A/N Look who's back! :D Major apology for the long gap between these chapters, someone close to me passed and I haven't been in the mood to write until recently but I've finally got my groove back and I'm buzzing with idea's for when I finish this! So anyway here it is Chapter 18

Day after Chapter 17

Series 5 Episode 4

Enjoy :)

Leaning against the wall in the panic room Sofi watched as Abby paced and Matt tried to see if he could find anything on the copy of Connor's hard drive, she was hoping their luck would continue and there would be something useful on there.

"Connor's hard drive is encripted, I'm nearly there." Matt informed them.

"Please tell me I didn't break into Connor's lab for nothing." Abby stated, Sofi looked her way and could see the look on Abby's face. It was really hard for her to go behind Connor the way she had and the guilt was weighing down on her.

" Right I'm in." Matt suddenly announced causing both women to quickly walk over to him.

"What is it? What's he doing?" Sofia inquired looking at the screen. Pulling up another file they quickly scanned through them.

"Anomaly readings?" Matt questioned just as the anomaly alert went off, Sofia saw Matt tense like usual these days. He was getting more on edge and she knew he couldn't wait for Lester to return the next day so she would finally be taken temporarily off the field team until she had their baby. Luckily Abby didn't notice so no unwanted questions were asked. Quickly leaving the panic room the trio started running for the opps room while Matt contacted Jess over the comms.

"What is it Jess?"

"Your not gonna believe where this anomaly is." Jess stated in disbelief causing them all to slow to a stop.

"Try me." Hearing where it was the trio looked at each other in shock before turning to run in the correct direction. Reaching the door to Connor's lab they all looked inside to see Connor looking towards them looking worried.

"Connor open up!" Matt shouted so Connor could hear, Connor looking hesitant made Matt continue. "That's a direct order." Walking to the control panel Connor quickly granted them access before quickly walking back to the other side of his desk, slowly walking in the trio looked at the small anomaly in shock. Not liking Sofia being this close to any size anomaly Matt discreetly grasped the back of her belt gentally tugging her backwards until she got the hint and moved further away from it.

"What have you done?" Abby asked him quietly causing Matt and Sofi to look between the pair before focusing on Connor also wanting an answer to that question.

"What have I...What about a congratulations." Connor replied looking at them all. "No" He continued seeing their looks of disbelief. "This is the first man made anomaly in history and I made that."

"Lock it." Matt ordered in a deadly calm voice at the same time the sound of a door opening could be heard.

"I suggest you turn around and leave this lab immediently." Burton ordered walking towards them. "Because under no circumstances is anyone going to lock this anomaly." Connor looked away from the others while they glared at Burton.

"Phillip we have to do our job." Matt stated still in his calm voice, but Sofi could see the anger in his eyes.

"Matt if we lock this anomaly now the readings just get weaker we might lose it all together." Connor answered.

"Oh and that would be bad?" Abby cut in causing Connor to look at her. "Why?"

"Come on Abby it's perfectly safe, look at the size of it, you couldn't even get a T-rex's toe through there I know what I'm doing."

"No you don't, you really really don't" Abby told him before Sofia continued.

"Connor there our plenty of creatures from various times that could come through that anomaly, dangerous creatures!" But before she could say anymore Phillip cut her off.

"This lab belongs to Propero it's not your jurisdiction Matt, if I have to eject you I will." Phillip finished standing right next to Matt.

"OK, Abby it's OK I'll talk to you later." Matt announced.

"What?" Both Abby and Sofia were now looking at Matt confused.

"Phillip knows what he's doing." Matt told them simply, nodding her head Sofi turned to Abby.

