Primeval fic: Second Chances
Title: Second chances
Word count: 100
Characters: Nick, Jenny
Rating: U
Written for P100 challenge 438: Wasted
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Jenny laughed and it was Claudia’s laugh, warm and inviting.
Nick shut his eyes so that he could pretend, if only for a moment, that Claudia was still there. Instantly the sound ceased. He opened his eyes to find Jenny glaring at him.
“I’m not her!” she snapped, hurt registering briefly before she schooled her expression to indifference. “She doesn’t exist.”
“She did!” Nick insisted.
Jenny sighed. “So you say, but whatever you think you had with this woman it’s gone. She’s gone. You can’t be loyal to a past that doesn’t even exist. You can only destroy a future.”
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