Jess was thrilled by the fact that everyone loved her meal. She kept hoping that someone would ask who made it, since she didn't want to randomly boast about it herself, but the conversation was currently focused on what Jenny had been up to lately and Jess was fine with that too. At least Becker and Connor knew she had helped a lot with it.

They had all agreed not to talk too much about the ARC or anomalies or creatures during the meal, due to Abby's orders. Jenny said she'd moved on enough with her life enough that she was able to visit with them all and not dwell on Claudia Brown and Nick Cutter, but Abby suspected the topic might make Jenny feel a bit left out still. Jenny had told her that she'd been thinking about them all since her wedding when she'd realised how much she'd missed the team. She promised that she'd keep in contact with them more once she was back from Italy.

Finally, whilst helping himself to thirds, Matt said, "This is a terrific meal. You're a great cook, Abby."

"I didn't cook it; Connor did."

Emily looked over to Connor. "Thanks," she smiled at him, "It is truly delicious."

Matt and Lester, however, had dropped their forks and were staring at the food as though it would attack them.

"Wonderful," Lester spoke sarcastically, "My original team is trying to poison me."

Abby laughed, "Connor always cooks; I can't be bothered. He's good at it, yeah?"

Connor grinned, "Glad you guys like it, but I can't take all the credit; Jess made most of it."

This time it was Abby's turn to look surprised, though she didn't say anything. Lester reached over and helped himself to seconds. "Oh, okay, that explains it then. It really is good, Jess."

Jess blushed and tried not to laugh at the irony. She thought she should say something about how Connor had shown her what to do, but she couldn't with Becker sitting at her side. Connor gave her a subtle nod and smile across the table, letting her know that it was fine.

Jess stood then, "Glad you're all enjoying it, but save some room for dessert. We've made Cherry Cheese Danishes for you guys as well." She disappeared for a moment and returned, placing the tray of Danishes on the table.

Everyone eagerly grabbed one, though Becker groaned as he did. "You could've mentioned these before I had four helpings of your meal, Jessica. If I stuff any more food into myself, I think I'll explode." Despite his comments, he bit deep into the Danish and smiled at her, "Jess, you are truly brilliant."

Jess felt her face turn red again, "Connor helped though. I mean, I did most the work, but Connor was a huge help and they were his idea. But you don't have to eat it now if you're not hungry. I wouldn't really want you to explode. I mean, not just me, I'm sure the rest of the team wouldn't either. Not that you really would explode, but I wouldn't want you to have a stomach ache on my account either…"

He was giving her that look again and, for that matter, so was Jenny. It was Lester who finally interrupted her this time, "When you say "the rest of the team," surely you haven't included me."

Abby laughed, "Oh, Lester. We know you care about Becker too. Jess was right, none of us would want him to explode."

Lester grumbled something about staff who pretended to be mind readers and to his annoyance the entire group laughed.

When they had calmed down, Emily turned to each Connor and Jess and smiled at them in turn. "These are simply divine, you guys. They remind me of the food we'd have at a Victorian Tea."

"Tea!" Connor exclaimed suddenly, standing, "I should have offered you all tea. Let me put the kettle on."

While Connor made the tea, Abby cleared away all the dishes and Jenny helped her. Jess turned to Emily, "Do you miss the Victorian era?"

Emily smiled, looking at Matt beside her, "No. The company is much better here, but I do miss little dainties like these."

Jess nodded, understandingly, but was interrupted by Abby before she could respond.

"Alright, everyone! Connor's just pouring the tea and while we drink it, we're all going to play a game."

"And that's my cue to leave," said Lester, standing.

Abby was on him, pushing him back down into his chair by his shoulders, "Oh no you don't. My house, my rules. We need an even number of people to play this game."

Jess raised an eyebrow, "Technically, it's my flat, Abby. But it's fine, I rule that he plays too."

"I've been taken hostage by a group of mindless rabble, fantastic," Lester complained.

"Technically," Matt spoke up, "You'd still have even teams if neither myself nor Lester played."

Lester cast him a grateful look, but Emily wasn't having any of it, "You're both going to play. Now shut up so we can hear the rules."

"First," Abby began, "let's choose partners."

"I'm with Jess!" Lester and Becker both spoke quickly and in unison before glaring at each other.

Jess couldn't help but to blush again and smile. Jenny raised her eyebrows, "Wow, Jess…Not sure how you won both these two over."