"It's alright, come on." Sofi said nodding to the door, walking past Matt Sofi briefly placed her hand on his back before following Abby out hoping the brief contact would calm him slightly. Leaving Abby in one of the spare offices that they often used with Matt when talking about anything to do with the mission she headed to the toilets. Leaning over the sink she turned the cold tap on before splashing her face, even though the actual being sick phase had passed the nausea had remained and she had recently begun to feel faint every so often. The constantly feeling hot wasn't helping either, taking off the top layer she was wearing to hide her bump Sofi was left standing in front of the bathroom mirror wearing one of the tank tops she wore all the time but it was tight around her stomach now. Turning to the side Sofia ran a hand over her bump, at her scan the other day Sofi had asked the women to check she wasn't carrying twins since she was quite big for 18 weeks, with it being her first preganacy she thought it would have taken longer for there to be a visible bump. The midwife had reassured her that there was only one baby and they were an average size for how far she was, she told her the bump was probably visible so early due to her size and height. She was after all quite a tiny person. Putting the other top back on Sofi left the bathroom just as Matt was walking past.

"Hey." She greeted with a quick kiss causing him to smile slightly. "Where's Abby?"

"She's gone to see if she can try and talk some sense into Connor."

"Let's hope she can."

Sitting in her office, Sofi was bored, with the increased security there wasn't much she could do around the ARC so she had retreated to her office. Looking at her watch Sofi noted it wouldn't be long until the Beta team was due to arrive for their shift so the main team could go home, walking through the airlock into the main menagerie Sofi looked through the viewing window to make sure all the creatures were in there containers before locking everything down. Just as she had finished the sirens went off and a female voice claiming an incursion had been detected. Panic flashed through her these rooms were sealed areas due to the creatures being here, if there was an incursion the ARC would lock down and certain rooms would be sealed up for safty including the airlock and her office to prevent the creatures getting out. Sofia dashed to the airlock wanting to get out of her office before she was sealed in, she didn't fancy being stuck here for however long. Making it into the corridor she heard the door slam and seal seconds later, that was to close. Leaning on the wall she slid down until she was sat so she could get her breath back, reaching to her ear to contact the others to see what was going on she remembered she had taken her comms out and put it on her desk.

"Damn." Closing her eyes and leaning her head back against the wall Sofia took a few deep breaths. In the silence of the ARC Sofi could hear a strange noise. "Hello?" She called looking around still sat on the floor, but with only the emergency lighting on it wasn't easy to see to far down the corridor properly. Hearing the noise again she sat up straight looking around again but still seeing nothing Sofi's mind began to run a mile a minute, it almost sounded like scuttling, insect-like. Suddenly feeling a sharp pain in her neck Sofi yelled out before instinctivly reaching up and grabbing whatever it was before throwing it.

"What the hell?" Sofi yelled once she saw what she had just lauched and to see it coming back at her, Sofi yelled out again as she felt multiple sharp pains looking down at herself she saw more of the beetles crawling all over her not initially not feeling them through thick clothes but they were biting through them as though they were nothing. Sofia hated insects and couldn't stop from screaming, trying to knock them off with her hands Sofi jumped up trying to shake them off, feeling them under her top layer she whipped it off and used it to try and knock the beetles off while moving down the corridor so they couldn't just crawl straight back onto her. But they were persistant and followed her down the corridor, finally getting the last few from her neck she turned and bolted as quick as she could. Feeling she was far enough away she slowed down but didn't stop moving not wanting to chance it. Looking down at herself she could see she was covered in quite a few cuts, and her combat pants and top were full of holes, seeing that the top of her top appeared to be covered in the most blood she gathered her neck was the worst off. Well that made sense since it hurt most there and quite a few seemed to go for her neck. Looking around she noticed she was near the armoury.

"Oh thank god!" She exclaimed rushing forward. Once in the armoury she grabbed the closest fully charged EMD before rushing to the back where she knew the pesticide was kept. "Thank you Lester for wanting to be prepared for everything." She muttered to herself before starting to move all the pesticide to the table in the middle of the armouy, all she needed now was to find the others. Grabbing another canister she heard a noise across the room towards the entrance but the shelving blocked her view, prepping her EMD she slowly moved so she could see, counting to three in her head she quickly jumped round the shelving with her EMD raised only to come face to face with Abby and Becker who also had their EMD's raised.

