The life and lies of Matthew Anderson…

Disclaimer: I don't own primeval. But I hope you like this story.

It will be set here and there in the series and also after series 5. Features Matt's Life, something's I made up also. First few chapters will feature stuff covered in the show then it will go on from the end of 5.6. it will be kinda a mix of diary/story telling/actually happening mode J hope you like…

Chapter 1:

It was a terrible place and a terrible time in the world's future. It was 2112, into the future from now. It was barely liveable. This is why the human population was down so low. Gideon Anderson stood rocking a newly born baby. It was not often that a baby was born in such extreme condition. But here was the proof that it was possible. Gideon's wife, Lily was lying in bed asleep. She was exhausted after a complicated birth; mind you everything in this time was complicated. Nothing was ever normal here. But this was the world that Mankind created. This was the world that Gideon's son Matthew Luke Anderson would hopefully one day save.

It would have been terrible for Matt to have grown up in this world but it was their ancestors fault. It was dreadful. But it was now required that every child born go back in time to try and save the world. They left at age 20 and would return if the wanted to. They all went back to different time periods too. So far, after 3 years at work they had not found the right time period or something had gone wrong. But Matt was different. He wasn't like all the others that went back to the past to put things right because Lily came from the past. He was different to the others and he would succeed at his mission. Gideon had a good feeling about it.

… 8 years later

It was a sad day for the Andersons, it was not often that humans went above the surface but occasionally it was necessary as you needed to move bunk houses. This time it had proved to be fatal. When Matt and his parents were moving a group of the predators came along. They all started to run, Gideon shot at a few of them but they were just too fast. They grabbed Lily from behind and dragged her off. Gideon turned around and kept shooting at them while Matt ran for the cover of the bunker.

His father came in a few minutes later with his mother cradled in his arms; she was bloody and had huge deep gashes across her chest. Matt's fathers face was tear stained as he placed Lily gently on the ground. It was clear that she had died. Matt, ran over to his mother and hugged her before his dad said 'Matt, let's go through an anomaly. Somewhere anywhere would be better than here.'

…2011, 3 weeks after the disappearance of Danny, Abby and Connor.

'So you're Matthew Anderson.' James Lester said. He really was a little bit of an aristocrat but Matt just had to deal with it. This was the ARC; he needed to fix the future so that they things that attacked his mother would not harm anyone else anymore. The memory of his mother's bloodied body still haunted him sometimes in his dream. He was going to fix it for her.

'Yes.' Was all he said in reply. He knew everything there was to know about the ARC and if he could be hired as the team leader it would be a perfect part in his investigations. His father, now an old man had told him that this was where he needed to be. This is how he could change the future.

'You seem to know a lot about the anomalies then.' Lester said, and you have military background so it seems only fair that we give you the position of Team Leader.

'Thank you' was all that he said in reply.

As the days, weeks and months moved quickly nothing appeared to happen. The usual day to day routines, Deal with the anomalies, try to investigate about who changed the future and lastly if not most importantly try not to argue with the Head solider Becker more than once a day. It seemed that they could never agree on anything and that they were constantly arguing.

Then there was Philip Burton. He was an annoying overly smart pig-headed man and Matt did not trust him in the slightest. He was supposed to be funding the Anomaly Research Centre, that's all but he seemed to have be becoming more and more involved as the days went by, learning little snippets of information that don't mean much individually but collectively meant a lot. Also he paid way to much attention to the little things that people did. His judgemental eye always seemed to be spying on you waiting to see if would make a mistake and then in that pompous voice he would say 'I thought that would not work this is how I…' with extra stress on the I because he was so great far better than everyone else at the ARC.

Things like this started to carry on for a while and Abby and Connor returned from the Cretaceous. He was suspicious of them for a while. Connor seemed to idolise Burton but then as he got to know them both he learnt that neither of them had that idea in mind. Connor respected Cutter and thought of him like a father and from what he could learn from Abby who he made a fast friendship with Cutter felt the same way about Connor. They both seemed like really nice people. Becker changed when they came back. It was an incredible change to witness. They were all friends and it was good to finally see Becker happy.

Then one day we came across the anomaly in the theatre. That was the day that Emily temporarily joined the team. She was the best thing to happen in my life for a long time.

Hope you like it…please tell me what you think…

May your gateways remain ever open! musicgirl97