Chapter 15- Who's the girl with Connor?

Avery changed into a wetsuit and followed her dad onto the boat. They were going to dive into the water and see if they could find the anomaly. A team was already near the site where the steam was spotted. They radioed in and told them there was no sign of the creature.

Cutter could feel the tension had surmounted between the two. At first he was hesitant to let them both onto the boat until the matter was sorted, but he observed that there quarrel was not interfering with their work so he decided to let them on. That didn't mean he wasn't going to have a talk with them about it later.

They waited with the other boat as the water was checked again for any sighting of the creature. When they were given the all clear they checked their equipment before diving backwards into the water.

It was dark and murky green. They could just barely see each other in the water. Just because they couldn't see the creature from on the water didn't mean that they were safe. The creature could probably sense them better than they could sense it. It had millions of years to hone its ability to hunt in the water.

They turned their torches on and checked their watches to see how long they had until their oxygen ran out. They swam forward searching for the anomaly.

After a while of searching the anomaly suddenly burst into existence. The diver in front of them swam through it just as it appeared. They stopped and waited for the diver to come back.

Avery shone her torch around and spotted something large swimming towards them. She quickly turned and shone her torch at Nick to catch his attention. He turned towards her and quickly spotted the creature behind her.

It stared at them quickly as Avery's heart rate beat louder and a rush of blood raced to her head. It shook its head side to side then swam straight past them and through the anomaly. They stood there frozen waiting to see if the creature would come back through. The anomaly flickered for a moment then disappeared as quickly as it came.

Nick gestured for them to get out of the water so they swam back towards the boats. As they were pulled out of the water one of the soldiers asked about the diver. Avery looked away as Nick told them about his disappearance. She would be very upset if one of her friends had disappeared.

They stood next to Connor as he described what he and Abby had seen. It was likely that the mosasaur they saw was the same as the one that disappeared. "It's some kind of mosasaur, maybe six or seven meters. Cretaceous, at a guess."

"Scary. And at that size, it couldn't have been fully-grown." Nick said looking at Abby who was getting checked by a medic.

"Yeah."

"Which is just as well for you."

He pats Connor on the back and rubs his shoulder as Claudia approaches. They turn to face a group of Ryan's men who are standing a short distance away with Ryan and Stephen.

"They're all really upset about losing the diver. Tell me exactly what happened." Claudia said solemnly. No one wanted to lose a friend.

Claudia and Nick walk towards the divers, leaving Avery behind with Abby and Connor.

Avery stood back as Abby approached and took Connor's hand. "You saved my life." Abby said.

"I did, didn't I?" Connor said clearly proud. Avery could just hear the affection in his voice and the lingering hug he gave Abby convinced her so clearly that he had something for the lizard girl. She was surprised Abby did not pick it up.

"Okay." Abby said after the hug started to get weird.

"What?" Connor mumbled clearly not picking up on her discomfort.

"You can let go now."

"Oh, yeah, I'm sorry. I just…"

"Thanks." Abby said. Connor stretched his arms back and let out a sigh as Abby walked away to talk to Cutter.

"Way to go Connor. Not bad for someone who supposedly gets to miss out on all the action." Avery said punching him on the shoulder.

"Ow." Connor cried out rubbing his shoulder.

"Oh come on." She said "I didn't hit you that hard. Let's go home it's been a long day."

The next day at the university Avery sat next to Connor at one of the cafeteria tables looking at information on the mosasaur. Her dad may have been the head of his apartment so he could skip out of work but the same couldn't be said for Avery's university life. She still had many classes to finish. It was her last year after all, and apparently Connor's as well.

Tom and Duncan approached him as they pulled up Connor's website. He started putting different evidence in the site based on what they saw at the reservoir. He decided he should probably keep it updated for any other possible incursions, of course he wouldn't be posting any new evidence online, but he still wanted to keep something of a record log. Something Avery thought of when she first sat next to him.

Duncan sat across from them and Duncan read the webpage out loud over Connor's shoulder, startling him. "Mosasaur, eh? Cretaceous era marine predator. Anything from 2 to 20 meters in length and two tonnes in weight. Extinct 65 million years ago."

"Conn, shouldn't we get going? I just got a message something new has popped up." Avery told him discreetly so that he would get the message, but his fiends wouldn't. After the fiasco a couple of days ago they didn't want the other two knowing about anything new that popped up.

He quickly snapped the laptop lid down and they both got up after grabbing there bags and coats.

"I was reading that. What's this? New project?" Tom complained as they were about to rush off.

"No. No. No, no, no, just interested." He said, checking his watch. "Oh, is that the time? I'm going to have to go. We've somewhere to go."

"Whoa, what's the rush? It's DVD night. 'Battlefield Earth', director's commentaries. Your turn to get the pizza."

"Right. You know what? You can have it on me. I've really got to be somewhere."

Connor hands Duncan some money and then leaves. Avery quickly shuffles her coat and shakes both their hands. "It was nice meeting you, however brief it was." She rushed off after Connor he was her ride after all.

Tom just sits in the seat Connor just vacated, watching them leave. "What's got into him?"

"Maybe he's still angry over our practical joke." Duncan replied.

"Come on. That fake dinosaur was a masterpiece."

"Yeah. Perhaps he's got a girlfriend. Maybe it's that Avery chick." They both laughed at his suggestion. "Nah. She's with that Michael bloke from our business lectures."

"Well, it must be pretty radical. He missed my Gerry Anderson marathon last weekend as well. Said he wasn't interested."

"How weird is that?"

"Why the sudden obsession with dinosaurs?"

"Maybe he's onto something. A dig somewhere, a good fossil, something he wants to keep to himself. I mean isn't Avery professor Cutter's daughter. If she was hanging out with him, it would be for a dig."

"Which would be selfish. You know, I think we need to keep a closer eye on that boy."

So next chapter finally up. I want to do more new anomalies that go slightly Au from the show, but I feel like for the first season there weren't many anomalies appearing between the episodes apart from between the last couple of episodes.