Matt, Abby and Connor hadn't even made it to the ground floor when they heard a door fall shut, followed by heavy footsteps echoing through the stairway.

"There might be a chance we lost Jess, but I'll do everything in my power to protect you!" Becker said as he approached the others. He passed them without a second look and got into the SUV.

"What," he turned around when he realized that the others didn't follow, "Do I have to go alone?" Raising their eyebrows, his teammates got into the car without another word.

For a bit, they drove in silence until Matt broke it. "Lester, where in the zoo is the anomaly located exactly?"

"Just beside the lion's compound!" Lester's voice came through the earpieces. "Oh, and Becker, so far we don't know if we have lost Jess, and as long as we aren't sure, I don't want to hear her name and the word 'lost' in one and the same sentence. Understood?"

"Yes, sir!"

They got to the zoo minutes later. One of the soldiers from the back-up team, Smith, waited for them at the front gate.

"Is there any sign of incursion by now? Or witnesses?" Matt asked as they headed towards the lions.

"No nothing! The anomaly was only there for a few minutes! It disappeared before we could lock it." Smith words let Matt stop in his tracks so suddenly that Connor ran right into him. But before Connor could complain, Matt made a change of plan. "Okay, then we'll search the area, just to make sure nothing has come through! Becker, you're with Abby, Connor with me. Smith you return to your team, you guys can pack up and return to the ARC."

Jess stepped through the anomaly and, for a moment, she hoped she would find herself face to face with Abby, Connor, Matt and most importantly, Becker. She had missed him dearly and wondered if they had even realized she was gone.

Her hopes came crashing down when she found herself back at the London zoo, right beside the lions compound but hidden by bushes from the public eye. She knew the bushes well; she had spent hours here hiding away from her mum when it was time to return home after a day at the zoo.

The zoo was Jess' favourite place when she was a kid. The memories of herself as a six-year-old begging her mum to take her to the zoo every day came rushing back to her. With a small smile but a disappointed heart, because of the lack of friends when she had returned to our world, she carefully made her way out of the bushes so she wouldn't cause too much attention.

She strolled to a shop which was located between the lions and the alpacas. She got herself a water bottle and checked on the newspapers to see to which day she had returned and took a glance at the nearest clock - it was the same day, but a few hours later.

Once Jess realized that, she couldn't stop the disappointment that rose in her heart more. Jess had stepped through two anomalies, was gone for a few hours, and none of her friends had seemed to notice.

She continued her way through the zoo, taking a look at the tigers, and finally sat down under one of the oaks at the picnic lawn.

Jess reached out to pull her scrunchie off to let her hair fall freely over her shoulders as the warm sunshine hit her face. She leaned back against the trunk and let her thoughts drift back to Narnia and her time there, the memories curing her aching heart and giving her time to not think about Becker and his so-called-girlfriend.

While Matt and Connor headed of towards the lemurs, otters and meerkats, Abby and Becker were off to search the bigger part of the zoo.

After only a few minutes they decided, for the second time that day, that it would be best to split up so they could search quicker.

Abby headed towards the reptile house and the aquarium followed by the Outback area while Becker was searching the side with the penguins, butterflies, playground and pelicans.

He scanned the surrounding the best he could, but his mind returned to Jess all the time. He saw her in every short woman with brown slightly reddish hair; he could hear her voice everywhere.

He could only hope that there was really no creature incursion. Even though he tried his best to actually do his job, he knew he was miles away from really doing it.

A sight in front of him let him freeze in his movements. There she was again; his mind was playing the same trick it had done earlier today at the Richmond Park.

Again he saw Jess sitting under an oak, with her back resting at the trunk, her hair loosely falling over her shoulders, eyes closed. The only difference this time was that there was a bottle lying beside her instead of a book.

He couldn't stop the urge to move closer to the tree yet again, sure that the image was just about to disappear.

Jess, who suddenly felt like she was being watched, opened her eyes and found Becker staring at her from a little distance. The soldier slowly walked closer to her; he nearly seemed to be afraid of breaking something.

She wasn't able to move, the look in Becker's eyes pinned her to the ground in a way that caused shivers to run up and down her spine.

It was until Becker was only a foot or two away from her that she was able to get up, a small smile playing around her lips. The sight of him with the other girl was somewhere buried under the pure joy of seeing Becker again.

"Jess?" his voice was barely audible, his mind still fully sure that she would disappear yet again.

"Yes." Despite the fact she felt like screaming because of happiness, her words came out huskily.

Before her mind could proceed what happened next, she found herself in his arms. She gladly accepted the given opportunity and cuddled into him closer.

"Please tell me you haven't gone through the anomaly!" he whispered into her hair.

"I can't!" she answered, guilt written all over her face, but he wasn't able to see that as she buried her face into his chest, taking a deep breath of his scent. They stood like that for a while until suddenly her mind snapped back to the events from the morning and she stepped away from him.

Not able to look him in the eyes she muttered, "I bet your girlfriend won't like it much if you hug me!"

Then she turned away, trying to walk away from him, but his hand caught a hold of her wrist to stop her. He moved close to her until she could feel his breath on her neck. The warm feeling made it impossible for her to breathe. Tears built up behind her eyes; gosh she loved him just too much and the thought of him seeing someone else broke her heart. No matter what she had thought in Narnia, about at least being happy to see him smile again, she now wasn't able to bear the thought of him being with anyone else but her.

Becker slowly walked in front of Jess and noticed one tear leaving the corner of her right eye. He gently placed his hand under her chin, forcing her look at him. This time he wouldn't run away from his own feelings.

"The woman you saw me with after lunch, it was my sister!" he said softly just seconds before he leaned closer to Jess to kiss away the tear on her cheek.