Firstly I'd like to explain and apologize. You may have already seen the first couple of chapters of this as they are on my old account but I forgot my email address and password to that one so I had to create another account, I'm very sorry. This is the one all the updates of chapters will be posted so forget the other one even exists. If you have already read the first 3 chapters skip to chapter 4 where you would have left off. Thank you.

The day after the Gorgonopsid

Abby sat in the locker room deep in thought. *What was that shining ball of light? Why was it there and what made the creatures want to go through it?* She wondered. One of her bleach blonde hairs had fallen out of place and tickled the end of her nose snapping her out of her trance.

'Did you sleep alright last night?' A voice chirped behind her making her startle.

She turned around to see who it was. It was Connor. He looked directed at her with a sympathizing smile on his face.

'Better than I thought, you?' She replied whilst putting that out of place hair back where it was meant to be.

'Not the best night sleep I've ever had...but it's not everyday you see a real life dinosaur!' He chuckled to himself.

Abby looked at him and gave him an almost silent smile. Nick, Stephen and Claudia entered the room making the eye contact between Abby and Connor break and focus on Nick.

'Right, the DNA samples from the suspected Gorgonopsid have arrived back from the lab and it has confirmed our suspicions. This creature did indeed come from the anomaly that lead into the past.' Nick explained.

'So what happens now?' Both Stephen and Claudia asked in unison.

'Now...Now we have to find out what this force is, what's causing it and how to control it with out it getting out into the public.' Nick explained with his eyes lit up in wonder.

'But Cutter, that's going to be a bit hard, keeping it away from the public? It's not like you can go up to the dinosaurs and politely ask them to stay hidden?' Connor stared at Nick blankly with a slight hint of confusion.

As Nick observed the room he noticed it was just Connor looking at him with a blank expression.

'It's impossible...' Stephen muttered with his face in his palm.

'I never said it was going to be easy, I'll think of something...but if you don't want to be apart of this, now is your time to say.'

'I'm in.' Abby said first.

'Me too.' Connor added.

'I'd be stupid to say no.' Stephen followed

'I suppose I could give it a try' Claudia sighed whilst twiddling her reddish-brown hair around her index finger.

'Good' Cutter gave a quick, approving smile before exiting the room.

Stephen followed him out the room, shutting the door behind him. He grabbed Cutters arm causing him to stop and look back. Nick could see a certain amount of concern on his face.

'What about Helen?' Stephen asked sternly.

'Helen's gone. Probably eaten. She would have been easy prey back then. She's gone. Dead, just like Indie...' Nick choked slightly whilst saying this. The horrifying memory of being told his 9 year old daughter is dead still haunts him 8 years on. He completely dismissed the sighting of Helen as him being over tired and just seeing things. The then stormed of to his office leaving Stephen standing there.

Claudia, Abby and Connor listened to their conversation carefully through the wall.

'Who's Indie?' Abby asked biting her two lips together as Stephen entered the room.

' We haven't been told about her? Where did she go? With Helen?' Claudia questioned.

'It's like crime watch in here!' Connor chuckled to himself, earning him a stern glare from everyone in the room.

Stephen looked up to the ceiling then back down to the others who were looking at him attentively.

'Indie...Indie was Nick and Helen's only daughter,she went with Helen on the day she went missing and her body was found in the forest a couple of days later...ripped to shreds... apparently the body wasn't even recognizable. The only way they could tell who it was, was by taking a sample of blood and testing the DNA. Unfortunately it came back as hers. At the time they couldn't under stand what had been done to her to leave her body in such a mess but now... now we have a good idea on what it was' Stephen said trying not to show the pain he felt inside.

They all stared at him with mournful looks.

'How old was she?' Abby asked with a saddened look on her face.

'Nine...' He answered

The room fell silent.

Later that day

Nick sat at his desk in a trance, head in his arms, sprawled across the desk. All he could see was distant memories of his wife, Helen and his daughter, Indie. He remembers the Christmas before the event happened. He remembers suddenly being woken to Indie's smiling, bright face. Looking down at him. Her big brown eyes sparkling with her long, mousey brown, wavy hair almost touching his face. He then remembers taking her down stairs early to sneakily open one small present of her choice before Helen woke. His phone vibrated on the desk in front of him, he lifted his head from his arms and reached out to answer it. It was Lester.

