Title: Just another day at the office

Summary: It's one of those days. Don't you just love work? Becker/Jess. (This is my first primeval story, please be kind.)

A/N: Ok I had a story floating around in my head and I could no longer hold it in any longer. There will soon be a series of stories that Lady Bec of Imagineland, Mrs. Ootori and I are writing called "Through the Anomaly". We will each take a different scenario where, somehow, Jess goes into an anomaly and Becker goes in after her. You'll have to read them all to find out. If it interests you, keep your eyes on our profiles.

This story is in no way tied to the others, I just love Becker/Jess pairings and wanted to get me hands on one.

On with the story!

Disclaimer: I don't own Primeval! I just really wish that I do, but sadly I don't…

Jess like her job, really she did, but on days like this she really wished for an anomaly. There was nothing to do. She had already run diagnostics on all aspects of the A.D.D., twice, organized her work space, reviewed every file that she could get her hands on and charged every black box in the facility. She had exhausted every job in her work description and then some. She was bored. When she was bored she usually wandered around the A.R.C. until the A.D.D. went off or it was time to go home. Her first usual stop was to spend time in the menagerie with Abby and the creatures, learning more about them and spending time playing with Rex. Jess only felt comfortable when Abby was there with her, so when the time came for Abby to leave the creatures and tend to her other responsibilities, Jess left as well. Next on her rounds she usually visited Connor, who was always doing something different. On rare occasions, when the A.D.D. Didn't go off the second that she set foot out of the menagerie, when she actually got to talk to Connor he would always drop what he was working on and give her his full attention.

He would, in his very sweet way, make them tea, sit with her and tell her anything that she wanted to know. Everything from his old programs and how they worked to the old team. He was so much like the big brother she had always wanted, so smart and kind. She loved the time she spent with him.

She could never find Matt, and she didn't feel like she could ever try to contact him and interrupt anything that he may be doing. Plus, she still had an odd feeling about him, no matter how many times she read his files she couldn't figure him out. She always wanted to go and visit Becker, but he was always against her going near the armory or barracks. Something about it being to dangerous during training, and she thought when they were arguing about it for the umpteenth time, that she heard him mumble something about "a pretty girl being around a whole bunch of testosterone high military men." Which made no sense, because he was a testosterone high military man, and she felt perfectly safe around him.

She pushed her chair away from the A.D.D., telling herself that today was going to be the day that she disobeyed Captain Becker's direct orders to stay away from the soldiers and go to visit him. No sooner she stood up from her chair did the A.D.D. start blaring and lighting up like a fireworks display. Sighing, she plopped herself back into her seat and spun to face the screen.

"Jess," Becker's tense tone spoke over her earpiece. "where is it this time?"

"I don't know, the reading is really close by. The A.D.D. is closing in on the signal now…Becker?"

"Yes, Jess"

"The A.D.D. is showing that the anomaly is inside the A.R.C…."

Becker was too busy for it's own good. He had to make sure that security for the building was tight, and he had a whole new batch of recruits to train. Most of them he had to train from scratch, even with basic boot camp it takes training to come up against a dinosaur. A lot of training, training that they needed to protect the others and themselves.

He was so happy that Abby and Connor were back, he had really missed them. Abby had come back feistier than before, and Connor had come back so serious. Becker liked it because it meant that he made fewer mistakes on the field, but at the same time he missed Connor's laid back attitude. Danny was still unaccounted for, and since they knew that he was in the past, they knew where to look and they hadn't found a body yet. Becker still counted Danny to be among the living. His new team was good for the most part, he trusted Connor and Abby with his life. Matt, on the other hand, still got on his nerves. Becker didn't know why he wasn't warming up to him, but his total disregard for protocol reminded him of Danny. He liked it and found it absolutely maddening at the same time. He liked Jess, fancied her even. She was young and inexperienced, but she was also the brightest person that Becker knew. He loved the fact that she wore the craziest colored clothes to work; while he liked the unity of black among his soldiers, he loved the fact that even on its most crowded days he could find Jess anywhere in the A.R.C. in about 2.5 seconds. It made it easier to keep an eye on her and keep her out of trouble.

He snapped out of his thoughts as one of his trainees accidentally fired an E.M.D. and clipped another one in the shoulder. He was just opening his mouth to shout a lecture about trigger fingers and training when the anomaly alert began to blare over the P.A. system.

"Jess," he spoke into his earpiece, glaring at the guilty looking trainee. "where is it this time?"

It took a moment before Jess' uncharacteristically confused voice came back to him. "I don't know, the reading is really close by. The A.D.D. is closing in on the signal now…Becker?"

He didn't like the way that she had paused. "Yes, Jess."

"The A.D.D. is showing that the anomaly is inside the A.R.C…."

"What!" Becker had to control the volume of the word so as not to injure Jess' ear. "Can you pinpoint where in the A.R.C.?" He was met by silence on the other end of the link. "Jess? Did you find it?"

"Yes." Her response sounded frightened and it took Becker exactly 1 second to decide to grab a fully charged E.M.D., a couple on his best newly armed men and run the halls towards the control room.

"Where is it Jess?"

Her voice came so softly over the earpiece that the tone mixed with the words not only stopped him in his tracks, but made his blood run cold as well.

"I'm looking at it."

A/N 2: CLIFFHANGER! If you guys want to know what happens I need 10 reviews! Tell me what you think, be honest, be kind!