I know I'm a horrible person for not updating but please don't hate me cause I added in major Katie/Zach feels.

Note: I don't actually know how old the Raptors were, I don't think it was ever mentions, but after extensive research (I Googled a lot) I'm gonna go with being fiveish? Lemme know if you disagree and I'll make edits accordingly.

Seven: Ties that Bind

Katie had finally got Owen to agree to let her tag along, on the condition she rode with him and carried a gun- and shot whatever came at her. She agreed.

Now Katie sat outside the cage, waiting for Owen who was getting the Raptors ready, she tapped her foot as she waited and barely noticed as Zach approached her.

"Hey," Zach called, coming to a stop in front of her.

Katie slowly stopped tapping her foot and grinned at him, "Hey, Zach."

"So, uh, are you going with Owen?" Zach inquired, leaning next to her.

Katie nodded, crossing her arms, "After a long argument, yeah, you're staying in the truck with Gray right?"

"Someone's gotta look after him," Zach joked.

"Hey, kiddo, you ready to go?" Owen asked as he walked out of the den, then he looked up and saw the two of them, a small smile tugged at his lips, "I'll give you two a moment."

Katie glared at her brother as he left, but she slowly turned to face Zach, "So…"

"So…" Zach trailed off.

"Don't do anything stupid, okay?" Katie tilted her head and gave him a pointed look.

Zach raised his eyebrows, "I could say the same thing to you. You're the one chasing the killer dinosaur." The last part came out bitterly.

Katie groaned, "Zach, I thought I told you? I-."

Zach cut her off., "I know, I know: You have to do it. You have to make sure Gray and I make it off the island alive… but what if we want you to make it off here with us?"

After a fair silence, Katie finally answered, "I can't sit around and do nothing, Zach."

"I know, just… it's not safe, okay?" Zach sighed, looking up at the brunette with a worried expression.

Katie raised an eyebrow as she shot up, "This whole island is no longer safe! Going after this Indominus Rex is going to save whoever's left- I have to go!"

"I know and I get that it's just what's the point of it if you die along to way?!" Zach exclaimed, standing up.

Katie crossed her arms, "The point is you don't! You get out alive! I care about what happens to you, you idiot!"

"And I care about what happens to you- which is why I'm telling you this is a stupid, suicidal idea!" Zach nearly yelled.

Katie narrowed her eyes, "Look, you can sit in the back of that truck all you want, but I'm going out there to make sure you get back alive because I give a damn!"

"Well it seems you don't give a damn about your own life if you're willing to go walk the line chasing the monster that's hunting us."

Katie scoffed, "I'm not doing this right now."

Clenching her first, Katie muttered under her breath as she strode back to Owen who stood with the chunk that the Indominus had torn out with her own claws. Katie held the clicker as Owen held the clotted hunk of Dino near the Raptors cages, waiting until they let out impatient huffs before moving on and leaving Katie to clack the clicker from outside the cage signalling for them to be patient and get ready.

As they reached the final cage, Delta's cage, Katie hesitated in front, clicking the tapper after Owen had moved on. But she waited, and thoughtlessly placed a hand carefully on the metal hatching. The inside of the cage went silent for a moment before, anomalously, Katie felt cold scales nudge her hand through the enclosure. Katie's breath caught but she soon grinned as she realised that Delta once again recognised her.

She suddenly had a feeling of déjà vu as she remembered the raptors cage when she'd ran in and the happenstance she'd had with Delta, and the time when the Raptor had encountered her which resulted in her scar. It was then she realised that what Owen had with Blue, she had with Delta.

And the day Owen had imprinted on the Raptors surfaced.

Twelve year old Katie babbled on about what the soon-to-be-born Velociraptors could be called as Owen nodded and grinned whilst leading his little sister towards the lab in which the aforementioned eggs were being heated.

A few weeks into summer vacation, Owen had convinced his superiors to let his sister in to see the newly created Raptor eggs under his supervision. Unfortunately, Owen hadn't expected Katie to get as attached as she had done as soon as she'd seen the eggs.