"Oh thank god it's you two." Sofia gasped lowering her EMD.

"Oh my god Sofi are you OK? Becker grab that first aid kit over there, Sofi come sit down." Abby rushed out while ushering her into a seat.

"No I'm not OK, I was attack by carnivorous beetles! Can someone explain why there are carnivorous beetles in the ARC?" Sofi demanded trying to beat back her panic.

"Connor's anomaly." Abby said softly while opening the first aid kit Becker had just handed her. "Now keeps still a minute while I at least patch up your neck, it seems to be bleeding quite a bit, the other cuts don't seem as bad." Sofi sat quietly while Abby disinfected the cut and put a sterilzed pad on it before wrapping a bandage around her neck hoping the pressure would stop the bleeding until she could get it properly checked. "There all done."

"Thank you." Sofi said softly gingerly feeling the bandage.

"Come on you two, we need to take these canisters and meet with the others in the hub." Becker announced helping Sofi stand from her seat. Moving towards the table to grab some of the canisters Sofi heard Abby gasp, turning to look at her to see what was wrong she noticed Abby's eyes were on her stomach, looking down Sofi remembered she was no longer wearing her baggier top and that her baby bump was blatantly obvious. Becker followed where Abby was looking and noticed the bump as well making his eyes go wide.

"Sofi..."

"Looks guy we don't have time for this, I'll explain later."

"Your pregnant." Abby stated still in shock.

"Yes I am."

"Well that actually explains a lot about how you and Matt have been acting." Becker announced moving towards the table to grab some of the canisters before looking to the girls. "Well come on we are in the middle of an emergency." With that both the girls grabbed some of the canisters before following Becker to the hub. Glancing to Abby out the corner of her eye she could tell the women was dying to ask her loads of questions, looking to Becker walking in front of her she could see his back was tense. Knowing Becker the way she did she knew he was going to go all big brother on her like he had on many other occasions. He'd rant at her about all the risks and what not. Walking into the hub Sofi saw Jess looking worriedly at the ceiling while Connor and Matt were talking near some ladders.

"Where do you want the box?" Becker called causing Matt and Connor to head towards them.

"Right there, have you seen Sofi yet?" Matt asked, stepping out from behind Becker she smiled to him.

"I'm right here." Sofi said placing the canisters she was holding on to the floor. Quickly walking over to her Matt pulled her in to a hug before pulling back placing one hand on the bandage on her neck and another over their baby.

"Are you both OK? What happened?" Placing her hands over his she smiled.

"We're are both fine, I can feel him moving about still. Now we have a job to do as soon as it's done you can check me over all you want I'll even let you have a medic check me over if it makes you feel better. So what are these nasty critters and how do we plan to stop them?" Sofia told him softly before turning to the rest of the team.

"We're going to trap the queen in this container the other beetles won't leave her, once they're all together we're going to hit them with all the pesticide we can." Matt filled her in as everyone grabbed a canister, moving around the box everyone got their canisters ready.

"We need to move fast this won't hold her for long." Abby announced.

"As long as we get one or two minutes out of it that should be enough." Matt replied, taking a deep breath Sofi made sure her canister was ready before she heard the sound of the scuttling, the horrible sound of hundreds of little critters moving it made her skin crawl. As the sound got louder Jess ran over from near the lifts.

"Matt they're coming." Jess exclaimed rushing over to them.

"OK everyone this side." Matt called moving to the side with their backs facing the ADD Jess followed but went futher into the room closer to the ADD so she was out of the way. "Nobody fire until I say we have to spray all of them no stragglers and whatever happens don't kill the queen!" Matt ordered.

"Why not?" Becker asked.

"Ready?" Matt called not answering the question.

"Ready." Connor answered holding up the detonator that will open the vent causing the queen to fall into the container.

"Go!" Pressing the detonator the vent opened causing the beetles to fall into the box, waiting for Matt's order the beetles continued to fall making everyone tense.

"Now?" Becker called just as the queen fell.

