Alternate Universe
Pairing : Connor/Nick, Stephen/Ryan, mention of Stephen/Helen, Nick/Helen and Lester/Becker
Rating : PG-13 (for now)
Warnings : mxm relationship
Summary : Slash. AU of the first season. What Nick and Ryan found at the place beyond anomalies was Helen's bone, but how come she's still alive?
Author's Note : As I mention in the summary, THIS IS A SLASH! If you don't like it, don't read it!
I don't have a beta, my mother language isn't English and I'm not good with words, so, sorry if there's any mistake in the grammar or vocabulary.
As, I mention in the summary, this is some kind of AU. So there are some differences in the event that occur. And the ratings might change into NC-17 in the later chapter.
Disclaimer : I don't own Primeval and its characters. If I had, I would make Helen disappear forever and then I turn all the male characters into gay~~XD
Chapter 1
Ryan and Nick were on the other side of the anomaly. They were searching for Helen in this late Permian period. Upon their search, they found an abandoned camp where the human's bone lies near it. Nick moved to examine it and his eyes tightened in pain.
"Is it Helen?" ask Ryan.
Nick stand up. "I don't know but it was definitely a woman." The professor took the camera that lies near the bones and turn it. "H.C. That's Helen Cutter." He rubs his face. "God! I can't believe she actually go through the anomaly only to end up-" he cut himself. The word dead left unspoken but both of them knew it already.
"I'm sorry", Ryan put his hand on Nick's shoulder. "Do you want to take her remains to be buried properly?"
He answered while walking to the direction of the anomaly. "No. I'm sure she would be happier if she buried here. Along with the things she spent her whole life studying."
Nick already gave up the search for his wife in the 5th year she was missing. He assumed she was dead although at the back of his mind he had hope she would still be alive. When the reality hit, Nick didn't know whether to grieve or relieve to finally know the truth about his wife. Years of speculating alone wasn't exactly easy on him.
"Come on. Let's get back to the other side." Nick said. And with that, Ryan followed him and told the team that Helen was dead. Most of the people gave Nick gave him a sympathetic gaze and some of them said they're sorry for him. Nick ignored all of them and walk to his car. He needed some time alone to think about this.
At night, Nick was alone in his house. He already told Stephen he needed some time and gave his assistant (and him too) 2 days off. When he decided he had enough of grieving, he pulled some books from his shelve and read some of the material he needed for his lecture next week. It was one hour later he heard a noise from the hallway outside.
"Hello?" he said as he opened the door and walking through the hallway.
Is it Stephen? I already told him I want to be alone. Or is it Connor? Or maybe…Claudia?
After a few minutes search and decided the search was pointless and the noise he heard definitely only his imagination, he get back to his study room and closed the door.
I'm starting to hallucinate. Maybe it's time to call it a day.
When he moved to his desk to tidy up, a habit he developed after Helen was gone, as no one else going to tidy up his desk now beside himself and he had to do it if he didn't want to die in his own pile of books, he noticed an ammonite on the top of his book. Not a fossil like he had in his office, but a REAL one. A LIVING one.
Suddenly, he felt the chills up to his spine and turn back, realizing that the window is open. Quickly, he got out of his office from his window to his backyard and then the street in front of his house only wearing a boxer and white undershirt. He hadn't had a chance to change into anything since he got home from anomaly. Only strip his jacket, outer and pants, leaving him comfortable with the attire he's wearing now.
It's almost fall so it's quite freezing to walk outside with minimum clothes (he had a heater on his house so he didn't felt cold wearing too little clothes). Nick shivered a little. Then, he sees a ghostly silhouette of Helen near the lamp post.
"Helen!"
Nick swears he saw Helen smirked and disappear into the night as he shouts after her.
Bloody hell! She's still alive! ...wait. If she is then whose bones I found on the anomaly?
Nick Cutter now faces the prospect that his wife isn't as dead as he thought. And the prospect made his head hurt as confusion filled his head.
When he walks towards his house, he saw his neighbor and her children just get back from their vacation. The little girl, Lily he remembered, is pointing at him.
"Mommy, why is Mr. Cutter only wearing a T-shirt and underwear? Isn't he cold?"
His mother turned to Nick and glared. Nick smiled sheepishly. "Don't look Lily! Take your brothers inside and stop looking at Mr. Cutter." When she turned to Nick direction, he already fled before the wrath of the angry mother descended upon him.
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