Attention Readers- This is the sequel to my last story The Hardship of a Secret and so I want to thank all of you that read it and all of you who reviewed as I appreciate your comments and suggestions! So thank you!!!
An: In this, Cutter DID NOT DIE, and you have to realise that this story is set a good seventeen/eighteen years into the future. Oh and Claudia never disappeared.
Pairings:
Abby/Connor
Nick/Claudia
Danny/OC
Becker/Sarah
Isabella (OC)/ Ryan (OC)
This story will mostly focus upon Isabella and the rest of the NG of Primeval. Hope you don't mind.
DISCLAIMER: I do NOT own Primeval, but if I did I would get Connor and Abby together and I never would have let Cutter Die.
This one is going to be from many views, so you might get confused.
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Warning- Swearing ahead!
Chapter two: Seeing the other side of things
(Ryan's Prov)
"The anomaly, its closing" I call out in desperation to the others.
I try to get up from my odd, sprawled out position; but as I stand, a pain shoots through my left leg, and a trickle of blood slid down my eye and cheeks. I wipe it away with my sleeve and I hurriedly scramble up the large hill that we had all fallen down as quickly as possible; but before I can even get a quarter of the way up, the anomaly flickers and disappears. We're trapped.
"Shit!" I yell out; kicking the ground in my frustration "This can not be happening!" I yell out.
I sit down, barely fighting the urge to scream out again.
Bu then I remember what Becker said 'If you ever find yourself stuck, don't panic, look for shelter or a place to stay and then come up with a plan, it's essential to keep calm or else you won't be able to focus '
I take a look at our surroundings; it's a rock desert, black sand everywhere with dark brown rocks protruding every now and then. The sea is about 100 ft out in front of us and looks to be a little green, there's a long stretch of sand going to the right of us, and another stretch to the left that leads to a mountainous cluster of hill-like rocks; there might be some caves there that we can sleep in, or at least take shelter because the sun is low, meaning it'll set within the hour.
I look down at the others; William is stood, gun in hand and is too surveying our surroundings. Chester is sitting on one of the protruding rocks, cap in hand and resting his head on his knees. Katharine and Jenna are huddled together, both looking confused and panicky. Thomas is dusting himself off and is looking around as well. And Isabella is tending to Nathaniel- wait, what's wrong with him?
I scramble back down the hill, my leg still paining slightly; I kneel next to Nathaniel, he's bleeding slightly and he's unconscious; Isabella has taken out her medical pack "Can you hold him up please?" she asks me quietly. I nod and lift him up so that he's leaning on me as though he sitting up awkwardly; his head lolls onto my shoulder.
She takes a few moments to wipe the blood from his neck and around the rather large gash in the back of his head, the back neckline of his shirt is stained with his blood; his normally light coloured is now dark and matted slightly with him blood and the black sand; it looks pretty nasty.
She pulls some gel-cream from a small tube and puts it around the edges of the gash and then she tapes and bandage patch onto the wound; she does this mostly with her right arm. She then pulls Nathaniel's jacket from around his waist and places it onto the floor, together we gently lie him down, careful to avoid the wound.
"What are we going to do?" Thomas asks after a moment surprising me, I'd momentarily forgotten that he was even here; wherever here is anyway.
William answered before I could; his training taking over "We find a place to shelter as its going to get dark soon and we can't spend the night in the open, from there I think we should stay put for a while until we can mutually come up with some sort of plan as to what to do next"
"An anomaly should open eventually, it's only a matter of time, and when it opens, we go through no matter what, one should lead back to our time" Isabella says putting back the medical kit inside her bag and picking up her fallen anomaly detector.
"Okay" I say "Our best bet of shelter would be in those rocks, there's bound to be some cave or overhang that we can sleep in" I look at William "Want to lead us in?" He nods his head and takes to the front of the group, Thomas at his side; I look at Nathaniel and then to Chester.
"Chester do you want to make yourself useful and help me with Nathaniel" He nods and gets up, he grabs Nathaniel under one arm and places it around his neck and I do the same.
We begin walking; Nathaniel's feet dragging behind slightly, we pass by Katharine and Jenna who are just sitting there, silent tears falling down their faces "Stop crying you two, and get up or else we'll just leave you here" I snap impatiently at them; I don't have the time or the effort to be nice to them, if it weren't for them and Chester, we may not have ended up here.
Isabella walks next to me, Nathaniel's bag on her back, his jacket in her hands, her own is wrapped around her waist; she's holding her left arm a little awkwardly "You alright babe?" I ask, my breath a little short from supporting Nathaniel.
She gives me a small but clearly pained smile "Yeah, are you?" she asks quietly.
"As alright as I can be I suppose, better than Nathaniel at any rate" I smile and shift my grip on him slightly "Ya'know, for someone who does a hell of a lot of exercise and hardly eats a lot, he is heavy!"
We laugh a little, even Chester does; I think he sees my point by the looks of it.
We all grew silent for a while as we began climbing up some rocks; it was a little trickier than we thought, manoeuvring Nathaniel about without dropping him or bashing him against anything was difficult, even with all the others helping, but eventually we managed it.
