So this is different from what I normally do. I'm working on A Second Chance. I have this entire chapter written but it is definitely a later chapter. So I'm obsessed with Timeless and literally sat down and wrote this. I'm gonna shut up now.
After being kidnapped and being stuck in a box by America's first serial killer all Lucy Preston wanted to do was take a nice long hot shower. She needed time to process everything that had happened in the last three
days, and formulate an excuse for her mother on where she had been. She definitely couldn't tell her mother the truth. Lucy decided it was time to get out of the car. She'd been sitting in her mom's driveway for ten
minutes now. Walking to the door she decided to run upstairs right away. She couldn't deal with an interrogation right now.
Her plan however was foiled when when she opened the door to see her mother waiting for her on the stairs, a stern expression on her face. Well I'm not getting out of this one. Lucy thought annoyed.
" Where have you been? You're gone for three days with no explanation, not even to your incredibly patient fiance! It's like you came home one day and you were a completely different person." Carolyn yelled frustrated with her daughter's recent behavior.
"Business trip for wo-" Carolyn cut her daughter off, she hated her daughters new job-well that she didn't know what it was.
"What type of new job requires you to be gone for three days at random with absolutely no warning whatsoever? I want to meet these people. Invite them over for dinner tomorrow. Call them right now, I'll invite Noah."
Lucy sighed, pulling out her phone, dialing Jiya's number. She picked up on the second ring.
"Hey what's up?"
"Well my mother got upset about my "business trip" and is having a dinner to meet you, Rufus, and Wyatt. And my mother is inviting Noah."
"The random fiance that isn't supposed to be your fiance that you've met twice? Sounds fun. I'll tell Rufus. By the way I'm really glad you're okay. And not just because Wyatt was an absolute mess without you, and super stressed and worried, but because you're my friend."
"Alright great see you then- wait what do you mean he was a mess without me? And thanks"
"Just was only focused on saving you, and getting you away from Flynn. Thought it was his fault."
"That's ridiculous, it was my idea to split up. But either way I'll see you tomorrow Jiya." The two girls hung up and Lucy dialed Wyatt's number, who picked up on the first ring.
" Lucy? You okay?" Lucy noticed his voice filled with fear, which made sense after what Jiya told her, and considering everything the two had been through.
" I'm fine, everything's fine" She soothed. She could hear a sigh of relief as her mother shot her a suspicious glance, and motioned for Lucy to put the caller on speaker phone.
"Wyatt, I'm putting you on speaker phone"
"Alright, what's up… ma'am?"
"Good news you're finally gonna meet my fiance! My mom's having dinner tomorrow night with Noah, Jiya, and Rufus. And my mother's right here so you have no choice." Lucy laughed. Wyatt decides her laugh is the most beautiful sound in the world.
"I'll be there. So I found that James Bond movie that we were talking about, Weapon of Choice. Mind if I bring it tomorrow?"
"Not at all, I actually really wanted to watch it."
"I bet you twenty bucks Bond sleeps with the girl."
"Deal." Lucy laughed
"See you tomorrow… Ma'am." she could practically hear him smirking through the phone. Two can play at that game she thought.
"See you around… Sweetheart." She said with a southern drawl. She heard Wyatt gasp in mock horror.
"You really wanna play that game...Babydoll?" Lucy couldn't hold it in anymore and burst into a fit of laughter. She just laughed harder at her mother's confused expression.
"Bye Wyatt." She managed to choke out before hanging up.
Wyatt was the first to arrive, with Weapon of Choice. He wore a button up with dress pants. Lucy was wearing a white knee length dress that resembled the pink one
from Bonnie and Clyde. She looks beautiful. Thought Wyatt.
"Hello Ma'am" He said smirking. Lucy smiled.
"Come in" She says leading him to the living room to meet her mother.
Carolyn sees her daughter before she sees the man with her, so judging by the smile on Lucy's face she guesses the man is Noah. She is very surprised to see that the man with Lucy is most definitely not Noah.
"Mom, this is Wyatt." Carolyn flashes back to Lucy's phone conversation with the man who called her babydoll. Not in serious way though. More like it was an inside joke between the two. The man-Wyatt, holds out his hand in greeting, and Carolyn takes it.
