Primeval -Season 2
Chapter one
The Raptors
After Kara had pointed out the closing Anomaly behind her father. Nick turned, "Oh my god" he said
"Its closing" Connor said looking up from the compass he held in his hand. Nick and Kara glanced at one another as Nick started for the anomaly. Stephen stepped forward and grabbed Nick to stop him getting back through as Connor gripped Kara to stop her from doing the same
"No. We have to go…We have to make things right!" Nick said as Stephen restrained him.
"Don't be stupid, you'll get marooned there." Stephen said holding Nick back. Suddenly right in front of them the anomaly closed. Leaving both Kara and Nick in this new world they had stepped back into
Stephen let go of Nick as Connor did the same to the struggling teenager. "Something's happened. Something's happened while we where in there. Something's changed" Nick said facing the group.
Kara joined her father infront of everyone. "The world's evolved differently." She said. Wondering what could have happened in the past to cause Claudia to disappear.
"On my way. I think we're done here, aren't we?" Lester said as he hung up the phone.
"No, no, Claudia Brown" Nick said turning to Lester and running after him. He stopped infront of him.
"Claudia Brown, she's been with us since the beginning, she was in charge of the day-to-day running of the anomaly operation." Kara said from behind Lester
"No, it's Leek. Oliver Leek. You can't have forgotten him, you saw him at the ARC this morning." Lester said looking at the teenager
"The what?" both Nick and Kara asked together
"The ARC. The Anomaly Resource Centre." Abby interjected
"No, no, you mean Home Office." Nick said looking at Abby
"No we moved from that place ages ago" Abby stated
Kara looked from Abby to her father then back to where the Anomaly had just closed on them. What had happened? What had changed?
"Sorry, are they having a nervous breakdown? Anyhow, I've got a meeting, so if someone could call an ambulance…" Lester said walking towards the car waiting for him
"Their fine" Abby said looking at Kara and Nick in confusment
"Getting a little old for imaginary friends, Professor." Lester said over his shoulder at Nick. Kara ignored him and helped her father off of the ground where he now kneeled. She helped him back to the car where he got in the front passenger seat as she climbed into the back with Connor and Abby.
Castle Cross Shopping Mall
The shopping mall was deserted, everyone had gone home leaving only the two security guards. In the surveillance room checking for any intruders of break in's.
One of the security guards, sat at the computers checking them over, when his partner opened the door and closed it leaning down beside his friend. "Quiet night" he said
Suddenly on one of the monitors, a bowling ball was seen moving back to the starting point, down in the games room. "What the?" one of the security guards murmured, "Spoke to soon, probably kids" He sighed. Before grabbing a radio and heading out the door to see what was going on.
Down in the arcade, he searched but didn't see any kids. He walked the length of the bowling lane until he heard a commotion behind the bowling stands. There was a snarling sound as he crouched down and shone his torch to see what was going on "Okay funs over" he said, before a half eaten pin was thrown towards him.
"I need back-up. We've got an intruder" He said over the radio to his partner.
The second security guard left the surveillance room to go help.
"Don't make me come in there and get you" The guy said as the intruder didn't show himself
After waiting a bit, he stood and left for the back of the Bowling stands. He shone his torch to see what was going on. There was squawking and clattering coming from one stand. And within seconds a giant lizard like creature jumped at him. His screams where heard by his partner back in the arcade.
The second security guard walked half way out onto the bowling lane, when he heard screeching. He run back to the main part of the game room, where he heard snarling and crashing. He run from the room and only made it half way out when he was attacked.
Back at the ARC. Stephen parked outside as he, Abby, Connor, Kara and Nick walked into the building. Stephen, Abby and Connor left for different rooms. Kara's gaze followed Connor into what seemed to be the Locker room, her gaze landed on two lockers particularly, one had her name on it, and the other had her fathers.
Still looking around, Nick continued moving forwards, Kara soon caught up with him. "Evening Professor. Miss Cutter." Said a woman as she passed. Kara looked at her confused, wondering who she was
Pushing open the double doors, Kara stepped into the main part of the ARC. She took her time to look around but was soon interrupted by Lester's voice, breaking through her silence.
