The cab hadn't move for a long time now, Melissa had been distracted with her thoughts considering if she should go to the anomaly site. She was so curious, she really couldn't help it, but then she thought of Connor, she knew he would have a heart attack if he saw her there, but then again, he probably wasn't there like he hadn't been for the last few days. Becker and Matt wouldn't probably be too happy if they saw her, but she could try to go unnoticed. Yeah she thought this plan had everything to go wrong.
"Why aren't we moving?" Melissa finally snapped from her thoughts.
"I don't know, we had to make a deviation because of the road works, and now he just stopped again, no one is moving." The driver said, quite upset for wasting time
"You know what?" Melissa was getting tired of being in there. "I'll walk from here."
She had decided that she would go to the ARC, unfortunately, now she would take twice as long, due to the cab deviation. Suddenly Melissa saw the reason why her taxi was stopped all that time, some kind of accident had happened and lots of ambulances and medical staff were around some injury people,but she could saw how bad it was, because the place was already crowed.
"Jess?" Melissa called the young girl?
"Hi Mel, what's happening?"
"Remember how I was late?" Mel passed the accident side and continued through a side streetoff the main one where the accident had happened. "Now I'm REALLY late." Jess laugh. "And I'm kind of lost. Could you trace my phone signal and tell me how I get to the ARC, I had to leave the cab, because we were stuck on the traffic. Also do you know anything about an accident near the place I'm at?"
"Ok Mel that's a lot of questions." Jess said smiling "That's a big deviation, you will have to walk a lot still, but if you want the guys are coming back to the ARC now, so I can tell them to give you a ride, they have to pass nearby anyway."
"Thanks Jess that would be great, this day couldn't really get worse."
"Shhh… You don't say that, it's bad luck. About the accident, there is not much information, it was a car accident, the causes are yet unknown."
"Mel?" Jess wondered if she had lost the call, but she could still hear Melissa breathing on the other side of the line. "Melissa what's happening?"
"Jess?" Melissa's voice sounded really strange "can you tell the guys to hurry up? I'm pretty sure they just locked the anomaly but left a creature on this side."
"What?" Jess started to try to find a traffic camera or something that could show her the place Melissa was, at the same time she talked to the team through the intercoms, and to Mel. "Are you close? Are you safe?"
"I think so." Melissa tried to stay calm, but was failing big time, she was hide at the entrance of a building and the creature was messing with some boxes and bins a bit far from where she was, as she try to move and made some noise the creature moving in her direction. Fortunately there was no movement on that street; only her; what a lucky girl she thought sarcastic.
"Mel? Are you alright?" Connor's voice worried
"Yes. What do I do? Where are you?" Melissa was still trying to stay calm, and now that she was talking to Connor all she could remember was his worries about being injured on that job.
"We are arriving. Can you get out of there without the creatures noticing you? Describe me the creature."
"Yeah Connor, I can get out but I'm here just for the fun." Melissa said sarcastic.
"She is fine, she is being sarcastic and all" Matt's voice echoed in Melissa's phone.
"Shut up Matt." Connor's voice was harsh."You don't know her, she is freaking scared." Melissa could picture the look on Matt's face when he heard Connor's tone. He knew her too well; being sarcastic in a situation like this was definitely her get away for being really scared.
"It's a big creature." Melissa continued to avoid the awkward silence. "It has tusk-like teeth, and it´s got something of a crocodile."
"Kaprosuchus" Both Abby and Connor's voice sound very loud on Melissa's ears.
"Be careful, they are really danger, if you can't get out of there hide well. We are arriving." Abby said trying to not sound to freaked out.
"AAAEEE" A loud scream made Melissa turned her head, and see a pregnant woman looking to the creature terrified. The creature startled with the scream and speed in direction of the woman who just couldn't move with the shock. Without thinking Melissa left the place she was and run for some garbage bins throwing them of trying to make noise.
"Run. RUN" Melissa was desperate and she realized too late that maybe she was doing something really stupid, as the creature turned around and start running in her direction, she began to run too, and suddenly felt an arm around her waist pulling her behind just in time, as Becker was knock down by the creature right before he hit him with the EMD, making the animal fall unconscious onto Becker.