Jess grinned at Jenny, "I'm brilliant; that's how." She glanced at Abby, "I'd like to hear the rules of the game before I choose between them. I'll pick my partner based on their specific abilities and talents and who I think is more likely to help me win."

"Is that not cheating?" Matt asked.

Connor entered the room and handed everyone their tea: Black for Becker, Lester and Emily, cream only for himself and Jenny, sugar only for Abby, and both cream and sugar for Jess and Matt. He didn't even have to ask.

"Whatever the rules are," Connor smiled, "I'm Abby's partner."

"And I'm with Matt," Emily said.

"So…no one wants to pair with me, then?" Jenny asked.

"Oh gosh, I'm so sorry, Jenny! You're the guest of honour; we should've all picked you!" Jess exclaimed.

"It's okay," Jenny laughed, "I was just teasing you."

"Still, it wasn't right. I'll be your partner," Jess promised.

Becker and Lester frowned at each other, knowing what that meant. "You can't be serious," Lester complained.

Abby laughed, "She is. Becker, you're with Lester. Okay, now, here are the rules: One person will be blindfolded and given a piece of paper and a pen. Their partner has to tell them how to draw a picture of an object, but they can't name the object. They can only use directions such as "draw a circle, now move the pen an inch left and draw a small rectangle," etc. The object will be chosen by the three teams whose turn it isn't and whispered to the instructor. Then, the person who is blindfolded has to take off the blindfold and guess what they drew! If they get it, the team whose turn it is gets three points. If they don't, all the other teams get one point. We go until every person has had a turn to draw and the youngest member of each team draws first. Got it?"

Everyone nodded. Abby chose a number in her head and got Connor and all the others to pick and see who got the closest to decide who would go first. Emily won and looked at Abby, "Okay, what do I blindfold Matt with?"

Matt looked at her, "You mean, what do I blindfold you with. I'm older."

"How is that possible? I was born hundreds of years before you."

Matt hesitated, "Yeah, but I've spent more days alive then you."

"I was in my twenties and you weren't even born yet. That makes me older."

"Not necessarily!"

"I'm sure it does."

"Abby?" The both said in unison, looking to her for an answer.

Abby stared at them, looking just as puzzled. "Okay, maybe youngest goes first won't work this time. Umm… let's go with alphabetical order instead."

Matt grinned at Emily, "Ha, you get to be blindfolded first."

Emily looked at Abby, "You meant by last name, right? Anderson is before Merchant. I get to blindfold Matt first."

Connor stepped in, "You guys! This is a game, everyone is going to have a turn. Someone please just blindfold someone!"

Emily walked up to Connor and stared at him, hands on her hips, "We can't. We still don't have a blindfold."

Abby sighed and left the room, returning a moment later with a black sleeping mask that would work perfectly. She handed it to Matt. "First names. Matt blindfold your partner."

Emily scowled and Matt reminded her that it was she that had insisted on them both playing.

At that, Emily cheered up, "Okay, you win. You're right. I just wanted to win this argument that's all, but I guess we're supposed to be a team. Go ahead, blindfold me."

Matt did so and then put the pen in her hand and placed her hand gently on the edge paper so that she could feel where it was. Then he placed her hand at the centre of the paper and looked at the others.

"Uh, guys, what am I telling her to draw?"

The rest of the team quickly whispered together and then Abby whispered something into Matt's ear and he grinned and started giving Emily instructions. They worked quite well together. Matt's instructions were very detailed and Emily was an artist. When she finally pulled the blindfold off, she easily guessed that Matt had had her draw a barn and fence around it.

"Three points for Matt & Emily," Abby announced.

"Us next!" Connor grinned, "Come here, Abby."

She stepped close to him and let him blindfold her and set her up at the paper while the others whispered together. Jess then whispered to Connor what this object was and he started to bark orders to Abby. Abby's picture was not nearly as good as Emily's had been. She didn't have the patience to wait on some of his instructions and started drawing what she thought he would say next, resulting in a lot of half lines covering the actual picture. She frowned when she looked at it, but then her face lit up. "I don't care how bad my drawing is, I'd recognize that shape anywhere. It's Rex!"

Connor grinned and gave her a high five. Then Jess blindfolded Jenny. They actually did quite well picture-wise, but Jenny turned out to be not very good at guessing games. "It's a bunch of triangles," she concluded. Jess groaned, "It's the pyramids in Egypt!"

