The new year brings new changes, well for me it does. I promised myself this year that I would upload all the stories that I finished last year. so here we go, this is the second one of many to be posted. Opposites was written on april/may 2010. Hope you enjoy it. I'm not good with summeries so bear with me.

Jo has the flu and Cater goes to check on all the different areas to make sure that the (his) town is running smoothy. In the lab, he finds a ball that doesn't belong and Tess yells at him for touching it. The ball crashes into lab causing a boom...lives change. Will the town be the same? Will Cater and Tess surive? It's up to Allison and Henrey and Fargo to save the day.

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disclaimer: I don't own any of the characters just playing with them. (that doesn't sound to good does it?) ha ha ha

Opposites

Tess dressed, in her lab coat and goggles looks up when Jack Carter, the sheriff came into the room. He never visit unless someone was in trouble or an emergency was breaking out all over the town of Eureka. So what was it that he wanted this time, did Fargo mess something up, like he usually did. She faced him with a smile. He had been friendly since she had arrived which was about a month ago, but something was different about him. Something intriguing. Why was it that he was here at all, not just in the lab but in Eureka. She would have to find out. She noticed him looking around the lab like he had never been in one before. He seems so out of place here she thought. Well, he is sheriff so maybe he didn't need to be in a lab but something tells me something else is with this man. Carter had left the door to the lab cracked, which was something that all lab members knew not to do when work was going on. Tess just ignored that little detailed.

"So what can I do you Sheriff Cater?" she nodded her hands holding test tubes of something crystalli. well that's what Carter thought. "What emergency do we have now?"

"None," he responded still staring at the shiny stuff. They look like crystal diamonds. So Captivating. He thought. Then he figured out what she had asked him. "Why have you heard of one?" he quickly glanced his head to his left then his right expecting something to be there. His eyes fixed on the water wall in the corner of the room. Was that there before? Tess saw that he was staring at it, so she placed down her test tubes.

"That goes all the was to the basement. Cool uh..."

"Yeah but..."

"It's heated too. It's for..." she stopped herself before telling him, a secret known to only her and Allison. Cater picked up on the hesitation.

"Things I shouldn't know about." Tess nodded. He catches on quick. I see he's been told that alot around here.

"Anyway, is there something..." She starts for she wanted to get back to work, before she forgot what she was doing.

"Not at all. I was just making sure that things were...you know..."

"Going fine." Why would he...that's not his job. "Allison has you making rounds now?"

"No, no." he waved his hand. "Well Jo...has the flu so, I'm doing a little of everything."

"Trying to protect Eureka."

"That's what I do." he smiled.

"Well, everything's fine here." she said more to get rid of him so she could get back to what she loved to do. Turning back to her work station she added, "We have work to do so if you don't really need anything else."

"Why does everyone tell me that, is that all you guys ever do?"

"Pretty much." she poured one test tube into another one. Carter walks to the door to leave her to her work when he spots a small yellow ball rolling on the floor towards him. He bends down and picks it up.

"Cater, no." Tess shouted scaring Cater, who dropped the ball. It went bouncing straight up in the air and hitting the ceiling.

"Great," a lab assistant said under his breath but Carter heard it.

"What did I do?" Carter responded like a child.

"It's one of Fargo's bouncy rubber band molecule balls and now it on the loose." The yellow ball bounced from one wall to another at lighting fast speeds.

"How do we stop it?" asked Carter.

"Duck," Tess called, as the ball almost hit her in the face. "You wanted trouble, you got it." She stood up, looking for him. when she scanned the area not seeing him she called out to him. "Carter..."

"What?" he questioned coming from behind a lab table.

"Don't you know not to touch anything in Eureka?" Tess commented, as the ball changed direction and hit the test tube that she had in her hand. The crysally substance, Cater had seen earlier, spilled all over her hand. Not good for any scientist. The ball hit the wall again and landed on the table. Tess thought that was the end of the balls movements but it wasn't, not on an unlevel table as such as they had. The ball rolled knocking into beakers and other test tubes, crashing them into one another. "Ah..." Tess screamed out, then a boom sounded that shook the entire building.

Stuff went flying and all was seen was dust in the air.