When Stephen died, the team never really recovered. Cutter… he was so close to Cutter. They said they were only friends, but I reckon if you believed that… well, maybe. I know what I think.

The thing is, nobody who knows about the anomalies is being paid to care why. There's no danger anymore- nothing I was worried about. It's ironic that now, stuck in a high end secret service job with credentials to my name, I realise what Cutter was on about all that time. The mystery behind the anomalies; the fascination; the wonder.

I've got myself a detector, and I'm going to find out why.

Lester wrote his diary quickly; aware that if it were found it was at the risk of both his job and respect. Staring guiltily at the detector in his bag, he frowned. Could he- should he- take this project on? Risk more people's lives?

…he'd never forgiven himself for a single one of them.

Suddenly, the detector bleeped discretely once. He stood up suddenly, his pulse racing and his legs trembling. Glancing down at the luminous screen, he realised his mind was made up- he was going to do it.

Standing in front of the sealed anomaly later, he checked that no-one was watching. Hopefully, the detectors would register the opening as a slight blip, and the sensors would register the fact that nothing had come out. There was no reason to start a panic, after all- and heaven knows, the Government would start a panic over anything.

"Right," he muttered to himself- and stepped into the past.


Abby frowned down at the detector, looking anxiously up at Connor in the tree. They'd made a camp there, managing to survive- she went down and scavenged for berries whenever she could, but they were both getting weaker and thinner. They were, she knew, just evading death.

It couldn't go on.

"Connor!" she called. He looked down morosely from his perch, and shrugged at her as an order to go on. "The detector!" she continued. "It's registering something…"

"Danny?"

"It must be!" she called, her voice excited. If she had bothered to check the rest of the gadget, she might have seen that the part of it telling her exactly where the anomaly opened too wasn't wherever Danny Quinn was currently lost.

It was, quite clearly, opening from 2012.

Do you want me to continue? :P

:S I haven't updated this for more than a year. So... I found it. Could be promising. It's up to you- shall I continue? Will you read? Or is this destined for 'delete'?