A/N: This chapter is based on the anomaly and happenings of 3.4/G-Rex Episode. Up to Ch. 13 it will still be taking place around that episode time slot and it's the same anomaly, but different things happen because of the timeline. There will be a total of 15 chapters in this story - 5 more to go!

And like last chapter, this chapter is dedicated to Cehsja but to her story "The Long Way Home". If you've read it, you'll understand by the end. Her stuffs amazing so if you haven't read her, you should. Now go ahead, read! Hope you enjoy!

Abby's eyes shot open to look beside her and hear her phone ringing. If that was Connor she was going to go up to the loft and punch him in the face. Saturday mornings were for sleeping in. She pulled her phone to her ear and grumbled a hello to hear a chirpy voice on the other end. It was … Jess?

"Rise and shine! It's Nine A.M. and there's an anomaly! What fun, isn't it?" Abby was too tired to tell if Jess was attempting sarcasm. She just said she'd be there when she could and Jess added one more thing. "Don't forget Connor, by the way! I tried his mobile but it didn't even ring."

"Kay," she mumbled and hung up. In her mind she knew it was rude, but she was too exhausted for words and logical thinking to make sense at the moment. At least she wasn't like Connor in the morning. She stepped off her bed and took in a deep breath, seeing she was still dressed from that day.

Abby walked out of her room and shouted up the loft. "Connor! Get up! There's an anomaly!" And she heard some kind of muffled response through a pillow she walked back in her room to change her shirt at least.

Connor sighed. He hadn't slept that well and he finally drifted off to sleep again when Abby yelled at him that there was an anomaly. He got dressed, tripped his way down the stairs, and slipped his shoes on when he saw Abby coming out of her room, nice and awake now as Connor still drug his feet around and murmured everything he said.

"Ready to go?" she asked, forgetting about that night. Connor shrugged which was all she would probably get out of him and went for the door, Connor slowly following behind her.

"You said you called them, Jess?" Lester asked as Cutter had been there for quite some time and Sarah had just made her way through the ARC entrance. She wasn't usually called in but when Connor didn't answer Jess called Sarah, thinking they may need her.

"Yes of course, but I usually call Connor's mobile and he wouldn't answer so I had to find Abby's, and that took longer than it should."

"Should we go ahead without them, sir?" Becker spoke up.

"No, no. Abby and Connor are adjusting to the differences, leaving them behind is the last thing they need if we need them to decide our team is the same as before." Cutter reminded.

"Cutter's right," Sarah spoke up. "we don't need them deciding that going through an anomaly and erasing us all from history is a good idea."

"They… they wouldn't do that, would they?" Jess asked worried.

"Don't be ridiculous Ms. Parker. Temple and Ms. Maitland are much too tame to be stirring up that sort of scheme." Lester assured.

"You say that like you know us, Lester." They all turned around to see Abby and Connor entering the hub. "I'm flattered that you care."

Lester rolled his eyes and waved his hand. "Well, go on then. You all shoo, do you job and what not." And they all grouped up and headed for the exit when Lester leaned out and shouted. "And Connor,"

He paused and turned towards him. "Yo?"

"Don't get any ideas about changing the past." Connor smiled and gave a solute before turning back with the group and heading out. "I worry about that boy, Jess."

"Awe, Lester. You really do care." she said with a grin.

"I didn't mean for his safety, but merely for everyone else's." And Jess laughed when he walked back into his office and leaned back in his chair, falling back asleep. Jess smiled and laughed, knowing how much Lester really did care.

The anomaly was huge and it worried everyone that something dangerous would come out of it. There had been no sign of an incursion but the people keeping watch really wouldn't do much if a T-Rex or G-Rex came barging through it. After a few comments about what could come through Sarah put out the thought that someone could go in real quick and see what era holds behind the glowing ball of light.

"Too dangerous." Cutter said without hesitation.

"Nick, I can go in – I don't mind, it won't take any time and-"

"If anyone goes through that anomaly it will be trained Military assistance." Becker interrupted Sarah. "We don't need another Temple and Maitland incident, and you could get hurt."

"It's just for a few seconds. And someone needs to go in to see where it leads or we'll have gods coming out of its seams any moment!"

"Or … not." Connor cut in, approaching Becker, Sarah and Cutter. "I have the Anomaly Locking Device… it hasn't been tested yet, but I think after I replaced the motherboard yesterday, it seems to be working."

"Anomaly Locking Device?" Becker looked confused.

