Arthur's Note:

Hi fellow Timeless fans and Fanfic writers! I am so excited to finally share my very first fanfic story of our show with you all. I also can't wait for season 2 to begin, SO EXCITED! I just have to say thank you to all of you wonderful writers whose stories have helped me get through this unbelievable long wait since season 1 ended. I mean, really, from the bottom of my heart because when the awful news of Timeless being cancelled came out, I was depressed. :( But when the glorious news of it being renewed was announced, I was overjoyed!

Anyway, after reading all of your fanfics, I started to come up with my own, and here we are. I hope you all enjoy!

Disclaimer: I do not own the rights to Timeless. Those belong to NBC. So this story is purely from my own imagination.

Chapter 1

"Rittenhouse would never allow it…"

What? She couldn't have said—

"How do you think I met your father…?"

No, it's not possible—

"We both come from good, strong Rittenhouse families. And that almost makes you royalty…"

NO! Please stop!

"As we speak, Rittenhouse has an operative on the Mothership. Soon, we will control everything; the past, and the present, the future. And together, we will change history."

Frantically backing away from her mother, Lucy felt the rise of a panic attack coming on; it seemed as if her whole world had collapsed. How could this be true? Her own mother, Carol Preston, is a member of Rittenhouse?! It was one thing to find out that her biological father was involved, but this? She thought their fight against the evil, secret organization was over. All of the evidence Ethan Cahill, her grandfather, had kept and saved had already put a large number of members in prison. But now, it feels like the universe just jumped up and said "Psych!" and a whole new wave of crap was thrown at them.

"Excuse me, sweetheart."

Lucy's head suddenly snapped up to see her mother taking out her ringing cell phone from her pocket and answered it with her back turned. "Is it done…? Good…you know where to go to first…"

The answer of who was on the other side of that conversation came to Lucy in an instance. So it was true, Rittenhouse has control of the Mothership. Suddenly she realized that her team needed to be warned about this new calamity. But how could she warn them when it felt as if her feet were glued to the floor? Just then her brain focused on the one word Harry Houdini himself taught her to think of when she was in a tight position: escape.

With great, painful effort, Lucy managed to slow down her racing heart beat and calmed her ragged breathing as she pulled out her phone from her purse. Quickly she dialed the number of the one person she trusted the most.

Wyatt? Pick up, pick up, pick up! She desperately thought to herself until she heard the tiny click in her ear. "Wyatt?!"

"Lucy?" his voice exclaimed with a mix of concern and relief. "Where are you? Are you okay?"

Lucy couldn't answer at first. Her head was still spinning uncontrollably. She struggled to address to the crisis at the hand before expelling a shaky exhale. "Oh, my God, Wyatt!" she cried in a hushed voiced, trying to be discreet from her mom in the other room. "It's not over! Everything we did—Rittenhouse, it's—we didn't stop them! Wyatt, they have the Mothership! What are we gonna do?"

"Lucy, calm down! Please tell me where you are."

"I'm…" she said slowly with her free hand pressed to the side of her head. "I'm at my mom's house. Wyatt, she's—"

"Lucy, please," Wyatt's voice interrupted, practically begging her to listen. "Are you okay? Where is your mom now?"

"I'm okay—I, I mean, I think…" Lucy struggled to swallow the lump in her throat as she tried to answer his next question.

Just then, the doorbell rang.

"He's here. Call me when you get back," her mother's voice announced.

"Lucy? Are you there?" Wyatt's voice called again.

"Y—Yes, I'm still here. Wyatt, I—"

The next thing Lucy heard was the front door opening and Carol's voice full of admiration. "Ah, the son of Rittenhouse."

The son of WHAT?!

The phone nearly slipped out of Lucy's hand when she spun around in time to see her mom return followed by—

"Noah?"

Wyatt had been pacing around the conference room for thirty minutes after the given time Lucy said she'd be gone. His mind would not stop racing. She said she would be gone for an hour and come right back. They were going to go back to 1979 and make her mom and Henry Wallace fall in love and in doing so, bring back her sister. He knew Lucy wouldn't miss this for anything. She wanted to bring Amy back the moment she found out that she'd been erased from history. So where the hell was she?

He looked down at his phone again for the third time. No missed calls or texts.

Damn it! Where are you, Lucy?

Finally, not being able to take it any longer, he brought up her number on his phone and was about to hit the call button when the conference room door swung open and Agent Denise Christopher burst in; her usual no-nonsense expression was replaced with great concern.

"Wyatt, where's Lucy?" she demanded, slightly breathless.

"She said that she had to take care of something and be right back," Wyatt informed. Just by looking at Homeland Security agent, his gut was telling him that whatever she was about to tell him was not good. "Why, what's wrong?"

Denise gave an exasperated huff. "Mason and I just finished looking through Ethan Cahill's collective information about the top members of Rittenhouse and…"

"And?"

She hesitated at first but then looked straight at his face. "Carol Preston was on it, as one of the high leaders."

Wyatt's stomach dropped. "You mean—"

"Lucy's mother is a member of Rittenhouse."

Those seven words actually hit hard in Wyatt's gut. Turning around and running a hand through his hair, he let out a shaky exhale as Agent Christopher's words repeated in his head. Lost in thought by the shocking news he'd just heard, he didn't even hear the agent's phone ringing or her answering it.

Lucy's mom is a leader of Rittenhouse?

Lucy!

Without saying a word to Agent Christopher, Wyatt rushed out of the conference room and ran at top speed to the locker room. Once he got there, he holstered his weapon and snatched his keys and was about to get to his truck when Agent Christopher ordered him to stop.

"I'm going to find Lucy!" he argued without stopping

"Wyatt, there's more bad news," Denise's graved voice called out to him.

