Matt climbed out first with Becker closely after him.

He heard the heels' sound on the concrete before he could even see her.

His feet had hardly hit the ground, but something in his stomach already made a back flip as he saw her. A burning sensation settled down in his guts as she jumped into his arms burying her face in the crook of his neck.

Ignoring the pain in his body and basically everything else around, he hugged her back. He pressed her against him, just starting to notice how much he had missed her body melting into his.

Becker put his hands on both sides of her face to hold her back so he could look at her properly.

Her makeup was smudged like the last time they had seen each other he noticed sorely, but this time she smiled, although tears were running down her cheeks, or was it just the rain?

"Are you okay?" Becker asked and started to look her up and down as if he could find any injuries that way. Jess could just nod because her throat felt swollen.

She just knew that she never wanted to let go of him again.

"Come on, you are already drenched!" With his arm around her shoulder Becker walked her over to the building.

Everyone welcomed the Head of Security back with open arms.

Abby and Emily hugged Becker, Danny patted him on the shoulder and bet on Connor to have a silly joke on his lips. "Action man, since when gets the villain the better of the hero? Not that I am not glad to have you back of course!"

"Connor." Becker said simply.

"Who's your friend?" Emily asked and nodded at Sally who stood near the door with a strange mixture of fear and excitement in her eyes.

"This is Sally. Don't be scared, come here." Sally stepped carefully closer while her eyes kept following everyone's movements. "She followed me because she wanted to see this." Becker gestured around.

"You have to tell us everything after you have dried." Abby said indicating Becker's wet clothes and he agreed.

"A hot shower would be brilliant!"

All of a sudden he looked around to search for Jess who was not next to him as he would have expected.

He discovered her standing a little off the group. Jess was hugging herself because the cold wet clothes were making her shiver now. She had watched the whole welcome-back-scene in silence. She simply needed this moment to herself to realise that it was not one of those dreams she had had over the last few weeks. The petite field coordinator had to let it sink in that her Becker really was back. It was hard to believe.

Concerned Becker turned to her. "Jess, are you okay?"

She nodded bravely, drinking in his sight: wet black hair, dirty streaks on his face, slightly torn uniform.

"Come on guys, we'll get coffee for everyone." Abby decided quickly and linked arms with Connor and Danny to drag them away.

"Yes, and we'll get you dry clothes, Sally, okay? Would you like to come with me?" Emily smiled at the girl who looked with insecure eyes at Becker, but he assured her that it was okay: "It's okay. Go with her. I'll catch up with you later." Sally nodded and followed Emily who talked in a friendly tone to the rather frightened girl. She guessed how she must have felt, having been in her shoes once.

Matt just silently followed his team.

"Jess?"

She wiped her face: "Sorry."

Becker limped over to her. "Your leg…are you hurt?" She just noticed his constitution now.

"Just a scratch." He shrugged it off.

"You'll have to have someone look at it." Jess said concerned.

"Of course." He stepped in front of her. "Are you sure, you're okay?" He gently brushed a wet strand of hair out of her face and his touch made a tear drop emerge her eye and goose bumps racing down her spine. Jess felt so silly, but she couldn't help it.

Becker chuckled. "Jess, why are you crying?"

Her voice broke: "You're really back, aren't you?"

He smiled and cupped her cheek: "Yes."

She held his eyes for a second before she pulled his head down to her to kiss him.

It was a soft kiss as if they had to get to know each other again. The soft brush against her lips, never the less, held so many memories in them that they quickly deepened the kiss. Their tongues met with a sparkling sensation and expectation. Becker held her close. The joy rushed through their veins, embracing every nerve that had been eagerly waiting for this moment.

Lester interrupted the couple: "Do I really have to remind you that this is still a government facility!? And how the hell do you look like? I guess a shower would be appropriate and about the girl you brought, we'll talk about that later!"

"Nice to see you too, Lester." Becker mumbled making Jess grin.

After a hot shower and a stop at the medical bay where Becker's wound got cleaned and sewn with ten stitches; and after he got some antibiotics the team met again.

They were all sitting down in the common room where they had recently put a small couch and matching easy chairs in a corner.

Not too surprisingly Becker had refused to occupy a sick room.

Sally was sleeping in one of them though. They had managed to convince her in letting a doctor examine her. She was fine, but she had been given a mild sedative so she would sleep soundly that night.

"So, where have you been?" Danny asked.

"You know we feared for the worst after…" Abby nudged Connor and hissed his name to make him shut up.

Becker's eyes swept over his friends faces. "After what?" Jess was sitting right next to him on the couch and started to fidget uneasily. He frowned as everyone avoided his eyes, everyone besides Matt, whose face was of course as calm and unreadable as ever.

"What did I miss?" He asked suspiciously, looking at Matt. "Matt?"

Matt considered his answer for a moment: "Well… after we have caught Ethan."

All eyes were on Becker now whose jaw dropped open in surprise. "What? When?"

"Two days ago."

"Impossible! He was there just this morning!"

"Are you sure?"

"Did you see him?"

"No, but he had to be there!" Becker said and then explained. "He took me to the past where a bunch of rebels saved me from him. They helped me to get back here." Not mentioning their trip to the future deliberately, he wanted to talk to Matt about it on his own.

Matt had noticed how Emily had stiffened next to him. She straightened herself to stare at Becker who stared right back at her.

She swallowed as tension grew thick between them.