"What we got?" She heard him ask
"New creature reports" Came an unfamiliar voice
"An intercepted emergency call at the Castle Cross shopping mall…Security guard screaming something about a monster" The unfamiliar voice added. Kara turned in the direction of this voice to see another man walking towards her and her father alongside Lester.
"A shopping mall? God help us" Lester commented reading the paper he had received
"I've instructed the police to stay out of it until we've investigated…Oh Professor, glad to see you and your daughter are back well and safe. Though I hear your wife won't be joining us" The unfamiliar man said stopping infront of them.
Kara glanced at her father, and could see by his expression that he didn't know who this guy was. She had to admit neither did she. And she also didn't like the way he was watching her, it made her feel uneasy.
"Who the hell are you?" Kara asked before her father could. The smirk on the man's face faltered at this question
"Oh, yes. Professor Cutter and his daughter seem to be suffering from some kind of Stress-related amnesia…They seem to have forgotten, well, pretty much everything, really." Lester said remembering the incident back in the Forest of Dean
"No. We haven't forgotten a thing. Wish we could" Kara commented
"Now she's being enigmatic as well! What a vivid repertoire. You really telling me you don't know who this man is?" Lester asked. Kara refused to answer as she simply stared at Lester, pure dislike looming in her eyes.
Nick looked at Kara seeing as she wasn't going to answer, and knew it was cause she didn't know the answer. So in her defence he looked behind him at Connor as if he was gonna give him the answer. Before turning back to face Lester. "No, of course we know who he is. It's Leek, Oliver Leek. We know exactly who he is." Nick answered
"Is this some kind of industrial action, or did no-one hear that we have a creature-sighting in a shopping mall?" Lester asked looking around
"Guys, come on" Stephen said as she entered the main building behind them. Kara turned to face him, the scene in the Forest replying in her mind. She couldn't believe that Stephen had slept with her mum. She didn't know what she was going to do now, she loved this guy. Yet she was mad at him for what he had done.
Out of the corner of her eye she could see the blank expression on her fathers face, and she knew he felt the same way. Stephen was like his oldest friend, and yet he had slept with his wife and kept it away from him.
"Cutter has always been eccentric, but im beginning to think he's just plain deranged" Kara heard Lester say as she followed her father. She growled lowly at the comment but didn't turn or say anything. She didn't stay long enough to hear the response from Leek.
XxX
"You didn't have a clue who Leek was then did you?" Connor asked as Kara joined him and her father
"Nope" She answered
"Okay. I never thought I'd say this to you Kara, but your officially freaking me out here" He said. Kara threw him a glare daring him to challenge her. "Let me get this straight, you're saying that something's changed, because of what happened in the Permian anomaly?. Like evolution has jus altered course" he added, clearly accepting the challenge Kara had set
"Glad somebody was listening" Nick said stopping causing Kara to stop, so she would walk into him
"You believe us?" Kara asked turning her attention back to her friend
"All right, I'll buy it." Connor said after a minute of thinking
"I could kiss you, Connor" Nick said. Kara suppressed a smile at least someone believed her and her father
"That's really sweet, but maybe not while those people are watching" Connor responded. Kara rolled her eyes and started walking as her father walked on.
"One thing though. How do I know I'm different, when I don't know what I was like before?" He added catching up with her
"Apparently, some people never change" Nick said as he turned the corner to leave the ARC.
"Is that a good or a bad thing?" he asked, as Kara smiled and pulled Connor with her out of the building. Once outside they all climbed into Nick's Silver pick up as Stephen drove them to the Shopping mall.
Leaning against the back of her father's car, as Stephen and Abby unloaded the guns. Kara looked over at her father who was standing infront of the car alone. She was snapped out of her thoughts when she heard Stephen speak.
"What are we using?" He asked. Kara turned around to see he was talking to Abby who was filling some tranquilizer darts with a sliver liquid.
