Disclaimer: I do not own Primeval, which belongs to Adrian Hodges and Tim Haines. I also don't own Torchwood which belongs to Russell T Davis. I am reposting this series with some serious edits so please bear with me as I do so and I will complete all five seasons.
Edited: 20.08.2014.
Season One - Episode Six: Warning Contains.
Rachel let out a groan when she looked at her alarm clock as she rolled over to answer her phone; she hated this part of her job and wished sometimes that she had opted to a nine to five one instead.
"I'll be there in twenty," Rachel said calmly before hanging up. Rachel sighed before she slowly climbed out of bed and started to dress in a black button front shirt and black bootcut fit trousers paired with black two part pointed stiletto heels.
As Rachel dressed she couldn't help but hope that Connor was in a better mood today, it had been just over a month since Tom had died and the funeral had been difficult.
It had taken a lot of convincing from her and Nick so that Connor wouldn't leave and that Tom's death hadn't been his fault. Rachel made sure that she grabbed her black cross body bag, she didn't need to be late and there was a pair of flats in the boot of her car in case she needed them.
Rachel sighed before she jogged down the stairs from her flat and made her way slowly towards her Audi A5 Coupe where she found Captain Ryan waiting for her. Rachel looked at Ryan, who happened to live in the same block as her; she was slowly getting used to her new life and she was glad that she had taken the promotion.
"Morning," he greeted making Rachel smile at him before they both climbed into the car, it was going to be a long day and she hoped that she was prepared for whatever happened next when she reached the office.
Rachel sighed when she realized that she had been called into work because Cutter had found a plant from the future growing next to the Anomaly and wanted her to check it out.
"What do I look like a botanist?" Rachel asked annoyed making Stephen grin as Nick turned to leave the room; she wasn't happy about this especially since it wasn't her area of expertise.
"No but since you're the one from Institute then a pretty sure you know what to do with a plant," Nick said simply before leaving them alone, he wanted her out of trouble for at least this mission. Rachel glared after him as she wondered why she was being treated like glass, she hadn't had anymore fainting spells and she was doing her best for the team.
"And why are you here?" Rachel asked while Stephen chuckled at her, he could see how annoyed she was and he didn't blame her; lab work wasn't the best option in the world but it was at least something.
"Cutter doesn't want you to dissect the plant alone," Stephen said with a shrug, he watched Rachel sure that he could keep her out of any sort of trouble. Rachel nodded looking at the plant, she frowned wondering what she was expected to do with it; she groaned under her breath as she ran a hand through her hair.
"Aren't you going to miss out on the fun of exploring the future with the others?" Rachel asked as she moved to put on some surgical gloves, she raised an eyebrow at Stephen who shrugged his shoulders and did the same.
"Do you have any ideas?" Rachel asked still looking at the odd plant making Stephen laugh, Rachel looked at him carefully but couldn't help the smile that reached her lips.
"Honestly I have no clue," Stephen replied after a minute, Rachel lent back against the table behind her, Stephen smiled taking care to notice she no longer was wearing Matthew's ring.
"Maybe we should water it?" Stephen said after a few minutes looking at the plant picking up a bottle of water before moving to spray the plant. The moment the water hit the plant, the plant released a golden dust into the air making Rachel and Stephen cough as they breathed it in.
"What the hell was that?" Stephen asked gasping while he and Rachel moved into the corridor for some fresh air; Rachel shrugged as she coughed and turning and looking at him. Rachel patted her chest as she tried to clear it, she hated lab work for this reason; she really wished that there was some way around having to do all of this lab work.
"I have no idea," Rachel said as she tried to clear her throat, she leant back against the wall taking deep breaths.
"Maybe we should…" Rachel started to say however Stephen kissed her passionately stopping her from finishing.
Meanwhile Nick and the others made their way through the landscape which wasn't as futuristic as they thought it would be.
"Professor, the atmosphere seems to be filled with aphrodisiacs," Connor called making Nick and Claudia look at him in surprise and horror. In the next few seconds, the entire exploration team had their faces covered before Connor continued to read about the air around them.
"There not enough to make us do anything but the plant's pollen around us, is highly concentrated so if we get sprayed with it well…" Connor said getting awkward towards the end while Abby looked at Nick. They had taken a plant back to the office and they had to warn Rachel and Stephen before it was too late; they didn't need any mishaps happening.
