The eggs were rocking back and forth violently by the time everyone had been gathered in the small room. Faint noises could be heard from the chamber, nearly swallowed up in the excited roar of the collected scientists, workers, and executives. Well, really only one executive; Claire Dearing, the park manager, who was watching impatiently from the upper deck, her phone still glued to her head. I'm sure that if I had tried, I could have picked up on what she was saying, but my attention was elsewhere.

My eyes watched the larger of the two eggs rock, emotions swirling inside me in a strange mixture of dread and maternal pride. This was my first egging, and it was to be monsters. A light touch on my shoulder made me jolt, turning to look into warm black eyes.

"It's exhilarating, isn't it?" Henry Wu turned to face the eggs, his hand tightening. "Our first official hybrids," he said with a chuckle. Turning to face me fully, he beamed a brilliant grin. "And it's your very first batch too! Makes it all that much more special, doesn't it?" He gave my shoulder a reassuring squeeze before moving closer to the hatching chamber.

Well, he wasn't wrong: these were definitely going to be special. Special good or special bad, I didn't know. Heaving a sigh, I surveyed the room with disbelief. It had been a miracle that Henry Wu had stumbled across my Cross-Species Genetics thesis and had even bothered to read it, let alone agree with it. It was only a few days after he read it that I was snatched up by InGen to work on a hush-hush genetics project for Jurassic World, with Henry's blessings. That was only three months ago, and now I was here, in the middle of a mass of far more experienced geneticists and about to make history.

A loud crack silenced the chatter of the room, all eyes turning to the eggs. A large crack adorned the larger egg, and a low churring could be heard through the gap. Another push yielded a black talon, which scrabbled for purchase on the smooth outer shell. The other egg cracked, a soft coo coming from inside. Both specimens had breached the shell, a good sign. The first's talon caught the egg of a shell fragment, and yanked it away to reveal an amber eye.

My breath caught in my throat, as my green met gold. It's pupil slit as it watched me move closer to the dome, coming to stand by Henry. It shoved the rest of it's body out of the egg gracelessly, stumbling to right itself.

"Beautiful, isn't she?" Henry's voice yanked me out of my trance, allowing me to turn away. I nodded to him, as the little raptor hissed and stumbled. Cheers had broken out in the room, as the other egg finally spilled its inhabitant to the open air. She gave an indignant squeak as she rolled herself from her back, making Henry laugh. He patted me on the back, before going up to field Claire's questions. I almost joined him, but just couldn't bring myself to move away from the glass.

The littler one had finally righted herself, checking around the room with adorable little head tilts. The larger one had made its way to right in front of me, watching me with those bright gold eyes. Looking between the two siblings, I took note of their differences; height, size, coloring. One thing in particular confused me about their differences; the first one had small, hair like spines on its neck. Unusual, as most often traits like that were carried to all of the species, not specific members like this.

I was pulled from my contemplation of this by Claire's high pitched voice. "Samantha!" I turned to face her, ignoring the small rumble from the raptor. She was leaning over the railing, smiling gleefully at me. "This asset is going to be a huge success in the park! Profits are going to be up by at least thirty percent in the first month! However," her smile turned coy, "I think it needs a name. Something catchy and easy to pronounce. What have you got for me?" The room noise in the room was deafening by this point, as I turned to look back at the hatchlings.

The elder one tilted its head at me, eyes glowing with intelligence beyond what it should. "Indominus Rex," I said, my voice quiet in the loud room. I turned to look at Claire, and said it louder. "Indominus Rex!"

Claire smiled at me, putting her phone to her ear. Faintly through the noise of the room I could hear her. "Yeah, Indominus Rex. Get the backers on the line; they'll want to be a part of this."

Okay, I'm horrible for starting this. Sorry.