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Jurassic Park - fic rec
Mar. 19th, 2022 08:05 pmTitle: Patterns Repeating by alyse
Fandom: Jurassic Park, slight mention of Jurassic World
Character/Pairing: Alan Grant, Billy Brennan
Alan Grant/Billy Brennan
Word Count: 1420
Summary: "It's been years since Isla Sorna, but people never learn."
Why I Rec This Fic: Love to see their reaction to Jurassic World, and how established and comfortable they are with eachother.
"I can’t believe they’re doing it again."
The corner of Billy’s mouth turns up in a mirthless smile. "I can," he says. "Money talks, sanity walks."
Alan sneaks a glance at him, trying to read the weather of Billy's mood in his face. His eyes linger for a moment on the silvery scars winding around Billy's neck and disappearing into his partner's collar, but Billy doesn't call him on it.
He's not stupid enough to think it's because Billy hasn't noticed.
"Are you okay?" he asks, because in spite of his outrage, his disbelief and his fury at the stupidity of those behind the new park, that is the most important question.
It's the only question. It's just a pity Alan took so long to realise it.
Title: While All the World Is Turning to Noise by Ruuger for avocadomoon
Fandom: Jurassic Park, slight mention of Jurassic World
Character/Pairing: Alan Grant, Billy Brennan
Alan Grant/Billy Brennan
Word Count: 1501
Summary: "The first thing that Alan thinks of when he hears the news that the Jurassic World has met with the same fate as the original Jurassic Park is Billy."
Why I Rec This Fic: Love to see their reaction to Jurassic World.
When he sees the news reports that a herd of dinosaurs have been set free in Northern California, the first thing he thinks about is Billy.
His phone vibrates, and he struggles for a moment to get the touch screen to accept his lock code before he manages to open and read the message that has just arrived from Ellie.
Trying to reach Mark to see if State Department has more info. I'll call you as soon as I can.
He tries to answer it - Charlie had shown him how to use his new phone the last time he'd visited Ellie - but only manages to delete the message and open some social media application that he hadn't even known he had on his phone.
Ian's message, which follows a minute later is just one word in capital letters:
CHAOS!
By the end of the night he's also gotten calls from Lex and Tim and Eric Kirby, and been drafted against his will by Ellie into a taskforce to work out a proposition for Homeland Security on how to handle the crisis.
When he goes to bed that night, he wishes he still had Billy's number. Because there are so many questions he'd like to ask.
"Did you hear?"
"Are you safe?"
And, most importantly:
sorry, I was wrong. Please can we start all over again?"
Title: The Difference Between Imagining and Seeing by Jedi Buttercup (jedibuttercup) for avocadomoon
Fandom: Jurassic Park
Character/Pairing: Alan Grant, Billy Brennan
Alan Grant/Billy Brennan
Word Count: 1600
Summary: "When Alan had told Billy before their flight to Isla Sorna that the bones would still be there when they got back, he hadn't envisioned quite so much time passing before they met up again at the dig."
The difference between imagining and seeing, he remembered telling Eric. To be able to touch.
Maybe Alan had a little bit of the astronaut in him after all, from the way his own pulse sped up in response. He'd kicked a Pteranodon in the face, escaped unscathed after looking up at the underside of a giant theropod's foot, and actually exchanged verbal communication, however rudimentary, with a velociraptor; what was left for Alan to be afraid of?
Nothing that having Billy in his life wouldn't solve.
Title: Chaos Theory by thedevilchicken for Gigi_Sinclair
Fandom: Jurassic Park
Character/Pairing: Alan Grant, Billy Brennan
Alan Grant/Billy Brennan
Word Count: 1645
Summary: "Four years on, Alan and Billy receive an unwanted gift."
Why I Rec This Fic: My favorite Jurassic Park (II) fics seem to be, post-movie very established relationship musing.
There's an awful picture of the author on the back cover, black and white, probably because he thinks it looks classier. He hasn't changed at all, in the picture or at all – if he had, he wouldn't have sent the damn book in the first place. But apparently Ian Malcolm knows no shame, or he's under the mistaken impression that they share a bond because of Isla Nublar, because here the book is. He doesn't need to read it, any of it, to know he doesn't want to read it, how it's full of chaos this and chaos that because everything he writes always is. Alan always gets around to reading them sooner or later and each time he's reminded that the two of them have only one thing in common: they never want to go back to Jurassic Park.
Maybe he'll read it later, he thinks as he stuffs it into his bag. Maybe he'll let Billy read it first so he can give him the highlights – after Ian's unexpected visit to their corner of the world last spring, Billy even does a pretty good impression. But the whole thing, from the moment he tore open the wrapping this morning before his first class and right up to this second, just reminds him of the park. He can feel the ground tremble with the weight of the T-Rex, he can smell the triceratops, hear the raptors scream. He knows he'll never forget. He doubts that Billy will, either.
Title: Surely to the Sea by inoubliable
Fandom: Jurassic Park
Character/Pairing: Alan Grant,
Alan Grant/Billy Brennan, Alan Grant/Ellie Sattler
Word Count: 1900
Summary: "A timeline of Alan Grant's life following the events on Isla Nublar, leading to the events on Isla Sorna.“ „It's 1993, and Alan Grant has almost been eaten by a Tyrannosaurus Rex. Twice."
He doesn’t realize he’s holding Billy’s hand until Ellie sits beside him. He doesn’t pull his hand away.
“He’s going to be okay,” Ellie tells him, and he adores her more than ever for making it sound like a fact, not a question. Ellie is an eternal optimist, but she’s not in the business of false hope.
“Yeah,” Alan says, because it’s all he can think of.
“You’re going to be okay,” Ellie tells him. She’s not looking at him when he glances at her, but he gets the feeling she doesn’t need to. No one ever understood him like Ellie.
