A/N: Oh no! it's the end. Cannot believe it. Im still holding out hope that there will be a series 4.

The End of an Era

Last time on Primeval:

[Danny outside Johnson's HQ, speaking with Lester on the phone]

"Johnson's military. We cant just storm in there without clearance…"

"Yes, sir, Im very well aware of that"

"…based on a hunch that she has got an active anomaly and some mysterious woman from the future tucked away somewhere."

[Christine interrogating Eve from the Future]

"Who are you?"

"I'll show you. But first I have to go to the Anomaly Research Centre"

"What do you know about the ARC?"

[The team evacuating people from the campsite]

"If you're going to do something, now would be a good time!"

"What's it say?"

"Not much. 333 here. Here…"

[Kara, Connor, Grace, Sarah and Becker crashes into the Main Ops room at the ARC]

"What's going on?"

"Now give me the Artefact or she dies"

"Mum!"

[Helen disappears through Johnson's Anomaly]

"No!"

[The team leaving Johnson's HQ]

"What we gonna do?"

"Follow Helen wherever she goes, to the end of time if necessary"

Life as she knew it, was coming to an end. Today everything changed, but there was something holding her back, she didn't understand how, because many people didn't listen to the voice in their head, but that was people who didn't have a care in the world. For Kara Cutter, things were different. Ever since her son had been kidnapped a few months ago now, she had seen things from a different point of view, and with the recovery of her son, she did things differently to what she had before.

Nick Stephen Cutter, was the reason that Kara Cutter didn't want to leave the world she knew as home. To leave the place where her family was, where her son would be waiting for her return, but what if that wasn't possible? What if she left him now, on this day, and never returned? She didn't want to think like that, but she couldn't help it, there were 100 different possibilities of what could happen today. But what was she going to do?

He looked so precious, so young and innocent. The life she had, she didn't want that for him. Didn't want him to grow up without a proper family. She swore that when he was born, that she wouldn't leave him. But this was a matter of life or death. Helen was up to something, and out of her entire team. Kara was the one who would have to stop her. It was after all a family thing, wasn't it?

Nick shifted in his sleep, it was too early for him to be awake, that's why she stood here looking over his sleeping form. She wanted to wake him, see his gorgeous blue eyes one last time before the plan was put into action, but wouldn't that make it harder for her to leave him? Or would it give her hope and determination to return? It would give her both. But she couldn't wake him, she loved him more than life itself, and that's why she was ready for this plan to end. She would be doing it for her son. Not for her, or her team, or the rest of civilization for that matter. But for him. Her core. Her son.

She continued to stare at his small handsome face, until a pair of strong arms wrapped around her waist, and she sank into the embrace with a content sigh.

"Are you sure you can do this?" he asked her

"No," she answered "But I have too…if not for me…then for him"

She lay her head against the nape of his neck, and felt him rest his against hers. She could have stayed like this forever, in peace and harmony if only she didn't have a job to do. Her eyes closed in content, as she placed her hands over his locked ones, that were around her waist. This was all she had ever wanted, a proper life. A proper family. And she had it all now. So why ruin it? But this life she wished for so badly, could never happen, as long as her mother, Helen Cutter was still alive. Once Helen was out of the picture, then her life could really begin.

"Its time," he murmured

Her eyes opened slowly, and she turned her gaze once more to her son and sighed deeply.

"Lets end this!"

The day was glorious, the sun beat down on the streets, driving everyone from the safety of their homes and into the parks, beaches anywhere, that the sun could get to them. The traffic wasn't so bad, but that was mostly because it was a weekend, so there weren't many people driving around heading to work, or taking kids to school. There weren't so many school busses picking up and dropping off at the schools.

This made it easier for the ARC team to get their destination quickly. With Danny, Sarah, Abby and Connor ahead of them in one of the ARC issued silver SUV's, Kara, Grace and Becker followed behind alongside one of Johnson's men. Adam Blake. Grace's on and off boyfriend. He had agreed to help the ARC under the supervision of the team. He had more or less agreed to this, because Grace trusted that he could be an asset to the team. Kara on the other hand wasn't so sure.

Sitting back in the passengers seat, Kara glanced out of the window, her sunglasses pulled down covering her eyes from the sun's rays. They were just passing central park, there were a number of families strewn everywhere. Picnic blankets and baskets littered the ground as children run off from their parents to play in the small park, and mothers watched them carefully as fathers, and older siblings played on the green near them. It was a beautiful sight.

But it was a far off dream for the team.

They passed the town centre as if to wasn't even there. And carried on to the outskirts of the city where the race track was built. Heading for the exact same hanger that they had found the Anomaly a few months ago, they infiltrated the place, their plan started here. They were ready, and organised. All they had to do, was find Helen, stop her and her next plan. And hopefully everything would be okay.

The two cars came to a halt inside the hanger, and the occupants unbuckled themselves and climbed out, meeting in the middle, just to go over a few last minute things.

"Right," Danny said, breaking the silence "What we got?"

Becker, placed a black rucksack on the back of the car and removed a small black object "Stun grenade" he said "Future Predators have hypersensitive hearing yeah? These should stop them dead in their tracks"

And he dropped the object back into the bag

"Got any ear plugs in there?" Connor asked

"Use your fingers," Becker answered him "Oh, and if you don't want your ear drums to burst…I suggest you keep your mouth open"

"That shouldn't be too difficult for, Connor" Abby said, nodding at her friend, the boy in question gave her an odd look, and Kara grinned in amusement.

"Don't be to close when you throw them," Becker finished

"All right," Kara said, looking around at the team "lets do this"

Turning away from the car, she headed towards the Anomaly between Grace and Abby.

The team weren't even half way to the anomaly, before the hand held detectors in Grace, Sarah and Connor's hands bleeped. Kara turned to the small device.

"You've got to be kidding me!" she said, turning to look at Danny. This was not happening.

"Its Johnson's HQ," Sarah said, looking up from her Hand held

"Do you think its Helen?" Abby asked

"Could be," Danny said

"If we go back there," Kara said "And we're wrong…" she shook her head, her eyes turning to the locked anomaly. They couldn't be in two places at once. Someone had to stay behind. But breaking the team up at a time like this was the biggest mistake they couldn't make, wasn't it?

"Kara," Connor's voice sounded "Danny…one of you has to make the call,"

Kara sighed and turned to look at Danny who had broken away from the group, they stared at one another for a few moments, as if debating silently on what to do.

"Right" Danny said "Becker you check it out…"

"Grace, Sarah and Adam, go with him" Kara intercepted "Danny, Connor and Abby…you guys are with me. Wherever she is, we'll stop her"

"But I want to go with you," Grace said, to her cousin

Kara turned to her and smiled sadly shaking her head "Not this time Graciey,"

"Kara please, for once in your life, just screw the rules and stop trying to protect me"

Kara laughed softly "This isn't about the rules. And it most defiantly isn't standard precautions' anymore. Its loyalty to my family. When my dad died, I swore that I would protect the little family I had left."

"But -" Grace protested

"You should know by now, that once my mind is made up," Kara said cutting across the protest "That there is no changing it…just stay here, promise me you'll be safe…and you'll take care of Nick, until I get back"

"I'll do all that, if you promise me that this isn't goodbye" Grace said, hugging her cousin tightly

"I promise this isn't goodbye," Kara said as she hugged her cousin back "We're all coming back…when have I ever broken a promise?"

Grace grinned as she pulled back "Never…not to me anyway"

"Unlock it," she said turning to Sarah, before heading towards the anomaly, only to be pulled back when a hand wrapped itself around her wrist. She turned to see it was Becker, and he was staring at her meaningfully

"Just be careful," he said

"I will" she said, and not caring that her team or his were watching. She kissed him. Hard and passionate. Like it was the last kiss that they would ever share together.

They each pulled away reluctantly, and Kara turned hurrying to Danny's side. Before they and Abby and Connor stepped through into the Future.

Once the other four and stepped through into the future, Sarah re-sealed the anomaly. She placed the locking device back near the laptop, before turning to Becker spoke.