'What do you want?' Nick answered with no emotion in his voice what so ever.

' A simple hello would have been nice...' Lester stated sarcastically, he continued...' Well I was actually phoning to tell you we have another creature sighting for you to investigate. Apparently it was last seen about an hour ago on the sand dunes on a beach near a small village, Perran Porth? Anyway it's in Cornwall.'

'What kind of creature are we looking at?' Nick asked

'Oh I don't know, probably some kind of home sick dinosaur. Now sort it out. Mean while I have to try to find somewhere to dispose of a creature that was meant to have died millions of years ago...'

Nick rolled his eyes as he hung up the phone. Picking up a photo of his lost family and staring at it for a brief minute before putting back in a drawer then getting up to inform the others of the new creature.

Location of the sighting...

As they pulled up Abby and Stephen went around to prepare the various tranquilizers and ammunition whilst Connor followed closely behind trying to get involved but failing to do so.

Nick walked about 10 meters from the car and stared out to the horizon with no expression.

'What was she like? Indie?' a voice spoke softly behind him.

He turned around. It was Claudia. She was standing about a meter or two away from him looking at him directly in the eye with not much expression on her face either. Nick smiled and turned back round.

'Well, she had big brown eyes and long wavy, mousey brown hair that had natural blonde highlights. She looked a lot like Helen but her face shape and eye shape was more similar to mine. She had Helen's skin tone, nose, mouth and slight figure. She was always smiling, nothing would put her down...not your usual bratty child. He said with his smile withering from his face.

'I'm sorry for your losses, she sounded like a lovely girl' Claudia spoke looking down to the floor.

Nick remained silent and just kept staring out to the horizon.

'We ready to go?' Stephen asked as he walked up to Nick and nudged his shoulder.

Nick nodded. 'Just look for any fresh tracks , if Stephen, Abby and Connor go together and Claudia with me, we are going into the village just to hear what rumors are being spread about. If you find anything contact me. He explained whilst handing each of them a hand-held radio control. The team then separated and went there separate ways.

A few hours later-

'I'm sure there is nothing here, we've been here for hours... Surely if a dinosaur was here we would of seen it by now... I mean come on it's not like there is loads of hiding places up here is it?' Connor complained.

Abby rolled her eyes and sighed in disapproval.

'But we have to be sure, it's to dangerous just to be left with out a thorough check' Stephen explained.

Stephen looked up. Something grabbed his attention on the opposite dune.

'Stephen, what is it?' Abby asked nervously.

'Tracks, I think it's tracks. Over there.' He replied pointing at the dune. The trio then headed toward the suspected tracks.

Abby knelt besides one of the rather large foot prints. Staring at it, her eyes squinted as her thoughts deepened as to what could have caused them. Stephen and Connor looked down over her shoulder.

'Well it definitely isn't a sea gully that made these tracks, Connor go and check your laptop and try to identify this?' Stephen said crouching down besides Abby.

Connor studied his screen in detail.

'Well, I can defiantly tell you it's not our pal the Gorgonopsid neither is it the Scutosaurus, it's got to be something else?' Connor confirmed.

'Then what is it?' Stephen asked looking anxious. The Gorgonopsid was bad enough. *What if this time it's something worse* he wondered.

Connor resumed on his laptop searching before stopping and staring at the screen for a brief few minutes and then looking up.

'Guys! I think I've found our prime suspect...' Connor announced.

Both Abby and Stephen gathered around Connor and his laptop to see what he had come up with.

'Baryonyx, can grow to 32 feet long, 8 foot tall and is carnivorous but mainly eats fish. They are from the early Cretaceous period...' Connor added.

Abby looked at him and gulped.

'If it eats fish it's going to be near the nearest source of water-' Abby started before she was interrupted.

'-The beach!...Right I'm calling Cutter to get some sort of ammunition and get Claudia to stop access to the beach...What time is it?' Stephen carried on with Abby's speech.

Abby looked at her watch 'It's twenty five to six?'

Stephen gave and small smile of relief.