"Could have been a trap, after all they let the girl…" Danny was interrupted by Emily:

"No, you can trust them." Now, the attention was shifting from Captain Becker to Emily Merchant. "I know them. I…I was part of them before…" She gestured around the room helplessly. Unnoticed by anyone Matt shifted his weight and leaned closer to Emily.

"And Sally followed me on her own account…" ,that's what I guess though, Becker added in his thoughts.

"How did he even take you there?" Jess asked. "I mean no anomaly opens up accidentally, especially not when you happen to need one."

Becker nodded. "Right." He pulled something out of his pocket. "Connor, I guess this is yours." Connor caught it clumsily as Becker threw it over. He turned it around in his hands examining it at first before recognition dawned. "But…what…where…how?" Connor stuttered.

"What is it?" Danny asked.

"Does it work?" Connor just ignored Quinn.

Becker nodded. "Yes."

Connor laughed and got this excited expression on his face that would compete with every child's one around Christmas time.

"I figured it out! I mean, I will figure it out…I am a genius!" Laughingly he pecked Abby on the cheek and turned the device around in his hands again and again looking at it from every angle.

"Is that…" Abby started.

"Yes! My anomaly creator I have been working on for weeks now!"

"So, Ethan could go anywhere to any time?" Jess asked.

"Pretty much." Becker answered.

"But he can't have done everything on his own." Jess mused.

"As far as I know he did." Becker replied.

Suddenly something snapped into place and Emily gasped. "He didn't!"

Everyone waited for an explanation. "That's what he meant earlier! He doesn't trust anyone but himself, that's what he said. Ethan is here locked up in a cell, but you said he was also there in the past with you…"

"He's from a different time!" Matt concluded.

"Okay, this is really creepy now!" Connor said.

"Is that possible?" Abby asked.

"Isn't it forbidden? Didn't we learn in Harry Potter 3 not to mess around with time?" Connor said.

Now everyone focused on the man from the future.

"Well, there are stories that you can meet yourself, but people who'd done it lost their minds and became paranoid."

"That is so creepy…meeting your future self…You would lose your whole time and space feeling wouldn't you? Always wondering where you actually were or are and where you would meet yourself again. You would lose yourself in it, wouldn't you? Not knowing who you are or where you are." Jess tried to grab a clear thought.

"That could change everything, couldn't it?" Abby said

"All reasons why we were instructed not to do it. If you change the past version of yourself, of course you change yourself and the future you. I have never seen nor experienced it, so don't ask me how it actually works or what will happen." Matt explained.

"I still don't get what this is all about." Connor complained.

Becker caught Matt's eyes than and looked away again quickly to tell him that he needed to talk to him.

No one said a word.

"Maybe we should all go home and sleep about it." Danny suggested. And on this everyone agreed.

On the way out Emily tugged at Becker's arm.

"Becker…did you meet Trudy?"

"Yes." Becker had just managed to forget about her and now just managed to suppress a groan.

"How is she?"

"Fine." He answered curtly.

"Did she…did you talk about me?"

"Yes and I am sorry to tell you, but she is pretty mad at you." Emily nodded.

"What happened?"

"Becker?" Jess called out.

"Another time." Emily said and quickly walked away.

Becker didn't recognise his flat as they entered.

"Oh…bloody…what happened here?"

He walked through the rooms while Jess followed sheepishly. Becker turned around to stare at her for an answer.

"So?"

Jess felt like a child caught by a parent.

"I just did a bit of cleaning." Her voice was quiet and she looked up from him under her lashes.

Becker raised his eyebrows. "A bit? This looks rather sterile."

Jess stared at the floor with her hands held behind her back before she walked passed him and over to a window. She bit her lip crossing her arms over her chest while she watched all the beautiful lights of London's skyline:

"Well…I have had quite some time lately…"

Becker smiled to himself. He let his gaze sweep over her back and down her slender legs to her lovely bright blue shoes, where his eyes stayed for some seconds. He took the sight of his girlfriend in. The term was still kind of new to him and he might not ever get used to it, but especially over these last few weeks he had learned that he wouldn't want to miss her anymore.

Becker strode over to her and put his arms around her from behind. His chin rested on top of her head and Jess closed her eyes to savour the moment.

Suddenly she felt more tired than ever, as all the emotions of these past few weeks left her small body and vanished into thin air.

The fear, sadness, anger, loneliness, anxiety, apprehension…

She leaned fully into him and Becker lowered his lips to her ear whispering to her:

"Does your flat look the same?"

"Don't mock me!" Jess pouted.

A low chuckle rumbled through his chest. Jess turned around to bury her face in his chest. Soothingly Becker caressed her back just getting a hunch of what Jess had gone through, but he was back and had no intention to leave her again.

"I have missed you." Becker noticed the tiredness in her voice and he was pretty tired himself.

It would be heavenly to lie down on a comfortable mattress. He kissed her hair.

"Come on, let's go to bed."

That night Jess woke up several times because of her usual nightmares, but every time she found herself kept warm in Becker's embrace and was able to go quickly back to sleep again.

The Head of Security himself slept like a stone. He didn't wake up once and he didn't even notice Jess's anxiety. Maybe it was because of the medication, maybe because he hadn't slept for weeks, but maybe it was just because he unconsciously felt Jess's lovely slender warm body next to him.
The smell of her skin and hair embraced him and kept him safe in his dreams.

There will be lots of more fluff of Jess and Becker in the next chapters.=)

I think they deserve it after this mess.^^

Thanks for reading!