Jecker Story – Chapter 2 – Becker's POV
I awoke in a sweat and breathing heavily like I have down for the past two nights all I could think about was the little boy, Owen, he was only seven years old and he was killed in his bed whilst he was asleep if I had gotten there sooner or maybe the ADD could of picked the anomaly up earlier or something I feel like more could have been done to save that little boy and I looked around his room whilst I was there and seen toy tanks and lots of army toys, he could have been another solider and saved lives and he had his life snatched away from him way to soon and looking over my alarm clock I seen that it was only 4:20am I usually get up at 5am to do a morning workout so I guess I could start it a little earlier.
It got to 5:30am and I was bored of doing sit ups and push ups so I decided to go for a run instead and threw my running clothes on and just ran where ever my feet took me I ended up doing a couple of laps around the park then I ran back and by then it was time to get in the shower and start getting ready for work, my shower was quick (the water was freezing, my hot water was still not working) and when I got out I went to pick my towel up to wrap around me but I forgot to bring it in so I opened the bathroom door and made sure no one could see through my window, when the coast was clear I ran into my bedroom and seen the window cleaner cleaning the outside of my windows, I grabbed my towel and wrapped it around me and apologised to the window cleaner.
This was starting to turn out to be a really bad morning and it seemed like it was going to be a really rubbish day and I was not looking forward to it at all, my phone rang loudly from the living room so I rushed to answer it and seen Jess' name flashing on the screen and I groaned knowing it was an anomaly "Jess can you just text me the co-ordinates and I'll be there as soon as I can" I didn't give her a chance to speak at all I just hung up the phone and went to my bedroom to get my clothes and the window cleaner wasn't there but the ladder was so he must of gone to the apartment above mine, my phone beeped and I read where the anomaly was and rushed down to my truck.
I arrived at the anomaly and seen everyone else already there and Matt was about to say something about being the last person here but I just shook my head at him and seen the anomaly already locked "You'll be glad to know there are no casualties and no incursion" Matt's Irish voice stated as I walked past him.
"Matt I really don't need this right now, I got here as fast as I can OK?" I snapped and walked back to my truck "I'll be at the ARC" I called out and jumped into my car and drove to the ARC where I parked in my normal space and went up to the hub and seen Jess sitting there typing away on the ADD she must of heard me coming because she turned around but then turned back to the ADD screens, she was obviously mad at me for the way I spoke to her on the phone earlier. I walked to her and placed a bar of chocolate on her desk in front of her "Jess I am really sorry about this morning I'm having a bad morning that's all" I said to her.
She turned in her chair and looked at me "I know you have had a bad couple of days but so has everyone, it hits everyone hard when someone dies especially a child, what you have to remember is this is a team and you're not the only person who saw that little boy" she told me and I looked down at the floor in shame at how I had acted I hadn't thought about everyone else and how they must be feeling "Thank you for the chocolate though" she said with small smile and turned back to the ADD and carried on typing away.
I went to the armoury where I decided that I was going to go through the evidence files and make sure it was all catalogued properly not that I didn't trust my men or anything but I wanted to check that it was done properly the only problem was I needed someone to come down with me to do half of it, there was a whole room filled with boxes of evidence and it was a lot to do on my own and I needed someone efficient and organised to come and help me, there was only one person that could really help me and that was Jess I knew Connor was back so maybe he would watch the ADD whilst she came to help.
After locating Connor in the menagerie with Abby I asked him if he could go and sit on the ADD and ask Jess to come and help me in the evidence room he said that he wanted to upgrade something on it anyway and said she would be right down to help me.
Jess' POV
There were two pairs of feet coming towards me I turned to see Abby and Connor walking towards me "Becker asked to go and watch the ADD whilst you go and help him in the evidence room" I sighed and got up from my chair "Remember there's CCTV in there Jess we'll be watching to make sure you're behaving yourselves" Connor said and him and Abby laughed at their silly little joke that I bet they had planned since Becker asked him to come here, they were so childish couldn't I go and help a friend without being accused of fancying him or wanting to kiss him it was stupid.
I walked into the evidence room to see Becker looking through a box with a clip board in one hand and a pen in the other marking things off a sheet "Hey, I just wanted to make sure everything was where it was supposed to be and you are the only other efficient person who works here, I've got a list of the box numbers and what is supposed to be in there it's supposed to be in alphabetical order and if there's something in the wrong box take it out and we'll find the right box when we're finished" he stated and handed me a clip board and a pen.
After looking over the list I seen that I got all the boxes on the left side of the room so I picked up the first three put them on the floor one on top of the other sat down with my back against the wall and started looking through them, the boxes had interview transcripts, scene photos, weapons used against the team and all sorts of stuff and I knew from looking at my list of boxes that this was going to be a really long day and I got the feeling that Becker wasn't in the talking mood, Abby had told me about his outburst when he got to the anomaly this morning and she was shocked to hear about the way he spoke to me on the phone.
Lunchtime rolled around and Becker left to go and get something for us and came back five minutes later with a coffee, sandwich and a bar of chocolate for me and he sat down on the opposite side of the wall to eat his own lunch "I don't like you like this, all quiet and closed off I mean" I told him and he looked up at me.
"Just been a really bad week for me and it seems to be getting worst instead of better and I'm dreading what's next in store for me" he said and took a bite out of his sandwich "I love this job I'm saving people and making a difference but there seem to be more bodies stacking up and I'm starting to question how much longer I'm going to be here for, I think Lester is starting to get annoyed at the body numbers and I know a part of him blames me for it... I blame me for it" he shrugged his shoulders and looked down at the drink he was holding in his hands.
"Don't question yourself Becker, you have saved millions of people and I know people don't know what you do so you don't get a lot of recognition for it but to be honest with you I couldn't think of anyone better to be the life saver here, I trust you 100% with my life and I know you'll save me if I need saving. Lester doesn't blame you for anything and you know when we had the convergence and we lost contact with you he was so worried and when you finally contacted us again he said you were a good man and you are don't question that" I stated to him hoping he would believe me.
He smiled at me "Thanks for your vote of confidence but I don't know how much longer I can do this job with all these bodies on my shoulders like this, it's starting to get on top of me and I just can't take it anymore. I don't know if I just need a week or two away from all of this just to have time to think or if I need a permanent holiday from this place" he couldn't look me in the eyes as he spoke about leaving the ARC for good.