Any sign of life from her lifts his heart straight up, but fear still keeps it tethered to the earth. She's strong. She'll get through this. He knows that. And yet there's still the tiniest voice in the back of his mind -- such a human thing -- that shudders and thinks, what if?

Every muscle in his body nearly seizes with the sudden, world-ending desire to run straight down that hill and leave Hoskins in pieces all over the jungle, but two things keep him still. One, as he had plainly informed the pig, it'll be Blue's call on how he dies. And two, any movement at all would take Omega away from his mate. And that just isn't happening.

Blue's trill is answered with a low purr, which is echoed almost immediately by the sound of distant thunder. It's going to be a heavy storm, and if he has to move her, he will. But the rain will quench the fires and keep InGen away from the island a little longer. For once, Isla Sorna seems ready to protect her own, and Omega would die here just to do the same thing.

He swallows, jaw tensing, mouth hidden in her hair. "...I love you."