Right Place, Wrong Time – Chapter 1
The room was eerily quiet as the four occupants processed what had just happened.
Rittenhouse the man that had started everything was slumped over dead.
"Where is the boy?" Flynn asked suddenly looking frantically around the room.
"What? He's just a child?" Lucy argued.
"We have to find him to stop Rittenhouse completely."
Lucy's gaze flew to Rufus and Wyatt wordlessly asking for their back up. "He is still young." She began to plead. "He doesn't follow his father's beliefs."
Flynn checked one last chest before turning to Lucy. "The boy escaped. We have to find him."
"We won't hurt him. Let him be."
"Fine, but you won't stop me." Flynn said before heading through the doorway and barricading it behind him.
Wyatt instantly went to the door, throwing his shoulder against it. It took three tries before he broke through.
Lucy was the first to break the silence. "Let's spread out and find Flynn before he gets to John."
Rufus took off toward the front of the house, while Wyatt headed toward the barn.
Lucy quickly turned to the back of the house hoping she wasn't too late.
Flynn headed past a garden. He hadn't seen any trace of the boy. He briskly walked towards the edge of a field. The track of land had obviously been tilled and seeded recently. It was twilight but he could see tracks in the dirt. Many were footprints but one set were made by a pair of shoes. Flynn quickened his pace realizing he was close.
The prints ended when the patchy grass of a tree grove began.
With his gun raised Flynn looked toward the trees looking for movement. A whimper caught his attention causing him to turn sharply.
Crouching between a crumbling wooden structure and a tree was John Rittenhouse. Streams of tears flowed down his cheeks as he begged Flynn not to kill him.
"You have to die." Flynn said decisively and took aim.
Lucy stumbled onto the scene and stepped in front of John's hiding place.
"You can't do this. I won't let you." Lucy cried desperately.
She was shaking as she stood in the path of Flynn's gun. "You told me that Rittenhouse killed your children. How can you kill him and then go back to them?"
A frustrated growl broke from Flynn. "This ends now!" He bellowed before grabbing Lucy and forcibly moving her aside.
Flynn's gun fired and Lucy recoiled in anguish.
With another growl, Flynn jerked Lucy around. In surprise, she opened her eyes and took in the sight before her. An empty patch of hay was smoldering a bit, and Lucy sighed thankfully knowing John had gotten away.
As she focused once more on Flynn a feeling of dread filled her. His face was a mask of pure fury.
"You have interfered for the last time. I guess I will have to put a stop to you before you do anymore damage to my plans."
He grabbed her arm roughly, keeping his gun trained on her, and pushed her into the forest.
Lucy struggled against him and began to scream.
"Wyatt!"
"Rufus!"
A large explosion shook the ground beneath their feet. Smoke billowed through the trees and debris began to fall around them.
The grip on her arm slipped but before she could break away completely Flynn's hand clamped down harder.
She began to scream for Wyatt and Rufus again hoping they would find her. Her hopes dimmed when the smoke filled her lungs with every breath. She began to cough more and scream less.
"Lucy!"
The sound of his voice buoyed her resolve as Flynn pulled her deeper into the forest.
'Wyatt was coming' she thought and began screaming for him again. Then Rufus began calling out for her too and she felt her strength fully return.
The ground was extremely muddy here and her skirts were getting heavier by the minute. Instead of forcing herself along she let the extra weight slow her down to buy some time.
She could hear the guys getting closer. Flynn pushed her the last few steps into a clearing. Flynn stopped for a moment and looked around.
'Please be lost' she thought. Every moment they spent here the closer Wyatt and Rufus would get.
She heard an odd noise to her left. It was the direction the explosion had come from.
Among the mud and fallen trees she could just make out something. She stared trying to figure out what it could be. Then there was a movement. It was a person.
"Help!" Lucy cried thinking that maybe someone was close enough to assist her.
Another movement and Lucy knew that the figure was a woman. The delicate shoe partially covered by a long skirt was trying to move. She must have fallen during the explosion. Lucy's first instinct was to help her, however Flynn's grasp on her arm restricted her from taking even a step away. Once Wyatt and Rufus got here they would stop Flynn and would help the girl.
A flash distracted her as the mothership popped into the clearing.
"Wyatt! Rufus!" She screamed frantically now, realizing that her time was up.
'There isn't going to be a rescue' she thought as Flynn pushed her to the craft door.
As she looked back, two figures broke through the clearing calling her name.
The doors closed and the mothership was gone in an instant.