"Lets get going," he said

"What about Johnson's people?" Sarah asked

"The operation has been closed down," Adam said, speaking for once "The place is empty"

"You're sure?" Grace asked, turning to her boyfriend

"Yes. Since Christine's death, none of us have any reason for being there anymore"

"That still creeps me out," Grace mumbled "You talk about Christine like she was more than your leader…"

"Don't worry, Graciey," Adam said "There's only one girl in my life"

"Urgh," Sarah groaned as she watched the two head back to the cars "Looks like Grace and Adam are filling your's and Kara's spot, in grossing me out" she said to Becker.

Becker chuckled, as Sarah climbed into the passengers seat. He glanced up at the Anomaly, silently praying that everything would be okay.

"She'll be okay," Grace said through the open window of the back seat "Trust me…Kara has never failed on any of her promises…she'll be back"

Becker turned to look at her and nodded, before climbing into the drivers seat, and pulling out of the hanger once more.

The Future was exactly the same as it had been all those months ago, the same old battle field, the decaying buildings. The cliff behind them. The grey sky and violent purple clouds. Thunder grumbled and lightening clashed, illuminating the understand of the clouds. It was all the same.

"It doesn't get prettier, does it?" Danny asked

Kara shook her head, as she looked around the surrounding area. Nope, it didn't get prettier.

"Are you all right?" she asked turning to Abby and Connor

"Yeah," Abby answered as Connor nodded

"When I saw Helen, she was down there" Danny said, pointing the gun Becker had given him before they stepped through "By the church"

"Lets go," Kara said, and the four of the set off one after the other towards the outside sides of the buildings.

There was nothing. No movement. No sounds nothing. Except the thunder over head. The only sound Kara could hear was the beating of her own heart in her chest. It was beating so fast and hard that she was sure it was gonna break through her rib cage any second. The soundless surrounding was penetrating her entire body with fear, she glanced at Abby, to see that she wasn't the only one who had picked up on the silence. Abby had turned her gaze skyward, as if looking for a predator attack from above. But there was nothing.

Metallic creaking was heard, and Kara snapped out of her thoughts and looked up. Was the sound coming from her mother or a Predator? It sounded close, so maybe they would find out sooner or later. Loading the shot gun quietly, Danny held it ahead of him and peered around the corner of the building they had taken refuge at.

"Is it Helen?" Abby asked, quietly

But the sound of birds caused the four of them to sigh in relief.

Quickly evading their spot, Danny and Kara hurried along the pathway skimming the buildings behind them, before coming to a stop across from the place they had hidden in the last time they were here. Kara waved Abby and Connor over, signalling that it was safe. She then turned back to face Danny.

"So where is Helen?" she asked "Where are all the predators?"

She wasn't sure if she was relieved that the predators were around or not.

"Shh," Abby suddenly said, and Kara turned to her friend in confusion. "Listen!"

Straining to hear, Kara breathed in sharply. She had to ask didn't she? There was the sound of fluttering wings coming from the distance, turning to the left, and looking back towards where the Anomaly was, she saw three shapes in the air. It was the Megopteran.

"Come on Abs," Kara said, grabbing the blonde's hand and pulling her down into the alley, they jumped onto the top of a near-by car, sliding down the windscreen and back onto solid ground.

"Go!" Danny shouted, he pushed the girls ahead of him as he turned and fire two rounds of the shot gun at the on coming predators but it was no use.

"Get down!" Connor shouted, and Kara whipped around to see he had managed to open a door, there was an anomaly behind it, but before anyone could say anything, the four of them hit the ground with heavy thuds as the creatures flew straight through the anomaly. One after another.

The car was silent. It was starting to get uncomfortable. Every single occupant was wondering what was happening in the future, and each was worried for their team mates, friends and family.

"No one on the gate then," said Becker, breaking the silence "Lets hope its all that easy,"

"I wouldn't bet on it," Grace said, as the car came to a halt, and she climbed out, slamming the door as she went. "Which way now?" she added turning to Adam

"Through here," he said, and he headed for a small archway ending with another closed door, on the other side of the closed doors were lines of army issued guns. Adam lifted one from the racks and loaded it before the team of three. "One army issue isn't gonna be enough if there are any predators in here!"

Grace and Sarah shared a look, before following the two men into the building. It was once again deserted.

"Is this place always so empty?" Sarah asked

"It has the last two times we have been here," Grace answered her "Its kinda creepy! Reminds me of those old Horror Movies, me and Kara used to watch"

"I thought you didn't like Horror movies?" Adam asked

"I don't," Grace answered simply

Adam smirked as he carried on walking, the gun elevated in front of him.

There was the soft sound of fluttering wings coming from somewhere, standing back to back with one another, searching for the source of the noise, but there was nothing just the fluttering of wings. There was a sudden thud from above, and Grace and the others turned their vision skyward, there was a hand hanging over the side of the floor above them.

"I thought you said this place was empty?" Sarah asked, turning to Adam

"Its supposed to be," he answered "There are a few men who still believe that Christine is alive"

"Oh my God!" Grace suddenly said, as she realized what creature was here, she turned to the sound of fluttering wings once more and screamed "ADAM!"

The man in question turned to the sound of his name, and released the safety on his gun as he fired several rounds at the on-coming attack. But it was no use, the creatures neither stopped nor slowed down.

"Becker!" Sarah said, as the second man turned, but as he attempted to fire the re-loader caught

"Damn it!" Becker swore, as the creature collided with him, knocking him to the ground a gun as the only barrier between the vicious snapping pincers of the creature.

"Adam!" Grace yelled again "Do something!"

As Adam raised his gun to fire more round, Becker jabbed the broken half of his gun into the creatures eye. This provided limited time for Becker to raise himself from the ground.

"Run!" Becker ordered

"Through here," Adam said, heading to a pair of glass doors and pushing them open, he was the first through as Grace, Sarah and Becker followed.

"This is the main hall," Adam said, looking over the side of the walkway they were standing on. They thought this part of the Headquarters would be creature free. They were wrong. There were two more creatures waiting for them on the opposite side of the glass doors. Adam and Becker lifted two large bags that had been abandoned beside them, as the each stood back to back with the girls behind them.

Thinking back to her adventures has a child, Grace grabbed one of the last bags beside her and threw it over the side. "Sarah! Help me! Throw them over the side" she instructed.

Confused on what was happening, Sarah did has instructed.

"Becker! Adam!" she shouted to the boys, as they followed copied her actions, once all bags had been thrown over the side, Grace climbed over the railing, helping Sarah over beside her as Adam fended off the creatures with several gunshots.

"Grace, what are you doing?" Sarah asked

"Jump!"

And she jumped. She landed on the bags below her, before climbing down onto the lower walkways. As soon as she and touched down, Sarah landed on the bags behind her, and she helped the older woman down beside her. Becker came next, and as he and Sarah headed down the steps, Grace turned to look up at Adam. He had yet to jump.

"Grace! Come on!" Becker called back to her

"Adam!" Grace shouted, ignoring her team mates behind her "Adam! Jump!"

"Grace go!" Adam said to her

"Not without you!" she argued

There was a disgruntled sigh, and Adam appeared seconds later, he gripped Grace's hand and pulled her with him down the stairs Becker and Sarah had gone previously, the two in question where at the bottom.

"Come on," Adam said, and he lead them towards about set of glass doors, maintaining his grip on Grace's hand

"This must be Johnson's Anomaly," Kara said, as Connor closed the door on the anomaly, her mind wandered to the others, they had just sent three Megopteran through to their present, and into the same place the others were gonna be. God, she hoped everything turned out okay.

"So, uh, where did you see Helen?" Connor asked, quietly and Kara turned to look at Danny

"She came from over there," Danny said, indicating to a place over Connor's shoulder. Kara turned and looked, it was the exact same place she had come out, when she was here last time, the same place she had evaded capture from one of Christine's men.

