Chapter 2
The journey to the ARC was quiet, there was only Matt talking to someone over coms breaking the silence. He told them we were on our way back.
It took 20 minutes to get to the arc. They piled out then walked towards a lift, the two without names had stayed with the anomaly.
"Come with us." Abby told you.
You nod then follow her to the lift. Matt hits the button to the 5th floor and the doors slide closed with a ding. When the doors open again you are meet by a room with multiple corridors and a glass room to one side. In the centre is a computer unit with a girl sat in a twist-chair, other than her there are a dozen or so people there. She turns around.
"hello, my names Jess. You must be Ti? Right. Well, welcome to the ARC, it's an anomaly research centre. If you come with me I'll sort out some clothes for you and food, you must be hungry."she says with an odd kindness to her voice.
"Jess, give her a moment." Becker sighs.
You cant help but smile and nod. "its OK,...I think i've seen this place before though. Well not the actual building,but the designs seem familiar."
"the designs were in the system along with the original ARC designs. Cutter had someone design a few buildings but we don't know who. They had the initials T.C. On them with a date but that was all." conner stated from the desk to one side.
T.C. The initials fit your own, but you decide not to tell them.
"you coming Ti?" jess asks. Becker sighs.
"Ye," you take one last look about before following her to the locker rooms where she handed you a pile of clothes – a plain grey top with ARC on, jeans and trainers.
"There we go, the showers are just there and i'll get you a towel now." with that Jess disappears.
You get showered and dress into the clean clothes. They fit well. After that you go with Jess to the break room where makes a cup of tea for both of you and gets some breakfast bars out of a box above the cupboards.
The two of you sit down and eat, the bars to some surprise were nice and by the time you had finished your second one you had a smile. She passes you a third and you go to put it in you pocket for another time, you remember going without food for days and you are not sure when you will eat next, but she stops you.
"Go ahead and eat it, we have plenty here anyway. We're not going to let you go hungry, Lester would kill us if we didn't care for you properly.
You smirk and start unwrapping the bar taking a big bite out of it.
"so where did you come from? Matt said you had always been running and didnt remember what there was before that." she questions you.
You freeze the minute she starts talking about your past and look at the bar in front of you, you no longer feel hungry. You don't answer, or do anything for that matter, you just stare absent-mindedly at the half eaten bar.
"You don't like talking about it eh? You'll have to tell us at some point and it cant be that bad. I ran away from my family, haven't heard from them since. Come on lets go see Lester and sort out what's going to happen to you." she stands up and you follow her uncertainly, not sure weather running now would help or just make things worse.
A.N. to the guest who reviewed, anomalies come in different sizes. the creatures that come through are different sizes too. i was surprised to see reviews when i only published this morning!