Category: Gen
Setting: The very end of the movie.
Characters/Pairings: Owen Grady, Blue.
Rating/Warnings: T
Summary: They couldn't speak the same language, but nevertheless they could understand one another.

Unspoken Words

Did they make it?

Blue couldn't speak. She was a velociraptor, not a person. But Owen understand her nonetheless. It was in her eyes, the questioning tilt of her head. She posed them no danger. He was still the alpha and now the only member of her pack left alive. She knew her sisters hadn't made it, she could feel it just as he could feel the empty loss. But still she asked, vainly hoping that one of them had made it, that she was not alone.

No.

Owen couldn't speak. What words could he say? They didn't speak the same language, but they understood each other. He didn't have to speak, just as she didn't have to speak for him to understand. He felt the last of the adrenaline fade as he shook his head. He watched as Blue's head drooped, the realization that she was utterly and completely alone sinking in.

And then she was gone, racing off through the destroyed park to find her place in this new world. Owen watched her go, knowing she would survive but at what cost? Velociraptors were pack animals and Blue had never been without her sisters, without him. This island would never be the same, not after everything that had just happened.

What do we do now?

A million thoughts crossed his mind when Claire asked that question. Here, in this warehouse surrounded by the traumatized survivors, Owen knew that he had a choice. Jurassic World was over. Even if Masrani had survived there would have been nothing he could do to save the park. But that didn't erase the fact that they had left behind dinosaurs on an island that every thrill-seeker would be racing toward in a matter of days. It didn't erase the fact that he had left Blue behind.

Probably stick together. For survival.

He should never have told her that when he knew he couldn't keep that promise. How could he stick with her, no matter how much he liked her, when there was someone waiting for him? He couldn't ask Claire to go back, not after the hell she had just been through. But from the moment he saw Blue fade into the distance he had known he would go back. He had to. Blue was his responsibility, his girl. And he couldn't abandon her, not after all she had done for him. After all they had lost. He was her pack and he had to go back. No matter what anyone said, he would not abandon Blue. How could he? They were all they had left. And you don't abandon someone like that. Even if it meant returning to an island of dinosaurs.

For Blue, he would do whatever it took.