Jessica comes over and sits down eyeing Little One with suspicion, "Did they make her part Labrador or something?" Jessica finally gets over her discomfort and asks me a question about Little One. Little One didn't quite know what Jessica asked but she knows it's insultive so she raises her head and shows off her sharp teeth.
"Easy baby, you just don't act like the raptors, Jessica is used to." I say gently to Little One and appease her with belly rubs.
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"It really is adorable watching you with Rexy and Little One…it, seeing the way you are with them almost makes me want to forgive you for being such an asshole the first time we met." Jessica suddenly says, making me turn to face her wearing a smirk on my face.
"I am sorry about that by the way, and I'm really glad you took my offer despite everything, I hope we can become great close friends someday." I say to Jessica and find it cute how she exaggeratedly rolls her eyes at me while tentatively extending her right hand towards Little One, Little One starts to lift her lips up as the hand approaches her snout a soft growl of warning vibrating in her chest.
"Shush you." I tell Little One gently and she shouts me a glare with her reptilian eye, it screams make me.
"No belly rubs for a week." I tell my big baby and that makes her push her snout against Jessica's hand, Jessica for her part lets out a small gasp of surprise and sheer happiness.
"You really are beautiful." Jess murmurs and I honestly can't tell if she's talking about me or Little One, but probably me…I think playfully as Little One relaxes into Jessica's hand.
"See, Jessica is nice if you're a big dinosaur." I tease and receive an agreeing chirp from Little One and a playful deeply offended noise from Jessica.
"You're such an ass." Jessica mutters with a laugh in her voice and a smile on her face.
"Yes, I know I have a nice ass, thank you for the compliment. Your ass is nice too." I joke back on instinct and mentally palm slap my forehead, 'You are an employer you can't be making jokes like that regardless of how true they are.' I mentally yell at myself but Jessica laughs while rolling her eyes at me in exasperation.
My walkie crackles to life, as it rests on the coffee table, "Sir, have you taken shelter, are you secure please respond?!" Jessica reaches over and grabs the walkie, "Commander Sarah this is Doctor Harding, the Dino cowboy is safe and secure, I repeat Dino Cowboy is secure, we have taken shelter in the "hidden bunker" I repeat we have taken shelter in the hidden bunker." Jessica says into the walkie, while putting special emphasis on the hidden bunker part of her reply, 'Huh, Dino Cowboy is my codename for the ACU, I didn't know that.'
"Acknowledged, Dino Doc, tell the boss this is gonna be a long one, the Hurricane is most likely going to hover between the islands for the next three to four days."
"Got it Commander, how do you put up with this guy? He keeps looking at my ass." Jessica asks and says into the radio and I can't help but feel uncomfortable as this might not be mine and Sarah's private channel.
"Between you and me, Doc. I wish the boss would look at my ass more." I hear Sarah say and definitely wasn't expecting that…she seemed like she was more into women, if I'm being honest.
"Oh…" is the surprised reply of Jessica.
"Ahh Hell, I gotta go, some dumbass just tried to leave the shelter, because he forgot his notes, ACU Command Over and Out."
'I wonder if it's Dad…probably, no it's him, he was studying brontosaurus habits.'
"I only talked about your ass once." I joke and Jessica let's out a pitiful sigh.
"I can see why your "girlfriend" avoids you all the time." Jessica says to me and it hits a nerve.
"No reason to be nasty, you can just say don't make jokes like that." I tell her simply and Jessica looks at me weirdly.
After that an awkwardness settles between Jessica and I, only broken by the over timer going off.
Little One knowing that means it's time for Papa to eat gets off my lap and surprisingly goes over to and lays down next to Jessica and rests her head in the woman's lap making her flinch, Little One uncaring and wanting to be petted pokes Jessica's stomach with her snout.
Jessica after a few seconds lets out a laugh, and starts petting Little One, I find myself entranced by the sight, 'I wish Lex and Little One could have this but Lex is terrified of getting within touching distance of Little One, she says she reminds her too much of the dilophosauruses that attacked her and Tim in the restaurant.
"What are you doing? The food's going to burn." Jessica says to me, snapping me out of my admiring state, I miss it as I get up off of the couch and walk into the kitchen but Jessica is smiling and Little One makes a happy click sound.
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Jessica and I end up spending a week together trapped in the shelter, the awkwardness after the joking that went wrong quickly melted away, and Jessica bond over our mutual love of the dinosaurs, she told me about the little quirks the different dinos have like how so and so likes carrots while another hates them but likes beets.
Watching her talk about the big animals seeing her genuine love for them, I felt myself falling for her just a little bit especially with the way she and Little One and Rexy have bonded over the past week.
And I started to feel like I was closer with her than I was with Alexis only after the second day into our isolation, nothing happens between other than a few passing touches and some looks that last a little too long.
Once outside of the Loft back in the real world, where I have a girlfriend and her mother as a…lover…sex friend? I'm not sure what to call, what Lisa and I are to one another.
I give Jessica a ride back to the visitor center on Rexy's back and enjoy the way the woman presses herself against my back and wraps her arms around me a little too much, for just friends.
As soon as we're off of Rexy's back Sarah Harding Malcolm's girlfriend and Jessica's sister grabs her arm and drags her away as they start having an intensely whispered conversation.
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Now with the knowledge of the "Hidden Bunker" Jessica travels with me between Nublar, Sorna and Jurassic Zoo, it's nice having a constant companion in my life besides my big girls.
Though it doesn't really help my relationship with Lex any and now Lisa is starting to notice the way, Jessica and I look at each other or touch one another nothing sexual or naughty but it's definitely more than an Employee and Employer or good friends should come into contact with one another.
Lisa is also pregnant, she enthusiastically pounced up and down on my lap a few too many times without protection and received a few too many creampies. Lex and I also went father in our physical relationship but I'm starting to feel like it's a little too late at least on my end.
But Lex surprised me earlier tonight in my office with asking me about how far Jessica and I have gone, as I didn't know we were putting off the already fucked vibes but I guess we are and have been for awhile now.
When I told her we hadn't Lex seemed confused, almost sad/disappointed that we hadn't but also happy too.
Honestly dealing with three women like this is more of a headache and a cause of blue balls than anything else.
And I find myself asking how do harem protags do it? Because I could really use some guidance, instead of just winging it and concentrating on them when I'm with them.
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I know this is feeling a bit rushed but I kinda want to fast-forward to where the next major plots I've thought up will start like, a certain divorced blonde's boyfriend cheaping out on going to Jurassic Park with his Girlfriend's son and instead hiring a boat to take him near one of the other island's where the events of Jurassic Park three will kind of take form mixed with a bit of Jurassic Park 2 plot.