CHAPTER ONE
Sarah walked across to the window that showed the main room at the ARC. She had heard about the team's experiences with Danny Quinn and that he was currently in the building. Just a quick look at this trouble maker who had so upset Jenny was what she was after, that and another reason to watch Captain Becker in action. She was having a good day so far, already recovering a group of numbers from the artifact's surface. They didn't know what the numbers were for but she had a sneaking suspicion that, with time, Connor would figure it out (or her if she was lucky).
So this was the man that Jenny had been going on about. Danny Quinn was a copper who had arrested Connor, Connor of all people! Jenny had told Sarah that Danny's little brother had been lost to an anomaly years earlier and that he had helped them with the G-rex at the airstrip. Jenny also had said he was one of the most infuriating men she had ever had to tolerate. This was a lot coming from the fact that Cutter was quite infuriating most of the time.
Bec ker had also mentioned his experiences with Danny at the airstrip to Sarah. She had decided after listening to Becker that he had respected the man more than most people would think but he also thought that Danny could be a little wreckless. With that thought she turned away from the window deciding it was time to get back to the project at hand. About that time, Sarah heard the alarm from the ADD. She really wanted to ask Connor if there was anyway to turn that thing down. It was so loud it made her head hurt sometimes.
As Sarah headed down the hall to get a drink she passed by Jenny's office. Jenny was digging in a box of Cutter's things. "When was that taken?", Sarah asked Jenny who was looking at a torn picture taped back together.
Jenny replied, "It wasn't. It's not me. It's Claudia Brown. Oh my God, Sarah, I used to be somebody else".
Sarah was trying to wrap her head around the fact that this Claudia Brown of Cutter's must have been real at some point for him to have a picture of her when Jenny and the others left for an anomaly alert. Some woman whom it seemed Lester wasn't thrilled about was in the lab. Sarah walked toward Danny Quinn thinking it was best to keep him out of the way for a while. She told Danny to come with her and walked back toward her office.
Danny , sitting watching her work, suddenly got up and walked to the door watching one of the men with that woman. He voiced his suspecion of the man and started to follow. Sarah asked him where he was going and he told her to trust him. Just then he included the fact that he "had an honest face" and grinned. Sarah was surprised when that lopsided grin caused her heart to skip a beat and her stomach to lurch. Oh great, she thought, Becker and Danny had the same effect on her. Now what was she going to do about that! Life was definitely not boring now. Sarah had an interesting job at the Arc and two men who made her heart flutter. This could be fun, she thought.
Noticing all the activity in the hallway, Sarah followed. She watched as Danny and Connor in bio-hazard suits entered the lab. The man Danny had been following was covered in something that looked like fungus and had apparently died. A little while later Sarah looked up from where she was working and saw the man, now wrapped in a bag, getting up. Sarah ran to the window and eventually got both Connor and Danny to turn around. The man, now more fungus than man was making his way out of the bag and towards them. After getting out of the room, they tried heating up the room and thought it had worked until Connor had to go in to retrieve Sid. The fungus began to grow at a fast rate and that is when they realized cold could kill it. Of course, it almost killed Connor but that is another story.
After turning the operations area into the ARC version of the North Pole, they decided to head the fungus man into the room with fire extinguishers. Jenny got trapped in the room with the fungus room and died if only for a few minutes. Danny, looking all action hero, went in to rescue her at one point. He was holding her hand as she came around and Sarah was surprised that she actually felt a little jealous at that moment.
Sarah told everyone of the picture of Claudia Brown that Jenny had found earlier after Jenny had left the room. Danny asked about this and Connor filled him in. Sarah and Becker were talking a little bit away, well Becker was actually trying to flirt with her but he was way too subtle about it. Sarah, however, enjoyed the attention.
Lester offered Danny the job of leading the team and he accepted. He then went to find Jenny after he was told she was leaving. Jenny was one of the reasons he wanted to join the team and now she was not going to be here.