"So what do you do when the Raptors hatch?" Katie questioned, looking up at her brother.

Owen glanced at her as they turned another corner, "Well, Kit-Kat, I'm in charge of training them so when they're born I imprint on them so that I can train them."

Katie's inquisitive hazel eyes widened as she beamed, "Imprinting? That's so cool!"

"Yeah, I guess it kinda it," Owen grinned.

The Grady siblings took another right and walked through the pristine white doors into the lab. Sitting in the incubator near the middle of the room in their own batch of four, sat a quartet of cracking eggs.

Katie's eyes lit up in excitement and she let out a squeal as she raced forwards like a five year old towards the dinosaurs. Reaching the stand, she glanced back at her brother who rolled his eyes at her giddiness as he made his own way over.

"This is so cool oh my god," Kaitlin practically squealed.

One of the eggs, the one closest to Owen, cracked even more and slowly a scaly blue head poked out. Katie gasped, leaning in slightly closer as Owen smiled fondly down at the small raptor. The blue dinosaur's big eyes flickered up at Owen and blinked innocently before it started to struggle to free itself of the rest of the shell, its talons swiping randomly.

"What are you going to call her?" Katie breathed.

Owen paused, looking at the Raptor for a moment before smiling, "Blue. I think it fits."

Another smile formed on the twelve year olds face, just then another crack filled the air and Katie whirled on her heels to see the egg closest to her start to split. Within moments a large reptilian eye blinked at her, slowly and curiously before she started to break from the egg.

"Owen..." Katie whispered.

Owen looked up from where he was fondly watching the baby Blue take its first look around and moved over to the new Raptor, watching it's large eyes flicker across to him before back to Katie with a look in it's eyes like the one a child would regard it's mother with. Owen smiled secretly to himself.

"Hey, Kit-Kat, why don't you name this girl," Owen grinned, ruffling Katie's hair.

"Really?! Yes!" Katie grinned before scowling playfully at her brother and trying to fix her hair, "And seriously?! You know how frizzy my hair gets!"

Owen rolled his eyes, "C'mon, name her before the other break."

Katie nodded, pausing for a second before grinning, "Delta."

Owen raised an eyebrow curiously at her, wondering why she chose it.

Katie rolled her eyes, "We were doing about Greeks in history. In the Greek alphabet, Delta has the numeric value of four. And, y'know, there's four Raptors."

"Delta..." Owen paused, thinking, before smiling, "I like it."

Katie grinned at her brother before crouching slightly so she was level with Delta, watching the Velociraptor with admiration as Owen moved around to imprint on the other two Raptors left, who were soon dubbed Echo and Charlie by the siblings.

But soon all four Raptors were hatched and the incubator was being enclosed in a glass box so the new babies could be checked and moved to their enclosure. Katie watched the Raptors being exported with a sad expression, watching as Delta started panicking at the movement.

Katie turned back to her brother, "You think I'll ever be able to see them again?"

Owen turned away from where he was watching the Raptors and smiled at her, "I'm sure you will, Kit-Kat."

The two siblings started to head back out of the lab again, Owen's arm slung around Katie's shoulders to keep her from wondering off.

"And I told you, don't call me Kit-Kat!"

Katie smiled at the memory, before she thought it over and came to a realisation she'd never really thought of before. The reason why Delta was always so curious but trusting with her, nudging her hand just then and protecting her from the other Raptors like she'd done before.

It wasn't Owen who'd imprinted on Delta, it was Katie.

Delta's first animate object was her, Katie was the first thing Delta saw and subsequently the baby Velociraptor hadn't imprinted on Owen like planned, but on Katie. Of course the plan was for all four of them to imprint on Owen so knowing her brother, Katie guessed Owen had kept the slightly wobbling mistake to himself and just pretended it went accordingly.

Smiling to herself, Katie shook her head as Delta rubbed her nose against her hand again before the brunette moved her hand away. Glancing over at her brother, she noticed Owen giving her a slightly puzzled look. She smiled and made her way over to him.

