[Update 1.1] Daddy 2.0 Vs the Deadliest Dino Alive


Hello, online Journal that Lester's people are making me write for my own 'mental health'.

How is everyone reading this doing today? I know you said that this would be completely private and after everything that's happened in my life – mainly almost been eaten, kidnapped by my birth giver and now everything that's happened today – I should have somewhere to express everything I've been feeling and thinking. Mainly because I won't tell one of you lot, as these days I barely trust James Lester and that's been a year in the making I'm not going to trust some random Government person with all my thoughts. Nope!

To the point in all this, and why for the first time in months I've actually decided to update and write one of these. You see I never saw the need, I could always tell my dad how I felt and what was going on in my head. Then everything that happened today happened and now I don't know where else to turn to talk about it. That sounds dramatic AF, let me back up and start from the very beginning – I've heard that's a very good place to start (sorry I saw an opportunity and took it).

I've always known that we were playing with the unknown when it came to the Anomalies. Yes, my dad and I had many theories, and other than Helen, we probably knew the most about them. Even then, our work was based mainly on luck and guesswork.

*Edit*

Conner has just emailed me and said that to the unknown person Helen means nothing so I should tell you who the hell she is, even if I don't want to. Helen is my mother. Who we don't talk about, as she abandoned me and my dad to travel through the anomalies. My father and I discovered these anomalies and along with that came the rest of our crazy lives.

See these Anomalies are gateways in time, and 9 times out of 10 something always comes through to our world that's not meant to be there. Someone has to put them back and seeing as the best of the best – my dad, myself, Stephen Hart (a weapons expert and Animal tracker), Abby Maitland (general animal whisper) and Conner Temple (Ultimate Nerd but amazing on a computer) where all there to find the first Anomalie known to the government, so we were the ones the government hired to do the Dino and Anomalie research full time. See now everyone is caught up.

This also proves that this supposed personal journal isn't so personal if Conner Temple is reading it.

Hi Conner! I might get you to privatise this even more next time I see you! Thanks, K. :)

Now to the story of today, it was a fairly normal day – considering what we do for work. My dad had to accompany a litter of baby future creatures into the Anomalie, because (according to the birth machine who also was there) their parents had escaped from the future into the Permian and then into our present day, both of whom were now dead thanks to Stephen. My dad being who he is, a job would only be done correctly if he did it himself. Both of us had discussed the implications of the creatures didn't get back to their own time – the whole of the future being re-written is something no one should play with. So he decided to go into the Anomalie and see them through to the future himself, along with a special force's man called Ryan and my mother – Helen Cutter. The moment she said she'd go I knew she was going to slip into another Anomalie and out my life again and honestly I couldn't have pushed her into the damn thing quick enough. The woman had the audacity to ask me to come with them too! Like, HELL NO! She dragged me into one of those things before trying to take me from dad, like hell was I going to give her yet another opportunity to do it again!

So once they entered, there wasn't really much for us to do. The team from the ARC were monitoring the Anomalie – so was Conner as he flitted around it with his compass out. I had settled myself upon Stephen's Jeep phone out knowing that the trip my parents were going to take could either take minutes or hours – Time worked differently on the other side of the Anomalies – so it was better to just settle myself expecting the long wait and if it wasn't hours I'd be pleasantly surprised.

Of course, the latter happened, and the wait was just going onto the 4th hour before something exciting happened. I had given up playing on my phone – there was only so much internet scrolling a girl could do – and I had decided that sunbathing on the car bonnet was the best idea.

"There is movement!" Conner shouted from by the Anomalie, causing me to groan and opening one of my eyes to see soldiers running to the site and preparing for the worst while still keeping their distance.

"Come on Kiddo," Stephen spoke up from where he was leaning, holding a hand out to me. I rolled my eyes at him but grabbed his hand and let him pull me off the bonnet. Once I was on my feet my godfather threw an arm around my shoulders and led me to the Anomalie, "Just think of it, once this is all over us two and your old man can finally have the catch up we need."

I almost laughed at that. It had recently come to light that Stephen and my mother – when she was around I mean – were having an affair. I honestly didn't give a damn, Helen was bad news as far as I could tell and I would choose Stephen and my dad raising me over her any day. Lucky for me, that's what had happened to me. The news, however, I knew was going to affect my dad more than it did for me. He loved Helen, and Stephen was his closest friend – that kind of betrayal hurts deep and I knew when he did find out he would he need to get a lot of his chest when it came to Stephen. "I don't think I need to be a part of any of that conversation," I told the man.

"But your day won't murder me with witnesses!" Stephen joked causing a bubble of laughter to escape from me. That was also true. Abby shot the pair of us a confused look as we reached her, but before she could say anything figures could be seen coming from the Anomalie.

I recognised the figured immediately, I could recognise both of them in a crowded room. However, the looks on the faces of my parents as they ran through the Anomalie had me confused.