"I think I know where she is," she said to the others, as they made their way carefully and quietly to the door "This is the same place I came out, last time we were here"

"Yeah?" Abby asked

Kara nodded, as Danny opened the door carefully shedding a little light on the darkness inside the room. Kara pulled out her torch and switched it on as she stepped into the room behind Danny, she noticed Connor and Abby following her actions as they stepped in behind her.

"This way," Kara said in a low whisper, she didn't know why she was whispering but she guessed it was because if there was any predators in here, she didn't want to alert them to their presence.

Unknown to the friends as they moved away from the door and further into the darkness, a taloned claw was placed on the door and pulled it open. As the fearsome Future Predator appeared in the sunlit doorway.

The darkness was everywhere, just like it had been before. Kara shivered subconsciously, as she followed, yet again behind Danny, her hand clutched at the back of his shirt as to not get separated. That's the last thing the needed, she could feel Connor and Abby behind her and she glanced over her shoulder a few times to make sure they were with her at all times.

Danny led the way into another room, anticipation building with the walls and themselves. They had been expecting a creature attack at any moment, yet nothing came. The one question that was everyone's minds was, 'where were all the predators?' besides the Megopteran topside, there had not been one fleeting glance of a Future Predator. And that's what they were all waiting for the most.

Connor groaned from behind Kara, as they entered the next room "It stinks," he complained "Why would Helen come here? If it was me, I'd just find some nice little Jurassic beach somewhere"

Kara gave him an odd look, before turning to Danny as he kicked an object in front of him. The sudden noise made her jump.

"Are you okay?" Danny asked her curiously, she breathed deeply and nodded

"Yeah," she answered him "Sorry. I thought something was in here besides us then,"

"However crazy, you're mother was," Danny continued "everything she does makes some sort of sense"

"Really?" Connor asked

Turning to the sound of rumbling, Kara saw as Abby threw herself aside, just as a Future Predator appeared.

"Get the door!" she screamed

Danny shot at the predator, grazing the shoulder but that didn't stop the creature from attempting to get at them once more. With Connor's help, he and Kara managed to close the door. Abby was between them, as Danny lay against the other side, for a few moments all was quiet.

"Did you get it?" Abby asked

As soon as the words left her mouth, there was a snarling and ramming against the other side of the door.

"Apparently not" Danny answered, as he leapt off the door as the door opened slightly and the creature's head appeared in the gap. He fended off the creature the best he could, firing another round from the gun.

"Cant hold it!" Kara and Connor complained, as the door started to open more, although they were pushing all their weight against it.

Losing the gun, Danny reappeared and pushed his own weight against the door, slamming it once more.

"We need something to keep the door closed," Danny said, and Abby appeared with a metal bar, she steadied it against the floor, and locked it under the handle of the metal door, it seemed to work, because the door was stationary. Finally feeling safe but still shaken, the team moved away from the door.

"Becker is really not going to be happy with you," Kara said, turning to Danny

"Why?" Danny asked

"That was his favourite gun,"

"I think he is gonna be more worried about you, than he is his gun," Danny answered with a small laugh, Kara grinned and blushed in the darkness, turning away from her friend as she heard Abby gasp from behind her.

"Oh my God," the blonde murmured,

Shining her torch on the back of the door, Kara gasped. A blue circle, with block white letters, embedded in the circle were A.R.C. This was the ARC. The Future ARC. The very place they worked.

"We're in the ARC" Danny said, placing his hand over the shield, he looked back at Kara.

"Maybe its some future version of it," Connor suggested

"Mum said it all started here," Kara said "This must have been what she meant"

"She's here," Danny said "I know it!"

"Come on!"

And with one fleeting glance at the ARC shield, Kara led the way through the dark winding corridor and back into the room where she had found her mother and son the previous time she had been here.

"Adam will you just calm down!" Grace hissed, as her boyfriend pulled her along behind her, his grip on her wrist was starting to hurt, and his pulling was hurting her shoulder. She was perfectly capable of walking by herself.

"We have to get out of here!" Adam said, without loosening his grip or slowing his walk "This is madness…"

"Adam -" Grace tried again but her boyfriend was persistent

"You're cousin was stupid to send us here!"

Grace stopped dead in her tracks, and ripped her hand from Adam's hand. Sarah and Becker who had been walking behind her, nearly crashed into her, and looked at her questionably as she glared at Adam.

"You could tell by the look in Kara's face that she didn't want to break the team apart today!" Grace said "But we had no choice. We could have all gone to the Future to stop my aunt, but that would have meant leaving innocent civilians to deal with carnivorous predators that they didn't understand! So don't you dare, say that she was stupid to split us up, because she did the only thing she knew how to do. She wanted to protect the public, like she has done for the past 2 and half years…that's why she split us up, and sent us here!"

Adam sighed,

"Grace, I didn't mean it like that," he said dejectedly

"Then how did you mean it?"

Adam shook his head, he hadn't meant to call Kara stupid, he just thought it was a stupid idea to send them to a place where there was an active anomaly to the Future. At this moment in time, there was nothing protecting them from Future Predators or those flying creatures. Neither he nor Becker had a gun.

Grace scoffed "Action speaks louder than words"

"Lets just get back to the car, and get the hell out of here, yeah?" he asked

Grace shook her head and stared at him "We have to make sure the anomaly is closed first!"

"This place could be full of those creatures, and you want to go further upstairs?" Adam demanded

"We have a job to do!" Grace argued "That is to make sure that the Anomaly here is either closed or guarded! Leaving now, could mean millions of innocent lives if those creatures got out! Do you want that to be on your conscious?"

"At least lets get back downstairs, so we can get more firearms," Adam said

Grace sighed "Fine! But then we come straight back up here…"

Adam shared a look with Becker and Sarah as Grace brushed past him and out of the corridor, rubbing her wrist with her free hand.

They made it back downstairs to the car, Adam grabbing the last remaining gun from the doorway. Becker's second fire arm was in the car.

"This will take two minutes," Becker said to Grace, who was close to protesting

"Fine," she grumbled and followed them out, she wanted to check if the Anomaly was open or not so that she could get back to meeting her cousin when she and the others returned from the Future.

Metallic thudding broke through the silence, and Grace looked up startled, it seemed the creatures had followed them and crashed through a metallic panel behind them. As Sarah reached the passenger side door, trying to regain safety inside the car, one of the creatures smashed the driver's side window.

The brunette flew out of the car and slammed the door shut.

"Sarah, when the creature gets close, open the door!" Grace instructed

"What?" the woman asked, and Grace hurried forward.

She gripped the cool door handle and looked up at the creature had started towards her, it was coming so fast that it was almost a blur, once she was sure it was close enough, she pulled open the car door, and the creature smashed into it, shattering the window pane.

"Come on!" Becker and Adam yelled, each grabbing a girl by the wrist and pulling them away from the car.

"In here!" Adam said, opening a metal grill beside them, the others stumbled in as he followed and closed the door just in time as the creatures appeared, biting at the recently closed grilles.

"There's no way out!" Sarah said frantically, as she hit the grids around them

"Adam there is no way out!" Grace said turning to her boyfriend

"I'll call the back-up team," Becker said "Tell them exactly where we are"

"I think it's a bit too late for that," said Sarah, as the Megopteran started to bite their way through

Adam looked up, at the over-head wall, an idea sprang to mind.

"Right, we need to get both of them on the grill at the same time" Becker said, although he didn't say way, he noticed Becker, Sarah and Grace exchange looks but he didn't register anything.

"You what?" Grace asked

"Come on," Adam said "We've only got one shot at this"

Grace stared at him like he had grown an extra head or something, was he seriously expecting them to put their lives and limbs on the line? She watched as he pulled down two pieces of wires from over head, before he turned to look at her. She sighed and turned to Sarah.

"Come on!" she said, before rattling the grill

"Now!" Sarah said, as the creatures bit down on the metal as she and Grace let go

Adam touched the electrical wires to the metal, as the current surged through. There was a flash, and the two creatures dropped dead. Grace shuddered, but backed up slowly and slid down the wall, behind her, Sarah and Becker on one side and Adam on her other.

