A/N: It struck me that I haven't done a scene from this kind of time period for a while. I would seriously like to thank my best friend, Sarcastic-Bones (who is amazing, by the way), for giving me this idea yesterday. I hope you'll like it. It's only a short chapter, but in my defence the last one was mammoth! (See what I did there?)
Disclaimer: I don't own Primeval or any of the characters. Wish I did – we would have already had a series 6 and there would have been no horrid cliff-hanger at the end of series 5.
You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet
Matt sighed as he entered the apartment, leading the way for the beautiful lady behind him. It was late and he had to fumble to find the light switch, groping along the wall for it.
When he finally found it, Emily had entered the flat and was wondering why Matthew preferred to live in darkness. Even in her time they had lights. Suddenly, the flat was flooded with light and she gasped, turning to face Matt, confused by how he'd turned all the lights on at once without having to light the gas bulbs.
"How did you do that?" she breathed.
Matt tapped the casing of the light switch and smiled, watching Emily come closer to inspect it.
Hesitantly, she pressed the switch down, shutting off the lights. She jumped at the expectancy of it, before lightly turning the lights back on. Astounded by her new discovery she proceeded to rapidly turn the lights on and off about fifty times whilst Matt simply smiled at the simple endearing side of the behaviour. It was like man discovering fire for the first time – unable to leave the discovery alone, constantly setting fire to branches then putting it out with water only to relight it by rubbing two sticks together.
"What is this magic?" Emily asked delightedly, earnestly fascinated by the magic box of light her new friend had.
Matt gave a brief laugh before answering, "If you think that's magic, you ain't seen nothing yet."
Emily frowned as Matt walked away and towards a notch on the wall near the sofa. Twiddling it between his thumbs, he dimmed the lights, causing Emily to stare around in wonder.
"And, that's not all. You can also get lights that turn on and off when you clap."
In response to his words, Emily clapped her hands together but nothing happened.
"Why isn't it working?" she asked, as disappointed as a child without any presents on Christmas Day.
"Unfortunately I had to uninstall my clap-on. Every time Connor was round here, he'd accidentally turn all the lights off. At least I hope he was doing it accidentally," Matt added as an afterthought.
A/N: So like I said, it's really short. All the same, I hope you liked it. I'd love to see some reviews to let me know what you guys thought. I know you probably prefer longer chapters, I just didn't have as much time this week now that my teachers are all giving me homework again because my exams are over. Clearly I'm not meant to have a life outside of school. Anyway, let me know what you thought!