"It's a pleasure to meet you Ms. Preston. I've heard wonderful things about you." Carolyn smiles.
"It's nice to meet you Wyatt." The three sit down on the couch. Noticing the movie in his hand she asks
"You a Bond fan?" Wyatt and Lucy smile.
"Little bit." he admits. Laughing Lucy says
"That's the understatment of the century. Weapon of Choice is the only one Wyatt hasn't seen."
"I bet Lucy 20 bucks James Bond sleeps with the girl"
"And I distinctly remember saying definitely not." Lucy laughs.
Carolyn Preston is many things. Oblivious is not one of them. As Carolyn watches the exchange she notices a few things. Lucy and Wyatt are extremely close. Closer than Lucy and Noah by a long shot. She also
notices how comfortable they are with eachother, and their inside jokes. The last thing she notices are the stolen glances, Wyatt's protectiveness of her daughter. A protectiveness that Noah always seemed to lack. She
likes this side of Lucy. She's happy, less guarded. She briefly wonders if this is the reason for Lucy moving back into her house.
"So Wyatt, maybe you can tell me what happened to my daughter." She watches as his eyes fill with pain, and he looks down at Lucy like he's reassuring himself she's alright. God he can still hear her screams in his
head. Wyatt! Rufus! Help! He thinks of their kiss in Arkansas, and her words at the Alamo I don't wan't anyone else. I trust you. You are the one that I trust. Rufus needs you. I need you. And the look of desperation
and tears that threatened to fall when she was terrified that he was going to die, and how she made a bargain with Flynn to save him. He thinks of his desperation to find her on their last mission, how Jessica hadn't even crossed his mind. He realizes something. He needs Lucy, He loves Lucy. It seems so obvious he doesn't know how he didn't realize it sooner.
Carolyn grows nervous as she watches Lucy squeeze his hand and whisper "I'm alright." In that moment Carolyn knows. They're in love. They may not know it yet but they are in love. And judging by the look on Wyatt's face he's just realized it. She watches as he stares at her, takes a breath and says "She was kidnapped." She gasps staring at her daughter.
"Rufus, Jiya, and Wyatt saved me." The conversation is interrupted by a knock at the door. "I'll get it." Carolyn says walking out of the room. When she leaves Lucy turns to see Wyatt looking at her with an intense look
on his face.
"Wyatt?" She asks.
"I got lost in thought and I realized something. You might not feel the same though and I don't want to scare you." He says. Lucy feels her heart start to speed up.
"You won't scare me. Unless you tell me you hate me and left right now. I mean I would hope that after all the effort it took getting me back, you at least like me a little." She jokes. Wyatt smiles at her.
"When you were gone, all I could think about when you were gone was getting you back, and all I could see everytime I closed my eyes was you being dragged into the Mothership, and the silence was terrible because in it all I could hear were your screams. It killed me. And I kept trying to convince myself that, that kiss meant nothing, and it was just in the moment but it wasn't. I felt something. Then all I could think about was back in the Alamo how you were the only thing that kept me from staying behind, how I thought I had nothing to go back to, no one to go back to, until you told me you needed me, and stood up to Agent Christopher, and that official saying you wouldn't do it without me, and I realized you meant it when you said you needed me. And I know you probably don't feel the same but I need to say it. I'm in love with you Lucy." He confesses. Lucy stares at him in shock. Then she feels a warmth spread through her, and happiness, and a feeling she could only describe as love. She smiles at him.
"If you had ultimately decided to stay in the Alamo, I wouldn't have left either, probably hoping when I refused to leave without you, you would realize I really do need you. That I would either live with you or die with you. Luckily it didn't have to come to that. Then the mission after that I was terrified, that even after all I did to keep you alive during the Alamo, you would die, and I would never hear you call me ma'am again orbuckle in my seatbelt. So I made a bargain. In the end you were okay which was all that mattered to me. Then in Arkansas I felt something I did. When he kidnapped me, he would use you and Rufus as leverage against me, when I refused to help him kill people, he told me his men had led you to the hotel. All I knew was I needed to save you, so I teamed up with Harry Houdini, and found you. I love you too, so much." She admits. Wyatt smiles, reaches over and kisses her. They quickly pull apart when they hear footsteps approaching the living room.