"Ketemine Phenyl. But it would help if i knew what size creature we were dealing with. I've had a guess at the dosage." She responded taking the gun he held out to her
"Where's my gun?" Connor asked stopping beside Kara and opening the top of a box.
"Abby's got one" He said after everyone was silent. "And Kara has" he added seeing Kara remove one of the guns from the cases on the back of the truck.
"They know how to use them" Stephen said holding up the gun he was going to use
"How many animals have you tranquilised?" Abby asked
"I've played darts. You know sometimes I think you don't trust me with firearms" Connor defended. Kara rolled her eyes for the second time that night.
"Don't know what gives you that idea" Kara said turning to face him as she readied the gun in her hand. "You ready?" She added as an after thought
"Yeah" Abby said as the three of them walked towards the front of the truck, Connor following behind.
"So what now?" Stephen asked. From behind Nick. Kara beside him.
Nick turned to face the four of them "We go in" He stated shortly. Kara walked towards the building beside her father. Stephen, Connor and Abby behind them
XxX
As the five of them reached the shutters of the Shopping Mall. They where stopped by rattling from the other side. Abby and Kara both aimed their guns at the shutters and Stephen wasnt far behind them. The shutters raised as each one of them expected a creature to be on the other side. But it turned out to be a guy, who held his hands up in defence when he saw three guns being pointed at him
"Who are you?" Nick asked sighing
"Duty manager" he responded
"Tell us what happened" Stephen inquired walking forwards
"We got an emergency call from one of our operatives. We haven't been able to raise him since." The duty manager explained
"What did he say?" Kara asked
"He didn't really say anything, he just sort of screamed" The duty manager responded
"Did you see anything in there?" Nick asked moving forward
The duty manager shook his head in answer.
"I want you to close these shutters behind us, and I don't want you to open them until I tell you its safe, because what ever happens, it mustn't get out" Nick said. Kara, Abby, Connor and Stephen entered the building as the duty manager left and closed the shutters. Before they where fully closed he asked "Hang on, who the hell are you lot?"
Kara hung back with Abby and Connor to make sure the duty manager did as told. When he did she left to catch up with her dad and Stephen. "Are you okay?" She heard Stephen ask. She sighed knowing he was going to talk to her after he talked to her dad and she didn't want to deal with it right now. She instead of stopping beside them she carried on walking ahead of them
"About what?" She heard her father ask
"Cant ignore what happened?" Stephen responded
"Oh, you mean, the fact that you slept with my wife?, Stephen if you're looking for closure, I'm a little bit busy"
"I don't blame you for being angry"
"Look, Helen never cared about either of us. She had a 10 year old daughter when she left and she didn't care about her. She's mad" Nick said, temper rising slightly
"Mad?" Stephen questioned. Kara could feel someone's eyes on her and she figured it was him
"She took off through the anomaly for 8 years; does that strike you as well-balanced? Just forget her. Im finished with the past. It's just, I don't know if it's finished with me" Nick said catching up with Kara.
Once in the Surveillance room, Kara and Connor took up the chairs so they could operate the computers and search for the creature. Something Kara had been doing on her way up here. But she hadn't seen anything. But like she had informed the others, a camera picks up 50 more on screen than any human could by just walking around
"Can you get any closer?" Nick asked them both
Connor hit the some buttons, as the camera's changed slightly.
"Come on, show us what you are." Nick said quietly
Suddenly something run by on the second floor.
"Whats that?" Kara asked spotting the blur
"Not sure" Connor said as he replayed the camera, the creature came back onto the screen and Kara paused the camera.
"Cretaceous era, theropod dinosaur. Genuine article" Kara whispered
"Raptor. I always thought we'd get one someday." Connor said staring at the screen in amazement. Kara smiled as she glanced at him before looking back at the screen
"It's beautiful" Nick murmured. Suddenly the raptor lunged at the camera destroying it. The team jumped back in surprise
"I said it was beautiful, I didn't say it was friendly" Nick added as an after thought
After leaving the safety of the Surveillance room, Kara, Nick and the others walked into the Game room cautiously. All on their guard knowing the raptor could be anywhere. Nick and Stephen started to spread out as Connor started back for the door. Abby and Kara turned and stopped him. "Oi! Where you going?" They asked
"Going to get a slushy. Shh" He answered and run off. Kara looked at Abby and shook her head. Before they both took off after him.
