Saving Connor Temple

Sadly I do not own Primeval or its characters. However I do own Bertie Becker, Caroline Lester, and Luke Temple.

People are forgetting Connor... Why? You're about to find out...

Becker and Jess are in GRAVE danger in this one... Will they survive?

"Connor Temple... Who's he?" - Jess

"Who's Connor?" - Matt enquired.

"You remember Connor don't you?" Danny questioned.
"I remember Connor; he's the clever one with dark hair and brown eyes. He and Abby were the ones lost in the Cretaceous for a whole year!" - Bertie

Danny turned to Jess again. "Can you check this information again for me? Connor Temple, born 29th October 1983."

Horror gripped and clenched at Danny's insides as he learned that Connor was knocked over by a car when he was only four years old. He read and re-read the report of how Connor had died. He made a mental note of the date and time and vowed that he was going to stop it from happening. He shook his head. He knew who was behind this.

Helen Cutter!

Bertie had wanted to go with Danny on this occasion, but one thing stopped her. Her conversation with the Future Jess. Again she too had made a mental note of the date and time and knew that Ethan was going to show up and soon. This time he was going to kill Becker and Bertie had promised herself that she would stop him. She asked Danny to wait until the event had passed, and then she could go with him and help him.

Danny disagreed, the more time that passed with Little Connor in danger, the weaker that the Connor in the present time became. If they were not careful they could lose Connor completely. He told her that he would have to go alone.

Bertie agreed with the plan of action, Danny would follow Helen and Bertie would follow Becker. She knew that Ethan would show up and she would be there for him.

Danny donned his nineteen eighties attire. He was wearing skin tight jeans and a plain white vest along with a denim jacket.

He grabbed an anomaly opening device and went through. As he walked through he looked around him to ensure that he had not been noticed. He had arrived on the housing estate on which Connor lived. He went to find the house owned by Diane Temple. Since her discovery of her husband's infidelity she had divorced him and reinstated her maiden name.

Leeds 1986...

The Temple family lived on a quiet suburban road in the middle of Blackburn. The street was very typical for the northern part of the country, with streets and streets of terraced houses. This particular one was fairly quiet and most people worked in the textile mills nearby.
Danny watched as a little boy played by the side of the road. His thick mop of hair was neat and tidy for a change. It looked as if he had had it cut recently. He engrossed with playing with his toy dinosaurs and the little boy ignored him as he walked down the street.

He tried not to watch him too closely; he didn't want to scare the boy. Then he became aware of the little boy watching him. He smiled politely, and carried on watching the road.

Danny noticed the van coming closer and closer to Connor. He knew that it would not stop! Quickly he dashed across the road, grabbing Little Connor as he went. It narrowly missed hitting both of them. Danny had tried to glimpse the driver but had not been able to because the windows had been tinted. The little boy turned to look at his broken toys, and began to cry.

Danny took him to his mother, and introduced himself as John. He told her that he worked for the police, and asked her questions about her husband. Diane blinked several times and huffed before answering. She hated talking about her ex-husband. But she told him about her cheating husband. How someone had given her photographs of him in bed with another woman. She told him of how she had walked out on her cheating partner after only being married for five months, and had divorced Derek Leonard.

Before leaving Danny instructed her to look after her little Connor a bit better. Danny told Diane that someone was trying to kill him. She had a hard time being convinced until someone threw a brick through their front window. It narrowly missed little Connor who sat playing on the floor with his toy dinosaurs.

Diane became terrified for her son. Who on earth would want to hurt a little boy? Why would they want to hurt him? Her Little Connor?

From that day onwards Diane became fearful of her sons safety. She became very protective of him. Knowing that someone, out there, wanted to harm her little boy. She loved him, his grandmother loved him... and that was all that mattered.

Danny opened up the anomaly and quickly stepped through. He closed it again behind him.

2012...

Abby and Becker were sat next to each other in the menagerie talking about living arrangements. She wondered why she could not move in with him.

Becker held her close and looked into her eyes.

