Prologue
There comes a time in every Warehouse agent's life when their role with the Warehouse must change. As the years go on, as the agent changes with his or her life experiences, other things become important, some things even become more important. For many of the agents who have worked for the Warehouse they just walk away and live their lives, leaving the Warehouse and its wonders in their past. Some agents however simply can't walk away, they can't let all those endless wonders linger in their memories, they have to continue in some way, even after making the choice to seek out the other adventures life has to offer.
Agents Myka Bering and H.G. Wells were devoted to the Warehouse for many years, many many years in the case of H.G. who served both Warehouse 12 and 13 in her long and extraordinary life. The only things that mattered more to them than the Warehouse and even their friends, was each other. There came a time when they found themselves having to make the toughest choice they had ever faced, and after a lot of soul searching and self-discovery on both their parts, the choice was made. Though they considered their Warehouse partners family, the kind of family they grew to want together required them to leave behind the dangerous snag, bag, and tag life of active agents.
Myka and Helena were married, surrounded by the people they loved most, and then moved to Helena's native London where both women excelled in their civilian professions, both in publishing. Myka would become a highly respected editor while Helena once again found success as an author, only this time she was free to publish under her own name Helena Bering-Wells and use her own face. As for the Warehouse, Myka would eventually become a Regent while Helena remained a consulting agent.
As for their reason for leaving, they had two. First a son they named Christopher Pete and then a daughter, Sarah Jean. Born of Myka and the great great-grandson of Helena's brother Charles. The young man, who looked so much like Charles Helena found it staggering, had had big dreams and little cash and found the very temping offer of a large sum of money and guaranteed admittance into medical school made by a spunky young redhead more than acceptable and gladly parted with the needed biological material the two women required.
Though she was not their biological mother Helena cherished and adored Sarah and Christopher, and she was grateful beyond words at being given another chance to be a mother. The family thrived; Myka and Helena were happy, even on those days when they missed the adventures of solving puzzles and saving the day. They raised their children in their posh home with it's beautiful gardens and every once in awhile would pop off on Warehouse business, the children none the wiser, they were always told it was for their civilian work. As much as they would have loved to raise their family in the B&B near the Warehouse it was impossible and far too dangerous. It was best, as Jane Lattimer had said to keep the children as far from anything Warehouse as they could get them.
The pull for something more hits everyone at some point. Not long after Myka and H.G. left Agent Pete Lattimer found himself once again tracking down an artifact that was whamming his ex-wife Amanda's life. Following the successful snag and bag of the artifact Pete and the now twice divorced Amanda reconnected. They were both older, had more knocks and lumps from life, Pete had been sober for a long time by then and Amanda's ambitions mellowed, or at least her career ambitions had. They were remarried, moved back to Ohio, where Amanda worked as a Marine recruiter and Pete worked out of the Cleveland field office of the Secret Service. Finally finding happiness with each other lead to new ambitions and the two soon found themselves the parents of three boys, Matthew, Michael, and their youngest, Arthur, all named after people important to Pete and that was just fine with Amanda, she got to pick middle names.
But as so much changes some things stay the same, and yet change was always right there on the horizon, an endless ebb and flow of stable chaos. Artie was still puttering around the Warehouse grumbling at everyone, Agent Steve Jinks had taken up more of the fieldwork as lead agent along with Agent Claudia Donavan who was also continuing her training to become the Caretaker of the next Warehouse. Agents came, and went, the years passed by and once again the Warehouse found its self in need a fresh pair of hands. Of course Mrs. Fredrick already had her eyes on the perfect pair to be her very last recruitment before everything changed forever, because the biggest change for the Warehouse was coming, one that happened before and would happen again until the end of time. There comes a time in every Warehouse's life when it must die and a new one born, and that too was on the horizon, but first Mrs. Fredrick would change the lives of two more unsuspecting people, she would help bring forth a rightful legacy, and in the end she would rest peacefully knowing everything was in good hands.