The Trouble with Connor Temple.

Disclaimer: I do not own Primeval, or its characters.

I Do However, own Caroline Lester, Bertie Becker, Luke Temple, Mike Malonino, General White and Justin McDonalds.

Sorry for the short start to this story... Just trying to set the scene.

Connor was sat in the break room with Abby. The remains of their lunch sat beside them. Or rather, his plate was empty, whilst Abby was struggling to eat. Her stomach being squashed by the baby, making it difficult, and so she would eat little and often. She sat back in the armchair, resting her swollen feet on the coffee table. Her hand resting on top of her huge belly. She shifted uncomfortably and winced as she adjusted the cushion under her back. She was having a quiet day. She had shown her new assistant Bella how to go about doing her job. She was now close to term and was winding down her responsibilities at the ARC.

Connor was working on his laptop. He had gone back to find Professor Cutter's notes on the map of anomalies, and he was trying to process all the information onto the computer, so that they could predict when and where the next anomaly was going to open. He looked up as alarm bells, signalling an anomaly alert, rang through the ARC. Connor closed his computer and was about to head off when Abby grabbed his arm.

"Be careful... Yeah?" Her deep, blue eyes full of concern. Connor smiled.

"Of course... See you soon. Don't let anything start without me!" He leaned down to kiss her quickly on the lips and then bent down further to plant another on her stomach.

Connor, Matt, Emily and Becker met Jess at the Van that housed the mobile ADD.

Jess climbed into the van first and belted herself into the seat in the back. From her seat of the heavily computerised van, Jess could monitor everything. It gave them more of an edge when it came to the anomalies and creature incursions. Becker climbed in after her and drove, Connor got in beside him, and Matt and Emily jumped into a SUV.

She quickly spoke into her comms unit, giving Matt directions. Via satellite, Jess could track the anomaly. This time it was in an old dilapidated cinema on the outskirts of Wycombe. Becker and Matt all drove as fast as they could. Jess kept an eye on the anomaly which was nearly impossible, as there were no cameras inside the building.

Becker parked the van at a safe distance, and surveyed the area, he could tell the complex was old, and owing to lack of trade, the place was now really run down. The huge car park was empty, and the shops had been closed due to the recession. There were no people about to be injured.

They had nearly arrived when Jess noticed the computer readings going up and down, indicating a creature incursion.

Matt and Emily waited for them to catch up. Together with EMD's raised, they went in. The run down building looked old, and smelled musty, the damp air, making the team cough as they tried to get used to the air around them.

Slowly they prowled the cinema, looking for the anomaly and the creature. Jess helped them with finding the anomaly. That was simple enough. She could see it on her computer screens and with the aid of their black boxes, she could lead them straight to it... But they had to locate the creature that Jess knew was in the building.

Becker opened the door to a theatre, and glanced around, nothing. He gestured to Connor to check the next room.

Connor saw the creature; he noticed the head which was dome-like and rimmed by knobs and grooves just before it thundered back into the cinema hall where it had just come from. Connor, the walking talking dinosaur dictionary spouted his information.

"It's a Majungatholus. It's a biped, it's an herbivore, least that's good, and it's unlikely to eat us."

Carefully he went in, this hall was different and he had to venture further into the room before he could see all of it.

Becker had seen the animal too and had seen Connor go after it. He heard thudding coming from the hall to his left, the one his friend had just entered. Fearing for the older man's safety, he went in.

Becker spotted Connor; he lay crumpled on the ground. Battered and bruised, his clothes had been torn and he had a particularly nasty gash under his chin.

Just past him, he saw the anomaly. He turned as he heard a noise behind him, and saw the creature.

It wasn't huge; it was only just slightly taller than he was. He raised his EMD and went after it. The creature panicked and bolted. Straight for Connor. He tried to shoot the beast before it got too close to his friend.

The dinosaur continued running straight through the anomaly, having heard the sounds of his herd on the other side.

"Connor!" Matt yelled as he saw him lying before the glittering globe.

"Close the anomaly... Quick, before it changes its mind." Matt ordered as he heard Abby screaming through the comms unit. She had stayed behind at the ARC. Being in the last stages of pregnancy, it was considered too dangerous to be out in the field.

Complying with orders, Emily bent down to close the Anomaly.

Becker picked Connor up and carried him. Back to the van that they had left waiting.

They didn't notice that they were being watched, a woman smiled knowingly behind them...

They took Connor back to the infirmary, where he was stitched and bandaged up.

Abby was beside herself with worry. She walked, or rather waddled up to the infirmary to be with Connor as they brought him in. She only had two months left before the baby was born, and moving around was slow.

Abby stared at him, the love of her life lay on the bed in the infirmary. He had cuts all over his face and a particularly nasty one underneath his chin. Abby gulped, she was becoming hormonal again. Tears sprang to her eyes as she watched him sleep. She turned to Dr Caroline Lester.

"Is he going to be OK?"

Caroline nodded and put a caring arm around her shoulder. "His memory is a bit hazy, but he's going to be fine!"

"What do you mean his memory is a bit hazy?" Abby groaned as she remembered the last time he had pulled a stunt like this.

"He doesn't know who I am; maybe he'll remember you."

"But he did that last time, he pretended to have Amnesia!"

"Let's see shall we?" quietly they approached Him. "Connor...? Can you hear me? Connor?"

He shook his head and his eyelids fluttered open. He gazed at the young woman in front of him. He blinked. "Abby...?" He blinked again. "Abby, is that you?"

Abby went over to him and sat on the edge of the bed.

"I'd give you a hug, but that," she indicated her huge stomach, "Would get in the way."

"It's O.K. I understand." He gave her a small smile, and then winced as the stitches under his chin stretched and pulled.

"That's going to leave a lovely scar, under your chin." Abby began to relax, now that her Connor was back and she could look after him.

Abby and Caroline, asked him various questions, it seemed that he had forgotten recent events at the ARC. He had no recollection of ever meeting with Caroline and looked very surprised when Caroline told him that she was Lester's wife. He didn't remember Bertie, Becker's sister and he had forgotten that Danny had recently proposed to her.

Becker and Jess were talking to Bertie via the webcam. Danny had used his Anomaly opening device to take her back to Afghanistan and they managed to convince General White that Danny had rescued her from insurgents hidden in the mountains. When asked if she could lead soldiers to the camp where she was held, the answer was an emphatic – No.

Her story was that when she had been taken captive, she had been blindfolded, and when she escaped, she had lost her way several times and the terrain had been difficult to map in her mind.

Bertie had been pleased; at least she didn't have to have a court martial for being absent!

Danny had joined her whilst she worked. After a while, he began to feel like a spare part and he left to come back to the UK and rejoin the ARC.

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