{Journalism and raptor training} 1x1 with Natasha Romanoff.

[lavender moon]

I could only hear the noises coming from inside where Owen was. I didn’t want to watch. It terrified me. The man who I felt so safe with, who I believed was stronger than anybody on this earth, was being tortured so brutally that he was crying. I knocked on the glass trying to get Owen’s attention “Eyes on me Owen. Don’t listen to him. He doesn’t know what he’s saying. She loved you. You know that. Don’t let him win. Don’t let him do this to you.” I called from behind to glass as loudly as I could. I needed to reach Owen. He needed to know the truth. Everything before him was a lie. Hoskins was lying to him and I could save him from it. If only Owen would look at me. Maybe if he could look into my blue eyes he’d know that I truely believed every word that escaped my lips. She wouldn’t have wanted this for him.

[Spock and Kirk]

◗-----------𝒪𝓌𝑒𝓃 𝒢𝓇𝒶𝒹𝓎
“Friends are medicine for a wounded heart..."
xxxxxxxxxxx~ Unknown
xxxxxx|| Male || Alpha || —

xxx Hoskins gritted his teeth and decides what he was going to do next. This was going to get frustrating quick and he was in no mood to actually try to make this work. He wanted to torture Owen as he had done without having the new reporter get in his way. This was something that caused him great frustration. He would have to note that she be in restraints if she was going to be brought here again. He decided to act out in a different way now. Of course Owen was thruoughly in distress enough. They kept the water but ensures that both the shocks and the projector had stopped. They released blue into the area. Let’s see how this goes.

xxx I saw her enter the room tapping her claw and sniffing I try to verify her own safety. She saw me and barked a few times. She appeared to be curious and nervous. She remembers what happened last time.. I looked over at blue while hearing the words of dawn. They were mufflers but I could still hear them. Blue aloroached me once she seemed it to be safe. She sniffed the restraints before straightening up her neck. She was curious as well as confused. She wanted to know what was causing me such distress.thats when I saw the shift in her eyes. She saw that I smelled like blood. She eyed the wound on my cheek inching forward causing me to look away.

[lavender moon]

The amount of fear running through my veins sky-rocketed as a blue entered the area. I couldn’t help but worry. Sure, normally I would have full confidence in the bond between Owen and his raptor but I had little faith in the bond when Owen was bleeding and restrained. “Hoskins you’re going to get him killed.” I snapped out. Maybe that was what Hoskins wanted but I would not allow that to happen. What had made me proud of myself however was Hoskins clear aggravation. I didn’t need to hear or see Hoskins to know I had annoyed him. I had successfully gotten Owen to look at me and I was sure that was enough to make Hoskins angry. The fear clawed at my insides as I waited. What was Blue going to do? My mind tried to convince me that Blue would never hurt Owen but I was doubting myself. I paused. No, I couldn’t doubt myself. I needed to have faith in the alpha and beta’s bond. I waited, watching. Wanting nothing more than to save Owen and return home to Rex. However, that wasn’t a possibility at the moment. I had to wait for Hoskins to release Owen. Then everything would be okay. Until then, I had to watch and wait helplessly. This would all be over soon. I was sure Claire was blowing up my phone trying to figure out where I was. That meant Vic couldn’t keep us here forever. Claire would come after me if I didn’t return within a 12 hour time span. That meant Hoskins would either be caught or forced to release Owen and I. If I could stay strong until then, I’d have survived the worst night of my life. I could stay strong. All I needed was to put on a brave face and so I did. My demand still held strong though. ”You can’t keep this up forever. Claire will come searching for me sooner or later and you don’t want to be around when she finds us.” Threatening the man holding you captive, even if indirectly,probably wasn’t the best idea I’ve had. Still, I wasn’t thinking straight and I wanted Owen and Blue to be safe. Really, I was worried about Blue doing something she’d regret again. ”Just let us go. If you need to take your anger issues out on someone then take it out on me. Just let Owen be.”

[Spock and Kirk]

◗-----------𝒪𝓌𝑒𝓃 𝒢𝓇𝒶𝒹𝓎
“Friends are medicine for a wounded heart..."
xxxxxxxxxxx~ Unknown
xxxxxx|| Male || Alpha || —

xxx Charlie got a bad graver once. She was on deaths door and I spent every second with her. She never left the paddock but we had her muzzles and restrained so she wouldn’t attack me out of fear for her weak state. I put a damp cloth on her head to try to cool her down as well as staying by her side trying to comfort her. Blue snorted locking st the blood on my cheek before deciding what to do next. She tapped her claw a few times thoughtfully before picking up a mouthful of water and dumping it on my head. I smiled a bit looking into her amber eyes as she seemed to see if I was feeling better. [color=# 008000]”thank you blue”[/color] she chirped in response to hearing my croaky voice. She did the action again this time rubbing my head a little with her paw. I felt her sharp claws prick me a little but she was trying to imitate what I had done with Charlie when she was in distress... they really were social animals. Blue bumped me again with her head noticing I was feeling better.

xxx Hoskins was not in the mood to deal with all of this. He folded his arms and sighed heavily looking st both the velociraptor and the man interacting in the cell. He was fascinated by her actions. Despite the power in the large animal she was not lashing out in any way. She was cuddling with him almost trying to help him
With the wounds. Odd. “I may send you home and allow Owen to remain here. I still have some torture to attend too” he hissed standing up and ordering the men to remove blue from
The cell.

