Series 4 Episode 7

Two weeks since Chapter 12

Chapter 13- We'll stop him

Sofia found herself once again staring at the small bunch of red tulips on her desk that Matt had given her, like usual she couldn't concentrate on the paperwork she was meant to be doing. Instead she was thinking about Matt and their mission. Emily had been a great help in trying to figure out how Ethan thinks and she was sure that they would catch him soon, anyway she owed him a punch in the face for nearly blowing two people she thought of as family. The whole group went out to the pub the night after, between nearly getting blown up and eaten by prehistoric dogs it had yet again been another close day, it was nice hanging out with everyone again it didn't happen much she was either out with Abby and Jess or Matt. They needed to all go out more often.

"Day dreaming again I see." Matt's voice broke her out of her mental monologue and caused her to jump. "Sorry didn't mean to startle you." Matt told her softly while wrapping his arms around her, hugging her from behind. Moving he leaned against her desk next to her, Sofia turned slightly in her seat so she was facing him fully.

"It's fine. Everything OK?"

"Not really, we have one more day to find Ethan before the Minister over rules Lester and gets outside help to find him." Matt announced.

"Thats not right, he came from an anomaly he should be under the ARC's jurisdiction." Sofia stated.

"Well apparantly the Minister feels that the fact he came from an anomaly is irrelevant and that having a psychopath on the streets is a danger to the people and so should be found by any means necessary."

"Well I can definitely see where he's coming from." Sofia said running a hand through her hair. "A day?"

"A day."

"Well then we-" Sofi was cut of by the siren going off, standing up both Matt and Sofia ran from her office to the hub. Grabbing a black box Sofia headed to the cars with Becker, Abby and Connor, on the way to the hub Matt and herself had decided that it would be better if Matt focused on finding Ethan so he stayed behind. Pulling up in front of the old prison Becker ordered two of his men to guard the perimeter while another two were to join them with searching the building, entering the building they met the tour guide Jess had intercepted the calls of. He lead them to a room where one of the vistors had apparantly disappeared. Looking around the inside of the tiny cell Sofi walked back out and joined Abby and the guide.

"There is nowhere he could have gone, I locked and bolted the door myself." He told them as Becker looked in the surrounding cells.

"It's OK." Abby reasurred the guide as the tour group walked past. "This way please ladies and gentlemen, please follow this man out of the building." Abby called gesturing to one of the soldiers who started leading the way out the other soldier brought up the rear to make sure no one decided to wonder. "The museum will re-open as soon as possible. Thank you." Sofia called as Becker came and stood by them.

"Absolutely nothing." Becker called once the group was out of sight. Shaking her head Abby turned and headed towards the basement where Connor and the anomaly were, Sofia and Becker followed. Reaching the basement they walked in to find Connor standing infront of the locked anomaly messing with something, by this point one of the soldiers had rejoined them.

"Connor, there was no sign of a creature attack." Abby informed him.

"Really?" Becker just shook his head negative.

"Yeah the door was locked nothing could have got in it." Sofia added.

"That's weird, we only register one anomaly and that's that one." Connor announced gesturing to the locked one behind them.

"We've searched the entire building and there is no other sign of incursion." Becker stated. "I don't get it."

"I'm growing old here Connor." Jess's voice suddenly came over the comms.

"Right sorry, two seconds." Connor replied quickly heading back over to the anomaly holding some device in front of him.

"What's that?" Sofia inquired heading over to stand near him along with the other two.

"This is a dating calculator, it will tell us where the anomalies lead to." Connor announced.

"That's actually quite impressive." Sofia said nodding her head.

"If it works." Becker added.

"You have such faith." Sofia laughed nudging him.

"How long does it take to get a date from this thing?" Jess asked.

"Right, I'm getting something. Looks like 1870-ish."

"Ish?" Abby asked with an eyebrow raised.

"If that things right, then this anomaly leads to Emily's time." Sofi announced staring at the anomaly, this could take Emily home the place she's been looking for, for over three years. This was good except it meant she was going to lose a really good friend.

"Connor are you sure?" Matt's voice asked over the comms.

"Trust the technology Matt, if that's what it says then that's what it-" Connor never finished as the anomaly suddenly opened causing Abby, Becker and herself to raise their EMD's at the anomaly.

