Saving Connor Temple

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

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Sorry for the short chapter, but you will see why when I post the next chapter.

1993...

Together they arrived just inside the school playground before the fire had started. Carefully they went inside and hoped that no-one would ask any questions.

They checked the registers and found Connors class room. Together they looked for Connor and spotted him sitting at one of the desks at the back of the room. His hair was cut into a short and spiky hairstyle that Bertie frequently saw on her soldiers. It was a look that although looked cute on Connor, Bertie was not used to seeing on her brother's friend and she did not like it.
Danny and Bertie watched as 10 year old Connor got up from his desk and went to speak to the teacher in charge. They continued to watch as he left the classroom.

"Where do you think you're going?" Danny asked gruffly.

"Uncle John; wasn't expecting to see you here." Connor looked startled. He paused "I was just off to the loo."
Danny nodded. "I need to speak to your teacher." Danny let Connor continue on his way. Danny spoke to his teacher and told him that he was a policeman and needed to take Connor away with him.

Suddenly the air was filled with a piercing alarm.
The fire bell was ringing. All the children gathered together and calmly exited the building. At this point it wasn't clear if the building was really on fire. Danny gave Bertie his mobile number and told her to ring him should she see Connor. Unaware that it would not work in this time period. He went in search of Connor inside the building.

Danny found Connor laying unconscious in the kitchens. How he had got there was a mystery. He had been handcuffed to an open oven, his hair and clothes were wet. The oven was hot and burning paper had been left inside. The whole kitchen reeked of petrol, and Danny saw an empty canister laying on its side next to Connor. He pulled a face as he realised that Connor had been covered in the fuel. The paper partly covered Connor and if Danny didn't get him out of there fast, he would be burned alive. The flames had spread fast and stopped Danny from reaching the young boy.

Bertie appeared behind him and assessing the situation quickly she lay down on the ground and rolled towards Connor, extinguishing any flames that caught onto her clothes. Danny watched in amazement and quickly followed her.

Danny quickly turned off the gas to the oven but the paper still burned. The whole kitchen burned profusely, the flames were spreading and fast.

He grabbed a nearby fire extinguisher, and sprayed as much of the foam as he could. Unfortunately the extinguisher had not been checked and it was almost empty. Grunting he threw it to the ground in disgust.

"What now?" he questioned looking at Bertie.

"We have to get him out of here!" She pulled out her gun and fired at the handcuffs securing Connor to the oven.

Carefully Danny heaved Connor up onto his shoulders and ran through the flames.

Flames leapt up at them and some caught onto the bottom of Connor's trousers. Once Danny was as far away from the burning kitchen as possible, he pulled off his jacket and wrapped it around Connor's burning legs, putting out the flames.

Bertie joined them, the back of her jacket burning. She pulled it off and bashed it against the floor using an action similar to the women washing clothes in Afghanistan.

Danny stood up and ran a hand through her hair.

"You'll have to get that seen to."

Bertie winced; her long hair had been scorched in the fire, and would need to be seen to upon her return. Bertie paused; Danny's hand was still in her hair. Slowly his hand travelled further up to her scalp and gently he pulled her closer for a kiss.

They accompanied Connor to the hospital and once they knew that he was going to be ok returned to present day.

2012...

Once again, the whole team had gathered in Connors Lab, and once again, he tried to explain to them about his plan of changing the line of trajectory for the meteor. Once again the team occupied their original places. The only difference was that Jess had given Bertie an impromptu hair cut, and she now sported a neat bob.

Sniggering erupted from behind Connor. He had drawn a very crude picture of a meteor, the earth, and then he went on to explain the angles that the meteor was travelling in, and how they could use the anomalies to change the meteors direction. Unfortunately Connor did not see what was so funny. Until Abby explained that the various angles of trajectory looked like a huge tick above the earth.

Connor turned back to the board and saw what the others saw. He huffed and hung his head. Resigned he looked at Luke.

"Can't we just blow it up?" From his position against the wall and closest the door Becker wondered out loud.

"NO...! we mustn't do that at all!" Connor almost shouted. "The comet has little tiny fragments of the predators DNA in it. If any of those fragments were to fall to the earth then the world is doomed! Best thing to do is deflect it, send it back out into space!"

Luke smiled and he took over explaining to the rest of the team what his father had been trying to tell them for the last half an hour.
Luke took a marker in his hand and with the help if a few diagrams explained in detail what had to be done.

Whether it could be done was a different matter...

So the Team are now preparing to save the planet!

Will they succeed?

Or will they die trying?

Will Helen re-appear trying to kill Connor?

Have we seen the last of Ethan?

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