One Year Later

"Cameron!" Lester's furious shout echoed throughout the corridors

The seventeen year old tech genius flinched as her boyfriend smirked at her. Cameron Kirk had been a member of the ARC team for the past twelve months, eight of those months she spent with her very first boyfriend Captain Hilary Jason Becker although her preferred Becker or Jason.

Cami glared up at the captain with a pout on her lips. But the captain just continued to smirk with raised eyebrows.

"You want a head start?" he smirked mischievously

Cameron glared up at her boyfriend playfully and without even giving him an answer she took off in the opposite direction of the angry Lester. She screamed/squealed in surprise and shock when a pair of arms laced around her waist pinning her to her boyfriend's chest as he chuckled.

Becker kissed Cameron's forehead then turned her around lifting her over his shoulder into a fireman's lift.

"What'd you do this time?" he asked her curiously with amusement evident in his voice

"I switched his conditioner with hair-dye and left before he even realised" she mumbled

Becker snorted at his girlfriends usual antics, over the past twelve months the bolts loosened on Lester's chair were just the beginning of the teenager's pranks, she'd even pranked Becker at one point which in turn showed Lester that Becker was fast enough to catch the trouble maker.

"Why does he always send you after me?" Cameron sulked

"Because he can actually catch you" A voice snarled from behind her. "Unlikely anyone else here"

Cameron looked behind her to see a very angry and flustered James Lester with a glare that would even scare a G-Rex however instead of having any amount of pink in his hair he had his natural brown hair.

"Why hello James, How has your morning been?" Cami asked politely and happily

Lester growled at her again as Becker put her down on her feet, she turned around to face Lester and smile a little as Becker's arms laced around her waist.

"Not very well Miss Kirk as you most likely know" he growled "you, young lady are very lucky that I have a meeting to go to so that I can calm down. Just to let you know You. Are. Grounded"

With that Lester spun around and stormed out of the main hall towards the elevators followed by the eyes of most of the staff who knew about Cami's living arrangements which had become public knowledge due to the lectures Cameron constantly received.

"What did you do this time?" An Irish voice asked from behind them.

"I got to go check on my men" he whispered lightly in her ear, he then gave her a light kiss on the cheek and walked off leaving Cami with Matt.

"Hey Matt" she greeted cheerfully "I switched his conditioner with pink hair dye last night, then left before he could realise,"

Matt looked at her shocked and scared then he slowly placed his hand on Cameron's shoulder then her head causing her to roll her eyes.

"You have a death wish" he told the teenager

"I chase and capture dinosaurs for a living" she stated obviously.

Over the past year Cameron had gained her a family, an actual family, Matt had become like an uncle/brother, he took care of her if she was injured and on more than one occasion reprimanded her for her trouble making skills as well as her lack of listening.

Jess was like her sister always helping her with fashion and boys and Becker, well Becker was her boyfriend, they'd gotten close over the first few months since he came to admire her after her statement about leaving once the original team came home. In the end he'd kissed her after she'd gotten hit by a dino's spiky tail.

Then there was Lester, after a month of living with him and pranking him Lester had had enough and jut grounded her which caused a father/daughter bond to form.

One thing was all that Cami had ever regretted with gaining her new family and that was he slip up one night after one of her really bad nightmares.

Flashback

Cameron was running, running away from the shadow behind her, the five year old gasped as she saw the shadow growing more prominent and getting closer to her.

The little girl hid under her bed and held her breath with her eyes closed hoping that she wouldn't be found by the bane of her nightmares, she began to cower as her bedroom door opened slowly and footsteps on carpet sounded in her ears.

Then Cameron screamed as a vice like grip grabbed onto her ankle dragging her roughly out from underneath the bed.

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A sixteen year old Cameron shot up with a scream as she began to sob into her hands.

Lester ran into the room and sighed as he saw Cameron crying covered in sweat tangled up in the blankets. He carefully walked over to the bed and sat beside her.

Cameron sensed a presence beside her and threw her arms around whoever it was but was soon disappointed when she couldn't find the familiar scent of her big brother.

