Title: Getting back home

Author: Reni7681

Characters/Pairing: Connor/Abby

Rating: PG

Disclaimer: Primeval and it's characters belong to Impossible Pictures, no copyright infringement is intended.

AN: This is my first Fic so please, if there is anything you want to tell me, just leave a comment :D

Thanks to wilemina_29 for betaing *hugs* and thanks to my friend Callace, for looking over my attempts of writing LOL

Lester was in his office again and Danny had gone off to look for Jenny. I was in the lounge with Sarah, she was making tea to warm us up.

When she sat down, she sighed "What a day! I could easily live without almost losing my friends by freezing to death!"

I looked up and smiled "Yeah, I thought we lost her! It's a wonder she's okay after something like that! It's sad that she's leaving, but I understand. She almost died here! Four months ago, I would have said that the ARC was our save haven you know? Where nothing can happen to us, but we've been doomed here since the beginning! First it was Leek, and he could have killed us all so easily. Do you know that he brought a future predator in here? AND a bomb?"

"He did? How did you manage?"

I almost had to smile at the memory now.

"Well, Lester dealt with the predator, he was the only one in here at the time; Leek wanted to kill Lester. Can you believe that Lester actually listened to me? I told him that a Mammoth would sense a predator and fight them and Lester let out the mammoth! You should ask Connor, he has some footage from the surveillance cameras on his laptop."

Sarah looked at me and asked "And the Bomb?"

"Had to do with the Predator actually, but Cutter saw it and he and Connor defused it. Just at the last second!"

At the thought of Cutter I felt sad. He'd been gone for almost one month now, four weeks, and it hurt.

Sarah patted my hand and sighed again. "Well, you can never be safe around here, can you? Not in our line of work."

I shook my head, and took a sip of my tea.

I smiled at her and said "At least Jenny will be safe now. I wonder what she will be doing now. If she can just go back to a normal job with knowing what she knows."

"Maybe she'll come back some day. But now, it's just us two against the boys!" Sarah smirked, just like she did the day she told Connor that he was cursed.

I laughed "Yeah! Jenny had them under control. Do you think we can call her when the boys are getting out of line?"

Sarah almost spat out some tea and laughed too. "That would only work with Connor. Danny never listened to her, and Becker ... well, he only listens to Lester, and then not very well!"

I looked her in the eyes and smiled. "He listens to you! I think he likes you!"I whispered the last part and Sarah blushed and looked down.

When she looked me in the eyes again, she came closer and asked "Really? do you think?"

I got up and sat down right beside her so that we could talk better, I smiled at her and whispered "Yeah, he looks at you all the time when he thinks you are not looking."

Sarah looked confused "Why didn't I notice anything?"

I giggled "Sarah, I noticed, and that is better than you noticing! What do you think about throwing a party? ... a welcome party for Danny or a good bye party for Jenny ... or better, both! That would give us a reason to see Jenny again, and you and Becker ... by the way, does he have a first name? ... anyway, it would give you time to talk!"

"You're a genius Abby! Where and when and what do we need?" She took out a notebook, to write down some things.

I thought about it carefully. "What about my flat? My brother's gone to some music festival with his mates this weekend, so we have two days to organize it."

Sarah looked up at me "Your Brother? What does your Brother have to do with it?"

I looked at her. "He's staying at my place for a bit but because he's away with some friends right now, we can have the party at my flat."

"And Connor?"

Now it was my turn to look at her, confused. "What about him? He's staying with a friend for the time being."

"Abby, can I ask you something?"

"Sure, shoot!"

"You've been living with Connor for how long?"

I smiled "About two years."

I liked having him around me, it felt like home, a feeling I never had while living with my family. That was why I moved away from them. Now my brother was in town, and although he was the only member of my family I could stand, it felt weird having him in the flat. He was like an intruder, never doing any housework, always leaving at weird times. Connor always made breakfast on Sundays and we sat down and talked about what we wanted to do on our day off. Sometimes we went to Camden Market, sometimes we went to do the tourist things and sometimes we just got some movies and had a day in, but always together. Sunday was our day, and it would be Sunday in just 3 days. I wondered if we would still get together to do something.

