Sarah looked up as the door opened.

She sat on her bed with her arms around her knees.

Her face lit up as she saw Becker but then another woman followed him. She leaned back again and stared at them.

"Sarah, I'd like you to meet Emily, I think you should listen to her story and maybe that will help you understand why there are all these rules."

Emily smiled at Sarah who just kept staring at her grumpily.

"Hello Sarah. My name is Emily. Well, it's actually Lady Emily Merchant. I was born in 1840."

Sarah suddenly straightened.

"What?" She looked from Emily to Becker who nodded.

"I travelled through a lot of anomalies, that's a long story actually…" but she started to tell Sarah everything. How she had lived with a few other humans in the cretaceous, how Ethan had dragged her through an anomaly which brought her here. "…it was a shock! I am still not familiar with all your inventions, like mobiles and let's not even talk about computers. So you see in my time I was engaged and I wanted to go back because this strange world frightened me! I wanted to live the life I used to live, marry my fiancé have kids, the usual stuff. So I was very happy when another anomaly opened and I could go home."

"Well, but you are here now, why?" Sarah frowned.

"I couldn't go on living my life because I learned too much about the future! I know it sounds strange, but it is true. I have seen how people around here lived. How the men treated the women, all these convenient inventions! My time suddenly seemed to be so gloomy, although I belonged there after all, didn't I? A creature had followed me, of course everyone thought it was a man committing all those murders, but I knew better and because of my knowledge they tried to lock me away. Thought I'd gone mad, well I can't blame them for thinking that.

Luckily Matt read in an old newspaper how I died and he wasn't ready to let me go, so he came after me and brought me back."

Sarah didn't say anything. This was crazy!

She stared at the other woman open mouthed.

Becker couldn't help but smirked: "Do you understand now why we can't tell you? It is too much of a risk! I want you to go back and be able to live your life just like you did before, without knowing the future!"

Sarah sighed. She kind of got the hint but this wasn't the future she wanted to have.

Couldn't she change it?

"Well it doesn't really make me feel better I mean Emily can stay now! What about me? I want to have another future as well! Am I allowed to stay?"

"Sarah…" Becker sighed but Sarah interrupted him.

"You don't want me to stay, right? Matt wanted Emily to stay, what if you wanted me to stay?"

Emily suddenly found herself in the middle of a war and felt so uncomfortable, but the other two seemed to have totally forgotten about her.

"Sarah you are being unfair! Emily came from a different time. When you go back you'll be fine, we are all going to be there! The decision is not up to me anyway! Matt always does what he wants to do, he is the team leader, I have to obey other orders, besides we all told him that he shouldn't!"

Sarah grinded her teeth. She knew he was right. She wasn't that stupid. This was just so frustrating!

She thought about her future plans, well the plans she originally pursued.

What was left of that now?

"This is about this Jessica, isn't it? Do you love her? Seriously?" How I wish we could just swap places…

"Sarah, are you jealous?" Becker was stunned. Emily slapped herself. He really is an emotional retard…

"All these years I thought I knew you, but this is not you! I can't believe this is you! I mean look at her, she is a young girl! I read her file! A young, computer genius with excellent marks."

As if Becker hadn't worried about that before, as if he didn't ask himself a thousand times if it would be right to go out with Jessica. Sarah was right she was young.

Sarah carried on:

"This is not the right place for her! Becker she doesn't belong!" But I do! If I could convince him that it's my place not hers!

Becker breathed slowly. His face was an indifferent mask.

Anger bubbled up inside of him.

Where did Jess belong if not here?

"I don't think that decision is up to you!" He practically snapped at her.

Sarah didn't know what to do: "Becker, I…" She took his hands but he drew away.

"What? You are not even defending yourself?"

On the way to the door the soldier turned around and simply said: "No!"

He was tired of explaining, convincing, justifying, doubting or arguing.

It was his life and only his!

"Please, let's talk about this!" He stopped and closed his eyes for a few seconds to steady himself.

He faced her: "Sarah I am sorry, but it is better for you to go back, believe me, it is! I swear that you are going to be fine!"

"But…" She tried not to tear up as Becker moved closer.

"Listen, this is just how it could be. It doesn't have to be like this." The woman squinted at him:

"You are lying!"

"How do you know? The life is full of choices, isn't it? I mean, I remember the day you went through this anomaly, but you returned just two minutes later. So…"

"What? You remember me going through the anomaly that brought me here?" Her hand massaged her head that started to ache. "Woah, this is all very confusing…"

"I know."

"Is this the proof that some kind of 'string theory' exists?" Becker actually chuckled:

"I have no idea! You should ask Connor about that."

He intended to leave again. "Becker? I am sorry."

"It's okay."

Emily silently followed after him.

The soldier groaned and rubbed his face.

"You managed that pretty well in there, I am impressed."

"Think so? I thought it was horrible, the worst thing that could have happened!"

"She did, well does, you know what I mean, love you." He sighed:

"I know."

"Do you really believe in the things you said? I mean, you prevented my death by bringing me back."

"Well, if Sarah stayed I am sure she would live, but who knows what that would do to the future? Who knows how much damage you have already caused?" He nudged her.

"Hey." Emily giggled. "However, what about that part that she can change the future if she goes back?"

"I really don't know, because that would mean that we would never have this conversation, right? But we are here right now, aren't we?"