Across The Borders Of Time (3/14)
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deeperwondermentTitle: Across The Borders Of Time
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not_from_stars
Artist(s):danceswithgary and whuffle
Media Link: DancesWithGary and Whuffle
Word Count: 37,255
Fandom: Primeval
Genre: Angst; Het and Slash
Rating: R
Characters/Pairings: Abby Maitland/Hilary Becker, Danny Quinn/Connor Temple
Summary: Captain Becker was forced to watch as Abby, Danny and Connor went through an anomaly to prevent Helen Cutter from destroying mankind. After Connor is hurt, Danny sends Abby ahead of them to stop Helen no matter what she has to do. Unfortunately, after killing Helen, Abby returns to the site of the anomaly -- only to watch it close before she can go through it. This leaves Abby trapped in the Pleistocene with no way of getting back home, and with no way of letting the people who love her know that she's alive.
Warnings/Spoilers: This is an AU of the last episode of Series 3 and into Series 4.
Author’s Notes: This story has been a labor of love, emphasis on the labor part. I want to thank my beta and cheerleader,enochiansigils, for holding my hand through this and not letting me give up. danceswithgary made me an awesome wallpaper I use on my netbook and a matching icon and she was so infinitely patient with me as I struggled with this stork, I want to make sure she gets herthanks for that. I want to thank whuffle for making me extra pretties to go with this and also want to thank whuffle and morrigans_eve for adding their encouragement to that of enochiansigils so that I could stick to writing this.
It didn’t take long for things to start going against all of the plans they had so carefully made. In fact, the problems started almost immediately.
After running from the future predators that seemed to be everywhere, the three of them became trapped in a building with Helen and some kind of computer console. Connor reluctantly gave Helen the artifact from Nick. He hadn’t wanted to but when Helen held the gun on Abby and he had seen the quick flash of emotion in Danny’s eyes, he had no choice. He couldn’t let Abby die when there was something he could do to prevent it.
That was when everything seemed to go so very wrong.
Helen slid the artifact into a panel and the console lit up… with the insignia of the ARC.
“The future ARC,” Abby breathed.
“The future that the ARC has caused,” Helen agreed. “It is people working for the ARC that cause everything you see outside.”
“The people we know and work with would never let something like this place happen,” Danny said quietly. “We value life.”
“Besides, from what I understand, you had a hand in creating those future predators.” Abby’s voice was soft.
“It wasn’t supposed to happen like this,” Helen said, not looking up from the touch pad on the console. “It wasn’t supposed to happen like this,” Helen said, not looking up from the touch pad on the console. “Humanity went wrong somehow and destroyed everything.”
“Humanity?” Danny scoffed. “More like certain members of the so-called human race did this while they were trying to seize power over every living being.”
“Humans aren’t wise enough to handle such power. It was a failed experiment.”
“What was a failed experiment?” Abby asked.
“Humanity.”
“Hey now,” Connor inserted. “Humanity hasn’t failed anything. We’re still growing and evolving. That’s what happens with all life. They grown and they learn and because they learn, they evolve into something better.”
“Look around you, Connor,” Helen said. “This is the result of humanity evolving. Everything dead or dying; humans forced into underground cells because they’ve destroyed the air quality and the water table. It’s not just here, either, but all over the planet. Humans are a plague and like a plague, they need to be dealt with aggressively.”
“How far?” Connor questioned, trying to make sense out of everything she was saying.. “How far in the future are we?”
“Far and yet not so far,” Helen responded quietly. She looked up from the console to start at him. “In normal circumstances, you’d be alive to see it happen.”
Danny frowned, moving closer to Connor. He didn’t like the way Helen said that. “Normal circumstances?”
“It’s not going to happen because I’m going to stop it.”
The three of them stared at her for a long moment. They knew she had been planning something, but this was beyond anything they could have guessed.
“You’re daft,” Abby finally said. “Haven’t you learned yet that trying to mess with time and bend it to your own whims causes nothing but the cycle of death and destruction to continue? Did killing Stephen and Nick teach you nothing?” She shook her head. “Killing them did nothing to stop the destructive future you kept talking about. Looking around, it seems to have only made things so much more worse.”
“Because I didn’t handle it right,” Helen responded, her hands moving faster along the console in front of her. “I didn’t do enough research or go back in time far enough to make the changes that need to be made to stop this wanton destruction.”
