Hey guys! I know I haven't uploaded a story in forever but, well, life got in the way. I just thought of this idea today will procrastinating my studying for finals (yuck). If you can guess by the title, it's an AU fic where the team is an extraction team like in Christopher Nolan's Inception (great movie). I've used the season 4 and 5 cast as my main characters with Jess and Becker featured although I will have references to the old team throughout. There will be no characters from Inception in this fic (therefore I dub it not a crossover) all I have done is put the Primeval characters we know and love into their world (kind of like what I did with my fic Four Weddings and an Anomaly sort of).

I'm sorry if I upload this fic rather slowly as I am in the middle of exams and will be going on vacation right after wards (to a land without internet, I'm not sure as of yet if I will survive). Please be patient with me and enjoy!

Disclaimer: I do not own Primeval or Inception.

Chapter One

Jess was a struggling architect student. Unlike most, however, she was struggling to remain engaged as the curriculum failed to interest her. It was just too easy. At nineteen and currently in her fourth year of university, brilliant Jess Parker was bored.

After spending the two-hour lecture doodling or twirling her pencil, Jess packed her bag, straightened her ridiculously short mini-skirt and walked to the door. Her plans to meet up with some old friends after class however were stopped when her professor called her back.

"Jess, a word please."

Stopping, Jess rolled her eyes once and turned back against the flow of outgoing traffic. Her orange heels clicked down the stairs until she reached Professor Gideon's desk.

"Yes professor."

"Jess, I know you're a brilliant student and while you may find my lectures uninteresting could you please refrain from texting in the middle of class. It's highly distracting."

"Umm, professor." Jess asked confused, "I wasn't texting at all in class. I was doodling threw part of it but I'd never text. You're not that boring."

Gideon smiled as the last student left and the lecture hall door shut behind them. "Thank you Jess, I'm glad to know I'm not that boring. I know you weren't texting, I just needed an excuse to talk to you and this isn't the type of conversation you want your classmates to overhear."

If possible, Jess was even more confused, "Is it an internship? It must be a giant firm if you don't want the class to overhear."

"It's an internship of a kind," Gideon nodded, "although, you'll have to take a fair bit of extra training before you'll be able to work there."

"What kind of extra training? If there were any higher level courses I'd be taking them, believe me."

"It's not the kind of training offered at school." Gideon continued, "The legal obligations of this job occasionally graze the grey area of the law."

"You mean it's illegal?" Jess questioned, "What am I doing? Building faulty bridges? You know more than anyone how much I hate making mistakes; I don't think I could ever make purposeful ones for a living. I'd go crazy."

"That's good to hear." A voice behind Jess said in the same Irish lilt as her professor. Jess spun around to see a man in his early thirties walking down the stairs. She hadn't heard him enter the classroom.

"Matt," Gideon smiled, "right on time as usual. Jess, I'd like to introduce you to my son, Matt."

"Hello Matt," Jess smiled and shock his hand. "I never knew you had a son professor."

"Few do." Matt replied, "It's probably best that way."

"What do you mean?" Jess asked.

"I have a job offer for you Jess." Matt said.

"What kind of job?"

"One better than anything you've ever imagined."

Jess turned to Gideon unsure weather to take the offer this strange man was giving her. Gideon nodded. Jess had always been curious and, to be honest, she didn't know how much longer she could last at school before she lost it.

Jess smiled and turned to Matt, "when do I start?"

Matt smiled. "Follow me."

{*}{*}{*}

"What is this place?" Jess asked as Matt led her into a giant glass building. She had walked by it thousands of times yet never once been inside or even wondered what was inside.

"This is the ARC," Matt explained, holding the door open for Jess.

Jess looked at the gold plated name above the door. 'Central Metropolitan 3326'

"Is that your nickname for it or something?"

"In a sense yeah," Matt nodded, "Good attention to detail."

"That's what people tell me." Jess smiled.

As Matt and Jess crossed the foyer, Jess felt a child run up to spin as if everyone was suddenly staring at her. Glancing around nervously, Jess found every single pair of eyes glaring back at her. It was seriously creepy.

"They must really not like newcomers." Jess commented and she and Matt made their way over to the elevators.

"Don't take it personally." He said pressing the 'floor 15' button and shutting the elevator doors. Jess watched the illuminated numbers as they climbed. 2…3…4…

"What exactly do you do?" Jess asked.

"You ask a lot of questions, don't you?" Matt chuckled.

"And you don't like answering them."

Matt nodded, "Don't worry, we just need to give you a quick test first, that's all."

"Okay, I'm good at those. When am I going to take it?"

The elevator chimed.

"Now."
As the doors opened, so did Jess' jaw. Looking outside the safety of the elevator, Jess saw the London skyline up in smoke, most buildings either mere skeletons or piles of rubble. It reminded Jess of a scene from 2012. It was apocalypse now.

"Oh my God." Jess muttered. "What happened?"

"We need your help Jess," Matt said, un-phased by the destruction outside.

"Help with what? Where the hell am I?"

"Jess," Matt said with his soothing lilt, "You need to focus."

Jess took another look outside the elevator to see the London Eye plunge into the River Thames. She closed her eyes and took a deep breath.

"Okay." She murmured eyes still closed. Jess, what have you gotten yourself into.

"I need you to rebuild the city."

Jess' eyes flew wide open. "What!"

"Jess," Matt said attempting to calm her, "concentrate, imagine London or any city for that matter."

Jess closed her eyes again reluctantly. She drew up sketches in her mind. Thousands of skyscrapers and winding streets with magnificent bridges that stretched from one riverbank to the other. She imagined the London Eye rising from the River Thames and Big Ben rebuilding itself brick by brick. Almost lost in her head, Jess felt a rumble beneath her feet.

Opening her eyes she looked out of the elevator in awe. It was exactly how she'd imagined it. Builds remerged from the rubble and built themselves from the bottom up brick by brick. While Jess had never been the religious type, she would swear this to be the work of a God.

Words failing her, Jess gapped at the creation she'd only imagined.

"Impressive." Was all that Matt said after London had been restored moments later.

Jess turned at him shocked. "That's all you can say? It was the apocalypse a few moments ago and it suddenly rebuilt itself…" Jess trailed off as she admitted, "Just like I imagined."

"Don't worry Jess," Matt smiled, "Everything will be explained in a moment."

"Wha-"

"Jump."

"What?"

"Jump." Matt commanded again.

"Are you crazy? We're fifteen stories up we can't-"

Jess finished her sentence with a scream as Matt grabbed her hand and jumped out of the elevator dragging Jess with him.

Yes this is a Jess/Becker fic NOT a Jess/Matt (I have more than one problem with that pairing). Becker will make his appearance in the next chapter. Stay tuned and please review if you enjoyed it and want more.