Challenge #127 - Oranges are not the only fruit (Plus Sequel)

[madcatt82.livejournal.com]

Title : Fruit Salad
Author : madcatt
Fandom : Primeval
Rating : PG
Characters : Nick Cutter, Claudia Brown, Stephen Hart
Disclaimer : Not mine, no profit, don't sue.
Spoilers : None
Warnings: None
Summary : Written for Primeval_100 Challenge #127, Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit
Author's Notes: Soooo... first attempt at a drabble, first real bit of fanfic for Primeval - please be gentle with me!


Stephen glanced over at Nick for the fifth time in as many minutes, hiding his grin behind his hand at the rapt expression on the older man’s face.

On the other side of the room, apparently completely oblivious to the effect she was having on the good professor, Claudia Brown was sat eating her lunch.

Stephen was fairly certain he’d never seen anyone quite that engrossed in watching a person eat fruit.

As Claudia wrapped her lips around a strawberry, Nick’s jaw dropped open and Stephen decided it was time to make a tactical withdrawal in order to avoid laughing in his boss’ face.



Follow up drabble:

Claudia leaned back in her seat with a sigh, nibbling on a piece of apple and turned her chair ever so slightly so that the glass panel beside her desk just managed to reflect the other occupants of the room.

Stephen appeared to be trying, and failing, to hide a laugh behind his hand, and a quick glance out of the corner of her eye revealed the source of his amusement: a slightly gobsmacked Nick Cutter apparently staring at her mouth.

Keeping her smirk purely internal with an ease born of years working in government, Claudia reached for a strawberry.

Comments

[fredbassett]

LOL, that was a lovely image of a totally engrossed Nick!

Very nice drabble :)

[madcatt82.livejournal.com]

Thanks, Although sticking to 100 words was harder than expected. Glad you liked

[slashybits.livejournal.com]

LOL brilliant! I can just imagine the look on Nick's face

[madcatt82.livejournal.com]

Heh, I think it's possibly similar to his 'oooh, shiny new dinosaur' face

[a1cmustangpilot.livejournal.com]

lol that's a pretty funny mental image there!
~

[madcatt82.livejournal.com]

thanks, it was just one that popped into my head...

[lukadreaming.livejournal.com]

Welcome! It's a fun drabble -- that's a great image of Nick being totally rapt *g*.

Dunno if you want to change it, but you've got Stephen in the header and Steven in the actual drabble -- the header spelling is correct!

[madcatt82.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the kind words!

I spotted the Stephen / Steven typo after clicking back to read a couple of the comments, and found that I couldn't edit it... think it's cause I've only got a basic account. And, having checked my original, it's in there too - I think it's cause I've got a friend that spells it with a 'v'... that's my excuse for not spotting it and I'm sticking to it!

[deinonychus-1.livejournal.com]

aww, that's such a fun mental image. Great drabble.

[madcatt82.livejournal.com]

Thanks.
Proves that the inside of my head is a scary place...

[cordeliadelayne]

Hee! Very nice :D

And welcome to the community! You now have a shiny new author tag. :D

Oh, and a couple of LJ tips for you. If you want to reply to people's comments you have to click on the "reply to this" under their comment, otherwise they won't see it.

And it shouldn't matter what type of account you have, you should be able to edit posts just by clicking on the pencil icon at the top of the place you posted.

Yell in my direction if you need any help :D

[madcatt82.livejournal.com]

oohhh, my own shiny little author tag - thanks! :D

Little pencil icon found and used!

Cheers

[telperion-15.livejournal.com]

Hee! That was very cute :) Now I'm imagining what's going to happen when Claudia looks up and notices Nick staring at her and possibly drooling a bit *g*

[madcatt82.livejournal.com]

*Backs slowly away from approaching plot bunny*

Gah, no, back, bad bunny!

You know, that might actually even get written...

[telperion-15.livejournal.com]

Yay!

My work here is done... *eg*

[madcatt82.livejournal.com]

See... see what you made me do...

I'm now off to sneak my way through your Nick / Connor stories...

[knitekat.livejournal.com]

Very nice image of Nick. NaughtyClaudia *grins*

[madcatt82.livejournal.com]

Thanks, wasn't sure if it was entirely in character, but it seemed to me like something she would do...

[bella-farfalla.livejournal.com]

*has the same reaction as Nick and stares*

Very funny. :D

[madcatt82.livejournal.com]

Heh, how to wrap a man around your little finger in one evil move. Glad you liked it.

Love your icon by the way.

[cordeliadelayne]

Lol, I've just spotted the sequel. Very nicely done :D

[madcatt82.livejournal.com]

thanks - was all due to an evil plot bunny... and telperion_15

[fififolle]

These are awesome, LOL!!! Heeeee! *snickers with Stephen*
Happy drabbles!!

[madcatt82.livejournal.com]

Thanks!
Having seen a couple of friends doing pretty much just that before getting together (finally) I couldn't resist.

[6th-dr.livejournal.com]

Nice Nick torment.

[madcatt82.livejournal.com]

Thanks!

[kristen-mara.livejournal.com]

LOL - Stephen watching Nick watching Claudia! And that she could see them in the reflection.

////Keeping her smirk purely internal with an ease born of years working in government, Claudia reached for a strawberry.////

Hee - love her upping the stakes.

[madcatt82.livejournal.com]

Thanks! Glad you liked them.

[reggietate.livejournal.com]

Lovely pair of drabbles :-) Nice to see some Nick/Claudia fic.

[madcatt82.livejournal.com]

I was re-watching series 1 and it just popped into my head. Glad you liked them.