Finally, as the sun was beginning to dip beneath the horizon, we arrived at where the very large rocks were, and sure enough, we found a rather large cave-like opening that we could stay in.
Carefully, Chester and I lay Nathaniel down at the very back of the cave, and I took his jacket from Isabella and placed it gently underneath his head.
We don't really sit together; William sits himself near the opening of the cave with Thomas by his side, the boy looks exhausted. Katharine and Jenna have sat themselves on the other side of the opening, their huddled tightly together and both have looks of shock and confusion on their faces. Chester is sat near them but not exactly next to them with his cap pulled low over his eyes. And Isabella has sat herself down by Nathaniel's head with her jacket wrapped around her whilst keeping an eye on the handheld anomaly detector in front of her; she rubs at her eyes with her right hand and settles herself against the wall.
I sigh quietly and go and sit myself down right next to her, she doesn't say anything but instead leans her head against my shoulder; I left my arm and place it around her so that she rests her head on my chest, she wraps her left arm around my torso gently, I rest my arm on hers carefully and kiss the top of her head; ignoring Thomas's subdued look that would normally be a glare.
It stays silent for a few minutes, and I'm pretty sure almost all of us were about to doze off, until Chester finally spoke "So, are you gunna tell us what's going on or not?" he asks; his cap still pulled low over his eyes.
"Not really" William says pulling a pair of sleek night vision goggles from his bag and placing them to one side.
"We deserve to know ya'know!" Chester snapped "We have every fucking right to know what the hell is going on! We have a right to know where the hell we are! You owe us that much!!" he shouts.
William doesn't say anything and neither do Isabella and I; instead, William goes about taking out one of those glow lights that only work at night, he places it in the middle of the cave.
"Please tell us" Katharine says quietly "He's right, we should know"
"We've fallen through a rip in time and ended in the future" Isabella says tiredly, lifting her head slightly so that she can look at them.
"Bullshit man! No way!!" Chester spat.
"It's true" Thomas spoke up "They work for a Government organisation called the Arc"
"Arc?" Jenna asks questioningly.
"Stands for Anomaly Research Centre" I say closing my eyes and pulling Isabella closer to me.
"Huh?" Jenna sounds confused.
"The anomaly is what we fell through; it's a rip in time that can lead to either the past or the future. The Arc monitors them, and sorts out any creatures or dinosaurs that come through" I say quietly; hoping that they'll stop asking questions because I'm tired and it's been a bit of a long and eventful day.
"How'd you know we're in the future?" Katharine asks.
"The stars are different, the air is slightly thicker, and there's black sand, there was no black sand in the past" Isabella says quietly, yawning at the end of her sentence.
"Huh, how'd you know all that?" Chester asks sounding slightly impressed.
But Isabella doesn't answer; she's asleep.
"It's kind of Isabella's job to know that sort of thing, Nathaniel's too, Isabella's main thing though is technology, she is impressively intelligent, more so than the school knows at any rate" William says proudly.
"Makes sense" Jenna sighs.
"What 'bout you Quinn? What do you do?" Chester asks.
I smile with my eyes still closed "A mixture really, don't really have that much to do with the technical stuff"
"Cause he's thick" William jokes; the others laugh loudly at this.
I open my eyes and throw him an amused glare "Shut up!" I say loudly to them when they continue to laugh and I join in too; but I stop when I remember that Isabella is asleep, she moves slightly but thankfully stays asleep.
I go back to talking to the others "I just do whatever really, help Nathaniel when it comes to plans when things have gone a bit wrong, I some of the dangerous stuff like running head first into a group of meat-eating future birds, now that was not nice I tell you, I get used as a distraction for some things. Me and Nathaniel normally make the decisions ya'know"
"So you're a floater huh?" Chester says; an air of joking in his voice. He turns to face William "What 'bout you William?" he asks with a smirk on his face.
William smiled slightly "Special forces, in training anyway, won't be fully fledged till im eighteen. It's my job to protect these lot, I'm also pretty good at mythology, comes in handy 'cuz the anomalies have been appearing for years so there's references in almost every culture, it helps us to know what or when we're dealing with"
"Whoa, William with a gun" Chester says in slight awe.
"He's our fighter" I sigh.
"Just doing my duty, protecting my team, the Arc and the entire world" William says smugly.
"The world?" Jenna asks unbelievingly.
"Yeah, these things appear everywhere, there's no telling what'll come through, that sickness bug in Japan three years ago, that came through an anomaly, Isabella's Dad worked flat out trying to find a way to cure it, never seen him so snappy before" William says showingly.
"Your parents do this?" Chester asks.
"Our parents are practically the original Arc team, we got dragged into it about a year ago, our team is on trial, we have regular reviews and we get paid, but one slip up and we could be out you know"
"And you've had to keep all this a secret?" Jenna asks, sounding almost excited.
"Yep, all our lives" William replies.
"We had to sign a secret act declaring that the government will lock us up if we tell anyone or let anyone know about what we do" I say closing my eyes properly and resting my head gently on top of Isabella's; she's most likely in a deep sleep.
"Will we have to sign one?" Katharine asks.
