Title: On the Job Injuries

Author: LastWaterBender

Fandom: Jurassic World

Pairing: Claire/Owen

Rating: T (Mild Swearing)

Summary: Owen gets hurt on the job. The events of JW were very different.

I'm not sold on the title… any suggestions? Also Looking for prompts….

Today was a meeting after meeting kind of day.

Claire's head was starting to ache. Trying to keep a smile on her face while she was forced to sit in investors meetings, all of whom didn't know how to handle that she was a woman. Most flippant comments were offensive, but she brushed them aside in her own crass remarks and eventually sold the deal. She was grateful that today's investors weren't as grabby as the last bunch.

It was near three when she made it into the control room, it was bustling like normal. Live count on the board was over twenty three thousand people. "How is everything going?" She asked as she stopped between Vivian and Lowery.

Lowery looked up at her. "Six missing children, twelve down in medical for heat stroke. For how busy we are, it's kind of a slow day."

"We haven't had any issues with any of the paddocks today." She reported.

Claire squared her shoulders as she watched the screen. The videos jumped from different cameras in the park showing different people and families having the time of their lives. It stopped for a moment on the Mosasaur jump for its feeding time show and splash back into the water before jumping to the next camera at the petting zoo that was filled with children.

The phone rang on the desk. "Spoke too soon." Mumbled Lowery as Vivian picked up the line into her ear piece.

"Control Room." She said before her face fell. She started to type quickly onto the computer. "I'm dispatching an ambulance right now, Barry. Are the assets contained? Do I need to dispatch ACU?"

"What's happening?" Claire asked, worry filled her face. Barry meant the Velociraptor Paddock, which meant Owen. Her heart pounded loudly in her ears as she waited for Vivian to get more information.

Vivian placed a hand over the mouth piece. "Incident at the Raptor Paddock." She whispered and Claire's heart stopped beating for a few moment. "Owen Grady…"

Claire didn't even listen to the rest as she turned on her heels and ran out of the control room. "She's totally doing him." Commented Lowery, gaining a punch to the arm from Vivian. It followed with a glare that shut him up and he returned to his screen.

"Barry, I just received confirmation from the ambulance dispatch, they are one their way." She said into the headset. "Claire is on her way too, how is he?"

/

She drove as fast as the car would go.

Why did the raptor paddock have to be so far away from everything? She was thankful that the path that she was one, though not the smoothest, was empty and away from the crowds and not the road the ambulance would take to get there.

She prayed that he was okay. He wouldn't have allowed them to call an ambulance if it wasn't bad. A million and one thoughts ran through her head, Was it one of the raptors? Did they have to put down one of his raptors? Was something wrong with the paddock?

More importantly, was Owen okay? Would he be okay? He would come down on himself hard if something happened to one of them.

She shook her head, not allowing herself to jump to conclusions as the paddock finally came into view. The ambulance had yet to arrive and people seemed to be running in all directions setting what was inside the paddock.

Slamming in the breaks, she put the car into park and climbed out of the car and ran towards a small group of people outside the paddock. She could hear Owen yelling in a mixture of pain and anger as she trotted closer. He was sitting on the ground with his arm and shoulder covered in bloody bandages and Barry trying to calm him. "Owen!" She shouted.

"Claire? You called Claire?" He asked Barry as if he was accusing him of betrayal.

Out of the corner of her eye, she could see Hoskins nursing his own wounds in the corner with a random InGen person fretting over him. "I didn't call her, she was in the control room when I called for an ambulance." He defended himself as she reached them.

Her eyes scanned him for further injuries and Owen's face softened. "What happened?" She asked bandage on his forearm was bleeding through. She reached into the first aid kit for another wrap and started to work on it, trying to not panic by how much blood was all over him and now on her, praying that the brachial artery was still intact.

"That fucker over there!" Owen roared and motioning to Hoskins with his freehand pulling away from her. Claire placed her hands on his face to still him, he was hot and feverish. "You've got to get him off this island Claire… They had to tranquilize Echo, I will lose everything I've ever done with them… "

"Shh." She whispered softly, to bring his voice down. "I won't let anything happen to her, but you need to calm down." She turned away from him to look at Barry. "Get me a blanket or a coat or something and the emergency oxygen tank, he's in shock."