"It locks the anomalies inside and out," Abby piped in, remembering when Connor learned how to invent it. "I didn't know you'd been working on it?"

Connor shrugged. "Apparently this Connor had, I just finished it."

"Connor, could it be brought here?" Sarah asked.

"Yeah, it's all packed up up at the ARC, I just didn't think about bringing it along."

"Becker, send some men to go fetch the Anomaly Locking Device." Cutter ordered, Becker nodded and walked off, talking to the only two military support that had come. "Connor, you sure it will work?"

"Couldn't say… I don't see why it shouldn't though. Just needs to be tested, and if it doesn't then I can figure what's wrong and try again."

Cutter smiled at that. "You never give up, do you Connor?"

"Not if I can help it." Connor said, looking at Abby with a smile. She raised a brow and walked away, remembering why she was mad at him. Connor groaned and Cutter watched the scene. As Sarah walked off to talk to Becker and the men Cutter placed his hand on Connor's shoulder.

"What'd you do?" he asked in a much more hushed voice so she wouldn't overhear.

Connor sighed. "Something stupid, like always."

Cutter laughed and nodded. "Just don't let that get in the way of the job."

"The being stupid or the angry Abby?"

Cutter smirked at him and replied, "Both." Before walking over to Sarah and Becker as well, giving directions of where the locking mechanism would be.

Connor waited for a few minutes, letting Abby be angry, and then he walked over beside her where she glanced at him with a fumed stare and then looked back at the anomaly. Connor shifted from leg to leg trying to know what to say when Abby spoke.

"What Connor?" she let out with great annoyance.

"Why are you so angry with me, Abs? You know I didn't mean to offend you I was just-" They both froze to see a Raptor creeping out of the large anomaly, sniffing around, until it spotted them – hissing and roaring at them.

"Cutter!" Connor yelled but when Becker turned to shoot it it scurried back into the anomaly, disappearing from their time. "I think we need to hurry and get the locking mechanism."

Sarah nodded and pulled the men along with her. Cutter looked at the two of them, knowing leaving them here with an anomaly that obviously led to the late Cretaceous was a bad idea, but he trusted them.

"I need to go with Sarah, they need our help with something-" Cutter explained as Becker handed the two of them each a weapon and nodded reassuringly before walking off. "Stay here, make sure nothing comes out. And keep out of it, it's dangerous." They all left the room. This large anomaly had opened in some kind of storage building for an airport so there was a garage-like opening that stayed up so the trucks and such could come through. The anomaly was as tall as the storage building itself and it looked like an airplane could fit in the building, so knowing what could come through the anomaly scared them.

Abby and Connor stayed quiet but then it dawned on her why Cutter said what he said and she grinned. "Connor! This anomaly! It opens into the late Cretaceous!"

Cutter looked at her with wrinkled brows and then his eyes widened when he understood what she meant. "No, Abs. You heard Cutter."

"But if we could change this? Would you not go back?" if anything Abby was testing Connor, because in all honesty she was starting to like this timeline and she would feel horrible if they screwed something up even more. But she wanted to know what Connor would say, she wanted to know if he preferred engaged Connor and Abby or just mates Connor and Abby.

"No, I sorta like this timeline meself." He sighed. "But I suppose if you think we should, I'll follow you." Abby glared at him again, but for another reason all together. "What did I say now?"

"Could you not be selfless for like two seconds!"

"I'm sorry…?"

"I can't be mad at you without feeling like a horrible person!"

"So you want me to be rude to you? You want me to yell at you and never be on your side of things?"

"Well-! I don't know… I just…" she growled and turned back to the anomaly. "I like this timeline, too."

"Completely on topic." Connor quipped. He got harshly sarcastic when she made him lose his temper, which she did that usually by giving him mixed signals and yelling at him. "If you like this timeline so much then why do you want to change it so badly?"

"I don't." she said very blunt like. Connor was fixing to say something back when the Raptor came leaping out of the anomaly again but completely ignored them as he eyed Abby's jacket she had left near the station of equipment. Abby started towards it but Connor put his arm in front of her, stopping her as they watched the Raptor grab the striped jacket with its small claws and dart back through.

"No!" Abby shouted after it, Connor still holding onto her as she acted like she would run after a silly hoodie. "We have to get that back!"

"Abby, it's a jacket. We should be glad it wanted nothing to do with us!"

"I need that jacket back!" she jerked from Connor's grasp and gripped her weapon in her hand. "I'm getting that hoodie back, Cretaceous or not."

