Happy New Years :D

Watched the first episode on youtube and these were the scenes that stuck out to me. Mainly because I love Becker :)

I considered doing a Becker POV thing for the whole episode, but how much fun was that (not to mention the fact I have to listen to every slurred word they said, talk about hard)? So rather than doing the WHOLE episode, I'm doing a little collection of one shots.

They are not necessarily going to be order and this story wont be top priority, mainly because I have Survivor and HighRise and whatnot. Something to keep my stress level from giving me grey hair.

Anyways onto the first chapter.

Episode: Series 4 Episode 1

Disclaimer: Everything belongs to the awesome creators of Primeval.

Becker walked into the armory, feeling slightly tired from the recent collaboration of events. Somehow, the Dracorex from an anomaly encounter the previous year managed to escape. Matt corralled it into Lester's office (to his distaste) where Becker tranquilized it, all without anyone getting eaten. Good. Becker suspected it was Jess's accidental doing, but he could be wrong.

Matt and Jess both snapped their heads towards him at the same time. Jess a friendly smile, Matt a expressionless mask.

"Your late," Matt stated and tossed him a gun.

Becker caught it easily and recognized it as one of the 'toys'.

"Oh, excellent," he said sarcastically. "Tazers,"

"These are in a different league than any tazers you've ever used in the past," Matt said as Becker flipped the gun over and examined it. "I wouldn't have designed it if it didn't work,"

Becker stifled the urge to scoff. Ex- soldier, Dog Whisperer, mountain climber, and gun designer. Perfect.

He held up the gun.

"You need to remember how many friends I've lost. I'm not going to risk any more lives playing around with... pea shooters," he said waving it around. This gun didn't function on bullets, but electricity. They were dealing with dinosaurs, not shop looters.

Jess exchanged glances with Matt and stepped forwards. Becker held up and inspected parts for the gun, as though he was interested.

"The EMD can be adapted to three basic levels. Low, medium, and high voltage," she listed. "Depending on what you're using it for."

"Yeah, I know what they do, Jess," Becker said and raised the gun. It felt light, too light to do any real damage and the fact it looked like it came out of a cheesy sci-fi movie didn't help at all. He'd rather have his G36 any day. Becker missed the feeling of having a gun hanging from his back. It was natural to him.

"I don't think he believes us," Jess said in an almost mocking tone as she walked towards Matt.

"This is nothing like you've ever experienced before." Matt said to the Captain.

Becker looked down at the sad little gun then at Matt.

"Okay," he said. "Try it," Becker tossed the gun back at Matt.

"I mean it. Shock me." Becker was not bluffing. He began walking backwards, with slow steady steps. That 'gun' didn't look like it could stun a rat, more or less Becker himself. "If I think it's an effective weapon. I will use it. If not...you back down,"

"You really, really don't want me to do that, Becker," Matt said, his warning tone almost completely hiding his eagerness.

It was slightly flattering how annoying Becker must be to have his boss want to shoot him.

"Oh, I do," Becker challenged and smiled. "Come on, Matt." he winked. "Show me what you've got." Becker stopped walking and stood firmly in place, a good distance away from the other two.

Jess exchanged beamused glances with Matt whom looked down at the gun and cocked it.

"Matt," Jess said, her expression changing from amused to concerned. It seemed as though she had thought the both of them had been joking."You can't."

She looked at Becker, as if expecting him to stop it. Becker just shrugged.

"Will you stop being such a pair of kids?" Jess exclaimed.

Becker readied himself for the 'blow'.

"He started it. It's okay," Matt said raising the gun. "He'll live...probably,"

"Will you fire it-" Becker was cut off by the gun.

The bolt of electricity hit him square in the chest, and he was propelled backwards onto the metallic flooring. It was surprising, the shock felt both hot and cold at the same time and it was gone in a flash. What was left was more of a searing pain, really. The point still stood, he didn't expect any of that.

"Are you okay?" Jess rushed over to him as Becker wheezed.

His heart was beating a mile a minute and he swore Matt was smiling.

"Yeah," Becker choked out. "Yeah I'm fine,"

Matt looked proudly at the gun before returning it to it's rightful place. It looked as though shooting Becker had been his life's dream.

"That was the lowest setting on the smallest version of the weapon, the highest designed to bring down a Tyrannosauruses Rex." Matt lectured.

Becker rested his head on the floor and sighed, giving up.

Becker coughed and cleared his throat as he walked, more like staggered down the dark halls of the ARC, Matt trying hard to hide a smile next to him.

"Are you absolutely sold on using EMDs?"

Becker breathed out and put his hands on his knees. He mentally made a note, to never make childish deals with Matt.

"Cause you know, I could always shoot you again," Matt continued on airily.

Becker coughed again, his lungs still not functioning properly yet after being electrocuted.

"Idiot," he managed to say.

Matt looked at him almost smugly.

"How long...until this wears off?" Becker asked as he rubbed his face. Being shot by a real gun was painful, being shot by this gun was just plain annoying.

"The burning, a couple of hours. Headaches, couple of days. The humiliation well not...that kinda depends on when I get bored of it really," Matt said, clearly enjoying the soldier in pain.

Wonderful.

Becker turned his head to the left so he faced Matt.

"You're not really a very funny man, Matt," Becker said and straightened up.

"Depends on your point of view," Matt smiled and they began walking again, Becker a bit more stiffly than the other man.

The Captain exhaled and leaned against the wall as Matt stopped walking.

Judging by his stance and expression, what he was going to say next was not a heart-to-heart talk.

"Look, Becker." Matt said. "I know you've lost friends. But I need you to understand that I won't do anything to risk the team,"

Sarah, Connor, Danny, Abby. The only one left from the old ARC team, was Lester, and Becker wasn't quite ready to consider him as a 'friend'.

"After Sarah was killed," Becker said, finally able to speak clearly. "I thought about quiting." The resignation process wasn't too difficult, but it was hard to quit after doing... this. "Danny...Connor, Abby. The one thing I can do here is make sure that never happens again," he said seriously and pushed off the wall. Becker made a move to leave but Matt stopped him.

"It wasn't your fault. You know that,"

"Yeah it was my job to look after them. I...-" Becker looked away and forced himself to say that word. The one word that he hoped of never having to say, especially in front of his boss. "-failed." Becker purposely avoided looking into Matt's eyes, but heard him walk closer.

"It was a year ago. You really need to let it go now, mate."

Becker turned his head slightly.

"You trust me, right?" he asked. Becker was 100% sure he was going to say no.

Matt furrowed his brow.

"Yeah, with my life,"

Great, let's do trust falls, Becker thought. Even if Matt did trust him, Becker did not trust him back. Something about the new team leader seemed shady.

Becker stared at him, trying to work out if he was lying or not. Matt stared back, curious of the soldiers true intentions.

"Your not going to hug me now, are ya?" Matt said, breaking the silence and slicing through the tension.

Becker turned away.

"God, no." He cleared his throat for the umpteenth time as they walked into the main room, their conversation left behind.

You got to admit, this scene was awesome ;)

Creative critiscm would be nice. R & R :)

Any Becker involved scenes you want next? Add it to your review.