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Sanctuary | Part 1

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Plot: It’s been several years since humans started sharing earth with dinosaurs for the first time in history. The massive creatures are now protected under law, but that doesn’t mean that they aren’t still in danger. That’s why you dedicated your life to helping them.

Pairing: Zach Mitchell (Nick Robinson) x Reader

Warning: none

Masterlist and Requests/Prompts

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You had been at Jurassic World in December of 2014, the day of the incident. You had only been 17 at the time. You were on a school trip for Science Club. It had started out fun and exciting for the first few days, but the third day was a total disaster, as anyone who was there could attest to.

Shortly after recovering from your injuries, you celebrated the holidays with your parents and returned to school. Months later you graduated high school and started attending college. You decided to study paleontology.

You had always loved dinosaurs growing up and finally getting to see them was a dream for you. You had hopes that someday, you could apply what you learned in school to a future career.

What you hadn’t ever expected to happen was for dinosaurs to be living amongst human worldwide, outside of the confines of a zoo setting. They lived amongst the wildlife of modern day, amongst people.

When the opportunity to work at the Biosyn Sanctuary, now known as the Hammond and Lockwood Memorial Sanctuary, after the company had been shut down due to corruption at the highest level you couldn’t resist the offer. You started working amongst some of the top scientists in the field as well as other experts.

At the sanctuary you were in charge of the health and well-being of the prehistoric animals. They may be living wild, but are protected under law. Any animal that becomes ill or injured is taken care of at the sanctuary. The sanctuary is also in charge of taking in any rescued dinosaurs that being illegally trafficked on the black market.

At the moment you are in charge of monitoring any baby dinosaurs that were born at the sanctuary. It was likely, especially with the dinosaurs living in a natural setting, that any babies born would need medical attention, but it was still necessary to do from time to time. Since it was nesting season, things had been a bit busy for you.

“Y/n, found another nesting site, pretty sure it belongs to a herd of triceratops” you heard one of the technicians in charge of watching the security cams say across the room.

You walked over and looked on the monitor. “Interesting, lots of nests this season” you said smiling “thanks for the heads up, I’ll grab someone from security and head down to check them out”

“Good luck, I’ll keep a lookout as always, radio back if you need anything”

“Will do, channel 5!”

He gave you a thumbs up and you grabbed a walk-in-talkie from the desk and it tuned it to channel 5. You walked down the hall to Claire and Owen’s office to let them know you’d be heading down to the nest site and would need a security escort.

“Morning! They found a nesting site on the east side of the sanctuary, headed down now. I’ll need security to take me down” you said as you walked in, grabbing some necessities.

You hadn’t been paying too much attention to who was in the office at that time so it shocked you when you heard a voice that didn’t belong to Claire or Owen.

“I’ll escort you down”

You turned to see Zach, Claire’s oldest nephew sitting at Owen’s desk.

“Oh thanks Zach, give me just a minute” you said, blushing a bit, you’d had a bit of a crush on him since you met, even though he was your best friend.

Zach and his brother Gray had been at Jurassic world the day of the accident as well. But they were caught up in much more chaos than you ever were. You didn’t talk about it with him that often, neither of you liked to remember what happened.

Zach graduated the same time as you. You both ended up at the same university, though you hadn’t met till a few years ago. Just like you, his experience shaped him to love the prehistoric creatures that now shared the planet with you. While you took a more biological approach in your studies, he chose to study animal behavior of dinosaurs, inspired by Owen’s work with the Raptors. He was now working as a security escort for the scientists at the sanctuary. His expertise on animal behavior and tracking gave him a keen sense to look out for dangerous situations.

Naturally his younger brother Gray, had also studied paleontology in college. He was now working to get his graduates degree and was an intern at the sanctuary. He spent a lot of time studying with Dr. Allan Grant and Dr. Ellie Sattler.

You grabbed a few more things from the office and put them in your bag.

“Okay, let’s head out” you said heading for the door.

