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Subject V.2.3A | "OMEGA" ([personal profile] cerhadivision) wrote2017-05-14 09:57 pm

Isla Sorna

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When you spend a long time building something with your own two hands, it becomes difficult to wrap your mind around the idea of the work being done. Owen grew up around that kind of mindset, and knows very well how it feels to be in the same grip. But he doesn't mind. That's the thing about having a family: it expands, and the world around it needs to expand with it. Little by little, the house came up around them, and they settled into it, and he's never really stopped working this little world of his over like an ever-evolving project that he loves with his whole heart.

They're settled here. Officially. No one can deny it, and even though Owen still has dreams sometimes about InGen -- or anyone -- hunting them down to rip the girls, or even the boys, out of his hands, those fears evaporate every morning. The girls get along as well as any sisters do, and even the squabbling has died down in recent months; the boys have adapted beautifully, and although Chi and Psi still exhibit behavior that looks odd alongside the girls from time to time, they no longer struggle to meet expectations that were completely alien to them for most of their lives.

And then there's Blue and Omega.

The difference in Blue between her youth on Isla Nublar, and the young womanhood that quite clearly blossomed in the Santa Lucia Mountains of central California, is not only noticeable, but striking. Always the one he could rely on over the others, Blue has managed to develop into a creature that is both an extension of his right arm and yet still a highly independent person who no longer looks to him quite so often for cues; she still values her space and her privacy, but those withdrawals from the pack just to brood and sulk have all but disappeared. And while Blue's temper will always strike fear into the hearts of her siblings -- adopted or otherwise -- she's learned to balance it with patience, a trait that would always thwart her more than any other. Until now. Owen always wanted Blue to learn that balance between animal instinct and human rationality, and he knew she'd get there in her own way sooner or later. Now, it seems she has, and it's a beautiful thing to see.

Then, as if her own transformation wasn't enough, she'd somehow managed to turn her mate into an entirely different person.

If Blue's maturation is impressive, Omega's has been nothing short of miraculous. All right... Owen is a professional behaviorist; he knows there's no such thing as miracles, only hard work and dedication. Only this time it wasn't his. It was Blue's time, effort, and uncharacteristic affection that turned a furious, hateful killing machine into something that could be now what he might have been then, before InGen had their way. Omega lives in the house now. He eats when they do. He joins the family in their gatherings, as long as Blue is with him, and although his temper is still zero to 60 when roused, these days it's much harder to set him off than it used to be, even if that wouldn't be saying much. He prefers his mate and solitude over anything else, but his violently aggressive tendencies have been all but curbed for the sake of keeping Blue happy.

For obvious reasons, Owen has kept a close eye on them both from day one, and even from the very beginning Omega has treated Blue like the center of the universe. Owen himself has salvaged his share of abused, wild animals -- it's literally part of the job -- but he knows without question that no one could have done this but her. And her success is absolutely indisputable.

Case in point: today, Omega's dislike for interacting with unfamiliar people had outweighed his desire to be with Blue as often as possible, and instead of throwing a tantrum he simply hadn't gone with her down the mountain.

For Barry, it was supplies; Echo wanted clothes; Blue was only interested in procuring necessary parts for her nearly-restored 1979 Pontiac Phoenix Firebird, a task built upon very specific requirements and one which she would never entrust to any of her siblings. The day is very nice for a sojourn into the city, considering the length of the drive: blue skies and a mild breeze, not quite so far into spring that the air is anything more than comfortably warm. Psi is helping Delta collect chili peppers and the new experimental plums. Chi fell asleep in the grass up the hill. Charlie is giving Owen a hand with replacing some worn poles along the stone steps leading down to the boys' den, when they hear the familiar sound of the Jeep rolling up the long hill that serves as their driveway.

Only, it sounds like it's coming up fast.

Owen and Charlie look at each other, and immediately drop what they're doing to meet the car just as Barry rolls up, screeching to a stop and diving out of the driver's side to rush around to the passenger door. He looks frantic. And he's helping Echo out of the car. She looks like she's about to pitch right off her feet.

"Owen!" Barry calls out urgently, eyes widening immediately as Owen rushes to them. "Owen!" He has to wrap an arm around Echo's back to keep her standing. And then, to Owen's surprise and dread, Barry yells again. "Omega!"