Rufus, and Jiya walk in with Carolyn, and Lucy moves to hug them before sitting back down next to of nowhere Noah walks into the living room to see Carol thanking two strangers, and Lucy and some guy
sitting on the couch and talking way too close for his liking. Wanting to assert his dominance he sits down next to Lucy.
"Hey babe." Noah says moving to kiss her cheek. He's surprised, and hurt when Lucy pulls away from him moving even closer if that's possible to the guy next to her. Although, he supposes, Lucy does it so often now, he should be used to it. He isn't though, and he doesn't think he ever will be.
"What was that? Why do you keep pulling away from me?" He notices a slight smirk appear on the other mans face which pisses him off.
"You know I'm not a fan of PDA." Lucy covers. She looks over at Wyatt who mouths "Bonnie and Clyde" at her smirking. Lucy blushes and laughs a little.
"Anyways, Noah this is Wyatt, Rufus and Jiya. They're friends from work, and the four of us have become very close." Lucy gestures to each person.
"Yeah, especially Rufus and Jiya. " says Wyatt. Lucy looks at him and practically shouts " I told you it was gonna happen! You still owe me 20 bucks."
"We could say the same for you and Wyatt." Says Jiya. Lucy and Wyatt stare at each other. Is it that obvious? Did everyone know?
"What?" They say in unison with Noah who looks extremely confused.
"Let's play a game!" Carolyn interrupts.
"What are we doing?" Noah asks puzzled.
"A sort of get to know you game." Carol explains. "I will ask you the questions you give me, and whoever gets the most right wins. We're going to start with Lucy. " Lucy writes down some questions and hands them to Carol.
"First question, what is Lucy's worst fear?" Lucy thinks for a second then writes her answer down. When everyone finishes writing Carol says
"Okay first up Rufus what did you say?" Rufus holds up his boards and says
"I said losing someone or something you love."
"Alright Jiya your turn. Jiya holds up her board
" I said what Rufus said, and I also said coming home to find everything completely different"
"That's a very good answer" Lucy says, impressed at Jiya's accuracy.
"Noah" he holds up his board.
"This was easy tight spaces." Lucy nods.
"Okay, Wyatt considering we had an entire conversation on this a few months ago I'm hoping you remember this." Lucy laughs. Wyatt smirks holding up his board
"Do you really have that little faith in me? I have to say Ma'am I am extremely offended. I felt that one in my heart. You have more than one but they go together. Your worst fear is not having control over a situation,
losing someone you love, and your claustrophobic." He says. Lucy stares at him impressed.
"You're all at least partially correct. 1 point for Rufus and Noah, and 2 points for Wyatt and Jiya. "She continues.
"Next question what nickname does Lucy complain about, but secretly loves, and who calls her it?" Carol asks as Lucy writes down the answer. Rufus and Jiya mutter "easy"
"Come on Luce give us a challenge." Wyatt says with a smirk.
"Times up, Wyatt since you seem so sure you know the answer you can go first." Lucy laughs. Wyatt holds up his board and says
"Ma'am, and I call you ma'am all the time." He says smugly. Lucy smiles
"Ah, but did I ever say I love it when you call me ma'am?" Wyatt raises an eyebrow
"Yes, but that's the entire point ma'am. You complain about me calling you ma'am, and I distinctly remember you telling me you loved that nickname." Wyatt counters.
"Moving on! Rufus what did you say and so help me god if you said ma'am Rufus-" Rufus holds holds up his board and yes it says Ma'am, Wyatt." Lucy groans.
"Something wrong ma'am?" Lucy just sends him a playful glare, and turns to face Jiya.
"Jiya, what did you say?" Jiya shoots her an apologetic look as she raises her board and says
" Ma'am, Wyatt. Sorry Lucy but you know it's the truth." Jiya apologizes smiling.
"Jiya! I trusted you! How could you betray me like this?" Lucy mock cries. Everyone cracks up.
"Okay Noah what did you say?" Lucy manages to choke out between breaths of laughter. Noah smiles and says
"Babe, me" Lucy wrinkles her nose ew, Babe sounds like a baby. At least with babydoll it's an inside joke. Sighing in defeat Lucy holds up her board which does indeed say 'Ma'am, Wyatt.'
