A/N Okay this is chapter 2, again reviews would be fab :)

Disclaimer: I do not own Primeval or any of the characters associated with it… unfortunately

I looked up at the people currently working at the ARC, they all seemed to be on autopilot; shuffling around occasionally mumbling a brief 'hello' to the people around them, before carrying on with their work.

Abby and I had been called in this morning for a meeting; all the members of the expedition team had been given various tasks to deal with inside the ARC for when there were no anomalies to sort out. I had been given the task of making the hand-held anomaly detectors more 'user-friendly', which meant that they had to be smaller, more accurate and generally better looking than the current model. Abby had been asked to carry on with the research surrounding the plant life found through anomalies and had even had a new lab designed for it (after I accidently destroyed her last one whilst dealing with a mushroom-man-thing.

I was just finishing off the designs for the new hand-held when Lester came striding over to my desk, his face set into a deep frown. "Temple you have been sitting here for hours, what exactly have you achieved?"

With a sigh, I handed over the designs and watched as he studied them with a critical eye. Out of the corner of my eye, I could see Danny sauntering over with a goofy grin on his face.

"Oi oi, how's it goin' then?" he asked comically.

Lester handed the designs over with a sigh "Not particularly well. As you can probably see."

I felt his glare on my face as I closed my eyes. I balled my fists and took a deep breath as Lester continued to mock my work. I was just about to snap at him, when I felt a comforting touch on my shoulder. Instead of Lester's sullen face staring down at me, I was met with Abby's warm blue eyes. She gave me a half-hearted smile and stepped away to stand beside me, her hand never breaking contact with my shoulder.

A few moments passed before I realised that they were all waiting for me to speak (some more patiently than others). "Look, I'm doing the best I can, it's not finished yet anyway." I spoke quietly, waiting for more of Lester's anger-filled comments. Instead, he looked down at his feet as if in deep thought and wandered away quickly, soon followed by Danny who nodded briefly in understanding before he left. I turned to Abby, who was now studying my designs just like Lester had a minute ago, only she replaced Lester's critical eyes with calmer and more appreciative ones.

"So what d'ya think?"

"I think they're good Con." And we were back to our usual 'Connor and Abby' routine, sidestepping the real meanings and emotions of our words, neither of us wanting to cross that boundary.

I nodded and then asked "So how's the whole prehistoric/future-plant-research-thing going?"

She sighed and turned to face me, her back leaning against my desk. "It's harder than I thought it would be I guess, but you should see how some of them have bloomed Con, they're beautiful!"

Still looking into her deep, blue eyes I replied "Yeh, yeh they are."

A few seconds of silence passed before either of us spoke again. "Thank you for... calming me down. I don't think Lester would have appreciated being shouted at much."

She chuckled gently before replying "Yeh well I-"

Suddenly the anomaly detector went off, red lights flashing around the room. The ARC was really coming to life now; people running around shouting commands at each other, the military personnel gathering quickly around us.

Danny came running to my side as I located the coordinates of the anomaly, "Come on, come on… Oh! It's-"I stopped suddenly, looking at the screen with wide eyes. This is impossible, it just can't happen. "Connor where is it?" asked an impatient Danny, practically bouncing up and down waiting for us to get going.

But I was ignoring them, checking and double checking the coordinates. I ran my fingers through my hair, utterly bewildered.

"Connor. Where is it, we don't have all day, we're wasting valuable time sitting here doing nothing!" exclaimed a frustrated Lester.

I chuckled quietly then at the irony, "No we won't. It's… well, the anomaly's…"

"Spit it out Connor!"

"Here. The anomaly's here in the ARC."

I watched as the team stood there, completely stunned into silence. It was Sarah who reacted first, "But I thought you said that was impossible, that there was some kind of shield or something around the ARC which made it impossible to penetrate…"

They all looked at me with apprehending eyes, "Hey! Don't look at me! I have no idea what's going on!"

"Locate it, seal it. Then make sure that this can never happen again." ordered Lester matter-of-factly, he turned to look at everyone seriously, "Do you understand?"

There were mumbles of 'yes sir' echoing around the room, as we all dispersed with handhelds in search of this mysterious anomaly.

I moved to stand up but was pushed back down forcefully. "Where do you think you're going?" Abby stood in front of me with her arms crossed and a stern look in her eyes.

"The anomaly…. I need to-"

"Not with that leg Connor." she stated as she prodded my cast with her foot. "What are you going to do if we run into something huh?" She held out her hand as I was about to respond defensively, "You need to be sensible now Connor ok? We'll be fine; you stay here and keep a look out for anything. We'll call you f anything goes wrong. I promise." she handed me a walkie-talkie and started to make her way to the other search parties.

I sighed in frustration as I watched her walk away. No. I couldn't let her walk away, what if something did go wrong? I need to protect her, I need to.

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A/N Okay, so that was chapter 2 yaaaaay. I'll upload chapter 3 as soon as it's written, so in the meantime… review! Let me know how I'm doing and what I could do to improve :) thanks