“So what? You go back a few more years and start killing people when they’re even younger? Murder in the name of science? You can’t do that and you won’t get away with it.” Danny’s eyes were hard. “There are words for what you are, Helen, and none of them are savior or protector. In fact, the nicest one I can think of is terrorist.”
“I’m not a terrorist, Quinn.” There was annoyance in Helen’s voice.
“The similarities are certainly there.”
“Terrorists subsist on fear. They like scaring everyone and letting everyone know that they’re the ones responsible for some act of murder or wanton destruction. I don’t go around telling people what I’m trying to do and what I do is always for the greater good.”
“Killing Nick was not for any kind of greater good,” Connor sputtered. “You killed him because you couldn’t control him and because he was falling in love with someone else.”
“Personal ego has no place in science, Connor.”
“No, it doesn’t, but you’ve let yours get the better of you more than once.” Connor returned. “Your ego caused Stephen to be killed. Your ego led to your shooting of Nick.”
“I shot Nick because there was nothing else I could do. He was blinded by the ARC and didn’t care about the damage that it was going to lead to.” She shook her head. “I didn’t enjoy killing Nick. He was my husband and I loved him at one time. With science comes sacrifice and Nick was betraying his nature and everything he had learned.”
“Nick didn’t betray anything. He was following his conscience and following where the science led him.”
“And I’m not?”
“No, you’re not. He was trying to understand how the anomalies worked and he was trying to protect life. All we’ve seen since we met you is how easily you can destroy life.”
“Oh, Connor, you remind me so much of Nick when we were younger. So passionate about life and finding all of the answers. In the end, though, he didn’t like the answers that he found.”
“He didn’t like the answers that you gave him,” Abby corrected. “He wanted to protect life and he wanted to find out if anomalies were a new thing or if they had been happening since before recorded time. He didn’t agree with you that the work being done at the ARC was adding to destruction. Nick wouldn’t have been involved in anything that was as destructive as you claimed it to be. You tried to make him believe Lester was the villain, when all of the time it was you. You’re the one who kept trying to sabotage our work. You’re the one who was feeding information to Leek and causing Nick to distrust the people he needed to trust.”
“He trusted you and Connor no matter what, though, didn’t he Abby?”
“Because he knew that we could be trusted and that we had the same regard for life and creation that he did.”
“But he never approved of the way you took care of the creatures that were stuck here, did he?”
“He was angry about Rex because I didn’t tell him when it happened. It made him think I didn’t respect or trust him. It would have been a lot different if he had been alive to tell about Sid and Nancy.” Abby swallowed. “He would have understood why I couldn’t let them be penned up at the ARC. Thanks to you, however, we never got the chance to have that particular conversation.”
“How many dinosaurs do you have at your flat, Abby?” Danny questioned her.
“Three, but this is not the time or place to discuss that, Danny.”
“Three? You have three dinosaurs living at your flat? What do you feed them all?”
“Danny!”
“Three?!”
"Danny!”
Helen seemed to be amused at the exchange between the two of them. “I see that you haven’t trusted Nick’s replacement enough to fill him in on certain things.”
“Well, you know, we haven’t had time to bring him up to date on three years of research and incursions,” Connor grumbled. “It’s not like this is the Matrix or anything, yeah? We’ve needed time to have a sit down, but thanks to everything with you, we haven’t been able to do that between trying to stop you from you know, killing people.”
“I figure that after all of this is over and you’re in a nice padded cell where you belong, me and my team can have us a sit down at a nice pub and make sure that all pertinent information gets shared.” Danny’s smile was just this side of being mocking.
“I’m not going to be locked up, Danny,” Helen said calmly as she finished what she was doing. “And they’re not your team. They will never be your team. They were Nick’s team. But soon, they won’t be anyone’s team because there won’t be an ARC or a team.”
Connor’s eyes widened. “You can’t destroy the ARC. You already tried that once and you failed.”
“You think too small, Connor,” Helen said with a smile as she withdrew the artifact and balanced it in her hand. “What I need to do is much bigger than simply taking down the ARC. I’ve learned a lot since then.”
“What are you going to do?” Abby’s voice was tense.
“You’ll see.” She tilted her head. “Or maybe you won’t.”
Keeping her eyes on Abby’s, Helen lifted her hand and then dropped it, smashing the artifact into the floor. There was no ignoring the shattering sound that it made when it connected with the floor.