[lavender moon]

Hope surged in me as I watched Blue’s interactions with Mr.Grady. A smile returned to my face. Maybe everything would be okay. Maybe, just maybe, Owen would survive long enough that Hoskins would give up and release Owen. My thought returned to reality as I heard Hoskins voice. He was insane if he thought I was going him alone. In all truth, I’d walk up yo Claire and show her all of this. I’d show her the tapes and I would get to stand there knowing that I had done something right fit once. Still, as I fought with myself I realized it wasn’t safe to leave Owen here. Not alone. Maybe I could annoy Hoskins into letting Owen go. For a moment longer I thought. My next words could possibly be what harms Owen even more or saves him, or they could just be the difference in whether Hoskins sneers something cruel about Owen and I. I decided it was worth the risk to say. I had to stay with Owen. If I could figure out the exit points and memorize the I might be able to save Owen next time. “I’m not leaving without Mr.Grady, Hoskins. I suggest you let him go before someone finds us here. Before someone discovers what you’re really doing.” Okay, now I was being much too brave for my safety. I didn’t know when to stop though. Well, it was more like too brave for Owen’s safety. Either way, I don’t believe snapping at the man holding your... friend hostage is a good thing. I had to get my message across somehow though.

[Spock and Kirk]

◗-----------𝒪𝓌𝑒𝓃 𝒢𝓇𝒶𝒹𝓎
“Friends are medicine for a wounded heart..."
xxxxxxxxxxx~ Unknown
xxxxxx|| Male || Alpha || —

xxx Blue turned to the door where people began to enter, she hissed and lowered her body protecting me. I tried to open my mouth to talk to her and calm her down but of course they managed to get her unconcious with whatever kind of tranquilizer they had. I just didn't want them to hurt her. I tried to pull against the restraints to tell the workers to be careful with the raptor but of course they only hit me with the end of their rifle right in the temple causing me to yell out as well as feel dizzy for a split second.

xxxHe was not prepared to let either one of them go at this point. he then folded his arms and looked directly at Dawn. "Well, too bad sweetie. Im not letting him go. Now since you insist on staying with him Ill get you to watch personally what we do next to him. before of course we begin to erase his memories. I still have to decide if your's are worth taking." Hoskins was cold and not in the mood to really deal with her. He had endured enough sass for one day.

[lavender moon]

If he goal was to shut me up, he certainly had. Well, he really didn’t have to. Watching them hit Owen with the end of a rifle and him calling out in pain was enough to keep me quiet. The only reason this kept me quiet was the anger flowing through me. I was never one to act on anger so I always stayed quiet when I was mad. My normally bright blue eyes turned to icy daggers. They looked as though I was ready to throw the, a these evil people. When he said this about my memories it snapped me out. I ignored the sweetheart. That would only send another pulse of frustration through me and I didn’t need that. However, the memories brought me back here and out of my thoughts. Of course they were going to Earle my memory. They had too. I wouldn’t be able to live with myself if I knew something Owen didn’t concerning his health. I wouldn’t plead with Bic though. I couldn’t show any weakness. I had no weakness. I had to be strong now. ”And if I decide not to look?” I hoped they wouldn’t do anything to me if I decided not to look. I’d stay there by Owen’s side, or in his space, and I wouldn’t leave until he did but that didn’t mean I’d sit back and watch until it was over. I had no intention of watching such a cruel game. In my mind I hoped no one would. Still, the question was worth asking so I’d get somewhat of a warning.

[Spock and Kirk]

◗-----------𝒪𝓌𝑒𝓃 𝒢𝓇𝒶𝒹𝓎
“Friends are medicine for a wounded heart..."
xxxxxxxxxxx~ Unknown
xxxxxx|| Male || Alpha || —

xxx He turned to the main PA system and looked over at Dawn in the cell. He clearly knew what he was going to do if she refused to watch it for herself. "You will hear it, every single gasp for breath. Every single plead for us to let him go, to make the pain stop. Its honestly just as bad as watching it in person if you ask me." He said as though he were asking someone about the weather. He was oddly casual about this, despite the fact that they were arguing about the friend that he made in university being tortured right before his eyes. under his own orders. "Now, He does deserve this. Do I need to explain why?" Hoskins asked his voice still on the edge of playful and flat. It was strange, he enjoyed this game much more than anyone else did. He sent another shock through the water once they had managed to get Blue taken out and onto a gurney. They would return her to the paddock. The rest was for Hoskins's own pleasure.

