TITLE: Broken

AUTHOR: Pinkcat4569

RATING: T for violence. Originally, later chapters were adult. It's been re-edited and changed to keep the T rating.

DESCRIPTION: Jess is hurt, bringing consequences for her and Becker, both good and bad.

SPOILERS: SERIES 5

DISCLAIMER: I do not own Primeval or the characters

Chapter One-

Jess clicked her heels across the break room. Becker was returning a mug to the cabinet.

"Just my luck," she said, "A few minutes earlier, and we could have had break together."

"It's just as well, Jess. I had a short break today, and I didn't need ...distractions," he said, looking at her legs.

"Captain Becker," she said in mock offense, "what are you staring at?"

He smiled cheekily. "The floor Jessica, obviously the floor." He winked and sauntered out.

Jess took a moment to watch him leave, smiling to herself. The, she made herself a cup of tea.

Suddenly, alarms blared. Jess immediately ran to her station. No anomalies. No, this was an internal alarm. She checked her screens. The menagerie was secure. Then she clicked on the loading bay. She gasped.

It was horrible. Overturned trucks, bodies, pieces of bodies, and blood lay everywhere. She was horrified and scared. This carnage was everywhere. Another claxon rang. The comms went nuts, too many voices screaming and yelling. Finally, she was able to single out one voice.

"Jess, we've got a creature on the loose! Some sort of carnivorous dinosaur. Initiate partial lockdown, the sections nearest from loading bay. The rest of the ARC should be secure one we're locked down," said Becker.

"Right," said Jess. "Partial lockdown. I've also set emergency complete lockdown, just in case. Where exactly is the thing?"

"Don't exactly know. It's out of the loading bay. Can you find it?"

"Becker, can I find it?" she teased, trying to get her heart to slow down. "Bingo! Heading for...here...the control room."

"Jess! Out! Now!"

Immediately after she heard his commands, she heard the dinosaur. In the control room with her were four other people. On instinct, all four grouped together by the ADD. Jess was still seated, still linked to the comms, with her hands on the keyboard.

They heard and felt its footsteps. All five people froze. It was coming.

"Becker..." whispered Jess.

"Jess! Get out of there!"

"It's too late," she whispered. The dinosaur was visible. It broke through the doors, smashing everything in its path. "It sees us."

They were petrified: scared and still. What could they do? It held still for now, it mimicking their non-movement. They all knew if they made any moves, it would pounce, as well as a mega-ton animal could. The other members in the control room were all techs: Lisa, Allen, Habib, and Jasmine.

Habib whispered, "Will it just...go away...if we're still?"

"Go away? The other exit is past us," whispered Lisa back. "Should we make a run for it?"

"Why is it just standing there?" asked Allen. "Where the hell are the soldiers?"

The dinosaur was making an eerie, disturbing guttural moan. It moved one leg, cocked its head and roared. It had its prey cornered, and it knew it. It roared again. All five human beings began to cry, scream or moan.

Dinosaurs are slow and clumsy in the movies. This dinosaur was smaller than a t-Rex but bigger than raptors. It had the teeth and claws of its Rex cousin and like raptors it had speed.

It was the speed which sealed the fate of the crew in the control room. The comms filled with screams, roars, crashing sounds, and sickening bone crunching. Everyone on the other end of the comms heard it and felt ill. The last sound Becker heard was a soft sentence that brought tears to his eyes.

It was Jess saying, "Goodbye Becker. Don't blame yourself."

Then the comm signal from the control room went dead.

End Chapter One.

Author's Note: I posted somewhere that I don't do angst. This is pretty angsty. Everything, well most everything, will be OK. I promise. Chapter Two ahead.