Birthday ficlet: Mystery In Paradise
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nietieTitle: Mystery In Paradise
Word Count: 1,171
Rating: G
Genre: gen
Challenge: With just 107 words written after 11 months, I finally managed to finish this ficlet, thanks to the fic-finishing challenge of Primeval Denial
Characters: We have to ask DI Poole ;-)
Disclaimer: Not mine, no money made. Primeval and its characters belong to Impossible Pictures; Death In Paradise and its characters belong to the BBC
Author Notes: a Primeval/Death in Paradise crossover. I got the inspiration from the DIP episode where Ben Miller (Lester), James Murray (Stephen) and Hannah Spearritt (Abby) meet again.
This one is for ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif){kind=small}
fredbassett, wishing you a Happy Birthday! *hugs*
Thank you, fififolle, for the beta!
All remaining mistakes are mine.
He woke up, hearing sounds in the night.
He blinked and tried to look around in the darkness of his cabin.
Had he been dreaming? Were the sounds real?
Then he heard them again. There were voices, coming from outside, not far from the cabin.
At the same time he noticed that there was also a faint light outside.
Detective Inspector Richard Poole got out of his bed and walked towards the door, his striped pyjamas clinging to his sweaty body.
It was another hot night on the Caribbean island of Saint-Marie.
He opened the door and cursed softly.
He’d forgotten his slippers.
He walked back, searching for them in the dark.
When he finally found them, he put them on, seeking support at the kitchen table.
He suddenly felt something moving up his arm.
"Harry! It's too dangerous. You can't come with me," he hissed.
He must dreaming. Now he was talking to a lizard, for goodness sake!
But Harry, his house lizard, didn't move, having nestled himself on Poole's shoulder, against his neck.
Poole sighed, rolled his eyes and quietly walked out the door, hoping the people outside wouldn't notice him.
There was a shimmering light coming from behind the trees.
"What does the lizard look like?" he heard a voice say.
"It's green! Like most lizards," a second person said.
Oh my god, they were coming to steal Harry!
"Halt!" he shouted. Darn, his voice was trembling. "I know you are there! You'll have to get up at a much earlier hour if you want to steal something from me!"
Poole held his breath. Were the thieves going to run now, or would they have the boldness to attack him and lizard-nap poor Harry?
From behind the trees, close to the light, two figures appeared.
A tall, dark haired man and a white haired, pixie-looking girl.
"Lester? What are you doing here?" the girl exclaimed.
"What? Don't try to confuse me," Poole said. This was getting weirder and weirder.
"I live here. I should ask what you two are doing here…. So, what are you doing here?"
"Hmm, looking for our pet lizard," the dark-haired man answered hesitantly.
"Harry has been living with me from the beginning. If he's anyone's lizard, he's mine," Poole said.
The girl frowned, obviously not fully understanding what Poole was saying.
"Why are you wearing those striped pyjamas?" she wanted to know.
"Maybe you haven't noticed, but it is the middle of the night, for Christ's sake! I was sleeping until you two decided to wake me up with… with this racket," Poole fumed, trying to control his temper.
"Did you call him Lester? Do you know this man?" the man asked the girl.
"Yeah, we've just met the other week, when Cutter and I had to go to the Home Office. He's something in the government."
"What have you two been smoking? I interrogated you both today about a murder in a holiday villa," Poole spat out. Suddenly he felt very uncomfortable and very confused. Wearing his pyjamas in front of two people he hardly knew seemed to be the least of his worries.
"A murder?" the girl seemed shocked."Don't tell me they murdered the lizard!"
"The lizard is very much alive, as you may have noticed." Poole was clenching his jaws now. Not a very bright person, this girl.
"No, not that lizard. Our lizard! Rex."
"I'm sorry, but what are you two trying to do here?" Poole's patience had come to an end. "I think you both know more about the murder case and you've come here to a) erase traces without knowing that I live here or b) to kill me so you have more time to get away with it. So what is it?"
"What? None of the above!" the man said. "We've just arrived here in… wherever this is. To get our lizard back. Honest!"
"Don't be daft! I am a British detective inspector working here with the Honore police. Don't play games with me. I am very good at solving mysteries."
"But, but you were at the Home Office. Not in striped pyjamas, but in a pin-striped suit."
"Pwah! I have a lot of important friends, but unfortunately not at the Home Office," Poole sneered. "Like I said, don't play games with me, Ms. Lily Shaw."
