Hey all, sorry for the long wait. Longer chapter to make up for that.
and Whatever-the-weather both get a bit of what they wanted in this chapter. Thanks for the ideas!
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As soon as they had got back to the ARC, Matt had to keep Emily near him. Every female in the whole Arc had thrown themselves towards her. Well, they threw themselves at Becker and his 'adorableness'. He had been patted on the head, been called funny names, women made funny faces at him and played with his hands and feet. Whilst the woman of the ARC had done that, the men had folded their arms and had the most jealous looks on their faces. Everyone knew that all the women (even married) had a thing for Becker and was loved by all... However, this was ridiculous! Becker's men that had not been on site mouth's dropped open. The fact that their Captain was a one and a half year old baby shocked them. When Jess had heard she went completely into being Becker's older sister. She took him right off Emily.
However, now they were all in Lester's office, with Lester and Phillip, and had to explain everything, without losing their jobs. They had explained everything and it was now time for the 'beating' of their words by Lester and Philip.
Lester started.
"So, our best and only Captain is now a baby?" The team nodded. "Brilliant, just brilliant," sarcasm rang in his voice.
"The creature also got away." Phillip added dryly.
"We'll find the creature whilst Jess looks after Becker." Matt said, getting up to leave.
"Take it in turns."
"What?"
"Since you're so keen to look after Becker and not have someone else paid to do so, I think you should take it in turns. Since all your jobs are just as important as the others, we wouldn't want one person overwhelmed by a baby for too long now would we?" Phillip said using his 'do it or else' business voice. Matt and Phillip glared at one another for a moment or two. The team waited for Matt's answer whilst Lester just rolled his eyes at Matt's arguing. Matt looked at Jess who gave him an 'I can look after him' look and then looked at Phillip. Matt knew that Phillip was right and Jess could look after Becker... he hoped. Hoped. He never went with the other choice if it meant only hoping instead of having the full facts. He sighed.
"Fine. We'll take in turns. Emily's already had hers so Jess can go now." Matt replied.
"Then you, then Conner, then Abby and rotate back round again." Phillip added for him. Matt wanted to argue with him going after Jess, but he couldn't be bothered. Matt nodded and the team left the room.
As the door shut tight and the team walked over to the ADD to discus whatever they were talking about, Phillip went to leave, but Lester wanted an answer.
"Is there a reason you're being so hard on Matt?" Lester asked swinging round to see Phillip properly. Phillip was by the door now. Phillip unlocked it and sighed.
"He just needs to learn to be a leader and taking a bit more responsibility," he said opening the door.
"Your plan will go wrong like mine did." Phillip stopped and looked at the man in the straight Italian suit. "I tried to get Becker to take a 'bit' more 'responsibility' on and well... let's put it this way. Whenever someone dies, he blames himself. I heard from Co-Captain Winder that he had bit of a meltdown in the gym once and it took half his men to tame him down, and all because Sarah died. I still think he hasn't got over that." Lester had been looking down as he spoke, but now looked up and smiled.
Phillip's hand tightened on the handle. He knew that he was messing with him, but he also knew, somehow, that Lester was telling the truth. Why would a trained, serious Captain go from professional and emotionless to half professional, emotional and in the eyes of many in the ARC, become Superman. Someone had to have tampered with him even just that little bit. Phillip swallowed hard and Lester raised an eyebrow as he heard it. The man had Super-hearing. Phillip didn't have a reply, so just left the room. Lester smiled, knowing he had won once again.
Abby and Conner ran down the hall. Jess had found out where the creature had last been located and they were on their way to the cars to go get it. Matt saw them and went to ask them where they were going, when Phillip stepped out in front of him.
"They're off to get the creature and you're staying here," he said. Matt wanted to reply, but Phillip checked his watch then looked at Matt. "Your turn to look after Becker I believe." He smiled sweetly at Matt. Matt wanted to punch the man round the face and make Becker proud by showing this man a few of his moves and beating him into the wall, his blood everywhere as he painted the wall with it. However, instead of doing that, he nodded and walked off to find Jess.
Matt hated being treated like a little kid and that was what Phillip was doing. Telling him what's what. Matt couldn't wait for the day where he could do that. Matt walked at a fast pace towards the main room where Jess would be at her ADD. Matt had no idea what Jess would be doing with Becker and to his surprise, he feared for his baby friend. He promised he'd have a word with Jess if she had dressed him in pink. Becker was kind with Jess, but he wouldn't be if he remembered being dressed in pink by her. Matt passed Lester's office and could feel his boss's eyes on him as he went. He shrugged it off.
He walked up behind Jess. She was tapping away on the ADD. Matt frowned, as he couldn't see Becker. However, when he got closer, he saw a laptop on the floor and Becker in front of it, clapping his hand at whatever was on it. Becker's shoes were next to him as he had wrapped the strings around his little hand loosely. Matt studied Becker. He was now dressed in a black baby suit that was called romper. His silk black hair matched the romper and thanks to the black, his blue eyes glowed. His white skin looked extremely pale and with all the black on him, Matt was surprised Conner hadn't called him a vampire baby. However, what got Matt the most was that he was so innocent. The mighty, powerful, hard working, serious, protected everyone, life saving Superman that was Captain Becker was a defenceless, innocent, carefree, powerless baby that needed saving himself. Matt just couldn't get over.