XxX
"Oi! Hope you're going to pay for that" Abby said as they found Connor near the slushy machine
"Yeah, if you can lend me a fiver." He said
Kara sighed as Abby took out a fiver and handed it to Connor, before the two girls turned away and started walking back the way they came
"Thank you Abby" They heard Connor say
Kara and Abby stopped in their tracks when they heard hissing come from behind them where they left Connor. They looked at each other before turning around slowly to see Connor backing up.
"Girls!" He said shortly
"What?" They asked
"Close the shutter"
"Okay" Abby said as she and Kara run towards the shutter and started to close it
"Run Connor" Kara shouted as the shutter started to close as Connor run towards them, the Raptor behind him
"Connor run" Abby yelled
"Come on" The two girls yelled at the same time. The raptor was gaining, so Connor threw the slushy he had in his hand at it before sliding under the shutters as they closed. The three heard the rattling of the Shutters as the raptor collided with them. Kara heard running from behind her and she turned to see Nick and Stephen running towards them.
"Argh…hate that" Connor said groaning.
"What?" Nick asked
"Brain freeze from the Slushy" Connor responded placing a hand to his head. Kara glared at him as he lay near her; she hit him in the shoulder and stood up walking away from him.
"Idiot" she muttered. The raptor hit the shutters again as Connor let out a breath.
"Right, go check the atrium make sure we can contain her" Nick said as Kara stopped beside him
"We need more fire power. This is a raptor." Stephen said as he and Nick headed towards the parking lot. Abby, Kara and Connor trailing behind.
"I've just lost a friend because we disrupted nature once to often, and I don't intend on letting it happen again" Nick stated
"You sure you're okay?" Stephen asked.
Kara watched as her father stopped walking and turned to face Stephen, she stopped a few meters away from them as Connor and Abby stopped beside her. She shared a glance with each of them as she heard her father speak
"Under the circumstances, I'd say I was doing pretty well." They both nodded and Kara sighed in relief as she saw both had small smiles on their faces. That when they heard it, Hissing coming from the hall near theirs. Kara, Connor and Abby took the remaining steps towards Nick and Stephen, as they turned towards the sound.
"Wait" Nick said holding his hand out and stopping Kara from moving forward any further "Kara, give me your gun, stay here" He added. Kara nodded and handed her gun over to her father as he and Stephen walked down the Hallway towards the hissing, Kara stood beside Connor holding her breath, praying that if it was the Raptor, that her father and Stephen would be able to get it, before it got them.
"You're good?" She heard her father ask as he turned to Stephen. Stephen nodded. Down the hallway where the noise was coming from came a shadow, "Go" Nick said as he and Stephen turned the remained of the corner and held their guns at firing point, but instead of the Raptor coming at them came the night cleaner at the mall.
"Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. Don't Shoot." He said turning off his machine and holding his hands up in defence.
Stephen dropped his hands as he sighed in frustration
"Abby, Connor and Kara, get this guy out of here." Nick said. Kara sighed in frustration at how many more people where actually in the building with this Raptor on the loose. Nick walked back towards them as he handed the gun back to his daughter. Kara watched as Stephen answered his phone, before following Abby and Connor down the hallway the cleaner had just come from.
"Come on, you'll be fine" She heard Abby say as the guy followed them
XxX
Kara, Abby, Connor and the guy they where escorting out of the building, where on the Escalators heading down to the main floor when the Cleaner broke the silence around them.
"I haven't got my jacket" He said.
"You can get it later" Kara answered
"I need my wallet and my keys" He responded, Kara bit her tongue to stop her from responding as she turned to Connor and Abby and nodded, saying that he could retrieve his jacket before they escorted him out.
As they stepped off on the ground floor they found themselves following the cleaner under the Mall to the Locker rooms, so he could retrieve his belongings. As they reached the door, Kara and Abby took their positions and held their guns out infront of them incase the Raptor had found its way down to the Room. Connor hit the switch on the wall illuminating the small room in brightness.
