primeval100

Title: Towards the Light
Word Count: 100
Rating: PG
Challenge # 213 – The light at the end of the tunnel
Characters/Pairings: Connor, Burton
WARNINGS: Spoilers - character death if you follow the To Be Continued... Link at the end.
Spoilers: Through currently airing season
Author’s note: My original primeval100 idea refused to be anything less than a double drabble. When I tried other ideas, I came up with this, which seemed to be the start of a brief (500 words) drabble series.
Disclaimer: Primeval - Not mine, No money made, Glad they will be making more…

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“Connor, I can’t believe you, of all people, would betray me!”

“Mr. Burton, Phillip…I didn’t!” Connor pleaded as he stared down the barrel of the gun. He saw no light at the end of that tunnel. “I figured out how to make New Dawn work, like you asked, but you hadn’t looked at the long term effects. You simply can’t switch it on. It destabilizes the fabric of space-time and causes the increase in anomaly activity that we believe leads to the dystopia we must prevent.”

“Nonsense, Connor. You must have miscalculated. Trust me.” Burton’s hand closed on the switch.

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To Be Continued...

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