"What was your psychotic smiling about?" Owen inquired as he reloaded his rifle gun.

Katie frowned, "First, it wasn't psychotic, and second; I just remembered when the girls hatched..."

"Oh yeah?" Owen placed the gun down and started putting spare ammo into a satchel.

"Mhmm," Katie nodded before her brow furrowed, "Delta didn't imprint on you, did she? She imprinted on me."

Owen sighed, putting the bag down, "Geez, you really do have terrible timing don't you?" he sighed at Katie's unamused look, "Yeah, okay, she imprinted on you. You were only twelve so I thought I'd get away with you not noticing. Obviously I was mistaken."

"So how come you never told me?" Katie frowned, following her brother as he headed towards his quadbike.

Owen shrugged, "Never felt I had to. Her imprinting on you didn't change her letting me train her like the others, but when you were there she definitely seemed to be more alert."

"Hey, Owen, Katie!" Barry's voice filtered over and they glanced across the quad to see him, "You ready to go?"

"Yeah just gimme a moment!" Owen shouted back.

Katie glanced at Owen and resisted the urge to move back in surprise as she turned to see Owen holding out a rifle not unlike his own.

"I'm sorry, what am I supposed to do with this?" Katie asked bluntly, her eyes wide.

Owen seemed unimpressed, "You're hunting a genetically engineered dinosaur who can camouflage, I'm not leaving you without something to defend yourself with."

Katie raised an eyebrow, "So what exactly am I supposed to do with it?"

"Shoot anything that moves," Owen stated detachedly, making a stab of doubt flicker in Katie in her view of her brother.

"A-anything...?" Kaitlin's voice was high and weak, she hated it.

Owen let out a short laugh, "Obviously not the troopers and our Raptors but anything else, yeah."

Hesitantly, Katie reached out and took the gun. She held back a shiver as the cold metal bit into her hands and she felt an emptiness spread over her. Immediately, she didn't like the gun and the feeling it gave her.

"Katie!"

Katie turned to see Zach jogging towards her, his expression uncertain as though he wasn't sure if he was 100% with what he was doing.

Owen grinned, "I'll, uh, meet you by the bike."

Katie sent him a sideways glare before turning back to Zach and smiling, "Hey, Zach, I... about earlier-."

"No it's cool, I mean I shouted back, right?" Zach ran a hand through his hair.

There was a pause of silence as the other person tried to think of something to say before Katie sighed, glancing away, "Look, I promise I won't die okay?"

"Come back okay? Please," Zach seemed serious for once.

Katie smiled, "I will."

She started to walk towards her brother when Zach's hand shot out to grab hers and she turned back to face him, feeling as though a thousand electrical currents were shooting through her veins. He wore a concerned expression on his pale face as their eyes locked and she noticed the vulnerable edge his voice took on.

"I'm serious, Katie… come back to me."

Katie studied his face for a few more moments before she seemed to find what she was looking for and in a moment she moved forwards and flung her arms around his neck, pulling Zach into a hug which clearly stated she was just as scared, worried and freaking out as he was. Zach froze for a moment, butterflies going crazy in his stomach, before he wrapped his arms around her and buried his face into her flannel shirt, breathing in her comforting scent as her calm breathing tickled his neck. It blurred their line between friends and more than.

Suddenly Katie was pulling back too soon and turning away before Zach could say anything to her, she was walking towards her brother, climbing onto the quadbike behind Owen, her cheeks tainted red as her brother turned to grin at her mischievously, saying something to her which resulted in Katie scowling and punching her brother in the arm. Then Gray grabbed his arm and pulled his brother into the truck with him, their aunt slamming the back doors behind them as she walked to the front.

Zach watched out of the small window in the back as Katie sped away, the taillights of Owen's bike like cats eyes in the pitch black. Be safe, he thought. He didn't know Katie was thinking the same thing about him.

Gah I'm sorry there wasn't much of the film in this, but I thought the flash back was a cute little insight on Delta and Katie's bonds of sorts, and I don't even know where I'm heading with Zach and Katie...