"I want my brother" she whimpered "I just want my brother"

Lester tensed in shock, he had never knew that Cameron had family, she'd told him that her parents had die when she was nine but she had never mentioned a brother to him and neither had her file.

Cameron was soon pulled out of her thoughts when she heard alarms going off around her. She quickly ran over to Jess to see that the screens showed a Dracorex wandering around the corridors.

"It was an accident" Jess gasped distressed as she tried to relocate the creature on the cameras.

Cameron nodded and squeezed the computer technicians shoulder reassuringly she then watched in alarm as the men tried to corner the creature, Cameron started up to Lester's office and then froze as the Dracorex came out from behind her, Cami could feel the creatures breath on her neck.

Suddenly the elevator behind her chimed and she heard Lester making a comment but then he froze when he saw the creature.

"Cami move forward slowly" Lester said softly then he glared at Jess whose heels were clicking on the hard floor which was distressing the creature behind Cameron.

Then Becker, Matt and everyone else came into the little foyer and all froze when they saw that Cami was helpless right in front of the creature that was until Matt grabbed the top of the water cooler and coaxed the creature into Lester's office.

"Not my office" Lester protested

Cameron snorted which cause Lester to clip her across the back of her head quite hard.

"Hey" Cami protested with a pout.

She was shocked suddenly when Lester pulled her into a hug which she returned hesitantly.

"Next time Cameron try to keep out of the way of dangerous creatures" he told her as he pulled away from her keeping her at arms length

"What's the point of me having this job then?" she asked cheekily which caused Lester to roll his eyes at her and walk off

Becker suddenly pulled Cami into a hug which she didn't hesitate in returning; when he let her go he kissed her lightly on her lips and returned to continue a conversation with Matt.

"See if we had the new guns this wouldn't have happened" Matt boasted to Becker

"You mean the toy guns" Becker drawled

Cameron rolled her eyes at the pair and smiled at Jess who smiled back with relief in her eyes.

'talk later' she mouthed to Jess who nodded

Cami smiled again and walked off to the menagerie where she was soon joined by Rex who landed lightly on her shoulder.

Rex has belonged to two of the old team members Connor Temple and Abby Maitland so did Sid and Nancy. Rex was quite temperamental when it came to humans, ever since Abby and Connor had disappeared, the only humans he liked were Lester and Becker but they were really surprised when Rex took a liking to her instantly.

The alarms suddenly went off causing the resident creatures to get scared, Cameron run out of the menagerie and caught a hold of one of the military officers.

"Tell Becker I'll stick here today got it?" she ordered

The man nodded and ran off so Cameron ran back into the menagerie to try and calm down the animals with two other technicians, in the end Cami went into the cell with Manny the mammoth who calmed at Cameron's touch as did the Sabre-toothed tiger who liked Cami because she looked after it when it got injured gaining its trust.

Once all the animals were calm, she left the menagerie and went into her office where she placed her earphones in and turned her music up loud, she then started to work on her plans to build a computer database which would catalogue the dinosaur encountered as well as the time, date and place where the anomalies appeared with the era of that anomaly too.

She suddenly jumped a meal with a scream as she was brought out of her work by a hand being placed on her shoulder. When she looked up and pulled out a headphone she glared at her other half.

"Hilary Jason Becker" She scolded "You almost gave me a heart attack"

Becker grinned at her and raised an eyebrow at her "Using my full name huh?"

Cameron was suddenly off her chair and over the Captains shoulder once again as he carried her out of her office towards the main room.

"I want you to meet some people" he told me.

"Captain Becker I order you to put me down right now" Cameron demanded hitting his back lightly.

"Uh oh" Matt groaned

"Miss Kirk might I remind you that I am still your superior tech genius or not" Becker growled playfully.

"well captain, maybe I'll just announce your full name to he witnesses in this room" Cami retorted

Becker suddenly put Cameron down and scowled at her, Cami smiled lightly at him and went up onto her tiptoes to kiss him lightly on his lips which caused him to blush slightly as they heard a wolf whistle from behind them.

Cameron turned around to look at the new comers and froze as her gaze landed on the young man who also froze.