Primeval Fanfic: Reunited
Title: Reunited
Author: TalliW
Characters: Tom Ryan/Stephen Hart, Claudia Brown
Rating: T
Disclaimer: Primeval is 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.
Summary: Lovers get reunited, short fix-it-story
AN: Written as a belated birthday present for nietie. I hope you like it.
Water cascaded on strong shoulders, slid down the back and long legs in broad rivulets before it found its way to the drain.
Ryan stared mesmerised at the man in his shower, not believing what he was seeing. Stephen had died months ago because of a Future Predator in the Permian. This had to be an illusion.
Slowly, Stephen turned around and grabbed for the towel on the rail. His eyes grew wide as soon as he saw Ryan standing only an metre away from him.
"You’re dead," he stated hoarsely.
"Me? You were the idiot who got himself killed," Ryan barked, all the grief and anger of the past few weeks raising up again.
"Cutter claimed you had been killed by the Future Predator."
"Then Cutter must have gone mad. You insisted on going with Helen and Cutter. I wasn't even there at the time. I was in hospital, still fighting off the venom from that nasty centipede. Helen told me later you saved her sorry arse by distracting the predator and were torn to pieces."
"But I was bitten by the centipede and you accompanied Helen and Cutter into the Permian."
A deep frown appeared between Ryan's eyes, matched by the expression on Stephen's face.
"That's impossible. Either I'm hallucinating or you are a ghost," Ryan said with a tremor in his voice. "But whatever you are, fuck off. Haunt Helen's flat and not my bathroom."
"Your bathroom? This is my flat. So get lost. I have to be in the ARC in an hour and I haven’t got time to waste on a grumpy ghost."
Both man realised at once how silly it was to argue about who had died when they could do much better things instead. Ghost or no ghost, they were two naked men who hadn't had sex in weeks.
Stephen's towel slipped to the floor of the shower and got instantly drenched with water as Stephen reached out to pull Ryan into the shower cubicle.
Ryan grasped Stephen's arms and tried to haul him out of the shower and into his arms. In the end Ryan turned out to be the stronger of them. Stephen tumbled out and crashed against Ryan. Together they went down and landed on the soft bathroom mat.
"You’re solid," Stephen muttered before he latched on Ryan's right nipple.
Ryan's fingers curled around Stephen's cock and felt it harden under his grip, the best proof he could get that Stephen indeed was solid as well.
Desperate to feel as much skin as possible Ryan rolled on top of Stephen and ground his hip against his sorely missed lover.
Stephen opened his legs eagerly and with a deep sigh Ryan settled in between them. Gasping and panting they rubbed against each other until heat built and the pressure got too much. His hands buried in Ryan's short hair, Stephen came with a howl, his whole body convulsing under Ryan.
Ryan wasn't far behind. Still pulsing between their bellies, he pressed his mouth against Stephen's lips and forced his tongue in.
Whatever Stephen was he planned to keep him forever.
With a pleased smile, Claudia sucked on the banana she had nicked from Stephen's kitchen table. She really had got better with every time she repaired time rifts and mended universes.
She knew she couldn't stay in this world. Her place had been taken by her twin sister, who had, thanks to Helen's interference, survived the puerperal fever in hospital instead Claudia and had later been adopted by a very wealthy couple.
Going back would only damn Jenny to an early death. There couldn't be two of them in the same universe. But at least she could help her friends to find happiness.
Helen would foam with rage.
Throwing a last look at the sated, sleepy couple on the bathroom floor, Claudia tiptoed out of the room and opened an anomaly in the corridor.