Owen doesn't actually know where Omega has been this whole time. But suddenly he's there next to him, clearly as alarmed at being summoned as Owen was to hear it, and Owen can practically feel the tension in the male raptor's body triple because they both realized the same thing: that Blue is not with them.

"They took her," Barry says, breathless, and the bottom falls out of Owen's stomach.

Echo tries to rouse herself, flopping a little, mumbling in groggy frustration as she tries to shake off whatever is wrong with her and help explain. But Barry keeps his hold on her and barrels right through it.

"It was InGen. They had an entire strike force, Owen, the streets are chaos now. They used non-lethals. Tranquilizers. Echo took a direct hit, but they left her behind. All of them were focused on Blue." He looks at both of them, Owen and then Omega, panicked and desperate. "They came for her."

The weather was gorgeous a minute ago. Now the entire world is ice. Owen's heart has stopped, his breath is gone. Delta and the boys come running up, but he barely notices them. Beside him is Omega, frozen; then suddenly the raptor whirls to him, eyes wide, and the fury -- the fear -- in them is apocalyptic.

Omega doesn't say a word, but Owen immediately finds his voice. "Go get her."

The male raptor is gone like a bolt of lightning. Owen turns and strides quickly to a hidden cache beneath the porch. He pulls out two assault rifles and a hell of a lot of ammo as Charlie shrieks behind him, "Why aren't we going with him?!"

"Because we're going to follow him." Owen tosses a rifle to Barry, and gestures sharply for everyone to get into the car, including the still-dizzy Echo. "After Isla Nublar, Omega found us in less than a week on nothing but Blue's scent and pure instinct. This time he knows where he's going. We'd only slow him down." The motor is still running. Almost before every door is shut, Owen jerks the Jeep into gear. His last words are almost a growl to himself. "With any luck, all we'll have to do is clean up."

The Jeep screeches in reverse, turns, and roars off down the mountain.
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[personal profile] bluebetabitch 2017-06-28 04:28 am (UTC)(link)
Blue wanted to see everything. Touch everything. Run her hands over the rough textures of weathered boards, breathe the grasses waving beneath that wide open sky. She managed the first, pausing just inside the barn, one hand on the roughened wooden door. It was dim within, and smelled of bovine and sawdust; she bit back a sneeze.

Hmmm...

She turned eyes to her mate, standing beside her looking unimpressed. She had to stifle a smirk. "Where should we sleep? There's a hayloft up there, might be warmer than anywhere else." She sniffed again. "It does smell a lot like cow in here, though." Which wasn't exactly the best thing to wake up to in the middle of the night when one was hungry.
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[personal profile] bluebetabitch 2017-06-29 03:35 am (UTC)(link)
Blue simply watched her mate investigate inside the barn, an odd little smile on her face, and shrugged to his query. No, they'd definitely not find anywhere to nest as perfect as their tree back on the California bluff.

Owen's pragmatism suggested that they settle their duffels in the hayloft, make sure everything was prepared before moving on to something else, but Omega's apparent enthusiasm to burst all over this particular valley was almost tangible.

"I don't guess, no."

She shoved her hands in the pockets of her cutoffs and leaned a shoulder against the edge of the big wooden door. "What you wanna do instead?"
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[personal profile] bluebetabitch 2017-06-29 04:15 am (UTC)(link)
It was still more than enough to arrest her breath, watching her mate...prowl as he did. There was not a day that passed in which she didn't find him incredibly appealing, regardless of his moods. Which, granted, had been conceivably smooth of late, although Blue felt that she was the grouch most of the time.

Nevertheless, her breath did catch in her throat as Omega sauntered up to lean against the door himself, and she watched the thoughts play over his face--readable as a book, at least to her--and her return grin was just as coquettish, almost sly. Blue took a step forward, bringing them tantalizingly close, and placed five fingertips to Omega's chest before she rose up on her tiptoes to capture his mouth for a heated, albeit frustratingly brief, kiss.

