drabble: Not Fade Away
Written for the Primeval 100 challenge 101 - Memories
Title: Not Fade Away
Author: Athene
Fandom: Primeval
Characters: Abby/Connor
Rating: PG
Warnings: Future-fic, Alzheimers (warned for in case you’d rather not read about it for personal reasons)
Spoilers: none
Challenge: Memories
Word count: 100
Disclaimer: Not mine. ITV and Impossible Pictures own them.
Sometimes Abby thinks it might have been kinder if he’d had a quick death, something heroic. Not slowly fading away like this.
Their daughter had tentatively suggested a home, but Abby wasn’t ready to give him up yet. Even when he didn’t know who she was any more.
She wonders what is locked up in his head; if he remembers the good times, the adrenaline, the discoveries, the losses, the achievements. Anything at all from their lives together.
Abby reaches across and holds his hand.
“I love you, Connor.”
He smiles at her, and Abby adds it to her memories.