"You know I love you Abby," Becker brought his hand up to her hair and pulled her close. Abby's lips parted in anticipation. She sighed as his lips met hers. She tried to lose herself in his glorious kiss, but something was wrong... Something didn't feel right!

"I love..." Abby gasped, her eyes widened, "Connor!" she moved away quickly she ran to the infirmary. Becker was confused for a moment. Then he blinked, as he too began to remember Connor.

Danny stood at Connor's bedside as he came round. He heard trainers shuffling on the floor as Abby came running in.

Caroline checked his pulse and blood pressure. She couldn't understand why Connor's health was failing one minute, and why he was fine the next.
Luke in the bay next to him was suffering similarly. His hair and eye colour was fluctuating. One minute his eyes were blue and the hazel the next. One minute his hair was blonde, mousy brown the next.

Bertie stood behind Jess at the ADD Jess watched the CCTV as Becker leaned down and kissed Abby. She heard Jess gasp and saw the young girl run from her chair. She could not help but notice the tears beginning to leak from her eyes.

She continued to watch as Abby pulled away and ran out of the menagerie. She watched her brother as realisation seeped into his slow brain as to what had happened. She watched as his mouth fell and he too rushed out of the menagerie. Somehow she knew that he would come looking for Jess. This time he was in deep trouble and Jess would not be so forgiving.

Bertie waited until she heard his footsteps running down the corridor, turned and glared at him.

"Jess, where's Jess?" he looked at Bertie and waited open mouthed for a reaction.

"Jess was watching the CCTV, she saw you and Abby!" Bertie growled at him. "What are you playing at? You know how much she loves you!" she admonished.

"I don't understand myself! One minute it's Abby I'm in love with and the next, Jess. My brain refuses to function properly. My memories are a mess...! Oh, please tell me where Jess has gone?" Becker pleaded.

"Your memories are a mess because of Helen." Danny spoke coming up behind him. He had just left Connor's bedside. He had decided to give Abby and Connor some time alone together.

"Helen's trying to kill Connor, stop him joining the ARC."

"So how does that effect me?" Becker queried.

"When Connor doesn't join the ARC, Abby falls for Stephen Hart, when he died, you started. You were there for Abby when she needed a shoulder to cry on. So she fell for you! Without Connor everything changes!" Danny explained.

"So is there an ARC in the future?" Becker questioned.

"Only just! Without Connor there's no ADD - Jess comes along and does that. She's the brains behind the ARC - She's not as good as Connor, but good enough."

"But for the moment everything is ok. You'd better go find Jess."
Becker looked over to his sister hoping that she would tell him where Jess had gone to.

"She'll be in the locker room, probably crying her heart out!" Bertie chastised.

Becker ran and skidded to a halt outside the locker rooms.

"Jess!" he shouted.

"Don't. Come. Near. Me!" Jess howled. Tears still streaming down her face. How she hated him at this moment in time. How could he do this to her? How could he betray his best friends? How could he steal someone else's girlfriend? She tried to think of Abby's boyfriend... What was his name again...? Cain? Carl? Conn? Connor?

"How could you?" she picked up a can of hairspray and threw it at him. "How could you cheat on me like that?" she picked up a can of deodorant and threw that too. Becker tried to avoid the missiles that were being thrown.

"Jess ... Please ... Listen to me for a minute!" he dipped as a pretty, purple, high heeled shoe went flying over his head. He carefully edged closer.

"Why should I?" Jess shouted, pulling off the other shoe and throwing it at him. Becker ducked in time for the shoe to go sailing over his head.

"Because I love you Jess!"

Jess pulled out a pair of trainers from her locker and prepared to throw them. Becker took his chance and closed the distance between them.

"Jess I love you! I always have!" he caught her in an embrace. Jess struggled against him, but he was too strong. He caught her lips with his own and Jess melted as his tongue pushed past her lips and entered her mouth. She stopped struggling and put on hand on his back and the other hand went up to his hair. Her fingers caressed his soft locks. The other hand kneaded the muscles on his back as she returned his kiss.

