"Jess, hit me with a location" Anna Cutter cried as she strut into the Ops. Area, where the ADD, (Anomaly Detection Device), was emitting a high-pitched beeping that meant there was a new Anomaly, a new threat and a new challenge. In short, it meant Anna was ready for some action. She pulled her hair into a pony-tail as she enterred, at the same time trying to discreetly fix her highly smudged, rouge lipstick. Jess smirked.
"How's Joe?" She asked, raising an eyebrow as she typed manically at the keys. Anna rolled her eyes and put her hands on her hips as she answered.
"Worried, but then again, what's new there?" Her eyes roamed the screen as she spoke.
"When it comes to you?" Jess said, shaking her head as she finally pulled up the location, "Nothing" Anna laughed.
"He doesn't need to worry!"
"Anna, you're you," Jess said, handing her a peice of paper with the coordinates on, "We should all worry!"
"Whats that supposed to mean?" Anna asked taking the sheet of paper and reading over it as she began walking towards the Armoury, with Jess in tow.
"You're Anna. To everyone in thet ARC, that translates into couragous, intelligent and hilarious. Unfortunately, it also translates into stubborn, reckless and impulsive. You're a recipe for disaster, Anna"
Anna told herself, in that moment, that if it had been anyone but Jess, her best friend, who had said that, she'd have swung for them. It being Jess, however, she took it in good stride. It was a symbol of their friendship and companionship that Jess was so brutally honest with her. As they enterred the Armoury, Anna smiled. Sitting on one of the benches, wielding a fairly heavy looking Glock, was Holland Keevers. He smirked up at her.
"Afternoon, Goldilocks" He said, using the nickname he'd given her when she first died her hair blond. She rolled her eyes at him, but smiled back.
"Hey, Holland" She walked over to the EMD's as Jess and Holland began a conversation about the Anomalies location.
"A Zoo?" Holland scoffed, "Brilliant!"
Jess rolled her eyes, muttering something. Anna turned on her.
"Excuse me?"
"I said; You two would be practically perfect for eachother! You\re both insane!"
Anna and Holland shared a glance, a slight blush creeping over her skin. He simply smirked.
"Been there" He said.
"Done that" Anna chimed, sticking her favoured pistol into her boot and slipping the EMD through her belt.
"Yeah, too bad neither of you can remember it" Jess teased.
Anna rolled her eyes again, and then made a mental note to at least try and stop that. It wasn't good to have rolling her eyes be labelled, 'An Anna thing', which her Uncle Becker had dubbed it.
"Who's on duty?" She asked Jess, as they began making their way back to the Ops. Area.
"Other than you two, there's Rob and Tess"
Since the team had grown so large, they no longer simply worked together. That would be practically catastrophic, with so many warring personalities. There were the leaders, of course, Nick, Anna's father, Matt and Danny. There were the soldiers, Becker, Holland, Caspar, Rob and Tess. The latter two were new recruits who seemed pretty great at handling the situations that their new jobs put them in. Tess was a tough, pretty woman with piercing dark eyes and tanned skin. She and Anna had their differences, but honestly they had more similarities, which had a hand in the amount of arguments Tess and Anna had engaged in since the former began working for the ARC, roughly about four months ago. Rob was a young soldier who'd joined the team when Anna's younger sister, Alice, had returned to 2011 after having been kidnapped by her mother, Helen Cutter, deranged psychopathic. Rob and Alice had dated before she left and when she came back and explained all of what she knew of the ARC to him, he practically demanded they allow him a place on the team. He was new meat, but he was new meat who knew how to handle himself. In fact, in his first training session, he'd knocked Holland flat on his back, something that hadn't happened in three years. He had spunk, something you needed working at the ARC.
"Brilliant" Holland said, slipping the EMD into his own belt and pulling on a hoodie.
"They're going to meet you there" Jess said, glancing at her mobile.
In the car, Holland insisted on driving and Anna rolled her eyes and joked.
"We'll be lucky if we get there alive"
Holland messed up her hair, a feat that all of the guys at the ARC seemed to enjoy, as it annoyed Anna to no end, and turned to the road. Anna continued her go over of the team. Then there were the rest of them, the ones in the middle.
Anna, the spunky, impulsive nineteen year old from the year 2032. That was complicated. Basically, the world in Anna's time sucked, and she wasn't willing to live it any more. However, coming back changed things more so than even he had anticipated. Then there was Joe, Anna's boyfriend. He was the ARC's resident military doctor. Anna hadn't thought of him as her type to begin with, until he became her best friend. That was a little complicated, too. Then, Stephen Hart. Anna's ex boyfriend, and the father of her three year old son, Cody Joseph Stephen Cutter. Again...extremely complicated! Raking through her brain, Anna tried to think of someone at the ARC who wasn't complicated. Ah, of course. Daniel Galloway Hunt. Practically her annoying little brother, Daniel and Anna always teased each other about everything and anything. Then again, Daniel did have one little thing that complicated him...technically, he didn't exist. Daniel, along with Xavier Greene, Chantelle Greene an Elsie Greene, was a ninja. The Greene's had come to the ARC when Xavier met Lester and decided he wanted to annoy the civil servant...as much as possible. He, Daniel and Elise had all fit into the ARC wonderfully, but they had complications of their own. Chantelle had been dead, not two months ago. Murdered by her daughter, Elise's, father. Elise, the five year old death-trap of a Ninja who Anna and Jess immediately began to feel motherly affection towards, had suffered incredibly after her mothers death, which no-one but Anna could understand.
