A/N: Hello my dear readers.

Becker always blamed himself for people who got hurt or killed, because he couldn't protect them. But he never thought about the people whose life he saved. So, I wanted to write some little stories about Becker saving the lives of his team members, to honour the great job he's always doing.

I hope you enjoy reading.

Disclaimer: I don't own any character of primeval or primeval itself.

Add: It's now beta-read. Thanks to Lovingthis for that ^^

It was late at night, Becker still stood in the armoury, five boxes of EMD's in front of him. Accurately, he reviewed each one of them, for its functionality and its charge. Making sure that they would work properly during the next mission. After all, it was his job to make sure that none of his soldiers would die or get injured because of a malfunctioning gun.

So, after his shift, every day, without fail, Becker checked all the EMD's in the building.

Halfway through the second las gun, an alarm sounded and a red light illuminated the hallway. He jumped into action, grabbing his earpiece and speaking while he ran out of the room.

"Jess, is it an anomaly alert?"

"No. It's the alarm from the menagerie, some creatures could escape. What are you doing here, Becker, shouldn't you be already at home?" He heard her speaking with a concerned voice in his ear.

"That's of no importance. I'm on my way to the menagerie. What and where are they?" He asked, running through the corridors, no time to fully answer Jess' question.

Jess searched the monitors for the animals, shutting down free rooms and evacuating the staff. Finally, she found the creatures. A gasp escaped her mouth as she looked at the monitor in front of her.

"Becker, they are Deinonychus - raptors - two of them and they're chasing Abby. She's caught in the observation room of the menagerie, Becker hurry." She spoke, fully in fear of her friend and flatmate.

"Already there. Jess open the door. As soon as I'm in, close it behind me." He commanded and looked through the glass into the room. His EMD at the ready, eagerly waiting for the door to open.

The Field Coordinator immediately undid the lock down and the Captain flitted in the room. He heard Abby screaming and attempted to run to her. As the Captain made to move, one of the raptors, who had, up to now, been busied with catching something under a sideboard, saw him entering the room and blocked his way, snapping with his razor-sharp teeth after him. Becker fired two gun-shots directly in the raptors face and the creature felt with a loud bang senseless to the ground.

Then, he headed for Abby. She hid under a steady table, tears streaking down her face, while she screamed at the creature that was attacking her. Her words were repetitive and desperate. "Get off! Get off!"

The second raptor repeatedly tried to snap at her, but she managed to counter the attacks by kicking with her feet after its jaws. Slowly her legs run out of power, ache in her muscles threatening to stop her defence. Abby didn't want to give up so easily, but she couldn't take it any more. All adrenaline was fading and soon she would be helpless.

Eventually, the carnivore went convulsive down and Abby spied Becker who stood behind it, pointing with his EMD at the unconscious body.

Abby didn't realize yet that the dinosaur couldn't hurt her any more, her feet still weakly kicked after the raptors head.

The Captain sprinted the small distance to his companion, kneeling in front of her.

"Abby, Abby, calm down. It's over." He spoke with the most comforting, calming, voice he could make, but inside he was full of worry for his friend.

Becker held her feet to the ground with only as much pressure as needed. He looked at her, trying to catch her sight, reaching out a spare hand to touch her face, getting Abby's attention. As she finally stopped, he lowered the hand to help her stand up. Then he pulled her upright and took her in a great hug, gently stroking her back. Abby shivered and cried in his chest.

"They got Rex. They killed him." She blubbered out.

"Shush. Abby. Shush." He tried to calm her down, leaning his head on hers.

After a couple of seconds, Abby's face was still buried in his upper body, as his both hands grabbed her face and lifted her head.

"Abby, Abby." Becker grinned widely in her distraught and flabbergasted face.

"Look." He said with a big smile and turned her head to the left.

Finally, she saw what made him beam. Rex had just crept out from under the sideboard.

He was alive!

"Rex." Abby perked up and sprinted to her little friend, lifting him gently up and cuddling him in her arms.

"I thought you were dead! Oh Rex." Abby huddled her head against the back of the Coelurosauravus, who grinned in delight.

As the lock down was undone by a watching Jess, a couple of soldiers entered the room to take care of the unconscious raptors.

Becker went to Abby's side and laid one arm over her shoulder: "Come, let's get out of here." He said and guided them both out to the corridor.

While they walked to the break room the girl turned to the soldier and gave him a proper hug, smiling.

"Thanks, Becker. You saved my life today." She then nodded to Rex and added, "both our lives."

The Captain just grinned: "Never mind. It's my job, after all."

"You just didn't do only your job. You protected us." She answered, seriously looking at him.

"Abby, I'm here to protect you." He replied smilingly, and left to find out how the incident occurred in the first place.

A/N: Sorry for the story being so short, the next chapters will be longer. I hope you still liked it.

In the next chapter he's going to save another life, do you want to guess who it will be?

Please leave a comment, that would really make me happy.