"What happened?" Lester said, stepping forward, "Did you find the Anomalie?"

"Captain Ryan didn't make it." My dad told him, "And all his men are dead. Whatever happens, nobody goes back through." As he spoke my eyes remained on my mother. She was looking from person to person, her head tilted as she tried to figure out what was going on until her eyes finally landed on me. I saw her look from me to my dad until her hand went to her mouth. At first, I thought she was trying to hide some kind of look of shock until I saw the smirk. She was trying to hide her glee. Which caused me to shoot her a look of disgust. Here my dad was telling us we had lost and man and my mother was trying not to giggle like a school girl. Aghhh.

"Well I'm sorry to break your new rule so soon Nick," Helen started walking forward to me and moving a tendril of hair from my face as she looked at me. I got the idea she was studying me like I was some new discovery of hers. Before I could tell her where she could shove her hand she had turned around to face my dad, "But I'm not staying."

Her movement had caused Dad to look at me, and I could swear he did a double take, before looking to Helen, "so why did you come back through for?"

"Oh just a little research and ah, unfinished business..." She looked to Stephen and it took everything in me not to make a gagging sound as I understood her implication. My dad looked to Stephen too as Helen kept talking, "You see Nick it was just one of those things... I was lonely and you didn't seem to care about me and Stephen was soo." She paused for dramatic effect, "sweet..."

"Aghhh Slut!" I muttered from next to Abby knowing from where my mother stood she could hear me though causing her to turn and send me an unamused look.

"Shut up Helen," Stephen commented, glancing at me before looking to my dad worried. We had discussed how to tell Nick everything, but of course, Helene ruined everything!

"Oh you mean you never told him." She innocently replied, before glancing to Nick, "Oh dear..."

"What an extremely awkward moment." Lester dryly commented as the silence went on.

"You see, I don't want to be on my own anymore..." Helen told my dad, before glancing at me. I made sure to back up so I was out of her grabbing range. Abby saw my movement and stepped a little in front of me protecting me from my mother. Helen tilted her head at this movement but continued on unfazed, "You once said you'd do anything for me if I gave you the chance," she looked to Stephen, "well here it is. Come with me."

"Don't do this," Stephen warned her.

"Well falling for one of your students is never a good idea, but, em," she turned to Nick, "sometimes these things happen. You know?"

The anger that had been building up inside my dad finally spilled over as he looked at Stephen and venomously spoke, "How could you keep that from me? For so many years?"

Stephen moved forward past Helen, his focus on Nick, "There was no point in saying anything. It was a long time ago, in the past."

"The past has a habit of coming back these days, doesn't it." Helen pipped up before walking past both the men. Nick looked at Stephen before moving away towards the group at large. "Well? Are you coming" Helen asked once she was near the Anomalie again.

Stephen looked towards Nick and then turned his head to Abby and Conner before finally landing on me. I couldn't help myself, I couldn't lose someone else. I mouthed the words, "Please don't." to him and hoped that was enough to make him stay with us.

Stephens' head turned back to Helen, "you know what I've forgotten Helen? Sometimes you can be a real bitch!" with that he backed up towards our little team again, making it clear where his loyalties where. It took everything in me not to let out a little whoop of joy but I could read the room... eh... forest? And knew that probably wasn't the best idea.

Helen looked to Nick for a second before looking to me, "The worlds perfect little Eve." She muttered causing me to pull a face. I hated when she called me that these days, it's like she forgot she had abandoned me as a child or something. With that final comment from her, she turned and strolled back through the Anomalie and hopefully out of our lives again. I let out a sigh and smiled at Abby, thankfully that was one less thing to worry about now.

*Edit* heads up now this is where things got weird for me...

Dad turned to us all with a confused look on his face, "Where's Claudia?" He asked.

"Claudia?" Lester asked.

"Where's Claudia Brown?" he paused before looking to me, "And who is the kid?"

"Dad?" I asked, a bit of fear creeping into my gut. Why was he asking who I was? I was his kid? He knew that. He had made me toast and Jam that morning while dancing to the radio. Why was he asking who I was?!

"I don't know anyone called Claudia Brown," Lester continued, clearly ignoring the second part thinking Dad was pulling some kind of prank on me.

"No come on, where is she?" Dad demanded.

"We really don't know what you're talking about..." Stephen said softly as if talking to a wounded animal and he was trying to gain its trust.

"Never heard of her..." Conner softly added.

This didn't help anything as Dad just got more worked up, "you've been working with her every day for months. Don't tell me you don't know who she is."

"No idea. I'm sorry." Lester softly commented.

This wasn't enough for dad, he ran forward and grabbed the man's suit and shook him, "Where is she?"

"Cutter! We don't know!"

"Dad, none of us have heard of a Claudia Brown." I piped up.