"Do you think that's the last of those things?" Sarah asked

"Lets go find out." Becker said

The room in which they needed, was already open. The men that were inside were dead, but the Anomaly wasn't there. Adam stood staring at the dead guards, a sad expression on his face. He was staring at his fallen comrades of course he was going to upset. But this place was supposed to have been empty, if it had been, then these men would still be alive.

"Their dead," Adam whispered "All of them…"

"And to think if we hadn't been here, there would be millions of other people like this" Grace said softly, taking her boyfriends hand and pulling him from the room "Come on…we have to go!"

Adam was numb, and he let his girlfriend pull him down the hallway and back out to the car.

The ride back was quiet. Adam and Grace sat in the back, Adam in his own world, Grace staring out of the window and the clouds over head. The car came to a halt, and Grace looked up, time must have flown because she hadn't even realised where she was. They were back at the hanger.

Jumping out of the car and hurrying towards the locking device, it was time for her cousin and the others to return. She hoped everything that gone according to plan and that her aunt Helen had been dealt with discreetly.

"Its time." Sarah's voice said and Grace looked up at the SAS soldiers

"Open it" she said, Becker's men nodded and activated the Locking device

For two minutes nothing happened, the anomaly just hung in mid air, sparkling, there was no Danny. No Connor. No Abby and No Kara coming back through. Where were they?

"Where are they?" Sarah asked, staring at the anomaly a longing look on her face.

Grace saw Adam and Becker exchange looks from the corner of her eye, but she didn't say anything as she too wondered were the rest of the team were.

"Come on, Kara" she whispered "Hurry up!"

The darkness was getting a little lighter, but the torches were still essential with no blinding light to lead their way, the small streams were all they got. Kara didn't remember this path, she wasn't sure if she had used it before, because nothing seemed the same. But then again, she couldn't remember much of her trip to the future last time because she had permanently erased it from her memory. Who wanted to be haunted by dreams of your son's kidnapping or the place that you found them in after? She certainly didn't.

"That's what Helen used to open the anomalies," Danny said

Kara hadnt realised the he had stopped and walked straight into him, she back-tracked and shook her head before glaring at him for not warning her. She then stepped around him and looked down at the device he and Connor had been talking about.

"How do you think it works?" Abby asked

"I wish I knew" Connor answered

There was a clattering sound in the distance and Kara whipped around, but all she could see was darkness. Looking back at her friends, she noticed the looks they each shared "Did you just ?" she started

"Yeah," Abby answered whilst Danny and Connor nodded

Kara indicated her head in the direction of the noise, and started on her way once more. She heard the others shuffle off behind her, and knew they were following.

She stepped through another doorway, and then realized that she had come this way before. She remember now, recognized the new room, she carefully climbed down the stairs, she hadnt remembered the stairs but that was because she had practically flew out of this room the last time she had been here. She turned so that she was facing the others when she stepped down and opened her mouth to tell them what to do, when Danny intervened.

"Connor you go that way and round," he whispered, pointing to the small space just behind him "Abby, Kara, you go that way…close in on her from the sides…"

"And what about you?" Kara whispered to him

"I'll go down here, try and distract her" he answered "She has a gun…if I can distract her long enough to grab it…then we're home free"

Kara stared at for the longest moment, but she realized that she didn't have her say in this and so split up with Abby to close in on her mother from the side.

Looking back at her blonde friend, Kara and Abby edged quietly across the wall, listening for any sign that Connor or Danny had gotten to her mum first. There was nothing. Nothing but silence and broken darkness.. There was a loud clatter that broke the silence, a scuffle and then Helen's voice that rang out.

"Works better on you than it does some predators," Helen had said

What had she gone and done now? Kara wondered to herself.

"Come out of the dark Connor," Helen's voice rang out again "That's it. Good Boy. You too, Abby…Kara"

Kara closed her eyes tightly and swore under her breath as she stepped out into her mother eye sight. Abby made her way towards Connor, but Kara's eyes fell on Danny.

"Danny!" she said, quickly skirting around her mother and dropping down beside her friend.

"So you found me." Helen said with a smirk at the team of four "I must say, im surprised, surprised you had the brains to figure it out"

"Whatever you're up to," Kara said "It ends now, mum!"

"Who's going to stop me?" Helen asked turning to her daughter "You?"

"Just watch us!" Abby said, causing Helen to turn to her. The gun had still be trained on Abby and Connor. But Helen didn't fire, instead she lowered the weapon and withdrew the artefact.

"Nick knew this was important." she said "But he didn't know why"

"Yeah, well, he would have done if you hadn't murdered him" Connor said

Kara noticed her mother showed no sign of remorse at the mention of her husbands name, but she, Kara breathed sharply. Her father's death, always penetrated the deepest emotions within her being. And talking about his death, made it all the more real, now that he was gone.

"I have spent every day since his death working it out" Helen continued in a light whisper "Preparing for this moment," she rounded to the side of what Kara had guessed was a future computer, and levelled the artefact into a medium sized hole on the side. "I know he would have understood," and she pushed the artefact safely and securely inside.

"Keep telling yourself that Mum," Kara hissed "One day you might believe it"

"Doesn't matter now," Helen continued, acting like she hadn't heard a word her daughter had said "Soon, none of this will ever have happened"

"What are you going to do?" Connor asked

"Oh, you're going to enjoy this Connor," Helen said "I, Helen Cutter, am going to save the world"

From his spot beside her, Danny laughed "Since when do you care so much about the human race?" he asked

"Oh, its not humanity im going to save," Helen answered

"Again with the cryptic crap, mum!" Kara hissed "Take it from me…its getting tiring!"

"You know, Helen, you're in some dire need of some serious therapy" Danny added, but Helen merely smirked at the comment

For a few moments all was silent, except for the pale blue glow of the screens. Kara exchanged looks with Abby, Connor and Danny, but neither had a clue what was going on. Suddenly a golden light illuminated the room, Kara looked up and gasped in surprised as she stared at the swirling golden links of time.

"it's a time map," Connor mumbled "of every anomaly that's ever been or ever will be"

"Dad was right" Kara whispered,

"There is a pattern" Abby said

"With this, we'll never have to wait or anomalies to open again," Connor said, causing Abby and Kara to turn to him "we'll just know where they are"

"Such a sweet clever boy," Helen said softly "What a shame you ever met Cutter" she picked up her glass device from beside her and slid it into another appropriate slot on the machine, just before the artefact. Just before she returned to her work, Helen sent Kara a look and grin of knowing. Kara furrowed her brow in confusion. What was the look for?

"Gotcha," Helen whispered after a few moments of work, the computer bleeped and the time map disappeared.

The team of four watched as Helen removed the glass object, pressed a small button at the bottom like she was inserting a memory card into a camera or something. She then turned and held it up, before touching the glass, seconds later an Anomaly was open before them.

"You know, if I were you, I'd make the most of whatever time you have left" Helen continued turning back to face them, as she pulled on the backpack she had with her, she pocketed her device and then picked up the artefact. "Believe me," she raised the artefact as she stepped back from the computer "It wont be long." her eyes landed on Kara, who was staring at her, she raised the artefact and threw it at the concrete floor.

"Please," Connor was mumbling all through this "HELEN!" he yelled as she let the Artefact go.

Helen Cutter disappeared once more through the anomaly into a world where the team didn't know of. The Anomaly closed and the computer died behind them.

"NO!" Kara and Abby yelled, each for different reasons.

Sighing heavily and quickly getting to her feet, Kara pulled Danny up and turned to Abby and Connor. The computer between her and her blonde friend was completely dead, the screen had gone from light blue to complete black.

"What was she doing?" Kara asked, she hadn't seen what her mother was doing at the computer

"She was plotting some kind of route" Connor answered

"We've got to find out where she was going," Danny said "How we can follow her"

"But how?" Abby asked "This thing is completely dead!"

