Pointing the gun at her was a slightly younger looking Captain Becker. His eyes held no recognition and his mouth was set in a grim line.

Today, thought Jess, is going to be a long day.

Becker kept her still with a fixed stare and his gun never wavered from it's aim at her chest. With a jerk of his head to the soldiers behind him, one of his men ran forward and performed a quick search on Jess for concealed weapons; only once he declared her clear did Becker lower his gun.

"Right, we need to get her back to the ARC. Someone close up the anomaly." Ordered Becker as he turned to one of the black clad soldiers who was bent over what Jess recognised to be an early prototype of the anomaly locker.

"No need, sir." Replied another soldier (Jess didn't recognise him either, in fact she was wondering just how many soldiers were needed for one organisation) pointing to the anomaly behind Jess. Sure enough it had begun to fluctuate in a way that Jess had come to realise signalled the end of an anomaly life span.

As she looked at the anomaly she was struck by the sudden desire to just leg it through and damn the consequences. The world on the other side of the portal was already beginning to look preferable to this one.

Jess stared morosely at the flickering portal before she realised that something seemed subtly off about it. She was obviously not the only one to realise for at that moment Captain Becker's eyes widened as he took in the situation and dragged one of his men further back from the anomaly that was now contracting violently but had began to shift in the way that they only did before something was about to come through.

Jess tried to move back but the object that was hurled though caught her squarely on the shoulder causing her to fall forward from her kneeling position. As she turned her head slightly from her spot on the ground she barely noticed as the anomaly blinkered out of sight in her peripheral vision, she was too confused.

To her side lay an EMD. One of the big heavy duty ones too, the sort she might have a little bit of trouble holding aloft for too long. She grabbed it quickly before any one else could dart forward and snatch it away and as she looked at it the pieces of the puzzle fell into place.

On the side of the EMD was Becker's military tag carved into the identification plate that every weapon had to carry. For all he knew she could be stranded in the Jurassic period but he wouldn't be able to get to the anomaly she had walked through without having to pass though the anomaly that was spewing beetles (she really hoped that that was under control, especially after the mess they caused last time). She had to smile at his quick thinking. He had obviously realised he'd never be able to reach her so instead he had given her the best weapon he could throw through the anomaly after her.

Though his actions made sense and were bordering on the quickest thinking she'd ever seen the Becker that was in front of her most definatly did not seem impressed with the situation. He had gone from having an unarmed possible hostile to having a heavily armed possible hostile,

"Put the gun down", he said trying to sound as unthreatening as possible, he doubted that the woman in front of him would shoot for she looked almost as bewildered as he felt, " we're going to take you back to the ARC, you'll be safe there."

Jess couldn't help the twitch at the corner of her lips as she heard Becker say she was going to be transported to the ARC, the irony seemed to be too great. However, her smile froze on her face as she realised what the full extent of her problem could be. She'd read the old mission reports of the old ARC but she didn't have a clue who she was going to meet.

From what she had seen so far she couldn't tell if Danny had already joined the team, she could guess that Dr. Sarah Page would be there but she didn't know if Professor Cutter had died yet, or the situation with Helen- Her eyes widened at this last though, Helen Cutter was still alive and seeing as she had just come through an anomaly and into this world she had an inkling that many people were going to assume that the events were related. Which meant that she was going to have to spend a lot of her time trying to explain how she came to be there.

Jess was shaken out of her reverie by a gentle but firm grip on her upper arm dragging her upwards and she lifted her head to see Becker helping her stand though he was sure to keep a firm hand on her arm that still held the EMD. He walked her over to one of the three black SUV's that sat by the side of the anomaly site. Just as she was about to get in the car he stopped her,

"What's your name, anyway?"

All things considered this was a pretty loaded question, thought Jess. She couldn't answer it , considering that she was actually alive in this time line but maybe she could decide later at the ARC but for the moment she needed a fake name; an alias. Her mind scrambled for names she could use but came up with a blank. For one wild second she thought about saying her last name was Cutter just to see Becker's reaction but decided that there was probably a time and a place for humour and that this wasn't it. Frantically, she tried to think of any names she could use that wouldn't be recognised, Abi? No, Jenny? No-

"Emily. Emily Merchant." She blurted out a little too quickly to be entirely believable. Becker just raised an eyebrow but said nothing as he climbed in to the drivers seat of the car. Slowly, he pulled away as he began to make his way back to the ARC with his men behind him. He said nothing but did look into the mirror to see what the girl was doing.

She just sat there staring intently at her lap as though thinking intensely; he almost had to roll his eyes, because that was exactly what the ARC needed; another genius who was convinced that his fears for their safety were completely unwarranted.

He narrowed his eyes slightly and continued the rest of the journey in silence.

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A/N- First off I just wanted to say a massive thank you to everyone who responded to the first chapter, it's because of you that there is a second chapter so thanks again! If you like the story don't forget to review and feel free to leave a suggestion, all the best- VE