'Most people would have left the beach by now, apart from the odd dog walker it should be pretty quiet down there, hopefully beasty down there won't make to much of an appearance.' He said whilst grabbing his mobile.

Abby sat at the top of the dune and stared out to the sea. Connor came over and sat beside her.

'So peaceful, yet so many people are unaware of what's lurking around the corner, makes you how vulnerable we actually are...' She said not taking her eyes off the sea.

Connor stared at her emotionless face for a few seconds before joining her in looking out at sea.

Stephen interrupted the silence. 'Cutter and Claudia are on their way, the beach has been closed until this has been dealt with.'

Both Connor and Abby looked around at Stephen and nodded before getting up.

Nick and Claudia arrive-

As soon as the car arrived Abby and Stephen started unpacking guns

'Can I have a gun?' Connor asked with a hopeful look on his face.

'No!' Both Stephen and Abby replied.

Connors face dropped slightly.

'Why not, you lot get one?' Connor asked.

Stephen rolled his eyes and looked directly at him.

'Do you know how to use a gun?' He asked bluntly.

'Not exactly...but how hard can it be? Aim, pull the trigger and bang!' Connor gave a hopeful smile.

Stephen shook his head and walked off with Abby. Connor excitement disappeared.

'Right, we need to search the beach from top to bottom, you ready?' Nick asked with a slight smirk on his face. The team headed away from the dunes and onto the beach.

After a while of searching

'It's gone back...' Claudia mumbled to herself.

'Since when was anything as simple as that?' Nick choked.

Claudia's eyes widened, she didn't think what she mumbled would have been heard.

'Well, we've searched just about everywhere, in which a dinosaur could fit? And nothing?' She replied.

'She's right, it's not here. If a Baryonyx was here we would have at least heard it don't you think? Abby piped up.

'Alright, I've just got this feeling of doubt.' Nick replied.

'Look let me look somewhere?' Stephen asked.

'I know where you want to look and it won't be in there, I already said.' Nick replied.

'Just give me five? It's not going to hurt?' Stephen asked.

Before Nick had a chance to reply Stephen had already started jogging over to where he wanted to look.

'Stephen!' Nick called. He rolled his eyes to the fact he was completely ignored.

'Come on...' Nick sighed to the rest of them before walking over to Stephen was.

It was a small cave on the side of the cliff. The entrance was quite narrow and water of the various streams flowed into it. Stephen went in.

'He's wasting time...' Nick said to himself out loud.

'If it satisfies him then just let him go in and search.' Claudia replied knowingly that his comment wasn't aim at anyone in particular.

'I am.' Nick replied bluntly.

The team went silent for a couple of minutes before it was broken by Stephen yelling.

'Get out the way! Move away from the entrance! Move!' He yelled.

'Why?' Nick questioned.

'Just do it!' He yelled back.

Nick cautiously moved out of the way before Stephen sprinted through followed by an agitated Baryonyx.

'Stephen!' They all yelled.

'I'm going through the anomaly! I'm gonna get it back through!' He yelled back.

Nicks eye's widened as he gulped. He looked back at the other before tuning and chasing after Stephen. By the time he reached the anomaly Stephen had already gone through. He stood staring at the big rip in time.

'Don't you even think about going through that.' Claudia puffed as she caught up with him.

'I have to.' He replied.

'One person dead is better than two, Cutter!' Claudia exclaimed.

'We don't know if he is dead. We need to know, Claudia! We can't just leave him there without knowing for sure...' Nick answered back.

' Give him an hour. If he is not back through by then, then you can go through.' Claudia demanded.

'Cutter, what about your radio transmitter? Can't you contact him through it?' Connor asked.

Nick took the transmitter that was attached to his belt and looked at it before trying to contact Stephen.

Other side of anomaly

'Stephen?' Cutter asked through the transmitter.

'I'm fine, I'm going to stick around here for a bit longer, just to make sure it doesn't come back through.' Stephen replied

'You've got an hour, if you're not back then, I'm coming through along with some back up.' Nick warned.