"I know," Connor said "but if we can get it working, then maybe we can reconstruct the route from the computer's memory"

"Power," Danny said, walking a little further away from the group "We need power"

"Yup," Connor said

Kara looked up at Danny to see he was staring at his torch "What do you have in mind?" she asked him

"Batteries," he answered, turning to face her "In the torches"

"Perfect," Kara answered with a smile, as she took out her torch and unscrewed the bottom along with the others and placed the two AA batteries that were inside on the computer edge, "We're gonna need something to bind them together" she added

"Medical kit" Abby said, as she turned away to look for a First Aid Kit from one of the backpacks they had with them.

"How many we got?" Connor asked

"8" Kara answered as she counted the batteries from each of the four batteries. "Should be enough…if not -"

"If not?" Danny questioned

"We're screwed" Kara answered, like it was the obvious thing in the world

"Right," Connor mumbled, checking the base of the computer generate for a piece of metallic wire to start the electrical current.

"Don't we need the Artefact to make it work?" Abby asked

"No," Connor answered "cause hopefully the date will be still on the hard drive, so we might not need it"

Kara nodded not totally understanding everything, she was thinking about everything her mother had said. 'Make the most of the time you have left. It wont be long' what the hell did that mean? And 333, what the hell did the number sequence mean? Was it all connected in some way? God, this was so frustrating and complicated.

"333," Abby murmured, snapping Kara from her thoughts

"Huh?" Kara asked, it was like Abby had read her thoughts

"She named the file site 333," Abby answered

"333? What's that, a location a code, what?" Danny asked

"Oh, my God" Connor said, and Kara turned to him, what had he figured out

"What?" she asked

"The Rift Valley in Africa, four million years ago" Connor said, turning to Kara "it's the cradle of civilization. Site 333 is where they found the remains of the so-called first family of hominids. A group of 13 early humans who all died at the same time"

Kara gaped at her friend, she remembered this from one of the research trips she used to take with her father and Stephen.

"No one ever knew why" she said in a voice almost above a whisper

"So?" Danny asked "Helen's gone to visit the ape-man?"

"No, she's gone to kill the first human," Connor explained "To stop our evolution in its tracks"

"She's gonna wipe us all out" Kara said, as everything clicked together in her mind.

Her mind flashed to Nick, Grace, Becker, Sarah and everyone back in the present. Everyone she ever knew, and everyone she had lost. They wouldn't have existed, because the human race wouldn't have been born.

Clattering from a distance, startled Kara causing her to look up. Abby was walking away from the group and Connor and Danny were mumbling among themselves, giving them one more glance Kara moved off after Abby, leaving her backpack behind. Making her way back through the passageways, up the steps and back towards the door that she and the others had learned that this place was the Future of the ARC, she gasped, as Abby walked backwards into her.

"Ouch!" Kara squeaked "What did you do that for?"

"Sorry," Abby whispered "I didn't know you where there"

"Why are you whispering?" Kara asked, her voice below a whisper too

Abby didn't answer she just pointed at head of her. Kara looked in the direction she was pointing, and gasped as she realised why Abby was whispering. The door in which they had blocked had been opened. Which meant the Future Predator had gotten in. Cornering them in a tiny room, with no means of escape. Besides, it wasn't like they could out run the stupid creature.

"Lets get back to Danny and Connor," Kara said pulling on her best friends arm as Abby handed her a metal weapon from somewhere near-by.

"Lets hope they got the computer working," Abby said "And you know…found us the route" she added at the look Kara gave her

"Yeah," Kara said and she edged backwards out of the room, Abby in tow.

The guys had gotten further in their quest to fix the computer and were now plotting on how to follow Helen through the anomalies.

The clattering was getting louder and louder and it was a wonder that Danny and Connor hadnt heard it yet. Twirling the metal pole in her hands, Kara licked her lips as she heard Abby whisper over her shoulder.

"Guys," Abby said "Predators"

"Just hurry up, all right?" Danny told Connor, before he appeared on Kara's other side

The Future Predators were swift, intelligent and deadly. They could take out the four of them in a matter of seconds, Kara just hoped that Connor got the Anomaly open before they lost their lives. But it didn't matter, if they didn't stop Helen because if what Connor had figured out, was right. Then the evolution of the Human race was at risk, and their death would be nothing because they didn't exist. Didn't exist to create the very creatures that were going to kill them.

Kara groaned, time travel was confusing to understand and she now had a headache trying to wrap her head around it

"Im not really good with pressure," Connor said from behind them "She put in a series of numbers. Well they could be anything -"

He fell quiet for a while, and Kara resisted the urge to glance around at him. It could have been a fatal mistake if she did that.

"6-5-3-5-9" Connor mumbled quietly, "Please let this work"

"YES!" Connor said loudly, breathing sharply as he realised he was too loud

"Shh!" Kara, Abby and Danny hissed over their shoulders

"Sorry,"

"Hurry up Connor," Abby said, as she and the other two walked backwards away from the clattering noises that were getting louder

"I can only go as fast as its downloading," Connor answered

"We gotta get it open, Connor!" Kara said this time, her head snapping in another direction. There was more than one predator in here. In her state of panic, the hands were clutching the pole tightly. Any tighter and it would be fused with her hands

"Tell me something I don't know!" Connor said, turning to face her, before returning to the computer screen

"Their in here," Danny murmured

"Okay, 75%"

The clattering was getting louder and louder, it was coming from everywhere, which meant the creatures were moving in the darkness, waiting for the right time to attack. This was not happening, it was all a dream. It had to be. There was no way that this was the end for them, they were not going to die here, in the Future. A place that they didn't belong. There had to be a way out, a way for them to escape undetected. There just had to be.

"Its getting there," Connor said, as Kara, Danny and Abby closed in beside him "80% nearly there, come on"

There was a low growl, and Kara felt her heart stop for a split second, her hands shook her terror too. She breathed deeply, now was not the time to become scared.

"95%…" Connor said

Nearly there

"100%! That's it!" Connor said, he quickly pulled another glass object from the computer and turned, he hit he glass as an Anomaly opened before them. They had done it.

"Wow," Kara and Abby breathed, as Kara's grip loosened on the pole she was holding. It was taken from her, but she didn't care. Above the anomaly now illuminated by the glow of the Anomaly, were several Future Predators. They were growling and snarling at the team.

"Come on!" Abby said, and taking Kara's arm pulled her forward towards the anomaly. The two girls disappeared, landing with a thud, in a new world. It was obviously the past.

"Where are we?" Kara murmured, looking around, as she got slowly to her feet.

"Look out!"

Abby's voice, caused Kara to turn around. But she was too slow in moving, next second Danny had come tumbling through the anomaly, colliding with her and sending both of them, back to the floor. Kara breathed sharply, as Danny landed on her, hitting all the air from her lungs.

"Close it!"

Abby said once more, and Kara became aware of the sparkling lights of the Anomaly disappearing.

"You should have moved quicker," Danny said down at Kara, grinning.

She glared up at him, and pushed him roughly off of her, he landed with a thud beside him, as she pushed herself to her feet, and held the stitch that had appeared in her chest as she tried to breathe better. It hurt so bad when she breathed in.

"Im - im gonna - kill - you - Danny!" she said between breathes, before she started coughing

"Before Kara does that," Connor said "Where are we, now?"

Kara looked up at her friend, as she swallowed and breathed deeply once more. Danny was still lying on the floor, none of the others had tried to help him up, and he knew that his best bet at this moment was stay away from Kara, she looked in serious pain, but the look she gave him, was pure lethal.

"More importantly," Danny said "Where's Helen?"

"Boots," Abby said

Kara turned to her blonde friend, to see she was kneeling beside a boot impression, in the muddy path before them. "She went this way"

"Yeah," Danny murmured

"Okay," Connor said, placing his hand on Kara's shoulder as she straightened once she had recovered her breathing. "Ancient Pines…"

"Which could mean, we are in either the Jurassic or maybe Cretaceous" Kara said, her breathing still in short sharp gasps, but the pain was subsiding. "We need to move…now!"

