Okay! I've been debating how to do this and I've gone for- well read and find out I suppose! :P

Hope you enjoy!


"I said 'quiet.'"

There was silence. "Good. Now, only one person speaking at any time. Does anyone have a question?"

"No-one said they think I'm sexy."

Abby was showing early signs of Weepy-Hysterical Drunk.

"I have one!" Sam threw her arm in the air to get Matt's attention, in her I'm-Not-Drunk drunkenness she accidentally hit Becker around the head. "Sorry Becky Boy. Okay, If you had to- OOH KARAOKE!" The girl's head spun around, looking over to the slightly raised platform where the entertainment system had been set up.

Matt face palmed, "and she says she isn't drunk."

"I'm NOT! See look. I can touch my nose!"

She missed.

Epically.

"Hey! Hey! It's the Thunderbirds song! I LOVE THIS ONE! I think it should be the theme tune for the team. What d'you think Becker."

It was obvious from his face that he was thinking about the knife stowed away in his shoe. Sam didn't read the expression and continued to make her point- with a surprisingly good voice for a drunk girl.

"Kids are learning fast, they know the ARC team kicks some ass. Be sure that there's no coming last when you're on their side, THERE SIDE. It always looks so cool when things come from the shiny ball, you know that you'd just be a fool to be a monster, MONSTER!

"See it's great isn't it! It works SOOOOO well! Ooh that's a good question! What song reminds you of each person in the group?"


The next morning Jess was slouched in front of the ADD, screens dimmed and large sunglasses on. The anomaly alert started to blare and she swore loudly.

Directly into her ear came a chorus of laughter,

"She swears like a weathered sailor!"

"Someone can't hold her drink."

"I told you to take a paracetamol!"

Not only was the main ARC team talking but the rest of Becker's soldiers were happily throwing in comments.

"Do you want me to help with this or not. It's at- Wait a second-" She tapped at the keys for a few seconds, "it's gone. It's already closed."

"We should still get people down there. You never know what may have come through in that time."

"Sure thing, Becker." Jess relayed the location the anomaly had been and Becker sent a team of his men. Staying behind himself as he felt it was low priority anomaly- if a larger or more serious one came along it would be better for him to be at that one.

"Urgh. I think we should take our breaks a little early."

Jess's tone of voice made it clear it wasn't open for discussion. The team raced to the break room so they wouldn't induce the wrath of the field co-ordinator. to please her.

"Allright. Here're your teas."

"I want coffee."

Sam looked at Jess in surprise. "I didn't know you like coffee."

"I hate tea. I just never told you because you always make it and I didn't want to upset you."

The soldier girl sighed, poured the tea down the drain and started to make Jess's coffee.

"It goes against every bone in my body to make coffee, the terrible thing it is. Offends my sensibilities." The soldier girl mumbled as she searched through a cupboard for a jar of coffee. "You'll never guess what I found in my bag earlier." She called over her shoulder to the others.

"I would."

Despite the fact they were all teasing Jess for being a lightweight, Matt was the only team member who wasn't suffering any side effects. Sam had been sick the night before when she returned home, Becker was unable to take bright lights- another reason for him avoiding the anomaly site- and Connor and Abby were still hurling abuse at inanimate objects. Emily hadn't even shown up to work.

"What did I find then, Matt?"

"Many things. But I want you to read the second page in your notebook."

It was one of the things that Sam did, wherever she was she always had a notebook and pens.

"My notebook? Then what are all the scraps of paper?"

Matt laughed loudly. The team started at the noise, the main reason was because it hurt their heads, the secondary that they weren't used to the sound.

"We'll save them until later. They're an answer to a question. I want page two."

"What's on page one?"

"Later!"


Now, there are a few reasons why I chose to do it this way.

1. I wanted to give you a chance to answer the question (I've made up my mind mostly what songs for each person from each person- confusing sentence much!)

2. If I stopped after the Thunderbirds bit it would have been very short.

3. I'm going to love writing the rest of "The Morning After"

Let me know what you think!

Thanks.