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Characters James Lester, Lester/OFC, Lester/Abby, Lester/Lyle, Lester/Ryan, Lester/Nick, Liz Lester, various unnamed Lester offspring.
Fandom Primeval
Rating U-15
Challenge One_Liners
Warnings Character death, mild bondage
Author's NotesJon Lyle belongs to Fred and Liz Lester belongs to rain_sleet_snow. Thanks to fred for betaing
1. storm
The soldiers rushed forwards, Cutter and Abby started shouting about herbivores, Connor tapped frantically on his laptop, while the anomaly detector alarm, the smoke alarm, and the security alarms in the ARC all competed with each other in a deafening cacophony, and in the centre of it all, like the eye of the storm, Lester calmly took control.
2. wind
Lester watched with a proud smile as his son ran across the park, the wind ruffling his hair and the kite skipping behind him; moments like this made everything worthwhile.
3. writhe
Lester tugged futilely on the bonds and arched up against his lover, begging for more with every movement, but stubbornly refusing to ask.
4. smile
Leaning over the railing that surrounded the first floor, he looked down into the hub of the building and watched the activity going on down there; catching Nick's eye, he smiled and got a brief smile in return before the other man turned back to Connor and the wailing detector.
5. proposition
Lester held on to his self-control and did his very best not to blush in the office where anyone could see him, but it was very difficult with Lyle smirking at him and whispering filthy things in his ear.
6. romantic
He lit the candles and then stood back, looking at the table critically; flowers, candles, new china, everything was perfect, now he just had to wait for his lover to get home.
7. torture
Lester winced and then firmly closed his daughter's bedroom door; there was probably a circle of hell dedicated to having to listen to your children's choice of music.
8. moan
Lester let out a soft moan and Lyle smirked; making his lover lose control was his favourite pastime.
9. dinner
The smell of burnt ... something was so strong that Lester was wrinkling his nose before he even had the front door open; Jon must have tried to cook again.
10. feather
A single feather landed on Lester's desk, on top of his neatly organised papers, making him sigh and roll his eyes; it was bad enough that Abby kept bringing Rex to work and there was the mammoth downstairs which they still hadn't managed to re-home, but now they had an archaeopteryx as well; sometimes he wondered if he was running a government project or a zoo.
11. moon
Lester sat on the beach and watched as the moon rose, huge and low in the sky, and he sighed, resting his chin on his knees - if he had someone here with him it would almost be romantic, but he was alone and trapped so all it did was make him want something he couldn't have.
12. question
He ran his fingers gently over the gold ring and smiled - it wasn't a question he'd ever expected to hear from Nick, but they were both legally divorced now so there was nothing to stop them and he really shouldn't have been surprised; neither of them were frivolous men and they wouldn't have started this if they hadn't thought it could be something permanent.
13. frustrated
Lester was beginning to believe that the definition of frustration was trying to house-train the unbelievably messy and equally stubborn Jon Lyle.
14. beach
Walking along the beach, his trousers rolled up and his bare feet sinking into the soft white sand, Lester realised that there were definitely worse time periods he could have been stranded in.
15. pleasure
Lester could feel Jon's strong arms wrapped around him and he leaned back into the embrace, closing his eyes and relaxing for the first time that day.
16. first
Lester had always thought that men made far too much fuss about virginity and he despised the kind of macho posturing that came with being first, but as he slowly pushed into Jon's body for the first time he realised it wasn't about boasting, it was about being with someone who thought so much of you that they were willing to change everything they'd thought they knew about themselves and do something they'd never imagined doing before.
17. argument
Lester watched as Lyle stormed out of the house, roaring away on his motorbike and he sighed, not understanding how the argument had got so far out of hand; he should have just paid for the repairs and not tried to lecture Jon about not washing his climbing gear in the machine.
18. forever
He looked around the field in panic, it was covered in anomalies, sparkling and shifting, and he had no idea which one would lead him home; the words of a song sprang to mind, on a clear day you really could see forever.
19. paranoid
You could call him paranoid, but you could never call him unprepared, which turned out to be a good thing when the anomaly opened right in the middle of the garden party.
20. satin
As he ran his hands over her back, they moved from the satin of her nightgown to her warm smooth skin, he had admitted to a kink for a beautiful woman in ivory satin and when he'd got home tonight she'd been waiting for him in a new negligee and dressing gown.
