Chapter 4

~~~Abby&Connor~~~~

Abby woke up to feel a weight heavy on her breast. Looking down, she sees Connor snuggled up to her, cuddling her close with his head using her breasts as a pillow. She gently runs her hand through his hair, being careful not to wake him up.

A vibrating sound comes from the table to the side of their bed. Their bed, Abby thinks softly. I love that it is our bed. She quietly grabs it to see a text message from Matt.

Abby I know you want to tell Connor but trust me when I say he won't believe it. He will find out soon enough on his own. Just wait.

-Matt

Abby felt the tears well up in her eyes. I guess I'll have to wait, she thinks, stetting her phone back on the nightstand. She gently shakes Connor awake and they get ready for work.

~~~ Couple Days Later Whole Team~~~~

"Connor! Open up. It's a direct order," Matt yells through the door to Connor's lab. Connor rushes over and opens up the door as Abby, Matt and Emily pile in.

"What have you done," Abby asks, scared to know.

"What have I…? How about a congratulations?" Connor asks quietly. "No? This is the first man made anomaly in history and I made that."

"Lock it," Matt calls out quietly but firmly.

Phillip Burton walks in. "I suggest you leave this lab immediately. After all it does belong to Prospero you know."

"But Connor this is dangerous," Abby nearly yells at Connor, trying to hold back the tears.

"Come one Abby. It is not dangerous. You can't even fit a T-Rex's toe through there. I know what I am doing."

"No you really don't," Abby almost whispers, a hard look coming over her face. She turns around, storming out of the lab.

~~~Abby&Matt&Emily~~~~

"Sorry I lost my cool back there," Abby says, putting her face in her hands, trying to stop the tears.

"Abby it's ok," Matt says softly, enveloping her in his arms. Emily came over and wrapped her arms around them all.

"Directly under you is… is me," Jess says softly. "You're right over the hub." She looks up cautiously.

"Jess can you get me up a map of the ducts please?" Matt asks directly into the comms.

"Ok," Jess says confidently.

"Becker, Abby go to the armory and get me something big enough to trap and hold the queen, then bring back as much pesticide as you can carry," Matt tells them hurriedly.

"Ok," Abby says softly, turning around and accidentally knocking into Connor as her and Becker walk away. "Sorry."

"What about me, what can I do?" Connor demands quickly.

Matt avoids Connor's question asking Jess about the maps.

Matt quietly closes the door to Connor's lab. He walks up to the anomaly and quickly locks it. He looks at the device with pure hatred. This is what is causing all the problems between his team, his family. He slowly raises his EMD takes aim and pulls the trigger. The computer fizzles and sputters and slowly dies.

"I gave you a direct order," Becker splutters surprised to see Emily in the armory.

"I know I just though that you were wrong," Emily says cheekily.

"Connor you answer that phone and tell Phillip exactly what is going on here," Matt tells Connor sternly.

"Listen, I'll… I'll fix this," Connor tells Matt firmly. "I'll make this right." Abby turns to look at him, sees the determination in his eyes and nods.

I believe you," she mouths to him.

"What's the plan?" Matt asks Connor, walking towards his lab.

"I'm going to open my anomaly, recalibrate it to send out a pulse of gamma radiation. That should wipe out all the beetles at once," Matt grabs onto Connor's arm.

"Connor that will kill everything in the ARC!' Matt exclaims.

"Never said it was a perfect plan," Connor says, turning around and heading back towards his lab.

Man he is crazy," Matt thinks.

"There is another way to neutralize this threat," Phillip states over the phone. "Given that the whole city is at risk."

"Tell us what it is, Phillip," Connor says softly, already dreading the answer.

"An auto destruct program was built into the ARC operating system. If activated… the ARC, and everything in it, will be incinerated."

"Is this what it has come down to? You two, just, sneaking around and plotting against me," Connor asks the hurt evident in his voice.

"We had to you wouldn't listen to what I was trying to tell you!" Abby exclaims.

"Rex!" Abby shouts, setting the cage down on the table in her lab. She looks around, trying to find her pet. "Rex we don't have time!" she cries softly. She waits another half a minute. "Rex!" She finally gives up and starts running to the safe room. All the sudden she hears his chirping as he gets into the cage.

"Abby!" Abby hears Connor screaming her name. They hurriedly run together to the Panic room as the gamma blast swept through the building.

~~Abby&Connor That Night~~~~

Abby and Connor collapsed onto the bed pulling each other close. It had been a long day at work.

"Conn, I'm sorry for lying to you. I shouldn't have done-"

"Abs if you hadn't we'd all be dead!" Connor exclaims, the look in his eyes telling her that everything is going to be ok. "We are going to be ok," he whispers softly in her ear as he pulls her as close as possible.

"Connor let me up I want to get some sleep."

"Oh Abs, Lester said we can come in late tomorrow so we have plenty of time.'

~~~ARC Next Day~~~~~

The ARC was bustling with repair workers as Connor sat in the chair at the ADD.

"Hey," Matt exclaims. "Everything all right apart from the whole near death experience?"

Abby walks up and places her hand on his shoulder, kissing his cheek softly. "What's wrong?" she asks pulling away to see the tight look in Connor's eyes.

"Conn, what's wrong?" she asks again.

"I had to check I had to be sure. The beetles must have chewed through the wiring so the failsafe didn't work. But Phillip did it. He ran the incineration program. He was gonna kill us all." Connor's thick accent came out as he said this, emotion clogging up his throat.

Abby sits in Connor's lap and he pulls her close, putting his head in the crook of her neck and crying softly. Connor slowly pulls away as the tears run out and says, "There is something I have to do." She nods in understanding.

~~~~~~ New Dawn~~~~

He had to check, he had to be sure on this as well. He hacked into the New Dawn data.

"Helen!" he exclaims, seeing a picture of the psychopath on the screen.

"I've seen the future, Phillip and I know our hopes rest with you." Her phantom voice appears from the speaker, as if the crazy b**** was back from the dead.

~~~~~~ ARC~~~~

"I know I should have listen to you," Connor says in a pleading voice. "It's just I thought I was carrying on Cutter's work. And that he might be proud of me somehow."

"oh Connor," Abby exclaims, rushing up to him. "Of course Cutter is proud of you. He will always be proud of you."

~~~~~ TBC~~~~~

Wow longest chapter so far. Thank you for reading and I should have the next chapter up by Friday hopefully, but next week it will be delayed because of exams. I'm sorry about the wait I just didn't have time to write as I had to write a term paper. Srry. Please review as they make me amazingly happy! ;) Have an awesome day!