Saving Connor Temple

This story is Dedicated to Lovingthis. Thank you for all your help, and also to PrehistoricCat. I was having a bit of trouble with my next story and she was kind enough to throw me a few ideas.

This story follows Boss's Daughter and will contain characters from that story, but timelines may jump around a little.

Sadly I do not own Primeval or it's characters. However I do own Bertie Becker and Luke Temple.

Timeline follows is this: The story starts after Helen has just killed Professor Nick Cutter. (Series 3) Helen has not met Danny, and wants to find out about the artefact.

Somewhere in the Pliocene...

A woman trudged up the hill. She had been here for six months and she was tired. She wished for an anomaly to appear. Her pale brown boiler suit was dusty and dirty from her rocky and rugged surroundings. She needed to find water, and soon. Not only did she need a good drink but she needed a bath too. Fresh running water would be a godsend! In the distance she saw an anomaly flicker into existence. Quickly she ran towards it. She stopped and hid behind a rock as she saw a man walk through it. He was of average height and he wore dark trousers and a dark shirt, his ill-fitting green jacket did nothing to hide his unshaven good looks. His hair was dark. Almost black as his beard.

She watched him for a moment as he began to study his environment. He didn't look like ARC staff.

She decided to approach him. Maybe he had some water she could drink.

"Hello!" she shouted. The man spun around, a gun in his hand. He was poised to shoot. "Please don't shoot; I just want some water..." She smiled at him and stood provocatively, as she held her hands up. The man reached into a backpack, and pulled out a canister of water. He began to relax. This woman was in no fit state to harm him. "Hi I'm Ethan," "Helen. Helen Cutter." "Listen we should go from here, my brother will probably come looking for me." "Who's your brother?" "Danny. Danny Quinn." She shook her head. She hadn't heard the name before? Who could he be? She wondered if he was connected to the ARC in some way as she drank the water greedily.

"Where does that anomaly lead to?" Helen questioned. "Is that what you call it? The gateway...? 2009, I've just come from there. No intention of going back. You can go through if you want, but I'm staying here."

With thoughts of finding water no longer on her mind, they trudged into the distance... Both of them grateful for some company.

They found some shelter near a flowing river and settled down for the night.

They talked for an age sharing what they had found out. What they didn't realise was that they were being watched from the distance. Their stalker settled down for the night too.

In the morning Ethan woke late. The sun streamed into their cave that they had spent the night in. He had enjoyed the company of this older woman. She seemed easy to talk to. Her ideas seemed very similar to his. She had even shown him her little black book. In it she had noted several ideas and locations. For some reason the number 333 seemed to be written down in several places. He began to look around for her and found her outside the cave that they had found. She was preparing what looked like breakfast. He saw broken eggshells laying on the floor beside her. She had obviously found something for them to eat.

Their stalker watched as they ate breakfast, his mouth watering as they ate. He wouldn't mind having a bit of breakfast himself. He continued watching as they cleared up and started to move on. He was going to follow them to see what they were up to. Helen Cutter and Ethan Dobrowski was not a good combination. He watched as another anomaly flickered into existence and the pair ran towards it. Carefully, and hoping that he wasn't seen he followed them through. Ethan and Helen moved quickly, they realised that they were in the future and although there were no creatures, they knew they had to move quickly or else the flying insects would find them.

Quickly Helen flicked on a computer and checked the date – 2031. She put in Lester's password to gain entry to the ARC's computers. She sniggered as it let her onto the system. After all these years they still hadn't figured out that she knew his password.

Helen had not been to this particular era before, she had ventured into Era's past this date. She found out why the artefact was so important and started to search for its last known whereabouts.

It was here that Helen made a startling discovery. Connor Temple had known about the end of the world!

He had been the one to make this unusual discovery...

In the ARC...

2012

Becker sat at his desk looking at a picture of himself and Bertie. Taken just after he had been exonerated from rape charges. He sighed; it had been two months since his father had been told of the dreadful news...

Major Bertie Becker was listed as Missing in Action!

The last reports that they had received were that Major Becker and Captain Burnett had gone to investigate strange lights, in a very unruly part of the country.

Becker took a deep breath and sighed. He wished there was something he could do. The more time that went by, the less chance there was that she would be found alive. There had not even been any reports of soldiers being kidnapped due to terrorist activity. He was worried.

