fredbassett | Fic, Who Knows Where the Time Goes? Helen, 12

Title : Who Knows Where the Time Goes?
Author : fredbassett
Fandom : Primeval
Rating : 12
Characters : Helen
Disclaimer : Not mine, no money made, don’t sue.
Word Count : 100 x 5
Spoilers : None
Summary : Helen went through the first anomaly out of curiosity….
A/N: Written for

rodlox’s birthday. I hope you have a lovely day. The title is taken from the song of that name written by the late Sandy Denny.

Helen went through the first anomaly out of curiosity.

It spun lazily in the air on a stifling summer evening, as beautiful and bright as her marriage had once been, as sharp and fractured as it had now become.

She hadn’t been intending to leave Nick forever, all she’d wanted to do was get away for a while, spend a few days on her own, take some time to think, to clear her mind.

When she stepped into the shards of light she hadn’t expected to find that she now had all the time in the world at her disposal.

* * * * *

She went through the next anomaly out of necessity.

There had been no rain in weeks. Food was scarce and getting scarcer by the day, but more frighteningly, the few waterholes she had found were running dry and even at night there was no escaping the predators gathered around them.

She had lived off carrion for weeks and sucked the moisture from leaves. Her skin was burned and blistered from the sun but at night she lay awake shivering from the cold.

For all its stark beauty, the Permian was a harsh environment and she was glad to escape it.

* * * * *

After that she never stayed anywhere long.

Time was simply too huge to spend in one place.

She knew she could travel the anomalies all her life and yet never learn all there was to know.

She still had so many questions and sometimes she even found answers.

She learnt more in a day in the Carboniferous than she could have learnt in a month in a library.

In a year of travelling through the anomalies she found the answers to many puzzles, but there was still so much she wanted to know, to experience.

And so she moved on.

* * * * *

There were times when Helen’s thoughts turned back to the life she had left behind, but the same curiosity that had led her to take that first step into the unknown still travelled with her.

And she knew from bitter experience that curiosity made a better companion than enmity.

She told herself that there was still time to return if that was what she decided to do.

For time was not in short supply.

She had all the time in the world lying before her, like a banquet of which she felt she would never tire.

A feast without end.

* * * * *

And so she watched and she learned.

And little by little, time gave up its secrets.

She saw species come and go.

She saw mountains rise and oceans fall.

She escaped death more times than she could count.

She lost what few possessions she had and gained others.

She watched all life on earth nearly die and after that she never viewed the world in quite the same way again.

And so she travelled on for now the past was no longer enough.

The past was only a part of the story.

Once again, Helen was driven on by curiosity.

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Wonderful look at Helen's meandering adventures through time.

Brilliant fic like poetry.

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