Far away from home - Primeval
Title: Far away from home
Characters: Nick Cutter, Gardan Brennal, Claudia Brown, Tom Ryan, Daniel, Vhorent, Stephen Hart,
Summary: Nick doesn't cope well, a visit to Stephen's flat brings back memories, At the same time Stephen finds himself in a very confusing situation...
Rating: 18!
By the way I do not own just use :P but just for fun.
Far away from home
Chapter 1
Nick Cutter turned the key in the lock with trembling hands. Two months had passed and he still couldn't enter his flat without this flood of emotions.
The door was unlocked after a while, but he was standing in front of it without moving.
"Come on, Nick! Do it for him!" he mumbled the order to himself and with a great determination he pushed down the door handle.
The flat was just like what people expected from Stephen. It had white walls, large windows with lots of sunshine and it was very tidy.
However without it's owner the flat seemed to be darker and it was covered in dust.
Nick thought about a lot what it was like for Stephen. Did he know that it would be his very last day? Did he have unfinished business?
Probably... His home had the evidences. The sink had few plates in it with his favorite cup.The washed clothes were folded and were placed on a chair waiting to be put away.
Nick stopped next to them. On top of the pile was a T-shirt. It had a little cat with messy fur and 'Bad hair day' was written on the front. It was a birthday present form Nick. Few years ago he had enough of Stephen's unruly hair and bought the T-shirt for him.
His face was amazing when he saw it...
"You don't think that I'll wear it someday, right?" Stephen asked.
"Yes, you will!" Nick grinned back.
"No I won't! For God's sake! It should be for girls!"
"Says the man, who has eyelashes like a girl!"
"Nothing wrong with my eyelashes!" Stephen shot back. Nick just shrugged still grinning ear to ear.
"Nobody said that there was something wrong with them, but they are too long to be normal."
"Oh shut up Nick! And I won't wear it!" Stephen said with fluttering eyelashes.
But he had worn it.
Of course not in front of everybody, but he'd put it on when he'd gone to sleep and when Nick'd decided to spend the night in this flat. It usually happened when he had been too drunk to be safe at home alone, but it didn't matter anymore.
Nick blinked few times when he snapped out of the memories. He had already tears in his eyes and he was squeezing the clothe in his hands.
"Damn it!" he chocked out and whipped away the tears with his arm.
He raised the T-shirt to his face and sniffed at it. It smelled just like he remembered. It brought back the times when Stephen had leaned over him when he had been laying on the couch and had set the cover right on him whispering 'Good night Nick'.
He of course had always been awake.
Nick walked to the same couch and collapsed on it. He couldn't stop the sobbing.
XXX
Gardan Brennal always got what he wanted. So far nobody could stop him and he wouldn't let anyone stand in his way. Just like the project he was working on that time.
He grinned contently. In front of him, on the other side of a special one sided window was Stephen Hart, his new guinea pig. A very shocked guinea pig, but it didn't matter.
He was the most difficult to bring back from the four. Hart's left side, including the left side of his lungs and his heart was badly damaged, his left arm was torn to pieces so they had to make a new one from his DNA. And of course, a new heart and a new lung.
His surgeries took three whole days and eight of his best surgeons, but in the end they brought him back to the life. Killing him was much more easier.
With one last glance at the confused man he turned on his heels and walked away smirking.
Everything was just fine.
XXX
Claudia stood in front of the door of the room where she was led after Stephen woke up. She already had a new meaning for worry.
"How is he?"
She looked at the man who asked her.
Leaning against the wall was Tom Ryan with his cold mask on his face. But his eyes had the same emotion as hers.
"Like how we were." She replied quietly.
"Cool! Than I'll have a new toy again! You are already too boring!" it came from the other side of the room.
Laying on the floor with a not so normal grin was the fourth saved man: Daniel Vhorent. He was in his middle-thirties with shoulder length black hair and green eyes.
And a very disturbing behavior. He had been the first who had been saved by Gardan Brennal and it was very hard to get to know him.
After his comment Ryan turned towards him angrily.
"If you go near him, I'll chop your head off!" he hissed.
Daniel smirked at the angry soldier.
"Overprotective, aren't we?"
"Shut up! Both of you! You can kill each other later!" Claudia ended the argument immediately.
Ryan leaned against the wall again and turned away from them. She could see his nails digging into his own flash as he crossed his arms.
In the same time on Daniel's face a huge smile appeared.
"As you wish, beautiful lady!" he sprawled out on the floor and started laughing. But she already got used to his insane behavior.
She turned back to the door wanting to be somewhere else. And her wishes came true, when it opened and someone in a white cloak looked at them.
"One of you go and speak with him" he said. Claudia turned to Ryan with an unsure expression.
"You go. He already met you. We shouldn't freak him out more." he told her. She nodded and followed the doctor.
XXX
In his hospital room Stephen was half-sitting in his bed leaning against the pillow. When she entered he was staring at his left hand.
"Hi!" She began quietly.
She noted that at least the doctor left them alone. Stephen looked up at her.
"Je...Claudia." He croaked. His voice was still bad like how it was when he woke up, because he hadn't used it for a long time.
She smiled encouragingly.
"How are you?" she asked and she sat down onto the chair which she used while waiting for his awakening.
He stared at her with a raised eyebrow. With that face he started to resemble how he looked like in her memories.
"I feel like I was torn apart by some raptors and future predators and things like that and then put together by some crazy doctors. Did I leave out something? Oh yes! And right now I'm staring at a woman who should be called differently. By the way are you the one whom Cutter was talking about? Are you Claudia Brown?" he asked in the end of his monologue.
She grinned at him enthusiastically.
"He remembers me?" she asked.
"He searched for you, but everybody thought that he was going mad." Stephen replied avoiding the 'including me'. She seemed to be incredibly happy that she wasn't forgotten completely, but Stephen wanted answers.
"Can you tell me who are you, when are we, and what happened?" He looked pleadingly at her which brought back their situation.
After nodding She took a deep breath and started their 'story'.
"I'm Claudia Brown. In an another time line I was part of your team, and I had the same job as your Jenny Lewis. However Helen Cutter made sure that I wouldn't stand in her way."
"Helen?" he asked with large eyes. She nodded and continued.
"I don't exactly know how she achieved it, but she did. After that somehow the people here created a body for me using my and Jenny's DNA and brought me back to life. But this is the part of the story that I don't understand either. I don't know why, but they want us to live."
"You couldn't find out why they brought us back?" Stephen was confused It didn't make any sense.
Claudia shook her head sadly.
"We don't know much. We were brought back and kept here."
"We? Are there others too?" Stephen looked interested.
She winced. She wanted to wait with that a little.
"Yeah. There are two other men too" She replied carefully.
"Who are they?"
Closing her eyes and sighing she replied.
"Captain Ryan and Daniel Vhorent."
To her surprise and unlike her, he took it well. A smile found it's way on his face.
"Ryan's alive?" he asked his blue eyes too intense to bear. Confused Claudia nodded. Stephen threw back his head and laughed loudly.
Dreams come true after all.