Warning: A bit on the angsty side. I felt like I should kill someone.

Name: Ashlynn Harrison

Age and Birthplace: 26, St. Albans

Gender: F

Rank: Lieutenant (field medic)

Appearance: 5'7', golden/brown hair, grey eyes

Notes: Quiet. Optomistic. Reacts quickly to those that are injured. Family over Job. Reckless.

She was going to be a doctor. Even when she was a kid, only 6 years old, Ashlynn Harrison's dream job was to be a doctor.

Now, she was still going to be a doctor. Only on slightly different terms.

"Mum. Dad." Ash walked into her family living room where her parents were. Her mother was reading a book quietly by the window. Her father was watching some program on the human nose, his eyes showing he wasn't at all interested though he usually found documentaries exciting.

The death had affected them both. But it affected Ash the most.

"Yes, honey?" Her mother said without taking her eyes off of her book. Ash knew she wasn't reading it because she hadn't flipped the page in the five minutes she was watching her.

"Hm?" Was all her father said and lit his cigarette.

Ash swallowed thickly before speaking. "I'm going to join the army." She stated bluntly.

"What?" Her parents snapped their heads towards her in unison. Her mother's eyes were wide and more afraid than shocked. Her father's eyes were angry. She knew the reaction was going to be bad, but not this bad.

She swallowed again. "I'm not going to be a soldier, not really. Just a field medic. You wanted me to be a doctor so I'll be a doctor. Where they need doctors most." Ash had rehearsed it over and over in her mind for days ever since he died.

"We wanted you to be a proper doctor, Ashlynn. In a hospital." Her mother said in a tone she used on her students. Being a teacher she was authorized to use that voice whenever she wanted to.

"And after-... No. No Ashlynn." Her father shook his head. "You're not joining the army."

He was thinking of her brother. His son. The young man that was killed on duty.

Ash wanted to do this FOR her brother. She wanted to join up to help others that were dying saving their country.

"Fine." She said, knowing that a argument wouldn't do anything. Ash turned around and marched out of the living room.

She joined the army.

"Mommy." A small voice broke the silence and Ashlynn turned her head away from the window displaying the sun rising in the horizon. A small boy stood a few feet away from her, still in his pajamas. He had light brown hair, something from her side, and light green eyes, courtesy of his dad.

"Morning, Alex." Ash offered him a small smile and walked away from the window towards him.

"Are you going to work?"

"I was just leaving." She said and kneeled to the ground. He wrapped his small arms around her and she hugged him back. "Don't worry, honey. I'll be back tonight as usual. I promise."

"Okay." Ash heard him yawn and said "Why don't you go back to bed? It's 5 in the morning. Here, I'll take you." He smiled as she took his hand. He had his dad's smile.

She led him to his room across from hers and ushered him into his rocket-ship bed. Alex snuggled deep into the covers, eyes blinking as he waited for her to tuck him in. Ash kissed his nose and tucked the blanket around her four year old son, listening to his sigh of content. Soon he was back asleep and probably wouldn't wake until later in the morning.

Ash kissed her son's head softly before silently backing out of his room, shutting the door as quietly as possible. She turned around and had to clamp a hand over her mouth to muffle a shriek.

"Don't scare me like that, Ben!" She hissed half-playfully, trying not to wake up Alex.

Her husband laughed musically and pretended to wince in pain when she smacked his arm. "I wasn't trying to." He glanced at her black uniform. "Come on, I'll 'walk' you to the door." Ben smirked at the last bit, green eyes sparkling. Ash just smiled, a bit sadly as she followed him.

He maneuvered his wheelchair expertly around Alex's discarded toys until he made it to the front door. Ash stopped and kissed him on the lips before opening the door. "See you tonight, Ben."

Ben smiled up at her, hands rested on the pale blue blanket covering his legs. "I'll keep Alex entertained until you get back." He said with a small laugh and she couldn't help but smile as she headed to the lift.

Ben had been injured doing his job as a soldier in the army. He was shot from the side by a expert sniper, the bullet hitting a part of his knee cap. Luckily he had recovered after a few surgeries, but the doctors had forced him into a few months of medical leave and a wheelchair. Two things that Ben hated but couldn't do anything about.

Ash hated seeing him like that but it couldn't be helped. At first, when they had told her he had been hurt she had worried that it would play out like it had with her brother. She was so relieved when they told her all he needed was rest and limited movement with his legs for the road to recovery.

At least they had Alex or else Ben would've gone crazy staying at home everyday.

She pulled out of their driveway and waved at him through their third story window. He saluted back with a grin.

But he was still Ben.

"Good morning, Jackson." Ash said, catching up with him in the hall. Over the past two months they had grown from acquaintances to friends. Or more like she forced him into being friends with her. He was a lone wolf. Jackson seemed to prefer being alone most of the time, but Ash figured that was unhealthy and may be half of the cause to his gloominess.

"Mornin'." He mumbled, lost in his thoughts.

He was probably thinking about his brother. Ash had coaxed him into telling her the whole story and found it heartbreaking, as a friend and as a doctor. She had tried telling him that he should move on, that it would cause less pain, but he would just ignore her concern. No matter, he was still her friend.

They walked down the hall towards the armory where they were scheduled to test the new EMD's. Along the way they came across Marcus Regozani. Ash remembered she had to talk to him about the paperwork for the last anomaly mission.

