A/N This is the final chapter of this fanfic and I hope you've enjoyed it :)
Disclaimer: I still do not own Primeval or any of the characters associated with it :\
I reached down to collect my crutches and followed Abby through the corridor; I made it a few feet before one of my crutches slipped on something on the floor. Landing with a smack on the ground I patted the back of my head and froze. It was wet. I pulled my hand quickly back towards my face expecting to see it covered with blood, but no, it was water. I sighed with relief and attempted to stand back up again only to find that the floor of the corridor was now completely covered with water. Great. I looked around me trying to find the source of the flooding, maybe it was coming through an anomaly…
I fumbled around in my pocket trying to find the walkie-talkie that Abby had given just a few minutes before ,and spoke into it "Abby? Abby can you hear me?"
I waited patiently for a reply, only to be greeted with the sound of static coming from Abby's end.
"Abby? Have you seen the water coming through from the anomaly?"
Still silence. The only sound that could be heard was that of the water flowing quickly around me; hang on, the water wasn't that high a minute ago… yep, the water's definitely rising. Why isn't Abby replying? What if there's something wrong?
I decided to shout through the halls to see if anyone would hear me; "Abby! Oh come on there must be someone around here!"
My jeans are soaked through; I really need to stand up now and I was just about to try and get up when I heard the sound of splashing feet running towards me and I couldn't help but grin. "Over here!" I shouted.
I could hear them running closer and when they turned the corner, I was greeted by a completely drenched Danny.
"Took your time."
He frowned at me, "Why are you sitting in the middle of a flooding corridor Connor?"
I suddenly realised how stupid I must have looked and felt my cheeks flare up in embarrassment.
"Oh no, well what happened was… I was looking for Abby you see and… fell…" I was flailing my arms around demonstrating the helplessness of my situation before Danny helped me to my feet.
"You say you were looking for Abby? We've been looking for her, and you actually, you two were the only people left unaccounted for and we assumed you'd be together… obviously not…" He leaned up against the wall and breathed out deeply, waiting for me to respond.
"She- she's missing?"
He nodded gravely and I moved over to lean against the wall next to him.
"I couldn't get through to her walkie-talkie Danny. But- but I know she went down here somewhere, I came after her you see… if only I hadn't been so stupid and slipped, she wouldn't be alone."
Danny looked at me miserably, "Look this is no one's fault, we just need to find her, come on." He started to make his way further into the corridor, but paused and looked back, "Wait, what about your cast?" I looked down at my ankle then and gasped; it was beginning to fall apart in the water, I hadn't even noticed…
"On second thoughts maybe we should get you back with the others-"
"No. I need to find Abby." I interrupted boldly. There was no way that I was just going to turn back now, knowing that Abby was alone out there somewhere…
He seemed to think this over quickly before chuckling lightly and handing me one of my crutches.
"We better get going then."
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It felt like we had been walking for hours, checking every room and every crevice of the long hall and we still had further to go, I knew that my constant complaining wasn't helping the matters but I just couldn't help it, I was just too tired to care, and the rising water wasn't making our task any easier either; it was now about waist deep, so wading through it on one working ankle wasn't easy, even though I had ripped off the remaining fragment of my cast and threw it into the water long ago.
It was then that I heard the banging, it sounded kind of metallic… "Danny, wait a minute…" I stopped and motioned to him that I could hear something about fifty yards ahead of us.
"What I can't hear anything?" he stated unhelpfully.
"Listen."
He just shrugged at me, "Hang on then, I'll go and see what it is." I continued persistently.
As I struggled against the water to get closer to the sound, it seemed to get quieter… no, not quieter just muffled…
"Mfuuoooner!"
Okay, I thought, that's weird it sounded a bit like my name…
Danny was coming up behind me, "Ok, I definitely heard that, where is it coming from?"
We were both scanning our surroundings frantically, trying to find the source of the noise, when I saw a storage cupboard. Metal door, it seemed to fit. "Danny, I think it's coming from that." I suggested weakly.
We both made our way to the thick metal door, Danny getting there much faster than me of course, and banged against it calling out Abby's name.
Silence.
"Come on Connor help me get the door open." he commanded quickly.
We were both slipping on the floor trying to pull the heavy door open, and it must have taken a few gruelling minutes before water started to rush out of it, sending us both crashing to the ground gasping for breath.
I was struggling to get my head back above water when I felt my hand brush against something soft and as I took a deep breath of well needed air, I turned to see what it was.
I could feel the colour draining out of my face as I saw, horror stricken, that the soft thing I felt under the water was Abby- her eyes closed, floating in the water.
