Drabble, It's Usually the Husband, Nick, 12

[fredbassett]

Title : It’s Usually the Husband
Author : fredbassett
Fandom : Primeval
Rating : 12
Characters : Nick
Disclaimer : Not mine, no money made, don’t sue.
Spoilers : None
Summary : Written for the Primeval100 challenge 363, Gossip, and for the Cutter appreciation fest on cutters_lab.

Nick walked into the staffroom and, as had become depressingly usual these days, conversations abruptly fell silent.

The temptation to remark loudly, Do feel free to check my cupboards to make sure I haven’t stowed her body anywhere, was almost overwhelming, but as the police had already done that, any outburst would fall rather flat.

He’d already run the gauntlet of sympathy and suspicion and his colleagues now seemed to regard him with a kind of wariness usually reserved for pitbull terriers and volatile toddlers.

He wondered when it was going to be possible to have a normal conversation again.

Comments

[goldarrow]

*sniffle*
That's sad!
But most likely exactly what happened.
Kudos.

[fredbassett]

It's always the first place they look.

[reggietate.livejournal.com]

Oooh, I like that! Not something that gets much addressed in fic, but definitely the police would look at him first.

[fredbassett]

Yes, it definitely is.

[knitekat.livejournal.com]

Poor Nick. He would be the first suspect.

Nicely done.

[fredbassett]

*nods*

[bigtitch.livejournal.com]

Oh poor Nick. Of course he would be suspected!

[fredbassett]

He certainly would have been.

[elfinessy.livejournal.com]

:-( awww - poor baby!!!!

[fredbassett]

Not a nice situation.

[nietie.livejournal.com]

Oh, gosh, poor husband Nick. Very plausible situation.

[fredbassett]

*nods* He would certainly have been a suspect.

[sallycandance.livejournal.com]

Depressingly accurate, that's probably exactly what happened.

Love the line a kind of wariness usually reserved for pitbull terriers and volatile toddlers.

[fredbassett]

Thank you! I had fun with that line.

[adafrog.livejournal.com]

Well done.

[fredbassett]

Thanks!

[dreamer-98.livejournal.com]

Ouch! Yet another reason to resent Helen for leaving and letting the suspicion fall on Nick.

[fredbassett]

She would almost certainly have known that would happen!

[caffyolay.livejournal.com]

Poor man. :-(

Nicely written.

[fredbassett]

Thank you :)

[kristen-mara.livejournal.com]

Poor Nick - great look at how things would have been for him.

Stephen will be along soon, Nick, and then neither of you will feel so alone...

[fredbassett]

*g* Good point!

[clea2011]

Poor Cutter, that's exactly what would have happened. Helen is very evil!

[fredbassett]

I suppose in her defence, she probably didn't intend to end up on the other side of an anomaly that first time.

[stealingpennies.livejournal.com]

Veeery nice. Neatly sums up that kind of grubby speculation that's never quite openly voiced and never quite goes away.

[fredbassett]

Yep, he would always be under suspicion from some people.

[cordeliadelayne]

Aw, poor Nick. It must have been very hard for him in those first few months.

[fredbassett]

Definitely

[fififolle]

Oh dear. Poor Nick. He really is the obvious candidate...

[fredbassett]

Sadly, yes.

[lsellersfic.livejournal.com]

Poor Nick!

[fredbassett]

*nods*

[deinonychus-1.livejournal.com]

Poor Nick, no doubt the rumour mill went into overdrive when Helen disappeared.

[fredbassett]

I'm sure it will have done!