"Wait! did you leave that door open?" Abby asked glancing over her shoulder
"What? I don't remember" Came her reply
"Give me the gun" Connor said
"What?" Abby and Kara asked neither looking at him
"Come on, please?" Connor asked again
"No, no" Kara answered alone this time
"It's just for a minute. You wanna go first?" He said looking at the two girls. Kara and Abby shared a glance before Kara handed the Gun to Connor. Kara couldn't believe how close her and Abby where in this other place.
"Thank you" Connor said as he entered the room as if he where in some sort of movie. Kara and Abby watched, in disbelief, but Kara couldn't help but smile at how much Connor acted like a kid.
After a while she heard Connor shouting. "Clear! Clear, guys". Not commenting on his moves, Kara walked towards him.
"Connor" Abby called, Connor made his way towards her. "You're ridiculous" She added
"What?" Connor asked
"She said your ridiculous" Kara repeated in nearly a whisper standing beside both of them
"What do you mean, Im ridiculous? Im just doing my job" Connor said in self-defence. Neither of them had noticed the Cleaner open his locker until there was a screeching sound and screaming. Turning to face the Cleaner, their eyes opened wide, before looking at each other and approaching the slowly dying cleaner, his throat had been slashed by the small raptor. Kara turned away from the blood as Abby and Connor moved forward searching for the raptor. Not seeing anything, the neared the end of the Lockers where they could here chittering coming from under a bench on the other side. Connor, Abby and Kara shared a look with one another before trying to get a glimpse of the reptile
Abby aimed her gun one end of the bench as Connor did the same on the opposite side, seeing as she couldn't get a clear shot she looked at Connor.
"Got it, got it. It's fine" He said
"Come on" Kara said to the both of them
"It's not exactly staying still for us" Connor said in both his and Abby's defence
"Just shoot it!" Kara said sounding frustrated
"Got it, I've got it" Connor said firing his gun, only to hit Kara in the leg. Instantly Abby was on her feet as she held Kara, as she fell into her. Slowly Abby lowered Kara to the floor and looked up at Connor. "Shoot it now!" she said. Connor nodded and shot and hit his intended target.
XxX
After loading the unconscious Kara onto a moving trailer they left in search of Nick and Stephen. Neither said a word to each other as they moved to the Ground floor. Abby spotted the professor and Stephen and shouted for them
"Professor! Stephen!" Connor stopped as Nick and Stephen, reached them
"What happened?" Nick asked, kneeling beside his daughter.
"He shot her" Abby said pointing at Connor
"Collateral damage, though. Cause I got the raptor, too" Connor said as he looked at Abby before turning back to Nick
"You brought down a full size raptor on your own?" Nick asked
"Yeah" Connor said
"He's nearly full size. Is she gonna be okay?" He asked moving the topic back to Kara
"She'll have a nasty headache, but she should be fine" Stephen said
"Well, she better come around soon cause im gonna need all of you to get the raptors back alive" Nick stated
"Alive?" Connor and Abby asked
"Yeah" Nick said
"These things are trying to make sushi out of us and we have to play nice, that doesn't seem fair" Connor said nervously
Nick stood and walked away from his unconscious daughter, Stephen followed and pointed at Kara and looking at Connor, telling him to watch her.
Back down in the Locker room, where they where to retrieve the small raptor, the cleaners body was gone.
"The cleaner was attacked…he was badly injured…I don't get it, he was right there" Connor said
"He was in a really bad way" Abby said
"Well, he must have recovered and got himself out" Nick said looking at the small raptor. He knelt down to pick up the raptor as it moved. "One raptor is a problem, two means we've got an infestation, and God knows how many others are running around out there…I want you to take this back to the bowling alley and come and meet us over at the store" Nick said standing back up
"On my own?" Connor asked
"Take Abby with you…And don't worry, it's unconscious" Nick said looking at Connor
"What if it's just playing dead?" Connor asked
"Playing dead?...Well, it's a Cretaceous-era predator. So this creature is pretty smart, so…Yeah, he's probably…Watch out for that" Nick said turning away and leaving the room.
