Yes, some of you have read this story before. I posted it a year and a half ago (Can't believe it's been that long!) but I've noticed some mistakes and FanFiction allows me to put in page breaks now which is nice, so I'm editing and re-uploading it. Hope you all still enjoy it the second time around. (Or the first for those who hadn't read it before.)

There were four people that Connor Temple loved more than anyone else in the world, and one of them was a flying lizard named Rex.

The second person was Professor Nick Cutter. He'd been Connor's hero, but he hadn't been one of those heroes that used Connor's adoration for his personal benefit and ignored him the rest of the time. No, Nick had taken Connor under wing, shown him the tricks of the trade and become one of Connor's dearest friends. It hadn't been that long ago that Nick had been murdered by his own wife and Connor missed him dearly.

The third person was the cute blonde girl he lived with, Abigail Maitland (Abby for short). Connor considered Abby his best friend in the entire world. The lived together, worked together, and rarely ever fought. Okay, that wasn't quite true, they fought all the time, but it was mostly just playful bantering and a few empty threats from Abby when Connor did things like leaving his shoes in the refrigerator. (In his defence, it'd been a hot day and they were planning a lot of walking. He thought the chilling his shoes first would help, but Abby hadn't seen it that way when she'd found them.) Connor loved Abby more than anyone else on the entire planet, in fact, he was in love with her, but Abby had repeatedly warded off or avoided any moves that he had tried to make on her and Connor had eventually stopped making them. Abby just wanted to be friends and Connor wanted to remain living in her flat.

The fourth person was the ARC's newest recruit, Sarah Page. They'd met at a museum and Connor had found himself attracted to her spunky personality. She was a brainiac like himself, always wanting to learn something new, but her studies revolved more around codes and languages and ancient legends, whereas Connor preferred computers and other gadgets. Still, their work seemed to overlap quite often and they found themselves working side-by-side in the lab for hours each day. They both respected each other's vast knowledge and often consulted the other when they had a question. Sarah had comforted Connor on multiple occasions after Nick's death, and she was the only one he'd trusted to help him with the last piece of work that Nick had assigned him to: decoding an artefact. The pair had quickly become good friends, almost like playful siblings, of which Sarah most decidedly took on the role of the elder.

It was Sarah that was at his side just now. Connor was fiddling with his laptop and Sarah was polishing the artefact. Suddenly, she looked up, "Are you ever going to ask Abby out?"

Connor shrugged, "No, probably not. She just wants to be friends." It was their first time discussing it, but Connor didn't mind sharing his secret with Sarah.

"That's not what she told me."

Connor froze for a moment and then turned towards Sarah. "Wait, what? What did she say to you?" He felt excited butterflies flutter about his stomach and did his best to repress them until he got the full story out of his newest friend.

"Connor, I've seen you two together, Abby is totally into you. I asked her what she'd do if you asked her out and she told me she'd probably accept, that's all."

"Really? That's news to me. I have asked her out before, she always said no."

"Odd. When was that?"

"Couple years ago," Connor admitted.

"Things change, Con. Why don't you try again?"

"I don't know," he hesitated. "What if she didn't mean that? I don't want to make things awkward between us you know; it's not like I can just not see her again if she refuses. We live together, for Pete's sake."

Sarah looked up at him, startled; they'd had a lot of chats together, but somehow that had never come up before.

"You- you what?" she sputtered.

Connor laughed, "I moved in with Abby over two and half years ago."

"Wow. I mean, I knew you two were close, but I didn't know that. And nothing's ever happened between you two in all that time? I mean, you both obviously fancy each other and in the close proximity…"

"She kissed my cheek once," Connor admitted. "Twice if you count the time I blackmailed her into it."

Sarah burst out laughing, "Wooo! Go Connor! You sure you aren't moving a little quickly there?"

Connor grabbed the rag from her hand and flicked it across the top of her head playfully, but he also made up his mind to figure out how Abby really felt, asap.