21. strawberries
The children were happily smashing strawberries to make icing, covering themselves and the kitchen in red splatters, and Lester couldn't help but smile at their obvious pleasure even though he knew he'd be the one cleaning the kitchen when they were done; the biggest child of all was Jon Lyle, who was covered with as much juice as the other three children combined.
22. forgiveness
A gentle kiss on his cheek woke him up and he blinked sleepily up at his lover's contrite expression; "Why don't I buy us a second washing machine, just for our ropes?" Jon asked.
23. peaceful
Lester propped himself up on one arm and tugged the sheet down slightly, exposing Jon's back as far as the swell of his arse; watching his lover sleep was one of his favourite pastimes.
24. dream
When Lyle had told him about his dream, he'd been sceptical, but Lester had to admit his lover's reaction to his dress uniform had definitely been worth the effort of digging it out and squeezing into it.
25. best friend
Lester knew it was a cliché, but his wife was his best friend, and even their divorce hadn't changed that.
26. eternal
Lester ran his fingers tenderly over the inscription on the tombstone, eternal rest, he hoped that was true and that the other man was in a better place now.
27. memory
Cutter said that time had changed and almost no one believed him, but Lester knew he was telling the truth, because Lester remembered touches, kisses, endearments in a husky Scottish voice, but Cutter no longer did.
28. life
As he thanked everyone for coming to his retirement party, Sir James Lester looked around the room and smiled, he could see his ex-wife, their three children, now grown up, a large contingent of scientists from the ARC including Nick Cutter and the newly appointed Professor Connor Temple, Major Tom Ryan, now permanently assigned to the project along with the team, and his husband, Captain Jon Lyle - all in all it hadn't been a bad life.
29. time
Time was relative and now Lester truly understood what that meant - when his cock was buried in his lover's body, a second seemed to last a life time; when you were watching the red numbers on a bomb tick towards zero, it seemed like no time at all.
30. cherish
Picking his young daughter up he stretched to grab her cuddly toy and put it into her arms, smiling fondly as she gripped it tightly; he just wished it was a teddy bear and not a cuddly Coelurosauravus.
31. alone
They'd barely had any time together before he died, just the odd moment snatched in between crises, so he shouldn't keep expecting to turn around and see him standing there, but here, at the empty grave that would never contain the remains of his lover, Lester felt more alone than he ever had before.
32. together
Professor Connor Temple laid flowers on the newly dug grave, the shiny headstone in stark contrast to the weathered one next to it, Sir James Lester had finally been reunited with his lover in accordance with the wishes expressed in both their wills.
33. pet
He wrinkled his nose and tried not to think about the hair on his furniture or the fact he was going to have to walk it twice a day and make sure it had food and water and no doubt start picking up little piles of shit with a plastic bag, but Liz's face when she saw it more than made up for the fact that he, James Lester, government hatchet man, now owned a dog.
34. fingers
Lester loved his lover's hands, he loved watching them, feeling them on his skin, and most of all he enjoyed feeling the calloused fingers wrapped around his cock as Lyle slowly stroked him to climax.
35. making dinner
Lester had always found cooking to be soothing, relaxing, allowing his mind to wander and the stress of his job to just melt away, but that all changed when you were making dinner for your until now straight partner and his unsuspecting family.
38. celebration
There had been a discreet gathering to celebrate one year since the creation of the ARC, full of bureaucrats and politicians, and Lester had worked the room expertly, but in the back of his mind he was wishing he could be at the much more informal party in the ARC itself with its unconventional team of scientists and soldiers; he suspected they were having much more fun than he was.
41. furious
Lt. Jon Lyle stood to attention and stared straight ahead as Lester paced up and down, quietly ranting at him using the most four syllable words he'd ever heard in one tirade.
42. betrayal
Lester could have strangled Leek with his own hands when he realised what he was up to; how could he not have seen that the oily little bastard was betraying them?
43. car
This was his little secret, his hidden vice, so different from the sedate official car the Home Office provided for him; the roar of the engine set his nerves aflame and his smile became a laugh as he put the sports car into gear and peeled out of the garage as if he was at a racetrack.
55. hope
He'd almost given up, but then, as clear as day, he heard Abby's voice, lecturing him about mammoths and how they would attack predators to protect their herd and for the first time since he realised he was trapped with a creature that was trying to kill him he felt a flicker of hope.