"Oh god Abby!" I shouted as I dived back under to retrieve her.
Danny swiftly made his way over to help me, and I thought how he didn't seem to have much colour left in his face either.
My fingers scrambled over her neck to try and find a pulse and I could feel tears already running down my cheeks.
"Nothing…" I choked, as Danny lifted her into his arms to allow me to move her so that she was lying comfortably.
"Get the water out of her lungs Connor. Now!" he screamed at me.
With shaking hands I quickly lifted up her head to drain the water from her throat and mouth before moving on to chest compressions, pausing every few seconds to feel for a pulse.
Still nothing.
"Mouth to mouth Connor; come on you can do this now." Danny instructed me calmly, although I could feel the sharp underline panic in his voice.
I glanced down at Abby's face momentarily before taking in a deep breath and planting my lips forcefully onto hers; I let out the breath that I had been holding and pulled away. "Danny it's not working!" I was panicking now; I can't lose her… not now, not like this.
"Keep trying Connor!" it was clear that he had given up trying to stay calm now and was as outwardly distressed as I was.
I gripped Abby's alarmingly cold hand and once again took a deep breath before giving her the kiss of life once again. I pulled away and started to sob, "Abby! Please, I need you I… I-"
But I was suddenly interrupted by Abby's coughing and gasps for breath; "Connor…" she smiled at me feebly and laid her head against Danny's neck.
He was laughing now too, "Thank god Abs, I don't know what Connor here would have done without you." and he nodded towards me
Abby looked at me again and a flash of pain showed quickly on her face, "Abs what's wrong? Are you hurt? What can I do?" words were just tumbling out of my mouth now, heart beating faster in fear that she might be once again hurt.
"Connor, my hand-"she motioned to where I was still gripping her hand tightly.
"Oh right yeh! Sorry."I apologised as she giggled at me.
With her other hand she reached out and stroked my face, "What would I do without you eh?"
I smiled at her and looked at Danny who was now also grinning toothily at us; "I hate to spoil such a happy reunion, but we need to get back to the others, I think we have a pretty good idea of where the anomaly is now don't you?" he gestured back towards the storage cupboard, and I nodded in dazed agreement.
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A few hours later and I was sitting back at my desk, searching through the sodden sheets of paper that now plagued it. I groaned, my designs for the new handheld are somewhere amongst this mess.
"Connor Temple?" I heard a voice behind me and swivelled round on my chair to face them.
"The one and only." I quipped with a grin.
The man's face remained blank as he continued, "Yes, well, Sir James Lester has requested that you be escorted to the hospital to have your ankle sorted out, again."
I looked down at my now obviously swollen ankle and grimaced.
"Yeh, that might be a good idea."
He helped me up and led me outside towards a waiting ambulance, where I was handed a blanket and some pain meds to swallow down.
I was just about to step inside when I heard Abby call me, "Connor wait." she half walked, half ran towards me quickly and I greeted her with a welcoming embrace.
It was then that she hit my arm forcefully, causing me to wince and look down at her in confusion.
"Next time I say wait by your desk, I mean wait by your desk you idiot. You could've been killed coming after me! Did you ever think of that?!"
I rubbed the spot on my arm where she had hit me dramatically and looked down at my feet avoiding her expectant, if not slightly angry gaze.
"Well no, not really… and I'm fine anyway, we're fine." I carried on looking down at the floor expecting to hear a heated response from Abby, telling me how reckless and stupid I had been today; but when I looked back up at her, I noticed that she now had tears streaming down her face.
I took the blanket that was draped over my shoulders and placed it gently around hers, pulling her in for another hug.
"Abby, what's wrong?"
"You could have been killed Connor." she stepped away from the comfort of my embrace and looked me directly in the eyes. "What would I have done then?"
I was speechless, what would she have done?
"Abby, what would I have done if anything had happened to you, I mean, I didn't die today Abby, you did. All I managed to do was slip on a wet floor."
She let out a short laugh and pulled the blanket into her body as she looked away from me.
"I guess I'm just trying to say thank you Con. For just… for just… always being there for me." and she nudged me playfully.
I smiled and brought her closer into me, kissing the top of her head comfortingly.
"I think we've said enough 'thank yous' to last a lifetime." She chuckled in agreement as I closed my eyes, trying to commit this moment of closeness to memory.
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A/N Oh wow, it's finally finished :) review please to tell me what you thought and whether or not I should keep writing or even to suggest/request a particular Primeval storyline that you might want me to try and write.
Oh and Primeval's back for another epic 13 episodes, 'cause it's just that good. x