"Now!" As soon as the order was called they all began spraying the pesticide hoping they would have enough the get all the beetles, Jess's scream startled them all but no one stopped spraying except Becker who ran over to help.

"Don't stop! Don't stop!" Matt shouted as Abby stopped spraying to go help as well, but she carried on what she was doing. The beetles just kept coming.

"It's not working!" Sofia exclaimed panic in her voice, she had to fight down the urge to run away her fear of insects was slowly getting the better of her she could feel the cold sweat slowly forming on her body and could feel her hands shaking. The fear and panic made worse by the thought that she also had her baby to protect from these carnivorous beetles. Not long after she said that her canister began to splutter, panicing she press the handle harder shaking it praying for something to come out.

"I'm out!" Connor called.

"Me to!" Abby added.

"Ok, move, move!" Matt ordered dropping his canister before grabbing her arms and dragging her futher into the room with the others. Moving backwards towards the ADD they all kept their eyes on the beetles.

"They got the queen out." Abby stated as the queen walked along the floor. Before she could get very far though Becker rushed forward with his EMD.

"No!"

"Becker!" But it was to late, as soon as the queen was killed the other beetles scattered.

"It was our only way of controlling them." Matt muttered as Becker kept shooting at the beetles, pulling Sofi closer to his chest he ran hand up and down her back hoping to calm the shudders running through her body, of all the things she had to have an intense fear of it was large insects, Matt couldn't help but think with a shake of his head.

"Now what do we do?" Abby asked nobody in general. Letting Matt move forward Sofi moved so she was closer to Jess which was a good thing as the young girl suddenly started to fall.

"Jess!" Sofi shouted catching her friend and helping her more gentally to the floor as Matt ran over to help. Sofi held Jess in her arms as everyone else ran over to see what was happening, with her laboured breathing and pale complexion Sofi was running through the different things it could be in her head.

"What's wrong with her?" Connor asked out loud, Abby and Becker kept shooting all the stray beetles while Sofi put her hand on Jess's head only to feel her starting to burn up a little.

"I feel weird." Jess told them.

"She's burning up." Sofi informed them. "They can't be venonous because I was bitten over a dozen times." Sofi continued trying to narrow down the list.

"No you don't understand I'm allergic to insect bites." Jess explained. "I need an EpiPen, there should be some in the medical bay."

"Here I'll take her." Becker called rushing forward handing his EMD to Sofi.

"Ok Sofi Abby cover Becker." Matt ordered just as Connor's phone rang, looking to Matt while helping Becker with Jess Sofi expressed her worry through her eyes, with a small smile and a nod of his head Matt gave her what reasurrance he could before turning to Connor. Walking towards the medical bay Abby and herself kept their EMD's ready incase they happened upon any beetles, Becker had one arm around Jess's waist and the other held his EMD. Sofi kept taking deep breathes trying to keep from hyperventilating, her whole body was covered in a cold sweat and she could see the EMD shaking slightly in her hands, she wanted to smack herself Jess was far more important then her fear right now.

"Hey, come on your doing really well." Becker said to Jess. "Not far now, how are you feeling?"

"Insecty bitey..." Jess mumbled back before sofi quietened her, moving towards the wall much against her internal protest they all listened to the beetles, something sounded different. Seconds later some of the over head lighting burst into sparks causing everyone to jump.

"Here Sofi!" Becker called passing her his EMD so he could pick up Jess and they could move at a quicker pace. Jogging down the corridor they tried getting to the medical bay as quick as possible, walking into the room Sofi quickly checked the beds to make sure they were free of beetles before turning to Becker.

"Here's fine."

"Thanks." Becker replied placing Jess on the bed as Abby headed to one of the cupboards.

"Becker!" Abby shouted stepping back from the cupboard both her and Becker started shooting at the beetles. Quickly moving backwards away from the beetles Sofi couldn't quite control the fear coursing through her, her breathing picked up and she was starting to feel light headed. Cursing she gripped the bed behind her to stop herself from falling as the world swayed, her doctor had warned her that some women are more prone to fainting while pregnant and with all the panicing she was doing she was suprised she hadn't yet. Abby's face suddenly appeared infront of her.