"Yes!" Wyatt yells pumping his fist and reaching over to high-five Rufus, and Jiya. Lucy laughs, and is caught by surprise when Wyatt reaches over, and pulls her into a quick hug." She feels a warmth spread through her cheeks.
"Okay this next question is a little different," Lucy says turning serious."Who was the most worried when I was gone? Don't even bother writing this one down though."
"Wyatt, he came rushing in demanding to know where Flynn went and was a mess without you." Jiya answers.
"Yeah. He wasn't focused on anything else. Led us into a bit of a sticky situation, but he refused to leave before we found you and got you back." Rufus adds. Lucy looks at Wyatt who smiles at her and nods.
"Either me or your mother." Noah just looks confused.
"Okay last question which goes along with the last question but only for Wyatt." She says. Wyatt smiles again
"Okay I'm game."
"What was it like when I was gone?" Maintaining eye contact the entire time he says
"Like four years ago but a thousand times worse. We had no idea what was happening to you, and it was basically my worst nightmare come to life."He confesses, surprising Lucy a little. She moves to hold his hand but
stops herself when she remembers Noah's in the room.
Carol notices her daughters hand subconciously start to move toward Wyatt, and then pull back into her lap. She looks behind her in the kitchen and exclaims
"Oh look dinner's ready."
Lucy leads Rufus, Jiya, Wyatt, and Noah to the dining room while Carol gets the food. Rufus and Jiya sit down next to each other and Wyatt sits down across from quickly sits downnext to Wyatt, as her
mother places turkey and mashed potatoes on the table before sitting down next to her daughter. Noah sits down next to Rufus and Jiya confused.
"Hey babe?" Lucy doesn't look up until that Wyatt dude whispers something in her ear motioning to Noah. Noah decides he doesn't like or trust or like the other man.
"Hmm?" is her simple reply.
"You said something about being gone. What was that about?" Immediately Noah notices a difference in the atmosphere. Lucy stiffens, causing Wyatt to move to comfort her, his eyes filled with pain, as they whisper to
each other. The couple next to him are staring at each other seemingly having an entire conversation with only their Preston's eyes fill with tears and Lucy looks up at him a guarded expression on her face.
"I was kidnapped bya highly wanted criminal, and stuffed into a furnace as he tried to kill me. Happy?" She snaps. Noah is furious.
"How did this happen?" He yelled, his voice filling the entire room. Wyatt glared at him.
"It was my fault." he says. Lucy Rufus and Jiya stared at him in shock.
"You bastard! Get out of this house!" Noah shouts with his extremely loud booming voice. At this Lucy stands up.
"Shut up Noah! This isn't your house, he isn't leaving! You have no idea what your talking about! It was not Wyatt's fault!" She shouts
"He just admitted it was his fault-"
"Shut up! It was not his fault! He would never knowingly put me in danger." Calming down she continues. "We had a mission for work, tracking down the criminal. I suggested we split up, and ran off before Wyatt and
Rufus could protest. They went after me but I had too much of a head start, for them to catch up with me before I was kidnapped." She finishes.
"And I would just like to say Wyatt fought like hell to get her back. He wouldn't give up until we found her." Rufus said.
"He was a mess without her. His only focus was getting her back, while you didn't even notice she was gone. Her mother called to ask why her daughter hadn't come home had to lie and say she was on a
businesstrip. You're her fiance act like it." Jiya snaps.
The rest of the dinner is tense as the four co-workers talked and joked around with Carol, ignoring Noah. The last straw is when Noah hears Wyatt call Lucy Babydoll, and Lucy's laugh that accompanies it.
"Excuse me? Did you just call my fiancee babydoll?" Noah asks incredulously. Lucy looks up from her conversation.
"It's an inside joke, he didn't mean anything by it." Lucy responds calmly, a cold edge to her voice.
"Care to explain?" Noah demands ticked off. Wyatt can't stand Noah. What even made this alternate Lucy fall for the tool.
"On a mission to Arkansas, tracking down two fugitives. In order to gain their trust we pretended to be engaged, and that includes nicknames."Lucy explains, leaving out the kiss. Wyatt gets the feeling he wouldn't react
very well. As it is he doesn't react to the idea of Lucy and Wyatt being engaged very well.
