My Jecker muse is waiting for a more appropriate time to spring back to life (meaning it's being lazy) but this chapter had got plenty of Conby and Memily in it :D I like the Conby part the most though :D :D :D :D :D :D Don't own anything except the plot and a few minor characters :D
Enjoy :D
Connor stood watch just inside the entrance to the lab where Abby and Amy were working away trying to save the young therocephalian. He shook his head with a wide grin on his face as he watched the rain begin to fall just as Emily and Matt disappeared down the forest's walking track.
"That little con artist."
"What d'you say Connor?" Abby called at the sound of his amused voice.
He glanced over his shoulder at her with narrowed eyes and a grin that refused to leave. "Emily's such a con artist!"
Abby wiped the back of her arm across her forehead, wiping away small beads of sweat that had formed and smiled down at the unconscious creature. "How much you lose this time?"
"You guys bet on your friends?" Amy asked incrediously, looking back and forth between the pair.
Connor laughed. "Only two of them. We've had a long term bet going on about when they'll finally see sense and actually get together."
The three of them were quiet for a moment before Amy spoke up. "I'm guessing you lost that one too then?"
Abby laughed. "I like her. We could do with someone like you back in London. You'd fit in perfectly with the rest of us!"
"I'll consider it."
Connor sighed. "Now I have to try find twenty pounds..."
"At least it's not the hundred you owe Lester." Abby had to work hard to stop her hands from shaking as she laughed.
Amy's eyebrow raised in curiousity. "Who's Lester and why does he owe him a hundred pounds?" she asked, gesturing towards Connor with a slight tilt of her head.
Abby grinned. "Lester's our boss. What were the words Matt uses to describe him...?" she paused in thought. "Light on civilities, heavy on sarcasm pretty much sums him up. He doesn't usually place bets but he's been known to place a couple every now and again."
"Sound's better than my boss. I haven't even met him, and I've been here for five years." Amy sighed while she checked the creatures oxygen levels.
Connor's eyes narrowed when he saw someone walking backwards out of the forest where the anomaly was. He thought he'd seen something lurking around the area when he'd arrived there with Abby but she'd pulled him away before he had a chance to investigate it.
"Amy... you said you've been here for five year, right? So you'll know most of the other workers, yeah?" Connor called over his shoulder, his eyes never straying for the man that was now quickly retreating from the area with an expression on his face that Connor never liked to see.
"Yeah. What's wrong?"
"Do you know who that is?" Amy appeared beside him suddenly and followed where he was pointing.
She frowned. "That's Andy Smith. He works at the poolside bar by the Cove. Why?"
"Abby didn't you say someone called Andy invited Jess 'n' the rest of us to that bonfire?"
"Yeah." Abby called back in a slightly distracted tone.
Connor frowned. "I think he followed us from the bonfire..."
There was a sudden crash from in the lab and Connor rushed to see what had happened only to find Abby firing the EMD at the therocephalian, stunning it back into unconsciousness.
"What happened?"
"You killed it!" Amy gasped.
"Electro Muscular Disruption Weapon. Basically another name for a tazer. The creatures only unconscious." Abby replied calmly as she returned to stitching up it's wound.
"A tazer? So those... things aren't actual guns?"
"Oh don't worry they're wonderful really. Matt brought down a T-Rex with one of them. Pretty sexy stuff these are." Connor grinned as he stroked the EMD in his hand.
Amy's eyes widened to twice their size "Did you just say it brought down a... T-rex?"
Abby rolled her eyes. "Connor make yourself useful and go keep watch again. And tell Matt the creature should be ready to go through the anomaly soon."
He nodded and wandered back over to the door grinning from ear to ear as he spotted two people coming out of the forest. "Abby how much are you willing to bet that Becker will make his move in the next twenty four hours?"
Amy laughed quietly to herself when she heard Abby sigh dramatically beside her. "How much?"
"Four hundred."
Her eyes widened. "Connor that's insane!"
"Okay, okay. Two hundred." his grin never faltered.
"No deal Connor! You still owe me two hundred for that lamp you broke last week!"
He quickly looked over his shoulder "I thought I made up for that using a... different method of payment." Amy couldn't help but notice the cheeky look he gave Abby before looking back outside. "Oh and Matt just told me the anomaly closed a few minutes ago. They're all heading back to the hotel."
Abby sighed, gently stroking the creatures neck. "I guess Jess is going to have to call Lester and get him to bring down a private jet."
"Why does Jess have to call him?"
Abby rolled her eyes. "You know Jess is the only one that can really convince Lester to do anything against his will Conn. She could probably get him to agree to getting his toenails painted a bright green if she tried."
"Fair enough. So we're staying here for the night then?" Connor's yawn was right on cue as he wandered back into the lab. "Is there somewhere secure we could put this little guy until morning?"
Amy smiled. "Just through here..."
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Becker could feel a set of eyes on him and he carried a sleeping Jess out of the forest and towards the hotel. Thankfully it had stopped raining by that time which just left the warm air to slowly dry them both off.
Emily and Matt had to return the horses so they had ended up going the opposite way, leaving Becker alone with Jess again.
"You make a very good pillow..." Jess mumbled in her sleep as Becker got into the elevator, ignoring the look on the night receptionists face when she saw him carrying her into the hotel. "Very warm..."
Becker couldn't help the small smile that snuck onto his face. Before his mind had time to process what he was doing, he placed a feather light kiss on her forehead just as the doors opened on their floor.
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Emily quickly finished placing the EMDs back in her bag and mounted her horse effortlessly, laughing at Matt who was attempting his third try at jumping up. The second time he tried his foot had slipped out of the stirrup and he had ended up landing on his backside much to Emily's amusement. Matt's horse just would not stand still.
"Would you like some help?" she grinned.
"I'm fine, I've got it sorted..." Matt jumped up and swung his leg over, giving her a victorious grin before the horse moved unexpectantly, making him topple over on the other side with a quiet thud against the sand while the horse made a noise that sounded a lot like laughter. "Stupid horse."
Emily laughed herself as she slid off her horse and helped him up to his feet before turning to Matt's horse and attempting to talk some sense into it. "Now you listen here..." said said in a calm gentle voice. "This young gentleman would like to get on you. Are you able to to stay still for a few minutes while he does that? Please?"
Matt's eyebrow raised. "Oh you speak horse now, do you?"
Emily grinned when the horse bobbed it's head. "I believe he just said yes. Try getting on him again."
Matt cautiously put his foot in the stirrup and lifted himself up while Emily stroked the horses neck, her grin never leaving her face. She gently kissed the horses muzzle and patted Matt's leg as she made her way over to her horse. "Good boy."
"Me or the horse?"
"You'll never know." she tapped the back of Matt's horse and suddenly it begun galloping down the beach. She laughed at the slight squeak he made as he gripped onto the saddle for dear life.
"Emily! How do you make it stop?"
She mounted her horse and and casually trotted after Matt, stroking her horses neck while she watched him bobbing up and down on the horses back. "Wonderful creatures, horses are." she whispered before galloping to rescue her beloved 'gentleman'.
Hehe. The bit about Jess, Lester and the green nail polish comes from me and my homestay actually managing to convince my dad into letting us paint his toenails a few days ago... have not laughed that much in YEARS. Oh and I may be keeping Amy in as main OC but I'm not sure yet :D