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Chapter 7: Breakdown
"If you harmed her, Helen, I will personally see to it that you never harm anyone else." Connor threatened clenching his fists.
"Calm down, hero boy. I didn't harm her; but who's to say you won't?"
"I would never harm Abby! Everyone knows that!" Connor argued.
"We'll see about that." Helen replied as she opened an anomaly.
"Tell me Connor, would you rather lose your life? Or lose your love?" Helen asked as she stepped into the anomaly closing it behind her before Connor had the chance to reply.
Connor did not waste any time. He ran straight up the stairs into the flat and searched frantically for Abby.
She wasn't anywhere downstairs and his heart nearly stopped when he didn't find her in her bedroom.
"Oh my God," he whispered. "If Helen took Abby, I'll kill her."
The only place he hadn't searched was his own bedroom.
"Please, please, let her be in here." He prayed softly as he entered his room.
He looked around the room. Surprisingly enough, it was spotless.
He found Abby asleep on the floor, leaning against his bed.
Connor let out a sigh of relief.
"Thank you!" He mumbled as he walked over and lifted Abby up and placing her on his bed.
'She must've cleaned my room.' He thought.
He stood there watching her sleep, debating with himself if he should lie on the bed next to her.
He shook the thought from his head and placed the covers over Abby. He turned and walked out of the room and fell asleep on the couch, not even noticing that Abby had had the box, containing the iPod, on the floor next to her.
Sarah sauntered to the front door as she heard a knocking and opened the door.
"Hello," Becker greeted as he leaned in to kiss Sarah.
Sarah came mere inches from Becker's lips before she turned and walked toward the closet to collect her jacket.
"Hello, Becker." She greeted casually.
"Are you still mad about the whole smoking thing?" Becker asked stepping inside.
"What?" Sarah asked quizzically.
"Oh, no, I told you, I've completely forgotten about it." She smiled.
"I know you, and I know that you don't just let things like that go that easily." Becker spoke, leaning against the wall.
Sarah came back into the hallway carrying a lot of research with her.
"Isn't that a bit much for some simple research?" Becker asked trying to start a conversation.
Sarah eyed the paperwork, shook her head and smiled, "Nope. Connor and I need all of the notes and references we can get to appease Lester."
Suddenly, there phones went off.
"An anomaly." Becker spoke as they looked at each other."
"Come on, I'll give you a lift." Becker offered, trying to put his arm around Sarah, who dodged it as she stepped outside.
"Thanks, but I need to take my car." She replied waving her keys in the air.
"Gotta stay late tonight with Connor." She added walking to her car.
Becker shut the door and headed to his car and followed Sarah to the ARC.
The anomaly alert was near a local bakery.
Connor, Abby, Danny, and Jenny met up with Becker and Sarah outside the bakery.
Danny stepped ahead of the others and looked at Jenny, "Right, Jenn, do your thing. The rest of you, follow me."
As they started to enter, one of the employees came rushing out screaming about monsters.
"What did it look like?" Connor asked trying to calm the employee down.
"Like, like one of th-those dinosaurs from the films." He stuttered.
"Well, that helps." Connor replied. "Just, stay here and someone will take care of you."
Connor, Abby, Becker, and Danny entered the bakery armed and ready to shoot on sight.
They had just barely gotten through the door when they heard some objects fly across the room and clang against the walls violently.
Connor peered around the corner, to see a raptor mere inches from his face as he quickly recoiled to inform the others.
"Brilliant." He sighed.
"What?" Becker asked.
"We're reenacting Jurassic Park, now." Connor answered quietly.
Abby gave him a look.
"There's a raptor eating a jelly doughnut, 'round the corner." He whispered.
"Seriously?" Danny asked smiling.
Connor nodded.
"Right, I'll draw its attention, and LeslieāI mean, Becker, can knock it out with a tranquilizer. Then, we'll just chuck it back into the anomaly." Danny explained, trying to contain his laughter.
Becker shot Danny a look.
"You're gonna need all of us to be able to bring the raptor down." Abby explained.
Connor noticed that the objects that had been clanging earlier were now much quieter.
"Yeah, well you better hurry, the anomaly's gonna close soon." Connor warned.
Danny whistled as he jumped through the doorway waving his hands, which grabbed the raptor's attention.
"Ready?" Connor asked as he, Abby, and Becker prepared to fire.
Out of the corner of his eye, Connor could've sworn he saw Helen peeking out from the anomaly beckoning him to follow.
Connor shot his tranquilizer dart at the anomaly instead of firing at the raptor with Becker, Abby, and Danny.
Nevertheless, the raptor fell to the floor unconscious.
"Hurry, the anomaly's gonna close!" Danny cried as he and Becker heaved the raptor and managed to get it through the anomaly seconds before it closed.
"Connor, What the hell were you shooting at?" Abby asked concerned.
Connor kept staring at where the anomaly had been.
"Nothing." He answered blankly as he turned to walk towards the truck.
When they arrived back at the ARC, Jenny saw Sarah walking down one of the corridors, carrying paperwork with a worried look on her face.
Jenny ducked away from the group to follow Sarah.
Sarah walked over to one of the doors that led to Connor's office.
"Sarah." Jenny greeted.
Sarah froze horrified, Connor's words ringing in her ears.
"We need to keep this just between the two of us. Absolutely no one is allowed to know about it."
She turned to face Jenny, faking a smile. "Jenny, what's up?"
"Is everything ok?" Jenny asked worriedly.
"Yeah, just going over some research to present to Lester Monday." Sarah answered.
"Is there something you needed?" Sarah asked.
"No, just wanted to make sure nothing was wrong." Jenny said as she turned to start walking away, before turning back around excitedly.
"Danny proposed to me." She said excitedly.
"Wow. That's-that's great, Jenny! What did you say?" Sarah stuttered.
"I told him, yes!" Jenny beamed.
"What's the ring look like?" Sarah asked.
"He said he's going to go get the ring sometime this week." Jenny replied.
Sarah nodded. "I'm happy for you, Jenny." Sarah congratulated as she gave Jenny a hug.
"Thank you." Jenny looked at her watch. "Well, I have to go fill out some paperwork. Good luck with the presentation."
"Thanks." Sarah spoke as Jenny walked away, back down the corridor.
"I guess she's gotten over Cutter." Sarah muttered to herself, remembering the conversation they'd had the day of the fire.
After a few moments, Sarah shrugged and opened the door. "As long as everyone's happy."
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