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Title : This Is Not A Drill
Author : May (rain_sleet_snow)
Fandom : Primeval
Rating : PG
Characters : Nick, Claudia

Challenge: 98, Fire
Disclaimer : Not mine, no money made, don’t sue.
Spoilers : Could be implied for 1.06?
A/N : Based on my idea that Claudia!Nick went through the wrong anomaly, one to the S2 no-Claudia!world, instead of back to his own world. The Nick from that world also went through an anomaly to the Permian with Captain Ryan, but the Nick from that world was killed instead, and that-world Ryan went through the wrong anomaly as well, this one to Claudia!world. So he had no knowledge of Claudia, but –not being aware that he’d swapped worlds- he was able to tell her that Nick was dead. It makes a lot more sense in my head, and is probably not necessary to understand the drabble.

 

 

       

     It was like a fire-drill, Claudia thought to herself.

 

            She remembered fire-drills at boarding school, filing neatly out of classrooms in that strange kind of controlled hurry designed to get people from A to B in time to avoid a disaster.

 

            But as she went through the motions in this uncomfortably new Anomaly Research Centre, Connor’s Anomaly Detector blaring (and why had he made the siren so ear-splitting?), and there was one thing missing that made it unlike any fire-drill she’d ever known: it was totally unfamiliar to her.

 

She rather thought that the problem was that Nick wasn’t there.

Comments

[lukadreaming.livejournal.com]

Ooh, timey-wimey! And a good sense here of Claudia's dislocation.

[rain-sleet-snow.livejournal.com]

Thank you! And yes indeed timey-wimey. ^^ I'm trying to get it thrashed out before I need it for my Big Bang.

[ladydevon.livejournal.com]

Definitely, wibbly-wobbly timey-wimey!

[fredbassett]

Ooooh, poor Claudia! Very timey-wimey!

[rain-sleet-snow.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the comment! :) And, uh, yeah... timey-wimey. It sounds a lot less complicated in my head. *shifty eyes*

[reggietate.livejournal.com]

It makes a lot more sense in my head, and is probably not necessary to understand the drabble.

I think I get it :-) Just! Nice drabble; poor lost Claudia.

[rain-sleet-snow.livejournal.com]

Thanks! Sorry, it isn't actually that complicated, it's just hard to explain on paper... or pixels...

[sunsetdawn20.livejournal.com]

Mhm, interesting theory. I really like the drabble, though it's weird for me to feel so sorry for Claudia. lol

[rain-sleet-snow.livejournal.com]

Thank you! :) Why is it weird for you to feel sorry for Claudia?

[sunsetdawn20.livejournal.com]

Because I was never really a fan of her. *shrugs*

[rain-sleet-snow.livejournal.com]

ah, right.

[lsellersfic.livejournal.com]

Good drabble! And the set up makes sense to me and sounds like a good premise for something longer.

[rain-sleet-snow.livejournal.com]

Thank you! :) Actually, I doubt I'll be writing anything specifically about this, but it definitely has a place in my Big Bang.

[telperion-15.livejournal.com]

Oh dear, poor Claudia...

[rain-sleet-snow.livejournal.com]

Thanks! :)

[cordeliadelayne]

Ooh, very good. Though I think all the timey-wimey stuff broke my brain *g*

[rain-sleet-snow.livejournal.com]

Thank you! And, uh, the timey-wimey stuff does sound a lot simpler in my head... basically, Claudia-world Nick and Jenny-world Ryan swap worlds, while Claudia-world Ryan and Jenny-world Nick expire in the Permian. Does that make more sense?

[cordeliadelayne]

Does that make more sense?

Heh, just about :D