DISCLAIMER: I own nothing and no one from The Zeta Project. I am just a poor college student who also happens to be a rabid Zeta fan and this just happens to be a fanfiction that my mind came up with that I feel like sharing with other fans. I make absolutely NO money from this. It is merely for fun and hopefully the enjoyment of other fans. Please don't sue and fans please enjoy.

Chapter 11: A Life Saved

Many things happened within the five seconds after West and Rush burst into the cabin. A shout of surprise escaped Ro at the sight of the NSA agents, their guns trained on her. Zee swung into view behind the pair of NSA agents grabbing Rush's gun from her hand and crunching it into a piece of scrap metal. West rounded on Zee his gun raised and ready to fire but before he could the newly dubbed Fluffy let out a tremendous bark at seeing one of his 'humans' in danger, scrambled to his feet, jumped and caught West's gun within his teeth and wrenched the weapon away from the redhead.

All this happened and much more, but Bennett never saw any of it. The injured man had instinctively flinched when the door crashed open and had tried to get up. Sudden pain flashed across Bennett's senses as his right leg burst into agony causing him to cry out and fall back to the mattress.

Bennett's eyes fluttered and his breath panted out erratically as the waves of hot pain crashed over him. It seemed to take hours for the pain to go away even though it was only seconds.

The next thing Bennett knew was the sound of Ro and West shouting at each other.

"What did you do to him?!" West was yelling to what must have been Zeta before Ro cut him off.

"You leave him alone! Without Zee your boss would be frozen to death in a snow bank somewhere."

Bennett closed his eyes blocking out the piercing voices as much as he could until a small whine from right beside him brought the agent back again. Fluffy had come to sit beside Bennett, the dogs eyes worried at the sight of the man's pain, still holding West's gun in his mouth.

Ro felt her breath catch as she saw Fluffy beside Bennett and the weapon in his jaws. West saw the change come over the blonde teenager and he looked towards where she was staring. His eyes to widened at the sight and he too fell silent. The quiet grew intense as everyone's eyes were drawn to Bennett and the dog with the gun.

"Hey there boy," Bennett breathed a little shakily reaching up to stroke Fluffy's ears. Bennett then reached over and gently took West's gun from the dog who gladly dropped the weapon into the senior agents palm. Bennett hand fell to the covers as if he was too tired to hold the gun and he let the weapon fall to the floor, out of sight. That one action coming from Bennett held more meaning within it then a thousand words spoken.

"West… listen to Rosalie," Bennett then said softly turning his tired eyes to his subordinate. "My current condition is completely my own fault. She and Zeta had nothing to do with it except saving my life."

Bennett smiled a little at redheads shocked look. "Yes West," the senior agent said as if reading the young mans thoughts. "Believe it or not I can make mistakes too."

"May I ask your condition, sir?" Rush butted in as business like as ever.

Bennett leaned back and closed his eyes. "Right leg broken in at least one area. You will have to ask Rosalie and Zeta for any further knowledge."

Rush looked to Zeta first and then to Ro. The teenager sighed letting a little of her frustrations out before answering Rush's obvious question. "Bennett's lower right leg is broken. We have healing packs on the injury but they were never designed to heal anything as major as a broken bone. Plus the packs have been there for more then a day and are probably mostly spent. I don't suppose you guys have any extras in your supplies?"

Rush nodded and knelt, slinging off her backpack and digging through the supplies.

West was still staring at Bennett like he was shell-shocked.

"West?" Ro ventured in empathy, touching the redhead's shoulder making him start and look down at her. "He will be okay."

West sighed running his fingers through his hair. "Was there any frostbite?"

Ro shook her head." No, nothing serious, but he was running a high fever for quite a while after we got him back here. It only broke early this morning. He's still really exhausted."

"West your pack" Rush snapped at her partner making him jump into action, dropping his own backpack on the floor and rummaging through it until he found the desired medical equipment and handing it to Rush.

The women took the healing packs and started towards Bennett, but was halted by Zee stepping into her way.

Let me," the synthoid said softly reaching out for the med packs in Rush's hands. "My hands are steadier," the synthoid explained to the woman's suspicious glare. "It will cause Bennett less pain."

Rush relented with a singlet nod, but still followed Zee to Bennett and warily watched as the synthoid bent to change the packs.

"We owe you," West murmured to Ro as the two of them watched from the doorway.

"You owe us nothing," the blonde answered leaning back against the wall. "You guys would have done the same in our position and you know it. I'm just glad we got there in time."

West nodded to her absentmindedly, his eyes never leaving Bennett. "It's just so surreal," he whispered after a minute. "Bennett… he always seemed so… invincible before."

"No kidding," Ro snorted. "I know exactly what you mean. It was like nothing could faze him… ever. Like he was like some sort of robot or something."

Ro eyes widened when she realized what she had just said and she glance at West nervously only to find the redhead smiling.

"That's exactly right," he chuckled causing Ro to giggle a little too.

After their little laugh, the fugitive and the agent looked at each other in a new light. Maybe they weren't as different as they had first thought.

"So," West said trying to find something to end the silence that was stretching between them. "Since when did you guys have a dog?"

TBC…

Okay so I haven't gotten any reviews for the last chapter yet, but I managed to get this typed up and I'm going to upload it, frankly because I'm really not quite sure when I will have free time again for a while… I hope you guys like and please if you have a moment I would love a few reviews…

P.S. Chapter title: "A Life Saved" inspired by the song "To Save a Life" sung by the Fray