“NO!” Connor yelled, dropping to the floor and reaching for the artifact with a mixture of emotions bleeding into his eyes. “No! How could you do that? There was so much that we didn’t know about this! Nick gave his life to protect this!”
“He didn’t understand, Connor, and he didn’t protect it well enough did he? I don’t need the artifact any longer and after I’m done, you won’t either.” She hit a panel on the console and from the hall behind her came the unmistakable sound of an anomaly opening. “It really is for the best, you know. I have to fix what mankind has done to this planet. It’s the only way.” She lifted a gun and aimed it at Abby. “I wouldn’t get any ideas about following me if I were you, Quinn. I’ll kill her before you can even get close.”
Danny clenched and unclenched his hands. He knew that Helen was right; he couldn’t outrun a bullet. Even if he would normally play the odds with his own life, he wouldn’t risk someone else’s life like that.
Helen smiled and started walking down the hallway backwards, the aim of her gun never wavering from Abby.
“I wouldn’t be too upset,” Helen said calmly as she stopped in front of the anomaly. “It will all be over soon, anyway.” She nodded at Abby and turned, walking through the anomaly.
As soon as there was no longer a gun pointing at her head, Abby ran down the hall, only to see the anomaly close behind Helen. “Damn it!” She turned to look over her shoulder. “Connor!”
“Already working on it!”
Abby jogged back to where her two friends were and watched Connor’s hands moving across the computer terminal. “Can you make sense out of it?”
“The technology is beautiful,” Connor enthused as he rapidly pressed keys on the surface of the giant terminal. “I would love to have something like this to tinker with and explore back –“
“Connor!”
Danny’s impatient voice knocked him back into the seriousness of the situation. “I can trace the last coordinates she used so that we can follow her to her destination and stopping her.” He frowned. “Wait. This can’t be right.”
“What?”
Connor’s fingers moved swiftly over the terminal. “These coordinates are to the Cretaceous Era,” he said in confusion. “That’s long before any hominids showed up on the planet. Why would she be going there?”
“She’s trying to divert us and cover up her real destination,” Danny said. “There’s no other explanation for it.”
“Looks like we’re going to be playing a bit of tag through time then,” Abby said, adjusting her pack. “It doesn’t matter why she’s going to that time period, only that she’s going to be up to no good no matter where she ends up. We have to find her and stop her.”
“Oh no,” Connor said quietly, raising his eyes to look at his two companions. “I think I know where she’s going.”
Danny lifted an eyebrow. “Where?”
Connor swallowed hard. “When she was pretending to be Eve, Sarah and I were going through one of her journals and she kept making reference to Site 333.”
Abby gasped as her eyes filled with horror. “She wouldn’t! Not even Helen could be that insane.”
“Can’t she?” Connor returned. “You heard her, Abby. She was talking about not going back far enough and how she needs to fix what mankind has done to this planet.”
“But that will kill her, too!”
“Not thinking that she’s caring about that little detail.”
“Back up,” Danny said firmly. “What the hell are the two of you talking about?”
“Site 333 is the first known site in history where mankind started evolving,” Abby said in a whisper. “Helen Cutter is going back in time to wipe out all of humanity.”
“You have got to be fucking joking.”
“I wish I was, mate,” Connor said quietly.
Abby shook her head. “I knew she was insane after seeing everything else she’s done, but this is beyond insane. She’s planning to erase the entire human race.”
Danny took a deep breath. “Well, it looks like our mission has undergone a sudden and necessary change.”
“We have to follow her and stop her,” Abby agreed. “If Connor can open up that last anomaly, we’ll have to go through it and keep chasing her no matter how many anomalies and eras we have to pass along the way.”
“Shouldn’t we tell the others,” Connor questioned, looking from Abby to Danny.
“There isn’t time,” Danny sighed. “We have to go and go now. If everything goes like it should, they’ll never have to know what happened until we get back home and tell them.”
Connor looked down and then nodded. “You’re right. We have to stop her before she starts doing any lasting damage.” He ran his fingers over the terminal again and they heard the anomaly flare to life. “Please keep your arms and luggage inside the ride at all times,” he muttered, picking up his discarded backpack and tucking the relic into it. There was a chance that he could find a way to make it work again after this was all over. He looked at Abby and Danny. “We have a crazy person to catch.”
Danny nodded and the three of them headed down the hall and through the anomaly.
