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knitekat ([personal profile] knitekat) wrote2022-03-22 07:33 pm

Primeval Drabble: Out Of Options

Title: Out Of Options
Author: knitekat
Word Count: 100
Characters: James Lester.
Rating: 15
Disclaimer: Primeval belongs to Impossible Pictures. Certainly not me. Writing for fun and will replace.
A/N: For P100 prompt 776: Exhausted. Post Season 3.
A/N 2: Posted as I couldn’t decide which to post.



I rose from behind my desk, fear warring with hope in my heart, as the field team entered the atrium. I breathed a relieved sigh when I realised we hadn’t lost anyone... this time.

I took a closer look, exhaustion was clear in every line of their forms and I knew it ran deeper, everyone was being run mentally ragged and...

I glanced back at the latest ministerial decree on my desk before straightening to face my people, to tell them we were being shut down. That we were finally out of options and our missing colleagues would remain lost.