"What happened?" Abby demanded.

"No idea." Connor looked just as confused as the rest of them.

"Connor time to turn your toy off." Becker told him.

"It won't have anything to do with this." Connor defended himself, Sofia just kept her gaze looked on the anomaly and let them argue over it.

"Turn it off now!"

"Becker it leads to the Victorian Era, what do you thinks going to come through Olivertwistasaurus." Connor asked sniggering. Raising his eyebrows Becker gave him a pointed look.

"Fine." Connor sighed holding the device up so Becker could see him turn it off, then bending to the locking device and re-locked the anomaly. Once it was locked everyone slowly lowered their EMD's while Becker shot Connor a smug smile.

"Child." Sofia muttered just as the anomaly re-opened again.

"It must be a problem with the locking mechanism." Connor stated as the others quickly raised their EMD's again.

"Yes, but can you fix it?" Sofia asked not letting her eyes leave the anomaly. Bending down to the locking mechanism again Connor went to see what he could do when a screech came from the other side of the anomaly. Raising his EMD like the others had he waited to see what came through. Seconds later a Terror Bird came through snapping at the four.

"Get back!" Becker ordered stepping to the side out of it's way. Sofia moved to the other side.

"Only use a low charge, we just want to scare it back through." Sofia ordered firing a shot at it as did the others. It took about ten shots before the bird gave up and turned back to the anomaly going through it.

"If that was what I think it was then your calculators what, only a few million years out." Becker said to Connor who looked quite annoyed and disappointed that his new device didn't work. Sofi was the only one with her EMD still aimed at the open anomaly, they were still under threat with it being open and she wouldn't stand down until they were safe and the anomaly locked.

"Jess we're going to need back up down here right now." Becker told Jess over the comms.

"I'll get right on it Becker."

"Connor get that locking device fixed." Sofi ordered. Sofia couldn't see because she refused to look away from the anomaly but she could hear Connor make his way towards it. After about ten minutes Connor sighed.

"Jess I can't find a fault with this locking mechanism your going to have to send me another one down."

"It's on it's way."

"Thanks." Becker and Abby were now standing guard besides her and she could hear Connor still messing with the mechanism trying to find a fault that didn't seem to exist. All was quiet and after a few minutes Jess's voice broke it.

"Guys we have a problem, it appears Ethan has a way of tracking anomalies. Matt said to keep a look out as he could be on his way. Matt's heading to you now."

"Ethan could be armed, you two stay down here Sofi with me." Becker ordered just as they heard the screech of a Terror Bird again, however it came from behind them. "You guys stay, we don't want anything else coming through. Sofi come on!" Making their way through the corridors both of them kept their EMD's raised.

"We double checked and the place was clear." Becker muttered to himself checking each room he passed.

"I know." Sofia replied just as a flickering light caught her eye. "Becker." She whispered as he had moved on ahead, gesturing to the door which was partly closed. Becker kicked the door opened and they both had their EMD's ready, what they found was another anomaly. But it was wrong.

"How could the ARC not pick this up." Becker demanded as another Terror Bird came charging through, instead of shooting it, Becker just shut the door which it began ramming into.

"Jess we've got a Terror Bird and another anomaly in a store room." Sofia called down the comms.

"I'm only registering the first anomaly, are you sure?"

"Yes Jess. Pretty sure." Becker stated just as it became quiet. Becker looked to Sofi who nodded.

"One, two, three." Becker counted down, reaching three they both charged into the store room only to find it empty. No bird, no anomaly. Running back to the stairs they started heading down to the main floor just as Matt entered the building.

"OK spread out you know what to do." Matt ordered the soldiers who were with him. "Any sign of Ethan?" He asked the pair once they had met at the bottom of the stairs.

"No but Matt we have a seriously weird anomaly." Sofia told him.

"Show me." He replied letting her lead the way to the basement while Becker stayed with the soldiers searching the building again. Reaching the anomaly and Connor, they let him explain.

"At first Becker thought my dating calculator was interfering but the replacement mechanism won't lock the anomaly either. This is like nothing we've dealt with before."

"And the anomaly we found in the store room it didn't look normal, it was paler, not as strong." Sofi added.