"I'm not your dad!" Nick all but screamed, causing me to back up scared. Conner could read the fear on my face as well as the confusion on Dads. He put two and two together as fast as I had. Something had changed and this Dad wasn't the one who had gone through the Anomalie. This was Daddy 2.0 for me. The best and worst thing about being close to my dad was I could always read him, he and I were always 2 steps ahead of everyone else. So when his eyes widened I knew he had come to the conclusion me and Conner had. Something had changed

"Wait something is wrong," Nick muttered letting go of Lester. "This isn't right, somethings gone wrong. Something's happened. Somethings changed." This wasn't his world. So when he turned to look at the Anomalie I knew exactly what he was thinking – he was going to try to go back to fix things. "Oh my god..."

"It's closing!" Conner yelled as his compass stopped spinning wildly.

"Dad no!" I couldn't help but scream as I watched him make a run for the Anomalie as it went to close. Stephan was thankfully faster, sprinting to Nick and grabbing him and with the help of Conner stopping him from going through the Anomalie.

"No, no, no, no, no!" Nick screamed, "I have to make things right!"

"Don't be stupid!" Stephen muttered as the two men watched the Anomalie close, "You'll get marooned there and you have responsibilities here." The moment the Anomalie shut Stephen let go of Nick causing him to drop to the ground. Clearly the shock of his realisation getting the better of him.

He turned and looked to Lester who was pulling out his phone, clearly about to inform the ARC we were on our way back, "No, No, Claudia Brown. Claudia Brown, she's been with us since the beginning, she was in charge of the day-to-day running of the Anomalie operation." He told the man.

"No, that's Leek, Oliver Leek." Lester informed him, "You can't have forgotten him, you saw him at the ARC this morning."

"The what?" Dad asked confused.

"The ARC." I stepped forward to him, both of us look at each other with confusion, "The Anomaly Research Centre."

"No, No, You mean the Home Office!" Nick informed me causing me to shake my head, and Abby from behind me added.

"No, we moved from that place ages ago." She told dad before putting a hand on my shoulder and went to pull me into one of the cars. Dad, however, had fallen to his back on the ground, he looked a little sick like someone had punched him in the gut.

"Sorry," Lester looked over at us from where he stood near his car, "Is he having a nervous breakdown? I've got a meeting, so Evanna if he is could you call him an ambulance..."

"He's fine." I called over to him and looked to Abby, "One sec okay." I told her and watched her move off to a car before focusing on my new dad. "Look, I know you have no idea who I am, but until we can figure out what's going on I'd recommend you play along, okay," I whisper to him before holding out a hand. I could see in his eyes his mind wurring, trying to figure out if he could trust me or not. I think the familial bond, even if it wasn't truly real, is what caused him to trust me at that moment. I could feel it, he wasn't my dad completely but he was my dad and I would do anything for him, I think he felt that too with me. There was a silent agreement between us at that moment, and I looked to Conner as I helped my dad to the car. His face held enough to worry, concern and confusion for the two of us so I decided to just focus on helping this version of my dad in blending in as much as he could – at least until we could figure out what was going on.

The ARC building has unofficially become my second home, I mean I have even managed to talk Lester into letting me have a bedroom – kinda – in there. My office has a couch that can pull out into a bed. Some of our cases are literally hours in between each other, I need to get as much shut-eye as I can get! The building is this great modern building with lots of steal and white and grey concrete, though the grand space is this huge room which connects all the layers with a walkway that wraps all around it. Of course, the awe of the space has gone now as we have all been living there for months now so as we walked into the room we all separated. Stephen and Abby instantly went to the kitchen area to get drinks and snacks, I went to go to Kayley's lab but Conner pulled me away. So instead I was dragged off to the lockers so Conner could get his skateboard and talk to me about whatever it was he wanted to talk to you about.

*Edit;
Okay, I realised I mentioned Kayley and didn't actually explain who she is. How to describe Kayley Tate...She is elegant, intelligent, utterly dorky, and the only other person who is my age who knows about the Anomalies and works in the building. She is some super genius scientist and knows everything about anything to do with plants... she is hoping to one day be a paleobotanist, and working with our people I'm sure she will be on very soon!*

As he opened his locker I leaned back on mine, watching my dad - or daddy 2.0 as I kept referring to him as in my head – look around the ARC in confused awe. I watched as he stumbled down the corridor and into the main room of the ARC before I realised Conner was talking to me.

"Eve... hello to Evanna..." Conner was waving his hand across my face and the small laugh from Abby causing me to blink and focus back on Conner.

"What?" I asked, trying not to show any irritation. Couldn't he see I was busy worrying about my new dad and the fact he clearly was overwhelmed.

"Are you okay?" Conner asked as he led me down the hallway towards the main area, Abby easily falling in step next to us. Stephen was god knows where but he was in the building so if anything happened (like getting a job) we could reach him easily.