Chapter Two || Chapter Four
Author:
not_from_starsArtist(s):
danceswithgary and whuffleMedia Link: DancesWithGary and Whuffle
Word Count: 37,255
Fandom: Primeval
Genre: Angst; Het and Slash
Rating: R
Characters/Pairings: Abby Maitland/Hilary Becker, Danny Quinn/Connor Temple
Summary: Captain Becker was forced to watch as Abby, Danny and Connor went through an anomaly to prevent Helen Cutter from destroying mankind. After Connor is hurt, Danny sends Abby ahead of them to stop Helen no matter what she has to do. Unfortunately, after killing Helen, Abby returns to the site of the anomaly -- only to watch it close before she can go through it. This leaves Abby trapped in the Pleistocene with no way of getting back home, and with no way of letting the people who love her know that she's alive.
Warnings/Spoilers: This is an AU of the last episode of Series 3 and into Series 4.
Author’s Notes: This story has been a labor of love, emphasis on the labor part. I want to thank my beta and cheerleader,
enochiansigils, for holding my hand through this and not letting me give up. danceswithgary made me an awesome wallpaper I use on my netbook and a matching icon and she was so infinitely patient with me as I struggled with this stork, I want to make sure she gets herthanks for that. I want to thank whuffle for making me extra pretties to go with this and also want to thank whuffle and morrigans_eve for adding their encouragement to that of enochiansigils so that I could stick to writing this.It didn’t take long for things to start going against all of the plans they had so carefully made. In fact, the problems started almost immediately.
After running from the future predators that seemed to be everywhere, the three of them became trapped in a building with Helen and some kind of computer console. Connor reluctantly gave Helen the artifact from Nick. He hadn’t wanted to but when Helen held the gun on Abby and he had seen the quick flash of emotion in Danny’s eyes, he had no choice. He couldn’t let Abby die when there was something he could do to prevent it.
That was when everything seemed to go so very wrong.
Helen slid the artifact into a panel and the console lit up… with the insignia of the ARC.
“The future ARC,” Abby breathed.
“The future that the ARC has caused,” Helen agreed. “It is people working for the ARC that cause everything you see outside.”
“The people we know and work with would never let something like this place happen,” Danny said quietly. “We value life.”
“Besides, from what I understand, you had a hand in creating those future predators.” Abby’s voice was soft.
“It wasn’t supposed to happen like this,” Helen said, not looking up from the touch pad on the console. “It wasn’t supposed to happen like this,” Helen said, not looking up from the touch pad on the console. “Humanity went wrong somehow and destroyed everything.”
“Humanity?” Danny scoffed. “More like certain members of the so-called human race did this while they were trying to seize power over every living being.”
“Humans aren’t wise enough to handle such power. It was a failed experiment.”
“What was a failed experiment?” Abby asked.
“Humanity.”
“Hey now,” Connor inserted. “Humanity hasn’t failed anything. We’re still growing and evolving. That’s what happens with all life. They grown and they learn and because they learn, they evolve into something better.”
“Look around you, Connor,” Helen said. “This is the result of humanity evolving. Everything dead or dying; humans forced into underground cells because they’ve destroyed the air quality and the water table. It’s not just here, either, but all over the planet. Humans are a plague and like a plague, they need to be dealt with aggressively.”
“How far?” Connor questioned, trying to make sense out of everything she was saying.. “How far in the future are we?”
“Far and yet not so far,” Helen responded quietly. She looked up from the console to start at him. “In normal circumstances, you’d be alive to see it happen.”
Danny frowned, moving closer to Connor. He didn’t like the way Helen said that. “Normal circumstances?”
“It’s not going to happen because I’m going to stop it.”
The three of them stared at her for a long moment. They knew she had been planning something, but this was beyond anything they could have guessed.
“You’re daft,” Abby finally said. “Haven’t you learned yet that trying to mess with time and bend it to your own whims causes nothing but the cycle of death and destruction to continue? Did killing Stephen and Nick teach you nothing?” She shook her head. “Killing them did nothing to stop the destructive future you kept talking about. Looking around, it seems to have only made things so much more worse.”
“Because I didn’t handle it right,” Helen responded, her hands moving faster along the console in front of her. “I didn’t do enough research or go back in time far enough to make the changes that need to be made to stop this wanton destruction.”