"And that couldn't have been open long because you and Becker searched the cells right?" Connor asked.

"Yeah, if their coming and going quickly, it would explain how the tourist disappeared early." Sofi finished.

"Connor, is their anything to indicate that someone might have manipulated this anomaly like interfered with it?" Matt asked causing Sofia to look up. Was this it? Was this what they were looking for?

"Interfering, how?" Connor just looked confused by the suggestion. "I mean there was nobody in the room when we arrived if thats what you mean." Connor finished just as a Terror Bird charged into the room however it wasn't going for them it was edging to the anomaly.

"Don't shoot I think it's just trying to go through." Abby called making everyone step back out of it's way but keeping their EMD's raised just incase. Once it had disappeared again Matt called Becker.

"Becker check for anomalies, we've got an incursion."

"That was the same bird." Abby announced.

"Really?" Connor asked as he and Matt looked to Abby.

"Yeah the scar." Sofia called still looking at the anomaly.

"Well that means the anomaly you and Becker saw must be part of this one." Connor stated looking at Sofi and the anomaly.

"Yeah but how does that work?" Matt asked as the screeching was heard again.

"Sofia move it's coming back through." Matt yelled as she was stood the closest to the anomaly, stepping back Sofi kept her eyes on the anomaly and her EMD trained on whatever was coming through shooting just as it came through. However it wasn't the bird, it was a man.

"Oops." Sofia stated looking at him moving back to Matt as Abby and Connor rushed forward rolling the man onto his back.

"Danny!" They exclaimed.

"Oops again." Sofia muttered causing Matt to chuckle and place his hand on the small of her back. She hadn't heard much about Danny but she knew he was once leader of the ARC team and had gone missing with Connor and Abby before they got split up. Sofia and Matt watched as Connor and Abby moved him further away from the anomaly, Connor shot Sofi a disbelieving look while Abby tried waking him. Becker had joined them by this point and was checking his pulse.

"Danny! Danny it's Abby can you hear me! Come on your back."

"I can't believe you shot him. He's been away over a year and he finally makes it back and you just..." Connor finshed by making a shooting gesture with his hand, Abby just shook her head trying to hold back her grin.

"I'm sorry. He'll be OK it was on the lowest setting." Sofi defended herself leaning into Matt's hand.

"Danny!" Abby tried again.

"Come on Quinn get up, stop faking." Becker spoke while dropping Danny's arm. Danny finally groaned and began sitting up.

"Becker." He muttered facing Abby, opening his eyes he saw her. "Wow Becker your much cuter than I remember." He said making everyone laugh. Leaning forward he gave Abby a hug while Becker patted him on the back. Leaning down Connor gave him a hug as well, while Matt and Sofi hung back watching the happy reunion.

"Sorry." Connor called when he squeezed to tight.

"What was that?" Danny asked.

"Sofi shot you." Connor announced.

"Yeah you two like to shoot people don't you." Becker said giving Matt a pointed look causing both him and Sofi to grin. Danny looked towards Sofi and Matt.

"So your Sofi then, loverly to meet you."

"Lieutenant Sofia Bianco, loverly to meet you too and sorry about that you'll be OK in a couple of hours."

"Great and you?" Danny asked nodding to Matt.

"I'm Matt Anderson, it's nice to fianlly meet you."

"I'm really back aren't I? I never thought I'd see you again." Danny said looking at Becker, Abby and Connor.

"We waited for you, what happened?" Abby told him softly.

"Where were you?" Connor added.

"Oh you know, here and there, mostly through there." He answered nodding to the anomaly.

"Look guys Ethan could show up any minute, Abby take Danny back to the ARC, Connor you keep trying to lock that thing, Becker, Sofi come with me." Matt ordered before heading out the room with Sofi following closely followed by Becker. "Becker I want you to go see if your men guarding the perimeter have seen anything, Sofi take some men and search all the cells and corridors on the second floor to the left I'll take a group and search the right." Matt ordered again as the trio split up. Part way through her search Sofi heard Becker's voice over the comms.

"Matt guard down, Ethan's in."

"Right I'll go warn Connor and Abby, Becker stay on the main floor. Sofia head down stairs and meet up with Becker." Matt called.

