Drabble, Burn in Hell, Helen, 12

[fredbassett]

Title : Burn in Hell
Author : fredbassett
Fandom : Primeval
Rating : 12
Characters : Helen
Disclaimer : Not mine, no money made, don’t sue.
Spoilers : None
Summary : Written for the Primeval100 challenge 368, It’s the End of the World as We Know It.

As far as the eye could see, towering volcanoes belched out ash and dark smoke, rivers of molten rock running down their slopes.

Entire mountain ranges were blowing their tops, blackening the sky. Plants and animals were choking in toxic gas and others were drowning in increasingly anoxic seas.

The sun, only dimly visible through a haze of dust particles, glowed an angry red.

Nearly everything that walked, crawled, flew and swum was dying. Soon there would be almost nothing left alive.

And if she didn’t find an open anomaly soon, Helen would be joining the ranks of the dead.

Comments

[goldarrow]

Oooooh, that was eerie!
I wonder how many times she was caught in situations like that.

And if she didn't find an open anomaly soon, Helen would be joining the ranks of the dead.
Great phrasing!

[fredbassett]

Well, there have been quite a few extinction events, so sod's law says she'd end up in at least one of them.

[bigtitch.livejournal.com]

Not a good place to be! Very scary and atmospheric!

[fredbassett]

Not somewhere you'd like to take a holiday.

[moonlightmead.livejournal.com]

Oof, that was well done. Really atmospheric, and then suddenly Helen in trouble - and her the one who is most likely to be responsible for it, too! Brilliant!

[fredbassett]

Thank you :)

[knitekat.livejournal.com]

Very atmospheric and scary. Not a good place for her to be.

[fredbassett]

Nope, not good.

[eriah211.livejournal.com]

Very vivid and very scary O_O

[fredbassett]

Thanks :)

[stealingpennies.livejournal.com]

Very powerful. She probably escapes but I like the idea of Helen dying in the fire and ashes of a destroyed world. Much more fitting than her canon ending.

[fredbassett]

I agree. I always felt she deserved more.

[clea2011]

Yeek! I'd say 'Run!'... but it's Helen!

[fredbassett]

*g* She'll no doubt find her own way to safety.

[aunteeneenah.livejournal.com]

In the end, Helen was a hateful, manipulative, batshit!crazy woman and I can really find no sympathy for an ending such as this. Burn in hell, indeed. Very stark.

[fredbassett]

It was hard to synoathise with her when she tried to wipe out the australoithicenes.

[cordeliadelayne]

Great descriptions!

[fredbassett]

Thanks!

[adafrog.livejournal.com]

Love it.

[fredbassett]

Thank you :)

[nietie.livejournal.com]

Very vivid.

I feel sorry for Helen and for all the lives in that timeline.

[fredbassett]

It's hard to have much sympathy with her.

[reggietate.livejournal.com]

Some might say she deserves her fate... but she's a survivor.

[fredbassett]

Oh yes, she'll be back.

[kristen-mara.livejournal.com]

Vivid and intriguing. Situations like these might have helped to have send Helen mentally round the twist...

[fredbassett]

It would certainly have given her a different perspective o life on earth, especially if she'd seen the extinction at the end of the Permian, which is what I had in mind here.

[fififolle]

Uh oh... Not a good place to be!
Great visuals.

[fredbassett]

Thank you!

[dreamer-98.livejournal.com]

Very chilling imagery. Somehow Helen always manages to survive.

[lsellersfic.livejournal.com]

Very vivid!

[fredbassett]

Thank you!

[deinonychus-1.livejournal.com]

Meep! That's a pretty terrifying landscape!