It was a quiet day at the ARC, many people were reflecting on what had happened in the past couple of weeks. Many of them had not really taken note that it was a real danger what they were doing, that one of them could get killed.

"Danny?" Becker asked sidling up to Danny who was working at his desk.

"Yes," Replied Danny giving Becker a quizzical look, when did Becker ever ask Danny any thing?

"What if he doesn't wake up?" Becker asked quietly sounding like he was embarrassed to even ask.

"Becker," Danny sighed, he had never really thought that Becker could need some reassurance; he hid his emotions well behind that stern face. "He will wake up he's a fighter, since I've joined the team he's had loads of scrapes and bumps and he's always pulled through perfectly. He's a fighter, he will pull through, and there's nothing to worry about. You know he's probably just relaxing, dreaming about star wars or something like that!"

"Thanks Danny. I'm not really used to situations like this." Becker huffed and walked away. Sure he was a soldier but he never really made friends with the people he was fighting alongside with and Connor was like a baby brother to him, even if he was a year older but that was in age not maturity.

"Hey Sarah." Abby said leaning onto her desk.

"Hey Abby, you feeling okay?" Sarah shot Abby a sympathetic look.

"Look I'm fine. I'm not the only one that cares about Connor you know. You don't have to feel sympathetic towards me. How are you coping?" Abby said putting on a brave face, her eyes were blotched red shouting out to everyone that she had been crying even though she didn't want to admit it.

"I'm fine. Struggling with the artefact but then it's going to take ages to crack it. It never is easy is it!" Sarah sighed holding the artefact closer to her eyes.

"You'll crack it even if it takes you until the day you get your pension." Abby joked with a strained smile at Sarah, she gave her a reassuring hug and left Sarah to her work.

"Hello are you here for Connor Temple." A young doctor asked looking towards a very tired looking Abby and Sarah.

"Yeah, how is he?" Abby asked sitting upright.

"He regained consciousness,"

"Can we go see him then?" Abby cut the doctor off.

"He regained consciousness after a while, gave us a little information mainly just his name and whether he had anyone to call. But then he lost consciousness again; he is not really in a good state at the moment. But he is stable!" The doctor tried to make the situation seem as positive as he could make it; he could see that the two girls in front of him were very worried.

"What are you trying to say?" Abby asked not completely happy with what the doctor had just said. The doctor shuffled from foot to foot he was obviously not comfortable with this; he was more of a work with the patients then the relatives or friends kind of guy. He briskly sat down opposite the two girls who glared at him waiting for an answer.

"Mr Temple has gained various cuts, quite deep ones, to his stomach and on his leg, some of these cuts have become infected so we are having to give him antibiotics for them. He is in a lot of pain. He has lost quite a lot of blood but we have finally managed to stop the bleeding, and I believe that the shock he has had is making it harder for him. He is having difficulty to breathe so we had to help him with that!" He was rushing his answer but he really wanted to escape, he hated doing this and to be honest he wasn't very good at it either. He was perfectly fine admitting that, he wasn't even sure that he was using the right words either.

"You mean he's" Abby asked but was cut off by the doctor who stood up quickly and backed away to the door, obviously wanting to escape.

"Yes, he's on life support, we don't know how long he's going to stay asleep for or how long he is going to need help. But he is stable at the moment."

Sarah could tell that he was uncomfortable and she felt sorry for him. "Thank you doctor," She said trying to help him escape to a more comfortable part of the job, whether being a doctor did have a more comfortable part. "Thank you for all your help."

"That's ok, I am sure he will be fine." He murmured as he left the room dashing back to working with patients, not relatives or distraught friends.

"He's not going to get better is he?" Abby wailed falling into Sarah's arms. Sarah rubbed her back rhythmically hushing quiet 'it's all right' to Abby's head.

Lester kicked off his polished black shoes after a hard day of paperwork at the ARC. Sure there hadn't been an anomaly but that didn't stop the paperwork coming in thick and fast. He had tried keeping his mind focused on the job. He wanted to get it all out of the way but he couldn't concentrate. It was unusual for Lester to have any emotions to his colleagues, which just wasn't him. But his eyes welled up when he noticed Connor's muddy shoes out of place in the shoe rack.

"Don't be so stupid Lester." He said rubbing a sleeve over his eyes and walking into the kitchen. But he wished he hadn't when he noticed the message on the fridge. Connor had decided that Lester's flat was too professional and so had decided to buy some magnetic letters so he could write a message to Lester every morning, no matter how much he had protested.

"Hey Lester!" was written on the fridge. "Sorry about the coffee, not my fault."

Lester let out a soft chuckle remembering the incident when Connor had decided to watch 'The strangers' alone. Jumping ten feet in the air and spilling his coffee all on the sofa. When Lester had come home he was met with the puppy dog eyes and a simple "Not my fault."

Lester soon scolded at himself he was meant to dislike that man not laugh at his idiotic jokes and his stupid adventures. He wasn't going to admit it but he really had grown to like having Connor around but that was a secret to everyone.

Danny and Becker doubled over out of breath when they finally reached the safety of someone's back garden and they hid behind the gateway.

"How are we going to do this?" Becker asked. "Abby doesn't want any of the creatures hurt."

"I'm sure she will let it past just this one time."

"Fine, but this doesn't go any further than this. We got the creatures safely through the anomaly without any injuries." Becker said looking at Danny.

"Ready?" Danny asked opening the garden gate.

"Yup," Becker said and walked out of the garden loading his gun with ammo. "Come and get it then!"

After a while of walking shots were fired and Becker and Danny sat on the floor surrounded by dead Compsognathus waiting for the car they had called for to arrive.

"You don't think she'll find out do you?" Becker asked.

"Are you scared of Abby Becker?" Danny chuckled.

"No!" Becker quickly answered. "I just don't want to get her anymore upset." He stood up and walked to an ARC car that had finally arrived.

"Right!" Danny said sarcastically. "There just round the corner if you want to put them through the anomaly, I think me and Becker deserve a rest." Danny said to the soldier that climbed out of the car.

"Yes sir!" He said and started to thrown the chicken like dinosaurs through the anomaly one by one.

The door to Connor's hospital opened and Abby entered sitting in the only chair in the room.

"I'm back, sorry for running out on you." Abby said gripping onto Connor's hand stroking his palm with her thumb. "I've only just realised what it would be like to lose you!"

"Yeah, who would do the washing up?"

"Connor," Abby shouted standing up so she was leaning over his face. "You're awake."

"I've been trying to talk to you for ages. I heard everything."

"Oh," Abby said pulling her hand away.

"No, please don't!" Connor croaked reaching out for her hand, which she placed back into his grasp. "Abby, I've always loved you."

Tears formed in Abby and Connors eyes. This was a big step forwards for them. Abby leaned forwards and placed a tentative kiss on his lips.

"Stay with me!" Connor said. "Please don't go!"

"I'll stay with you Connor." Abby said clambering into the small space beside him but Connor was already asleep with a small smile on his mouth. "I'll stay with you forever."

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