"Copy that." Sofia answered waving her hand to the soldier in front of her, he nodded and turned down a different corridor to the main room. Just as she was about to follow something cold and metal smashed into the side of her head, falling to the floor Sofia looked up to see Ethan pointing a gun at her. Kicking her leg up she managed to catch his hand just right and the gun flew behind him, singing her legs she managed to catch his and bring him down to the floor.

"Matt! Ethan's here! Matt?" Pulling her ear piece out she saw that he had broke it with the crack to the head. Looking up again she saw that Ethan had reached the gun, jumping up she was able to keep his arm away from her. He wouldn't risk missing a shot if it meant the others would find out where he was. Suddenly a loud high pitched squeal came from his pocket distracting her long enough for Ethan to move his arm. Pain explode in her shoulder as she heard the bang, not able to stop her cry of pain she shouted out. Lifting her knee sharply she just missed his groin but hit him hard enough he let her go. Falling to the floor Sofi grabbed her EMD and lifted it firing off rounds but Ethan had already ran off. Standing up Sofia leaned against the wall trying to get her bearings, her head was ringing from the blow it recieved and she could feel blood running down her cheek and her shoulder was throbbing with a sharp pain. Slowly making her way through the corridors she hoped she was going the right way, but luck wasn't on her side looking up she saw the corridor she was on was just a dead end. Groaning she turned and was about to carry on when she heard the screech of the Terror Bird.

"Shit!" Sofi exclaimed trying to raise her EMD but her left arm wasn't cooperating and she couldn't shoot the big ones with only one arm, she could barely lift her left arm, looking up she froze. The Terror Bird was just staring at her from the end of the corridor, blocking her only exit. Suddenly it let out a screech and charged. Unable to use her EMD because of her dead arm she dropped it to the floor and tried opening the doors around her but they all seemed to be locked, finally finding one that was open she ran in and slammed the door only to find it didn't have a lock and it opened inwards.

"You have got to be kidding me!" Sofi screamed, looking at the door a light started flickering on it. Slowly turning she saw an anomaly that wasn't there a second ago, hearing the bird screech not far from the room she was in Sofi made up her made. "Oh for fucks sake!" Sofia shouted before running through the anomaly just as the door burst open.

"Right I'll go warn Connor and Abby, Becker stay on the main floor. Sofia head down stairs and meet up with Becker." Matt ordered.

"Copy that." He heard Sofi announce as he was heading down the stairs leading to the basement.

"Ethan's in the building, don't move Danny until I say. Whatever happens we can't let Ethan near that anomaly." Matt told the trio as he entered the room with the anomaly.

"Matt." Connor called standing up causing Matt to turn. "Ethan's using radio frequencies to locate the anomalies right?"

"Yeah."

"Then we can tell exactly where he is." Connor announced.

"How?" Connor grinned and looked towards the locking mechanism. Matt and Abby headed up to the main floor and met Becker but no Sofia.

"Where's Sofi?" Matt asked. Becker shook his head looking worried.

"The men she was with came down, they said she was right behind them, she's not answering but Jess said her black box signal is still moving."

"Right what are we listening for? We need to know where Ethan is he may have Sofia." Matt ordered.

"Connor said we'll know it when we hear it." Abby answered also getting worried for her friend. Matt was getting really worried Sofi wouldn't just ignore them, Connor really had to hurry up.

"Alright stand by." Connor said. A loud high pitched squeak came from upstairs closely followed by a gun shot, Matt's eyes widen.

"SOFI! Right he's upstairs lets go now!" Matt shouted, they quickly headed for the stairs but were stopped by Ethan appearing at the top and shooting at them. Matt and Becker still tried getting upstairs they had a friend up there who possibly needed them.

"MATT Sofi's black box signal is gone!" Jess called over the comms. Matt froze for a second before ducking from the shots again. If her signal had disappeared that more than likely meant she had gone through an anomaly, whether it was willingly or not he didn't know. Just when he thought things couldn't get worse the Terror Bird charged across the room, as the shooting stopped Becker and Matt charged up the stairs.

"You two take the bird." Matt shouted to Connor and Abby. Following Ethan through the corridors he kept shooting not giving Matt a chance to return the fire.

