One

Connor Temple was bored. He was swivelling around his chair next to the ADD.

'Connor !' Danny Quinn's voice called out, Connor looked up and saw Danny standing outside Lester's office.

Reluctantly Connor got up and ran towards Danny.

'What do you want?' Connor asked.

'Lester has just informed me of a creature attack and two deaths. Can you tell me why the detector hasn't picked up an anomaly?'

'But, but it's been on all day, all the time even, it's never turned off so it would of detected the anomaly' Connor replied, confused that the detector hadn't picked up the supposed anomaly.

'Check it, double check it. I'm going back in there, he's not in a very good mood at the moment' Danny said before turning around and opening the door to Lester's office.

Connor ran back down the ramp and started running the system check on the ADD.

Just as the detector was almost finished with the first system check was half way through completion Abby Maitland walked through the ARC with two cups of coffee.

'Taa' Connor said as she gave him one.

He gulped half of it down before turning back to the detector.

Abby smiled down at her former flat mate, she hadn't even asked where he was staying, some friend she was.

'So' Abby casually said 'where are you staying now?'

'Lesters'.

'Lesters?' Abby said incredulously.

'Yeah' Connor replied distractedly. He looked at the results of the diagnostic check.

It had been on all the time.

There was nothing wrong with it.

Sighing Connor restarted the check.

'Connor' Abby said.

'Yeah' Connor said after gulping down the rest of his coffee.

'Doesn't matter, I'm gonna go get something to eat, want anything?' Abby said as she started to move towards the doors.

Connor ran ahead of her and blocked her exit forcing her to look up at him.

'No, what is it' he asked gently.

'It's nothing, honest' Abby replied not looking into his eyes.

How could I tell him? 'Well Connor, you know that anomaly that wasn't detected? Well it wasn't detected because I turned the detector off'. No she couldn't, it wouldn't do the situation she was in any favours.

'Just drop it Connor' Abby said as she pushed past him and went through the doors.

Connor went back to the ADD and sat down What's gotten into Abby today? He thought just as the ADD system check had come up clean for the second time. Sighing Connor said 'I wonder if it's been turned on and off?'

He quickly tied a couple of commands across the keyboard and found that it had been turned off.

Now if he could just get into the CCTV he could find out the culprit.

Unfortunately for Connor the ADD went off a fraction of a second before he found out who the person was.

His fingers whizzed across the keyboard as he found out where the anomaly was.

He located it in a matter of seconds and was standing up ready to go when Danny approached him.

'Right lets go' he said.

'Danny?' Sarah Page's voice rang out as she entered the main room of the ARC 'can I come?'

'Yeah, come on then' Danny smiled.

They joined Abby and Becker at the car.

Becker had claimed the front seat before Connor had even thought too leaving him in the back with the girls and Danny was driving.

Once they reached the office, which was empty due to it being a Saturday, they unloaded the locking mechanism and cocked the safety off their guns.

'According to this' Connor said 'the anomaly is somewhere in the basement'.

After they had got the rest of the guns out of the boot they made their way towards the office block with Becker carrying the locking device.

Sarah had declined the offer of a gun so opened all the doors for the team.

She still remembered the last time she used one, she shuddered at the memory of Samuel's face.

Becker went in first and was shortly followed by Abby, Sarah who was holding the doors open for Connor and Danny.

Abby was feeling uneasy about the task ahead of her it will all be over in less than an hour so stop thinking about it she kept thinking to herself. Sighing she thought well no time like the present to put phase one into action.

'We should split up' she said 'that way we will find the anomaly quicker and any potential creatures that came through'.

'Good idea' Danny replied 'right Connor you're with me, Sarah go with Abby and Becker would you mind going on your own?'

'Not at all'.

'Good, right meet back here in 10 minutes unless you've found the anomaly' Danny said before turning to take the left corridor.

Becker then turned to take the right one leaving Sarah and Abby to take the one ahead of them.

'Come on' Abby smiled at Sarah 'let's beat them to it'.