"I love you Jess" he whispered against her mouth.

"Love you too." Jess whispered back. She cast her mind back as to why she was so angry with Becker.

"So what's with you and Abby?"

"Jess I don't know what's wrong with me." Becker spoke candidly and truthfully still holding her. He did not want to let go. "It's youthat I love." He paused. "Danny says it's got to do with Helen trying to change the past. She's trying to kill Connor." he paused for another moment. "It seems every time something happens in the past we all forget the part he plays in our lives. If Connor dies in the past, for some weird reason Abby falls for me and we get drawn together! I don't know why, I can't explain It," he looked into her lovely blue eyes. "I'm sorry Jess. You know I would never do anything to deliberately hurt you."

"It's ok. Now that I understand a bit about what's happening and why. Little bits seem to make sense now. Even my own memories are a bit jumbled."

They both heard a cough emanating from the doorway.
"If you've finished, we have a job to do." Danny spoke from outside.
Becker smirked and leaned down for another kiss. Danny merely rolled his eyes and groaned. He shook his head, "The Arc is becoming a hotbed of human hormones. Anymore and it's going to spontaneously combust!"
Danny shook his head again; he was beginning to sound like Lester!
Jess giggled. Becker grinned and arm in arm they began to leave the locker room.

Jess walked along the high street with a spring in her step. She was happy, after a very long time Becker had agreed to be her boyfriend. She sighed, the words Becker and boyfriend didn't belong in the same sentence together but somehow they were now a couple. A very happy couple she hoped. She began to hum as she bounced along the pavement on her way to meet said boyfriend and his sister at a well known coffee shop.

Becker and Bertie had arrived at the coffee shop early that afternoon and sat by the window waiting for Jess in their lunch hour. Becker, dressed in casual clothes for a change, had needed to get away so that he could talk to his sister in relative peace and quiet. The way in which she had appeared via an anomaly when she was supposed to be in Afghanistan, coupled with the message from his father that Bertie was 'Missing' unnerved him and he needed to talk this matter over with her.

"What's going on Bertie?" Becker hissed. "First of all you saunter out of an anomaly... When you're supposed to be on a tour of duty..., With Danny Quinn of all people! Then I get a strange phone call from Father saying that you've been listed as missing in action!" Becker growled. He needed to understand what was going on.

Bertie looked into her brother's angry eyes, seeing all the pent up emotion hidden behind them. She began to explain. It was true she had left her post, to investigate something strange and had found herself on the other side of an anomaly. She told Becker her story of how she had run into Danny, and the strange people he had been following. She neglected to tell him of the villainous plans made by the strangers. How it had lead to her wanting to leave her post to save the people that meant the most to her. She remembered meeting Jess from the future and how her sadness at having lost Becker had torn her apart.
"Some things are more important than the job, Haitch!" she leaned forward and whispered in his ear. Suddenly there was a loud scream from outside. A scream that sounded uncannily like Jess.

Becker leapt up from his seat and went to investigate. The captain's blood ran cold as he saw Jess being held with her arms behind her back. A man with ill fitting clothes held a gun towards Jess and was tearing at her clothes.

"Ethan... Let her go!" Becker shouted. He pulled a gun from the back of his waistband and took aim.
"If you want to see her alive... I suggest you drop your weapon!" Ethan ordered. He pulled Jess in front of him and held her in front of him using her as a shield.

Emotions tore at his insides as he listened to Jess scream. Not wanting to see Jess hurt, he complied, earning a maniacal laugh from his opponent. He watched as Ethan roughly pushed Jess towards a brick wall knocking her out. Slowly Ethan walked towards him, still laughing with a deranged look upon his face.

He held the gun in his hand pointed straight at Becker's chest. Becker blinked...

He wasn't wearing his bullet-proof vest!

Will Becker survive?

Will Jess be OK?

Will Bertie be able to make a difference?

Will she kill Ethan?

Will Connor get better?

Or will Helen interfere in his life once more?

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