Do You Remember Me?
I have decided to re-write this one changing a few things.
Disclaimer: I do not own Primeval, or its characters. They belong to Impossible pictures.
What if Connor had been seeing some one behind her back? He had been very different since coming back from the Cretaceous. Did her copying of his hard drive; finally drive a wedge between them?
Was there someone else? Did Connor still love her? Suddenly she felt very uncomfortable. If he had been with someone else she would never forgive him.
Abby felt terrible; her mind kept going back to the phone conversation. Who was this Tyler person? Was Connor really cheating on her? She loved him, but if he was cheating then...
Connor didn't really have any close family, there was only his mum and his gran, and so who could it be? She felt hurt. She felt bad, and she tried very hard to swallow the lump that was beginning to form in her throat. She was starting to feel angry too.
What if he rejected her? Would he want her to keep the baby? Would he be pleased or would he just walk away after she told him? She took a deep breath and made a decision.
She was going to keep this baby.
Having an abortion was out of the question.
She would keep this baby, even if she didn't have Connor's approval! She would keep the baby and raise it herself.
If he was cheating on her then she would...
Ten minutes later, there was a knock at the door. Jess got up to answer.
"Abby, it's the police, they need to speak to you," Jess wondered back with a policeman and a policewoman following.
"Hello, I'm PC Tyler, we spoke on the phone." The policewoman stretched out her hand for a handshake. Abby ignored the hand and stood up from her seat on the sofa.
"Yes, what do you want?" Abby snapped, wanting this strange policewoman to go away. Then the penny dropped. "We spoke on the phone?" The police woman nodded. "You're here about Connor..."
"Yes, I'm PC Harkness, Connor Temple's been involved in an accident." The policeman took over. He detected hostility from Abby towards his partner and wanted to diffuse the situation.
"What sort of accident?" Abby gulped as she collapsed onto the sofa, the lump travelled down and started to knot in her stomach. She thought about a T- Rex that could have eaten Connor. Maybe those huge beetles that had carried Connor off a few weeks ago, or even the bugs today.
"A Road Traffic Accident, he's been involved in a collision with a lamp post," answered PC Harkness. Another lump formed in Abby's throat. "Do you know where was he going to and where was he coming from?"
"Yeah, he was coming home from work, he's been working long hours recently," replied Abby. "Is he hurt? How badly is he hurt? Where is he now? Can I see him?" Her voice cracked, she rushed her words and started to ramble, and tears threatened to fall.
"He's at Saint Bart's hospital. He's very lucky to be alive! You can go to see him." Abby turned to the Policewoman.
"I'm sorry about how I reacted with you; I thought he'd been cheating on me." This time tears did fall. Abby felt so emotional that she could not stop crying.
She sat on the sofa for a few minutes and wept. Jess sat down beside her, rubbing her back. Neither woman saying anything. Abby felt awful. How could she have even thought that Connor was cheating on her? Connor would never do that. The policewoman had just answered Connor's phone after he had crashed his car, and Abby had been so harsh with her. The police had just not wanted to say anything over the phone. She thought of Connor, broken and bleeding, after having an accident, the thought of losing him tore at her insides, and she cried even harder, even longer. She thought about the tiny life growing inside her. A life that she and Connor had made together... the thought of his baby giving her strength.
An hour later a very pale faced Abby stood outside Connor's hospital bedroom waiting for the doctors to finish with him. The doctor had spoken to her telling her about Connor. Fortunately, the accident had not been too bad; the only injuries he had sustained were a head injury, concussion, and amnesia. Apparently, he thought it was 2008.
Jess and Becker had joined her, and Matt was talking to Lester in the hospital lobby. Eventually Abby was allowed in to see Connor.
"Hello," Connor grinned. "I know you, you're ... Abby."
Abby felt relieved, at least Connor remembered who she was.
"You're Abby ... Temple." Connor grinned.
She shook her head. "I'm Abby Maitland, and how are you?" She smiled.
"I'm... O.K. I think." Connor looked battered and bruised. There was a cut over his left eye, which the nurses had cleaned and sutured.
Connor eyed Becker and Jess as they came in.
