FIC - Two Birds With One Stone - April - U

Title: Two birds with one stone
Focus character: April
Word count: 453 ish.
Spoilers: None.
Summary:  April plays her part .
Author's note:  Written for the primeval_denial  challenge team fest. I used two prompts from

lsellersfic and

telperion_15
Actually, April is the one manipulating Philip and Hero Worship. Beta'd by

fredbassett . This was originally supposed to be a oneshot, but when I thought about it more, it became a lovely twist for my Past/Present/Future story. If you've read the recent chapter I've put up...well...it might make more sense. Not complete, but more... :) Enjoy.

April watched from the doorway.

He had no idea. Neither of them had.

She fingered the cap that covered the small needle, hidden in the pocket of her cardigan and watched the two men converse. All it would take is a single prick of the skin and he would be completely susceptible. A tiny amount of the serum would have him under her control, but too much could kill him. April thought it wouldn’t be such a terrible setback if it did. She smiled, mainly to herself and waited for that opportune moment.

Philip and Anderson had finished talking and Matt came walking in her direction. April immediately headed towards him, taking her hand out of her pocket but keeping her palm wrapped around the tiny syringe as she brought it out. She strode along, pretending to be engrossed in a conversation on her mobile phone, and allowed herself to collide with him, whilst at the same time digging the needle in his arm, giving him the full dose.

Of course it was so quick and the needle was so tiny, he didn’t feel it.

“Oh! I’m so sorry!” she gasped, gently rubbing the spot she had injected on his arm.

The smile he gave was so damned patronising. He had never trusted her even when they’d first met and April knew what he was trying to do. It didn’t matter now. Eventually he would lose it and then the high and mighty will certainly fall.

Philip Burton’s ideas for the future were pitiful and redundant, as well as inconsequential. Philip might have thought he was doing this for Helen or himself or the entire human race, but the truth was April was the one manipulating him. She had injected Philip with the same serum as Matt and funnily enough it was from the same needle, and she had been ‘controlling’ him after all these years. She was the one guiding him toward New Dawn and the fool had no idea just what it would do.

April smiled again as she looked at the tiny needle resting in her palm. Two birds with one stone. It was all so simple.

And she did this all for one man, her hero, the man she knew as father, who had rescued her from the hell of a poisoned earth and given her hope in this new era. She would do anything for him, because she loved him. She would kill and she would die for him.

But not before she saw Matt Anderson fail. Not before she saw Matt Anderson die and take his beloved ARC with him.

Tags: 2012, oneshot, past present future, primeval
Current Mood: cheerful

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