Jess put a consoling hand on his shoulder. She knew how much Bertie had meant to Becker. She herself was very grateful to Bertie. If Bertie had not arrived and cleared him of rape, when she did, Becker would never have accepted Jess. Now that they were a couple, she felt she owed Bertie a lot more than just thank you. She just wished there was something she could do to bring him out of his misery.

They were both jolted from their memories when the ADD alarm bells began to ring. Jess, Abby and Becker ran towards the ADD, Matt and Connor were in the lab talking about the latest project. They took a bit longer to arrive.

"What have we got Jess?" Becker leaned over Jess's chair. He really wanted some sort of contact with her before he left on this anomaly alert. Jess reached over to one of the black boxes and passed it to Becker behind her.

His fingers lingered over hers, if this was the only contact he had before he left, he didn't want it to end.

"Becker, Can I have my hand back please." She grinned as Becker mouthed an apology. "It's in a forest a place called Oakhill Wood it's off the M25."Jess spoke clearly as Becker, Abby, Connor and Matt went to find the anomaly.

Jess frowned as she tried to get a satellite image of the anomaly. "Guys, I have no visual on the anomaly, you'll be going in blind."

Becker, Connor and Abby were the first to arrive on the scene. Matt and Emily arrived seconds after them. They focused on the anomaly.

"What's your dating calculator say Connor?" Matt asked. Abby cringed. She hated the small device being called that, she wished that they could call it something else.

"It's the future, 2031."

"Stand back, something's coming through?" Matt paused.

"Not something, someone!" Danny shouted as he came through. His hands raised in surrender. He smiled as he realised his old friends were not going to shoot him. "It's OK it come through," he shouted to someone behind him.

Connor stumbled backwards, almost fainting. The young man who walked through was a spitting image of himself.

Danny grinned. "You remember Luke, your son," Danny looked at Connor, who grinned and the two men embraced.

Danny waited as the whole team welcomed him back.

You can come through now, Danny shouted through the anomaly.

Another figure came sauntering through the anomaly.

"Oh, Haitch!" Bertie Becker embraced her brother. It was is if she had not seen him for ages.

"Bertie... You're alive!" Becker gaped.

"Great to see you too, Bro." she muttered.

Matt and Danny gathered in Lester's office. Danny talked about what he had discovered in the future.

"We have to protect Connor," Danny explained. "Of course that goes without saying I mean Connor was instrumental in the set up of the ARC." Lester agreed.

"Well. This time she's going back in time to prevent him from ever being born. Who knows she might even succeed!" Danny was not looking forward to this.

"Well one of you will have to go and ensure that he is born. I mean without Connor the ARC does not exist!" Lester quipped with as much authority as he could muster.

"Have you ever met Connor's mum?" Danny asked feeling more than just a little uneasy.

"I met her when you, Connor, and Abby were missing in action. She seems a pleasant enough woman." Lester smiled remembering the meeting he had had with Connor's mother. She had even said at the time that she felt as if she had met him before. "She must have been very pretty when she was young."

Danny glanced over at Matt. "In that case, you can do the honours!" Danny smirked.

"What?" Lester started with shock. "What do you mean?"

"You know. You'll have to... Um. You know ..." Danny whistled gently hoping that Lester would understand what he was trying to say.

"You don't mean?" Lester began to go pale.

"I do..." Danny delivered the line absolutely deadpan.

Lester gold fished for a moment. "Is there no other way?" He asked quietly.

"'Fraid not." Danny looked Lester in the eye. He knew the older man was reluctant, but there was no way he was going to bed Connor's mother!

"Matt, what about you?" Lester floundered, trying to come up with an excuse.

Matt didn't answer; there was a flurry of activity outside in the hub. All they could hear was Abby calling Luke as he lay in her arms.

"Excuse me for a minute." Matt replied in his dulcet tones and then glanced at Danny and Lester before all three men left the room to see what the fuss was about.

Jess was at the console of the ADD. She called for a medic and watched Abby cradling Luke as he lay on the floor.

Danny took Matt and Lester to one side. "It's starting. This is probably a result of what Helen's doing."

What on earth is Helen up to?

What is happening to Luke?

What has Danny learned that could change everything?

I hope you haven't been disappointed.

Read and review please... My muse is incredibly hungry!