"Unless I'm very much mistaken," He said as he turned to look at them, "I think we may have just made our very first prediction."

Jess could barely hold back her excitement as she watched Cutter tell the rest of the team about the prediction. She stood a little way behind him watching all of the drama unfold. She had read all of the old mission reports but despite her almost photographic memory she couldn't recall what would happen with this particular anomaly, but she was determined to find out. The odds were she would be stuck here for quite a while and while she loved her work there was only so much time she could spend trying to piece together future technology.

Looking around she realised that she still hadn't actually been introduced to Abby and if the curious stare the blonde was sending her way was any indication Abby was most definitely wondering what she was doing there. She ducked her head, sure that it could wait until later.

It was then that Cutter finished explaining his new prediction (Jess was thankful that he left her contribution out) and started delegating people to go and wait for the anomaly to appear and just generally check out the site. Quickly she walked forward,

"I'm going too." She said sounding much more confident than she felt.

Both Abby and Jenny, who had walked up to stand with them, raised an eyebrow at this. Connor looked to Cutter to see what his reaction to this would be and Jess just stood there trying to look as though she wasn't waiting for his answer.

"Okay then." Said Cutter with a half smile, "Suppose you helped find it in the first place." Jess just smiled at his answer. It felt nice to be of use somehow in a way that didn't involve sitting behind a desk as she racked her brain for answers.

Evidently not everyone felt the same as he announcement was met by immediate protests, the loudest being from Becker,

"We've never seen her in the field. We can't put someone in danger like that!" He said looking at Jess doubtfully.

"We can't just let civilians into the field, Cutter." This protest had come from Jenny Lewis, a woman whom Jess had only ever spoken to very briefly, but respected all the same after the stories she had heard from Abby and Connor.

Deciding it was time to step in Jess cleared her throat and held out her hand to Jenny, "Jess Parker." She said with what she hoped came off as a professional smile and not a manic over-excited smile, " I'm not exactly a civilian."

Jenny narrowed her eyes suspiciously, "What are you then?"

Jess opened her mouth but out of the corner of her eyes she saw Cutter shake his head discreetly, "That's classified." She said feeling as though she had only made the situation worse.

Jenny looked ready to retort but before she could even make a sound she was cut off by Becker, "Do you even have any field experience?" He asked still looking at apprehensively.

Jess felt her chin lift slightly, she might not have much actual experience in the field but the way she saw it there was no reason why he should have to know this, "Yes," she said trying to sound as dignified as possible, " I do. So I'll be going anomaly sight to help."

Jess really didn't feel the need to mention that the only time she'd been in the field was the time she had brought Becker chinese and ended up defusing a bomb, or the time that the field had been brought to her when the future beetles had compromised the ARC the first time.

Becker didn't say anything else but Jess was left under no illusion that he wanted her to go, but as long as he wasn't going to stop her she wasn't going to complain.

~o~o~o~

It turned out that the place of the potential anomaly was an abandoned house. As she, Abby, Connor and Jenny all stood looking at it she found herself very unwilling to move any closer. She still couldn't recall reading the specific details about this mission although reports from the early days of the ARC had always been sparse for detail.

There was something about this house that she didn't like, for such a grand looking house it had been left alone to rot. The wood of the porch was peeling and plants that had been left unattended grew with wild abandon; covering the flowerbeds and starting to creep up onto the house. It was the epitome of eerie.

Abby and Jenny walked ahead towards the house and Jess found herself walking with Connor as they crossed a spindly looking bridge to get from thicket of forest where the cars were parked to the overgrown lawn.

"Are you sure that you should be here?" Asked Connor from behind in a whisper.

Jess gave him a strange look, "Well, I'm not exactly going to change much am I?" She asked.

Connor continued to look worried, "Well, you never know." he said in a hushed tone, wary of the two woman that could over hear their conversation just ahead of them, " Hey are you going to tell Abby about you being… you know, from the future?"

Jess thought about that for a second before answering, "Suppose I will at some point, not exactly sure how she'd take it though."

Connor laughed as she said that and soon enough Jess was laughing along with him.

~o~o~o~

Abby wasn't sure what to think of the new girl that was tagging along with them as they checked out the new anomaly sight. She hadn't really introduced herself to Abby yet and Abby only knew her name because she had seen her tell Jenny. All she knew was that whoever she was was being kept very hush-hush. No one had been able to tell her at her at the ARC and Lester had refused to discuss it all together.

She wasn't even sure about why the girl was an addition to the team but she had assumed that when Cutter had let slip that she had helped him with his calculations and predictions that she would be kept on as a lab worker or a researcher. It was all very strange.

She looked back when she heard the sound of laughter. Both Jess and Connor were attempting to hide their laughter as she turned around to look at them. That was another thing, she had no idea how Connor was so at ease around her, but he seemed to have taken to her if his smile was anything to go by.

Shaking herself out of her reverie Abby climbed up the steps of the porch and placed her hand on the rough wood of the door. With a steadying breath, she pushed it open.

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A/N- Thank you once again for reading, I hope you liked it! I don't know if you've realised yet but this story is following the plot line of 3x02 so you know who'll be making an appearance in the next chapter!… or maybe you don't. Anyway please don't forget to leave a review, all the best-VE