"Becker! Great to see you! Who's she?" he asked about Jess. He sat up. "Is she your girlfriend?" Connor winked.
"Hi, this is Jess." Becker held out his hand. Connor gave him a high five.
"Where's Cutter? Is he not coming?" Connor looked at Abby blankly. He seemed to have lost the last few years of his life. He still thought that Cutter was still alive. Abby wondered if she should tell him, and then decided that she would. Cutter had died within a year of Stephen dying; both of them had been killed by Helen Cutter. Connor looked devastated. Professor Nick Cutter had been his idol.
"How are you feeling Connor?" Matt came in followed by Lester.
"I'm O.K. But who are you?" he asked Matt. "Hi Lester."
"You remember me? Thank Goodness for that, he hasn't lost that brain cell then, has he?" asked Lester.
"Course I do, you're the boss!"
Lester puffed up his chest, pleased that Connor had remembered him.
"Connor seems to have forgotten everything since 2008," Abby explained.
"Where's Jenny, don't tell me that she died too?" asked Connor.
Abby sighed, she felt very weary, doing a lot of explaining. Connor seemed oblivious to her and was very intent on looking and smiling at Jess. I hope he hasn't forgotten us she thought to herself.
Matt introduced himself as Lester's phone rang.
"Sorry must take this." Lester walked out of the room. "Good morning Philip. How are you on this wonderful morning? Yes, I do know where Connor is and he won't be coming into work for a few days... Yes that's what I said! He's not coming into work... Because he's in Hospital. Do you want him to work from his hospital bed...? I thought not, besides he wouldn't be much use to you at the moment, he's lost his memory. Yes that's what I said he's lost his memory. Thinks that it's 2008!" Abby overheard Lester on the phone as he walked away from Connor's ward. How could Philip be so cold?
"So Jess, you work at the ARC? What do you do?" Connor leaned forward speaking to Jess. Jess thought Connor must have really hit his head hard, had he even forgotten his relationship with Abby? She told him about her position at the ARC. Connor commented that he should like to see her working.
Matt, Jess and Becker made their excuses and left to go to work, leaving a very tired Abby alone with Connor.
"How much do you remember?" Abby asked.
"Um, let me see. Connor tried to recall a very early memory.
"Oh, a Mammoth on the M25, that was fun." Connor deliberately focused on something outside the window, not wanting to meet Abby's gaze.
"I remember meeting Sarah Page, and the Sun Cage, how the anomaly bubbled when something electrical touched it."
"What's the last thing you remember?" Abby asked.
"Being at the Museum." Connor turned on the TV. He seemed to look uninterested.
"Do you remember anything about me?"
Connor pondered for a moment. "You've got a pet called Rex."
"Anything else?" Abby cocked her head, hoping he would remember something about the Cretaceous, something about her!
"I remember going through an anomaly you'd gone through. You were about to fall off a cliff when I grabbed you." Connor remembered another early memory.
"And what else do you remember about that particular anomaly?" Abby looked into his eyes, hoping that he would remember having told her that he loved her, but her hopes were shattered as he drew lips into a thin line and shook his head negatively.
"Listen, you ought to go home too, get some rest, you look really tired." Connor told her.
Abby wondered if she should tell him that she was pregnant. She looked over at Connor who was busy changing channels on his TV. She decided that she would wait until Connor remembered everything. She couldn't tell him whilst he was like this. She would wait until he remembered everything and then she would tell him.
"I'm going to go into work too. If you need anything here's my mobile number, ring me. I'll be back later." Abby picked up her bag.
"Really there's no need to come back later, the nurses will look after me. There's a couple of nice ones too." Connor raised his eyebrows and lowered them in quick succession a few times.
"Ok. See you then." Abby left quickly. Connor talking about the nurses had hurt her. She didn't want him to see her cry. She got to her car and sat down behind the wheel before she burst into tears.
It seemed that he had forgotten her; the year that they had spent in the Cretaceous. The relationship that they had built. The trust that they had in each other, shattered in one moment.
She would not tell him about their baby, not in his current condition. She would wait, until he remembered. Until he remembered how much he meant to her. How much they meant to each other.
What was she going to do? Abby sobbed uncontrollably.
Poor Abby...
What is she going to do?