"Becker!" Melissa run to the man helping him get out of under the Kaprosuchus. "Are you injured?"
"What the hell were you doing?" he managed to say dragging himself with her help to the nearest wall, as he felt his left arm was injured pretty bad.
"It was going to attack that woman, what was I suppose to do? Just let it kill her?" Melissa voice was deeply altered and she felt that tears were running out of her face, as all the last 5 minutes finally hit her.
Becker pushed her into him with is good arm. "It's all ok now. You're save, I'm here"
"I'm sorry." Melissa managed to control the tears
"For what?" Becker asked surprised
"That." And she pointed to his arm
"Melissa?" Connor's voice make them break apart, and Melissa quickly got up and run to Connor
"Becker is injured" she said to Matt, while hugging Connor.
"We need some help here" Abby was near the Kaprosuchus. As a team of soldiers helped put it on a big container, and making sure he was still unconscious, Abby and Matt were helping Becker to get up.
"The woman, we need to talk to her, she saw everything, and she is probably still in shock." Melissa suddenly remembered of her.
()()()()()()()
The whole event was really chaotic, apparently the car accident Melissa had saw was caused by the Kaprosuchus, the cars had crashed when trying to deviate from the creature. For Melissa it was still very strange how did the creature get from the anomaly to their, but luckily that was the only creature that escaped through the anomaly. In the previous encounter the team had had with this creature, it had give them a lot of trouble too.
"Did you find the woman?" Melissa was sitting on a chair waiting for the ARC Doctor to discharge her.
"Yes we did. It was really hard try to find a good excuse for the creature." Abby was wandering around the room. "I miss Jenny; she was the one who usually did this." She continued. "the woman wanted to thank you, to know your name and everything." Abby smiled to Melissa "Seems like you already saved someone on this job."
"I only made some stupid noise and almost got killed."Melissa, was trying to be sarcastic, but failing. "What was I supposed to do, I couldn't let that creature kill her. Connor is pretty upset I can imagine?"
"He is. He was really worried, did you hear him silencing Matt" Abby was trying not to laugh remembering the scene.
"I did." Melissa finally smiled "I bet he had never seen Connor like that."
"You're right, but you know Connor. He apologized one minute later."
"Dr. Roberts, you're good to go." Doctor Heart had just finishing talking and Melissa was all ready to go.
"Doctor, how is Captain Becker? Can I see him?" Melissa voice was really worried
"He is fine Doctor, it was just a dislocated shoulder, we did an x-ray and saw that he didn't break anything. He is just waiting for Matt to get him home, you can go see him if you want."
"You know Becker broke every traffic law to get to the place you were?" Abby said, while they were walking to Becker's room.
"Glad he did that, otherwise I could be dead by now." Melissa stopped realizing again how near she was from being really injured or worst.
Abby guessing her thoughts continued teasing her "You were really closed when we got near you. Were you kissing?"
"What?" Melissa stopped again surprised, and slightly blushed. "Of course we were not."
"Ok. I'll wait for you here." Abby pushed Melissa inside Becker's room. He raised his head when he heard the noise.
"How are you?" Melissa asked approaching him.
"Dislocated shoulder." He pointed to the injury arm "Few days of resting."
"Lot of time to write a report, then." She smiled at his look of annoyance "Thank you for saving my life; you're indeed a white knight."
"Maybe I'm just your white knight." Melissa blushed "Try to make it easier next time ok?"
"That would no fun." She teased him.
"Are you good to go?" Matt entered the room ready to take Becker home.
"You know you could had entered the room" Melissa was walking alongside Abby
"Well I did say goodbye of him, and I didn't need all that time." Abby was trying to get Melissa again.
"Stop it, you…"
"Melissa we need to talk." She could hear the serious on Connor's voice.
A/N: Forgive me any spelling mistakes, I will double check it tomorrow, but now it's really late lol. Thanks kat for reviewing.
Can you believe Connor snapping like that? (I think it's possible, s4/5 showed a diferent side of Connor) I think when it comes to family (and friends or Abby) he can really get upset.
R&R please give me the feedback. It's really appreciated, and honestly motivates me to write more :)
