Future Lucy was laying on the bed in her former bedroom, the one she used to share with Jiya all this time ago. After the shock, Agent Christopher, back to her bossy self, ordered the two visitorsfrom the future to go freshen up and sleep in separate rooms till their present selves, Jiya, Connor and Flynn figure out how in the world two future versions of persons were actually co existing at the same time of their present version.
She remembered vividly the lines forming on the ceiling. She has memorized them after spending so much sleepless nights staring at them. Some due to heartache and pain and some of another kind, the kind she prefered.
As old memories were washing over her, she heard a noise, a much familiar one. She put herself up on her elbows and found Future Wyatt making his way in her bedroom, then silently closing the door.
She smiled, waited for the door to be completely closed, and said :
" Sneaking off your room, Logan?"
" Does it ring a bell ? " answered Future Wyatt, leaning his back on the bedroom door.
" It does. I still clearly remember you, sneaking off to my room, when we got together..again. I remember feeling like a teenager waiting for her boyfriend to come under her window at night when her parents are asleep." She smiled, her heart warming at the memory.
Future Wyatt laughed and made his way to her as she sat up and leaned her back against the wall. He followed, sat next to her and took her hand in his. Then, they looked at each other and he leaned to give her a chaste kiss. They stood close to each other, noses touching and finally pressed their heads against the wall.
" How are you holding up ?" asked Future Wyatt, visibly worried.
" I thought it would be easier" she whispered.
" I know what you mean. Seeing you like this… Seeing myself… Man it's weird. I accepted my mistakes and with a lot of your help, I moved on. Seeing me back to the this state is….depressing to say the least " stated Wyatt while passing his fingers through his beard, an habit he acquired with time.
" It took me a long time to get where I am.." she turned her head to him and he searched for her eyes automatically. " to the place where we are. Seeing myself, beaten physically and emotionally … her voice faltered.
" I didn't go easy on you, did I ?"
Future Lucy scoffed. " I will never, ever, forget the first time you told me you loved me. Those words, at the time, were not a confession, they were a statement. Something you held back from me, something you carried with you…"
She laid her head back against the wall and looked in front of her.
" I remember being shocked. And suddenly, while I was listening to you, I wanted to yell at . I was praying for Rufus to show up and make some stupid comment and put me out of my misery" she said, half chuckling, half fighting the tears threatening to fall while she remembered the day they lost their best friend.
" Lucy, let not them get to you, to us", warned her Future Wyatt.
" You know what's the hardest thing for me right now ? I worry about you, your present you. It's been such a long time since I haven't seen that look on your face. So much guilt Wyatt. So much ache. I feel guilty. For not fighting for you sooner", Lucy whispered.
He took her hand to his lips and kissed her knuckles. Another habit he took after they got together.
" When you look closely, you're still Lucy. The one person I know who worries about everyone else but herself. You might have seemed tough and strong back there, but you're still the Lucy who was kind enough to take me back after how stupid and reckless I acted…" his voice trailed.
" And you're still the Wyatt who's ready to take the fall for every single bad thing that happens and feel guilty every occasion people give you, even when it is given by your present version", she continued.
He chuckled and went to kiss her, this time much longer. They broke apart and stayed close, forehead touching.
" Well, I have enough luck to have you by my side and to call me out every time I tend to do that right ?" He whispered.
" You're damn right you do" she whispered back.
" We've been here, Wyatt. Right now, my world have flipped upside down multiple times but this time, I am completely beaten. I just wanna go, see her and tell her everything will work out somehow. I want to give her hope, Wyatt. She's been looking for hope this whole time. I just wanna go, hug her and reassure her..", she said tearful.
Wyatt took her face in his hands, looked her is the eyes and told her :
" I think you did it, Luce. Didn't you see that look on her face when you got out of the LifeBoat ? I know you better than anyone and I can tell you that behind those bruises, I saw your hope. It was a glimpse I'll give it to you, but it was there. After all these years, you sell yourself short. Everywhere you go, in every damn time period, in every damn timeline, you bring hope with you. When we met, my life was a complete disaster Lucy, but you, the bossy know it all, the stubborn professor I came to respect, the beautiful woman I came to love, you brought me hope. For a better life, for a better future and you didn't disappoint. Not a bit."
Lucy smiled at him, widely and in awe.
He kept on :
" Right now, my present self is lost, completely broken, and he miss his life before everything went down. He is kicking his ass because he made choices while he was in a impossible situation…"
Lucy interrupted him and laughed through her tears :
" Glad to know my speeches didn't go to waste"
He smiled at her and said :
" Never Ma'am. You talk, I listen right ?"
" Well it seems today wise Wyatt decided to make it worth his presence " she snorted.
" When he saw me getting out, his gun was still loaded Luce. When he saw you, he put down the damn gun. That man, out there, just fell for you even more when he saw what you became. I can tell, I have the same looks as him when I look at you. You also gave him hope, you know why ? Because he saw me, and the only reason I am what I am, is because I am standing beside you. He knows it, I know it. You are the reason I fought back against my demons, you pushed me to go to great lengths only because you did it yourself. We are beaten right now, yes, but we just had a glimpse of what we are going to be if we let ourselves fight for each other again." He was out of breath but it was worth the look on her face.
Lucy took his hands off her face, straddled him and began to kiss him with all the love she had for him. That man was hers and right now she was going to show him how much he was. She began to take his shirt off, as he took hers off too.
He broke the kiss and said out of breath :
" Could we just tell them that some time in the future, I become wiser than you and I am now the talker while you spend more and more time listening to me and attacking me with kisses ?"
Lucy quirked one of her eyebrow and smiled :
" No way. Now, would like to talk more or what ?"
" You gonna get it, Logan" he said between kisses.
" Oh, I am counting on it, Logan" she said and with one swift movement, Wyatt put her on her back and followed her, with a mischievous smile on his face.
While Wyatt was attacking her neck, she smiled at the lines forming in the ceiling and remembered that, after all what they've been through, there was hope for them after all, their present needed to be patient become the future that awaited them was so much worth it.