Title: Body Swap: Becker and Connor, Chapter One

Author: Pinkcat4569

Rating: Teen, mild language and situations

Spoilers: Series 4,5: spoilers for Series 4 school detention episode, Series 5 beetle lockdown of ARC episode, and maybe others.

Disclaimer: Only for fun, nothing made as I don't own primeval or the characters.

Description: Becker and Connor swap bodies.

Author's Note: Inspired by "In Your Shoes," written for team fest on Primeval Denial, when Dreamer 98 prompted: 'Abby and Jess body swap. The girls spend a day in each other's shoes, literally.' Not a sequel to that story. B/J not a couple as this begins. There isn't much explanation about how it happened. Becker/Jess slant, of course, but plenty of Abby/Connor too.

910 Words, this chapter

Chapter One, Body Swap: Becker and Connor

Becker woke up, quickly realizing two things: he wasn't in his own bed, and someone lay beside him. He looked over and screamed, jumping out of bed.

Abby Maitland jerked awake. "What? What's wrong?"

Becker stood beside the bed, in shock. "Abby, what the hell?"

Abby looked super confused. "What do you mean?" She reached out to touch him, but he backed away.

"Abby, why the hell are we in bed? Together?"

Abby's confusion turned to fear. "What? Why wouldn't we be?"

Becker stood there, hoping to God they had been only sleeping. What was going on? He'd never sleep with Abby, cheating on Connor. Never. Then Abby said something that made the situation worse.

"Tell me what's wrong, Connor."

He stared at her. "Connor?"

Just then, Jess burst into the room, wearing a skimpy little nightie. Becker couldn't help but stare, even in his panic. "What's wrong?" she asked. "Who screamed?"

"Connor did. Something's wrong with him."

Becker stared at the ladies. Jess didn't seem surprised to see Becker standing in nothing but shorts next to Abby's bed. "Jess, what the hell is going on?" he asked.

"I don't know, Connor."

"Stop calling me Connor!" he screamed.

The women looked at each other. "OK," said Abby calmly, almost patronizingly. "What should we call you?"

He just stared, and shook his head. "You're both crazy. I"m Becker. Becker, got it?"

The womens' eyes popped open, and so did their mouths. Abby tried to take his hand, but he pulled away, retreating behind Jess.

Abby sighed, and brought a mirror, giving it to Jess. "Look into it. Go on," said Abby gently.

Jess held it and Becker looked. He gasped. He was looking into the face of Connor Temple.

"See?" asked Jess. "You're Connor." She smiled sweetly, but looked frightened.

"Talk to me Conn," said Abby.

Becker's head was reeling. The women kept trying to talk to him, and convince him that he was fine.

"Stop!" he yelled. "Just stop! I'm not fine! I'm not Connor, I'm Becker."

Abby frowned.

"Maybe we should call someone," said Jess. "Get a doctor."

Becker chuckled, but with fear and disbelief. "This is not happening. I'm not in Temple's body. I'm having a dream, the weirdest, strangest, dumbest dream I've ever had."

Abby looked to Jess, but she shrugged. They didn't know what to do.

"Temple. I need to talk to Temple," he said. "I need my phone." He started looking around, realizing nothing was his. "I need a phone!"

"Calm down, Conn..." began Jess, but she stopped when he glared at her. "I'm sorry, but you look and sound like Connor."

"I'm not, Jess."

She frowned.

"Look. The first day we met, we were the only two at the ARC," he said. "You teased me about Matt, remember?"

She frowned, staring at him. It couldn't be.

"Abby, you and I didn't get off to a great start. You stopped me from shooting that injured dracorex and even made me find dinosaur transport."

Abby looked at Jess. "That's...right."

Becker looked to one lady, then the other. "I'm Becker. I swear, I'm Becker." He turned to Jess. "You fell asleep on my shoulder after we ate Chinese. I carried you around the ARC after that beetle bit you. I held you in a car until you passed out." He laughed. "You said I had lovely hair."

Jess' mouth dropped open, and she felt ill. "Abby...is it possible?"

"No, it isn't," said Abby, but she felt far less sure.

Becker sighed, losing patience. "It is possible, Abigail! I'm bloody living how possible it is!"

Abby felt a weird shudder down her back. He had Connor's voice, his body, but he wasn't acting or speaking right. He didn't feel like Connor.

"If...you're Becker," said Jess. "Where's Connor?"

Connor was sound asleep when the phone woke him up. "Abs...the phone," he mumbled. "Get the phone. Abby?"

He rolled over, groaning, and fumbled around for it. Finally, he found the phone, and answered. "Ello?"

"Connor! What the hell took you so long?"

"Becker? Why are you yelling?"

"Sheez. You don't even know, do you?"

"What are you talking about?"

"Temple, shut up, and look in a mirror."

"What are you raving about?"

"Temple..." Becker began to say, then there was a commotion, and another voice took over, "Connor?"

"Abby? Where are you? Why are you with Becker?"

"Oh, my God," said Abby. "He does talk like Connor!"

"Of course I do! What?" asked a very confused Connor.

Now there was another voice, Jess.' "Do what they say, Connor."

Connor grumbled, fell out of bed, and cursed as he walked to the bathroom in the dark. Only, the bathroom wasn't there.

"I'm really hung over," he mumble. "Only I don't remember drinking." He kept feeling around in the dark, finally falling into a doorway, and nearly into the toilet.

"What's going on? Who moved everything?" he asked, as he tried to find a light. He finally found it, and turned it on. Groggy and confused, he looked into the mirror.

And screamed.

The mirror reflected not Connor, but Captain Becker. "What the hell!"

"That's what I've been asking," said Connor's voice through the phone.

"What?"

"Connor, somehow we switched, you're me and I'm you. Fix it!"

"Fix it? I don't know what 'it' is!"

"Connor stay there," said Abby. "We're coming over."

"Right," answered Connor, still staring at Becker's reflection.

End of Chapter One