"Sofi are you OK?" Abby asked worried gripping Sofi's arm helping her to sit on the bed she was gripping.

"I'm fine Abs." She muttered softly trying to focus on her breathing. "Did you find the Adrenaline?"

"Becker's looking for it, are we sure these beetles aren't venomous? Your looking just as bad as Jess nearly." Abby was really beginning to worry.

"I'm fine, my doctor told me some women are more prone to fainting around this point in their pregnancy and I have a terrible fear of large insects so my panic isn't helping. I just need to try to stay calm." Sofi explained while trying to breath steadily just as Becker exclaimed.

"There's no adrenaline, Jess where is your own EpiPen?" Becker asked.

"It's in the car, but with all these medical things I've never brought it in." Jess explained.

"If we open the external doors thats it there's no controlling them." Abby stated.

"We need to get her to the hospital." Sofia claimed, she was not letting her friend possibly die because of this.

"If we keep the beetles in the ARC we have a chance of wiping them out." Jess announced.

"Yeah and if we don't get your adrenaline...we have to take the risk!" Becker shouted throwing the box he was holding to the floor, this was his girlfriend the women he loved, he was not letting her die like this. "Phillip has to lift lock down."

"Get her to the loading bay exit, I'll meet you there." Abby announced quickly exiting the room.

"Are you going to be Ok walking?" Becker asked while picking up Jess, he had been listening to hers and Abby's conversation.

"I'll be fine, come on we need to get moving." Sofi stated, making sure she was steady on her feet she lifted her EMD and headed out of the room for the loading bay. Quickly making their way through the various corridors the three of them made it to the loading bay in minutes. Leaning Jess against the car Becker leant down so he was eye level with her.

"Hey?"

"I've felt worse but atleast there was Tequila and dancing involved." Jess tried to joke. Moving forward Sofi gentally placed her hand on Jess's forehead, her temperature was worse.

"Becker we have to get her fever down, I need drinking water and some cloth." Sofi told him.

"There should be some in the boot." Becker told her, he'd never felt more glad Sofi was a medic in his life but he was also worried about her, she only looked slightly better than Jess. A familiar chitter sounded after the room, looking up the pair saw Rex land on the car.

"How did he get here?" Becker asked confused.

"I don't know, he should be in the lab it sealed up during lock down he was there I'm sure of it." Sofi replied equally confused.

"Yeah that's directly above us, if he can get down here so can the beetles." Becker stated just as Jess leaned back on the bonnet of the car firing his EMD hitting a beetle.

"Nice work." Becker complimented removing the EMD from her grasp, Sofi looked at her impressed Jess wasn't known for her aim.

"Who let the tigers in here anyway?" Jess mumbled.

"What?"

"Becker, cold water." Sofi ordered shaking Becker into action who picked up Jess bringing her to the back seat of the car. Once they had given her the water and made her as comfortable as possibly they moved to the front of the car, leaning against it Sofi shut her eyes trying to stop the room swaying.

"Abby? Matt? The comms are down" Becker snapped suddenly causing her eyes to snap open and the world to tilt majorly, she could feel her body following before a pair of hands steadied her. Blinking her eyes furiously she tried to focus them. "Sofi, you Ok? You need to sit down now and take it easy."

"I'm fine Becker anyway we need to keep on eye out for the beetles." Sofi muttered once the world had stopped moving so much.

"Sofi your no good to me unconcious and it' not just you need to think about it's your baby too." Becker stated but was interrupted by Jess screaming again causing them both to rush to the back of the car. Once Becker had her settled again Sofi took one of the EMD's and kept walking around the car keeping an eye out for more beetles.

"Sofi?" Becker shouted, once she reached the open door Becker turned to her. "Her pulse is getting weaker and weaker, is there nothing you can do, I mean your a medic..." She could see the worry on his face and it broke her heart.

