A/N: I dont own any of the characters except Michelle.
Sorry it took so long to update, I've been busy recently. I hope to put the next one up quicker.
There wasn't much Connor could do after that apart from emerge from where he'd been hiding and face the people. He walked out (after washing his face) and tried to act normal. As he walked into the room, Nick looked up.
"Connor!" he exclaimed, "How's the work thing coming?" Connor's heart sank. Oh yeah...
"Um. Okay, it's going to take a long time to finish though. Er... how did the thing go? What happened?" he asked quickly, changing the subject.
"Oh, it went okay, I must admit though, being chased by a huge thing was not my idea of fun. We couldn't figure out what it was, but it chased to a river and Issy fell in. But we managed to get them back through and the anomaly closed so we came back here." He grinned at him, "Here." And threw the anomaly detector at him. Connor caught it deftly and grinned back.
"Ok. I'm gonna go and work on the detector now then."
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Connor's eyes were gritty and tired when he had finally put the finishing touches to the detector. It was late at night and the rest of them had gone off home, even Nick, whom Connor had insisted go and get some sleep. Connor had assured him that he'd be fine there. Lester wasn't very happy with him staying, but Connor had insisted and Lester had also left several hours earlier.
Connor stood up, and kicked out his feet. He waggled his arms around a bit and moved his head from side to side to ease the stiffness. He rubbed his eyes to try and keep himself awake and looked at his handiwork. True, it wasn't as well made as the one in the alternate reality – he didn't know what else to call it – but it did the job just as well, or it should do.
Connor bent down and picked up one of the screens, it would take a long time to move this into the other room. He wasn't as enthusiastic about it as he was the first time he had made it – a long time ago now – but it had to be done. Now he just had the thing to close anomalies and the thing to scan the--- no, they didn't have the artefact here. So it was just the thing to close them. At least when he was working, he didn't have to worry about the messed up world thing.
Abby... He missed her more than words could say. He wished she was here to hold, her head resting against his chest, his chin resting on hers. He almost felt her hair running through his fingers and her fiery spirit calming him down... he reached out in the darkness to find...
Nothing
No Abby
Darkness
Connor blinked back the tears and shook his head. This was not the time for being stupid. Abby was Issy and Issy was Danny's. He sighed and continued lugging the heavy equipment into the other room where everyone will see it when they walked in the next morning. Connor's legs felt like jelly, he wondered what the time was. He put the heavy screen down on the floor and glanced at his watch. It was 2:30am. Connor shook his head. If he was to go to sleep, he would just wake up tired and have bad dreams. He would stay awake.
Ok it was a stupid idea, but he was tired and wasn't thinking straight...
Connor carried on pulling separate parts of the heavy machinery across the room, it was quite dark because Connor had only had the one light on, so Connor couldn't see where he was going very well and kept tripping over things. But he managed to make his way over to the table where the machinery would stand. After a while...
Connor lifted the final screen onto the contraption he had made and stood back to inspect his handiwork. It would just take the flick of a switch and... it would be working. Connor edged round and pressed the plug into the wall and pressed it on. The screens came to life, showing no anomalies appearing up. Connor grinned, he loved the glow of a computer screen at night. It seemed unearthly. Connor sad down in front of it and pressed a few buttons on the keyboard. The room was filled with the anomaly alarm. Connor turned it off and grinned again. They he slumped in his seat and promptly started snoring.
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"Connor!" the said person awoke with a start. He was lying on the floor, sprawled out on his back. He groaned and sat up.
"Whassa time?" he asked no-one in particular as Abby's worried face came into view.
"Eight. Are you okay?" she asked.
"Abby." Connor stated, looking at her eyes. She looked away.
"Issy, Connor. Issy." Connor's breath caught in his throat, he had been so sure.
"Sorry." He said, looking away. He looked at the detector. "I finished it." He said to change the subject.
"Come here." Said Issy, offering her hand. Connor grabbed it and she hauled him to his feet.
"Thanks." Connor looked away. The anomaly detector looked even better than it did last night... even if he did say so himself. Issy seemed to agree.
"Cool." She stated as Danny walked in behind her.
"Hey. That thing's... big." He explained. Connor decided to take it as a compliment.
"Thanks." He said dryly and pressed a few buttons. "It's in full working order and... this is the alarm..." he pressed enter and a loud beeping filled the room, causing Danny and Issy to jump and cover their ears.
"Is someone gonna tell me what the hell that noise was?" came Cutter's voice from the doorway after the noise had stopped.
"Connor's toy." Replied Danny. "The alarm." He looked shaken.
"Does it have to be so loud?" asked Nick curiously, "Because we may all become deaf before too long." Connor gave him a scathing look.
"Yes." He replied. He didn't have the energy to do anything more on the detector. It had been hard work and Connor was in a bad mood, he hadn't slept very much and he had been brought back to reality too hard. He sighed, and Nick looked at him sympathetically.
"Sorry." Nick said, "It's fine." Connor nodded his thanks as a loud beeping told them they couldn't stop just yet. Connor threw Nick and Issy a detector each and held one himelf.
"Lets go."
Please R&R