Chapter 5

Matt's P.O.V

I slowly placed Alex onto the spare bed of my apartment pulling the quilt over her. I'd left the ARC earlier this evening with the others hoping that Lexi would settle with Jess in her apartment but a part of me knew deep down that she would run away from there and back to somewhere safe and secure.

It's what she always did in situations like this.

I listened by the doorway as Becker comforted her as she sobbed after one of her many night terrors.

I sat down next to the little girl and stroked the hair from her face, her features had softened as she slept which caused me to smile, she shifted slightly stirring only a little which caused me to get up so as not to wake her. I placed a light kiss on her forehead hen left to find comfort in my own bed.

Alex's P.O.V

I slowly opened my eyes and stared around me in wonder. I was currently in a small room with large windows surrounding me, the apartment seemed modern from what I knew of the past. All that was present in the room was a bed, a small chest of draws and a wardrobe.

The door in front of me opened slowly allowing me to sit up from the bed before Matt walked in, the Irish man walked in slowly with a full tray of food and a mug of steaming hot chocolate.

"Hey Lexi" Matt greeted softly

I smiled up at Matt who set the tray down next to me; I slowly started to eat the food savouring every different taste in the food that is easily accessible.

"Why'd you disappear back to the ARC?" Matt asked

"I don't know" I whispered softly "I couldn't stay with them, not with him"

Matt nodded his head in understanding, he knew me very well. "Are you going to tell them?"

I looked up at the Irish man with wide eyes, shocked at the actual question. "I want too but, you know that I can't, one the whole future thing and two. How? How can I explain it to them or anyone else?"

Matt sighed in reply "What are you going to do then?"

I buried my face in my hands and shook my head in reply there was nothing I could say to them, nothing that can explain my life to anyone who didn't already know me.

The Irish man shrugged and sighed; he then got up from my bed and threw a small backpack at me from the floor.

"I went to the store before you got here last night. There are clothes and toiletries in there, maybe later we'll go see Gideon"

My head snapped up in surprise and joy, but then my joy vanished as I remembered that Gideon would be angrier than Matt was which just caused me to groan to the amusement of Matt as he watched the emotions flicker across my expressions.

"Gideon, will most likely kill me" I groaned.

"Don't worry, Lexi, my dad's worried about you, he won't even think about the fact that you're here in the past just the fact that you are safe"

I looked up at the man in front of me and smiled lightly. Matt Anderson has been my saviour for many years that was until he left for 2010. He was the one who kept me safe from everyone and everything that tried to harm me, that was why I tried to find an anomaly here, although I wouldn't let Matt know that I searched for this particular anomaly.

Matt smiled at me and left me alone to get changed into a clean pair of clothes. I quickly had a shower, put new bandages on my wounds then got dressed into the clothes that Matt had bought me, he definitely knew my style.

I was now wearing a pair of light blue ripped denim jeans, black combat boots, a plain white t-shirt, a black waistcoat and a fedora hat. I smiled in the mirror and was shocked at the reflection that I saw; it was healthy and happy after only three days of being in the security of the past.

"Alex, there's an anomaly! Come on!" Matt shouted.

I quickly ran out of the bedroom and down to the car where we drove to the theatre where an anomaly had opened.

We climbed out of the car and I caught a comm and a black box which Becker had thrown to me.

"How Dee do Jess" I said cheerfully over the link

"And where did you disappear too?" Jess demanded fiercely

I gulped "Back to the ARC. I stayed with Matt. You already had Abby and Connor with you"

Jess sighed in frustration "fine, just don't run from Matt's too"

I smiled and followed the others into the theatre slowly and carefully.

"She won't unless she wants to be kept in a holding cell" Lester's voice added over the comm.

I rolled my eyes at the head of the ARC.

"Matt!" Becker shouted catching my attention "Matt where are you?"