"I like the sound of that," she breathed hotly across his lips. Then blue eyes sparkled and she grinned outright. "--race you!" And quick as a flash, she whirled and took off for the wide open fields, long dark hair flying out behind her.
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[personal profile] bluebetabitch 2017-06-29 04:54 am (UTC)(link)
There was nothing for miles around to slow them down. The grass seemed to stretch on forever, with the trees, as tall as they were, still just a dark fringe at the edge of the horizon, with the purple mountains clawing high above their tops. Blue tossed her head, sensing her mate close behind, and kicked it up a notch, feeling adrenaline flood her system and her vision sharpened to almost needle-like focus.

Omega's laughter rang in her ears and Blue had to smile; hearing his amused outbursts never failed to thrill her. She leapt a small depression as if it weren't even there, landing perfectly and streaking off again. But she'd been cooped up indoors for nearly two months; it was disappointingly soon when she felt her muscles begin to protest and she forced herself to slow down, then more, a trotting jog, and finally halted altogether, only to collapse with breathless laughter in the field of waving wildflowers and fragrant grass, the setting sun coating the entire landscape in shades of soft orange and gold.
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[personal profile] bluebetabitch 2017-06-29 11:31 pm (UTC)(link)
Still laughing, Blue rolled over to flop across Omega's chest, eyes sparkling with too-long forgotten merriment. "...that was fun," she huffed, blowing stray hair out of her eyes. "...although I'm not really in shape anymore, ugh." She flopped back over to lie beside him, head pillowed on his shoulders.

Gazing up at the darkening sky, Blue automatically began to count the stars, twinkling into view overhead. "It just goes on and on," she mused quietly, waving one hand from horizon to horizon. "I thought the sky back home was big. But Owen wasn't kidding when he called this place 'Big Sky Country'."

Sitting up on her elbows, she craned her head to look over at the trees, still a good distance away. "You think we should go so far so soon? Owen'll be looking for us before long."
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[personal profile] bluebetabitch 2017-06-30 12:05 am (UTC)(link)
"At home, yeah." Where they knew their mountain inside and out, backwards and forwards. Here, there were so many unknowns that it was hard to imagine them all. But, on the other hand, sussing out territory was part of their instinctual make up, which was why Blue's eyes again turned towards the deepening line of trees across the field.

"Well, he did say something about wanting all of us to at least eat together once while we were here." She tilted her head to smirk over at her mate. "You were snoring during that conversation, so you probably missed it." Although the thought of sitting down and trying to actually have a meal with her siblings, her mate, his siblings, Owen, the doc, and Owen's dad sort of terrified her right now.

"...maybe later in the week would be better, though."
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[personal profile] bluebetabitch 2017-06-30 12:57 am (UTC)(link)
To be perfectly honest, Blue didn't need much more convincing. She was itching to explore those tantalizing woods herself, which was why she grinned fiendishly, rolled up to her feet, shook the grass and dandelion fluff out of her hair, and started skipping her way towards the trees, giggling at her mate doing the same.

And as it turned out, the woods began a bit further than Blue first realized; the clear mountain air was so sharp it bent distances, making things seem closer than they actually were. When she was close enough to actually touch the first needles, the farm was just a small dot in the middle of the prairie, nearly swallowed by the mountains beyond it.

Oh, well.

The sun had fully set by now, and the night was coming alive with the evening chorus of insects and other nocturnal creatures. The moon was just a sliver, but it and the starlight provided enough for raptor-hybrids to see by well enough. The pines were thick, a carpet of old needles covering the forest's floor, but their scent was heavenly and Blue breathed it in, almost ghosting through the staggered trunks.

A brown and white flash suddenly caught her eye and she trilled sharply in alert--a deer bounded just in front of her, and her hungry stomach bolted her straight into action. The uneven tree trunks made following it challenging, but if she and her mate couldn't take it down, no one could.
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[personal profile] bluebetabitch 2017-06-30 01:51 am (UTC)(link)
The sight of Omega diving full-tilt at the unfortunate buck with both of them landing in a tangle of berry bushes was enough to bring her up short, blinking incredulously, then immediately falling apart with a fit of the giggles. The bushes rattled in response, but Blue could only lean against a nearby aspen and chortle in breathless delight.

Finally, finally everything calmed, and she wasn't too surprised to see her mate pop up from the greenery, triumphant, and drag the kill out behind him. She swallowed her lingering chortles and grinned. "The mighty hunter," she intoned. Blue licked the pad of her thumb and cleaned a smear of blood off of Omega's chin. "So messy..." But it was a gentle tease, not a true chiding.
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[personal profile] bluebetabitch 2017-06-30 02:29 am (UTC)(link)
The taste of his bloody mouth nearly left her swooning.