"Abby? Abby, have you heard what I asked?" Sarah looked at me, and I blushed and giggled. "Ahm ... what was that? I think I spaced out for a bit"

She sighed and asked again. "How many of Connor's friends have you met in the past two years? Or better, how many of your friends have you seen in the last two years? Do you still have contact with any of them?"

I wondered where she was going with that and thought about it. I hadn't met any of Connors friends besides Tom and Duncan. Tom was dead and Duncan ... I hadn't even heard of him for some time, Connor had some photos of him and them together in the old flat, but since we moved he hadn't put them up anywhere. And my own friends ... well, I hadn't time to meet up with them ...

I looked at Sarah as I got it.

"He isn't staying with a friend, is he?"

She shook her head. "I think he's staying here. He was here this morning when I got to work, and he was here when I was going home yesterday. And Sid and Nancy are here too!"

I was shocked that I hadn't noticed.

I was so scared that my brother would notice how much I liked Connor and that he would tell my Step-dad.

Sarah must have seen that I was shocked and she took my hand. "Abby, he can crash on my couch for a bit. It's not much, but it would be better than here."

I shook my head. "No, thanks, but no. I'll ask him to come back home. I'm so stupid! How could I not think of all that myself? Why didn't he say anything?"

Well, I think I knew why he didn't. He did what I asked. Again.

Sarah stood up and smiled. "Okay, we have to organize things for the party. Who do you want to invite?"

"Well, Jenny and Danny, Becker, you , Connor and me. That should be enough. We have to get some food. We could watch a movie."

"Yeah, you know that tomorrow is Friday the 13th?" She smiled.

I smiled too. "Yeah, so we could watch horror movies, get Pizza and sit down together! That sounds nice."

"But nothing with fungus Monsters and nothing cold in it! We don't want to bring back unpleasant memories, for Jenny or Connor! After today, I think they won't want to look into a freezer for some time."

Wait, Jenny ... yeah, I could understand, but Connor? Sure he was shocked to see Jenny almost freeze to death, but he didn't seem to be that effected by it once Jenny was okay again.

"Why Connor?" I looked at Sarah and she looked back at me, like a deer in the headlights. "Ahm ... Abby, I thought you knew ... he went to get Sid out of the lab with the Fungus in it while you where out and he ... well, long story short, we had to freeze the Fungus in the lab ... Connor was still in the lab. For almost five minutes he was in there and it was under -30°. He almost died too today."

My heart started beating faster at that thought. "That's how you knew that burning the Fungus wouldn't help ... " I murmured.

I snapped out of it and looked at Sarah again. "Okay, first things first! I'll go look for Connor and tell him to come back home. Then I'll meet up with you again so that we can go shopping for the party, Okay? We can set everything up tonight, so that we just have to go over to the flat tomorrow after work."

"Sounds good to me! I'll be at my desk, just come over there after you're done."

I left the lounge and went to look for Connor.

When I came down the main corridor, I saw Lester stopping at the fitness area on his way out.

As I got nearer I heard him talking to someone. "Are you living here?" He asked.

I smiled when I saw Connor standing there in his blue plaid Boxers and red socks and answered for him. "No, we just had a problem with the hot water boiler at home, but it is taken care of. We can go home now, so come on Conn!"

Conner looked at me, smiled and mouthed a 'thank you', while Lester just glared at me, I smiled at Lester and asked "What? it was just one night! Don't worry, we're going home now!"

"Okay, but don't let it happen again!"

"Alright Sir!" Connor said.

Lester was on his way out when I looked at Connor again.

He still stood there with his cup in his hand. "We're going home Connor, you have to come back!"

"But your brother...? I'll just ... well, I'll ask Becker if I can stay with him. Don't worry about me."

Okay, this wasn't going well, he wasn't getting the hint. He knew I'd figured out that he wasn't staying with a friend. The only way I knew I could get him back him for sure was to tell him of my feelings. Well, some of them. I knew that I had deep feelings for him, but I couldn't tell him, that might make him leave me.

"Please Conn, you have to come back. It isn't home without you there. Jack can sleep on the sofa, or you can sleep in my room and I'll sleep on the couch, I'll figure something out but please you have to come back! I miss you!"

His eyes were wide, and after a few seconds he smiled his dimply smile, the one that always made me smile in return, and said "I could sleep in you room? With you in it too?"

I giggled "That was the only thing you heard?"

I shook my head and helped him to get his clothes into his duffle bag.