"Why'd you have to pretend to be engaged? Why couldn't you have just been friends?"
"It wouldn't have worked, and it might've gotten us killed if we didn't. We weren't exactly dealing with naive people, we were dealing with hardened criminals. And I was handpicked for this assignment along with Rufus
and Lucy, so trust me we know what we're doing." Wyatt responds trying to keep his voice calm.
"What is your job exactly?" Noah asks. Damn, is this guy always so nosy? Wyatt thinks.
"That information is highly classified." Lucy says curtly.
"Come on Lucy, I'm your fiance, and you were kidnapped because of this mystery job. I want you to quit your job, and go back to teaching." Lucy stares at him incredulously
"Excuse me! Are you insinuating that because you don't like my job I should quit? No the work I'm doing is extremely important, yes it's dangerous, but I will continue to do it. I've got Wyatt, Rufus, Jiya, a homeland
security agent and Connor freaking Mason himself to protect me. I'm perfectly safe. And I'm certainly not obliged to tell you anything, just because your my fiance." She states coldly. Wyatt watches the showdown with
a proud smile on his face. Just add that to the list of things he loves about her. "Now Wyatt brought a movie I've been waiting to watch, so lets clean up and watch it." Lucy says taking her plate to the sink. Rufus,
Wyatt, Jiya, and Carol follow the suit.
Sitting down next to Lucy, to watch the movie Wyatt hands Lucy twenty bucks. Lucy gives him a confused look. "Remember? We bet on how long it would take them to get together. You won." he explains.
Carol looks over at Lucy and Wyatt. She knows they're in love. Wyatt clearly knows he's in love with her, but she doesn't know if Lucy knows she's in love. Carol doesn't want her daughter stuck in a loveless marriage.
And Lucy's been with Noah for a year but Carol had only met him a few times. She starts to wonder if Noah's usually like this.
"Hey Lucy, can I talk to you for a second?"
"Sure mom." The two woman walk upstairs into Carol's bedroom.
"What's up?" Carol takes a breath, now or never.
"Is Noah usually like this?" Lucy is so caught off guard, that the only response she can formulate is
"What?" Carol repeats the question. Lucy herself doesn't know, but from what she's seen he does.
"Yes he is. It's one of the reasons I moved out."
I'm glad you mentioned that. It brings me to my next question. Are you in love with Wyatt? Because it's very clear to me that he's in love with you. And if you are you need to tell Wyatt, and break things off with Noah.
I don't want you stuck in a loveless marriage." If Lucy wasn't shocked before she sure is now. She'd forgotten how perceptive her mother is. She also knows it's no use lying to her mother.
"Yes, I love Wyatt."
"Then you need to break things off with Noah sweetheart. Now." Carol says gently, before dissapearing and returning with Noah. Carol slips away leaving the two alone.
"Your mom said you wanted to talk to me?" For once Lucy is at a loss for words.
"Yeah, um, you might want to sit down." Noah sits on Carol's bed.
"Okay, your scaring me, what's going on?" He asks nervously.
"I can't do this anymore." Lucy blurts out.
"What?"
"I can't marry you. I just don't love you anymore, and I don't think I ever did. I can't marry you. I agreed to getting engaged because I felt like I had to. I'm sorry Noah but I cannot marry you." Lucy watches anger fill his features.
"How the hell do you fall out of love Lucy?" He shouts frusturated. Lucy glares at him.
"I realized it never was love, and even if it was realizing your a grade A son of a bitch definitely made me hate you. Take your ring back." She says throwing the ring at him, before leaving the room, and storming down into the living room, and sits down next to Wyatt.
"Did James Bond sleep with the girl yet?" She asks.
"No but your all over him, made out with him, and I'm hopelessly pining after you but my affections will never be returned because your in love with Bond." Wyatt whispers in her ear. She lets out a
laugh, and sees Noah leave out of the corner of her eye. Lucy reaches over and whispers back
"I love you." Pulling her closer to him to her head rests against his shoulder, one arm around her, the other holding her hand, he smiles, kisses her soft hair and whispers
"I love you too."
Sooo, what'd you think? I know Noah was a little OOC but he had to be for my story.