"Oh."

Becker grinned, "Alright, one point for Lester and I, Matt & Emily and Connor and Abby are up to four and you guys have nothing!"

Jess glared at him, "Still early, Hilary. I bet that, regardless of who wins this entire game, Jenny and I will come out with more points than you and Lester."

Becker raised his eyebrows, "I'll take you up on that bet. Shall we make it interesting?"

"What'd you have in mind?"

Becker glanced at the others and then whispered into Jess' ear, not wanting them to hear in case she turned him down, "Winner gets to choose the movie on Saturday."

"What movie?" she whispered back.

"The one we watch after you make me dinner."

Jess blushed and grinned and stuck out her hand to shake his, "Deal."

The others were all watching curiously. "What the hell was that about?" Lester asked, before taking back his question, "Never mind. I don't think I want to know."

"Good," Becker laughed, "Because we're not telling you."

"Will you tell us one thing?" Jenny asked with a grin on her face.

Becker looked at her, questioningly.

"Did, uh, I hear right? Your name is Hilary?"

Becker glared at Jess and ignored Jenny. Jess would've been upset by his glare but she was too giddy to care. He'd asked her to stay longer and watch a movie with him. That was almost like a date, right? This night was going way too well. She suddenly felt a hand on the small of her back and glanced up to find Connor at her side, staring at her questioningly. "I'll tell you later," she mouthed to him, knowing he wanted to know what Becker's bet had been. He nodded and moved away quickly.

"Alright," Lester grumbled, "I guess it's our turn."

"Right," Becker said, "And you better give me some good instructions, we have to win this now." He snatched up the blindfold and put it on himself. Abby whispered Lester's instructions into his ear and he started barking out commands in the same tone he used at work. When Becker took the blindfold off, he immediately grinned at his picture, "So easy! It's a tank! Four points for us and… what's that? Zero for Jenny and Jess?"

Jess frowned, "That wasn't fair. Becker's always thinking about tanks, of course he got it."

Becker laughed, "You guys picked the picture!"

Right. Jess had no response for that, so she shut up. Emily blindfolded Matt next and Matt's art skills turned out to be terrible. Emily groaned as he drew circles when she said ovals and rectangles when she said squares and made his one inch long lines six inches long. He took of the blindfold and stared, "It's, uh, a piece of art by Picasso!" he guessed jokingly, knowing he'd never really figure it out.

"It was a playground," Emily said.

"Five points!" Becker exclaimed.

"Same for us," Abby grinned at Connor.

Jenny smiled at Jess, "And we're on the board with one."

Next Abby blindfolded Connor. The picture was about average, but Connor couldn't guess it. "A mushroom?" he finally said after a long pause.

Abby screwed her face up, "No, it was meant to be a parachute."

"Oh. Sorry, Abs."

"Alright," Lester said, "So Becker and I are at six points, Abby and Connor are at five, Matt and Emily have five now as well and Jenny and Jess are at two and it's their turn."

"We've got to get this," Jess whispered to Jenny. Jenny nodded and blindfolded her friend. Jess was pretty good at art and it went well. "It's a rose bush!" she exclaimed and Jenny nodded.

"Ha!" Jess grinned, staring at Becker, "Five points for us now too!"

Becker shrugged, "Lester and I have six and it's our turn."

Lester put the blindfold on while they conferred and then Jenny whispered to Becker what he had to make Lester draw.

It was a hard one, but Becker gave him the best instructions he could. Lester was a horrible artist, but Becker's instructions were so detailed that it really made up for it. Lester stared at the paper for a bit and then suddenly smiled, "It's Abby's mammoth!"

"YES!" shouted Becker, "We win!"

He grinned at Jess, "Take that, Jessica."

Jessica shrugged and tried to look offended but, to be honest, she was still too excited that she was going to be watching a movie with Becker to care what it was. Anyway, now that she thought about it, it was probably better this way. Now she wouldn't have to be all flustered while she tried to pick a good film that he would like. She stretched out her hand to shake his again, "Congratulations," she told him sincerely.

"And with that," Lester announced, "I really need to go home. The rest of you should too, who knows when we'll get another alert."

They all nodded and said their goodbyes at the door before Lester, Jenny, Matt, Emily and Becker left the flat and then Jess said goodnight to Connor and Abby and headed to her room.