Connor nodded in agreement, and the team of four started onwards once more. Abby pulled Kara up front with her, as Danny stayed back with Connor, talking about the creatures that were present in this era,

"Oh, im so gonna kill Danny once this is all over," Kara grumbled, as she pressed her hand against the side of her chest, where her ribcage would be, under the many layers of skin. "That hurt,"

"He didn't mean it," Abby said

"Yeah, I know" Kara answered "But still…it hurt…and I don't do pain"

"I noticed," Abby grinned. Kara smiled and shook her head

"Obviously, T-Rex," Connor was saying from behind "Raptors"

"Yeah, Yeah, I got the point" Danny said

Kara had stopped at this point, and was leaning against a near-by Oak, she felt movement beside her, and she looked around to see that it was Danny, she threw him a glare, but he merely grinned at her. She rolled her eyes, she could never stay mad at her team mates for long. Danny had been good to her in the past couple of months, since joining the team, and besides, he always made her smile. So she couldn't be mad at him forever.

"No, literally" Connor said "Raptors"

Kara's blood froze. Abby froze in her tracks up ahead, and Danny turned to Connor along with the girls. He was staring and pointing at something not that too far away from them. It was three juvenile raptors. They were, ripping a dead carcass of another creature to shreds for food. Kara clenched her eyes closed tight and turned away from the dinner party beside them. She felt Danny move away from her, and looked up to see what he was doing.

He had moved towards one of the trees near the Raptors, and was peering closely at them while they fought and fed. Kara in general moved closer to Connor, her stomach turning over once more, at the sound of ripping flesh. She was gonna pass out at any moment, she knew it. She couldn't stand this sound, or the sight of blood. It drove her to sickness. And she hadn't been feeling all to good for the past couple of days anyway. Not since a few months ago.

"They don't seem so bad," Danny whispered

Connor and Kara threw him a look of pure distaste. Was he crazy?

But their appearance was driven short as the raptors looked up and around at them. They growled, and back-tracked from their dead friend. But it wasn't to flee, but to get an head start on their next meal.

"Danny!" Kara said, as the Raptors snapped their jaws, but she didn't have a chance to say anything else as Connor gripped her hand and pulled her away from the raptors, Danny was behind her. But Abby wasn't.

"Abby!" Danny yelled

Kara chanced a glance over her shoulder as she ran, the raptors had gone off in a completely different direction. They weren't interested in the three humans who had stayed in a group. They were interested in the human that was alone. They had managed to break apart the group, and taken the advantage on the less vulnerable. The one that was alone and much less likely to have protection. Unfortunately that was Abby.

"Up here!" Connor said, as they came to the base of a old oak, there was a low branch ahead of them, but it was still to high for Kara to reach.

Danny was up first, and he then reached down to pull Kara up, whilst Connor gave her a boost. Gripping Danny's hand, and placing her feet on the lower Branch, Kara was able to push herself up into the tree behind Danny. Connor came next, taking an empty branch across from them.

"Where's Abby?" Kara asked, as she caught her breathe

"There!" Connor said, quickly, looking through the trees for their blonde friend. "Abby!"

"Come on Abby," Danny shouted "This way!"

The blonde had stopped and was looking around, it was clear she had heard them calling her. But she couldn't see them, so she wasn't sure of which way to run. And the Raptors were still after her.

"Keep shouting," Kara said "She cant see us, but she can follow our voices"

Danny and Connor turned to stare at her like she had gone crazy, she rolled her eyes and glared at them.

"Come on Abby," she shouted, causing the boys to cringe "This way!"

The blonde was following their voices now, and running in their direction. She was getting closer each second, but the raptors were still following. She had to put some distance between her and the savage killers if she were to climb the tree. If she stopped now, that was it. She would die.

"Grab her!" Kara said, as Danny and Connor reached down, they each gripped Abby's arms and pulled her up into the tree. She placed her foot on the same branch Kara had used to get up and pushed, before climbing into the branch behind Connor.

"Yeah, im okay" she panted, "Im okay" she said once she was safe in her branch, she sighed in relief "That was close"

They were safe, but they were trapped.

"Their juvenile raptor, so at least we know we're in the Cretaceous," Connor explained

"We gotta find the next Anomaly," Danny said, as Kara raised the binoculars she had taken from him to search the distance for any sign of her mum

"Before they learn to climb," Abby said, still breathless

"No, no!" Connor cried in dismay

"What?" Danny asked

Kara lowered the binoculars and turned to look at her friend

"This things just died, I think" Connor answered

"What?" Abby asked in disbelief

"Yeah" Connor confirmed

"We don't know the route," Abby said

"We cant open the anomalies," Danny replied

"We cant get home," Connor stated

Kara sighed, and her mind flashed to Nick, they would find a way home. They always did. But first they had to stop her mother "There might not be a home to get back too," she said as she continued to search the distance for any sign.

Her friends and team-mates were silent, but she knew that they weren't giving up.

A smile formed on her face as a flash of brown and cream came into view. Her mother had appeared.

"Bingo," she said suddenly, passing Abby the Binoculars "There. You see her?"

"Yeah," Abby answered, passing the binoculars down to Danny "She gets through another Anomaly though, we've lost her"

There was a ripping sound, and Danny had pulled a branch apart and threw it at the raptors "Any ideas?" he asked

"We could appeal to their better nature?" Connor offered

"I don't think they've got one," Abby said, in distaste.

"We I for one don't want to sit here in this tree while my mum wipes out the entire human race," Kara said heatedly "Play time's over. Stun Grenade. Come on!" she turned to look at Danny and Connor.

"Oh, yeah, I was just about to think of that" the two boys said, and Kara resisted the urge to roll her eyes

"Where is it?" Abby asked

"In the bag," Connor said, Abby unzipped it and reached inside before pulling out a small black stun explosive.

"Here, you go Danny" Abby said handing it to him

"Cover your ears," Danny instructed

"And open your mouth," Kara said, pressing her fingertips against her ears and opening her mouth so that she could breathe.

Danny had pulled the pin from the grenade and spat it to the floor below. He raised the grenade just as Connor spoke.

"Hang on he said something about -"

But Connor was cut off as Danny dropped the grenade. There was a bang and the tree shook, but it was effective. The Raptors had dropped, but so had Connor. He had been thrown out of the tree by the strength of the small explosion or compressed air.

There was a low ringing in her ears, it was irritating and annoying. Kara winced slightly and opened her eyes, they were cast downwards to see that the three scarely raptors were out cold. But they weren't the only things on the floor. So was Connor.

"Connor?" Abby said, looking down at the empty branch, before looking down at the ground

"Connor!" Danny said

Their voices were slightly muffled but that was obvious considering what had just happened.

Following Danny out of the tree, Kara and Abby each breathed sharply as they slipped from the branch below them. It was too narrow for the two of them to use at the same time.

"Maybe we should go one at a time?" Kara asked

"Yeah," Abby said, and Kara pulled back to let her friend go first, following behind and dropping down beside Abby and Danny once she had reached the bottom.

"Is he okay?" Kara asked

Danny's was checking Connor's pulse. And Kara and Abby awaited for results. Connor had to be alive, he just had to be. The grenades were stun grenades, they weren't explosives.

"He's alive" Danny confirmed "He's alive"

The two women breathed a sigh of deep relief. Connor was alive, but he was unconscious in the middle of a Cretaceous forest, surrounded by three juvenile raptors, for how long they were out. The team didn't know. The hoped that Connor was awake before the creatures.

But there was also the fact that the more time they waited on Connor, Helen Cutter was getting further and further away from their grasps, and closer to the beginning of the end. They had to stop her, but Kara couldn't come to leave Connor unconscious in the past. It was at times like this that she hated having close family like friends.

"Go," Abby said, turning to Kara

"I cant leave you here," Kara said "I wont"

"You have to stop her," Abby argued "Think of everything she has done to us Kara…if she succeeds then everything we have done in the last 3 years means nothing!"

