You Are The Risk I'll Always Take
You Are The Risk I'll Always Take(Part 1/?)
Fandom: Primeval
Character(s): Jess Parker(main), the rest of the characters make cameos, Jess/Becker(later)
Spoilers: Season 5 so far and possibly 5X04
Word Count: 827
Jess sat at her desk starring at the computer screen monitoring all the activity in the A.R.C. and scanning the global satellites looking for anomalies. It had been a quite day so far and Jess really didn't have much to do. Which she thought should be a good thing, no crazy creatures running about and possibly harming innocent people. But Jess, had to admit to herself, she was extremely bored. She had been practicly buried with work ever since Emily's surprising but welcomed return. She had to make sure everyone filed the correct incident reports and that their was not a butterfly effect-like occurrence with Emily's return. Lester had been very strict about that one. But now, everything had been taken care of and she was itching to go find Emily and catch up with her Victorian friend. She flipped through the cctv and located Emily near one of the back labs, probably on her way to go find Matt or Jess could hurry she thought she could probably run interference and steal some girl talk out of Emily before she went off canoodling with Matt, who still insisted he went through the anomaly JUST for the raptor. Everyone knew better, even Emily herself.
So Jess spun quickly in her chair and glanced around the room to see if there was somebody she could snag who could take over for her for just a quick minute or two while she took a break. Normally she could get Connor to do this but, as of late he had been holed up in one of those locked off labs keeping busy with Phillip and not coming to socialize with anyone much. She could see that it took a toll on the team, especially Abby and Jess tried to re-assure her blonde room-mate and friend that all was well, and Connor still loved her. If only Jess could explain to Abby how she would give just about anything to have somebody look at her with half the amount of love Connor had in his eyes when he looked at Abby. But Jess knew that would open a can of worms with Abby about a certain soldier in black who ever since she saved his life from a bomb had kept her at arms length...being the utmost professional. And it slowly drove Jess mad. Ugh, she needed to talk to an outside source who could help her settle her crazy thoughts. She needed to talk to Emily, now.
She spotted a tech, Jack who had been so kind to help her out before. She signaled him over and he asked her how he could be of assistance. She gave him her most pleading look, doe-eyes a go. "Jack, could you just take over here for like 5 minutes? I have to go take care of something really quickly!" She saw him deliberate with himself, probably worried what Lester could possibly do to him if something went was pulling on her pigtail thinking of some way to tilt the odds in her favor. "Oh!" she exclaimed remembering something she had seen on the CCTV a few weeks ago. "If you do this for me" she couldn't help her smile from growing "I'll be sure to tell Valerie how truly helpful you've been!" Jacks eyes instantly widened "How did you-?" he sputtered out. Jess couldn't help but laugh at his reaction "I run the computers" she tried to explain "I see everything." And with that she knew that she had him to cover for her, so she jumped up and grabbed an earpiece "And besides," she added for both their benefits "if worse comes to worse. I'll bring the ear piece with me and if you need me for something just give a shout and I'll come back!". Earpiece in hand she took off towards a cross way in the halls she thought Emily would be taking to get to Matt.
Turning the corner she nearly collided with Abby whose head was down in deep thought. The blonde grabbed Jess to steady her, looking at her quizzically "Jess? I was just on my way to see you about the animal reports-what are you doing here?" Jess told Abby she just had to go tell Emily something and that she'd be right back. Abby smiled and said for Jess to tell Emily that she still had to show her how she put together such a wicked outfit. Jess agreed and was quickly on her way again. Halfway down the corridor she asked a solider if he'd seen Emily and he said that she was with Becker and Matt discussing the techniques she had used to hunt and track the raptor in her time. Ok, Jess thought 'this should be fun stealing her away from the boys!'. She thanked the soldier and decided to take a short cut to get to her destination.
Just then the alarms started blaring making Jess jump in surprise. 'of course it would be the very second I stepped away' she turned around to rush back to her desk when a second alarm rang and the building started going into lock-down. An anomaly was open...
and it was opened in the A.R.C.