Nick put his transmitter in his back pocket and glanced around. He was on a beach just like the one on the other side of the anomaly only this one was smaller as a jungle of trees crept onto it. The air was very warm and sticky unlike the fresh air on the other side. Stephen could sense he was being watched almost straight away. He couldn't actually see anything that was watching him but he could definitely sense he wasn't on this beach by himself. He loaded his gun quickly and aimed it at the group of trees that stood a few meters in front of him. As he went to pull the trigger to hopefully scare the creature of, he stopped. He tensed as he could feel what ever was watching him was now watching at a far closer distance. He could hear it moving and shuffling behind him. He froze and remained still for a brief few seconds before attempting to turn around quickly and shoot. As he went to do this something large hit him over the head and sent him to the floor. He looked up, his vision blurred. He could just make out a humanoid figure standing above him.

'Helen?' He quietly choked before he completely blacked out.

Stephen steadily opened his eyes, he sat up whilst trying to bring back the focus in his eyes. He looked around. It wasn't the beach where he could last remember being. He was surrounded by tree's and it looked as if he was in some kind of small tribal camp. There was a small log fire and a small poorly built mud hut. As he looked at the hut a girl emerged from it.

'Stephen!' The girl beamed at him.

Stephen stared at her shocked and confused. *Who the hell is she and how on Earth does she know my name?* Were just a few of many questions that passed his mind at that moment. The girl stood at about 5 foot 6 , she had long, wavy, mousey brown hair that reached to the base of her back and big brown eyes. She looked to be in her late teens. She wore a throw of various lizard skins that acted as a poorly fitting dress. Stephen went to grab his gun but then realized it was no longer by his side. He stood up and stared at the girl dead in the eye. She bit her bottom lip and cautiously took a step back away from him.

'Who are you?' He asked her in a threatening way.

' Do you not recognize me?' She asked as her face dropped and her voice lowered.

Stephen looked at her up and down and shook his head.

'Stephen, it's me? Indie...I know you're probably shocked and don't believe me but-' She started before she was interrupted

'You're right, I don't believe you. Indie was found 8 years ago... dead. Who are you?' He repeated.

'Stephen, I'm telling you the truth! I promise! That body can't have been mine, look I can prove it's me!' She pleaded as she lifted up the right side of her long hair to reveal a small scar behind her ear that she had done whilst in Stephens company when she was eight.

Stephen looked at her in disbelief. *It really is her* He thought to himself. He smiled at her relieved that she was still alive and pulled her into a hug.

'I'm sorry that I hit you. You shooting would have caused a scene and would have attracted predators which is the last thing I need... Are you going to take me home?' She sobbed.

'I'm not just going to leave you here am I?' Stephen replied sarcastically.

Indie smiled as the tears stopped streaming down her face. She was actually a very pretty girl. Stephen looked down at his watch and realized that only twenty minutes had passed. He looked up at Indie.

'God know what your Dad is going to say or think when I bring you back with me'

Indie let out an amused chuckle. Stephen spotted his gun beside the hut. He went over picked it up and then started heading back towards the anomaly with Indie following closely behind.

'So how did you end up here and how long have you been here for?' Stephen asked curiously.

'Well, Mum said she was going on an adventure one night, to find a monster...I begged to go with her and eventually she agreed to let me go with her. It didn't take us too long before we found this 'monster' but then out of no where this girl...must of been about my age just appeared and started screaming. Mum went out and grabbed her and I followed. The creature started to chase us and we ran into the forest. We ran and ran until we thought the creature had lost us. We were wrong, it didn't lose us. It jumped out of the dark and killed the other little girl and then it ran off through some big, shiny, ball of light that just randomly appeared. Mum was fine with just a few cuts and bruises and I split my palm of my hand open and my lip but it was nothing compared to the poor girl. I remember going over to try and wake her up but nothing, she just laid there. She was all cold and covered in blood. I ran my hand over her forehead and my blood smeared all over her face. It horrible... but any way Mum then picked me up and we ran through the light and we traveled through them ever since.' Indie explained.

'Where's Helen now then?' Stephen looked at her hopefully.

Indie sighed and a tear ran down her cheek. 'We traveled through the lights for about three years and came across amazing things, things you can only imagine! We were only going to stay here a short while before going to the next place. No light balls appeared for a long time and well we were hungry and bored of eating fish so she went out to hunt something bigger. Mum left me in a tree whilst she went to get something but she never came back, that was the last time I ever saw her. I went to go and look for her but she just wasn't anywhere... I think she's dead...'