God, but she'd forgotten! So lost in her own head had she been of late that Blue had completely put aside the thrill of the hunt, the taste of the kill, and the reward of the meal. She'd been afraid, when the rest of the world should have been trembling in fear of her.

A purred snarl rippled from her mouth to her mate's, and Blue's hands fisted in the front of his shirt.

The deer's blood-scent was strong, filling the air around them with copper and the tantalizing smell of fresh, warm meat. Blue pulled Omega closer, her back pressing against the nearby tree's rough bark. She couldn't help twisting against him, kisses becoming rough, hungry.

"...I wanna kill something else," she growled in a voice dark with heat and animal lust.
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[personal profile] bluebetabitch 2017-06-30 03:32 am (UTC)(link)
Right now, Blue honestly didn't care, as long as whatever they caught bled and did so profusely. But she knew that to let the inner beast loose entirely was not only foolish, but also dangerous. Yet it was very difficult to drive back the teeth snapping in her own ears, especially with Omega's hot breath on her lips, his blood-wet mouth so firm and sure on hers, and the barely leashed tension she could feel vibrating all through him.

Blue did manage a moment's sympathy for the poor undeserving tree, at least.

She knew she needed to come down from the high, before one or the both of them crossed the boundary of no return. And her mind betrayed her again. But for once, there was no ghost lurking behind her eyes, no rattle of chain echoing in her ears. Just the veil of starlight and the sound of the night wind high in the pines.

And Omega, dark and hot and wicked and so very eager against her. Blue bit back a low, needful moan. But was unable to let go long enough to break their feverish embrace.
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[personal profile] bluebetabitch 2017-06-30 04:33 am (UTC)(link)
The bark's coarse scrape against old scars was uncomfortable enough to knock Blue out of the lust-filled haze she'd been drowning in, but she still couldn't disengage her claws from Omega's shirt. She'd been careful not to prick his skin, but the overwhelming desire to just...devour him in any way she possibly could was still running thick and strong in her blood, as hot as it was.

He hissed across her lips, and Blue licked them clean of him and the deer's blood, whimpering a soft high moan when the tip of her tongue brushed against his mouth. This was agony; the uncertainty, the hesitation still holding her back from what her body absolutely craved. Her skin felt afire, feverish, with only one way to cool it.

Blue opened her eyes, and a snarl curled her lip.

"Fuck me, Omega." Not a request, a demand. "Right here, right now, no matter what." He'd promised to burn it all out of her, after all. "Do it, make all of me yours again.."
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[personal profile] bluebetabitch 2017-07-02 02:50 am (UTC)(link)
Even Blue was surprised that the words even left her lips. But once they had, she had no intention of taking them back. She was so tired of this, living in fear's intimidating shadow. And she was the Queen of Isla Nublar--there was no way in hell she was going to let InGen--Vic-Fucking-Hoskins--win.

But Omega's intensity did manage to take her a little aback; Blue whimpered into his savage kisses, but steeled herself to just take it; to stand stoic in the midst of his impressive storm. In order to keep her claws out of his flesh, she reached behind her and added her own marks to the poor tree's scarred bark, but didn't hesitate to lift up her arms at her mate's vehement insistence.

The coarse bark was in turn rough on her skin, but it was a welcome pain; it kept her from falling back into her memories and kept her focused on the now. She was here; those were Omega's hands, Omega's lips and teeth; and mmmmmOmega's lean lithe body sliding so sinfully against hers, no one else's. Ever.

She felt the button of her cutoffs come undone and then they vanished off of her hips; Blue jerked one boot out of the denim and hiked it high along her mate's side, trapping him flush against her and moaning to feel him already hard and surging like the tides in her grasp. Unadorned cotton was already damp and useless--Blue snatched one of his hands and intimated he indulge himself with those, at least.

Then her own claws were yanking at the buttons of his shirt--she felt at least two give and disappear--then she was shoving it off of his shoulders and flattening palms to scarred skin, relearning every line, ever crease. Blue whimpered and whined into messy open-mouth kisses, clutching him tight, desperate to keep them here, and not give in to there.

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