"Stop running Ethan! There's nowhere to go!" Matt shouted stepping around the corner to see he wasn't there having gone down another corridor. Running down a corridor that ran parallel to the one Ethan went down, pressing his back to the wall he waited until he could hear Ethan before stepping around the corner EMD raised. "Don't move!" Matt shouted. "We're gonna run in circles Ethan. Drop the gun."

"Tell me where the gateway is!"

"Drop the gun or I'll drop you!"

"Tell me where the gateway is."

"Drop the gun."

"Where's the gateway?"

"Why what have you done to it?

"Done to it?"

"I know you've messed with it. Why? What are you trying to achieve?" Matt demanded.

"I don't know what your talking about." Ethan told him looking confused.

"It's over Ethan just tell me what the plan was!"

"There was no plan. I thought I wanted to stay in this world, I don't. I was wrong." Ethan explained. "Let me go through the gateway and you'll never see me again."

"You didn't do anything to the gateway but what did you do to Sofia?" Matt demanded, he could see he was telling the truth about the gateway but Sofi was still missing. Matt could see a grin growing on Ethan face which just made him angier.

"She got in my way. If she was alive does that mean Emily is?" Matt noticed his use of the word was. If Sofi was alive, not if Sofi's alive.

"If you've hu-" Matt was interupted by the Terror Bird charging out of a room and stopping between them giving Ethan the chance to run, shooting it to bird fell.

"Matt!" Becker called coming into the corridor just as Matt started following Ethan.

"This way!" Following Ethan he was heading to the ground floor, just as he was about to go down the stairs to the basement Danny, Abby and Connor came running up causing Ethan to point his gun at Danny. Everyone stopped still keeping their EMD's aimed at him. Danny and Ethan just stared at each other.

"Danny?" Ethan asked slowly causing Danny to grin and rush forward pulling him into a hug confusing everyone.

"Patrick." Danny whispered. Matt and Becker came the rest of the way down the stairs and stopped near Abby and Connor.

"Patrick?" Matt asked.

"His brother." Abby answered suddenly remembering Danny telling them about him, she looked at them in shock as did everyone else.

"Matt! Sofi's black box has come back! She's in the basement by the main anomaly." Jess exclaimed.

"Becker, take both Danny and...Patrick to the ARC." Matt shouted already heading to the basement Abby and Connor following close behind, running into the basement Matt shouted.

"SOFI?"

"Here!" He heard her call. Running over the trio found her sat down leaning against a pillar, there was a lot of blood on her face and she was cradleing her left arm. Dropping his EMD Matt crouched down in front of her cupping her face. "I'm having a really bad day." She told them.

"Where are you hurt?" Matt asked.

"Gunshot wound to the left shoulder and what feels like a concussion."

"Come on." Matt said picking her up as gently as he could. "Abby, Connor I want you to stay here, Connor try and get that anomaly locked. Abby I need you to help deal with any incursions for now."

"Sure thing Matt, We'll see you later Sofi." Abby replied. Matt heard Sofi mumble softly, looking down he could see her nodding off on his shoulder.

"No no. No sleeping until you get checked out."

Reaching the ARC, Matt stayed with Sofia in the Medical facility until he knew for definite she would be OK. Then he went to go interview Ethan. Closing her eyes Sofia tried to relax, annoyed at once again finding herself in the Medical wing, hearing a gasp she opened her eyes to see Emily stood by the door. She wasn't surprised, she knew she didn't look to good at the minute. Quite a big bruise was forming on the left side of her face and she was wearing a black tank top so the white bandages around her left shoulder were pretty obvious as they also contrasted against her tanned complexion, she also had tubes under her nose giving her oxygen.

"It's not as bad as it looks you know." She told Emily softly. Walking over Emily sat in the seat beside the bed.

"I have some news." She told Sofia.

"Good or bad?"

"I'm not sure. They tried explaining it to me but I still don't completely understand. Apparantly there were two gateways in exactly the same spot today and they have managed to separate them. It has been comfirmed that one of them leads to 1867." Emily tried explaining as best she could. Sofia kind of understood her but decided to ask Matt later, but she knew what this meant.

"It's your choice Emily. We can make you that new identity and you can become a proper citizen of the 21st century or you can go back to your own time. No ones going to force you to do anything." Sofia told her softly taking her hand. After a few minutes of silence Emily looked up.

