"Come on, let's go." Cutter said to Stephen as he passed him on the stairs, but he didn't move.
"I've been remembering things."
"You mean Helen?"
"Why didn't you tell anyone? Did you go looking for her?"
"Look, if she wanted to talk to me then she could have. Why keep playing games with me?"
"You mean this isn't the first time? How long have you known she was alive?"
"Look, not long. But all these years, she let me think she was dead. She let me go through that. What does that tell you?"
"Come on, there could be all kinds of reasons why she stayed away. The point is she wants to see you now."
"She left you to die on your own."
"Maybe she thought help was coming."
"Maybe she didn't care. You think I don't want to know what happened? I've thought of nothing else for eight years. But what if…What if the truth is worse than not knowing? Are you going to tell the others?"
"No, it's not my call. But if she was my wife, I'd go through a million anomalies for her, she was important to me too."
"I know that, now are you coming or not?"
X
"What?" Rose asked as she noticed Stephen was staring at her.
"Nothing."
"What?"
"Alright," he began and gave Mickey a slight look that told him to give them some space to talk, so he did, "thing is, I don't want you to think that last night was just..."
"Just...?"
"I don't want you to think it was a one off, unless you want it to be, but I don't want you to think that I thought it was." He tried to explain, but Rose just looked at him with confusion covering her face.
"What?"
"Oh, don't make me say it again."
"Ok, so you were trying to explain that last night wasn't a one off?"
"Yes, see, it wasn't that confusing."
"Then what was it?" she asked.
"What was what?"
"Last night, if you don't want it to be a one off, what is it?"
"Well, I thought we could make it a regular thing, not regular, that sounds weird, just, well, y'know."
"Right..." Rose nodded, attempting to understand, "does that perhaps mean that you would maybe like to come back to mine later on?" she guessed.
"Yes." He smiled, "it does."
"Well, that sounds like a good plan." Rose smiled back at him and walked in to the house, and Stephen yelled after her.
"Oh! And I wasn't deluded when I said you looked beautiful!" he yelled, and Rose simply shook her head at him, "Oh yeah, that was something I was gonna tell you, I remember everything now."
X
"The revelation that Helen Cutter's still alive changes everything." Lester said to everyone as they gathered in a room.
"She's still alive? Um, how did I miss that?"
"Keep up." Rose muttered under her breath.
"So, eight years, she's been living in the past. My God. How are we going to explain Celebrity Love Island to her?"
"Shut up." Rose hissed and elbowed his lightly in the chest.
"She's eight years ahead of us in terms of understanding the anomalies. Her knowledge could be priceless and we have to share it."
"Which is fine if she was here, but she isn't."
"Which is why we're going to go and find her. We know she wants to make contact. She must be brought back here, by force if necessary."
"This is my wife you're talking about." Nick interrupted.
"Which is why I want you to go through the anomaly and bring her back. You will of course have a military escort. To protect you, both of you. The alternative is you sever all ties with the anomaly project with immediate effect, and we'll go and find her ourselves."
"Okay, on one condition. I go on my own. There's no question of force. I'll do my best, but if she doesn't want to come back, then that's it."
"You will try and remember what side you're on, won't you?"
X
"Okay, so you've got about an hour of air, and a mile of rope. Take a compass reference as soon as you get there, and just stay attached. After two hours, we'll reel you back in. The water pressure in the anomaly is going to be intense, okay? So the harder you swim the more air you're going to use." Stephen explained as Cutter got ready to set off and Stephen held up a harpoon gun.
"Now this has an effective range of about ten metres. If you have to use it against a predator, wait until you see the whites of its teeth." He smiled and Cutter set off to get and get Helen.
X
"Rose, how long has he been?"
"91 minutes, 41 seconds." She said and Stephen gave her a look, "I know this thing is that specific!"
"The drains. Stephen? In theory, a creature could make its way along the sewage system all the way to the river, and once it's there, it could go anywhere." Connor explained as he showed them a map.
"What does that mean though?" Mickey asked as they all gathered in the room.
"Well, good news is the size of the drains rules out anything bigger than a small mosasaur."
"But, how small is small?" Rose asked.
"Not small enough." He said and Claudia entered the room, with a bunch of men behind her in wetsuits.
"What the hell is going on?" Rose muttered as Claudia closed her doors.
X
"His times up." Rose said as she looked at her watch and they rushed back down to the cellar. "He'll be running out of air." She said and they began to put Nick through the water, till he surfaced.
"He's lost his tank."
"Get him out." They yelled and Stephen and Ryan jumped in to the water, dragging Cutter out.
"He's not breathing. Get some air inside him." Ryan yelled and Claudia quickly gave him mouth to mouth, and he began coughing, waking up slightly and a stretcher took him out to the ambulance.
"Was Helen with you?" Claudia asked.
"Yes."
"So she was there." She said and looked at Ryan, "You know what to do."
X
"How long have I been out for?" Cutter asked as he sat with Rose, Connor and Mickey by the ambulance.
"Not long."
"I have to talk to Claudia."
"Cutter, there's something you should know mate." Mickey stopped him as he went to walk out of the ambulance and soldiers rushed over to him, pointing their guns at them.
"Stand still. Don't move!" they yelled, then Cutter noticed Lester walking out of the house, followed by Ryan and a few of his men, between them, they're carrying Helen. And Cutter watched as they forced her in to the car, along with Lester and Claudia and quickly drove away, leaving Cutter standing there shocked.
"So that's Helen." Rose whispered to Mickey, careful that Cutter didnt hear.
"I guess so."
A/N: what do you think? Like it? Stephen and Rose's relationship is going to grow over the next few episodes, but some things might become between them. Let me know your thoughts and ideas. And guess what? IM HALF WAY THROUGH THE SERIES! Can't believe it, should have this finished very soon. Anyway, press the review button and make my day.
Amy xx
P.S. Dodo's next! XD AND I have some fanart of Stephen/Rose, let me know if you want to see them, some of them are slightly spoilerish, but some of them just look cute 3 Anyway, let me know and I shall post them on my profile :)