Chapter Two
Wimbledon. Nick stood at the entrance to the all England club, the sun bathing the courts in a golden glow. Everyone slowly gathered around him waiting for his order's on what to do in the current situation, Nick turned to face them with a serious expression on his face.
"Ok me, Stephen and Abby are going to search centre court for the anomaly I want Connor and Claudia to search court one Jessica you will go with them" Nick finished. Claudia, Jessica and Conner watched as Nick, Stephen and Abby entered the grounds and headed to centre court, Claudia's eyes followed Nick until he was out of sight, as she turned to both Jessica and Conner she noticed that Jessica's eyes dated back from where Nick had gone. Connor stood awkwardly with the two women sensing there was going to be some tension along the way.
"Shall we get going then?" Claudia asked, both Jessica and Connor nodded straight away and entered the grounds following the path ways to number one court. Claudia took in the sights around her, the famous grass courts of Wimbledon trimmed to perfection and designed for prefect play. As Claudia pushed open the elegant glass doors to enter the smaller show court of Wimbledon she took her time to admire how beautifully crafted everything was, it was places like this that made you proud to be British.
"This place really is beautiful, centre court is even more so, some epic battles have been played there" Jessica said in wonder as she took in the buildings structure. Claudia turned around as Jessica spoke, she watched as the younger woman marvelled at pictures of past greats of the sport.
"All this for people batting a ball over a net, seems a bit much doesn't it" Connor said seemingly confused as to why the grounds were probably only second best to the queen's garden. Jessica spun around at his remark her face filled with shock. Connor suddenly felt he was going to regret this.
"A bit much? Wimbledon is the most prestigious tournament in the history of tennis, nothing even comes close to it" Jessica replied to his comment. Everyone went quiet when Claudia's phone sounded alerting her to a message. "Centre court now!" Claudia re-laid the message to Connor and Jessica before they ran for the larger stadium.
Connor was first into the stands of centre court which looked over the court, and there hovering within the middle of the court was the anomaly. Nick and Abby stood facing it talking to one another about containing whatever may come through, Connor heard Claudia and Jessica come up behind him, as expected he heard Jessica gasp at the sight of the anomaly. Connor was about to call out to Nick and Abby when the anomaly started to shift slightly and noises began to come through, they saw Nick and Abby turn back just in time to see a fully grown stegosaurs plodded through the anomaly. Both Nick and Abby watched in amazement as the large herbivore walked around the grass court carefully.
Nick heard Claudia, Connor and Jessica come to halt next to him, he put his hand out to halt them. Stegosaurus may have been a herbivore but the deadly four spikes at the end of its tail could impale and kill a human easily.
"Where's Stephen" Connor whispered having noticed the absences of the man. Nick looked back at him his face still full of amazement of the creature in front of him. Connor decided to ask again later as when the professor was in this mood there was no way of getting anything out of him. Their attention was drawn back to the dinosaur in front of them as it bugled in panic and swung it spiked tail at the team, everyone but Jessica threw themselves down to the floor before the deadly spikes past over the top of their heads. Nick grabbed Jessica and pulled her to floor with him just as the tail came over their heads. They both landed in a bundle of tangling limbs on the hard grass court.
"Thanks for a moment there I thought I wasn't going to see another day" Jessica said to Nick as he got off her and took her hand before leading her away from the stegosaurus. Jessica felt Goosebumps prickle her arms as Nick pulled her along away from the dinosaur which was swinging its tail wildly knocking the net posts out of the ground.
"Its ok happens to everyone, well everyone on this team" Nick replied and let go of her hand when everyone was in the lounge. Nick didn't notice Claudia glaring at Jessica slightly at the sweet tone Jessica was using while she spoke to Nick, she would have to try and talk to Nick later about the kiss she had pulled him into before he entered the anomaly.
"Where's Stephen" Connor asked again after he had got his breath back.
"Lester called him back to the home office but wouldn't tell us why" Nick replied. He saw Claudia looking at him with a soft expression upon her face, flashbacks of the kiss they shared before he walked into the anomaly, he was curious as to why she had done it in front of everyone even Lester. He would have to ask her about it later, when they weren't dealing with an anomaly at the time.
"So what are we going to do about the stegosaurus walking around centre court" Abby asked everyone standing around her who in turn looked at Nick for answers. He allowed ideas to formulate in his mind until he found one that he thought would work.
"Ok Abby and Connor I want you to make sure he cant get out of the stadium, Claudia, Jessica I want you to get onto Lester and tell him we have situation under control and also have a cover story ready just in case anything goes unplanned" Nick said to the team before heading to the doors to go back on court.
"What about you Nick" Claudia called after him.
"Well I'm going to herd it through of course" he replied with a cheeky smile before opening the doors and walking out. Connor and Abby set of to do what they had been told leaving Claudia and Jessica alone in the lounge.
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Ok guys there is chapter two, where's all my regular reviewer's gone haha.
Next chapter I think will be interesting not sure when the update will be sometime in the next week.
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