Kara stared at her blonde friend she knew Abby was right but she couldn't bring herself to leave her and Danny with an unconscious Connor. She turned to Danny, who still had his fingers pressed against Connor's neck.

She was torn between stopping her mother, and helping her friends.

"We've got to get him somewhere safe," Kara said, motioning for Danny to move Connor "Come on!"

"Finish it!" Abby yelled, staring at her

Kara stared at her blonde friend and shook her head lightly, "Abby -" she said, but she could see that Connor would be fine. "Be careful!"

And pushing herself up, Kara hurried off into the trees along the same path her mother had taken minutes before.

A few feet away from the others, Kara came to a stop, she reached out to rest against a near-by tree and stared at the open anomaly in front of her. Her mother hadn't closed it. Was she getting careless? Or was she hoping that a creature from this time period would head on into the one she was in. That could have disastrous consequences on its own. Not only would the creature from the Cretaceous be lose in the early stages of human's era, but it would cause catastrophic results in the future when archeologically digs are carried out.

There was a snapping noise, and Kara turned wildly. She was nervous encase it was a creature following her, but was surprised to find Danny standing behind her.

"Where's Abby and Connor?" she asked "Is Connor awake?"

"No," Danny answered, making his way to her side

"Then why are you here?" she asked him

She had left him with the other two, for good reasons. She needed to make sure that Abby and Connor would be okay, if anything happened to her when she confronted her mother.

"Abby is fine, she'll wake Connor up and then come looking for us," Danny said "You really think im gonna let you go wandering around alone? Come on now, its like you don't know me at all"

"I need you back there with Connor and Abby," Kara argued

"Give me a good enough reason and I will go back."

"Because -" Kara said trailing "I need you to watch out for them…"

"And what about watching out for you?"

"I don't need it! I can do this alone!"

"I know you can…" Danny said "Kara, im not here because I don't think you can handle yourself…Im here to make sure you keep your promise to you cousin, to Becker and to you're son. The promise of you returning to the present…where they are waiting for you"

Kara opened her mouth to argue back but Danny cut her off again

"Connor and Abby will be fine…once Connor is awake they will find someplace safe, whilst they look for us…meanwhile, me and you can stand here and argue all day…or we can go and stop your mother, find Connor and Abby and then return to our time…where you can have the life you've always wanted" Danny said

Kara looked him curiously. How did he know about the life she had always wanted

"Connor told me,"

Rolling her eyes, Kara turned to the anomaly and hoisted the backpack she still had on her back higher.

"Fine," she grumbled "Lets go!"

Danny nodded towards the Anomaly, and together he and Kara started forward once more. They passed through the anomaly into a world very much like their own. It was Africa 4 million years ago.

The ground was different, it was made of multicoloured rock, it was all makeshift mountains, and hilltops. Rock formations bared down on either side of them, and rocky ledges with dangerous drops. There were boulders and rocks all along the ground, and they creaked and moved underneath Kara's feet as she walked across them.

Unknown to both her and Danny, they had been followed into this new world. By a Velociraptor from the era they had just come from.

"Where too now?" Danny asked, from ahead of her

"One second," Kara answered, and she pulled herself up the rocky path he had just climbed until she was standing beside her "Uh, right…" she looked up at the pale blue sky, an at the fluffy white clouds, they were all gathering together ahead of them. "We should head that way -" she pointed ahead of her "There's a body of clouds…which means food, water and shelter…"

"How do you know that?" Danny asked, as she overtook him and headed in the direction she had just motioned

"Long story," Kara answered

"We got time,"

Kara rolled her eyes, it wasn't really something she wanted to talk about. But Danny was persistent. She sighed.

"Back when my mum was pronounced dead, 12 years ago. Grace and My aunt and uncle moved to America, and me and my dad started travelling. This was after we met Stephen. We travelled all around the world, looking for the pieces that didn't fit and had been passed over throughout time…my dad was always interested in the pieces that didn't fit."

"Well, Stephen was a tracker he could track many animals in the rainforest for days at a time. And so he always knew the right places to go and right places to stay at night without getting caught by wild animals or the natives. It was actually quite interesting, and since I was still broken up about my mother's death, I usually stuck close to my father. But after a while I started venturing out of my comfort zone, and I became close to Stephen."

"He taught me everything he knew. He taught me how to survive in the jungle and in places that werent home. Survival was number one thing with him. And he taught me how to use it. That's how I knew there would be water, Shelter and food if we followed the clouds North of our current position"

Kara breathed deeply once she had finished speaking, and turned to look at Danny over her shoulder. He was staring at her in amazement, and she grinned and carried on. Climbing over various boulders and rocks, Kara slid down one, and nearly lost her footing, as she stumbled into the side of a rock formation.

"Ouch!" she said, grazing her hands against the rough rock

"What?" Danny asked as he jumped down next to her, she glowered at him and shook her hands. She wasn't bleeding and she hadn't taken any skin of her hands, but the impact had stung a little.

"Nothing," she answered, and carried on leading the way out of the ravine. She reached a couple of branches that were coming from a fallen tree a few meters to the right of them. There was no sound. That was worrying and nerve-racking. There was no bird song, no nothing that indicated to any creature or close relation to human even lived here.

"Do you hear that?" Kara asked curiously

"No," Danny answered

"Exactly," Kara said "There's no sound. No bird song. No splashes of water. Nothing"

"What do you think it could be?" Danny asked curiously,

Kara shrugged "I dunno…" she slid under the branches and looked around another rock formation. On the ground behind the rock formation she was leaning against, lay an average-sized, human body. The only difference between this human and herself was the brown coloured fur, and the almost monkey appearance.

They where in the right place anyway.

"This way," she said over her shoulder, and slipped around the foundation of the rock before making her way into the mass of the bodies. She counted the bodies, and sighed. "13," she confirmed looking up at Danny, with a small frown.

"Their dead?" Danny asked, kicking over one of the bodies so that he could see it fully

"Show some respect!" Kara hissed pushing him, after he kicked over the body, she then brushed past him into the mass to look around. Movement caught her eye, and she jumped as one of the bodies moved. "Danny! He's still alive!"

She was referring to the larger early humans before her, he reached out his arm for her, but as she grew closer he fall backwards, his hand resting on his chest. He was dead.

Tears sprang to her eyes, and she sniffled. There was something about being here, seeing the early humans, her ancestors and seeing them dead was heartbreaking. It was like watching a loved one die time and time again. It was also very strange.

"Come on," Danny said, getting back to his feet, once he was up he reached down and pulled Kara up too. "Lets find Helen, and before she finishes what she started"

Kara nodded and glanced back at her ancestor.

"Your too late Kara, Danny," came a familiar voice, as Kara and Danny were heading back for the formation they had just appeared around moments before. "Its already begun. I owe you thinks Danny. You know if you hadn't taken me to the ARC, I would never have gotten this far"

"You killed them!" Danny shouted

"Humanity is a stain on the face of the planet," Helen said, she sounded rather breathless "When we're gone, other species will be able to develop in peace. There'll be no war, no pollution. No predators."

Kara was silent and motionless. She was staring at the woman that she had defended for years, and now she was wondering why she had done that. She didn't even register Danny dip down to pick up a stone at their feet.

"So, if you've wiped out humanity, then how come we're still here?" he asked

"You're not very bright are you, Danny?" Helen asked.

Danny threw the stone, but she ducked to avoid it. Helen laughed. It made Kara even more angry at the woman, she saw before her. And she was sure that it wasn't her mother. Her mother wasn't evil. No. Her mother was dead. Whoever this woman thought she was…it wasn't Helen Cutter.

"You know I haven't finished yet" Helen continued, oblivious to the raging emotion building in her daughter "There's more to kill. But you'd be surprised how few hominids started the human race…it wont take long"

"Then you'll kill yourself as well," Kara said, speaking for the first time "and everything you once had…a family?"

Helen stared at her for a moment "I don't care," she said

Kara breathed deeply, she was just about ready to climb up the cliff and push her mother off. There was a soft clattering sound, and Helen turned to look behind her. Danny and Kara exchanged looks of confusion, before Kara spoke, causing her mother to look at her once more.