Barry nodded and ran inside the office. "I'm fine! I need to check on Echo." Owen snapped and brushed her hands away from him as he struggled to get up. He yelped in pain as he placed weight on the side that was hurt, something clearly broken in his arm. He ripped the binding at his shoulder and she could see the teeth marks that were buried deep inside.

"Owen." She said evenly, pressing more gauze to his shoulder. "You're losing a lot of blood right now and I need you to sit still before I make you sit still."

A humorless chuckle escaped his lips as she helped him lay back down and allowed her to place the oxygen mask onto his face. He trembled slightly as Barry returned with a blanket and covered him with it. Owen's adrenaline was running out and soon he would realize just how much pain he was in. His skin was growing more and more pale, but they could hear the siren get closer. "Please don't let anybody touch Echo, it wasn't her fault …" He pleaded as she placed the oxygen mask on his face.

"Shh." She soothed again, running her fingers through his hair. "I promise." The ambulance pulled up and the paramedics soon surrounded them. Claire stepped away to allow them to work on Owen and crossed her arms tightly to her chest to hide the blood on them and looked up at Barry. "What happened Barry?"

He sighed. "We had them in the harnesses, when Hoskins showed up." He started as they watched the paramedics place an IV in Owen's good arm. "Echo was already on edge today and Owen was trying to calm her down when Hoskins poked her on the soft spot of her nose. She nipped him in the elbow and when he turned around to pull away, he elbowed her in the same spot and she tossed her harness. He tried to grab her in order to calm her down…" Hoskins was yelling from fifty yards away about a lawsuit and how Owen pushed him into the raptor.

Claire glared at him before looking back at Barry. "She couldn't escape, but her head was completely free." Explained Barry with a heavy sigh it all happened in the blink of an eye. "She was biting whatever she could sink her teeth in to, she got Hoskins, but barely and Owen shoved him out of the way so that Echo could not get his jugular and she got him and wouldn't let go before I was able to get a tranquilizer into her."

She held up on finger to stop him and with fire in her eyes trotted over to Hoskins. "You will leave this area and not come back." She started with her hands on her hips, making herself look taller. "I will not have you endangering staff and assets…"

Hoskins glared at her and got into her space. "And who do you think you are, doll? You think you know anything about these raptors because you're fucking the head trainer, but you know nothing. These 'assets' maybe Jurassic World property, but it is run by InGen employees. I'm going to start with replacing employees… "

"You can't do that." She growled. The balance between InGen and the Masrani Corporation was delicate on a good day and should InGen fire its staff, it would tip the scales. She would make it tip the scale, she was done hearing Owen complain about InGen's incessant meddling in his work and he was the reason that Owen was injured.

"We can take this up with Masrani right now doll, this is an InGen project…" He stopped talking when her fist collided with his nose. He doubled over and covered his now bleeding nose. "You bitch!" He said, muffled by his hands. "I'll have your head for this…" He was pulled away from the area by his meek looking minion who pressed a cloth to his nose.

She took a heavy breath, turned on her heels and walked back to a very surprised looking Barry. "I've been meaning to do that for ages." She said rubbing her hand before growing somber again. "Where is Echo now?" She asked.

"In confinement. We are able to close off the harness area to separate it from the rest of the paddock." He explained. "The other three are in the paddock and they are upset, they know something happened to Echo and won't leave until she does."

"We will have to have her looked over by the veterinary staff before we can release her back to her pack to make sure that she's okay." Claire said, spouting off protocol and Barry nodded. Owen yelped out in pain and started swatting at the helping hands around him.

"His heart rate and BP is climbing." Shouted a paramedic as he pushed tried to subdue Owen. Claire squeezed through the crowd of paramedics and fell to her knees at his side.

She took his good hand in hers, mindful of the IV's that stuck out of her arm in hopes of calming him down. "Owen." She said and eventually his eyes turned to look at him and he stopped struggling. "I'm right here, I'm not going anywhere."

"Heart rate is back to normal." Said the medic, before looking at her. "We need to get him to the hospital."

