Two days after Connor had written down what happened to him in the anomaly, he still couldn't help but smile when he thought about Abby. Her smile, the way she had acted and her eyes... they would be etched in his memory forever.

He wondered if she was always like that. Most of all he was thinking about how it would be to work beside her.

All he knew was that her first name was Abby.

He had tried to find out more about her by looking up reports from the first anomaly. The tricky thing was it had been their first anomaly!

They hadn't been quite so thorough in their written reports back then and a lot of detail was missing. They had been scared and excited at the time and sadly there was nothing written about Abby, it was just descriptions of the creatures and the anomaly.

Connor talked to Lester and Cutter to see if they could remember anything, but that hadn't helped either.

On the bright side: they thought that trying to contact the girl and talking to her about a job in the ARC was a good idea. If only he could find her.

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Connor was sitting at his laptop in his room at Cutter's house and sorted through his diary entries from that time. It wasn't the first time he had looked through the entries, he just hoped that he'd missed something. But even after reading it again and again he still found nothing new.

Finding Abby No-Last-Name was beginning to sound like a mission impossible.

It was way after midnight now and he couldn't reach Stephen because he was away on a cruise with his family, so Connor put aside the laptop and got out of his room. He was restless and needed to get out of the house.

He got into his car and just drove around for almost 20 minutes while he thought about how to find Abby before a memory flashed through his mind.

Lizard! She had helped the boy. God … what was his name? Anyway … I could find the house again! Maybe he remembers her last name!

Connor drove back home. He wanted to get some sleep so that he could drive to the Forest of Dean first thing in the morning. It was a long shot, but worth a try if it meant finding Abby.

When he arrived around noon he easily found the way to the house. He rang and when the boy's mother opened the door he let out a breath and smiled.

He asked her if her son was at home but his hopes were crushed. The woman told her that Ben was on a camping trip with his dad.

Connor's face fell and she smiled at him, maybe remembering him from three years ago and asked if she could help him.

"I don't suppose you remember the name of the girl that came here to look at that lizard your son found? I really need to get in contact with her" Connor said.

The woman shook her head "I'm sorry, it was a while ago now. I do remember she worked at Wellington zoo though. Ben had written to them with a photo of the lizard, asking what breed it was."

That was new information for Connor. Wellington Zoo. He could work with that! He thanked her and practically ran to his car. Lester had given him one day off to find the girl if it was that important to him. The zoo was only 2 hours away from the Forest of Dean and he got there right on time for the animal feedings.

If she still works here, I'm sure I'll find her with the lizards, Connor thought, but again he was disappointed. There were no lizards in the zoo anymore!

He walked to the information office and asked about Abby, but the redheaded girl behind the counter said she wasn't allowed to give out information about staff.

"Not even if she still works here?" he asked her, giving her his best 'lost puppy dog' eyes (at least, that's what Claudia had said they looked like),in hopes that it would help him to get even a small piece of information from the girl. Claudia always said that those eyes of his could get him anywhere he wanted if he tried.

It worked. The girl smiled and leaned over her desk and whispered "No, not any more, the last time I saw her was 2 years ago. I think she went back to university."

Connor smiled, showing her his dimple and crumpled his nose a bit before asking if she could give her Abby's last name. She sighed and wrote something down on a piece of paper that she showed him over the desk. He took it and smiled again and thanked her before leaving the zoo behind.

In the car he looked at the paper. There it was. He smiled. Abby Maitland. This was it. He could just hack the university's server with the records of the students and then he would know how to get hold of her.

He drove home and got to work immediately. He started up his computer eagerly, cursing that it was taking so long to get up and running, and then connected up to the internet. It proved to be harder then he thought. The last time he had done something like this was at least five years ago, and since then he only had hacked into the personal files in the ARC … and that was pretty easy. Getting into the university's files was hard and he had been trying for two hours when suddenly his phone rang.

It was Claudia, she wanted to know if he wanted to go out for a pint. After some thought he agreed, took his jacket and left for the pub. They did that on a regular basis. Claudia was only a year older than him and as the two youngest on the team they bonded as friends. Stephen called them 'CC' sometimes when they entered the ARC laughing. Connor looked up to the woman. As an only child he had always wanted siblings and now he had Claudia. She was like a big sister to him and only he could get away with teasing her about her thing with Cutter.

At the Pub he told her everything he had gathered today about Abby and that he now only needed to hack into the files to get her address.

Claudia laughed and patted his head "Oh Connor! You poor man! You know that you just have to make ONE phone call?"