It was only months later that everyone found out why Anna was so empathic and understanding about Elise's feelinds, and why se hated her birthdays. On her seventeenth, in the year 2030, her mother, Claudia Brown, was killed by a creature that came through an Anomaly. Claudia, who'd disappeared for three years and only re-appeared just before her daughter stepped through an Anomaly, had recently married Nick Cutter, whose psychotic ex-wife was practically the reason for the ARC, aside from the Anomalies.
Moving on, Anna thought of Jenny Lewis. The beautiful, flashy PR guru who was the exact, spitting image of her own mother. Jenny was now dating James Lester, the government liaison of the ARC, and therefore, the team were getting away with practically everything. In fact, Anna was technically fired at this moment in time, for a stunt she and Holland had pulled a few weeks previously.
After life got complicated at the ARC; Anna and Stephen broke up and Anna found out she was pregnant, but Stephen was in love with the also pregnant Sarah, Anna's world slowly began crashing around her. However, no-one but Anna could tell. Her insides constantly felt as though they were turning to Ice, and her head was filled with thoughts that weren't her own. Eventually, she had a break down...and she left. She took her unborn child and left 2011. She travelled to 1979, and then came back. Three years later...
So, upon coming back to 2011, the now twenty-three year old Anna brought with her a burden larger than any she'd left with. One creepy, obsessed, psychotic Andrew Nocato. The man who wanted to use the Anomalies for his own, personal gain and change every disaster in history. Against Lester's wishes, she and Holland travelled back to 1979 and stop him, by blowing up his HQ. They succeeded, but at the supposed expense of Anna's job. A small smile passed over her lips.
I'm still here though, right?
Then, as Anna looked over at Holland, she thought of Izzabella. Dr Izzabella Lake, who'd travelled back to the ARC because the history books in 2057 told her she should, because the name 'Dr Izzabella Lake' was written in the diaries of those in the team. Holland triggered thoughts of her because she was his girlfriend. Originally, after travelling back tot the ARC, Izzabella had started dating Rob, when he and Alice had broken up and Alice had gotten together with Daniel. However, when Rob, Alice, Daniel, Tess and Caspar had gotten trapped in the Jurassic period, Joe's little brother, Neal, had taken an unwarranted, unreturned liking to Holland because Holland had followed through on a bet he'd had that, if Anna and Joe got back together, he'd kiss Neal. Apparently, though, Neal couldn't take the hint that Holland really wasn't interested. So, Holland formulated a little plan in that cunning mind of his to prove his sexuality to Neal. He had to find a girl to kiss him. And, after recent tension between him and Anna, and with Anna and Joe's relationship currently on rocky ground, he wasn't about to ask her. He turned to one of his closest friends. Izzabella. And she obliged.
Understandably, this caused a swift end to come to Rob and Izzabella's relationship when Jess, who loved Rob as a brother, and wouldn't see him hurt for the world, told him all of what she'd seen on the CCTV. Izzabella and Rob, both crushed by her actions with Holland, separated and hardly spoke for a week, when Rob left and went to his parents. When he came back, he began growing close to Chantelle Greene. They were currently dating, along with Holland and Izzabella.
Anna's thoughts swiftly turned to Caroline Roxton. Well, Caroline Steele. The Caroline Roxton she had known and loved was dead. She'd seen her buried herself. Caroline Steele was a woman identicle to Caroline Roxton, who'd come to the ARC for reasons that the team were still a little unsure of, who had explained to Stephen Hart that the only reason she worked for the ARC in her reality was because of her grandfather, who'd been sentenced to working there after committing some crime or another. Anna found it quite sad that, after having been brought up at the ARC, there where people who thought it should be used as punishment.
There were soon going to be a lot of children around the ARC, Anna thought, as her mind transferred to Connor Temple and Abby-soon-to-be-Temple-Maitland. She was pregnant, along with Jess, who was dating the love of her life, Becker. Sarah had been pregnant, not so long ago, but had given birth eight weeks early to two beautiful children, Aiden and Lexi. Then there was Cody and Elise.
You'll be around soon, too. A voice in her head told her, and another smile crossed her face. Her mother should be getting pregnant around August, and then she'd be giving birth on exactly April sixteenth.
Scanning her brain to try and figure out if she'd missed out anyone, Vlad Caspar crept into Anna's thoughts. He was a nice guy, if a little mysterious and quiet. He'd been close to the original Caroline, and he'd been practically broken when she was killed. However, then he'd met Tess. And, as far as Anna knew, they were head over heels in love. There was her Uncle Matty, of course, but no-one hardly ever saw him, he'd been devastated when Emily Merchant, a woman from the sixteen-hundreds, who knew all about the Anomalies, had returned to her own time.
"Come on, Annie," Holland said, and Anna reflected that, apart from Stephen, who had called her it out of affection, and Andrew, who gave her the nickname to fake intimacy, Holland was the only other person on earth who called her Annie. She wasn't fully sure how she felt about that, but it didn't bother her as much as it had when her break-up from Stephen was fresh in her heart.
"Come on, Annie, we're here" He said, parking the car skew whiff, half on the pavement and half on the road. He got out of the car and came around to open Anna's door. Climbing out, Anna had to avoid being knocked over by one of the many people scattering and running all over the place, trying to get away from the Zoo as fast as possible. People were yelling, and Anna actually heard gunshots.
"Yo, guys!" She heard someone yell, and she turned around to see Tess and Rob running towards them.
"What've we got?" Anna asked, and she saw from both of their faces that she wasn't getting an answer.
"We can't get in!" Rob said, "The gates are blocked, there's that many people trying to get out!"
Anna sighed and scanned the high walls of the Zoo.
"Anna," Holland said, a they all watched her, "What are you thinking?"
"I need to get into that park."
"Figured as much" He said, as she began to race towards one of the lower walls, "Well, at least today'll be interesting"
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