“So what? You go back a few more years and start killing people when they’re even younger? Murder in the name of science? You can’t do that and you won’t get away with it.” Danny’s eyes were hard. “There are words for what you are, Helen, and none of them are savior or protector. In fact, the nicest one I can think of is terrorist.”
“I’m not a terrorist, Quinn.” There was annoyance in Helen’s voice.
“The similarities are certainly there.”
“Terrorists subsist on fear. They like scaring everyone and letting everyone know that they’re the ones responsible for some act of murder or wanton destruction. I don’t go around telling people what I’m trying to do and what I do is always for the greater good.”
“Killing Nick was not for any kind of greater good,” Connor sputtered. “You killed him because you couldn’t control him and because he was falling in love with someone else.”
“Personal ego has no place in science, Connor.”
“No, it doesn’t, but you’ve let yours get the better of you more than once.” Connor returned. “Your ego caused Stephen to be killed. Your ego led to your shooting of Nick.”
“I shot Nick because there was nothing else I could do. He was blinded by the ARC and didn’t care about the damage that it was going to lead to.” She shook her head. “I didn’t enjoy killing Nick. He was my husband and I loved him at one time. With science comes sacrifice and Nick was betraying his nature and everything he had learned.”
“Nick didn’t betray anything. He was following his conscience and following where the science led him.”
“And I’m not?”
“No, you’re not. He was trying to understand how the anomalies worked and he was trying to protect life. All we’ve seen since we met you is how easily you can destroy life.”
“Oh, Connor, you remind me so much of Nick when we were younger. So passionate about life and finding all of the answers. In the end, though, he didn’t like the answers that he found.”
“He didn’t like the answers that you gave him,” Abby corrected. “He wanted to protect life and he wanted to find out if anomalies were a new thing or if they had been happening since before recorded time. He didn’t agree with you that the work being done at the ARC was adding to destruction. Nick wouldn’t have been involved in anything that was as destructive as you claimed it to be. You tried to make him believe Lester was the villain, when all of the time it was you. You’re the one who kept trying to sabotage our work. You’re the one who was feeding information to Leek and causing Nick to distrust the people he needed to trust.”
“He trusted you and Connor no matter what, though, didn’t he Abby?”
“Because he knew that we could be trusted and that we had the same regard for life and creation that he did.”
“But he never approved of the way you took care of the creatures that were stuck here, did he?”
“He was angry about Rex because I didn’t tell him when it happened. It made him think I didn’t respect or trust him. It would have been a lot different if he had been alive to tell about Sid and Nancy.” Abby swallowed. “He would have understood why I couldn’t let them be penned up at the ARC. Thanks to you, however, we never got the chance to have that particular conversation.”
“How many dinosaurs do you have at your flat, Abby?” Danny questioned her.
“Three, but this is not the time or place to discuss that, Danny.”
“Three? You have three dinosaurs living at your flat? What do you feed them all?”
“Danny!”
“Three?!”
"Danny!”
Helen seemed to be amused at the exchange between the two of them. “I see that you haven’t trusted Nick’s replacement enough to fill him in on certain things.”
“Well, you know, we haven’t had time to bring him up to date on three years of research and incursions,” Connor grumbled. “It’s not like this is the Matrix or anything, yeah? We’ve needed time to have a sit down, but thanks to everything with you, we haven’t been able to do that between trying to stop you from you know, killing people.”
“I figure that after all of this is over and you’re in a nice padded cell where you belong, me and my team can have us a sit down at a nice pub and make sure that all pertinent information gets shared.” Danny’s smile was just this side of being mocking.
“I’m not going to be locked up, Danny,” Helen said calmly as she finished what she was doing. “And they’re not your team. They will never be your team. They were Nick’s team. But soon, they won’t be anyone’s team because there won’t be an ARC or a team.”
Connor’s eyes widened. “You can’t destroy the ARC. You already tried that once and you failed.”
“You think too small, Connor,” Helen said with a smile as she withdrew the artifact and balanced it in her hand. “What I need to do is much bigger than simply taking down the ARC. I’ve learned a lot since then.”
“What are you going to do?” Abby’s voice was tense.
“You’ll see.” She tilted her head. “Or maybe you won’t.”
Keeping her eyes on Abby’s, Helen lifted her hand and then dropped it, smashing the artifact into the floor. There was no ignoring the shattering sound that it made when it connected with the floor.