60. queen
When the tenontosaurus had lumbered through the anomaly right into the middle of one of Her Majesty's garden parties, narrowly missing squashing one of the corgis, Sir James had feared for his knighthood; by the time the pack of deinonychus joined the chaos caused by one large herbivore, a dozen small but decidedly stubborn corgies, and seven trigger happy special forces soldiers, he was beginning to worry about treason charges and keeping his head instead.
76. anniversary
When he got home the candles had been extinguished and the food replaced with a terse note telling him his dinner was in the dog; apparently even dinosaurs weren't a good enough excuse for missing your wedding anniversary.
79. phone
He made his excuses and worked his way towards the aisle, checking the display on his phone as he did so and ignoring the disapproving looks from the other patrons; anomalies waited for no one, not even Puccini, unfortunately.
82. silk
Sir James Lester did appreciate a fine, hand made, silk tie; unfortunately, he thought as he discarded yet another teething ruined sodden mess, it seemed that taste was genetic.
91. tie
Looking at the discreet but elegant tie pin, Lester knew his civil service colleagues would assume that the initials engraved on it were just another piece of James Lester arrogance, but then only he knew that they weren't his initials.
92. lick
He patted the mammoth affectionately and tried not to make a face, it was only trying to be friends after all and it had saved his life, but he didn't think he was ever going to get used to mammoth slobber.
93. hug
She was wet and filthy when he saw her, but she was in one piece and that was the most important thing right now, so he hugged her tightly and tried not to worry about what he was doing to his reputation in front of his team - and then he grounded her for scaring the life out of him.
94.divorce
Even thought he'd known it was coming for a long time, his fingers shook slightly as he signed the papers that would make his divorce final; she would get the house and the children and he got the ARC, a bunch of eccentric dinosaur hunters, and a decidedly untrained Special Forces Lieutenant.
97. dawn
He watched as the sun came up, literally the dawn of time he thought with a small smile; maybe today would be the day when the anomaly reopened and he could go home.
98. flirt
Abby smiled up at him, her eyes bright and sparkling with mischief even from across the room, and he couldn't help but smile back; even though he wouldn't do anything about it, it did his ego good to have a woman half his age flirting with him.
Fandom Primeval
Rating U-15
Challenge One_Liners
Warnings Character death, mild bondage
Author's NotesJon Lyle belongs to Fred and Liz Lester belongs to rain_sleet_snow. Thanks to fred for betaing
1. storm
The soldiers rushed forwards, Cutter and Abby started shouting about herbivores, Connor tapped frantically on his laptop, while the anomaly detector alarm, the smoke alarm, and the security alarms in the ARC all competed with each other in a deafening cacophony, and in the centre of it all, like the eye of the storm, Lester calmly took control.
2. wind
Lester watched with a proud smile as his son ran across the park, the wind ruffling his hair and the kite skipping behind him; moments like this made everything worthwhile.
3. writhe
Lester tugged futilely on the bonds and arched up against his lover, begging for more with every movement, but stubbornly refusing to ask.
4. smile
Leaning over the railing that surrounded the first floor, he looked down into the hub of the building and watched the activity going on down there; catching Nick's eye, he smiled and got a brief smile in return before the other man turned back to Connor and the wailing detector.
5. proposition
Lester held on to his self-control and did his very best not to blush in the office where anyone could see him, but it was very difficult with Lyle smirking at him and whispering filthy things in his ear.
6. romantic
He lit the candles and then stood back, looking at the table critically; flowers, candles, new china, everything was perfect, now he just had to wait for his lover to get home.
7. torture
Lester winced and then firmly closed his daughter's bedroom door; there was probably a circle of hell dedicated to having to listen to your children's choice of music.
8. moan
Lester let out a soft moan and Lyle smirked; making his lover lose control was his favourite pastime.
9. dinner
The smell of burnt ... something was so strong that Lester was wrinkling his nose before he even had the front door open; Jon must have tried to cook again.
10. feather
A single feather landed on Lester's desk, on top of his neatly organised papers, making him sigh and roll his eyes; it was bad enough that Abby kept bringing Rex to work and there was the mammoth downstairs which they still hadn't managed to re-home, but now they had an archaeopteryx as well; sometimes he wondered if he was running a government project or a zoo.
