I rubbed my slightly swollen belly as I walked down the halls of the ARC. James asked that I be here, or more he told me to be here. I had been here since the very beginning. After My father died and Abby, Connor, and Danny went missing I decided to find another job. My father help make this place and my mother being the one who killed him here made it hard to come back to everyday. So I stopped coming. Then it happened. I got pregnant. I'm about four months right now.
I walk into the room where everybody else was. As soon as he saw m, Becker rushed over to my side to give me a hug. Lester also came towards me, he gave a nod and a pat on the back and went into his office. Becker and I walked over towards a girl dressed very brightly compared to the rest of the ARC.
"Jess Parker. I've heard so much about you are kind of a hero here." She said all bubbly. She must be a new recruit. I saw some faces that I recognized but there were a lot of new people. I snapped out of my daze when Becker gently patted my stomach.
"Sorry. Jocelyn Cutter. I'm no hero just a person. You must be the Field operator." She nodded at the end of my statement. A voice made me turn around.
"Okay guys, for those of you I haven't meet properly my name is Matt Anderson. I'm your new team leader." He then nodded at everyone."For the last couple of days your esteemed colleague Captain Becker," I feel a small smile appear on my face as he continues with is statement"has been bending my ear on every detail of this operation. To ensure you are properly looked after..."
Behind him you could see Lester slowly coming out of his office. He came to the runaway and watched them.
"So I would like to ensure you that safety," He kept going "the safety of this entire team, even the safety of Captain Becker is my number one priority."
I could feel Becker stand a little taller at his statement. I rolled my eyes with a little grin on my face.
"Your jobs are demanding," Matt continued even with Becker's actions." Your jobs are dangerous. You put your lives on the line every time that alarm goes off. There is no time for errors. There is no time for on the job training. So with all that in mind, some new policies will be implemented. All field operatives will be strictly military, or from a military background."
I stiffen at that statement. I didn't have any military background. I had been on this team since the beginning, I had been in the lab the moment Connor had told my dad about the sightings. I had been there for when Rex flew away from the Home Security people. I went through an anomaly to a different time line. The one I'm in now. I had to question would my job be on the line when I had to leave for my pregnancy? Even though I had planned to stay out of the field before I had the baby, but would I even be aloud to work out in the field after the pregnancy?
By the time I spaced back in he was done with his speech. He walked over to us. He hand light brown hair and bright blue eyes. They held a secret in them, he had a secret and I was going to figure it out. Not now a least.
" Matt this is Jocelyn Cutter. She worked with us on the field." Becker states. Clarifying that no matter what I would be back on the field with him.
"It's nice to meet you Jocelyn. Your Nick and Helen's daughter, right?" I nod my head at that statement. He continues on. "Now Becker just said worked, so you don't do field work?"
"I will being doing field work it's just after Abby, Connor, and Danny went missing and with recent events I'm not permitted to be doing field work." He cocks an eyebrow at that statement, while Becker smirks beside me. Jess looks a little put off at the fact that Becker still has his arm around my shoulder.
"She four months pregnant. She won't being field work for the entire pregnancy or at least four or five months after." I gaze up at him as he finishes.
"I agreed to wait for the end of the pregnancy, but I didn't agree to the latter."
"Well I talked to your doctor and she said..."
"You talked to my doctor with out my permission." I said in a low tone. I turned to face him directly.
"I needed to know..."
"Oh no you..."
"Both of you hush. Jocelyn, Becker's right. My wife said you need to take it easy for a couple months and get settled with a child at home." Lester buts in.
I glare at him while Becker smirks, again. He won't last long through my pregnancy. He and I share a house. After my dad died I needed someone to be there with me in the house and he felt that it was his job to help me get through my dad's death. He was there so much of the week I made him move in.
"Whatever. What did you want me here for?" I ask turning to look at Lester.
"Since you can't do field work you can try and figure out your fathers theory of where anomalies will appear." I give him a weary glance.
"Do I get to use the model my dad got to use?" He nods "Fine. But as soon as the four months after the pregnancy is up I'm back in the field."
I grab Becker by the arm and walk to his car with him trailing behind. He insisted that he drive me here. That's the one thing I hate about being pregnant he thinks I can't do anything. Well I'm going to prove him wrong.