He spun around with disbelief in his eyes. "You've got to be kidding me."

She ignored his remark. "The Mothership has been stolen and the Homeland soldiers watching it have been murdered."

"Shit," Wyatt cursed under his breath. How much worst could this get?

Suddenly a loud blaring alarm rang through the speakers and the room was flashed with a rotating red light.

"What the hell?" Agent Christopher said, more to herself then to Wyatt as she pivoted on her heel and ran to the control room of Mason Industries with Wyatt right behind her.

When they arrived, they froze on the spot on the catwalk overlooking the control room to find the place in chaos. Trying to make out the disorientating sight because of the flashing red light made it, at first, difficult to see what happening until their eyes finally were able to adjust. Being a Master Sergeant of Delta Force, Wyatt had seen plenty of chaotic scenes before, and even a few from the time travel trips he and Lucy and Rufus witnessed themselves, but what he was seeing now was one of the most insane ones ever. All of the employees and techs were scrambling around and yelling to one another over the alarm still screaming in the speakers. Some were trying to grab as much stuff they could carry and run out of the room while others were on computers in attempt to give out statuses of what was happening. Finally, among the sea of jostling people, Wyatt caught sight Rufus and Connor Mason.

"Rufus, Mason!" Christopher shouted out as she climbed down the stairs and came to a halt right next to Mason who was hovering behind Rufus as the engineer's fingers were typing a mile a minute on a keyboard with his eyes glued to a computer screen. "Somebody better tell me what the hell is going on right now!"

"We've been hacked, that's what the bloody hell is going on!" snapped Mason.

"What do you mean—" Wyatt began to ask when he came up next to Christopher.

"Rittenhouse hacked us with a very scary ass virus that is deleting everything we have," Rufus interrupted without looking up. "I'm trying to slow it down but I don't know much more I can do!"

Mason quickly grabbed a pen and wrote something down on two pieces of paper and then handed them to Wyatt and Christopher. "This is the location of the safe haven that we need to evacuate to, in the San Gorgonio Mountain."

Wyatt glanced at the piece of paper in his hand, as did Christopher. "The San Gorgonio Mountain? That's over seven hours away from here," she pointed out.

"Yes, well, that's one of the points of a hideaway place, isn't Agent Christopher?" the smarmy tech mogul scoffed back. The Homeland Security agent gave him an extremely exasperated look, but didn't say anything.

"Alright, I managed to save the last piece of information on Rittenhouse from Lucy's grandpa files," Rufus announced as he pulled out a tiny drive from the computer and held it up to show the others. Just then, the computer screen went haywire and then went black. "And just in time too."

"Well, done, Rufus," Mason congratulated before becoming serious. "Guard that drive with your life."

"Alright, people," Christopher piped in. "I suggest that we celebrate later. Right now, we need get everyone out of here and to the safe haven."

"What about Jiya?" Wyatt asked.

"I have guards with her right now and I'm going to get her myself," she answered and was about to say something else when Wyatt's phone began to ring loudly. Frantically pulling it out and seeing Lucy's name flashing on the screen, he nearly dropped it.

Thank God!

"It's Lucy!" He informed the others before quickly running out of the noisy control room and into an empty hallway then swiftly brushed his thumb on his phone to answer the call.

"Wyatt?!" Lucy's voice cried out into his ear. Even over the blaring alarm still sounding throughout the building, Wyatt could still hear her distress.

"Lucy?" He exclaimed overwhelmed with relief to hear her voice and then concern washed over when the memory of her mother's involvement with Rittenhouse returned. "Where are you? Are you okay?"

There was no answer at first. For a second, panic was rising inside Wyatt's chest until he heard a tiny, shaky breath. "Oh, my God, Wyatt!" she cried in a hushed voiced. "It's not over! Everything we did—Rittenhouse, it's—we didn't stop them! Wyatt, they have the Mothership! What are we gonna do?"

"Lucy, calm down! Please tell me where you are."

"I'm…I'm at my mom's house. Wyatt, she's—"

"Lucy, please," He begged her. "Are you okay? Where is your mom now?"

"I'm okay—I, I mean, I think…"

Just then, Wyatt thought he heard the sound of a doorbell ringing and the distant sound of another woman's voice, but couldn't make out what she was saying.

"Lucy? Are you there?" Wyatt called out again.

"Y—Yes, I'm still here. Wyatt, I—"

Lucy's voice suddenly ceased and the next thing that came through the other end of the phone call was the sound other woman talking indistinctly until she said the one word that made his heart stop cold: Rittenhouse.

All of sudden, Wyatt's protective instincts went on high alert when he realized that the other woman was Lucy's mother.

And Lucy is with her!

Before he could say anything else, the next thing he heard was Lucy's voice squeaked in disbelief: "Noah?"

The name of Lucy's fake fiancée hit Wyatt hard in the gut, but a sudden, disturbing thought came to his mind: If Lucy's mom just spoke the word "Rittenhouse", and then Lucy exclaimed the doctor's name, does that mean Dr. Noah No-Last-Name is part of the evil secret organization too?

Suddenly there was a small click and the call ended.

Arthur's Note:

So that's the first chapter! Again, thank you all of you wonderful Timeless writers for helping me get through those empty Monday nights when season one ended and this ridiculous long wait. And a big thank you to Gracielinn, Cindy Ryan, TheVelvetDusk, LivingInSmilesIsBetter, angellwings, rachelbee21, emilycare, elenam1996, Once Upon a Whim, fortheloveofbuttercups, and Missyriver for writing your stories that have become some of my favorites. And to qwertygal, I want to personally thank you for not only your stories but also for suggesting me to get my own account. Please review and tell me what you guys think of chapter 1.