Hostages - Chapter 2 - Jess' POV

Drinking my third cup of coffee in the last two hours I walked back to the ADD and had a look through the CCTV cameras to see what everyone was up to, everything looked normal and everyone looked really bored. I switched to the feed in the armoury and seen Becker walking around checking things off a list he had, I watched as something caught his attention and he stopped abruptly what he was doing and had a look around but I couldn't see anything on the surrounding cameras. He poked his head out of the armoury and came back in after a couple of moments and went back to doing what he was doing. He sat down on a bench and put his head in his hands like there was something bothering him, I grabbed my purse and walked to the vending machine and got both me and Becker something to munch on and walked down there.

When I got the armoury I could tell he was frustrated about something so I just sat next to him and handed him the pack of skittles I got for him, he smiled and thanked me before opening them and eating them and did the same. We both sat there in silence as we ate "You know you really need to stop watching me on the CCTV camera… some people might think that you're becoming obsessed with me" He joked and nudged my leg.

"Actually I have just finished all of Lester's chores and decided to check the cameras and make sure everything was OK and I seen you looking frustrated so I brought something to cheer you up" I explained to him.

He smiled and thanked me again for the skittles as he put the wrapper in the bin beside him. He didn't say anything but I could see that he was arguing with himself on whether or not to tell me what was bothering him "Something doesn't feel right, I don't know why but tonight I'm getting the feeling that it's not just ARC workers here. I've looked through the CCTV myself and I can't find anyone coming in that shouldn't be here but I can't shake the feeling and it's making me uneasy" He said.

I put my hand on his shoulder "Want me to ask the security to take a look around, you know check everywhere?" I questioned.

He shook his head "No I'll probably go for a wonder around soon anyway, being locked up in here for the past two and a half hours probably hasn't done me any good anyway… thanks for the offer though. Look I know this sounds weird but be vigilant tonight OK?" He asked and I just nodded knowing that if Becker had a feeling there was something wrong then there probably was.

Becker walked me back to the ADD and we both had a quick look on the CCTV camera's and when he seen that there wasn't anything suspicious he said he was going to have a look around and walked off, grabbing a couple of the guys to go with him.

I have no idea why Becker is feeling this way but I trust the man with my life so there has got to be something wrong, whether it happens now or later on, something will go wrong and I was going to be ready for it. Looking through the camera's I seen a shadow go into Connor's lab and there is no one who is working tonight that can get access to his lab, I looked on the system and it didn't show anyone swiping their wristband to get in there "Becker can you have a quick look in Connor's lab? I could have sworn I seen something… someone go in there but it's not showing up on my system" I said to Becker through a private comm line as I didn't want to get the other soldiers riled up for no reason, not until Becker's had a look.

Watching the camera I watched as Becker approached Connor's lab and have a look through the window, it came up on the system that Becker had swiped through and he went in. He came out a few moments later and looked straight at the camera before shaking his head and closing the door. Maybe I was just seeing things, after all Becker's 'uneasy feeling' wasn't sitting right with me either.

He came back up to the ADD after having a look around and sat in a chair next to me "You sure you saw something?" He asked.

"I don't know, I thought I did but like I said it didn't show up on here that anyone had swiped in… maybe I imagined it or something, sorry to panic you" I answered.

"It's OK. Look if you do see something then let me know, it might be nothing but it might also be something so make sure you let me know and I'll have a look, don't go having a look around yourself and get hurt OK… that's what I'm here for" He explained and we both laughed before he walked off again.

Becker's POV

Since I walked into the ARC tonight I have had this uneasy feeling which is why I went and seen Jess pretty much straight away when we got here in Lester's office, I wanted to make sure that she was OK because I know what she's like. Jess is a very curious person and if she sees something she will go and investigate it and could potentially hurt herself and that's the last thing I want to happen to her.

It's not much of a secret that me and Jess flirt at work and we sometimes touch each other's shoulders or brush our hands off one another just for that little bit of contact between us, I like Jess a lot and I know she like me too but having a relationship being in this job is difficult and it is slightly made easier that Jess works here too and I don't have to lie to her about what I do but I just don't think it's a sensible thing to do right now. Plus Jess is a young beautiful woman who has guys falling at her feet and I'm sure one of them could treat her better then I could, not matter how much it kills me to see her with another man it's just something else that I have had to sacrifice for this job. Of course it's one of the harder sacrifices.

Just as I walked past corridor three I thought I saw movement out of the corner of my eye "Jess can you look on CCTV on corridor three I think I just saw something?" I said over the comm.

"I've got eyeball on you know and I can't see anyone else, let me just rewind it a few seconds and see" She said and went silent "Yeah I see a shadow but I don't see anybody, maybe you should have a look" she said.

I looked around the corner and started walking down the corridor, I know the CCTV down here has been playing up the last couple days so I knew that I was on my own down here but I had my comm if I needed help from someone for any reason but I would have preferred it if I had an EMD with me.

Walking down the corridor I looked all over and in all of the labs but there wasn't anything in there an no one around "There's no one here Jess, just keep a look out" I told her and she said she would. Ten minutes passed and I went into the armoury where I seen that two of the EMD boxes had been emptied, I looked on the check out seat but no one had taken them and everyone who was supposed to have EMDs already had them booked out, where the hell where they "Jess I've got two missing EMDs" I told her.

"I've looked on the CCTV and the camera doesn't cover them and I've looked on the cameras surrounding the doors but no one has come in or out… Becker maybe you should check the air conditioning system in case all of the shadows we've been seeing are actually people who are hiding from us" She explained.

"Yeah I think you're right, sound the intruder alarm and evacuate everyone out I don't want anyone getting hurt and ask all on duty soldiers to come to my position so we can check the vents.

Jess' POV

I sounded the intruder alarm and checked on the CCTV camera's to make sure that everyone was leaving and I couldn't see anyone left in the building so I grabbed my bag and made my way towards my closes exit and was met by two of the soldiers who explained that Becker sent them to escort me out safely without any complications, if only life was that easy. I noticed they were armed with the big heavy duty EMDs that take down T-Rex's, they were going to use these on an intruder…. They'll kill them.

They didn't think that it was safe to take the lift so we had to use the stairs and we made it to the third floor when we heard laughing coming from below us blocking our path so we had no choice but to go up, they used the comms to get through to Becker "They're blocking the stairs going down, we don't know how many there is or what weapons they have, what shall we do?" One of them asked.

"Take Jess to the roof and try and get hold of Matt and explain the situation to him then make sure he knows that Jess is on the roof, give her a hand gun and ammo. Show her how to use it, one of you wait with her until Matt or someone shows up and the other come back down to me and help" He said and we started making our way to the armoury to get the gun and ammo.

Three men blocked us going up and looking down there was another two "Captain they're here and they've trapped us. We have five here and they are all heavily armed, we're on floor four what shall we do?" The other asked.

"I'm on my way… keep Jess safe" He ordered.