I am officially in love with Jess and Becker. They're so cute! First ever story, please be gentle!
Disclaimer – I don't own anything, if I did Becker would of taken his shirt off a lot sooner! Ahem. Back to the story.
Lily
"Now Lily if you're going to come into work with me you can't wander off, you have to stay by me okay?"
"Yes Uncle Hilary." Becker sighed, she was the only person he didn't mind calling him that, well, he did mind but he didn't say anything, maybe it's because she was his niece and he had always been 'fun Uncle Hilary' maybe it was because she was only 4 and she had a lisp making even the most embarrassing name sound cute.
As Becker scanned his wrist band security pass and typed in the 6 digit code he thought about why Lily was here with him rather than living in New York like she had been for the past 4 years, his brother (for the story just pretend Becker has a brother) Niles Becker, how did it happen that his brother got the name Niles and he was stuck with Hilary! Anyway Niles Becker and his wife Grace Becker were going for an evening meal out when they were involved in a car crash and died on impact, Lily was being babysat by their 17 year old neighbour who had received the news.
Since then Lily had been put into care while documents and paperwork were filled out, Becker being the closest relative had gained custody of Lily. Unfortunately instead of putting her in the nursery for the day so he could go to work, Lily had looked so scared at Becker leaving her, like she thought if he dropped her off he wouldn't come back and she would get put back into care again. Becker couldn't stand that look on her face so he had brought her into work hoping that they wouldn't have an anomaly alert and if so he hoped Lester would be up to 'playing nanny' for a bit.
"So Lily if you could just be a good girl today for your Uncle Hilary and stay with me at all times..." Becker looked around to Lily only to find an empty space. "Lily! Damn it!" Becker ran down the corridor in search of his niece.
Abby&Connor
Lily hadn't meant to wander off, and she knew Uncle Hilary would be mad at her but she had heard yelling and her parents had always told her not to yell, so she was going to tell whoever was yelling off and tell them it was wrong. She followed the yells into a room, the door had been left wide open, the room was quite hot and the lights were incredibly bright. The first thing Lily notice about the room however was that there were plants everywhere. There were tall, short, with leaves, with flowers, all over lapping. Her mother had never let their garden get out of hand like this.
The Lily's eyes landed on the two people arguing. A boy and a girl. They were very young. There was a girl with blonde hair that looked almost white, she was very short but was shouting the loudest, and the boy had longish black hair and the beginning of a beard he looked like he was defending himself more than anything.
"Why did you let them out!" she shouted. Lily almost covered her eyes at the noise. Poor boy. She thought.
"They looked bored!"
"The last time a creature got out it was Rex. And he and Phillip were both nearly killed!"
"I didn't mean to let them out!" He pleaded.
"What's Lester going to say once he finds out Sid and Nancy are somewhere in the ARC?"
"Who 's Sid and Nancy?" Lily asked quietly but the two people heard her and spun round.
"Who are you?" The blonde girl asked.
"Yeah, and how did you get in?" The boy added.
"My Uncle Hilary brought me!" she said proudly.
"Hilary?" The boy asked the girl, she shrugged.
"What's your name sweetie?" The blonde girl walked towards Lily cautiously.
"Lily Be-" she froze, the girl had called her sweetie, her dad used to call her that.
"Well Lily, can you tell us who your Uncle Hilary is, what he looks like and where he is?" the girl got down on her knees so she was eye height with Lily.
"Is he mean? What does he want? Is he armed? Why did he bring you? Did he-"
"Connor!" the girl snapped, glaring at him "Don't overwhelm her!" So the boy was called Connor. Lily had a plan forming in her head.
"Just trying to help" he sulked. They had started bickering in hushed tones which were growing increasingly louder. Lily decided to put her plan into action. She started crying loudly. Both Connor and the girl's heads snapped her way.
"What's the matter?" The girl asked, putting a hand lightly on Lily's shoulder.
"M-My mummy and dadd-dy used to f-fight like you." The girl shot the boy a look of plea as if she didn't know how to handle this kind of situation.
"Um," Connor crouched down next to the girl "Hi!" he waved "I'm Connor and this is Abby." He pointed to the girl who smiled half heartedly. "And um, your mummy and daddy... where are they?"
"They're dead!" she wailed, false tears sliding down her face. The identical looks of shock on both their faces almost made Lily giggle, but as her dad had taught her, 'stick with your cover til the end' so she threw her arms around Connor's neck and cried onto his new Start Trek t-shirt. He awkwardly patted her on the back.
"A-and they h-had a fight just before they d-died, and their last w-words were that t-they hated each o-other." Her crying had died down to sniffles "A-and I don't want you t-two to end the same way!" Of course her parents had never fought, at least not that she knew of. And they were celebrating their 6th year of marriage the night they died.
Connor and Abby however didn't know this. And as Connor thought back to when he had thought he had lost Abby to the mer creatures, their last words being stupid and childish, Connor realised the little girl was right. He looked towards Abby and started apologising while she did the same. They laughed as they admitted that they were stupid. They then turned to thank the little girl but she was no longer there.
Lily skipped down the hall, they had seemed nice enough and she was happy they were getting along. She hadn't realised as she had been thinking she had been walking around aimlessly until she came to at the end of the corridor.
There was a door in front of her and that was it. She was about to turn round and head back the way she came when the door opened and nearly knocked her to the ground.
"Hey!" she protested as the guy who had nearly knocked her out with a door didn't even noticed and had carried on walking his phone to his ear. At the yelp of the little voice he stopped dead and turned around slowly. Woah. Lily thought He's scary. He had light hair in a short cut and an unreadable expression.
"I'll call you back." He closed his phone. He spoke differently, with an accent. One of her friends from her old school spoke like him, she was from Ireland. Lily supposed he must be from Ireland as well.
"Who are you?" he asked. She giggled at the sound of his voice. She realised he was waiting for an answer and so she straighten her face like she had been taught "Lily Becker, Sir." She nodded once sharply, to show respect. (She grew up in a military family)
"Becker?" he snorted "Figures. I'm Matt." He held out his hand. Matt? Uncle Hilary had told her all about Matt.
Should I carry on, I don't know. Please review! It would make cute little Lily happy and then she would smile that cute grin with one of her teeth missing and say "Thank you so much!" with that cute little lisp.