~Absence of Abby

Disclaimer: I don't Own Primeval, no copyright intended, going for all Chapters of this story…

Lester is very underwritten, I am going to change that =P

This Chapter will be in Two Parts

[x] Part 1

It was a normal day of the ARC. Come in do some paperwork, do some research, talk to some people about research, do inventory, talk to some people about the paperwork, complain about something and maybe even fight a big scary dinosaur if you were lucky.

But as Lester stood in his office looking out of the walls made of Glass he noticed one thing. Abby was not there. Well sure Connor was not there either. Nobody knew where any of them were. They had disappeared into an anomaly seven months ago and no one had heard of them since.

But Abby brought something to the ARC that no-one else could. She brought Abby-ness.

If it had not been for the reputation that Lester had to keep up he would have smiled at his clever use of words. 'Don't want the people to think I am going soft, it would not be a wise career move.' Lester mumbled to himself.

But despite what he was mumbling to himself, trying his hardest to keep up the act, the truth was that he had a soft spot for Abby, he had been caught out by her Abby-ness when she came to the ARC all those years ago. Watched her mature and grow and now she was gone.

Lester was pacing up and down now, watching the people, looking scary but his mind was like an unexploded mine field, a great big pain in the behind.

Lester was not the only one to miss Abby, everyone had missed her. The animals in the menagerie, the people who knew her before she disappeared, the people who loved her, She brought laughter and fun into this strange job. She was never upset and even brought humour with her relationship with Connor.

But to Lester she was more than an employee, more than a blonde girl with a cheeky attitude and a habit of being inconvenient.

Abby had become like a daughter to Lester.

As he thought about this he thought back to the anomaly with the Mer Creatures.

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It had been a normal day at the ARC when the alert for another possible anomaly, they were still working on the detector at that stage, but it was almost up and running.

It had all seemed fine to Lester, Jenny would keep him in the loop, and she always did. But when he got a phone call from someone other than Jenny, a man from the team it made him come to a few sudden realisations.

'Mr Lester, Sir,' the idiot had started out afraid of his boss jumping down his throat. 'It's Abby Sir, she has been taken.'

Lester sighed. 'Well what are you telling me for? Do you want me to come down there and rescue her? Because if you do you can pay for the dry cleaning of my new suit, costs more than you earn in a month, is that really what you want?'

Lester could hear the soldier on the other end talking to someone. 'Sir, Jenny just said I should inform you of the situation.'

'And why could Miss Lewis not inform me herself, I sure she is more capable of a baboon with a gun.' Lester said to the soldier on the other end, probably not the nicest thing to say but he had to retain the authority and the fear.

'Jenny was attacked Sir, she asked me to call you instead.' The man said, his voice becoming shakier every time he spoke.'

'Very well, just make sure no one gets hurts, I'd hate to have to do more paperwork.' Lester said and then hung up before the other man had even had a chance to rebut what Lester said.

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As Lester looked back on it he realised just how long it took him to realise that he was soft on Abby even then, he wanted her safe and sound like everyone else but even then he had not been able to admit it to himself.

He could remember the feelings then that she needed to be ok, like a piece of him would go missing if she did, and that is exactly what had happened, when Abby had disappeared, so had a little piece of his heart.

But if anyone ever mentioned anything about it, well, let's just say that Lester would have some paper work to do.

[x] Part 2 –A few years later

This time Lester really did smile. Once again he was pacing the clear cold walls of his office, till he stopped. There was so much on his mind; she just had to be ok.

As he breathed in and out heavily his breath created condensation on the glass. Abby was gone again, but this time it was different. There was no dismal looks from the fellow colleagues, no depressing thoughts in minds of the workers.

It was a normal day and things were not much different from the last time Abby had been missing. People were still researching, people were still complaining, despite how many times he had threatened to sac them, people were still doing inventory and slacking off doing nothing. Like last time Connor was gone too, but it was just different.

It was difficult to put words on, he had been so happy when she returned from the Cretaceous, when she walked into the ARC and threw her arms around him, she said she missed him and he had a hard time not telling her the same thing.

But this time Abby had left because Lester had told her too, well it was the Law but Lester told her too as well.

Abby was pregnant with Connor's child and it was their first baby. A few months ago when she was pulled off the field work because of her growing size, it had been ok. But then when she actually had to take time off work people had started to miss her, more to the point, Lester missed her.

She came to the ARC every few days, but it was just different, different from today.

Connor had called an hour earlier to tell them about the birth of their child, a baby boy. The ARC was buzzing within minutes as the word travelled round, a smile broached Lester's face.

Then Connor continued. 'Lester, we have named him Jacob Nickolas James Temple, and we, well Abby mostly want you and your wife to be the god parents.'

Right then and there things had become too much for Lester, he was a god parent to Abby Maitland Temple's child, who had his name. His Abby, who was home, who he loved like a daughter, everyone knew it, but Lester would never admit it. That would not look good being the boss.

These are all just little ideas that come to me, Abby and Lester were always interesting, this is how I see them…please review and tell me what you think…

And may your gateways remain ever open…you know I tried this on my New World Fic, it just did not work the same…anyways…I'm out musicgirl97