Back in the bowling alley, Connor stopped pulling the trailer with the unconscious Kara on it and glanced at Stephen. "She's gonna kill me when she wakes up" he said
"Mmm-hmm" Stephen and Abby answered
In the surveillance room Connor entered as Nick spoke
"First security guard was attacked here, second one here both attacks happened within seconds of one another, which means there are at least two of them" Nick said as Connor entered the surveillance room
"We've only found one" Stephen said
"Yeah"
"And a baby" Connor said from behind them. Stephen, Abby and Nick looked up at Connor as Nick spoke
"What are you doing here; you're supposed to be looking after Kara" he said, looking back at the screen, there was a raptor running around out there and Connor had left his unconscious daughter alone
"Thought you where doing that?" Connor said turning to Stephen. Stephen shook his head at Connor. Abby threw her head back in disbelief at Connor's stupidity.
"Look" Nick said as he spotted the second raptor on the screen
"Oh, God Kara" Connor said
"Stay here; tell us where it's going" Nick said, as he, Stephen and Abby left
"Right. Stay here, tell them where it's going" Connor muttered picking up a radio and looking at the screens "Where's it gone?" He asked himself, as he couldn't see the raptor on the screens
As Connor searched frantically for the raptor on the screens, muttering to himself. Nick, Stephen and Abby where running towards the bowling alley. Finally finding the Raptor on the screen, Connor spoke through the radio
"I can see it, Cutter. It's on the level beneath you. I repeat, in the level below" He said. Cutter, "I can't see it, it's disappeared again" He said "where's it gone? Oh, for crying out loud how hard can it be to see a raptor in a shopping centre?" he added to himself. Finding it once more on the floor leading to the bowling Alley he panicked
"Oh, my God. Guys, it's heading straight towards the bowling alley. It's going towards Kara, you're gonna have to be quick, it's moving pretty fast." He said. As Nick, Stephen and Abby ran towards the Bowling Alley, all Nick could think about was getting to his daughter in time
"Come on, come on, come on, guys, you can do this" Connor muttered to himself watching the screens. Stephen, Nick and Abby run into the Bowling Alley to see Kara was lying where she had been left. Nick sighed in relief
"Connor she's fine" Nick's voice said through the radio. Connor sighed in relief as he left the room for the Bowling Alley
"Oh, she's coming around again...I'll just give it a quick" Stephen said as the small raptor started to wake. He knelt down ready to inject it so it would return to its slumber
"No hang on, just wait a minute…There are three raptors, one of them a baby, so chances are they're a family unit. So, maybe we don't have to go looking for daddy. 'Cause maybe this little fellow will bring him to us." Nick said
After tying up the small raptor, "That's right, you shout for your daddy" Nick said "Now let's just hope they're a close family" He added as Connor approached him.
"Where do you want me?" He asked
"I want you in there with Kara. Go" Nick said pointing towards his daughter he took the gun off of Connor as he, Stephen and Abby got into their positions. Somewhere they had an easy shot, but wouldn't be seen
After a while of nothing but the sounds of the baby, a larger raptor came into view, responding to the sounds of the baby's squawks. But as they larger raptor got closer, it attacked and killed the baby, much to everyone's surprise. As this was going on, Kara started to come around, oblivious to the danger around her she stood up
"What's going on?" she asked. Causing everyone including the raptor to look in her direction. The raptor started hissing, as Connor stood, gripped her hand and pulled her with him
"I'll tell you later" he said
The raptor jumped on and off a pool table, as it shook off the tranquilizer darts, which Stephen and Abby shot at it. It continued to hiss at Kara and Connor
"Watch out" Connor shouted as he threw a pool cue at Kara, who caught it. They stood back to back, as the raptor approached them. That's when upbeat music started playing from a nearby machine, startling the raptor. Connor and Kara looked at one another, as the other's fired darts at the lizard causing it to run off
"What just happened?" Connor asked, as the raptor fled
"That's two does of tranquiliser and its still on its feet, we're gonna have to up the amount" Nick answered. Stephen put his gun down and left. Nick looked back at his daughter, Connor and Abby and followed Stephen, leaving the other three where they where.