11. moon
Lester sat on the beach and watched as the moon rose, huge and low in the sky, and he sighed, resting his chin on his knees - if he had someone here with him it would almost be romantic, but he was alone and trapped so all it did was make him want something he couldn't have.
12. question
He ran his fingers gently over the gold ring and smiled - it wasn't a question he'd ever expected to hear from Nick, but they were both legally divorced now so there was nothing to stop them and he really shouldn't have been surprised; neither of them were frivolous men and they wouldn't have started this if they hadn't thought it could be something permanent.
13. frustrated
Lester was beginning to believe that the definition of frustration was trying to house-train the unbelievably messy and equally stubborn Jon Lyle.
14. beach
Walking along the beach, his trousers rolled up and his bare feet sinking into the soft white sand, Lester realised that there were definitely worse time periods he could have been stranded in.
15. pleasure
Lester could feel Jon's strong arms wrapped around him and he leaned back into the embrace, closing his eyes and relaxing for the first time that day.
16. first
Lester had always thought that men made far too much fuss about virginity and he despised the kind of macho posturing that came with being first, but as he slowly pushed into Jon's body for the first time he realised it wasn't about boasting, it was about being with someone who thought so much of you that they were willing to change everything they'd thought they knew about themselves and do something they'd never imagined doing before.
17. argument
Lester watched as Lyle stormed out of the house, roaring away on his motorbike and he sighed, not understanding how the argument had got so far out of hand; he should have just paid for the repairs and not tried to lecture Jon about not washing his climbing gear in the machine.
18. forever
He looked around the field in panic, it was covered in anomalies, sparkling and shifting, and he had no idea which one would lead him home; the words of a song sprang to mind, on a clear day you really could see forever.
19. paranoid
You could call him paranoid, but you could never call him unprepared, which turned out to be a good thing when the anomaly opened right in the middle of the garden party.
20. satin
As he ran his hands over her back, they moved from the satin of her nightgown to her warm smooth skin, he had admitted to a kink for a beautiful woman in ivory satin and when he'd got home tonight she'd been waiting for him in a new negligee and dressing gown.
21. strawberries
The children were happily smashing strawberries to make icing, covering themselves and the kitchen in red splatters, and Lester couldn't help but smile at their obvious pleasure even though he knew he'd be the one cleaning the kitchen when they were done; the biggest child of all was Jon Lyle, who was covered with as much juice as the other three children combined.
22. forgiveness
A gentle kiss on his cheek woke him up and he blinked sleepily up at his lover's contrite expression; "Why don't I buy us a second washing machine, just for our ropes?" Jon asked.
23. peaceful
Lester propped himself up on one arm and tugged the sheet down slightly, exposing Jon's back as far as the swell of his arse; watching his lover sleep was one of his favourite pastimes.
24. dream
When Lyle had told him about his dream, he'd been sceptical, but Lester had to admit his lover's reaction to his dress uniform had definitely been worth the effort of digging it out and squeezing into it.
25. best friend
Lester knew it was a cliché, but his wife was his best friend, and even their divorce hadn't changed that.
26. eternal
Lester ran his fingers tenderly over the inscription on the tombstone, eternal rest, he hoped that was true and that the other man was in a better place now.
27. memory
Cutter said that time had changed and almost no one believed him, but Lester knew he was telling the truth, because Lester remembered touches, kisses, endearments in a husky Scottish voice, but Cutter no longer did.
28. life
As he thanked everyone for coming to his retirement party, Sir James Lester looked around the room and smiled, he could see his ex-wife, their three children, now grown up, a large contingent of scientists from the ARC including Nick Cutter and the newly appointed Professor Connor Temple, Major Tom Ryan, now permanently assigned to the project along with the team, and his husband, Captain Jon Lyle - all in all it hadn't been a bad life.
29. time
Time was relative and now Lester truly understood what that meant - when his cock was buried in his lover's body, a second seemed to last a life time; when you were watching the red numbers on a bomb tick towards zero, it seemed like no time at all.
30. cherish
Picking his young daughter up he stretched to grab her cuddly toy and put it into her arms, smiling fondly as she gripped it tightly; he just wished it was a teddy bear and not a cuddly Coelurosauravus.
