The sky is falling! The sky is--no, that doesn't make sense. So what happened? Will time go on? Will there be cosmic reverberations throughout the timeline?

My name is Bellalyse Winchester, and I have in fact seen the sky fall. Twice.

I am sooooo sorry I haven't updated any of my fics in a while! I've been working on my own (I actually do own them) characters in my own novel. Once I get the novel to a proper publisher Bellalyse Winchester will actually be more than just a figment of my imagination. I hope.

I doughnut own Primeval.

Chapter 9

Danny and Becker stood over the body of a cleaner clone--they had shot him on sight and suspected there were more that would be coming in.

Jenny and Lester arrived. Jenny clutched a tranquilizer gun (in her haste she hadn't time to grab a proper weapon) while Lester favored a machine gun.

"You all right with that?" Becker asked, and Lester scoffed.

"If you think just because I'm a civil servant I have no weapons training, you're an idiot," he said pompously. They looked to the floor and saw the cleaner but said nothing. Jenny stepped to the door, pressing her ear against it and listening. Finally she shook her head, stepping back.

"You can't hear anything, it's soundproof," Lester chastised. Jenny paused a moment, then held up a hand.

"Hold on--I'll be right back."

She darted out into another corridor and found a tiny conference room. Looking up, she saw a metal grate and smiled. She pushed a stack of chairs to the wall and climbed up onto it. Without a screwdriver, she used the silver zipper on her purse to twist off the screws and finally pulled the grate from the wall.

It was easy enough to get into the grate, though the stack of chairs she'd climbed up on toppled over behind her. She gritted her teeth, squashing the tiny feeling of claustrophobia she was aware of. If Danny could do it, she bloody well could, too. Even though it was rather difficult to crawl and carry the tranquilizer gun at the same time.

She crawled carefully and silently, peering through the grates every several seconds to see where she was. Over the hallway. An empty lab. An empty lab. The botany lab!

Abby was clutching a baby in her arms protectively. Some doctor was backed up against the wall, terrified. Sarah held a gun sheepishly, but it was Connor who held a gun to Helen's head.

"You don't think I can shoot?"

"I think anyone who can shoot without losing their head is psychotic. But then you'd have no knowledge that you destroyed your life, so that's a plus. Or that you destroyed your child's life."

Jenny watched the scene with wide eyes. What were they talking about? Connor seemed indecisive over whether to shoot or not. Jenny moved around, trying to get a good look at them, to see if Connor was about to shoot.

Suddenly the grate beneath her gave way, and she shrieked as she dropped out of the vents and onto a very surprised Helen Cutter. Connor looked from her to his gun in confusion, then gasped. "Jenny, the gun's not bloody loaded!"

Jenny would've laughed that Connor noticed that rather than the fact that she had just plummeted from the ceiling, but she had to be quick. She stood and grabbed her gun, and the look on Helen's face was priceless as the dart found its mark in her shoulder.

Connor found the key in Helen's pocket and, an arm slung around Abby's shoulder, he opened the door and they came out. Danny stared in shock at Jenny.

"You broke in?" he smiled.

"Through the vents," she said, looking up at him with a shy grin. "I shot Helen, too, with my tranquilizer--it turns out if we kill her, the course of history changes and it's very likely the ARC will have never existed."

Danny looked thoughtful a moment. "Jenny, I'm sorry--"

This time it was Jenny who forced him into a deep, passionate kiss. She grabbed the back of his head and brought it down into her lips, open and ready for him. He was hesitant at first but slowly he opened his mouth and drank in her excitement.

Sarah stepped over to Becker. "Captain--Jensen," she said quietly. She was afraid he'd get mad at her now not just for their fight but for calling him by his first name in public--he just looked at her with quiet, sincere hope. "Jensen, I'm sorry about what I said."

He looked away. "I can't blame you," he shrugged. "Everything you said was true, and I've just got to get used to it."

Sarah sighed. "Being trapped in a room with Helen Cutter puts things into perspective, a little bit at least. I just mean, I was quick to start to like you." Becker inhaled slowly. "But--I'm not sorry I fell in love with you."

Becker's eyes widened at that. "Fell--in love with me?" he asked in disbelief. Sarah had to laugh.

"Is it that hard to believe?" she said skeptically. "You're kind, funny, brave, sweet…."

"Hold that thought," Becker murmured as Abby and Connor walked over to them, Abby holding their sleeping baby in her arms. Jenny and Danny converged on them, and even Lester appeared.

"Do you have any ideas for names?" Jenny asked. Abby and Connor looked at one another happily.

"There's only one name we'd have, really," Connor admitted, placing a gentle hand on the little child's head.

"He really deserves this," Abby added, rocking the baby gently back and forth. "We thought…well, Connor, you say it."

Connor smiled , his ears reddening. "Well, we thought that we'd name the little guy Nicholas," he said, starting slow but almost babbling the last few words. "I mean, Cutter was like a dad to us, wasn't he?"

Jenny couldn't help but smile. Danny offered a grin.

"Now, here I was thinking you'd name the kid after me," he mock-whined. Abby beamed.

"Danny, our son has a middle name too, you know," she said. Sarah looked up at Becker happily.

"Nicholas Daniel Temple," the captain said thoughtfully. "I like it."

"Hey, Nicky," Danny said, reaching a finger out as the baby yawned. The child's tiny hand grabbed his finger firmly and he smiled.

"This kid's going to have about the best family ever," Abby said contentedly.

Wow. I can't believe I made it through all that. If you've made it through (including A Lot Can Happen on Vacation) give yourself a pat on the back.
Special thnx to Logan the Awesome, who has serially reviewed almost everything I've written on Fanfiction.
Thnx as well to all my other lovelies who have been reading my fanfictions. Though this story's over, I have more on the way.

XOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOXO,
Bellalyse Winchester