Fandom: PRIMEVAL
Pairing: Connor/Ryan
Length: novel-length in 17 chapters
Author on LJ:
deinonychus_1Author Website: none but all of her Primeval fic is
here.
Why this must be read:For a small fandom, Primeval does have its fair share of long, involved, plotty fic and this is one of the earliest and one of the best. It's Connor/Ryan, but it's much more than that. It's an interesting look at what constitutes the 'past' and the 'present'.
Connor and Ryan vanish through an anomaly and have the misfortune to run into Helen. They spend the next five days trying to get home. When they finally succeed, it's only to discover that they're completely out of step. Time, after all, never stands still.
The author describes Five Days and Three Years as two separate stories however, to my mind, they actually form a continuous whole. Three Years picks up directly from the end of Five Days and continues the story, examining the repercussions of Connor and Ryan's disappearance and how the world has moved on - for the worse - in their absence and so, for me, to read one means having to read them both.
( Excerpt )Five Days/Three Years