The entire ARC team are all about thirty in this story, for the story to make sense, hope you like it, inspired by the film just go with it, Tabitha is based on the character Devlin please review and tell me what you think! This is most likely to be a two shot, but I will only post the second chapter if I get enough reviews!
Chapter One
Jess and the ARC group were at the local pub, after an extremely long day, Jess was happy to just let her hair down and relax, with her friends. Emily had come back through the prison anomaly, but the anomaly that led to the Victorian era wasn't the only one that reappeared, terror birds had come through and they had taken a lot to deal with. Satellite anomalies also appeared and without the team having a second locking device it took a while before they could stop them. Matt was happy now that Emily had returned, Becker was happy that no one had gotten hurt, Abby and Connor were happy because they had each other, and Jess was happy because everyone else was, so the ARC group were joking around happily, Jess noticed that most of the glasses were empty and offered to get the drinks and walked up to the bar.
"Jessie," someone exclaimed from behind her, Jess had heard the voice before, but couldn't seem to place it. The voice was whiny and annoying and was just a tiny bit patronising; Jess scanned her brain, where had she heard before? She spun around to see who had spoken. Tabitha. The last person she would ever want to run into, now Jess liked people she was generally a social person and saw the good in others, but with Tabitha, she got under her skin. They had met in university, shared a dormitory for the first year and had unfortunately shared some of the same lectures, much to Jess's dismay, they just didn't get on, Tabitha was always trying to do on better than her, and always got her way and was so fake and- Jess suddenly snapped out of her thoughts realising she should probably greet her.
"Tabby," Jess said in a fake high pitched voice as if she was happy to see her, Tabby ran over to hug her
"Moa, Moa," Tabby did a fake kissing noise, putting her face extremely near to both Jess's cheeks, and expected Jess to do the same. "How are you?" Tabby asked.
"I'm good-" Jess started, however, she didn't get to finish because Tabitha had started telling her, her own life story.
"I 'm married," shoving her hand in Jess's face. "I have a two year old boy called Sebastian, I own my own company, it is amazing being your own boss," Tabitha said. "I'm rich, my husband is one of the best lawyers out there and look at how flat my stomach is," Tabitha said pulling up her top, to reveal her stomach, "I am so healthy, my personal fitness trainer, says I'm the best person he trains and wow I have been talking about myself too much, how's your life?" Jess looked at Tabitha maybe she had changed maybe she wasn't such a self- absorbed bitch anymore, "I mean I know you weren't particularly popular, with anyone really, and I always did better than you in tests, but it doesn't mean you can't be successful, right?" Maybe she hadn't changed.
"I really should get back to my friends," Jess said, trying to get away from Tabitha as quickly as possible.
"Oh I would love to meet them," Tabitha said, that was not what Jess wanted to happen, she reluctantly walked towards her friends, who said sharing some joke."Oh and by the way, your teeth, so much better now!" Tabitha said. "Less crooked."
"Guys this is my friend Tabitha, we met in college, Tabitha, this is Abby, Connor, Matt, Emily and Becker," they all nodded, or spoke greetings.
"Anyway so I am sure you are extremely busy Tabitha," Jess said.
"No, no I've got time, I would love to hang out with you and your friends," Tabitha said, there was no stopping her now, once Tabitha wanted something she got it, in one form or another. Tabitha took a seat next to Abby and Jess sat next to Becker.
"So Jessie are you married?" Tabitha asked, the whole group stifled a laugh, at Tabitha calling Jess, Jessie.
"No I'm not," Jess said.
"Oh well there's still hope, it doesn't mean you'll die all alone, I mean I know you weren't popular in university, and none of the boys liked you because you were geek, but I thought you would have grown out of that now," Tabitha said, Jess put on a fake smile, while the first of the team looked shocked. She turned to Abby.
"You know if you got rid of the whole tom boy style, you could actually be quite pretty?" Tabatha said.
"I think we all agree that Abby is already very pretty," Connor said, the others nodded and muttered noises of agreement, Abby looked like she was going to murder the girl.
"Do you own a house?" Tabitha asked suddenly, Jess felt like she was being grilled and she probably was.
"No I share a flat with Connor and Abby," Jess said, wondering what Tabitha was going to find wrong about that.
"I always think that people shouldn't live in a flat when they are over a certain age, and they especially shouldn't have room mates, aren't you a bit old for that Jessie," Tabitha said in an extremely patronising voice. Jess didn't know what to say, she had felt extremely good about her life before Jess came along.
"So Jess what do you do?" Tabitha asked, great another question, none of the others dared, to speak, probably to scared about what Tabitha would say about them.
"I'm a civil servant," Jess said, what was she going to say she helped people chase after dinosaurs that came from the past?
"What a boring job, in my company I decide what's going to happen, I'm my own boss so I can show up whoever I want, it's just marvellous," Tabitha said, Jess just nodded.
"So you may not be married but are you at least in a relationship?" Tabitha asked, everyone's eyes were on her, the ARC group knew what she was going to say, she couldn't take it, she would never hear the end of it if she said she hadn't got a boyfriend, she couldn't take it, she needed to tell her.
"I have a boyfriend," Jess said, the words slipped out before she could stop them.
"That's nice, what's his name?" Tabitha said, almost disbelieving, how dare she not believe that Jess had a boyfriend!
"Ummm, Becker's my boyfriend," Jess said, the whole table looked shocked, inculding Jess herself, expect Becker who remained surprisingly unfazed.
"Yep," Becker said slipping his arm around Jess, Tabitha look sceptical.
"How long have you been together?" Tabitha asked.
"A year," "6 months," Becker and jess spoke at the same time.
"A year and six months," Jess said quickly.
"We know each other so well, we even finish off each other's sentences," Becker said. Matt and Connor looked like they were pissing themselves with silent laughter, while Abby and Emily looked sorry for Becker and Jess and the web of lies they were now wrapped in.
"Well, we should all go out together, myself and my husband Hugo and you two, it will be divine," Tabatha said.
"Umm I don't we will be able to do our jobs are very demanding," Jess said.
"Oh fine, if you are one of those stay at home couples that do nothing that's fine-" Tabatha started, but Becker cut her off.
"We'll be there," Becker said, annoyance laced in his voice, Jess just nodded.
"I will email you with the details," Tabatha said and Jess nodded again, and waved goodbye, eventually Tabatha left to everyone's relief. Jess collapsed onto Becker's shoulder in mock exhaustion.
"Well that was interesting," Abby said.
"I hate that girl," Jess said, everyone laughed.
"I'm sorry I pulled you into it," Jess said, Becker still had his arm around her and she was enjoying it, a lot.
"It's ok," Becker said.
"Besides Becker was the one that pulled you into the double date," Matt said, Becker glared at Matt.
"She just gets me so mad, she always had to so one better, and is so patronizing and I was happy with my life, and she comes waltzing in and-" jess started, but Connor interrupted her.
"You've seen prehistoric creatures," Connor said. "I bet she hasn't seen any of them," Connor said. Jess smiled the group then swapped stories about their enemies when they were younger, Jess was just happy that she had such good friends, and when she went on that date, she would prove to Tabatha, she had made something of herself, no matter what it took her.
Hope you liked it, please review if you want a second chapter!