Prompt: argument

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Jess and Becker have an argument that leads to a slip of the tongue...

The core team stood to the side just outside Lesters office as they watched the scene unfold before them. It was extremely uncommon for Jess to lose her temper at all but even more uncommon for her to lose it with a certain Captain she was so fond of. In this case however it seemed the impossible had become possible. Considering they chased dinosaurs for a living and put them back through rips in time, it probably shouldn't have come as a surprise though. Abby and Emily watched the two with bemused and concerned faces while Matt and Lester seemed to be quietly discussing how to make them stop. They had effectively cleared Ops of everyone else and were currently yelling at each other.

Why were they yelling? Well the core team weren't exactly sure anymore. It had started when a breach had put Jess and the Hub in danger. The alarm had started screaming at them as one of the less friendly dinosaurs had escaped its enclosure after one of the workers had misinterpreted the dosage of its sedative while cleaning out the enclosure. Jess had immediately shut everyone in they're respective offices.

"Attention all staff, there has been a breach in the menagerie. I repeat remain in your respective areas until the creature has been secured."

She had instructed the security on the easiest route to the creature when she realized where it was going.

"Oh you have got to be kidding me!"

Becker's voice sounded in her ear. "Jess? What's going on?"

"You need to get to Ops, by closing off all the doors I've-"

"Given it a straight path to you, Jess get into Lesters office and lock the door!"

Pulling the fully charged EMD she now kept under her desk at all times she locked the ADD and set the back ups running before turning and heading for Lesters office. "Talk about a deja vu." she muttered to herself.

"I don't hear you in the office Jess, what are you doing?"

"I'm on my way now Becker, I had to back up the system and get my EMD."

"Why do you have an EMD?"

Jess rolled her eyes but stopped dead when she heard a low growl behind her. "Never mind that right now." she whispered as she slowly turned to face the creature in the middle of the room. "How far away are you?"

"Seconds away."

"Great I'll keep it busy until you get here then shall I?"

"Please tell me you mean you're going to make faces at it from inside the office." Connor pleaded.

"Didn't quite get there, you may want to hurry." She felt herself shaking but couldn't do anything. She knew if she moved it would attack her so she prayed they would be there soon and continued to stare at the creature.

The team had indeed been only a few seconds away and had burst into Ops EMD's at the ready. Jess had started to move back and around out of the way towards Becker as he moved towards her. Unfortunately for them the creature had noticed and decided to attack. Jess raised the EMD prepared to fire the weapon but didn't have the chance as Becker pushed her out the way whilst continually firing. The creature had gone down not long after and Becker had gone to Jess to check on her.

That's when the whole thing had started. She had been annoyed with him for pushing her out the way and had started to tell him so when he had argued back. But now they were yelling about anything and everything. Most of it not even elating to the incident at all.

Everyone focused back on the two as the yelling got louder.

"I'm telling you that you don't need to carry this thing around! I, we can look after you if you just listen to what we say and do what we tell you Jessica!"

"Oh yes of course because that's always worked in the past right?! Wrong! You can't always be here to protect me Becker and I can look after myself! So no I will not stop carrying this thing around and I will make sure the system is backed up to save a headache later! And next time if I have to I will bloody help you take that thing down!"

"You shouldn't have to! It's not your job Jess!"

"Neither is being Lesters personal assistant but I still do that!"

"That's different and you know it!"

"No different to you putting yourself in danger even more for no bloody reason!"

"I did it to keep you safe!"

"Ever think I don't want you to do that?!"

"Protecting you is my job!"

"That was overkill! You almost got yourself killed! Did you ever think I don't want you to die?!"

"I don't want you to die either!"

"Arrrgh! You idiot! You're taking extra risks and it has to stop!"

"What the hell do you mean?!"

"I think I love you and I don't want you to die because of me you idiot!" Jess stopped and covered her hands in shock.

"Exactly! Now you know how it felt when you disarmed that bloody bomb when I told you to leave!"

Everything went silent. Connor grinned at Abby. He mouthed the word finally to her as she nodded her agreement. Lester rolled his eyes and turned around to go back into his office. Matt shook his head before taking a smiling Emily's hand and tugging her back into Lester's office with Connor and Abby in tow.

Meanwhile Jess turned bright red but felt herself unable to pull away from Becker's equally shocked and slightly embarrassed expression.

Her hands dropped and her mouth opened three times as she tried to say something but failed. "I,"

"Jess, I, do you want to go get lunch?"

"Lunch?"

"Yeah, away from prying eyes?"

It was then she realized the audience they had from the window and blushed even darker. "I'd like that."

"Great I know there's a few empty offices in corridor B we could snag for an hour to talk."

"What no yelling?"

He smirked. "Maybe we could try just talking normally first?"

She smiled and walked beside him out of Ops. His hand found the small of her back easily though this time if it moved slightly lower to her waist or further around to hold her closer neither seemed to notice or mind. At the edge of the room Jess suddenly stopped.

"Oh!"

"Jess?"

"I forgot something."

Becker frowned slightly with confusion. "What?"

She giggled. "This." Without further prompt she lifted herself up onto her tip toes. Catching her drift his hands wound around her waist, pulling her close he bent down and placed a kiss on the corner of her mouth before whispering directly into her ear when she pouted.

"Don't worry you'll get a proper one later away from those prying eyes I mentioned before."

She blushed and bit her lip while giving him a nod. He turned back to the door way and took hold of her waist while guiding her down the corridor towards one of the empty offices.