"Lily Shaw? I'm not Lily Shaw. My name is Abby Maitland."
"Right! And the man with you is Sherlock Holmes. And not Ronnie Stuart, owner of holiday villas. And you don't own the bike shop here in Honore."
"No, we don't! We're not!" The man looked at his female companion. They both looked puzzled.
"My name is Stephen Hart and I swear, we've just arrived here. We only want our lizard and then we'll leave again."
At that moment Poole heard some chirping behind him.
When he turned he saw a huge, green lizard with wings.
"Rex! There you are!"
The exotic creature landed on the girl's arm.
"Let's go. The anomaly is fading!" the man shouted and before Poole realised, the two humans were running towards the light, one carrying their pet lizard.
He ran after them, with Harry,Poole's own pet lizard, frantically trying to stay on his shoulder.
The light was not coming from the moon or from some artificial source. Instead there were sparkles circling. They seemed to fade more and more.
The girl and the man just kept on running and then they dissolved within the sparkles.
Poole gathered all his courage and kept on running too. He was not going to let them go. They were both suspects in a murder case.
If he had to, he would follow them through the sparkles.
But before he touched the light, it was suddenly gone and he ran into a tree.
The last thing he remembered was that he hit his head. He felt a severe pain and then there was dark nothingness.
When he woke up it was daylight.
He was lying flat on his back outside his cabin.
Harry was sitting on his chest, looking at him curiously. Well, if lizards were able to have facial expressions, Poole thought sheepishly.
He was wondering what was wrong with him and what he was doing there on the ground, outside his cabin, dressed in his striped pyjamas.
He touched his head and felt a nasty bump on his forehead.
The last thing he remembered was that he'd went to bed last night.
Groaning and moaning he stood up.
"The next time I try to have cheese before I go to bed, Harry, please hide it. I might walk into the sea, ruining my expensive slippers and pyjamas."
He dusted himself off and then went inside his cabin.
Duty called. He had a murder case to solve and it was urgent.
Somehow he had the feeling that he had to take a closer look at two of the suspects. A tall, dark haired man and a white haired, pixie-looking girl.
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Date: 2014-02-14 11:08 am (UTC)LOL, well done. Harry and Rex could have been great playmates *G*
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Date: 2014-02-14 05:36 pm (UTC)Thank you!
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Date: 2014-02-14 02:58 pm (UTC)I think Harry totally stole the show. He'd definitely a star!!
Thanks so much for this. I'm so pleased you finally found the inspiration to finish this. It's very clever :)
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Date: 2014-02-14 05:38 pm (UTC)You're very welcome. :D
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Date: 2014-02-14 06:26 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2014-02-14 07:45 pm (UTC)Thank you!
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Date: 2014-02-14 06:40 pm (UTC)Richard lives! Excellent intertwining of the two series. *g* Of course Richard would run into a tree and mess up his nice jammies. :)
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Date: 2014-02-14 07:46 pm (UTC)Thank you!
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Date: 2014-02-14 08:49 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2014-02-15 08:55 am (UTC)Thanks!
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Date: 2014-02-14 09:03 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2014-02-15 08:56 am (UTC)Thank you!
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Date: 2014-02-15 01:19 am (UTC)Delightful combining of the two sets of people, and the confusion resulting.
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Date: 2014-02-15 08:58 am (UTC)Thanks!
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Date: 2014-02-15 03:11 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2014-02-15 08:59 am (UTC)And I wonder what would have happened if he managed to get through the anomaly. He'd be back home in the UK in a flash *g*
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Date: 2014-02-15 11:38 am (UTC)Cute and clever fic :D
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Date: 2014-02-15 11:45 am (UTC)Thank you!
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Date: 2014-02-17 04:32 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2014-02-17 12:32 pm (UTC)Thank you!
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Date: 2014-02-18 08:51 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2014-02-19 09:30 am (UTC)I wanted to have some kind of crossover, but I couldn't think up a plotty fic.
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Date: 2014-02-23 10:28 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2014-02-24 01:32 pm (UTC)Thank you!
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Date: 2014-05-05 09:54 pm (UTC)*Hurries off to find the episode of DiP which starred James Murray and Hannah Spearitt in*
Brilliant! Lester would be so confused by the time Abby and Stephen finished explaining what happened to them.
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Date: 2014-05-06 06:45 am (UTC)It was a brilliant reunion.
Thank you!