Okay, I know the story was supposed to be complete, because that was the way I had originaly planned it. But then I just had to continue it. It just felt unfinished without giving Becker a little chance to do something. So here it is and I hope you'll enjoy it.

He had promised Jess a distraction in the morning, because she had promised to help Connor and he didn't want her to get in trouble for it. This meant that Rex needed to be returned to the menagerie without anyone noticing. Even he wasn't supposed to know, Becker thought, frowning.

So what should he do? Imaginary spiders would not work for him.

He tried to find an answer while he drove back home, but he had a hard time concentrating on the subject. His mind kept wandering back to Jess and to the wonderful evening they had had together.

He had to think of something though, he really didn't want to disappoint her. But what could he do? When he fell asleep that night the only thing on his mind was Jess, nothing else and most certainly not Connor and his little problem.

He felt terrible when he went to work the next morning, because he still had no idea how to help Connor sneak Rex back inside the ARC. He'd never be able to look Jess in the eyes again, he thought depressed.

But when he entered the building nothing was like it was supposed to be. The entire security system wasn't working right; it just seemed to fail at random. No one was really paying attention to what was going on around them, except trying to get doors open, when suddenly someone had been locked in or locked out of a room. Alarms were sounding and then stopping again, before anyone had a chance to figure out what the alarm had actually been for.

It was difficult to tell what was really going on anywhere in the building and Becker realized that this was the perfect chance to sneak Rex back to the menagerie. No one would pay any attention to Connor, when he finally got to the ARC.

Becker didn't have to wait long. Soon he saw Connor peeking around a corner, looking for a clear path. Becker went over to him, grabbed his arm and pushed him back into the deserted corridor.

"Do you have Rex?" he asked urgently, while checking the area for someone who might find their behavior suspicious.

"How do you know?" Connor asked back, instead of answering the question.

"I just do. Do you have him?" Becker almost hissed, anxious to get this over with. Connor just nodded his head at a small box that was covered with a blanket.

Becker grabbed the box with one hand and Connor's arm with the other and pulled him down the corridor towards the menagerie.

"Come on, this security system failure is the perfect cover. Let's put him back."

"Did you do something to the system?" Connor asked sounding very surprised about this possibility.

"No, I don't know what happened and I don't really care. Maybe Phillip tried to update the system again or something. Whatever it is, it needs to be fixed. But right now it is very useful." Becker answered and kept moving them along the corridors.

They had almost reached the menagerie, when a new alarm sounded overhead. This time it was the anomaly alert and it didn't stop, so it probably wasn't part of the system failure. It did transform the already confusing situation into a complete chaos though.

"You go ahead and see what you can do to get the security system back to normal. I'll return Rex and then I'll be right behind you." Becker decided and Connor quickly turned around and went back the way they had come.

Later that day, after the anomaly had been taken care of and the security system had started working properly again, which curiously had happened right after the anomaly alert had started, Becker finally had a chance to speak with Jess.

"So how did it go with Connor and Rex?" she asked, as they left the building together.

"Rex has been returned and no one noticed he wasn't there last night." Becker told her, relieved that everything had worked out.

"So your plan worked. Brilliant." she said, smiling at him. "What exactly did you do?"

"Uhm." he mumbled. "Well, with all the confusion earlier, my plan wasn't needed." He looked away, feeling a bit embarrassed.

"Really. And what would have done if the security system hadn't been all weird this morning?" she pressed.

"I…uhm…"

"You didn't have a plan at all, did you?" He had no idea what to say. She had called his bluff and now he had no idea what to say to her. He looked away, until he heard her laughing softly.

"I kind of thought that might be the case, so I hacked the security system. The anomaly alert wasn't my doing though, even if the timing couldn't have been more perfect."

"Jess, you are truly brilliant." He told her, as he pushed her with her back against his car and buried his hands in her hair. She wrapped her arms around him, pulling him closer. When he bent down to kiss her he could still feel her smiling against his lips.