Characters/Pairing: Connor, Abby, Connor/Abby
Rating: PG
Disclaimer: Primeval and it's characters belong to Impossible Pictures, no copyright infringement is intended.
AN: I was allowed to take a stray Connor from evenstar_estel's fic Cloudy With A Chance Of Connors home, to do with him what I like :P This is the result:
AND A big thanks to XxbagpussxX for the betawork :D
Connor sat at his desk in the ARC and tried to think of something to write down in this damned report. Actually, he'd been here trying to write it for the last two hours, ever since he'd found himself being dragged through an anomaly that had appeared in the middle of the ARC...
It was the weirdest thing that ever happened to him, apart from the whole "finding dinosaurs running around in the modern world" thing.
When he had stepped out of that anomaly, he was kind of surprised to be still in the ARC Main Room. The alarm was blaring loudly.
Even weirder still, and also a little frightening, was the fact that there were about 15 or 16 other Connors there too. It was like one of those "hall of mirrors" you find at the funfair.
He looked around and saw one Connor in a suit, looking a bit like Lester. One looked like a goth, taken away from an innocent animal sacrifice and dressed all in black with eye-liner around his eyes. Another one was clad only in a pair of swimshorts, but most of them looked like him, give or take +/- 5 years.
He was trying to work out what had happened, and if it was his fault somehow, when he heard a loud whistle. He looked up and saw a sweaty looking girl.
Something about her looked familiar, but he couldn't recall how he could possibly know her.
She was a petite, white blonde with a cute face. When she opened her bra to make some of the other Connors shut up, he smiled. She must be fun to be around, he thought to himself.
Eventually, when all eyes were on her, or actually on her breasts, she closed her bra again and asked them all to follow her.
Two Connors were left behind to fix whatever had gone wrong, and the rest of them were led to the common room.
He sat down and listened to the girl, Abby, explaining what was going on. He was still trying to think how he knew her face. Bright blue eyes, cute smile and very blonde hair. He was certain he'd have remembered someone like that!
It wasn't from school, because she looked to be a year or two younger than him. He was the youngest in his classes by at least 2 years anyway, and never had much to do with the others in school. Uni? Well there was the same problem, maybe if she had started when he finished his degree … could be, but there was something about her face and voice that reminded him of something ARC related.
Then he got it. The very first Anomaly! She was the girl that was wounded whilst helping the little boy! The lizard girl. He and Stephen had found her lost in the woods, wandering about with the Coelurosauravus.
How odd that she seemed to be working in the ARC here! In his reality, she had been checked out by a doctor and then sent home. He had talked her into handing the Coelurosauravus over to Stephen and promised that the lizard would be looked after well.
Abby was going around now, talking to each of the other Connors for a bit, smiling, asking questions. When it was his turn she asked him what he was doing when he got sucked into the Anomaly. He told her that he bad been working on the ADD, and asked if the mess down in the main room was his fault.
Abby told him that "her Connor" had tested out something and that he wasn't to blame for it. She asked him then if he had "his own Abby".
He shook his head and told her the story of their brief meeting. When he told her about the Coelurosauravus she smiled and said that she had Rex at home as a pet now. She was somewhat shocked to hear him talk about Claudia.
Connor told her about Stephen and Cutter and Hill, who he had seen down in the main room too. She laughed when he told her the first name of the soldier and asked if they were friends. Connor nodded and recited the events of the last weekend, where he was Hill's best man at his wedding with Sarah. Abby just smiled a cute little knowing smile before becoming serous again and asking him about Helen.
Helen was another thing out of the past. She had been killed 3 months ago in one of her own traps set for the ARC team. He noticed Abby try to hide a smile at that news. He guessed Helen was a problem in this reality as well and wondered if she was alive here.
When she said that it was Stephen who had been killed in her reality, Connor was shocked. One of the team was dead here?. He looked down and swallowed, trying to take it in. When he looked back up into Abby's eyes, he saw that there was more … It wasn't just Stephen that was dead here was it.
"Who else?" he asked quietly.
Abby's eyes grew misty, but she didn't cry. She just told him about Cutter's death only two weeks ago.
Connor was always emotional and when he heard about the death of his mentor and friend, there was a tear running down his cheek.
Abby looked at him with a sad smile and just reached out to wipe away the tear. Her touch sent a spark through him, and when she whispered "It's okay Conn." it made him shiver a little. No one had called him Conn in a very long time. It felt nice, comforting and homey.
It was really weird to get that kind of feeling from a girl he had only actually seen for 20 minutes, and that was 3 years ago. Okay, AND she was from a different dimension? Timeline? Reality?
He shook off the feelings he got from the petite blonde and asked her about her job at the ARC. She told him that she was the animal expert and was working on a project with plants in the moment.
In his ARC Stephen had done all the work with the animals, but he had retired a month back after he was wounded really badly. He had a wife and daughter to think about, he couldn't risk getting killed at work.
Lester had wanted to hire someone new, but nothing has happened since then. Maybe they could contact the Abby in his world. She seemed to belong into this ARC's version, and she said that working here was the best thing to happen to her in her life so far.
Abby smiled. "When you contact her … me … just take her to the ARC and show her some creatures. If she is like me, she will be happy to join the team. And Conn? Be patient with her!"
Connor was still thinking about the meaning of what she had said when she moved on to talk to the Leather-Pirate Connor.
Now he was back in his own ARC and had to write down what happened. Cutter had asked him what the Connor in the anomaly had done to cause all the other Connors to be brought there.
Connor laughed, embarrassed. "Actually, I didn't ask what he'd done, it was all a bit ... weird you know? Seeing all those others that looked like me, but weren't me..." He shook his head. It still didn't seem real, even now, but the nice feeling he had had when Abby touched him lingered and reminded him it was real. Perhaps he should try to find the lizard girl again? If she was half as nice as the Abby he had chatted to this afternoon, then she could be worth getting to know at least. He decided that he should mention it to Cutter and Lester and see if they could find her.
He sighed ... he still had to write it all down in that damned report! …