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"In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life. It goes on"
Robert frost
"What?" Danny grabbed his phone out of Abby's white knuckled grip and stared down at the unfamiliar name. He then looked up and asked "does anyone else have him on their phone"
"I do, but I had to by a new phone after the ... incident, I only put it in last week" Abby sighed, pulling out her brand new bright green phone and putting down on the end of the bed in front of Danny
"I don't have him" Becker showed Danny the screen of his phone, open to the contacts list and showing the short list of C's starting with C. Daniels and ending with C. Francis.
"Wait, wait a moment I think I have something... yeah I have a number for a Connor" Sarah proudly displayed her phone to Abby who took note of the familiar number scrolling along underneath Connors highlighted name
"I have a number for " Lester waved his blackberry in front of Abbys face.
"Yeah it's the same number for all of them." Becker confirmed "I guess this proves this is no Claudia brown incident."
"You mean this guy is real? This Connor temple guy, I mean the only proof we have is Abby's word and a couple of phones" Danny looked sceptical. He wanted to believe Abby, but the thought of this guy disappearing of the face on the earth, and the only thing left behind a 22 year olds memory... it seemed unlikely
"Well look at the evidence." Becker jumped up, coming to Abby's defence " Like you said, Abby remembers him, we still have his number in our phones, there's that old locker at the end of the change room with that old hat and gloves Abby said he owned, and she said he kept getting his stuff delivered to their apartment. She even has a photo" Becker elbowed Abby
"You do?"
"Yeah" Abby pulled the old school photo out of the inside jacket pocket where she kept it. A grinning Connor aged ten, in a white shirt and red and grey striped tie. She handed it to Danny
"Ok, So going on the assumption he's real, what do you think happened?"
"Maybe someone is trying to infiltrate the ARC. Taking away our main techno nerd would defiantly give them an opening. They way I remember it, Connor set the entire ARC network up; from the dinosaur database, to the Anomaly detection device and the program that unlocked the artefact. "
"But they would need some major techno skills themselves. I got Stephens entire research team checking this name on the ARC data bases, but nothing came up. To delete some one that entirely is no small job"
"Yeah but whoever it was managed to forget the phones"
"They didn't forget Becker's phone. Why doesn't he have his contact info? I mean, if Lester has him, then Becker has to as well, he has the rest of us." Sarah mumbled as she scrolled through the soldier's phone
"Unlike your phones, Captain Becker's is connected on the ARC server; just like mine" jean said waving her phone "Mr. Lester's is a private line"
"Ok, stop." Danny stood up and moved to the center of the small room "I'm getting the fact some evil super genius wiped the ARC database. I am also getting the fact that our brain box..."
"Connor"
"-Connor, is missing, what I am not getting, is how someone can wipe the brains of over 100 people who work in a top secret government organisation."
"Wiping our brains?"
"Well think about it. This guy still has pieces of his floating around here; a phone number, a box of clothes, and empty locker and most importantly Abby's memory. If he was erased all together, then there would be none of that, the only thing left would be Abby and me. Why can't I remember him if she can. Someone is controlling us, making us think differently."
"What, you mean like mind control" Lester questioned, as Sarah started flicking through her folder to see if they had seen anything like it
"Let's not get too crazy, it was a suggestion. I'm not saying there are a bunch of Jedi's doing mind tricks on us"
"Maybe that's no so crazy after all" Sarah said. She looked up and saw everyone staring at her like she had grown a third head or something. "Oh not the Jedi thing! The mind control, here" she pulled out a sheet of paper, a report of some kind, and handed it to Lester.
"Ah yes" Lester shifted uncomfortably, and jean craned in toward him to get a better look. "I remember this. Helen used them to control the future predators." He held the paper out towards Danny. The report was signed off by Lester and cutter, and pinned to the top was a photograph of a large metal cylinder, attached to a mess of cables and wires.
"When they're on, they glow red" Lester told Danny as he scanned the report.
"Don't you think we would have noticed by now if all the ARC employees were walking around with giant glowing buttons on their foreheads?" Becker asked sceptically
Lester sighed, "It would be a little bit of a giveaway"
"Yeah just a bit"
"Maybe they have changed them?" Danny asked, looking at Sarah, as she seemed to be the authority on tech in the room." You know, made them smaller, invisible"
"Like an implant?"
"Yeah!"
"But then they would need to get them into our heads" said Becker
"All ARC personnel have to undergo regular medical checkups, they last one being just a few days before Miss Maitland and Mr Quinn went missing. I suppose it would be within the realm of possibility they could be activated after they were implanted."
"They could I supposed. And Becker and I hit our heads pretty hard after that explosion at the kitchen; we had to get checked over, it would be easy enough to just inject one in. Lester You could have been drugged and then programmed to forget it, and danny got checked over right after he came back"
"but i didn't" abby whispered to herself. Finally they were beliving her, connor was getting closer and closer by the second. Why did she feel like he was slipping away?
"Wakey wakey!" Connor's eyes snapped open, the world spinning around them beneath him and fireworks popping in his vision, frying his nerves. "Really Connor, I didn't know you where one for sleeping on the job" Stephen crouched over him, right in his face. He was so close Connor swore if he moved fast enough, he could grab the knife Stephen clutched in his dominant hand. Unfortunately it seemed that Connor had been staring at the blade, as Stephen quickly stood back up
"Don't think you'll get it Connor. You're so dehydrated you can't stand straight, imagine what you'd be like in a knife fight. I'd be scared you might hurt yourself" he pulled Connor up by his injured shoulder and grabbed him roughly by the chin, forcing him to look round into his face.
"No Connor, I need those plans, and I need them now. If you don't get them for me... well, let's just say you might be getting some company down here"
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You don't have to go looking for love when it's where you come from.
Werner Erhard
AN: BUH BUH BUM. Yeah high I'm back, sorry I took a vacation. First my computer broke and then I just sort of lost momentum with this chapter... I just didn't know where do go with it all... hope it's up to your standards, and you'll see me (and Connor) again soon