Claire nodded as they lifted Owen onto the stretcher and she followed, not letting go of his hand. She was yelling instructions to Barry as she was being loaded with Owen into the cab of the ambulance. "Call the Control Room and have them send the first available vet to check her over, call Mr. Masrani…" The door shut in her face and drive down the road leaving a stunned Barry in her wake.

/

She sat in the waiting room trying to wash out the thoughts of how pale Owen was as they took him back to surgery.

It had been hours since she sat down and her phone had long since died. Barry had arrived, driving her car, not long ago and soon fell asleep on the small love seat in the corner. She stood up to stretch her legs and did a lap around the waiting room. The LED clock on the wall was blinking that it neared ten pm, the park had closed almost two hours ago.

She pulled on the leg of the set of scrubs she was given because her clothes had blood stains all over, and wished for nothing more than some Starbucks. But she wasn't going to leave, not until she was forced to and even then she would sit on the curb until he left. She sighed as she sat back down again, being in a new relationship was exhausting.

Sure they had had their disastrous date not six months ago, but he had really helped her out of a bind a few weeks ago regarding their new asset. Mr. Masrani had wanted his opinion on the enclosure and when he arrived, the Indominous Rex seemed to be missing. She wasn't, she was able to hide her geothermal radiation from the camera. He had them release a live animal instead of using the crane and sure enough it was temptation to come out from hiding.

Had they had gone down into the paddock, who knows what havoc that beast would ensue. His recommendation was to enclose it, electrify it and make it bigger. He pressed Claire into finding out what the beast was made of and she immediately launched a formal inquiry into the matter while making the necessary arrangements for the paddock. It pushed back the opening date significantly, but it made the exhibit more safe and Mr. Masrani agreed. Spare no expense.

It was then that that she had realized that she hadn't heard from her nephews in a few hours and her assistant wasn't answering her phone that Owen had stepped up to help her find them.

Zach had called her and explained that they had gotten lost in Gallimimus Valley in one of the gyrospheres. The sphere had become wedged between two trees after being bumped by a stampede of Triceratops. Owen sped through the valley in one of the jeeps and helped free them from the sphere as Claire arranged for the equipment to be fixed. They drove back to the park and the boys had invited Owen to join them for dinner in the park. He accepted their offer and ended up spending the entire evening with Claire and the boys. It was late when they headed back towards the hotel, Owen ended up carrying a sleeping Gray back.

Once the boys were put to bed, she had walked him to the door of her apartment. "Thank you for saving me today." She said softly, placing a hand on her arm. "My nephews had a good time with you tonight."

He smiled, his hand finding its way to the curve of her waist. "I had a great time with them as well, they are really lucky to have you for their aunt." He said. "I had an even better time with you, Claire." Then to her surprise he kissed her. Her eyes widened and then closed before he broke away, keeping it simple knowing that her nephews were close by. "We should do this again some time."

She flushed. "Okay." She answered.

"Tomorrow maybe?" He offered and she looked up at him with a raised brow, she had her nephews for three more days and didn't want to miss out with them, but his smile threw her off. "Bring the boys to the paddock tomorrow and I will show them around."

"It's a date."

Claire remembered the day fondly, her nephews were absolutely in love with Owen. He introduced them to his girls and showed them how he trained with them. He even allowed them to feed the raptors, harnessed them and let them pet each of them.

"Your boyfriend is a badass." Zach had said to her as Owen showed Gray how he could tell each of them apart. Claire blushed madly as Gray decided that Echo was his favorite.

The next day, the boys spent time at Owen's bungalow playing Xbox while Claire dealt with the I-Rex and when she had returned to pick them up, the table was set for the two of them out on the patio. The boys had wanted to do something special for Claire to thank her for allowing them to visit and for introducing them to Owen, Zach had the idea to give them somewhat of a date.

Owen cooked dinner and the boys sat the table, fairy lights lit up his patio. "You're not wearing board shorts." She teased with a smile.

"I did print off an itinerary if you want it." He teased back as he pulled out her chair for her.

"Whose idea was this?" She asked, she could see both Zach and Gray peeking through the window. Zach ducked away and Gray waved with his big smile before being pulled away by Zach.

"Theirs." He answered, pushing her chair in.

Dinner was filled with laughter and when it was time for dessert, the boys joined them on the patio.