31. alone
They'd barely had any time together before he died, just the odd moment snatched in between crises, so he shouldn't keep expecting to turn around and see him standing there, but here, at the empty grave that would never contain the remains of his lover, Lester felt more alone than he ever had before.
32. together
Professor Connor Temple laid flowers on the newly dug grave, the shiny headstone in stark contrast to the weathered one next to it, Sir James Lester had finally been reunited with his lover in accordance with the wishes expressed in both their wills.
33. pet
He wrinkled his nose and tried not to think about the hair on his furniture or the fact he was going to have to walk it twice a day and make sure it had food and water and no doubt start picking up little piles of shit with a plastic bag, but Liz's face when she saw it more than made up for the fact that he, James Lester, government hatchet man, now owned a dog.
34. fingers
Lester loved his lover's hands, he loved watching them, feeling them on his skin, and most of all he enjoyed feeling the calloused fingers wrapped around his cock as Lyle slowly stroked him to climax.
35. making dinner
Lester had always found cooking to be soothing, relaxing, allowing his mind to wander and the stress of his job to just melt away, but that all changed when you were making dinner for your until now straight partner and his unsuspecting family.
38. celebration
There had been a discreet gathering to celebrate one year since the creation of the ARC, full of bureaucrats and politicians, and Lester had worked the room expertly, but in the back of his mind he was wishing he could be at the much more informal party in the ARC itself with its unconventional team of scientists and soldiers; he suspected they were having much more fun than he was.
41. furious
Lt. Jon Lyle stood to attention and stared straight ahead as Lester paced up and down, quietly ranting at him using the most four syllable words he'd ever heard in one tirade.
42. betrayal
Lester could have strangled Leek with his own hands when he realised what he was up to; how could he not have seen that the oily little bastard was betraying them?
43. car
This was his little secret, his hidden vice, so different from the sedate official car the Home Office provided for him; the roar of the engine set his nerves aflame and his smile became a laugh as he put the sports car into gear and peeled out of the garage as if he was at a racetrack.
55. hope
He'd almost given up, but then, as clear as day, he heard Abby's voice, lecturing him about mammoths and how they would attack predators to protect their herd and for the first time since he realised he was trapped with a creature that was trying to kill him he felt a flicker of hope.
60. queen
When the tenontosaurus had lumbered through the anomaly right into the middle of one of Her Majesty's garden parties, narrowly missing squashing one of the corgis, Sir James had feared for his knighthood; by the time the pack of deinonychus joined the chaos caused by one large herbivore, a dozen small but decidedly stubborn corgies, and seven trigger happy special forces soldiers, he was beginning to worry about treason charges and keeping his head instead.
76. anniversary
When he got home the candles had been extinguished and the food replaced with a terse note telling him his dinner was in the dog; apparently even dinosaurs weren't a good enough excuse for missing your wedding anniversary.
79. phone
He made his excuses and worked his way towards the aisle, checking the display on his phone as he did so and ignoring the disapproving looks from the other patrons; anomalies waited for no one, not even Puccini, unfortunately.
82. silk
Sir James Lester did appreciate a fine, hand made, silk tie; unfortunately, he thought as he discarded yet another teething ruined sodden mess, it seemed that taste was genetic.
91. tie
Looking at the discreet but elegant tie pin, Lester knew his civil service colleagues would assume that the initials engraved on it were just another piece of James Lester arrogance, but then only he knew that they weren't his initials.
92. lick
He patted the mammoth affectionately and tried not to make a face, it was only trying to be friends after all and it had saved his life, but he didn't think he was ever going to get used to mammoth slobber.
93. hug
She was wet and filthy when he saw her, but she was in one piece and that was the most important thing right now, so he hugged her tightly and tried not to worry about what he was doing to his reputation in front of his team - and then he grounded her for scaring the life out of him.
94.divorce
Even thought he'd known it was coming for a long time, his fingers shook slightly as he signed the papers that would make his divorce final; she would get the house and the children and he got the ARC, a bunch of eccentric dinosaur hunters, and a decidedly untrained Special Forces Lieutenant.
97. dawn
He watched as the sun came up, literally the dawn of time he thought with a small smile; maybe today would be the day when the anomaly reopened and he could go home.
98. flirt
Abby smiled up at him, her eyes bright and sparkling with mischief even from across the room, and he couldn't help but smile back; even though he wouldn't do anything about it, it did his ego good to have a woman half his age flirting with him.
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