Title: Body Swap: Now It Gets Weird, Chapter One
Author: Pinkcat4569
Rating: T
Spoilers: Seasons 4, 5.
Description: Last body swapping story. I really can't divulge much. It's a surprise. It does involve body swapping, but some unexpected swaps...Sorry, that's all I can say. Sequel to Body Swap: Girls and Boys.
Disclaimer: I don't own Primeval or the characters. This is just for fun.
Author's Note: Begins just were Girls and Boys left off. This story is a hybrid of two ideas: one was mine. The other one was from RextheCoelurosauruvus, it was similar to mine, but involved a team member. P.S. Still some B/J, but not nearly as much as usual.
Chapter One, Body Swap: Now It Gets Weird
Abby and Connor hugged and cuddled. "I could stay like this, holding onto your body all day, but I should get working on this swapping thing. I don't think it's over."
"I hope you're wrong," said Abby. She kissed him. "You go, be a genius. I have some creatures to settle down. Not everyone in the menagerie loves you Connor."
Connor laughed. "And I'm fine with that."
Abby chuckled as they both left. "Hey, Ben," she said, walking into the menagerie. He stared at her. She smiled, and raised her eyebrows.
"Abby?"
She nodded. The assistant hugged her. "Good to have you back."
"It's good to be inside here, believe me. I'm going to go check on the creatures," said Abby.
"They'll be glad you're you."
The first creature to greet her was Rex, flying onto her shoulder. Then Sid and Nancy ran up. "Hey, guys."
They rubbed against her and made happy noises. "I'm glad I'm me too," she said, chuckling. "OK, I love you, but I have to work." She had to shake Sid off her leg.
She made her rounds. The dracorex, never overly friendly, seemed less stressed with Abby. "That's it, everybody back to normal," said Abby. She sighed happily.
She didn't see very faint yellow lights glowing near the raptor cage.
The ADD let out another small noise.
"It feels so good to be in heels again," Jess said as she ran over.
"You're insane," said Becker, following her.
"Darn. Another unstable anomaly. Connor, come look."
"It's the same signature. Looks like the swapping anomaly is back," he said.
Becker groaned. "Where?"
"Inside the menagerie,"" said Jess, quickly contacting Abby over comms. "Abby? Are you OK. We're detecting a very weak anomaly."
"Here?"
"Yeah, Abs. Do you see anything?" asked Connor.
"No, but I'm back in my office, let me make some rounds."
"I'll be right there Abby," said Connor. Becker led the way.
Abby had just finished checking everyone but the raptors when Connor and Becker burst in.
"Nothing yet," she said.
"Good," said Connor.
"Yeah, but let's look around," said Becker, holding an EMD. After a few minutes, they had found nothing.
"Hey, Rex!" cried Connor to the lizard above them, "See anything?"
Rex landed next to him and trilled. "No, huh?"
"It must have stopped already. Jess?"
"No readings at all, Connor."
"OK, I'm going back to Ops," said Becker.
Connor nodded, kissed Abby, and left.
Sid appeared, crawling fast.
"How about you Sid? You see any flashing lights?"
Sid stood away from her, hissing.
"What's with you?" she asked.
Sid stood there, growling and hissing and showing his teeth. Nancy tried to nuzzle up to him, and he actually turned on her, trying to bite her.
"Sid!" she cried, breaking up the fight.
Sid then snapped at Abby, barking and hissing, and tried to jump on her.
Nancy cried out, and ran behind Abby, into the office.
"Ben!"
Ben appeared.
"Look at Sid."
They watched him, sniffing the air, hissing at the humans, and investigating his surroundings like they were new.
"Wow! He's acting weird!" said Ben."I hope you aren't catching."
"What?" she asked.
Ben chuckled. "Bad joke. I meant that whole body-swapping thing."
"Oh," answered Abby, too upset to laugh.
Abby moved past him to look more closely at Sid. She approached him slowly, and carefully, scrunching down to look smaller.
"Hey," she said gently. "Hey, Sid. What's wrong, baby?"
She tentatively offered her hand, but Sid swiped at it. Abby drew back just in time.
"Wow. You think he's sick?" asked Ben.
Abby shook her head. "I don't know."
Sid began to hiss and growl at his reflection in one of the shiny walls.
"What the...?" Abby asked.
Then he actually ran toward the wall, head-butting it.
"Sid!"
Abby ran toward him, to pick him up, but he twirled around, hissing and showing his teeth.
"Watch it!" cried Ben. Abby jumped out of the way, and backed up toward Ben.
"Abby, he actually just attacked you."
She nodded. "Look at him he acts like he's bigger than he is," she said.
Suddenly, Sid charged at them, biting and growling, and forcing them back. Abby jumped onto her desk, and ran to a cabinet.
"Ben stay still."
Sid had followed her around the desk.
"Hurry, Abby," said Ben. Abby quickly loaded a tranquilizer gun, and shot Sid.
Abby knelt beside him.
"What the hell was that?" asked Ben, panting.
Abby shook her head, patting the fallen creature. "What's wrong with you boy?" she asked gently.
They sat by Sid for a few moments, until they heard an uproar back in the cages.
"I'll go," said Ben. A few seconds later, he called, "Abby? You better come see this raptor. You won't believe what it's doing."
The raptor was running around its pen, acting sort of like a dog. When it saw Abby, instead of hissing and biting at the glass, it ran up, making a sort of cooing noise.
"What the hell?" asked Ben.
Abby shook her head. The raptor was bent over, trying to crawl along the ground. It didn't seem to realize it had such deep hooks on its paws.
As Abby stared, it began to pant, and coo more. She bent down towards it, a move she'd never have done before. It would have banged and tore at the glass. Now, though, it was rubbing and panting excitedly.
"What is with you guys?" asked Ben.
Nancy suddenly appeared beside Abby.
"Nancy? What are you doing?" she asked. The small creature had waddled right up to the glass.
"She's usually terrified of it," said Ben.
Then, it got weird. Nancy and the raptor seemed to be speaking. They even rubbed their noses up against the window.
"Are you seeing this?"
"Yes," said Abby. "And I think you were right."
"Huh?" asked Ben.
"I think they have caught what I had."
"Abby? I don't get..."
"Ben, I think Sid has swapped bodies with this raptor."
End of Chapter One