“NO!” Connor yelled, dropping to the floor and reaching for the artifact with a mixture of emotions bleeding into his eyes. “No! How could you do that? There was so much that we didn’t know about this! Nick gave his life to protect this!”
“He didn’t understand, Connor, and he didn’t protect it well enough did he? I don’t need the artifact any longer and after I’m done, you won’t either.” She hit a panel on the console and from the hall behind her came the unmistakable sound of an anomaly opening. “It really is for the best, you know. I have to fix what mankind has done to this planet. It’s the only way.” She lifted a gun and aimed it at Abby. “I wouldn’t get any ideas about following me if I were you, Quinn. I’ll kill her before you can even get close.”
Danny clenched and unclenched his hands. He knew that Helen was right; he couldn’t outrun a bullet. Even if he would normally play the odds with his own life, he wouldn’t risk someone else’s life like that.
Helen smiled and started walking down the hallway backwards, the aim of her gun never wavering from Abby.
“I wouldn’t be too upset,” Helen said calmly as she stopped in front of the anomaly. “It will all be over soon, anyway.” She nodded at Abby and turned, walking through the anomaly.
As soon as there was no longer a gun pointing at her head, Abby ran down the hall, only to see the anomaly close behind Helen. “Damn it!” She turned to look over her shoulder. “Connor!”
“Already working on it!”
Abby jogged back to where her two friends were and watched Connor’s hands moving across the computer terminal. “Can you make sense out of it?”
“The technology is beautiful,” Connor enthused as he rapidly pressed keys on the surface of the giant terminal. “I would love to have something like this to tinker with and explore back –“
“Connor!”
Danny’s impatient voice knocked him back into the seriousness of the situation. “I can trace the last coordinates she used so that we can follow her to her destination and stopping her.” He frowned. “Wait. This can’t be right.”
“What?”
Connor’s fingers moved swiftly over the terminal. “These coordinates are to the Cretaceous Era,” he said in confusion. “That’s long before any hominids showed up on the planet. Why would she be going there?”
“She’s trying to divert us and cover up her real destination,” Danny said. “There’s no other explanation for it.”
“Looks like we’re going to be playing a bit of tag through time then,” Abby said, adjusting her pack. “It doesn’t matter why she’s going to that time period, only that she’s going to be up to no good no matter where she ends up. We have to find her and stop her.”
“Oh no,” Connor said quietly, raising his eyes to look at his two companions. “I think I know where she’s going.”
Danny lifted an eyebrow. “Where?”
Connor swallowed hard. “When she was pretending to be Eve, Sarah and I were going through one of her journals and she kept making reference to Site 333.”
Abby gasped as her eyes filled with horror. “She wouldn’t! Not even Helen could be that insane.”
“Can’t she?” Connor returned. “You heard her, Abby. She was talking about not going back far enough and how she needs to fix what mankind has done to this planet.”
“But that will kill her, too!”
“Not thinking that she’s caring about that little detail.”
“Back up,” Danny said firmly. “What the hell are the two of you talking about?”
“Site 333 is the first known site in history where mankind started evolving,” Abby said in a whisper. “Helen Cutter is going back in time to wipe out all of humanity.”
“You have got to be fucking joking.”
“I wish I was, mate,” Connor said quietly.
Abby shook her head. “I knew she was insane after seeing everything else she’s done, but this is beyond insane. She’s planning to erase the entire human race.”
Danny took a deep breath. “Well, it looks like our mission has undergone a sudden and necessary change.”
“We have to follow her and stop her,” Abby agreed. “If Connor can open up that last anomaly, we’ll have to go through it and keep chasing her no matter how many anomalies and eras we have to pass along the way.”
“Shouldn’t we tell the others,” Connor questioned, looking from Abby to Danny.
“There isn’t time,” Danny sighed. “We have to go and go now. If everything goes like it should, they’ll never have to know what happened until we get back home and tell them.”
Connor looked down and then nodded. “You’re right. We have to stop her before she starts doing any lasting damage.” He ran his fingers over the terminal again and they heard the anomaly flare to life. “Please keep your arms and luggage inside the ride at all times,” he muttered, picking up his discarded backpack and tucking the relic into it. There was a chance that he could find a way to make it work again after this was all over. He looked at Abby and Danny. “We have a crazy person to catch.”
Danny nodded and the three of them headed down the hall and through the anomaly.
Chapter Two || Chapter Four