"How you feeling?" Abby asked Kara.
Kara looked up at her "Like I want to kill someone" she said looking at Connor, who backed away slightly. Before Kara could say or do anything, her father's voice came over the radio Connor had
"Connor, where the hell are you? We're on our way up to the second floor"
After hitting the male raptor, Nick and Stephen took the two raptors back to where the anomaly was, Abby following them leaving Connor with a rather irritated Kara.
"Ow." Kara groaned as she descended the stairs
"How you feeling?" Connor asked hoping she still wasn't mad at him
"Terrible" She answered
"Do you want me to get you anything? I could run and get you a class of water…"
"Stop fussing, Connor, im fine."
"Okay"
Silence engulfed them as they slowly descended the stairs, "You know, Kara. I want you to know something, if I was going to shoot anyone, you'd so be the last person I'd shoot. Apart from my mother, obviously, but you'd be way down the bottom of the list with her. In fact I don't think I'd shoot either of you" He said taking the gun out from behind him
Kara turned to face him, she was still irritated from the fact that he had shot her and didn't want to be reminded of it. "Can we drop this?" she asked
"Yeah" Connor said looking up at her
"Can you move the gun out of the Kara area?" she said pushing the gun away from her
"Sure" he said
"Thanks" She finished as she stepped off the last step
"Go, I've got your back" Connor said as she stopped and looked at him.
As Connor and Kara finally entered the room where the anomaly was, they saw Abby kneeling near the raptors, doing something.
"It feels strange, His bone structure feels more like a bird's wing than anything reptilian" Kara heard Abby say as she moved closer, she rested against the wall as her father walked towards the anomaly
"So, let me get this straight. All we have to do is drag two of the angriest creatures in the known universe, through a hole in time back into a world where we don't know whats waiting on the other side for us?" Connor asked
Kara slid down the wall she rested against and looked up at him, a small grin playing on her lips "When you put it like that, it sounds easy" she answered looking at her dad
"Im going to do this on my own" Nick said turning to face them.
"We'll help" Abby said
"Who's 'we'?" Connor said looking down at Abby. Kara and Abby both glared up at him
"I didn't say I wouldn't. I just prefer if I could do my own volunteering. Thank you" He defended
"Look, im gonna do this on my own. I don't want any arguments. Connor" Nick interjected. Kara instantly knew what her father was getting at, and seeing as she couldnt walk properly she knew she wasn't going with him this time.
"How long have I got?" She heard her father ask as Connor joined him
"Uh…I don't know. You know, it's hard to say. Ninety percent of the anomalies are gone within hours. This ones been here most of the night already" Connor answered
"Come with me" Nick said as he and Connor left.
"You know what he's going to do right?" Kara asked looking up at Stephen and Abby. She didn't get a reply as her father and Connor returned.
XxX
"Cutter, I've been meaning to ask you, this Claudia Brown, what was she like?" Abby asked. Causing Kara to look her way, she was still sitting on the floor resting against the wall.
"What does it matter? I mean, to you, she never even existed" Nick answered, even though he couldn't help but smile
"Tell me anyway" Abby persisted
Kara smiled as her father explained, Claudia. She knew he missed her, and she had to admit…she missed Claudia too,
As her father walked towards the anomaly with the raptors, she stood against Stephen, after he helped her too her feet.
"These two wont be asleep for much longer. Okay, this is as far as you go" Nick said turning to face them; he looked directly at her as he spoke. As he disappeared she looked up at Stephen.
Other side of the anomaly – Nicks' POV
After cutting the raptors free, Nick picked up his jacket, looked back at the anomaly before walking away. He had to find away to fix what had happened. Knowing that his daughter had been there the first time, and that she should have been there this time, but he could bring himself to put her in anymore danger.