It was late when they loaded up into her car and both Claire and Owen stood by the driver's door. "Thank you." She whispered and stood up on her toes to kiss him softly, there was gagging noises from inside the car. He chuckled, said his goodbyes and watched as she drove back towards her apartment.

He took the time off to go with Claire to see the boys off at the airport, promising the boys that he would come visit them when there wasn't snow in Wisconsin.

Their way back to the island they couldn't keep their hands off each other and spent the night in her bed consummating their relationship and had been that way since.

"Miss Dearing." Said a voice from the door interrupting her thoughts, she jumped back up to her feet, Barry did the same thing and stood next to her.

"How is he?" She asked, her hand reaching for Barry's.

The doctor pulled off his hair cover tiredly. "He came through surgery okay, depleted our blood bank, but he'll pull through." He reported and Claire turned to Barry and was swallowed up into his arms in relief.

"Can we see him?" She asked after her moment of celebration.

The doctor nodded. "He probably won't wake up for awhile, but you can sit with him." He said and motioned for him to follow.

They reached his room and her heart stopped. He looked so pale under the harsh lighting, his right side was completely bandaged from fingertip to right below his neck. She stopped listening to what the doctor said as she stepped closer to him, taking his left hand in between hers. A chair found a place behind her knees and she sat down right next to him.

"Surprisingly the only thing he broke was his wrist, must've been when he fell back from the raptor." The doctor said looking up from the chart. "The raptor only got the flesh and muscles, we had to reattach at the shoulder ligaments, but with some therapy he should regain full range of motion. He did lose a lot of blood, but it wasn't from the brachial artery and if it was we would be having a very different conversation."

"Thank you." She said quietly before turning her attention back to Owen, he chest rose and fell silently, a breathing tube hanging from his nose.

Barry took the seat in the corner and almost immediately dozed off again. Claire reached up and brushed the hair that settled on his forehead, it was still damp from someone washing the blood out of it. She stood up and pressed her lips to his unmoving ones.

Tears streamed down her cheeks, it was relief. He was going to be okay. She sat back down and held his hand to her cheek and allowed herself to silently cry.

She cried herself to sleep.

/

Owen slowly became aware that he wasn't in his own bedroom.

He felt heavy.

His eyes opened and he looked around the room in panic. It was Barry who stood up and came to his side that he realized that he was okay, messed up, but okay. "Hey, it's okay." Barry whispered. "You're okay, do you know what happened?"

He blinked a couple of times, his mind foggy. "Echo?" He asked when his eyes shot open again.

"Shh. She's okay." He said quietly and motioned to the sleeping redhead that held his other hand. Her face rested on her the arm that held his hand, looking away from him. Her breathing was soft and slow, she was still asleep. "We had Echo checked out by the vet, who signed off that she was okay. All four of them are okay. Claire made sure of that."

He closed his eyes for a moment and waited for the fog to clear. "Claire?" He asked, he was asking if she was okay and Barry nodded.

Owen squeezed his hand and she jumped back startled. "Owen?" She asked confused until she realized that it was him that squeezed her hand and that he was awake. "Thank god you're awake."

She stood up and looked torn between hugging him so that it didn't hurt him and bursting into tears. Owen held out his free arm. "Come here." He said and she crawled into the bed on his good side, burying her face into the side of his neck as she started to cry again. "I'm okay."

"I'm so glad you're okay." She mumbled into his neck. He used his good hand to run a hand through her hair to sooth her. Barry took his cue to go find a doctor to tell them that he was awake.

Their moment was cut short by the doctor and a hoard of nurses bustled in and Claire got off the bed, Owen found that he missed her warmth. He watched as she wrapped her arms around herself and forced herself to not cry from the corner.

"Mr. Grady, how are you feeling this morning?" He asked, Owen looked at the LED clock over the doctor's shoulder, it was almost two in the morning.

He answered and Claire excused herself to the restroom. The mirror showed the deep bags under her eyes from her runny makeup and she nearly gasped. She ran the water and washed away the day old makeup and pulled her hair up into a pony tail, the one given to her by a nurse.

When she returned to the room, Owen was alone and laying on his good side. He had probably sent Barry home to get some sleep before dealing with the girls by himself. "Are you okay?" He asked worriedly.

