Primeval Fanfic: Evolution At Its Best
Title: Evolution At It' Best
Author: TalliW
Rating: PG-13
Characters: Rex and his family and friends, Abby/Connor
Disclaimer: Primeval are the property of Impossible Pictures. I write just for fun.
Acknowledgments: Thanks to fredbassett for beta-reading. I couldn't have done it without you.
Rex was shocked. Today he'd seen a report on TV about the bitter fate of the dinosaurs.
Now he understood why Abby's other lizards couldn't communicate with him.
Evolution had played a gruesome game with the saurians.
The report about hermaphrodite reproduction which had followed had given him food for thought for hours.
Rex knew by now he could never get back to his own world and he felt rather alone in the midst of all the humans.
Some days later, the nice Abby Maitland had showed him a film about a world where dinosaurs and humans lived peacefully together.
That was the moment Rex decided to act and rewrite history.
Connor hadn't been happy when Rex had used that horrible chequered hat to built a nest but Abby had even given him one of her tops, some hankies and a small blanket.
A nice and fluffy environment was important for the next generation, after all.
Connor had screeched at first when one of Rex' three children had greeted him with the sentence "I'm hungry." in perfect English little more then three weeks later.
But when the same lizard had shown an interest in computers and the internet, the young man had taken him under his wing.
The webpage they had created together was just the first part of a fantastic co-operation between Henry, the lizard and Connor, the human.
Rex' daughter Carol was a bit of a silent type but she had incredible skills with numbers and money. The small amount of cash Nick Cutter had lent her had grown in no time to a hefty sum on the stock market.
By the time his great-great-grandson Andrew had started, with Jenny Lewis' help, the campaign:
"It's time for a better future! Lizard girls and boys united!", Rex's family and his friends at the ARC had built up quite a successful empire and they were joint owners of Microsoft, Siemens, Carl Zeiss Vision and Mitshubishi.
Grinning, the little lizard watched as Abby and Ethel, his favourite great-great-great-grandchild, tried to find a cocktail dress for Abby for his big birthday party. It was important to choose one which wouldn't clash with the green skin of the lizards.
Rex the 14th was currently working on a more likable colour for the next generation. It seemed bilious green was not on top of the list of favourite colours with the humans.
His first offspring's ability to change colours, chameleon-like, had probably been useful for his work in MI5 but was not really a desirable ability for a proper lizard.
After Miriam, Lester's youngest child, had told him about her promotion to senior civil servant and had left the house, Rex watched contentedly over his godchild who was chewing on a stuffed dinosaur.
The first word the little baby girl had uttered was "Lizard" and her mother Abby had been very proud. Only the new father had been a bit miffed but his wife's promise to watch a Star Trek marathon with him had quickly lifted Connor's mood.
Rex heard the frontdoor open downstairs.
It seemed his great-grandson Percy was home already. That meant it had been quiet at the ARC and his boss James Lester had called it a day a bit earlier than usual.
Or maybe Professor Cutter and Professor Hart had managed to flood the building again with one of their experiments with the tidal current in Anomalies.
He closed his eyes, tired, but happy in the knowledge he had achieved what he'd set out to do.
Lizards and humans lived peacefully together now. The time of war, hunger and poverty was finally over.
Perhaps the next president of the United Nations would be his great-great-grandson Oliver.
"That's evolution at its best," Rex thought. And for the last time the little green lizard started to fly.