She stopped walking and to her surprise, so did Jackson. As she talked to Marcus she realized he was waiting for her. Maybe their friendship wasn't so unrequited.

The anomaly alert blared halfway through their conversation. Jackson gave her a look that clearly said 'let's go' before walking quickly towards the armory. Ash just rolled her eyes and jogged after him, Marcus not far behind.

"Alright, minions." Holland's voice could be heard clearly through their earpieces. "What we've got today on this lovely morning is a 15 foot long, pissed off lizard, 'kay? Good news, there's only one. Bad news, the anomaly has closed. More bad news, it is impossible to restrain so under Becker's orders it's shoot to kill. Have fun, kiddies."

"Shoot to kill?" Jackson checked his EMD's battery as Ash located her medical kit. "Then I'll definitely have fun."

They arrived on the site -a half deserted gas station- with the others and immediately saw the dinosaur.

"It's a Liliensternus." Kizzy said and received looks from the rest. "I've done my homework." She admitted.

Becker slammed his car door shut and walked past them, barely giving them a glance because he was too busy arguing with Abby.

"We can't kill it, Becker. Who knows what that might do!"

"I know what it is going to do. And that's kill anyone that gets near it. We can't let that happen and we can't let this thing get into town." He growled at her and then turned to the soldiers. "Shoot to kill. Divide yourselves up, I need half of you to clear these civilians." Becker headed towards Matt, Abby still protesting. Connor slipped out of the car and trailed after them quietly, as if not wanting to get involved.

Half of the rookie group split up to join the other soldiers in ushering people out of the area. The other half headed towards the veterans already firing at the Liliensternus. It seemed EMD's didn't do much but annoy it. They surrounded the creature and fired anyways.

Ash stood apart from them with her medical kit, hand gripping her EMD. She was field medic today but the EMD was for emergency purposes. Like now.

The prehistoric creature let out a rattled shriek as one of the EMD shots hit it's neck and charged towards a clump of soldiers. It lashed out suddenly, tearing at them.

"Set it on high." Becker shouted and fired a few shots from his EMD. The dinosaur was furious now. It shrieked again as one of Becker's shots hit it and whipped it's long tail, knocking down some gasoline containers spilling the dark liquid on the concrete.

Ash glanced at the soldiers that had been attacked by the Liliensternus, hoping that Jackson wasn't one of them. He wasn't but he was standing close by. Ash carefully darted in and around soldiers with her medical kit until she reached the wounded.

"How are we going to take it down?" She asked Jackson who was still firing away at the creature. Most of the shots missed, but the ones that hit hardly made much of an impact.

He didn't reply. She sighed and continued dressing wounds.

Ash noticed Becker watching from a distance, his eyebrows furrowed as he thought. He said something to Matt but the Irish man just shrugged and gestured to the soldiers. Becker said something in the other man's ear before firing a few shots at the creature. Abby was being restrained by Connor who was frantically telling her something, probably that it was best this way.

Suddenly the dinosaur's attention shifted from the soldiers to the gas attendant who had just noticed the commotion. The young man had headphones over his ears and a unlit cigarette in his mouth; just coming out of the building for a smoke. He dropped his lighter and ran, not realizing what he had dropped it in.

Ash blinked and soon the rear end of the car was on fire. She was about to tell everyone standing next to it to move, but Jackson had another idea. He dropped his EMD and sprinted to the car. She did something stupid after that.

She followed him.

Jackson got into the drivers seat just as Ash got in the passenger side.

"What the hell are you doing?" He glared at her.

"I'm coming with you." Ash said as confidently as possible.

Jackson glanced out of the window and saw many of his co-workers giving him frantic looks, a few shouting. "I'm planning on driving this into the -whatever Richards said. I know what's going to happen but we can't let that thing get out of here alive."

"There must be another way of doing this." Ash protested.

"Soon it's going to realize it doesn't have to stay here. It'll be harder trying to restrain it in the city."

Ash bit her lip. "I'm with you."

"No you're not."

"I'm not getting out of this car."

"It's on fire."

"..."

Jackson gritted his teeth and stepped on the accelerator. Ash gripped the sides of her car seat tightly, her knuckles white. She glanced out the windshield and saw the dinosaur, looking as if it's wondering why they've stopped shooting at it and were instead shouting.

"You have a family, Harrison. A husband and a son." Jackson said quickly as the neared. "I didn't have anyone but my brother and he's...dead."

Ash didn't speak, but she thought about her family.

"Get out of the car, Ashlynn." He turned his head and looked at her, properly this time. He didn't look away, or roll his eyes, or scoff. Ashlynn could feel the tension or maybe that was just the heat of the fire that had made it's way to the backseat.

She kissed his cheek and opened the door. Then she jumped.

Ash hit the hard ground, wincing upon impact. She quickly scrambled to her feet and ran in the opposite direction the car was going. She didn't look back when she heard the crunch of metal, or the explosion of the car.

She just knew that if she stayed in the car for a few more moments, she would have broken her promise to Alex.

Once she knew she was at a safe distance did she turn around and collapse on the ground, tears in her eyes. The car was engulfed in fire and so was half of the Liliensternus. She felt someone pull her back, Becker from his voice, and she let him. Her legs were feeling numb anyways.

Smoking kills.

I don't know how practical this situation was but it was fun writing. I mean...sad... sad writing.