You both headed outside to the hangar where all the helicopters and armored vehicles were stored. You knew you weren’t permitted to drive so you got into the passenger seat, while Zach got in the drivers seat.

“Where on the east side are we headed?” He asked

“There is a rocky clearing just outside the forest, about a mile from the lake” you said showing him a map of the sanctuary.

“Okay, I know where that is” he said starting the engine and driving the two if you out there.

“So, anything interesting been happening lately?” He asked while driving.

“Besides monitoring 15 different nesting sites and chasing down new hatchlings that need to be given post hatch check-ups?” You asked laughing softly.

“Yeah” he said smiling

“Not really, just the usual. Owen has been keeping tabs on some sketchy dudes in Utah who were supposedly seen holding some Stegosaurus in a barn on a horse ranch. But the area was raided by local police and they didn’t find anything. They must have let the stegs go once they knew they’d been had.” You said laughing.

“Too bad, I was looking forward to arrivals”

“Me too, I’m tired of chasing down babies” you said laughing as you realized you’d finally pulled up to the nesting site, about 100 feet away as to not disturb the animals.

You got out quietly and grabbed your backpack. You headed over to the first nest and peaked inside. You heard a soft snort and looked over to see a mother Triceratops standing about six feet away.

You put your hand out to calm the creature “it’s okay Mama, just checking” you said as the female dinosaur began to calm down, shaking her head around playfully.

You bent down and counted the number of eggs, noting their condition. You did the same for each of the other 10 nests on the site, but the last one seemed…off, for lack of a better term.

“Zach, come here” you called.

As he approached you looked down at a nearly empty nest, aside from a few broken eggs.

“New mother?” You asked him curiously. Sometimes first time mothers were clumsy with their eggs and didn’t exactly monitor them as they should.

“Maybe” he said examining the nest further “the eggs were definitely crushed before they began to develop” he noted.

You looked around the area a bit more for other clues as to what might have happened. Suddenly you spotted something you’d never seen before.

A set of strange tracks were spotted around the area, headed in the direction of the wooded area. You’d never seen tracks like these before but they appeared to be from a creature that walked on two legs, most likely something big, judging by the size of the prints left behind.

“Shit….” You said, looking over at Zach.

“What the hell made those?”

“I don’t know….the look like nothing ever seen before” you said, taking out your phone to document the tracks. “Let’s get out of here before it comes back” you said.

Zach nodded and headed back to the vehicle with you. You radioed back to the sanctuary headquarters.

“Found some strange prints at the nest site, most likely from a predator. About 1 and a half feet in length. One of the 11 nests was compromised.” You said.

You heard Owen over the radio moments later “come back to the headquarters, well someone out to get plaster casts”

“Coming back now” you said.

You looked over at Zach, a bit concerned. The predators were usually kept at bay, feeding on local wildlife such as deer and elk, many of which were bred specifically for feeding purposes.

When you returned to headquarters you noticed some higher-up security personnel packing up to get plaster casts of the prints. You gave them the necessary information they would need, as well as showed the images you’d taken. They looked just as confused as you.

You went inside shortly after to share your findings with Claire and Owen.

A few hours later the team came back with a single set of cast tracks. You watched as Owen and Dr. Grant examined them.

“I’ve never seen anything like them, fascinating” you heard Dr. Grant say.

“And the eggs at the nest were crushed?” Owen asked you.

“Yeah” you said quietly. “Did the team find anything else while they were out there?”

“Unfortunately no, just the tracks” Owen said “we’ll continue to monitor the site, and all other known sites, just in case this thing comes back….whatever it is”

That one statement gave you a chill up your spine. ‘Whatever it is’ was not a comforting phrase to hear, especially after all the bullshit you’d witnessed in the past. Jurassic World scientists creating a hybrid, the heir to Lockwood’s fortune using the DNA from said hybrid to create his own abomination, and individuals breeding and training predatory dinosaurs as weapons of war was bad enough. Now this?

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To be continued….

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