A/N Hello again! Well didn't get any reviews but atleast some people read it :) Heres the next bit...
Disclaimer: I own nothing expect Sofia...Yet! ;)
Oh and something I forgot to say in the first chapter...CHAPTERS 1 & 2 ARE SET AFTER THE WEBISODES BUT BEFORE THE EPISODES! THANK YOU, ENJOY!
Chapter 2- Settling in (Day after chapter 1)
"Good morning Jess." Sofia greeted standing next to Jess who was at the ADD. After the tour with Matt yesterday Sofia spent the rest of the day trying to get to know everyone better. Though she only really spoke to Jess and Becker as Matt seemed to disappear, but Becker introduced her to the main military group that joined them on missions.
"Good morning Sofi." Jess greeted, she was still happy about the fact there was another women on the team, but was now even happier at how well they got on. Even after only knowing each other a day they just seemed to hit it off.
"So now that you've slept on everything, what are your thoughts on it all?" Jess inquired turning to face Sofia.
"I think I'm going to settle in quite nicely." Sofia answered with a bright smile. "Anyway I was thinking, seeing as though we're the only women on the team we need to stick together. I thought if your not busy and we don't get called in we could go shopping or something saturday, maybe grab some lunch and get to know each other better. So, what do you think?" Sofia inquired with a cheeky grin. It had been to long since she had someone she could have a proper girly day out with, she really missed it.
"Oh I would love to! Thats a great idea. It's been to long since i've been on a good shopping spree." Jess agreed bouncing in her seat in excitement. The girls spent a bit longer talking fashion and other interests, behaving as though they had been friends for years rather than just 24 hours. If Jess had met Sofi outside of work she would never have guessed that she was in the military.
"Right so I'll get to yours for about twelve and we'll go from there. Anyway I think I'm going to go and do a bit of target practise, it's been a few days. I'll speak to you more later." Sofia stated standing up properly from where she'd been leaning on the ADD.
"Sure thing, I'll see you later." Jess replied turning to do some work on the computer. Sofia slowly made her way to the shooting range that the ARC had, taking everything in once again, still in awe of it all. Before she'd left to go home yesterday Jess had given her, her ID band which in her opinion was really cool. She could hear her grandmothers voice in her head exclaiming about how much technology had changed. It brought a small smile to her face. Sofia had only had a brief look at the shooting range during the tour yesterday as she was to excited to see everything else, but she could remember it looked incredible and she couldn't wait to get in there. Nodding her head to some people she remembered from yesterday, she finally made it to the shooting range, using her ID she let herself in to find it was empty of people other than Captain Becker who had the safety glasses and ear muffs on due to the ARC's safety regulations. He was currently loading the target with bullets, once he finished she decided it was safe to talk to him.
"Nice shot, Captain." Sofia called taking a pair of glasses and ear muffs from where they were stored before heading over to the stall next to his.
"Thank you Lieutenant, so how are you doing today?" Becker greeted lowering his weapon.
"I'm doing just great." Sofia responded with a grin. "Spent a lot of time either with Jess or at the menagerie so I decided to give the shooting range ago." Sofia called putting on her ear muffs and glasses, then taking aim at the target finally releasing a hail of bullets into it.
"Nice shot Lieutenant."
"Thank you Captain."
Becker and herself settled into a comfortable silence, talking occasionally about all different creatures Becker had seen, giving Sofi a better idea of how things worked. This carried on for about an hour before Becker was summoned to see to a few things, leaving Sofi to think over some of the things Becker had told her.
Matt wandered through the corridors of the ARC, he had work he could be doing but his mind was else where. Mainly it was focused on Sofi. His initial impression of her told him she wasn't who he was looking for, and he had told Gideon as much. However he was starting to worry that his judgement could have been clouded by the attraction he felt towards her. He hadn't seen her since he had given her the tour yesteday, but he was going to spend more time with her so he could be 100% sure she wasn't the one. He didn't want to mess up his mission. As he walked past the shooting range he briefly looked through the window and noticed Sofia, well no time like the present. Scanning his wrist band he entered the range and waited until he felt it was safe to speak.
"Nice shooting Lieutenant." Matt complimented as she lowered the gun.
"Two compliments in one day, I'm doing well." Sofia responded turning around to face Matt with a bright, cheeky grin. "Thank you Matt, oh and like I told Becker, It's Sofia or Sofi not Lieutenant. I'm sure I've already said that." Sofia said putting the gun and safety equipment down on the counter in front of her before turning back to face Matt again.
"I was going to ask how your finding everything today but I guess you've already been asked." Matt spoke trying to start a conversation.
