Connor woke up. He wasn't sure why he was lying on a hard surface in the ARC, but stranger things had happened to him. He sat up and saw the strange brunette girl watching him, looking anxious. Then he remembered what happened, The Anomaly. Killing the Pterodactyl. Abby.
Connor thought his heart would break. He was filled with a sense of loss and pain which he had never had before. It was worse than when Cutter had died. Worse than when he saw Steven go into that room. He bowed his head and let the tears come. It felt wrong. Abby had always been there with him. Ever since he first saw a dinosaur. She had let him live with her for god's sake! And now all that remained was a girl that slightly resembled Abby and this new girlfriend. Would it be weird if he asked her name?
"What's your name?" Connor asked before he could stop himself. The brunette stared at him as if he had just asked if she was a bloke. Connor kicked himself, this was weird. Unreal. He had to get out of there.
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Connor kicked open the door of the ARC, tears blinding him as he ran outside. He wasn't sure where he was going, he just needed some privacy. He couldn't bear it in there. That wasn't Abby! Not his Abby. He ran round a corner and pressed his back against the wall. Sobbing quietly, he lowered himself down the wall.
He had to stop crying. It was giving him a splitting headache where he had cut it when the car crash-landed. But the sorrow was overwhelming. If only there was someone who understood! He hadn't only lost her, but she was a different person. WITH a different person. Connor couldn't get the sight out of his head of Abby and Danny. NO! ISSY AND DANNY. Not Abby. Abby wasn't here anymore.
There was a sound of crunching gravel. Connor glanced up. Cutter was standing over him, panting.
"Thank God, I've found you. Michelle told me when you ran off and I knew I had to find you. Connor, I know what you're going through. Remember Claudia Brown?" he asked. "Or did that not happen to you?" He added, confused.
"No. Yeah, Claudia...Jenny. Confusion, yes I remember." Sighed Connor. "But you didn't get back and find Jenny kissing someone else, did you?" Connor added. He felt deflated, like nothing could go right. The world was against him. How could he get back to Abby? He loved her more than he could say. Nick would understand a bit, but not like that. He had to put things right. But how?
Cutter didn't know what to do. He understood how Connor felt, but true – he didn't find Jenny with another man. But it was unlike Connor to be down like this.
"Well at least you have Michelle." Offered Nick. "If it helps, we were all really jealous when you bagged that one." Connor scowled. Nope, that wasn't going to work.
"Er." He tried again, "Well you know Issy isn't Abby, right? So, Er, it wouldn't be the same?" Connor nodded.
"Yeah. Danny can have Issy." He sighed. "Abby's gone."
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Connor's moping was interrupted by a loud beeping coming from his back pocket. The Anomaly detector! He pulled it out and pressed a few buttons, then stood up.
"Well I suppose we'd better get going then!" she said, trying to keep his mind on the job. "C'mon."
Nick just looked at him, then pointed at his Anomaly detector:
"What's that?" He asked curiously. Connor stared.
"Er. My Anomaly detector..." he said, surely they – no, they had to have Anomaly detectors, how else were they supposed to find the dinosaurs? Cutter grinned at him.
"An Anomaly detector?! Wow! You lot got it right!" he exclaimed.
"You don't have Anomaly detectors?" asked Connor, shocked.
"No, who would have made them? And how do they work? This is amazing!" he noted, a huge grin on his face.
"Er. Well I'm the technician, with the Anomaly detectors, the equipment to close the Anomalies and ---
"Wait!" Shouted Nick, waving his hand in his face. "You can close Anomalies? Brilliant. And..." He looked awkward, "How come you're the technician? I mean, you can't even plug in a DVD player without tripping up! No offence or anything..." Connor was appalled.
"What?!?! I mean, I'm the one who's been playing computer games since I could walk! I know the middle names of all the members of Star Trek and the likes! I've been doing things like that since I found out that there was a word pronounced 'Technology'! I'm offended." He finished. Cutter looked amused and faintly embarrassed.
"You're a different person." He stated, slightly shocked. "Connor Temple is gone!" then he walked off, as if sleepwalking.
"Hey!" Connor called after him, he turned round. Connor was waving the Anomaly detector in the air; "What about the Anomaly?"
A/N:
please R&R. Thanks for your comments so far, thats whats keeping me going... gotta come up with some more ideas now.