The little Velociraptor stared up at her trainer, chittering and squeaking. She swished her tail, rocking on the balls of her feet, as she watched her caretaker in front of her, large amber eyes bright in excitement and happiness.

Owen was here, and that made her happy.

"Here I am with Blue," Owen stated, someone videotaping them nearby. "She's a theropod from the new group."

Blue heard this statement many times. She flexed her paws, blinking at the animal behaviorist with large, intelligent eyes.

"If I show signs of weakness..." Owen crouched down, faking crying and whimpering noises.

A look of concern spread across the dinosaur's face. She chirped softly, stepping closer to the animal behaviorist. The infant dinosaur pressed her nose to Owen's cheek, whimpering and squeaking, hoping he wasn't injured or sad. He was her caretaker, her Alpha. She didn't want him to be sad or hurt.

She was worried about him.

A look of surprise and astonishment spread across Owen's face when he drew back. "Hey...I'm okay." He smiled when she gave a happy squeal, tail starting to whip back and forth.

Owen was very surprised to see how happy Blue looked when he dropped his weakened act.

Unlike her packmates, who attempted to attack him—Charlie was too nervous to attack him, and instead circled around him, screeching and making mock attacks rather than biting the hawk wrist guard around his arm—Blue merely approached him with concerned whimpers and squeaks, hoping he would feel happy by the comfort she showed him.

"Blue's...displaying levels of interest, concern, hyperintelligence, cognitive bonding..."
Owen tilted his head to one side.

The tiny dinosaur instantly copied his movement.

"See that? Tilting her head, she's playing for us... " Owen said thoughtfully. "Increased eye movement, she's curious. She's showing empathy. "

The baby squeaked, blinking. She didn't understand much of the words Owen spoke to her, but she was very happy to see him ok and smiling again.

The man signaled for the cameras to shut off.

The man holding the camera walked out, leaving Blue alone with her Alpha.

The little baby spun around in a circle, squeaking. She took off running, and ran to a corner of the room. She rifled through a pile of dog and cat toys Owen had shipped out to him by his mother, who very much liked to see how her "granddaughters" were doing, despite Owen's objections that they weren't even human.

It was, however, still amusing when she attempted to send him little pieces of clothing or dresses to put on Blue or one of her packmates.

Of course, the dresses or clothing she sent were shredded by their little claws and teeth, and then turned into nests. All he could say was that he took that as a definition of them liking whatever clothing she bought them.

Blue trotted back towards Owen, holding an old, torn up baggie with beef jerky inside it, as if she were a cat with a dead bird in between its jaws.

Owen furrowed his brow in wonder. How did she remember she had taken those from him?

She dropped the baggie in front of him, looking up at him with hopeful eyes. She was hoping he'd be happy with her if he saw the bag she had stolen. Besides, she left him a treat,

Instead, Owen merely smiled, gently stretching his hand out, and rubbing the dinosaur under her jaw, causing her to purr and wag her tail, eyes focused onto the man the entire time.

She and Owen stared at each other, and he swore she was smiling at him.

*************

Blue was growing agitated. She paced around inside her cage, paws flexing angrily.

She looked towards her hip to sniff at her bullet wound, tail swishing. She gently pressed her nose to her injury before wincing.

She looked towards Mr. Wu, who was peering down at something inside a large, glass, case. She didn't know what it was, and she wasn't interested to find out.

"Get this to Mills. Be very careful. It's extremely valuable," he instructed two of his geneticists. He pulled Franklin aside. "You, I need blood samples from the raptor." When the taller man gave him a blank look, he grew frustrated. "Don't just stand there like an idiot! Get me 50 cc carfentanil and a lobotomy kit! It's right there! Now!" He watched Franklin scurry off, before storming towards Blue's cage. "Come on, come on! I need this raptor's blood."
The dinosaur shrieked, pawing at him from her cage, lips curled back, as Zia rolled her eyes.

"Sure. Go ahead." She gestured to the cage with the dinosaur inside, who growled.

Wu spun around. "Where is that kit?!"
Blue didn't like how harsh this man was, especially when he forced one of his geneticists to try and get a needle near her. She nearly bit their arm off out of fear. She was terrified of needles.

The shorter man looked back at Zia. "Okay, now listen to me. It's better if we cooperated. But I'm gonna get this blood, with or without your help."

"This blood's contaminated," the young woman stated simply.

"I designed this animal myself. It's pure." The geneticist glanced at Blue, who hissed. "Every cell in her body was created in a most controlled environment under the most demanding conditions."

"Yeah, but I did an intravenous blood transfusion with a T-Rex, so, it's a sock drawer in there." Zia smirked at his infuriated look.

"You what?" He demanded.

Franklin ambushed him from behind, jabbing a tranquilizer into his neck.

Zia stood up, shocked, as Blue began to shriek and paw at the slots in between the bars of her cage in anger.

"Franklin, hold, stop! What are you doing?!" She cried, as he scrambled to get the keys from the incapacitated man.

"Saving your life!" He responded, rushing towards her with the keys to her handcuffs.

Her eyes widened when he unlocked her restraints. She hugged him tightly before starting to run. She halted when two guards ran in.

"Stop! Don't move.." The first guard held out a cattle prod at them.

Blue crouched down, growling.

A second guard rushed towards Mr. Wu, dragging him off.

"Step away from that cage. Now..." the first man instructed.

Zia pulled up on a bar holding the cage door shut before she and Franklin pulled the door wide open.

Blue blinked in surprise before stepping out. She clicked to Zia and Franklin, causing the IT technician to flinch, as he remembered her escape several hours before.

She whirled her head around to face the guard staring her down. She curled her lips back in a low growl.

He held his cattle prod out to her face, as if it would force her back.

The dinosaur swished her tail before letting out a loud war whoop. She pounced on the guard, her teeth sinking into his flesh.

He screamed in pain, as the dinosaur viciously mauled him.

Zia and Franklin made their getaway, only to stop and dodge another guard racing into the room.

Blue's tail whipped around, slamming into the guard's gut, knocking him over.

Upon hearing his gun fire rapid shots into the air, she whirled around with a loud roar.

Zia and Franklin dodged the bullets by ducking under a table, crawling on their hands and knees, as Blue stalked towards the guard, who was scooting backwards out of panic.

The dinosaur squawked, snatching his shoe in her mouth, pulling him towards her.

Zia and Franklin stood up, witnessing the man being mauled by the carnivorous animal.

A spark from a destroyed control panel caught their attention.

The tanks behind Blue contained flammable gas.

"Run! Run!" Zia and Franklin whirled around, starting to race outside the laboratory, the paleo-veterinarian snatching a folder labeled TOP SECRET on the way out.

Blue lifted her head when they ran out. She looked over her shoulder, sniffing the gas leaking out of a bullet hole. She drew her head back, lips twitching, when she could smell the danger it posed to her.

With a loud screech, she began to run.

Heat drew closer and closer to her, as a huge fire erupted in the room.

The bullets from the guard blew holes in the gas containers, and the damaged control panel sparked the fire.

The Velociraptor picked up her pace, ignoring the throbbing pain in her side, as she smashed through a window, the entire room exploding behind her.

She crashed to the ground on her bad side after ramming the side of her head against a railing, causing her to quickly scramble to her feet. She shrieked, racing off from the carnage behind her.

During the explosion, a tank filled with hydrogen cyanide began to leak out poisonous gas...right where the dinosaurs were being held.

Notes:

I have decided to make blue and indoraptor
friends to lovers in this fanfic.

Sorry if anyone doesn't like the ship, but I'm obsessed with them.