[lavender moon]

✷~🎀 𝒟𝒶𝓌𝓃 𝐻𝒶𝓎𝑒𝓈 🎀~✷
"Take every chance. Drop every fear." ~Unknown

The fact that he had thought all of this out made me shiver. That was pure evil, but, as much as I hated to admit it, it was smart as well. That again just made my stomach flip and my insides squirm. I truly didn’t want to watch. It was too much for me. I didn’t want to see the pain in Owen’s eyes. The sounds were something I could cope with. Not that I wanted to hear them, but I was able to slightly function better and think about a way out of my problem if I couldn’t see the pain that I saw in David’s eyes before his finale breath.

It scared me. I didn’t want to have to relive that moment unless I was willing telling someone my story. But, that’s exactly what I was doing. The death had been much quicker but the pain and terrible sounds that went with it were all there. My attention briefly turned back to Hoskins.

I felt defeated but I wouldn’t let myself show it. Especially with my voice. My voice was usually confident no matter what I was saying. I guess you could say there was strength there. For a moment, I doubted I could have that same strength. After all, this wasn’t something I’ve had to deal with before. “No. No, I’d rather not listen to your reason for being so cruel. Whatever it is, I know for a fact it’s not a-” I paused when there was a shock. When there was that pain generating from Owen. “good one.” I finished. This was not a good position to be in. These men could take down raptors. Raptors. If that didn’t send chills down someone’s back I don’t know what would. With Owen it was a bond. It was a relationship built on trust and the raptors and Owen worked as a team. These men simply sent Blue into a deep slumber and took her out. That was absolutely terrifying. With everything going on around me, all the panic and pain, I let my guard down. It was impossible not to. I let a flicker of emotion flash across my eyes. Soon after I started to put that wall back up. I wouldn’t let Hoskins when. I could not let him win.

[Spock and Kirk]

◗-----------𝒪𝓌𝑒𝓃 𝒢𝓇𝒶𝒹𝓎
“Friends are medicine for a wounded heart..."
xxxxxxxxxxx~ Unknown
xxxxxx|| Male || Alpha || Dang, Hoskins be monologuing.

xxx I didn't want to listen to this. I am certain that he is either going to flat out lie about her or something or other. I just closed my eyes and tried to pretend that this wasn't happening. I still felt the shocks rushing through the water causing me to scream out in pain. However they did stop at one point or another so that Hoskins could share a story that I am certain he had wanted to tell for a very long time.

xxxHoskins cracked his knuckles and sat down before starting the story. "Lets start at the beginning shall we? Before I was born-" I paused for a second before I would continue monologuing to decide how I was going to phrase this. "My parents made an arrangement, for me to be married to the daughter of a family that they had taken under their wing during a time of hardship. A fair trade if you ask me. Both of us set up to me married with the eldest of my family which happened to be me. Keep this in mind as it becomes relevant later" He took another pause taking a sip from a glass of water that was sitting on the desk, he looked at Owen in distain. he hung his head with some kind of sorrow, almost like he knew what was going to be spoken of next.

xxxI spent the next four years trying to get into west point before i met grady as a first year in a zoology program. Of course he had already been accepted into the Naval academy and I figured that he would be perfect to write me a letter of recommendation along with a few professors” He looked down at Owen again as he formulated the remainder of the story. “Now, of course I didn't get in. Why do you ask? I was a perfectly good applicant. I was training every day and keeping up with my studies… Now, Grady had to do some digging and found out about the arranged marriage. This got me rejected from the school once again. They didn’t want someone with ties to a family.” His voice turned into a violent hiss. “I finally hear from my Fiancee a few months later to find that she as well had just graduated from the Naval Academy, strangely enough of course she managed to get in not knowing about it. The two of us got married when she graduated but she was sent into active duty right away , we did have a short honeymoon but it was nothing too extensive.”

xxx “A few years down the road Owen has long graduated and I planned on never hearing from him again. Of course I was very wrong. My wife, Naomi apparently wanted to file for a divorce. Why? Because she wanted to marry Grady. The same Owen Grady that I had known in university decided to once again turn on me. He stole my school from me and next he has to steal my wife from me as well. Of course the papers never went through. I refused. If I cannot have what I want from life, she can’t either. She also attempted to kill me in my sleep at one point so that maybe she could have a chance with Grady, of course that all failed. She's gone now for both of us. And Owen gets to pay for his sins with torture from yours truly” He finished stepping towards the glass where he could clearly see both Owen and Dawn. “Any questions class?”