Disclaimer: Nope, don't own
Pairing: Jack Carter/Nathan Stark (one-sided), others mentioned.
Pre-slash, K, Prompt: Nathans own world
Word Count: Approx. 550
Nathan believes that there are other dimensions out there- or alternate universes, either works for him. There's a whole section of Global Dynamics set up to the study and discovery of alternate worlds. He set it up before Allison became the head of Global.
He believes that Eureka would still exist in one of those alternate universes, the same people, just slightly different lives. After all, with an infinite amount of dimensions out there, there has to be one similar to theirs- they aren't that unique.
So perhaps in this dimension that he lets himself dream up late at night, Kim would have never died. Then Henry would be happy and married as opposed to alone and traveling down a dark road of despair that no one could drag him out of.
But then Zoe and Callister may have actually run away and he and Carter wouldn't have found them. Nathan isn't very fond of this scenario. If Zoe was gone then he imagines that Carter wouldn't be that far behind and while they may not have been considered friends, it would hurt the town to lose the man, so he disregards the theory.
Another possibility is that he and Ally are still together, but when he starts thinking that then he starts thinking about Carter and Ally and eventually begins to wonder if he and this fictional Allison aren't just together because it's comfortable. Another idea he scraps.
It's painful to admit, but sometimes when he's exhausted he starts to wonder about whether Deputy Lupo and Zane were together or engaged or broken up? Any of it is possible with their relationship. And every so often a horrifying thought slips in about whether Larry actually acted on impulse for once in his life and invited Taggart to dinner- he's seen the long looks when the scientist thinks no one is paying attention- but this tends to scar him for the next week. Most of the time he doesn't care one way or another about this train of thought.
In another place he's still head of Global or never returned to Eureka when he left. But he has to admit that he enjoys working, hands on, again. The fact that there are less politics to deal with is a plus. He loves his lab.
But his favourite part of this alternate Eureka is that he's not alone. He doesn't spend the night sleeping in his lab because he forgets to leave- no more meals for one. He has a family.
Surprisingly, this new family isn't Allison and Kevin. It's Jack and Zoe Carter. In this world he and Jack become friends and then more. Zoe comes to him for help on school work or just about life in general and Jack views him with more than just distrust and dislike. It's the part he wishes so badly were real and not just a figment of his imagination. The part that he lays awake on some nights thinking about, longing for, craving so badly it hurts.
Lately he's been working on being civil to Jack- get to civil, then maybe friends and you never knew- maybe his imagination isn't such a crazy place.
No one knows of the alternate universe he's created in his mind; perhaps it's for the best.
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