Primeval fanfic: Five Times Someone Should Maybe Have Said Something
Title: Five Times Someone Should Maybe Have Said Something
Author: SCWLC
Disclaimer: I own nothing that anyone else might want.
1) Logic! What do they teach them at these schools? -- Ep. 1.1
Rating: G
Characters: Ben Trent, Ben Trent's mum, Nick Cutter
His mum was fluttering about, making up her son's bed, venting her anger at the state of affairs by blaming Abby. "I’ll be making a complaint. She’s filled his head with all sorts of stupid ideas. Just look at the state of his room!" she complained.
"It was the dinosaur," protested Ben. While Professor Cutter told some silly story about how Rex wasn't a draco volans and Abby was wrong, he looked at the destruction of his window and the room at large. "There was a monster, though," Ben said when the man stopped speaking. "What else could have done that to my window?" He pointed to the bricks knocked out, the frame half gone and the plaster in pieces.
Did she expect him to sleep in his room with a giant hole to the outside in the wall?
2) That's a new one on him, really -- Ep. 1.3
Rating: G
Characters: Connor, Stephen
"You see, it’s funny, because you always give the impression like you were single," Connor said to Stephen.
Really, the kid was so transparent in his attempts to become mates or whatever idiocy he had in mind, all he could do was try to shut him down. "That’s funny, I didn’t think I was giving any impression whatsoever," he replied dryly. Not like it was Connor's business who Stephen was or wasn't seeing.
"You'd be surprised," came the reply, a little drier than he'd expected, but he certainly couldn't leave Connor of all people with the last word. The kid might start getting ideas they were friends or something.
"Connor, I'm flattered-"
He was cut off as Connor snapped. "I meant, Stephen, you're being a complete lying arse and I hope Abby gets over you and flaunts her next boyfriend in your face." The delivery was only slightly marred by Connor stumbling as he marched off.
3) It's common sense people -- Ep. 1.4
Rating: G
Characters: Abby
They stood in the stadium kitchen, the anomaly open in front of them, bunches of things flying through, sucked in by the magnetic field. Abby strode to the fridge door, slammed it shut and said, "There's nothing but concrete walls on those sides. Why don't we just blockade the thing for the next, say, three days and check on it then? No animal's going to hang around in a freezer for all that time, they'll just turn around and go back. No need to sit here and wait for it to come through."
4) What's my line? -- Ep. 2.2
Rating: G
Characters: Cutter, Jenny
It had been a very long several days, hell it had been a long several months, and Nick was trying hard not to be brassed off at Stephen for sleeping with Helen, with Connor and Abby for not showing up yet, with Helen for her games, with Leek for being a slimy little weasel, Lester for just being Lester and Jenny Lewis for not being Claudia Brown.
So when she fluttered about like an ineffectual imitation of the original, demanding, "Where are you going? What am I supposed to do?" he rolled his eyes.
"You're supposed to liase with the media and keep them from finding out about this and keep the police and fire department from walking into an ambush by monster. Remember? Your job description?"
5) Blonde Moment -- Ep. 1.4
Rating: G
Characters: Cutter, Stephen, Duncan, Connor
The room was dark, the SFs posted around the walls looked grim and stoic. On one side of the table sat the two men with their casual, yet competent appearances, on the other a young man, slightly overweight and frightened, with his former best friend standing beside him, looking the same as always and yet oddly relaxed in the strange and intimidating setting. Keeping it hard to see into the corners of the room, see the door to exit or escape, a spotlight shone down from above, highlighting the table that was blindingly white in the dark, lit from under the surface.
It was an image from a film or television programme of an textbook interrogation room, having everything including the friend-turned-traitor standing beside the interogee.
Stephen's hands flew into the air in exasperation. "There is no conspiracy!"
Before Duncan could even say a word, Connor pinched the bridge of his nose. "Stephen, just sit still and look pretty, would you?"
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