"Jess, sadly my turn with Becker." He said, as she turned round. He was met with a full smile.
"Don't worry Matt, Becker's been as quiet as an angel." She seemed quite happy, even though she had just looked after a baby that was Captain Becker.
"What's the laptop for?" he asked, looking at the shiny silver Samsung.
"I found Conner's old laptop and my brother last week found this website where you can watch anything on it form TV shows to movies. Therefore, I didn't know what Becker watched when he was younger so I just put on In The Night Garden since my cousin who is two watches that," she said, blabbering on at a fast speed. Matt only just got it all she was speaking so fast. Matt only nodded at the end to say he understood even though he didn't really. Jess then snapped round to the ADD, saying sorry to Conner and Abby. She must have been giving them directions. Matt wandered over to see what about In The Night Garden was entertaining him so much. Even as an adult, he hadn't seen Becker so excited and happy about anything. The little baby was kicking his feet, clapping his hands and trying to control his noise level when it came to him laughing.
However, when Matt saw what was on the screen, his eyes went wide.
"Jess, Becker isn't watching In The Night Garden," he said, voice filled with confusion and a hint of panicking.
"What's he watching?" she kept her eyes on the screen, but you could hear that she was a bit worried by her voice.
"Well, eeerrr, try not to freak, but eeerrr, Saw,." Matt said, fearing for the worst with her reaction.
"WHAT!" she shrieked at the top of her lungs. She jumped off her seat, ran round to see the screen and looked at it. She had to look just as another person died in yet another horrifying way. Jess's hand flew to her mouth at the sight and Matt screwed his face up in disgust, cursing whoever had made this movie. Becker, however, clapped his hands in joy. He was loving every single bit of the movie and didn't seem scared by the blood and gore. Somehow, he had clicked off In The Night Garden and had searched for the movie Saw, found it and decided to watch it. Just as Jess went to speak again, someone else died. More wails of joy from Becker.
"Lovely," Matt said, trying to get Jess to let go of his arm.
"No, no, no, Becker can't watch this. No! Just no." She picked the laptop up and moved it out of sight from Becker. As soon as it was out of Becker's line of vision, he let out a horrifying cry. Tears instantly started to pour out of his eyes. He wailed and wailed, his face going red. Eyes were wandering over to them. Matt covered his ears with his hands, as he was sure that wolves on the other side of the world could hear Becker's cries.
"Jess!" he shouted over Becker.
"Alright, alright, alright," she placed the laptop back in front of Becker. Becker stopped crying instantly and watched the movie. His face slowly went back to its normal colour. Matt withdrew his hands from his ears. He sighed, glad that Becker's wailings were over... for now. Matt looked over at Jess who was mouthing to herself to breathe. Matt knew that everyone was watching and did the first thing that popped into his head.
"I believe it's my turn to watch him." Matt picked Becker up in his arms and lifted up the laptop so Becker could see the screen.
Matt then rushed out of the room with Becker laughing at the trouble he had caused. Matt turned his run into a walk as soon as he knew he was far enough away. He turned into the ARC's soldier's lounge room. The room was where the Soldiers of the ARC rested in-between shifts. He knew Becker hung around here, messing around with the men as if they were a bunch of teenagers. It was quite amazing how the soldiers could go from professional to completely childish in a blink of an eye. Somehow, Becker had been sucked into it all as well. Becker had good relationships with his men, especially his top six men.
Matt placed Becker down on the floor by the wall where he could keep an eye on him then sat down on the bright green sofa. He picked up a newspaper and started to read about the rest of the world. Matt heard Becker make gun noises as if he was on a battlefield. Matt rolled his eyes.
"Definatly Becker, no mistake." He thought out loud.
Abby and Conner turned yet another corner in the warehouse. The creature must be in the warehouse, or had been in there. Since there was a massive hole in the wall, it must have come this way. They were about a mile away from the anomaly site. They had evacuated the warehouse and were now searching it top to bottom. Abby and Conner sadly got to do the boiler room in the basement. Conner was surprised if the creature could actually fit down there since the whole room was cramped with boilers and piping. As ever, Abby had her gun raised doing a Becker and being professional, whereas Conner held his gun down like a stupid know-nothing teenager.
Abby turned a corner, leaving Conner behind.
Conner looked at one of the boilers. What he didn't hear was the click...click...click noise behind him, getting closer and closer. Conner didn't see the shadow of a tail getting higher and higher behind him. He didn't feel the blood shot eyes on his back. However, Abby did. She saw it all through the piping.
