. Once we were both ready, I went to the food bins located at the back.
"So this is a food bin. There are suppose to be two of them but Crag, another keeper, he has already fed them in the morning so this bin here is for their dinner." I explained, opening up the bin for Josh to look at the contents.
"Now, we are going to feed these spitters. Come one." I motioned to Josh as I pushed the bin in front of me. I led us to another door that I opened by scanning my card. The door led out to a porch that had chest high barriers.
"So…now what?" Josh asked, looking around at the vegetation in front of us.
"Now we just wait. They already know that we are here." I replied, while removing the lid from the bin. We did not have to wait long before the first Dilophosaur appeared in front of us.
"Aw.. he's cute." Josh cooed, pointing at the dinosaur in front of him. Suddenly, the Dilophosaur spat and it hit him in the chest making me burst out in laughter at the look of utter shock on Josh's face.
"Ww… What the heck!" Josh cried, looking at me.
"I told you that they were spitters." I replied with a smile, wiping a tear from my eyes with my hands.
"Here give him this." I told Josh, handing him a leg of some animal in which he promptly tossed over the barrier. The Dilophosaur went for the leg immediately and was joined by two others of its kind.
"What is this?" Josh questioned, looking at the black tar- like substance on his chest."
"That my friend is their saliva which it uses to bind it prey." I replied as more Dilophosaurs appeared, attracted by the initial piece of meat.
"Urgh." Josh grunted in disgust as he helped me to toss meat into the feeding frenzy in front of us until the bin was emptied.
"Alright! We only have the raptors left to feed before we can call it a day." I informed Josh as we pushed the empty back into the keepers' office back through the door, ensuring to lock the door behind us.
"Now, once you are done with feeding. You just have to carry the bin out the back door and leave it outside for the food truck to pick up." I instructed, showing him what to do.
"When do the food truck send the food?" Josh asked.
"Every morning, before we start work at 8." I replied, stepping out of my suit as Josh did the same.
"Well, let's go." I said, while hanging up my helmet and leaving the room with Josh following suit.
Sorin's Pov
I was resting in my nest while having a nice chat with my mother while the other members of the pack were else where doing whatever they wanted. The two of us were enjoying some quality time together when my sister and her mate Leon appeared.
"Hey mom, little bro." Tasha greeted us.
"Mother, Alpha." Leon greeted us as well. Now you must be wondering why Leon was calling my mom mother, well this is because, she insists on any raptor that joined our pack to call her mother. So yea, there you go.
Now, if anyone asked me what did I think of my sister's mate. I would say that he is a cool guy. He is caring towards my mother, he loves my sister to death and he acts as a voice of reason when my irritating brothers irritate me. More importantly, I can count on him to have my back in any fight, a brother if you will.
"Its funny still seeing you here Alpha, normally you will be waiting for your female at this hour?" Leon asked, as both he and Tasha joined our little circle.
" She has not arrive yet and that worries me." I replied.
"I'm sure she is just running late son." My mother comforted.
"She has never been late." I protested.
"Maybe her alpha had her running an errand or something." My sister offered. I was just about to reply her when I caught the scent of my mate but it was accompanied by a muskier and more masculine scent. Who the hell was with my mate?
"I'll see you all at dinner." I said to my family and took off for the see through wall, all the time wondering who was this male with that is with my mate.
I arrived as fast as possible at the see through wall and there in the room stood my mate with a human male that I have never seen before. Who the hell was that? I growled low in my throat in anger. The worst part was that my female was busy chatting with that male that she did not notice my arrival. Well, that was going to change.
I lifted one hand and tapped quite hard on the wall with a claw, immediately, I got a response and both humans turned to see me at the wall. My female smiled when she saw me and pulled the human male over to come and greet me. I was glad to see that the male looked absolutely terrified.
My female was happily saying something to the male, must be introducing me to him. The male stared at me in awe through the wall and I leaned in closer, huffing and puffing in his face.
My female was laughing as the male took hold of her arm and dragged her away from the wall. How dare that male touch my female! Just wait until I get my hands on him! However, I was unable to do anything more than roaring in anger and banging against the wall, as I was held captive. It was really enjoyable to see the male flinch in fear.
Grunting, I stood there and watched with wary eyes to ensure that the male did not do anything to my female, as they talked for a bit. The two then made their way to the blue bin that I knew held food and placed it into the wall that magically sent the bin up. Well, looks like its dinnertime. Turning around I made for the small opening in the vegetation where we usually ate.
