Primeval Fanfiction: A Mysterious Case
Title: A Mysterious Case
Author: TalliW
Characters: Connor Temple, Danny Quinn, James Lester, the Knight of episode 3x07, Detective Inspector Donovan
Rating: K
Disclaimer: Primeval is the property of Impossible Pictures. I write just for fun. So don't bother me.
Acknowledgments: Thanks to Fredbassett for beta-reading. I couldn't have done it without you.
AN: I didn't intend to discriminate or offend LARP people. I know some nice guys in that department. But sometimes it really gets a little too ludicrously.*thinks of the werewolf knight with the 1,8 metre long sword on his back who wanted to curse me with his magic eye*
'Why did it have to be in my area?' Detective Inspector William Donovan sighed.
Finally, something he had dreaded since chasing away some weird guys with pointy ears and bows from the local football field as a young police officer, had happened today.
Once again one of the fantasy role players had gone mad.
A crazy man wearing equipment from several centuries, with a double axe on his back and a sword which was actually sharpened, wasn't exactly the nice case he had wished for shortly before his retirement.
He'd always known the role players were a crazy lot, more dangerous than the people who just wanted to live like their ancestors and preferred to deliver a show for the audience. After all you just could not take a man seriously who ran around in clothes similar to a woman's nightgown or jumped around in tights.
But the people who mixed the Lord of the Rings with Indiana Jones and Robin Hood were a real danger. They lost their sense of reality rather too easily and went on the rampage.
Donovan inspected the photo a lady bike had made with her mobile phone.
Bloody hell, what normal man would carry a double-headed axe anyway? Had the guy ever tried to fight with such a thing?
And now the case had grown into a murder inquiry.
He looked down at the poor boy holding the stiff body of his daddy in his arms. He needed a statement but that could wait. First he had to get the boy away of the bloody corpse.
Donovan hoped the boy hadn't actually seen the killing. It must have been terrible, to judge from the many wounds the dead man sported which were still oozing blood.
The eyewitness, Connor Temple, definitely was in shock. Babbling about dinosaurs and knights and the Mighty Quinn who had failed with the secret tiger and dragon jump.
It seemed the murder victim hadn't actually been the father of the young man but a colleague from a mysterious project. And apparently the insane murderer had disappeared without a trace. Some strange things were going on around here.
"I held Danny in my arms," Connor Temple sobbed. "Just like I did before, with him, with Nick."
He bowed his head to hide his tears and whispered. "It's always the same. They all leave me behind, alone. All the people I start to like."
Donovan handed him a tissue. Crying men still made him uncomfortable despite the fact that he could understand the reason of their breakdown.
Temple blew his nose and carried on speaking. "He told me I should continue his work and lead the team from now on, just like Cutter did. And before he died Danny revealed his big secret to me, something I already had suspected since I had seen him in the locker room. He really was the body double for 007 in the last James Bond film...."
William Donovan stared curiously at the neat man in expensive striped suit and red tie, who had ordered him to shelve the case on Danny Quinn for reasons of national security.
The stranger with so much authority had answered his questions only cryptically with, "Believe me, you don't want to know," before he led the distraught boy away.
Sighing, William Donovan closed the file on the death of an ex-police officer who had started to believe he was superhuman, and left the office.
The case would remain a mystery. Tomorrow would be his last day at work. In the future he would only chase bunnies from his backyard instead of crazy criminals.
When he drove home to his wife he thought, that it was a good thing he had never lost his grasp of reality in all those years. Obsessed people like Danny Quinn never got to enjoy their retirement.