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Five Days/Three Years by Athene (18)
Fandom: PRIMEVAL
Pairing: Connor/Ryan
Length: novel-length in 17 chapters
Author on LJ:![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
deinonychus_1
Author 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.
"Are you okay?" Ryan asked.
"Okay?" Connor could hear the panic in his voice. Actually, it was possible that half the forest could hear the panic in his voice. "Are you stupid or something? Which part of ‘trapped in the Jurassic’ didn’t you get? Do you have any idea how many dangerous creatures there are here?"
Ryan glanced down at his gun with an unreadable expression.
"Creatures aren’t the only things here that are dangerous," he said.
Connor wasn’t entirely certain for a second whether or not that was a joke. He was in no way comforted when he realised it wasn’t.
His heart was still racing as his mind caught up with the enormity of the situation. Okay, maybe the Jurassic wasn’t as potentially dangerous as, say, the Cretaceous, but there were still more large predators than he wanted to think about. This was their world, and he and Ryan were lost in it.
"We’re going to die." Connor didn’t even know he had spoken aloud, but suddenly Ryan rounded on him and grabbed Connor’s shoulders, pinning him to the spot.
"Connor, look at me."
How could he not look at him? Ryan’s face was no more than six inches from his own, and Connor found himself looking into hard grey eyes.
"We’re not going to die. I know this is serious, but it doesn’t have to be a crisis." Ryan waved a hand at the place where the anomaly had been. "This anomaly has already appeared twice from the same place. You heard Cutter. He thinks it’s another one of his…" he hesitated, searching for the words, "fault-line anomalies. There’s every chance it will reappear. All we have to do is survive long enough to be ready when it does."
Five Days/Three Years
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.
"Are you okay?" Ryan asked.
"Okay?" Connor could hear the panic in his voice. Actually, it was possible that half the forest could hear the panic in his voice. "Are you stupid or something? Which part of ‘trapped in the Jurassic’ didn’t you get? Do you have any idea how many dangerous creatures there are here?"
Ryan glanced down at his gun with an unreadable expression.
"Creatures aren’t the only things here that are dangerous," he said.
Connor wasn’t entirely certain for a second whether or not that was a joke. He was in no way comforted when he realised it wasn’t.
His heart was still racing as his mind caught up with the enormity of the situation. Okay, maybe the Jurassic wasn’t as potentially dangerous as, say, the Cretaceous, but there were still more large predators than he wanted to think about. This was their world, and he and Ryan were lost in it.
"We’re going to die." Connor didn’t even know he had spoken aloud, but suddenly Ryan rounded on him and grabbed Connor’s shoulders, pinning him to the spot.
"Connor, look at me."
How could he not look at him? Ryan’s face was no more than six inches from his own, and Connor found himself looking into hard grey eyes.
"We’re not going to die. I know this is serious, but it doesn’t have to be a crisis." Ryan waved a hand at the place where the anomaly had been. "This anomaly has already appeared twice from the same place. You heard Cutter. He thinks it’s another one of his…" he hesitated, searching for the words, "fault-line anomalies. There’s every chance it will reappear. All we have to do is survive long enough to be ready when it does."
Five Days/Three Years