deeperwonderment | Ten Years Tangled

Title: Ten Years Tangled
Author:

shadowcat
Fandom: Primeval
Pairing/Characters: Captain Hilary Becker
Rating/Category: PG
Summary: That something had been Abby.
Words: 400
Notes: This was written for challenge #010 -- Ten Years at drabble365days

It was hard for him to believe that of the ten years he had been with Abby, he had only been with her for one year alone. Then she was missing for five years. Then when she finally was returned to him, it was to share him with Danny and Connor.

Not that he was going to ever complain about anything except for the time where she was trapped and alone in the past. If he could have changed that one thing for her, he would have willingly done anything.

Even when she returned and found out that he had made a new life with Danny and Connor, there was no anger or resentment in her over that. Instead, somehow, the four of them had formed a seamless relationship that he would never have thought possible. The three of them had fit together before, but there had been something so obviously missing in their lives.

That something had been Abby. When she returned it was like she tied them all together and helped them form this unbreakable unit.

Oh, even ten years – four years, he amended – later, they sometimes got strange looks from people when they were out together; because, they were very obviously together. When the looks turned to comments or movements that could be taken as threatening, the three of them would usually have to remove Abby from the situation forcibly. There were times that she was still so wild and she wouldn’t tolerate anything that might make her boys unhappy.

They all still worked for the ARC, but in the four years since she had been back, Abby hadn’t gone through another anomaly. After her first hysterical reaction, the three of them had stopped going through the anomalies, as well. There were new team members that could take readings or map them. Abby refused to go through another one – and he, Danny and Connor wouldn’t do it when they knew how much it upset her to watch them go through one of them.

A lot of things had changed in his life in ten years and most of it was due to a tiny blonde that had wrapped herself around his heart. While he would have done anything to spare her the pain she had been through, he would never have changed any part of the life he now had with her.

She’d always be his heart.