"Yeah, thought you might try something like this, so I followed you through, just in case you had some crazy idea about not coming back" Said a familiar voice, causing Nick to turn around, walking towards him was Stephen
"I have no idea what you're talking about" Nick said "Alright, I know exactly what you're talking about, but so what, maybe it's for the best." Nick added
"What? Leaving your only daughter, so you can die out here in this godforsaken place?" Stephen asked. He knew how much Kara meant to Nick, so he figured by mentioning her Nick would turn back
"Look, I figure if I travel through enough anomalies, then maybe I can fix it, maybe I can change things back the way they were. And I know Kara, should be here, but I can't risk putting her in danger anymore" Nick stated
"What if there's no way back? What if this world is the only one there is? I mean, look, its suicide"
"Now, look, I don't wanna die, Stephen. I just wanna try and make things right."
"Okay. Okay, well…let's suppose you do change things. How do you know that this time around we're not all gonna get wiped out?"
There was silence as Nick took in what Stephen had said
"I don't" He finally said
"You could change a million things and still not get Claudia back. Is losing Kara and everything you have worth, this one person? All you know is what's happening right here, right now." Stephen replied
"Now, for once in your life, forget about the past, cause you've got a job to do." Stephen added
"Your right, just don't over do it, you know. You haven't been right for a while" Nick said after another minute of silence
Looking back at the Anomaly they both see its starting to fade.
"Is it me, or is that anomaly closing?" Nick asked looking at Stephen.
Kara's POV
Several minutes after Stephen followed Nick, Kara, Abby and Connor where catching Nick as he emerged from the closing Anomaly. Are you alright and where's Stephen? Where the first two questions's asked, until they heard screaming. Turning around they saw Stephen being pulled back through the anomaly.
"Pull, Pull" Stephen yelled, as Connor and Nick pulled him through a raptor had hold of his foot on the other side. As the anomaly closed the raptors head was separated from its body. Its body lost in the past and its head in the present. Stephen groaned in pain as he rest against the wall she was against earlier.
Kara turned her attention back to her dad, and hit him for trying to do something like leaving her here, while he tried to fix things. He explained that he didn't want her hurt, but she contradicted him by saying, even if he did leave, creatures where still going to come through into their world and even if he was here or not she would most likely get hurt. And there was nothing he could do to prevent it. Nick had to admit, his daughter had a good point.
Now she was standing outside the Shopping mall, with everyone her father was on the phone to Lester back at the ARC. She was sitting inside the car as her father stood beside.
"The place is clean and the anomaly is gone, you can give the all clear" He father said
"Excellent, we'll handle it from here, oh and good work, by the way. It could have been very nasty" She heard Lester say
"Indeed" she said. As her father chuckled
"Yeah, you deserve a rest and a chance to recover. Take an hour. No, lets not be mean. Take two. I'll see you back here at 9:00" Lester replied. Kara yawned softly as she cuddled up the best she could into the seat of the car, he eyes feeling heavy.
Nick watched this smiling softly. "No, forget it. Im taking my daughter home. So we can go to bed"
"Well, there's someone I'd like you to meet. New member of the team"
"Who?" He asked knowing Kara would be very irritable if she didn't get some sleep, and he knew no one would like to deal with her when she was irritable.
"Some sort of PR wizard. Basically, he'll be our cover-up specialist. Protecting the public from what they don't need to know, that sort of thing. An unpleasant Job, but it has to be done" Lester explained
Nick sighed "Fine. Whatever." He said as he hung up, glancing at his half asleep, half awake daughter.
"Morning" Nick said as he and Kara walked into the main room of the ARC
"You're late" Lester said
"Fire me" Nick responded
"We can all dream. Well, now you're finally here, perhaps we can get going." Lester said.
Kara rubbed her tied eyes as she spoke with Abby and Connor,
"I'd like you all to meet the new member of your team, this is Jennifer Lewis" Lester said
Kara and her father turned around, and Kara felt her eyes widen
"Claudia Brown" she and Nick said together. Nick moved forward as Jenny/Claudia spoke
"Jenny. Nice to meet you" she said with a smile.