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Series 2 Episode 3
"Monday"
Written by timelord6
Monday morning: wake up, hit the alarm, shove a bowl of cornflakes into his mouth then drive to work. Alex hated mornings they made his life feel so normal. Maybe his life was normal...apart from the ARC part of course, although that now seemed like a dull office job. Since Katie got displaced on the other side of an anomaly work was just work. The day she disappeared he'd cried, he went home and got a call from the hospital, his mum had died. Alex hadn't cried and he certainly wasn't crying now.
He walked into the main operations room of the ARC and smiled at Georgia. No he didn't smile he made a curved shape with his mouth but it wasn't a smile, he wasn't smiling inside. Georgia curved her mouth back, he thought Georgia liked him but maybe she was just using him, maybe she wanted money, or company or someone to laugh at. Why was he thinking this! Where is the good Alex? He asked himself. He knew the answer; the good Alex was on the other side of the anomaly with Katie. He realised he was still standing in the doorway so he walked over and sat with the team. Good team, not so good Alex.
Alex was in his rubbish tip of a lab looking in the mirror, he saw a tired long haired man looking back at him. That hair, he'd have to get that cut then, they wouldn't laugh at him. Stop it Alex! They are your friends! His phone bleeped and he ran out the door.
Alex had wired his phone up to the anomaly detector so it would tell him when an anomaly opened. He'd had an argument with the team last week about whether to take the DNA from certain creatures to bring them back from extinction. He had delayed the alarm on the detector so the team would be a few minutes late. That's all he needed.
"5 chicken selects with fries and a coke, 2 McNugget Happy Meals and a double cheeseburger" said the obese Mother of the noisiest kids in the play area. Jason nodded and typed the order in the machine. He popped open the till to get the woman's change and found it empty.
"Bear with me ma'am, I just need to restock my till" he grumbled before walking into the back of McDonalds with all the speed of a Woolly Mammoth. A slightly faster Woolly Mammoth whacked him into the back of the chip fryer with its hairy trunk.
Jason woke up with a headache, he jumped up and looked round. He saw a hairy backside in the ball pit; he grabbed the closest thing to him and headed towards it. He'd picked up a bottle of fairy liquid and, when the mammoth looked at him, he sprayed it in it's eyes. The hairy beast shrieked then stampeded to the front doors of the store. And straight into an armoured truck.
Alex slammed the back doors of the truck and got into the drivers seat. He checked the camera in the back, a Mammoth, only a baby. He drove down the motorway then turned off into a small village. He pulled into a run down, spooky house with a fairly new garage. His Mum's house. He backed the truck up to the garage and pressed the door release button then opened the back of the truck. There lay the Mammoth; he let the last of the sleeping gas mix into the air before going into the garage. He had converted his garage into a lab for his studies away from work. He had all the equipment ready to take a sample of the Mammoth's DNA.
The Mammoth had died as soon as it entered the armoured truck. He'd used too much gas, amateur mistake! He couldn't bring himself to do anymore so he drove the truck back to the service station where McDonalds was located, dropped the Mammoth in the car park and went home.
He sat in his flat and cried for Katie, his Mum and the Mammoth. His doorbell rang and he went to answer it. It was Georgia - he invited her in and she laughed at him. He realised he had no trousers on but sat on the sofa with her anyway. " I saw you in the car park, Alex" she said, not sounding at all disappointed.
"I killed it! It was all my fault!"
"You made a mistake, it happens to everyone! But you shouldn't have gone off on your own, we're a team and we all have our skills"
Alex felt better, no he felt normal. Good Alex was back, maybe Katie will be back soon?
He walked into the main operations room of the ARC and smiled at Georgia. No he didn't smile he made a curved shape with his mouth but it wasn't a smile, he wasn't smiling inside. Georgia curved her mouth back, he thought Georgia liked him but maybe she was just using him, maybe she wanted money, or company or someone to laugh at. Why was he thinking this! Where is the good Alex? He asked himself. He knew the answer; the good Alex was on the other side of the anomaly with Katie. He realised he was still standing in the doorway so he walked over and sat with the team. Good team, not so good Alex.
Alex was in his rubbish tip of a lab looking in the mirror, he saw a tired long haired man looking back at him. That hair, he'd have to get that cut then, they wouldn't laugh at him. Stop it Alex! They are your friends! His phone bleeped and he ran out the door.
Alex had wired his phone up to the anomaly detector so it would tell him when an anomaly opened. He'd had an argument with the team last week about whether to take the DNA from certain creatures to bring them back from extinction. He had delayed the alarm on the detector so the team would be a few minutes late. That's all he needed.
"5 chicken selects with fries and a coke, 2 McNugget Happy Meals and a double cheeseburger" said the obese Mother of the noisiest kids in the play area. Jason nodded and typed the order in the machine. He popped open the till to get the woman's change and found it empty.
"Bear with me ma'am, I just need to restock my till" he grumbled before walking into the back of McDonalds with all the speed of a Woolly Mammoth. A slightly faster Woolly Mammoth whacked him into the back of the chip fryer with its hairy trunk.
Jason woke up with a headache, he jumped up and looked round. He saw a hairy backside in the ball pit; he grabbed the closest thing to him and headed towards it. He'd picked up a bottle of fairy liquid and, when the mammoth looked at him, he sprayed it in it's eyes. The hairy beast shrieked then stampeded to the front doors of the store. And straight into an armoured truck.
Alex slammed the back doors of the truck and got into the drivers seat. He checked the camera in the back, a Mammoth, only a baby. He drove down the motorway then turned off into a small village. He pulled into a run down, spooky house with a fairly new garage. His Mum's house. He backed the truck up to the garage and pressed the door release button then opened the back of the truck. There lay the Mammoth; he let the last of the sleeping gas mix into the air before going into the garage. He had converted his garage into a lab for his studies away from work. He had all the equipment ready to take a sample of the Mammoth's DNA.
The Mammoth had died as soon as it entered the armoured truck. He'd used too much gas, amateur mistake! He couldn't bring himself to do anymore so he drove the truck back to the service station where McDonalds was located, dropped the Mammoth in the car park and went home.
He sat in his flat and cried for Katie, his Mum and the Mammoth. His doorbell rang and he went to answer it. It was Georgia - he invited her in and she laughed at him. He realised he had no trousers on but sat on the sofa with her anyway. " I saw you in the car park, Alex" she said, not sounding at all disappointed.
"I killed it! It was all my fault!"
"You made a mistake, it happens to everyone! But you shouldn't have gone off on your own, we're a team and we all have our skills"
Alex felt better, no he felt normal. Good Alex was back, maybe Katie will be back soon?
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