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Sarah and Becker tried to walk calmly, knowing their friend was waiting for them. But Sarah couldn't contain her joy.
"Jenny!" She squealed when opening the door to Lester's office. Jenny embraced her warmly, glad to see her friend again. She shook Becker's hand professionally.
"Miss Lewis."
"Captain Becker, nice to see you again." She smiled at him.
"And you." Jenny gestured for her friends to sit down. Becker and Sarah both took their seats, Becker sitting down feeling a bit awkward, never being asked to sit for business before.
"Okay, we have a lot to talk about, there's some things you should know. First, why did I come back?"
"Why did you come back?" asked Sarah. "You made it pretty clear to Danny you had to leave."
"Well, after I left, I couldn't get the ARC, the anomalies, and you guys out of my head. After a few weeks, I sort of…continued working for you guys."
"What do you mean?" asked Becker.
"I was sort of…spying on the ARC."
Becker was shocked.
"How did you do that?" he asked. "It's impossible! Danny and I checked the security thousands of times and found no extra cameras or bugs."
"Yeah, you did a good job with finding Christine's bugs last month. Honestly, you don't think that working with Danny has taught me anything!"
"So you planted bugs in the ARC?" asked Lester to Jenny. "Please do tell us how you did that."
Jenny started to turn red as the blush crept up her cheeks.
"That's beside the point," she said. "Back to business, anyways the only reason I did that is because I learned that someone is trying to infiltrate the ARC by sending in a spy."
There was a pause.
"Now listen, this excludes NO ONE! The only people you can trust are Sarah, Becker, Lester, and I, and Abby, Connor, and Danny…if they ever come back."
Jenny could feel her eyes forming tears. First Stephen, then Cutter now Connor, Abby AND Danny. This was getting serious. She turned her attention to the floor. Sarah saw this action and got up from her chair and walked over to Jenny.
"Jenny," she said. "It's okay, now listen to me. We have to move on. If they never come back, we would have wasted our lives. You only live once Jenny, you need to make the best of this."
The made Jenny calm down at bit, but not entirely. You only live once, was one of the last thing Danny said to her before she left, before he disappeared… Jenny whipped the tears from her eyes.
"I'm okay," she said. "Alright, back to business. Now, listen everyone. From now on, I have not worked at the ARC before. I am a new recruit like this…"
"Ms. Anderson," said Lester.
"Actually, she likes to be called Melina," said Becker, "even though that's her middle name."
Suddenly, Sarah stood up and looked down at Becker.
"Oh and how would you know this Becker?" she asked.
Becker looked up at her, shocked at her outburst. Sarah then stormed out of Lester's office and down the ramp.
"What was that about?" asked Lester.
"I'll go check on her," said Becker.
Sensing something was going on between Becker and Sarah, Jenny jumped in.
"No, that's okay Becker; I'll go check on her."
Before Becker could protest, Jenny got up from her seat and ran out of Lester's office.
"Well, you sure botched that up didn't you Captain?" Lester said. Becker put his head in his hands thinking
"What did I say?"
Sarah didn't stop walking away until she got to her office, even though she could hear Jenny calling after her the entire way. She stormed into her office, not bothering to shut the door. She stopped in the middle of the floor and took a deep breath and sighed. Why was she so emotional, it's not like he was hers anyway?
"Sarah, what's going on?" She heard Jenny entering her office behind her.
"Oh, nothing," she tried to shrug it off.
"Sarah." Jenny said in a disbelieving tone, but Sarah didn't hear her.
"Sometimes I think he likes me, and sometimes I think he doesn't even know I'm there," she said more to herself and in more of a mumble.
Jenny raised her eyebrows.
"So...you have a thing for our Captain?" She let a small smile creep onto her lips.
Sarah sighed, having been caught by her friend. How come Becker couldn't read stuff like this?
"Why else would I have gotten upset over a stupid little reason like him knowing her middle name?"
She spat her in disgust. Jenny caught it.
"Is she really that bad?"
"Yes." Jenny logged this in her mind for further thought.
"Well, we can tackle this together; remember what you told me about Cutter? And I quote 'I think he's rather…HOT in an emotionally toxic don't come near me I'm a romantic disaster kind of way.'"
"Yeah, at least Becker's still here," said Sarah, but immediately regretted her words. A single tear slid down Jenny's cheek.
"Yeah," she said sadness clear in her voice.
Silence.
"Jenny, I'm sorry, I didn't mean..." She immediately was cut off.
"No, it's alright, I knew what you mean, doesn't matter anyway, he loved Claudia, and now he's gone, that's that. I'm never going to heal unless I put the past behind me. Now come on, you need to show me what else has changed since I've left."
Sarah smiled the pulled Jenny out of the office.
"Well, nothing really, compared to the BIG thing, everything else seems kind of small. I'm in charge of the Technology Department, as well as my original job, and call team, and anomaly history. In my spare time I'm trying to re-build Cutter's model."
Jenny smiled at the memory. She remembered coming into the office to find rods all over the office in loops and bends in every which way possible.
"That's true dedication," said Jenny. "I can give you a hand if you want."
"That would be nice," said Sarah, "but who we really need is Connor. If he was working on it with me, we would bomb it!"
"We would," said Jenny, "but I guess we'll have to do it on our own."
"Yes and only us," said Sarah. "If your right about the entire spy thing, then only we can be working on it."
"I agree completely."
"Now, Becker is in charge of the entire team as well as his soldiers, but we kind of combined those two together because of lack of non-solider call team, and he's in charge of the creatures that accidentally get left in our era. He finally got out of the habit of shooting all of the creatures."
Jenny laughed.
"So you and Becker have been running the entire organization on your own?"
"Well, with supervision from Lester, but all he does is the paperwork and PR profession ling, and let me tell you, he can NOT do it at ALL!"
"Then I guess I came at a good time."
"That you did."
"Well, Sarah, I've got to go get a medical check-up. Required for all new recruits." She smiled, and then prepared to leave, but Sarah stopped her.
"Jenny, do we have to keep calling you Lily Jackson? I mean, one of us could slip up, giving away your secret cover."
Jenny stopped to think about this.
"No, nobody's heard that name here, and a lot of people already know me, I guess there's no harm in calling me Jenny."
"Well good, because I know it would be me messing up your name." She grinned. "It's good to have you back."
"It's good to be back. Oh how I've missed it here. I thought I wouldn't, but I really did miss it. If only the others were here." Her smile faded.
"We've got to keep hoping Jenny, hoping and waiting."
"You're right, Stephen and Cutter came back after they were trapped on the other side of that anomaly, Connor, Abby and Danny can too."
Jenny waved goodbye and walked towards the Medical Bay for her checkup.
So...what did ya think? So, they are all re-united and everything is all swell and dandy, except for Sarah and Becker. Seems as if Melina may cause some DRAMA? This was sort of a filler chapter...but I hope you all enjoyed it! What are your thoughts? How did Jenny spy on the ARC? What does Becker feel about Sarah's outburst? How will it all turn out?Those who review get virtual cookies! LOL! REVIEW! Oh, and I'm going on vacation tomorrow morning. Most likely will NOT get a chapter up, but I will try. Next post won't be until Sunday...at least. Sorry for late notice.
~Logan ;)