Chapter 1

Stephen was sat in his apartment, working at his laptop. He was writing an article on natural born predators, to send over to his ex girlfriend Alison. Since she got back from the rain forest when Stephen had almost died from the centipede bite, they had not got on very well. He had seemed to drift apart from her. It all began when he met Abbi. He thought Abbi was amazing, she was beautiful, fierce and his sort of girl. But ever since the talk they had about her fancying him, they had not got on very well. In fact she had been strangely drawn to Connor. Stephen had never liked Connor in the first place but this just made him furious. Now he wanted Abbi more than ever and he wouldn't get her.

A knock at the door interrupted his thoughts. He got up and walked across the room to answer it. When he opened the door he was surprised to see who was standing there.

"Helen!"

"Hello Stephen, did you miss me?" replied Helen in a sarcastic tone.

"What do you want?" he asked stubbornly.

"Can I come in?" she asked. Stephen stepped aside to let Helen pass by him, then he closed the door behind him and stepped through in to his living room. Helen was there looking around, sifting over pictures of him and Alison.

"How very quaint!" she said casually, looking at a picture of him with his arms around Alison

"Just get to the point!" he snapped, not liking the idea of her being in his house.

"Fine... I want you to come with me!" she stated.

"What? Where?" he exclaimed surprised at her demand.

"I want you to accompany me on my travels through the anomalies." she replied looking directly into his eyes.

"No! You're a psycho! I would never go anywhere with you not now, not ever! I told you that last time you asked, when Nick found out about our affair! No!" he retorted, angry now that she had even thought of the idea.

"That was in the past, Stephen,"

"Yeh, well the past has a strange way of coming back to me!"

"I won't ask you again Stephen, I want you with me!" she warned, her tone more hostile now.

"Get out Helen! Now..." he replied abruptly turning away from her, waiting until she left. But she never did. When he turned back around she had a gun in her hand and it was aimed at his chest. He put his hands in the air, starting to feel scared.

"I said that I wanted you with me, and I meant it!" she said.

"Put the gun down Helen!" he said warily.

"No!" she replied taking a step closer to him. "I've got the gun and you are going to do exactly as I say..." she grabbed his arm and turned him around and pushed him towards the door.