"Didn't you leave a plant with Rachel and Stephen?" Abby asked worried as she looked to Nick, she hated to think of anything happening while they were gone to their friends. Nick sighed pulling out his phone and headed back out the anomaly followed by the team.
It wasn't long until they were back on the correct side of the anomaly and Nick was trying to call Stephen without much look. Abby quickly dialled Rachel's number but got the same response making her frown; something had to have happened if they weren't answering their phones.
"Anything?" Nick asked worried, not sure what the highly concentrated aphrodisiacs would do to his daughter and his best friend. Abby shook her head before Connor grinned at them, he had some news that might back it better for them; he was sure that they could make it back before anything happened.
"It seems that as long as the plant doesn't get wet then the aphrodisiacs won't be released," Connor said, making Nick take a deep breath and start to make his way towards his car.
Rachel gasped for breath as Stephen pinned her against the wall and his lips moved down her neck, she felt a little dizzy and confused.
"Stephen?" Rachel breathed not sure why she couldn't push the man in front of her away, Stephen smiled as he continued to move his lips down Rachel's neck making her shiver in pleasure.
"Stephen," Rachel said this time pushing him away making Stephen look up at her as he pushed himself up against the wall behind him. They stared at each other wondering what was going on, Rachel took deep breaths as she looked at Stephen carefully; there was clearly something odd happening right now.
"What the hell just happened?" Rachel asked making Stephen shrug closing his eyes, he hadn't been with anyone since his girlfriend and that had been months ago after he had wound up in hospital after the incident with the giant centipede.
"I have no idea," Stephen said until he felt Rachel's lips against his again making Stephen smile, as he pulled Rachel closer. Rachel slowly pulled away a smile imprinted on her face, she wasn't sure what was happening but she couldn't resist; she watched Stephen as arousal filled his blue eyes.
"Let's go to your office," Stephen said pulling her towards the room, but Rachel stopped him; she didn't want anyone to find them and there was one place that they could hide out in.
"Yours, people will come looking for us in mine," Rachel said making Stephen smile, gently pulling Rachel along the corridor towards his locked office. Rachel grinned as Stephen placed his lips back on hers as he backed her into his office towards his desk and closing the door behind him.
Nick and the others burst into the labs before they realized that they were empty; Connor was working on an antidote but it would take another hour to prepare while the others looked for Rachel and Stephen.
"Connor says if we don't find them before they get intimate then we'll only have jam left of the two of them," Ryan said while the group quickly started to headed to Rachel's office hoping the two would be there.
"Wait think about it, they both knew we'd come looking for them and Rachel's office is rather obvious," Abby said while Nick caught on to what she was thinking, if they had been sprayed with the dust then they wouldn't want to be found or disturbed.
"Stephen's office," Nick said before they all started to race towards the office, his heart beat wildly in his chest as he wondered what they would find.
"Abby and Claudia you get Rachel while me and Ryan deal with Stephen; get her out of here as fast as you can," Nick ordered as he looked back at the team, they had to be quick and act fast.
Connor, who had tested the highly concentrated aphrodisiacs on two rats, had discovered that the male became violent when forced to separate from the female but if they were allowed to become intimate then they basically became rat jam when they reached climax. Nick and Ryan nodded at each other before bursting into Stephen's office to find that Stephen and Rachel were in a stage of undress and Stephen had Rachel pinned beneath him on his desk.
"NOW!" Nick shouted causing hell to break lose as they pulled Stephen off of Rachel, who was then pulled from the room by the girls leaving the boys to deal with a very unhappy Stephen.
Rachel groaned as she slowly woke up in a locked cell inside of Home Office in front of her stood Nick Cutter, who looked slightly amused about what had happened.
"I told you I wasn't a botanist," Rachel said while sitting up and realizing she wasn't in her own clothes anymore but an oversized security guard's outfit making her wonder what had happened.
"What happened?" she asked Nick who sighed sitting across from her not getting too close, she was still contaminated and the antidote wasn't going to be ready for a few more moments.
"Highly concentrated aphrodisiacs," Nick stated simply making Rachel laugh as she noticed the large gap between them; he swallowed as he watched her, he wasn't going to make things awkward between them.
