A/N: Thanks for all the support you give to this story. I know this is short but you are awesome and deserve something while I am on vacation.

No beta so all mistakes are mine.

Will led Abigail and the kids to the command center and stopped outside a door under the tower. "I'm taking you into a fairly restricted place. Commander Taylor had to give me approval to take you because it's your birthday."

"Is this the armory?" Jess asked.

"It'd be cool to see all those weapons," Jason added.

Will looked at Abigail and laughed. "You guys sound like I did when I was a kid." He noticed that Abigail looked sad when he mentioned his childhood. "You can see weapons here if you'd like."

"Awesome!" they replied.

Will turned to enter his access code and opened the door. He held the door for them to enter the dimly lit stairwell that was surrounded by stone. "This leads to something many people call the Eye. It's a repository of all the knowledge of history. You can access it in a holographic, virtual reality-type of setting."

"Is this carved into the rock under the command center?" Abigail asked as she looked around.

Will was afraid Abigail was going to be afraid of the darkened space, but so far she appeared to be fine. "Step right in and see for yourself." He motioned for them to enter a second door. "The large liquid-filled chamber at the back is the core."

"What's this chair for?" Jess ran in and stopped next to a device that looked like one half of a clamshell with a bench inside.

"That's where you sit when you control the images." Will stepped in after Abigail and shut the door.

Jason headed to the core that could be seen inside a floor to ceiling window. The water and spherical central processing unit appeared blue in color as did the water that surrounded them. "This is beyond cool."

Abigail smiled the sweet smile that Will loved as she watched her nephew.

"How does it work?" Jess asked.

"You can enter commands from anywhere, but when you sit in the chair the images appear like a video." Will walked over and sat next to Jess. Once he sat down, there was little room for anyone but Jess or Jason next to him. "Show me the interior of the command center."

Suddenly the room around them changed so that half of it was now a virtual representation of the command center with a table and huge displays of Terra Nova projected into the air above the table.

"Awesome!" Jason ran over and sat next to Jess.

"Move!" Jess nudged him against the wall of the chair.

"I want to see," Jason said and pushed back.

"Jason, why don't you sit on the other side of Will?" Abigail offered. She walked over and stood next to the seat.

"Where will you sit?" Jess asked.

"I can stand."

"No, you need to sit to get the same affect," Will said. "Especially with the mountain climbing."

"What?"

"Maybe you should sit on Will's lap in case you get scared," Jess offered.

"Jessica!"

"I think that's a wonderful idea," Will said, his body reacting to the comment instantly. "You know what they say about out of the mouths of babes."

Abigail was in awe of The Eye and even more so of Will's idea to take the kids there for their birthday. She didn't think anything could top it for them.

Her mind raced through all the things she could show her classroom in this place. After looking around the command center, they went to the armory and then an aerial scene of Terra Nova that Will said was being fed from atmospheric monitoring devices. The view was exhilarating and didn't cause Abigail to be afraid at all.

She was seated next to Will with Jason and Jess in front of them on the floor. Will looked disappointed when she didn't sit on his lap, but she could barely concentrate on breathing with him nearby as it was. The chair was small causing Will's big frame to press tightly against her. His arm wrapped around her and his hand settled on her hip.

"Could we see the ocean?" Abigail asked quietly as the kids marveled at the sensation of flying that the huge viewing area gave them.

"Absolutely." Will grinned. "Coastal sweep of northern hemisphere."

The wall before them turned blue and the chair felt like it was flying over the waves. The kids were squealing with delight. "Show me an ocean dinosaur," Jess said and suddenly a large dinosaur rose from the water directly in front of them. It was a member of the pliosaur family, a thirty-foot long marine lizard with as many teeth as a shark, which it showed off as it snapped its mouth shut before falling back into the water. Jason and Jess screamed and laughed, teasing each other about who was more scared.

Abigail was definitely the most scared and screamed the loudest. She leaped into Will's arms, flying across his lap to bury her head against his chest. Her breathing was erratic, her heartbeat thunderous and the terror coursing through her veins very real.

"It's okay, Abby," Will said soothingly as his arms settled around her.

"I'm sorry, Aunt Abby," Jess sounded distraught. "I forgot a virtual dinosaur would be just as scary as a real one. And didn't expect it to fly at us."

"It's okay, Jess," Will told her. "Abby will be okay. Just give her a minute. Why don't you look at something else? We've only got about twenty minutes left."

"Okay. How about space?" she asked.

Abigail heard the conversation but tried to concentrate only on the feel of Will's strong body, which she clung to. Her arms wrapped tightly around his midsection. Her face buried into his shoulder and her eyes squeezed shut. The smell of his soap, laundry detergent and unique scent filled her nostrils as she took deep breaths and helped to calm her. Will is really here and that thing isn't.

His hands moved slowly and consolingly over her back. One of them sliding under her hair to gently kneed her neck as his lips ghosted over her cheek. "It's okay, sweetheart," he whispered. "I've got you."

I've got you. Those words meant everything to Abigail. They were a physical comfort, he held her, an emotional anchor, he would put her back together if she panicked and an intellectual acknowledgement, Will Carter understood her way of thinking and would never reject her because of it. She clung as tightly to the words as the powerful body her arms were wrapped around.

TBC