I met up with the rest of my pack at the open area and we did not have to wait long before the meat was thrown down. I shared a huge chunk of meat with Lucus my third elder brother and the cheater swiped me on the snout, getting the bigger half of the meat. That pig!
Rae's Pov
"Now, this is enclosure it different from the other two. This place houses the Velociraptors, they are pack dinos. They were moved from their original paddock to this place because they kept trying to escape." I started introducing the place to Josh when suddenly we interrupted by the sound of knocking from behind us. We both immediately turned around and the Big One was standing there at the wall.
I smiled when I saw her standing there, though I must admit, I was a little amazed at the way she used to garner our attention even though I already knew that raptors are very intelligent dinosaurs. I grabbed Josh and pulled him towards the wall to greet the Big One and introduce Josh.
"Josh, this girl here is the alpha female. We call the Big One. Weird name, I know, blame Robert, he named her." I said. The Big One must really be interested in Josh as she leant forward and huffed and puffed, making the window all foggy, I could not help but laugh at the scene.
Suddenly, Josh grabbed hold of me and pulled me away from the window. This incited quite a violent reaction from Big One, she roared and threw herself against the window. Wow! I have never seen her do that before!
"What the hell is her problem?" Josh cried.
"I have never seen her do that before. She must like you." I answered, teasing him a bit.
"Are you crazy? That looked more like she wanted to rip me to pieces!" Josh yelled.
"You have nothing to worry about. They can't escape from this place. Well.. yet." I answered, leading Josh over to the food bins. All this while, Big One just stood at the eyeing or every move.
"Why do I hear a 'yet'?" Josh groaned.
"Well…they did escape from their previous enclosure a couple of times. I bet you that one day they will bust their way out of here." I said.
"You sound awfully happy and excited for that to happen." Josh pointed out, as he helped to push the bin of food into the dumbwaiter. I only laughed in reply as I started to climb up the ladder followed by Josh.
" So, unlike with the Dilophosaurs, we throw down the food from this balcony. This is to reduce any chances of the raptors escaping. Also because we do want them to lose their pack or hunting instincts, every Sunday and Wednesday, they will get a cow." I recited to Josh.
"Cow?" Josh said looking puzzled, " How do we get it inside?"
"Don't worry about that. On those days, Robert and some other keepers will be here to help us. We have a stretcher of some sort that we put the cow in the then lower it." I replied. After Josh had tossed all the meat over for the raptors to feast on. We made our way down.
"Now, you do the same thing as I did with the blue bin at the Dilophosaurs." I said to Josh who then carried the bin out.
"Alrighto! We are done for the day! Any thing you want to ask?" I said looking at Josh.
"What is that raptor doing at the raptor again?" Josh asked, pointing at the window were the Big One was once again standing.
'Oh her? She does that all the time. Whenever I am here, she will stay there." I answered.
"And you don't find that creepy." Josh replied.
"At first but so far she has not done anything so I am fine. Plus l believe we are friends. Come one, lets go get dinner." I motioned to Josh and we both made our way over to the door.
"Bye Girl. See you tomorrow." I shouted, waving at Big One before I shut the door behind me.
Sorin's Pov
After I ate my fill, I went back to see my mate at the wall and she was still talking to that male with her. Argh! Who the hell was he? He had better be nothing more than a pack member! Anything more and he is dead meat!
I saw the male point at me during their conversation and they both took a glance at me before continuing their chat. Not long after, the both of them left but not before my female waved goodbye to me. Once they have both went out of sight, I made my way back to the nesting site, intending to get a good night rest.
"There you are baby bro! I was looking for you." Tama shouted as I stepped into the nesting grounds where my whole pack was.
"Liar. You knew where I was." I replied, lying in my own nest.
"Who's the new human male?" Tama asked, ignoring my previous comment.
"A nobody." I replied shortly.
"Aw… is baby brother jealous." Lucus teased.
"I'm not jealous. I can beat that human any day." I snorted.
"Haha. Denial means that I am right baby bro." Lucus replied, grinning.
"Go away you pest." I snapped, snuggling in the leaves that made up my nest, trying to block him out. All I heard was both Tama and him laughing as they went back to their own nest. I closed my eyes hoping that sleep would come easy but no such hope, I ended up tossing and turning in my nest all night. Sigh… there goes my good night's sleep.