"I think I'm going to go back." Sofia sat and pulled her into a hug.

"I'm going to miss you so much, I'm glad I had the honour to get to know you." Sofia whispered with tears in her eyes, she was going to lose a close friend but it was for Emily's own good.

"I will never be able to thank you enough for all the help you have given me, for allowing me to sleep in your home and for being a sister to me. I will never forget you." Emily whispered back, pulling away she took both of Sofia's hands. "I wish you all the luck with Matt and the rest of your life. I hope you get everything you want."

"Becareful and I also wish all the best for you, I'll never forget you. Now go you don't want to miss your gateway home."

"Thank you, and goodbye Sofi." Emily said with a grin and a tear trickling down her cheek.

"Goodbye Emily." Sofia replied with a grin as Emily left the room, once she was gone Sofi allowed a few tears to fall. Laying back down Sofi tried to get comfy. Just as she began nodding off the intruder alarm went off.

"Intruder alert all units to corridor five." Jess announced over the PA system. Oh Matt was going to kill her she thought as she climbed out of the bed, Corridor five was right near here. Grabbing a small EMD that was on a table in the corner of the room and one of the medic's ear pieces she slowly made her way to the corridor. Getting near the corridor she heard two EMD discharges hurrying up she slowly turned the corner to see Ethan just turning the corner at the other end and Becker unconcious on the floor. She was to weak to stop Ethan by herself, deciding she'd do more good helping Becker she dropped to his side before speaking into her comms.

"Target moving down corridor six, predicted destination is the loading bay. The target is armed with an EMD and has one Emily Merchant as hostage. Medics requested for corridor five Captain Becker has been shot twice by an EMD he is unconcious, has shallow breathing and feels like he is burning up. Looking at the at the bruising forming on his chest I'd say he was shot by two medium setting shots." Sofia stated after removing his tac vest and lifting his shirt to see where he was hit.

"Sofia what the hell are you doing out of the medical bay?" Matt demanded.

"Don't worry Matt I don't plan on going any further than this in fact I'll be heading back to the medical bay any second now. Just focus on saving Emily and stopping Ethan." Sofia finished just as the medics turned up which was lucky because she was started to feel really tired.

"Lieutenant you should really be resting." One of the staff told her.

"Don't worry I'm heading back now." Sofia announced and headed back with the help of one of the medics, getting back into the bed she was asleep before her head even reached the pillow.

Slowly opening her eyes Sofia blinked a few times to clear her vision, once it was clear she looked round the main lights had been turned off but a small lamp was on at the other side of the room. Becker was on the bed to her left he was asleep with breathing tubes under his nose, but he appeared to be breathing normally again.

"You should be sleeping." Matt's voice broke the silence, even though he only whispered it sounded loud in the silence of the ARC.

"What time is it?" She asked groggily as Matt sat in the chair beside her bed holding a cup of coffee.

"It's just gone three in the morning."

"What are you still doing here you should be at home in bed." Sofi demanded pressing a button so the top end of the bed raised so she was sitting up.

"It's fine, I got some sleep before, How you feeling?" Matt inquired putting his coffee down and took one of her hands in both of his.

"I'm feeling OK, the morphines doing it's job. How's Becker?"

"He'll be fine, he's just sleeping the worst of it off. He'll feel it for the next few days but he'll be back to normal soon." Matt answered looking across at the sleeping Captain.

"Ethan and Emily?"

"Ethan went through the anomaly leading to the Terror Birds time and Danny followed to try and stop him hurting anyone else. And Emily's gone home, she said that she managed to say goodbye?"

"Yeah she visited earlier and we said our goodbyes. What about Ethan and the anomalies?"

"It looks like you had a good reason to not trust Burton. Danny said he found lots of papers in Helen's bag with Phillip's name on, it was all questions about anomalies. Looks like he's our guy."

"Once I'm better I'll help you stop him. We can do this." Sofia told him giving his hand a squeeze. Standing up Matt sat on the edge of her bed and pressed a tender but passionate kiss to her lips.

"We will stop him!" Matt agreed.

OMG that's series 4 over and done with :( NOW on to series 5 :D Next chapter will be at some point next week!

Hope you enjoyed!

Cammie x