"For safety, we don't need you jumping anyone and Stephen's not in the right frame of mind at the moment and has attacked several members of staff," Nick said nodding at the cell across from Rachel's where Stephen could be seen pacing as he watched the two.
"I don't think I'll be doing anymore lab work from now on," Rachel said with a smile making Nick laugh nodding his head; Stephen had stopped pacing behind them and was looking at Connor, who had just appeared.
"I finished the antidote," Connor said grinning while Nick and Rachel looked at him, Nick grinned stepping out of the cell and looking at Rachel who sighed relieved that everything would be over soon.
"Let's get this over with," Rachel said making them smile before the cell was sprayed with the antidote; Rachel coughed a couple of times until the sprayed fog disappeared.
"Do you think it worked?" Connor asked making Nick pushed him into the cell with Rachel; Connor flinched back before he realized that Rachel hadn't jumped him. Connor sighed relieved as the two of them stepped out of the cell, he was relieved that the antidote had actually worked.
"One down, one to go," Nick said as the three of them turned to look at the furious looking Stephen; his eyes glaring at the two men as if they were a large threat to him in some way.
"I'll be in my office," Rachel said before making a move to leave causing Stephen to make some deep snarling noise which made her stop and look back at him.
"What the hell?" Connor asked making Nick gently grip onto Rachel's arm and pulling her back to where she had been stood. The three of them watched as Stephen's eyes bore into hers, not sure what to do with what was happening to their team mate.
Claudia and Lester were less than pleased to hear about the current situation going on in Home Offices holding cells; Stephen was still locked up while Connor continued to work on the stronger antidote to fix the problem.
Rachel had been sat in the corridor so Stephen wouldn't get upset and attack anybody else who passed by; he seemed strangely attached to her and no one could figure out why.
"Well, can it be fixed?" Claudia asked while they sat in Lester's office making Nick smile, it hadn't been an easy day but they'd had worse even if Lester did think that it was the end of the world or something.
"Connor's working on the antidote to fix Stephen as we speak; since the male body seems to be more potent to the aphrodisiacs then Stephen will need a stronger dose than Rachel did," Nick explained as he crossed his arms relaxed, it could have been worse and they were doing quite well all things considered.
Rachel, Connor and Nick stood outside Stephen's cell all trying to think of ways for Connor to use the antidote on him.
"I'll go in first and distract him," Rachel said making Nick look at her panicked knowing that there was no other choice for them; Stephen wasn't going to let anyone else near him.
"Be careful," Nick said as Rachel stepped into the cell calmly, Stephen slowly moved towards Rachel as she entered his cell, trying not to scare her before he let his lips brush against hers; he gently started to kiss her.
As they slowly backed into the wall, Stephen's hands slowly cup her face while Rachel's hands slipped around his neck; un-noticed to the pair of them Connor and Nick slowly make their way into the cell and waited for Rachel's signal. Gently pulling away from Stephen, Rachel looked up into his eyes as she tried to control herself; she didn't want to get carried away while people were watching.
"Now," Rachel whispered before ducking out of the way allowing Connor to spray Stephen with the antidote; Nick pulled them out of the cell allowing Stephen to inhale the antidote.
"Well that went well," Connor said while Rachel and Nick couldn't take the smiles off of their faces, Stephen looked at his friends confused about what had happened.
Rachel stood from her office chair as she finished her report about the day's events; she hadn't spoken to Stephen since he had been released from his cell and had spent the rest of her afternoon working on some paperwork.
"Knock, knock," Stephen said letting himself into Rachel's office making her nervous; she wasn't sure how to react around him after what had happened between them.
"Hey," Rachel said as she focused at the report that she was filing, Stephen sighed moving carefully towards her.
"I'm sorry," Stephen said, making Rachel look at him making her sigh; it was his fault and things would be strange between them for a while.
"It wasn't you, Stephen," Rachel replied while Stephen started to gently cup her face making her look him in the eye; she swallowed as she stared up into his blue eyes.
"Is there something you would like Mr. Hart?" Rachel asked flirting making Stephen smile slowly lowering his lips to her's before he kissed her softly. The brunette wrapped her arms slowly around his neck as Stephen pulled back slightly from her; he smiled as he watched her for a moment.
"You," Stephen said as Rachel's hands to weave through his hair pulling him back into a kiss.
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