"Yeah, and you won't even be allowed to tell your parents, though it does depend on what Lester will do when they find out we're gone" William answers; he's sounding a bit tired now, but I know he won't sleep until everyone else is asleep.
"Lester?" Chester asks questioningly.
"Our boss, Sir James Lester, he's as cold as ice most of the time, but he generally softens up once in a while, especially where us four are concerned, apparently he sees us as nephews and his niece, though, it's most likely because we tend to be better behaved towards him than our parent's are" William says softly.
"Now there's something no-one would have guessed. William Becker, Ryan Quinn, Nathaniel Cutter and Isabella Temple are all agents in a secret government organisation that deals with time travel, dinosaurs and weird future creatures. It surreal!" Katharine exclaims loudly.
I don't listen to anyone else talk, and so I just let myself drift off into a light sleep, readying myself for anything.
............
(Connor's Prov)
We hadn't even arrived in the building before Danny started yelling.
"Why wasn't anyone with them?" he asks to the Special Forces men, they backed away slightly.
"We've been told to let them do the job and to do as they ask us, William told us to patrol outside and nothing comes out and nobody gets in" one of the men said to us as we made our way inside the building.
I held Abby's hand as we walked; whilst we walked another one of the Special Forces men came up to us.
"Mr Temple, I hate to tell you this, but your son Thomas went inside with them. And security footage shows that three civilian teenagers were with them. We have someone identifying who they are right now" All I could do was nod and pull Abby close to me.
When we arrived at the back room, two guards were standing at either side of the doors "There's something in there Sir James" One of them says to Lester.
Lester nods "Before we decide to do anything brash, I think we need to asses this situation" He turns to the man that told us about Thomas "Who are the others that were with them"
The man blinks and then stutters "t-they've been identified as Katharine Cook, Jenna Frances and Chester Johnston Sir"
"Oh no" Abby moans.
"I take it you know them then" Lester asks dryly.
Abby nods "Katharine and Jenna are friends of Isabella, and Chester is just a school bully" she says hotly.
"I see, well that adds more difficulty to this now doesn't it. I suppose we tell the parents that the children have run away, or that they're staying over someone house. Then I suppose we wait until they make it back" Lester says dryly, in his usual way.
"Our children are stuck in the past with civilians, school friends for fucksakes, with very little protection, very little food and very little knowhow on what's what" Danny spat at Lester.
"Now hold it Danny, Isabella is a smart girl, she has her emergency pack, she should be able to get everyone back" Nick said calmly.
"And William has a bag full of weapons and is totally mentally prepared for this, I made sure of it myself" Becker said calmly.
"They will be fine" Lester said calmly to them "Your children- your children are brilliant, they can cope with this, after all, they've had all you to learn from"
"I hope your right" Claudia whispered.
"Though if all hopes are on a Temple-"
"Shut up!"
I absolutely hate it when he says that, he doesn't say it about me very often anymore, but he does sometime make them comments about Isabella.
"How do we even know they're in the past?" Sarah asks worriedly, holding onto Becker's arm. He places an arm around her and kisses the top of her head.
"We don't, or we won't until we see what's inside there" Nick says nodding his head in the direction of the storage bay.
"Well let's get in there then" Danny says loudly.
Lester moves from the front of the doors, Nick nods at the men at the doors and they open them.
Straight away I know my daughter and my son and the others are in the future, because an ugly looking, black hairy chimp-like animal with fangs and big paws came racing out, making Claudia and Nick topple over onto the floor. It made a loud growling noise as it raced towards the front of the building, but it was stopped by a Special Forces officer who throws a big net over it.
"Okay, so our children are in the future" Danny says walking over to the creature; it was twisting itself around and around in the net and growling slightly.
"Let's hope they're alright then" Becker says; he has his gun pointing in the direction of the creature.
It stilled when it looked at the gun, and then it began purring slightly.
"It doesn't look too dangerous" Sarah says quietly, looking at the creature.
A commotion from the storage bay made us look around; two special forces men have a net over three more of the creatures.
"They're a pack" I say "Family" When the creatures look at each other.
"They're quiet far from the future, but they don't seem all that affected by human presence" Nick says as it touching one through the nets.
"Nice to know humans are gunna be around a little longer then" Becker said dryly "I'm sorry, but I don't think we should be here whilst our children are stuck in the future, we should be doing something" he says.
"There's nothing we can do Becker, we're just going to have to wait until an anomaly opens and they come through. Knowing Isabella and William, they'll go through anomaly after anomaly to get home, and they won't stop till they find the right time" I say to him, though I know he won't like the fact that we can't do anything to help them.
"So we're just supposed to wait around for them" Danny asks.
"Afraid so" I say.
"They'll all be fine guys, as Lester said, their smart kids, they're a good team, they'll find their way home" Abby says.
Lester chose this moment to come over to us "Right now, we need to think of something to tell the parents"
"Yeah we do" Abby sighed.
"I'll get one of my secretaries do figure something out, as of now, I think you lot should get these things back to the Arc, and do your thing" Lester says with authority.
Nick sighed "You heard the man, let's get to work"
Not really any action in this, but I think it's good-ish.
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