"Conner!" she screamed, as she turned and ran back towards him. Conner spun round just as the creature decided to strike. Conner jumped backwards. His body hit the ground then shortly afterwards, so did his head. Luckily, for Conner, his legs spread wide and the creature's stinger came down, piercing into the metal floor in the gap. Conner gasped at how lucky he had just been. The creature tugged, trying to pull it's stinger out of the floor. Conner was somewhat frozen flat on the floor. Just as the creature got it's stinger free, Abby turned the corner, ran forward, and skidded to a halt and fired, forgetting that the bullets bounced of the creature's skin. The bullet bounced off the creature's skin with a small flick of flame and then bounced everywhere else. Small amounts of light came off the metal as it hit the boilers and pipes. The creature panicked and spun round, making its way up the stairs. The bullet finally stopped bouncing and Abby sighed, as Matt wouldn't be too impressed about the fact that the creature got away... again.
"Um, Abby," Conner said. Abby's face was drained of all the blood. She looked down. On that day, Abby had been wearing a white sleeveless top, leather jacket, big boots and a skirt. However, since she was in a rush in the morning, she didn't put on any leggings. Abby had skidded to a halt, right over him, so he had a clear view up her skirt.
"Shit. That's all I'm saying," and with that, she walked off. Conner who had just woken up from his daydream of pleasure said:
"Um, I won't tell anyone if you don't. This could give me a bad name, even though I'm dating you," he shouted after her, still lying flat on his back.
Matt sniffed the air. His face screwed up, as he smelt something funny. He looked over at Becker who was playing with his boots. Matt put the paper down, picked Becker up and sniffed him.
"Yes, the smell is coming from you alright mate," he said, sounding a bit like Conner, but with a strong Irish accent. He carried Becker over to the table and placed him down. Matt had moved himself and Becker into one of the spare offices only ten minutes ago. Jess had come and given Matt a giant bag full of stuff a baby like Becker would need.
He opened up a mat to put Becker on. He removed the romper and put it to one side. He then removed the nappy. Matt covered his mouth with his sleeve, as he couldn't understand how mothers could deal with smells like this one. Matt dropped it in the bin that Jess had somehow fitted into the bag. Matt turned round to put the clean nappy on Becker (somehow), but was met by something going all over his face, like water - Becker had just peed on him. Matt started spitting as some had gone in his mouth.
"Becker, no. No! Bad baby Becker, bad, bad." He said trying not to sound angry as it might scare Becker.
"Ba, Ba, Ba," was Becker's only reply as he held his feet. Something then boiled inside Matt.
"Right, you're in for it." The Irish man picked the small baby up. Becker must have sensed that Matt was going to do something that he wouldn't like. So, as a baby, he did the only thing that could attract attention that would stop Matt from doing what he was about to do. Becker started to cry. He wailed, he cried and he flung his arms and legs about. However, what Matt didn't do, was hold Becker at arm's length when he picked him up. He held his close and sadly, that was when Becker started kicking. Becker defiantly kicked something.
He kicked Matt right in-between the legs.
A rush of air was inhaled and exhaled by Matt at exactly the same time. He was leaning down over the table with Becker out at arm's length. His face turned red and the only thing he could hear was Becker's cries.
"Matt..." Emily looked round the door. She frowned, walking into the room. "Why's Becker crying?"
"Emily... Becker... kicks... man part..." He said between gasps of pain. Emily guessed straight away and couldn't help but start laughing. She took Becker off Matt and placed him back on the mat. Matt walked over to the chair and sat down. Emily quickly tidied Becker up and put a new nappy on him. She smiled at her work and looked into Becker's bright green eyes. I'm sure they're brown, she thought. Emily then tore her eyes away from Becker's and looked over at Matt. She walked over to him and placed a hand on his shoulder making him looked up and meet her gaze.
"Are you alright?" She asked.
"Yeah, yeah... You're here because?" He asked.
"Because Jess wanted me to tell you that the scientists at those labs said they'd try and find a way to turn Becker back, but they need blood samples." She took her hand off Matt's shoulder and he watched it go. His eyes then met hers again. He only just noticed that her face was quite close to his. Silence filled the room as not even Becker made a sound. Unknown to Matt and Emily, Becker lay there quietly watching the pair, fingers and toes crossed that they'd kiss.
Matt's face somehow made its way closers to hers, both still in silence. Becker watched quietly as their faces were only inches away and...
"Emily!" Emily pulled away from Matt before anything happened. She turned around just as Phillip walked into the room. "Ah, there you are. You were meant to be getting Matt to meet Abby and Conner at the labs to give those scientists some of Becker's blood. The come back to me and file some paperwork."
"Yes... Sire." Matt raised an eyebrow at the fact Emily said 'sire' to Phillip. He must be training her to be polite. Phillip nodded as if to say follow, and Emily did so. Matt watched her go. When the door closed, he cursed. Matt then looked at Becker, remembering he needed to put his romper back on.
"Doh," said Becker, hitting his tiny hand against his head.
Well, hope and Whatever-the-weather like how I wrote their ideas. I know the couples idea wasn't done too good in this chapter, but I'm trying. I don't really write couples. First time actually. For both and Whatever-the-weather, I will be (trying) to write your ideas in this story some more.
Anymore ideas are welcomed.
Also, the twist was Becker's eyes changing colour.
Also, also, 15 people have this on alert, so shouldn't 15 and/or more people be reviewing?
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