"Without the adrenaline there isn't more I can do, the best I can help with is to keep her fever down." Sofi replied feeling helpless but before either of them could say anymore there was a bang from futher in the bay.

"What was that?" Becker asked, looking at him Sofia backed away from where she was leaning in the car and started moving towards where the sound came from, her heart beat and breathing increasing with every step. Suddenly the lighting began exploding again causing her panic to reach new heights, walking in the dark with random explosions of lights and big bangs and giant carnivorous insects, this was her worst nightmare in one. Reaching the front of the car she picked up an EMD with one hand while using the other to lean on the car, her legs had turned into jelly, using the torch on the EMD she looked around and what she found caused her panic to increase tenfold. There were hundreds if not thousands of beetles pouring into the loading bay. The whole world tilted as she tried moving backwards as quick as possible but her legs finally gave in, preparing to feel the impact of the floor she was shocked when someone caught her.

"Come on Sofi, we need to get to the panic room. Come on as soon as we're there you can pass out all you like." Abby ordered pulling one of her arms over her shoulder helping support her weight, Abby half supported half dragged Sofi after Becker and Jess to the panic room.

"Matt?" Sofi managed to get out just as they reached the door.

"Him and Connor will be joining us in a few minutes." Abby answered once they were inside the room, Sofi felt herself being leaned against a wall before she let herself relax. The next thing she knew she could hear Matt's voice.

"Sofi? Sofia? Speak to me!"

"Matt?" Sofi called trying to sit up properly.

"No stay down there's going to be something similar to an explosion ripping through the ARC at any moment." Matt whispered in to her as he sat on the floor and cradled her on his lap in his arms. No sooner as he said that various parts of the panic room exploded in sparks, burying her head into his chest Matt's arms tightened around her. And then it was quiet.

"We're still alive." Abby announced sounding slightly shocked.

"Well don't sound so suprised." Connor added.

"Hey you can rest now." Matt whispered into her ear while stroking her hair, deciding she liked that idea Sofi closed her eyes again relaxing into Matt's embrace.

Blinking Sofi tried to get her eyes to focus, once they had she recognized to familiar room as the hospital.

"Hello sleepy head." Turning her head she saw Matt sat in a chair next to the bed.

"Hey, how long was I out? How's Jess?" Sofi asked sitting up with Matt's help.

"Not to long only a couple of hours and Jess is at home with Becker resting." Matt answered after giving her a quick kiss.

"Jess is the one who suffered a serious allergic reaction yet I'm the one in hospital, how does that work?" Sofi asked exasperated.

"Well for starters Jess isn't pregnant and secondly Jess has already been and left the hospital." Matt explained.

"Well when can I leave and is the baby ok?"

"You can as leave as soon as the doctors spoke with you, we were just waiting for you to wake and the baby is perfectly fine." Matt answered just as the doctor walked through the door.

"Ah Miss Bianco good to see you finally awake, how are you feeling?"

"Just tired really."

"Yes well thats to be expected. All that was really wrong with you is that your panic attack caused your blood pressure to raise dramatically and your breathing to reduce which caused you to faint. We've kept on eye on everything since you came in and everything appears to have returned to normal, you just need to make sure you get plenty of rest and fluids."

"Thank you." Sofi smiled to the man after he left to get her release forms she turned back to Matt.

"What happened after I fainted?"

"After I made sure you were definitely Ok I had to go back to the ARC, a lot of things came into the open with Connor he's agreed to help us fight against Phillip, he's given us so much useful information. This is it Sofi it's nearly over I can feel it. Soon we'll be able to just focus on our family." She could see the hope building in his eyes. She couldn't stop the grin that made it's way across her face. Soon they'd be able to focus on planning their wedding, for her to become Mrs Anderson, they could plan for the arrival of their son or daughter. She couldn't stop the tears that came to her eyes.

"It's nearly over." She whispered.

A/N Thank you for reading :D The next chapter should be up in a day or two! Hope you enjoyed!

Cammie x