"Whatever you do, humanity will find a way to evolve" Kara said "We've said this a hundred times, Mum! You cant fight nature!"

"You sound just like you're father," Helen said chuckling "You need to learn to think for yourself, sweetheart"

Kara cringed and rolled her eyes.

"And you know what?" Helen continued "You're both wrong"

Kara shook her head. They couldn't play God, they made mistakes then entire species would suffer including themselves. The only thing they could do, was let nature take its course. Nature would always find a way to through. It would always win. No matter what we did to put a stop to it.

"Goodbye Kara," Helen said removing her backpack from her shoulders "Goodbye Danny"

It then happened. It happen so slowly, although that's how Kara could see it. Her mother had dropped her bag and was about to kneel down to search it for something. She then whipped around as a growl came from behind her. A Raptor appeared, throwing its self over the side of the small cliff behind Helen, and pushing both her and itself off the formation.

There was a mild pressure on her wrist and she was pulled backwards as Danny stumbled back from the two who were falling rather fast. There was a crash. And the two lifeless bodies of Helen Cutter and the Raptor lay at the base of the rock formation. Stumbling over the loose gravel and stones, Kara gripped Danny's arm tighter so that she would fall. But he kept her balanced. Dropping the stick he had grabbed for protection, he dropped it when he noticed the raptor wasn't moving either.

"Is she?" Kara asked quietly,

Danny left her side, and knelt down next to her mother. He pressed his fingers to her throat and sighed.

"Yeah," he answered with a small nod of his head "She's dead"

Kara nodded once. She wasn't sure how she felt of this predicament. Sure now, maybe she could have a proper life and family. But she wasn't sure if she was ready to face a world with no parents. She had done it for so long…just pretending…she could do it for real.

"Lets go home," she murmured

"Wait," Danny said "Lets make sure that the rest of the Hominids are safe"

Kara sighed, she didn't want to go off hunting Hominids, she wanted to go home. She wanted to go find Connor and Abby, and then head home. Back to the present. Back to Sarah,. Becker, Grace…and Nick. Back to her family. She wanted them now…more than anything.

"Fine…but make it a quick one…" Kara said "I wanna go home"

"Yes Ma'am" Danny said laughing at the glare Kara gave him

"You did just not call me Ma'am?" she asked "Do I look like a Ma'am to you?"

"Mhmm…" Danny said looking her over and pretending to be in mock thought

"Don't answer that!" she said, walking away from him "Hurry up Danny, wouldn't want to get lost now…"

She didn't see Danny's reaction but she did hear him mumble something but she passed it off, as she walked away.

Back in the present. Grace, Adam, Becker and Sarah continued to await the return of the rest of their team-members and friends. Becker and Adam where stood, guns aloft and aimed at the Anomaly before her. Sarah was pacing back and forth and Gace was sitting with her back against the metal panels of another room within the hanger. It was like an office room of sorts. Her hands were over her face, and she was trying to think of anything but the bad feelings she was getting, feelings like something had gone wrong, on the other side of the anomaly. She nor the others knew exactly what had happened when Kara, Danny, Connor and Abby stepped through.

"What are we gonna do?" Sarah asked

Her voice startled Grace, and caused her to jump and look around. She hoped that Kara, and the others were back, but her gaze landed on nothing but her friends and the Anomaly. She sighed. May has well give into the feelings. Something had gone wrong. That's why they weren't back yet. What had happened? They didn't know. And they didn't know how to find out.

"They'll be back," Grace said, pushing herself to her feet and making her way to the empty spot, between Becker and Sarah. It was up to them now, to find out what happened. And why the others hadn't returned.

"I've got an idea," Sarah said, with a grin

Grace turned to look at her friend, and nodded. She didn't know what the idea was, but she was glad someone had come up with something. They were gonna need a plan of action, if they were to find their missing team-mates. This wasn't the end. There was so many things that needed answering. And the continuous string of Anomalies, it was too much for just them to handle. They needed the team back. Kara, Danny, Abby and Connor. They would be okay…they would come home. She knew they would.

"Its down to us," Grace said "we're the last one's standing…the others are depending on us now"

The others nodded in agreement.

It was down to them.

Their friends lives counted on them.

They could do it. They had to.

The ground was rocky, of course it was. They were on a rocky foundation. The sun was beating down, and it was really hot. She had chosen the wrong day to wear black. But she trudged along behind Danny, he was determined to make sure that they rest of the Hominids were safe, no matter what she said about if they weren't, then they wouldn't even be here.

"Danny can we hurry up?" she complained for what felt like the millionth time that day, "I wanna go home!"

But Danny didn't answer her.

There was the light chatter on the breeze, and the two stopped and stared at one another. Where they close? Had they found the rest of the Hominids? It was possible.

"Up here," Danny said, and as he climbed up onto another bolder, he started to laugh in relief.

"Hey! Little help?" Kara asked, as she climbed up behind him.

"Oh sorry," Danny said as he moved aside and helped her up beside him.

There before them, strewn amongst the long grass, was a family of Hominids. There were a few of them, a real big family. Or group. Mothers, fathers, brothers, sisters, aunts and uncles and cousins. They were exactly just like their descendents to be. Kara smiled. She had done it. Her and her team. They had come through and excelled in survival. They had stopped her mother, from destroying everything that they had now.

"Okay," Danny said "Which way home?"

Kara turned to look at him "Don't even joke," she said, climbing back down the boulder and heading back down the trail she and Danny had just walked up.

"Who's joking?" she heard Danny ask from behind her, but she didn't answer him

The walk back was just as rocky as before. But this time they weren't heading back to the site where Helen's dead body lay, but to where the Anomaly had been opened. Where they crossed from the Cretaceous period into this one. They were going to find Abby and Connor and they were going to get the hell out of the past and back to the future and then on back into the past. That's if they could avoid getting killed by the Future Predators.

The sun was high in the sky now, and it was at its hottest point.

"Which way now?" she asked, stopping and leaning back against one of the many rock formations surrounding them.

Danny was silent for a moment, one minute he seemed searching, the next his facial expression changed drastically.

"What?" Kara asked noticing the distress

"The Anomaly," Danny said

"What about it?" Kara asked, pushing off the rock and looked in the direction of the Anomaly. It seemed to be fading, but from a distance she couldn't be sure "Is it -"

Sharing a look of fear, Danny and Kara hurried in their walk back to the Anomaly. They had just made it to the corner, of the gateway. Danny was in the lead.

"Come on," he said "Its closing…"

Reaching out a hand for Kara to take, he pulled her behind him towards the Anomaly. They were one ledge away from the Anomaly.

"Jump!" Danny shouted

As she hurried from the Ledge, Kara watched as Danny soared through the Anomaly, she had just touched the ground near the anomaly and stepped forward to follow, when it pulsated

"Kara!" she could hear Danny yell from the other side of the Anomaly

"Danny!" Kara shouted

But as soon as the words left her mouth the anomaly disappeared. Leaving her friends in the Cretaceous and her trapped in the African Plains 4 million years early.

"NO!" she yelled, spinning around widely.

She was trapped.

In the past. With no means of escape. And worst of all.

She was alone.

A/N: NO!

No! No! No! it's the end. Stupid ITV, there isn't going to be a Season 4. How cruel is that? They have taken away our show.

Well, here is the very last chapter of Primeval Season 3. I hope it doesn't seem rushed. I got bored of writing after a while. But I had to finish this. It was only fair.

Right before I go. I just wish to say, thank you. You have all be great to me in the past few months. And I hope you look for more fun Primeval fics from me in the future.

If you wish to find out more about Kara's past then search for the story known as Home Movies. It is a few one shots based all on Kara and her family before the Anomalies started to appear.

And also if you want to see further into Kara's future, check out my new story The Resistance.

Hope you enjoy them. And I hope that I never lose contact with any of you.

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Thank you

Love you all

~Kara

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