"I'm fine." I reassured Conner before plastering on a fake smile, as Abby pushed open the doors for us, "Look I'm smiling." This caused another laugh from Abby before she moved away to do a debriefing.

Conner, however, didn't have time to reply to my clearly sarcastic reply as my dad demanding, "Who the hell are you?" caused us to turn our heads and pay attention to the situation going on near the base of the ramp. Oliver Leek, a man who reminded me a lot of a rat in a suit – not that I'd never tell him that – was stood next to Lester and my dad.

Lester raised his eyebrows and turned to Leek speaking in a deadpan voice, "oh, yes. Professor Cutter's suffering from some kind of stress-related amnesia." Lester explained, "He seems to have forgotten, well, pretty much everything really."

Dad looked around at everyone working before sending Lester a clearly fake smile, "No, I haven't forgotten a thing. I wish I could."

Lester seemed surprised by his reply but that didn't faze him if there was one thing Evanna admired about Lester was that he rarely was bothered by a lot of things. She knew he cared about them but had to keep his cool and collected appearance in order to be taken seriously, "Now he's being enigmatic as well. What a vivid repertoire. Are you really telling me you don't know who this man is?" he asked Nick gesturing to Leek. Nick, however, was looking around the room, his eyes landing on Conner and myself. I could see he had no clue who Leek was, but thankfully my words from earlier had gotten in as he plastered on a fake smile before looking back at Leek and Lester.

"No, of course, it's Leek. Oliver Leek. I know exactly who he is." Nick told the two men. Conner and I stayed where we were but both of us pretended to be deep in conversation as Lester looked around the room – it wouldn't be the first time both of us got told off by the man for joking around.

"Is this some kind of industrial action?" He called out to everyone, "or did no one hear that we have a creature sighting in a shopping center!"

From behind Conner and me, Stephen came bursting through the room. Looking to the two of us and then Abby, "Guys, come on!" he instructed before leaving the room, Abby following close behind but I decided to hang back and wait for my dad, from the looks of things so did Conner. None of us spoke until we were back in the corridor going towards the locker room and the main entrance... mainly because there were fewer ears there so me and Conner could finally ask Dad what the hell was going on.

"You know," I started breaking the silence that had fallen but making sure to keep my voice low as I walked on the left side of my dad, "You are officially freaking me out."

Nick looked to me but before he could talk Conner pipped in, "You didn't have a clue who Leek was then, did you?"

Nick shook his head.

"Do you know who I am?" I couldn't help but ask, I knew he didn't deep down but part of me hoped that maybe. Just maybe he would miraculously remember.

Dad gave me an apologetic look, "I know who you think I am, but I don't know who you are. I'm sorry."

"Evanna Cutter," I tell him with a sad smile holding out my hand to him, "I think we have a lot to catch up on."

Nick sent me an appreciative smile as he shook my hand, I could tell he was glad I wasn't forcing him to take this role of Father in my life but it could be something we worked towards, "It's nice to meet you Evanna, I look forward to it. Did you know Evanna was my –"

"-mother's name?" I interrupted with a grin, "Yeah, I've heard all the stories of you and Helen arguing over my name. I like you stuck with Evanna it's a nice memory of Granny."

This caused a laugh to erupt from Nick and the sweet family bonding moment was interrupted as Conner finally spoke up, "Let me get this straight. You're saying someone's changed because of what happened in the Permian Anomalie?"

"Evolution has altered course somehow, something that wasn't meant to be there has changed what Dad knew to be normal," I added trying to explain what I assumed had happened. I looked at my dad and saw him nodding his head at what I was explaining.

"I'm glad someone was listening." Nick spoke up, "the real question is do you believe me?"

Conner looked to me but I already had my answer, I did 100%. Even if it was my dad the one I knew in front of me I would believe him too. "I always do," I told Nick, causing him to beam.

"Alright, I'll buy it," Conner told the professor.

"I could kiss you, Conner."

Conner let out an awkward laugh, "That's really sweet but maybe not while those people are watching." This caused me to laugh as Nick pulled me in for a side hug, it seems that even though he didn't know me that evolutionary bond between parents and their young was still very present. Even in two people who knew they were related and how in theory but were still trying to understand that role. I'm talking about me and Daddy 2.0 if anyone didn't understand my really deep metaphor there.

As me and dad started to walk away Conner couldn't help but ask, "One thing, though. How do I know I'm different? When I don't know what I was like before?"

Nick didn't even have to think when replying and for the first time that day I saw a real genuine smile on his face as he called, "Apparently, some people never change."

"Is that a bad or a good thing?" Conner called out after us.


*Season 2, Episode 1 * ~ PT 1 (otherwise this chapter is gonna be like 10,000 words long or something insane!)

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