"Abby-!" Connor yelled at her but he knew it was pointless as he raised his weapon and rolled his eyes, following close behind. She ran through without any doubt and Connor did as well, just wanting to get this done with and get back home. He didn't fancy traveling through anomalies much anymore.

"You don't have to follow me, ya know." Abby told him without taking her eyes off the Raptor running towards some kind of set of woods.

"I don't understand why you even say that, because of all people you should know the answer." Abby halted suddenly, making Connor almost run into her. She spun around and looked at him in the eyes, knowing how true those words were.

"I know." She replied. "But I'm still mad at you, so don't try to soften me up with helping me in some stupid, thoughtless act."

"I'm here to protect you. End of story." Abby exhaled through her nose and then whipped back towards their trail, not wanting to answer that at the moment. They paused when they saw the Raptor cushioning her nest with Abby's black and white zip-jacket, a baby Raptor inside of it.

Connor wrapped his arm around her waist and pulled her behind a tree, in instinct she slipped away from his touch when they were safe but she regretted it, feeling much more secure in his arms. Seeing Connor thinking nothing of her instinct she saw how he watched something the opposite direction intently. Her eyes followed and it was a male Raptor, luring around the nest to protect its family.

"You have a tranqu? I only have bullets." He hissed. She loved how Connor always sunk right into the situation they were in, even how silly he was he always paid attention and kept Abby safe no matter what. He almost acted like it was his job to watch over Abby, not Becker or Cutter, but Connor's.

Abby nodded, seeing how many she had. "It only holds four."

"Well, then I guess it's good you have really good aim."

"I do?" Abby tweaked brow at him and he chuckled.

"Stay positive, yeah?" Abby shook her head with a smile, even if she was angry at him, and pointed for the female Raptor who was tangling the jacket into the weeds and matted mess of other random things. "Wait, wait. Shoot the male first, he's the protector, we don't want to see him angry."

Abby knew that, why didn't she think about that? She pushed that thought away and aimed for the male, missing him by an inch. She grumbled and became flustered. One tranquil wasted already.

"It's fine Abs, you still have enough. Just aim and shoot, don't think."

"It's not quite that easy, Connor."

He gave her a smirk. "That's what I do. Sometimes I even close me eyes."

"Yeah, not comforting me here." But in a way he really did. She hid her smile and pointed at the Raptor, took a long blink and – she heard the male Raptor shriek from the sharp pain in his side. It stumbled around some as the female panicked from the nest and it fell on its side, bringing a cloud of dust to hover over him.

"Shoot the female," he reminded. She was too caught up in watching the male to even remember the female. This time, with more confidence, she shot from less of a distance and got right in the chest. She roared out a distress call and fell out of the nest, leaving the baby to jolt from the mother and run around in a fit.

"The bloody things moving too much!" then suddenly another anomaly opened right before their eyes, making the baby Raptor look at it curiously and then charging through it. The anomaly flickered closed and Connor and Abby were stunned. "Did that just … happen?"

He nodded and then shook it off, leaving the tight secluded area they were hiding in and giving Abby and hand out of it as well. She brushed off her skirt and leggings and then looked at the two full sized, unconscious predators.

"You just put down two full sized Raptors! Way to go, Abs!" he cheered, raising a hand for her to high-five. She was angry at him still but he made her promise a while back to never say no to a high-five so she smiled and returned the slap of hands.

"We just took down two full sized Raptors." She reminded, though she didn't want to and she didn't know why she did. You're mad at him, Abby! Remember this!

"We're a 'we' again, are we?" he asked rather hopeful like.

"Just because I'm mad at you doesn't mean 'we' become an 'I'. It sadly doesn't work that way." Abby walked to the nest and pulled out her jacket. It needed to be washed desperately, but she wasn't going to throw it away, she went this far for it.

"So why did 'we' come all this way for a jacket?" Abby had her back turned to him so she smiled. Of course he didn't remember, so she wasn't going to tell him. She twisted back towards him and walked forward where the anomaly opened, as if there would be an evidence of it opening or anything.

"Abs!"

"Forget it Connor, I'm not telling you!"

"No, Abby!" he pulled her arm and turned her to see the anomaly in view. It led down a straight trail and at the end they could spot a tight lighted ball frozen in the air. Abby's eyes widened and Connor's grip on her arm tightened from terror. "It's locked!"

Next Ch. is "The Timeline Changed is Now Explained"