She clasped her hands together as she moved to sit next to him on the bed. "You're the one in the hospital bed." She started and he dropped his brow. "I'm fine, I just needed to wash my face. What did the doctor say?"

He shrugged and then winced. "Too many stitches to count." He said shifting to get comfortable. "Wrist will be in a hard cast for six to eight weeks. Therapy, lots and lots of physical therapy."

Her eyebrow raised at his sarcasm and knew that come time for therapy, he was going to be insufferable. "You know you won't get full clearance to work if you don't do therapy, right?"

He groaned and rubbed his eyes. "It's a good thing I have it in with the boss." He said as his flirty smile came to his face. She rolled her eyes, of course he would be one of those people who went loopy with pain medications.

"It's not the boss you have to have an in with." She responded, his good hand went to her thigh and gave it a weak squeeze. He was getting tired, the doctor must have given him some medication while she was in the bathroom. "You have to have an in with the doctor."

He laughed. "I guess I will have to take him out on a date when I get out of here." He said.

"Only if you wear your board shorts, Owen." She said as she leaned forward and pressed a kiss to his lips, when she pulled back she ruffled his hair. "Get some sleep."

She stood up to go sit in the chair in the corner, but he caught her arm. "Please stay." He said, she couldn't deny his puppy dog eyes that was begging her to climb into the bed. She complied and carefully climbed into bed with him, she pressed her back carefully into his chest and rested her head on the pillow, his bottom arm holding her against him. "Thank you."

She pulled the blanket over both of them and settled against him. "No problem." She answered with a yawn.

"No, for making taking care of Echo." He answered kissing her neck. "For punching out Hoskins." He kissed her ear this time. "For loving me." It was just above a whisper followed by a sigh.

She smiled into the pillow knowing that he had fallen asleep. Figures that he would confess his love to her and then fall asleep.

With a heavy sigh, she too fell asleep against him.

/

Zara carried the spare coffee from Starbucks in her left hand, a duffle bag with a change of clothes from Claire's apartment, and the thick folder from her desk under her arm as she walked the path into the hospital as Barry trotted up to grab the door for her. "Thank you and good morning, Barry." She said brightly as she pushed her sunglasses up.

"Good morning Zara." He greeted.

The pair chitchatted about Zara's upcoming nuptials that were only six more weeks away while they shared the elevator ride to Owen's room. When they reached the third floor, Barry stopped to check in with the nurse as Zara walked into the room that Claire had texted to her and she immediately stopped in the doorway.

Claire and Owen were asleep in the hospital bed. Owen was not really sleeping on his side, but more on his back with his heavily bandaged arm resting on his side. His good arm was under Claire's head and tucked around her tightly his hand resting under her chin, her hair moved with each breath that he took. She was completely spooned up against him, her hand resting in her hair.

Zara didn't know how long Barry stood behind her, but at the first indication that he was behind her, she shoved everything that was in her hand into his arms and pulled out her phone. She snapped a couple of pictures, quickly edited out the crappy hospital lighting on Instagram. "She's going to feed you to the T-Rex." Barry commented as he watch her caption the photo AWWWWWW! 3 3 God how precious is ClaireDearing and AlphaOwen this morning. #TrueLove #Cute #dontworryhewillbeokay #Velociraptor #nofilter #cutecouple #instacouple #instamorning

Zara looked up at him and shrugged, posting it on every form of social media as possible. She looked at her handy work and smiled, she should've gone into photography. She turned to grab one cup of coffee, the duffle bag and the folder and quietly set it on small table against the wall and reached inside the bag for the long phone charging cable. She carefully grabbed Claire's phone that rested on the bed, knowing full well that it was dead.

Barry couldn't see what she was doing with Claire's phone and he prayed that she would survive Claire's wrath when she found out.

Zara put Claire's phone down and turned on her heels, Barry followed her. "What did you do?" He asked as they headed back to the elevator.

"Changed her wallpaper." She answered with a shrug and looked down at her phone. The photo already had 37 likes and comments on Instagram.

He looked at her wide eyed. "You have a death wish!" He said as the elevator opened and they both stepped inside. Barry dealt with Velociraptors on a daily basis, but was scared of Claire and Zara found it amusing. She shrugged and took a sip from her own coffee.