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Jurassic Perks : The Last Word by postalroo

Jurassic Perks : The Last Word

postalroo

There was an awkward pause.

The feral animal stared into the digital camera, waiting for the word.

"And we're done!" The woman from HR said, releasing her finger from the button.

"Thanks!" His false smile turned to a genuine one. It had been a week since he was fired from his position at YAEC, and he'd not only been rehired, but given a raise. He looked to his boss, smiling. "I'm still surprised you're hiring me back after all this..."

"...The truth is we still need you," the boss said, "we're just glad you're okay and that there's no hard feelings. I pulled a lot of strings to get them to hire you back..."

It was a blatant lie. The boss was afraid of him, and was adamant on keeping to the policy of immediate termination a week ago. The choice was made in the researcher's favor to bring him back for several reasons:

1. It was discrimination. Racial, Species, and just everything else.
2. He turned himself into an extinct species. They couldn't hide him in a zoo, like the others.
3. He used their technology to do it. A big no-no, considering that what they had made was not legal to produce, and by their government's statement: "Simply did not exist".
4. He knew the formula that made him what he is. That is super valuable knowledge.
5. He used the formula and could somehow still talk afterwards. Who knows who he could tell these secrets to, or how he could blurt out points 1, 2, and 3 to the media and put YAEC into another legal battle and bankrupt the company in the process.

They had to play this cool. They had to play the raptor card and keep him in their pocket...

"Actually, the term is Deinonychus..."

"Excuse me?" The boss said in a sweat.

"You said 'raptor' over the phone..." the creature turned his jowls and sharp teeth to his employer, "...the term is Deinonychus." His beak turned to another smile. "It's okay. Jurassic Park is my favorite movie too..." The raptor let out a chuckle, his face turning a little red.

"Heh, heh... yeah... I understand." Hesitantly, his boss backed away, his face beet red, his heart racing. "Listen, I'm gonna go back to my cube... can you go back to your lab space and get started...?"

"Absolutely!" With a newly sized lab-coat and a raw chicken already waiting for him in the employee shared fridge, he was eager to start.

He felt elated. The others felt a bit tense.

I was inspired by seeing some fan art/TF works by skywalkergirl666 on FA, involving some lovely flesh colored raptor people, so I thought I'd throw my own interpretation into the mix.

And then I wrote another story all over it. Help... :S

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