Stephen gulped. Indie stopped walking as something and stared at Stephen as something dawned on her. Stephen stopped and looked back at her confused.

'What?' He asked.

' When I hit you, you called out Helen? Is she still alive? Is she here?' Indie questioned.

'I don't know... I just thought that it was a big possibility that you were her.' Stephen replied.

Indie looked down at the floor and let out a deflated sigh. Stephen put his hand on her shoulder.

'Come on lets just get you back to where you belong, over sixty-five million years in the future.' He said giving her a light push indicating her to move to move forward.

The pair walked off towards the anomaly. As they got closer all sorts of emotions ran through Indie. Excitement, fear, happiness and nervousness. She couldn't help but think * Can I go back? Can I manage going back?* As they step directly in front of the large, glowing phenomenon Indie grabbed Stephens arm and tugged him back.

'I can't go! I can't do it!' She exclaimed.

Stephen rolled his eyes as he turned to face her.

'Why not?' He asked bluntly looking into her eyes emotionless.

'Because so much would have changed and' She choked

'And? And what?' He asked abruptly.

'I don't think I can cope...' She looked up at him, tears filling up her eyes.

'Indie, I can't just leave you here. I can't leave you here knowing you are alive whilst people that care about you are standing a couple of feet away from here think you are dead. I can't do that...' Stephen explained with a noticeable amount of concern in his face.

Indie looked up at him, a tear rolled down her cheek, thinking about what he had just said to her. In all that time she had been gone she never really took the time to think about what the people she left behind felt. After all that time it had only just hit her. She found it ironic that she hit Stephen with a rock and he turned around and hit her with the truth, which seemed to affect her more...

'Not that much has changed' Stephen chuckled.

Indie looked up at him and smiled. Stephen took a step closer towards her. He tucked the ringlet of hair that fell in front of her eyes around her ear and wiped the tears off of her face. She bit her bottom lip as her smile grew.

'You'll be fine, you are a Cutter remember?' Stephen reassured her as he took her hand into his.

'Yeah.' She said quietly.

They both looked at the light in front of them. Still hand in hand Stephen walked forwards and through the anomaly, tugging Indie along with him.

Nick waited nervously on the other side. As each minute went by he could feel his heart rate go up. At this point the 'back-up' had arrived. Captain Ryan and his crew surrounded the anomaly . He was so tempted to run through but he knew Claudia was right. The anomaly was unstable, it had been open for hours and could close at any point and one person gone was better than two.

'How long has he been in there for now?' He asked impatiently.

'Fifty three minutes, professor.' Captain Ryan replied.

'Give it another five minutes and then I give you permission to go through.' Claudia said running her hand through her auburn hair. She was also starting to feel stressed with the situation.

Nick nodded at her before focusing his attention back onto the anomaly. The anomaly started to flicker.

'Is it fading?!' Abby asked her eyes widening at the thought. She started biting on her fingers for comfort.

'No, there's no change on the magnetic field?' Connor confirmed, holding the compass to the anomaly with a confused expression on his face.

'Something must be coming through.' Nick stated.

With that all of Captain Ryan's crew got down on the floor on one knee with there rifles pointing directly at the flickering, ball of light.

'Don't shoot!' Nick demanded. 'It could be Stephen!'

The entire crew lowered there weapons and turned to look at Nick. As they did Stephen burst through the anomaly and fell to the floor closely followed by Indie who fell on top of him. The pair laid there panting. Every one stopped and turned there attention to Stephen and the strange girl who had followed him through. The crew's rifles once again rose and pointed at her. Not a word was said by anyone. Nick stared. As the girls head looked up Nick's eyes widened and his face dropped in shock. He shook his head in disbelief as his heart rate went up like a rocket. The girl smiled.

'Hey Dad.' She said softly grinning.

Everyone lowered there weapons and looked between Nick and the girl in confusion.

'I-Indie?' Nick choked in disbelief. His eyes wide in shock.

Thank you for reading!

Characters-

Nick Cutter

Stephen Hart

Claudia Brown

Indie Cutter

Connor Temple

Abby Maitland

James Lester

Captain Ryan