𝙒𝙃𝙀𝙉 𝙏𝙃𝙀 𝙎𝙆𝙔 𝙄𝙎 𝙉𝙊 𝙈𝙊𝙍𝙀 - 𝙤𝙬𝙚𝙣 𝙜𝙧𝙖𝙙𝙮

Staying Loyal for Ella

~Isla Nublar~

It was 9:00 in the morning when Owen was called and directed to head towards the hatchery for his girls. It had been two days since he left Emma back at home to work. Without a doubt he felt guilty for leaving her behind, but it was for her own good so he could make enough money without letting her get hurt. And it wasn't like he didn't call her every night, so why did he feel guilty about this? His stomach churned as he thought of her at the airport, she lingered around him begging for more kisses, in a way he had hoped that she protested to have him stay. Owen stood outside the clear glass wall watching over the eggs, waiting for Claire to arrive. For someone who was a workaholic and a perfectionist he'd would've thought she'd be here by now, or would've stopped by to see him. This whole time she hadn't even come to see him, not even at the airport all the communication she's given has been through phone calls or texts. He looked at his watch. 11:30.

Owen sighed out in frustration, he looked towards the eggs. Not a single one of them moved within the past two hours he'd been there. It hadn't been like this when his other girls were ready to hatch. They hatched all within a half hour, it irked him with anticipation. Owen thought about how Emma should be getting ready for her ultrasound right now, even though it pained him that she wasn't around he was glad she wasn't here to get hurt. With the park reopening, that meant a lot of new animals were being born with the exception of the tyrannosaur. He didn't want a tiny triceratops or pachycephhlosaurus to head butt her causing God knows what to happen with the baby.

A door opened with Claire clacking down the hallway with her heels on, smiling graciously at Owen. A girl with dark brown hair stepped out with Claire, Owen couldn't help but stare. He had to admit she was good looking, tan with dark hair and piercing green eyes. Every inch of her screamed for attention. "Owen, it's good to see you. You'll be working with Vivian. She'll be training the raptors with you." Claire instructed holding a clip board eying him weirdly as he continued to gaze at Vivian. Unfortunately, she wasn't able to get Barry back to the island after the incident so she had to recruit someone with carnivorous animal expertise. Vivian seemed to be working with large Bengal tigers in India at the time and pushed her research to come and research the velociraptors.

Owen held out a large hand and grasped hers in a right hand shake. "Owen." He introduced. "Vivian." She smiled, causing Owen to get caught up in it. "Owen is the best handler when it comes to these dinosaurs. You're in good hands." Claire informed Vivian, whom Owen kept staring at. Claire lightly nudged him, making him jump and look at her. "You scared me." He mumbled embarrassed. "How's the baby, big guy?" She hoped to intervene anything that was going through his and her mind about each other.

Owen glanced to the ground with a pained expression, he had a kid he couldn't be thinking about other women at the moment, all he could do was think about his baby, Emma must be getting an ultrasound by now. "It's good. Emma's handling it...great." He lied, sarcastically smiling while Claire furrowed her brows at him. "Meaning she's not doing too well?" Claire hinted at him, a small smile playing at her lips. "No, she's very hormonal. But she's has an ultrasound today...we find out the gender today." Owen murmured out, a sad look spreading across his face. He knew that he was a bad father for not being there to find out the gender of his own child. Was he going to be a bad father for missing out on Emma's whole pregnancy?

Claire put a pale, manicured, hand on his upper arm near his shoulder. "I didn't mean to take you away so soon," Claire sympathized with him, if he would've told her she would've extended the arrival date. "But at least she's coming down next week." Owen perked up at this with worry. Did she just say Emma was coming to the island? "Wait. What? Since when?" Owen questioned, crossing his arms in front of him. "Since the day I called you? I called her and she agreed to work in the petting zoo until she delivered. She was upset she couldn't go back to the tyrannosaurus but, again for her safety we thought this was the best." Claire answered, her eyebrow perking up in question, clasping on to her clipboard tightly to her chest.