"Only a few times." Sofia replied laughing "Oh I was speaking with Becker before and he mentioned something about non-lethal weapons?" Sofia inquired.
"Are you gong to complain as well?" Matt asked, one eyebrow raised and a hint of a smile gracing his lips.
"No." Sofia answered drawing out the word. "It's just any animal outside it's natural habitat or comfort zone is potentially very dangerous and considering it's mainly dinosaurs we apparently have to deal with I'd like to know what I'm going to have to keep myself and any team mates or civilians alive if a situation were to turn bad." Sofia responded.
"Excellent point." Matt nodded liking Sofi's logic compared to Becker who just turned his nose up at the idea. "There called EMD's, Electro Muscular Disruption weapons. They have three settings low, medium and high depending on what creature there needed for. The highest setting is designed to take down a Tyrannosaurous Rex." Matt explained secretly feeling quite proud of himself when he could see the impressed look on Sofia's face.
"Well we'll just have to see how they handle in action." Sofia started just as the alarm sounded.
"Ready for your first mission Sofi?"
"Absoultly!" Sofia claimed following Matt to the ARC's opps room beginning to feel excited.
"It's in an unused office block, travel time estimated at 18 minutes sending coordinates now." Jess told everyone, as they collected their black boxes before heading towards the cars.
"The anomaly is on the sixth floor in an open area, so far I haven't seen any creatures on the CCTV." Jess announced over the comms.
"Thanks Jess, keep us imformed. OK we're going to split into groups and take a stair well to the sixth floor to keep all sides covered and get that anomaly locked. Then we are going to do a floor by floor sweep to ensure we don't have an incursion." Matt called before setting off into the office block.
After the anomaly had been locked the group had been split to sweep the building. Sofia had been sent with three other soldiers to sweep the fifth floor, after seeing the anomaly she was even more excited to see a dinosaur. This was every dino fanatics dream. The anomaly had been beautiful but she was more a dino girl than mystical portals. So far no creature had been sited and she was thinking this was going to end up being quite an easy first mission. That was until she heard a noise in one of the rooms ahead. Holding her hand up to signal the other guys to be quiet a moment she listened carefully. There was definitly something there. Silently making her way to the noise she looked around the door frame into the office and nearly squealed in delight. In front of her had to be the most beautiful thing she had ever seen.
"Matt we have a creature, floor five." Sofia announced over the comms.
"OK Sofi what do we have?" Matt asked making his way to the stairs to get to that level leaving the soldiers to carry on looking. Becker also made his way to the stairs.
"We have a Scutellosaurus, early Jurassic, herbivore. It's beautiful. It's roughly two meters long including tail so it must only be young." Sofia exclaimed completely in awe of the creature but keeping her guard up. It may only be young but the hundreds of spike like ridges on it's back, sides and tail made it very dangerous if it were to charge or swing at you.
"In my opinion the best course of action would be to tranq it and get her in the lift and through the anomaly. We're lucky the lifts here are built here to fit construction equipment otherwise we would have one hell of a problem getting her up a floor." Sofia suggested her years of tactical thinking kicking in.
Matt had to give it to Sofi, when he got to the fifth floor he could see in her eyes she was about to burst with excitement but she managed to stay professional and was extremely efficient and he could see she was going to be a great benefit to the team. He also couldn't help but find the sparkle in her eyes beautiful, he was almost 100% sure she wasn't who he was looking for as she seemed to have barely any interest in the anomaly what so ever, she was all for the animals. He would have to get to know her more though to be certain.
"With a Scutellosaurus the tranqs will just bounce off its back and sides so we're going to have to try and someohow get her stomach." Matt said whilst looking around the door frame at the creature.
"OK so heres what we're going to do..."
"So how was it?" Jess questioned.
"Everything went smoothly for a change and I think we're lucky to have Sofia. You handled the situation brilliantly." Becker answered before heading to the armoury.
"Did I just get the seal of approval from the Captain?" Sofia asked leaning towards Jess.
"I think you did." Jess replied turning to look at Sofia, both suddenly had huge grins on their faces and high fived. Matt just raised his eyebrow at the pair.
"You two get on far to well for having only met yesturday." Matt told them turning to head to his office.
"Oh and Sofi?" Matt called causing Sofia to look away from whatever it was that Jess was showing her to look at him.
"You did do amazingly. We are lucky to have you." Matt told her, causing a huge smile to grace her face which he couldn't help but return before turning to go to his office missing Jess's and Sofia's second high five.
Thank you :) Maybe I can have a review now...
Cammie x