"ABBY!" Danny yelled as he ran towards her just catching her as she clambered into her mini. "Here, let me drive you home."
"I'm fine, I don't need babysitting!" She exclaimed trying to pull the door closed but failing as Danny held firmly onto it.
"If you want to be there when Connor wakes up I best drive you home, you are in no fit state, your eyes are even dropping now" Danny argued.
"I need to see him!" Abby pleaded but to no avail as Danny pulled her from the car.
"You best lock that." Abby did as she was told and followed Danny to his car (issued to him by the ARC.)
Danny drove Abby home and they stayed in silence all the way, Abby's eyes dropping but flittering open when they passed over a bump in the road. Finally they arrived at Abby's flat just as she was about to retire to sleep. She shook herself awake got out of the car and let herself into her flat, Danny waited in the car and shouted a muffled goodbye and drove off when he knew she was safely inside. She kicked off her shoes and slumped into the sofa her head resting on one of the sofa cushions and fell asleep.
Connor carried on following the scuttle as he ventured further down the passage. He was going to catch up with it soon. Suddenly the scuttling stopped and he could hear a chatter of teeth. That ruled out an over sized insect, maybe this wasn't a good idea Connor concluded, but just as he was about to turn round and return to the others he fell to the floor with a thud and a sharp pain in his leg and stomach.
"Where has that boy got to? I swear he could still get lost if I gave him a map!" Danny said as he kicked a rusting tin can.
"That's possible," Abby smirked as she remembered the experience with the ventilation shaft when they were fighting fog worms.
"I'll go and fetch him," Becker huffed and he strolled in the same direction that Connor had walked in 10 minutes ago. When he was nearing to the car he heard groaning coming from the passageway. "Connor?" There was no answer so he decided to see what or who was groaning. "GUYS!"
"What?" Danny yelled following Becker, he wished he hadn't for what he saw when he found him made him sick to the stomach. Connor was laying on the floor in front of him blood pouring from his stomach, he looked like there was a mini earthquake happening just underneath him as he moved about on the floor.
"CONNOR!" Abby yelled, pushing past Danny. Danny hadn't realised that he had been followed, he tried to grab her as she raced past but missed and she flung herself to Connor.
"Connor…Connor… Talk to me, please!" She exclaimed stroking back his hair from his now sweating forehead.
"Go," Connor managed to stutter. "Go! It's still here!"
Abby woke with a start dripping with sweat. She sat up and shook herself trying to shake away the nightmare she had just had. Her eyes began to sting as tears formed and then fell to her feet. She couldn't hold it in any long, big sobs vibrated out of her stomach. She'd never thought about it before not this anyway. What if he never woke up, what if she had to decide to turn off the life support machine! What if she had to hold his hand one last time until he slipped away just like Nick and Stephen had? Who would be there for her when Sid, Nancy and Rex drove her to a tether? No one to say the wrong things at the wrong time, no one to get under her feet when she was in a mad rush. She couldn't loose him, not when she had just found him, not when she had just realised how much he meant to her. She had to see him, be there for him so she grabbed her coat and one of his hats and ran out of the flat.