Trust Bond

Jurassic World, fan fiction: AU. Owen is injured in the final confrontation, and Claire fears the worst, then something extraordinary happens, and Claire finds herself re-evaluating what she thought she knew.

This is very loosely based on a true story from 1986, in which a ten year old boy fell into the gorilla enclosure at Jersey States Zoo. Believing that the huge silverback, Jambo, would harm the boy the parents naturally began to panic, and several suggestions were made, including shooting the gorillas. But the huge, and potentially lethal male gorilla sat next to the boy and protected him, even stroking the child's back at one point; the child was rescued and the entire family made a return to Jersey Zoo after the little boy had recovered. This pretty much forever proved that even a so-called dangerous wild animal is capable of more than we know or understand.

Watching the relationship of respect that the story established between Owen and the raptors, this old story popped back into my head. This is the result.