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Unaware of the future that had been averted by Artie's actions, Myka and Helena made their way back to the B&B. Silence hung between them, there was so much to say, the amount forcing them both into silence.
That night, nothing more than polite easy small talk passed between them. There was no mention of Yellowstone, the Janus coin; and most of all, there was no mention of the fact that they were both totally and irrevocably in love with each other.
Several days passed like this, their behaviour only just bordering civil. One morning, Myka woke to the sound of Pete the Ferret making strange coughing noises. Getting up, she padded over to the sock drawer in which her furry little pet had made his home. Her eyes widened, "Jeez, Pete, you look like hell!"
The ferret's fur was patchy, and he lay curled up looking rather sorry for himself as his coughing continued.
Gently scooping him up, she placed him on the bed, "Wait there, I'm going to get a vet."
Unbeknownst to Myka, through her open bedroom window fluttered a white business card, which landed casually atop her mobile.
Going to grab her phone, she noticed the card. Frowning, she picked it up, it read;
Valentine. inc
Dr. Grace Valentine DVM
Specialist in small animals
Chewing her lip, Myka quickly dialled the number.
A clear, almost fluty British voice answered, "Hello, Valentine inc, Grace Valentine speaking."
Running a hand through her hair, Myka began, "Oh hey, Dr Valentine? My name is Myka Bering, I just found your card- it says you are a specialist in small animals."
"Oh yes! What seems to be the problem?"
Walking back to the bed, she carefully sat beside Pete, "It's my ferret, there's something wrong with him. He is coughing and his fur is a becoming patchy."
The woman paused a moment, "Right, I can be there within the next few hours, would that be alright?"
"Yes, thanks."
"It's no trouble darling. So, what is your address?"
Stroking Pete, Myka said clearly, "It's Leena's B&B in Univille."
"Right, and that would be univille..."
"South Dakota." Myka frowned, "Are you not based in South dakota?"
The woman on the phone took a moment to reply, "I am based all over the place darling, but I will be with you and your little friend shortly."
Myka nodded, "Brilliant, thanks." Before hanging up.
A small knock came at the door, Helena popped her head around the door, "Are you alright, darling?"
The agent nodded, "Yeah, I'm fine; but Pete is sick."
Frowning, Helena said, "Oh," Before crossing the room and sitting at the other side of the poorly ferret. "Poor little mite, do you think it may have been something he ate?"
"I don't know, he just started to cough, and this morning his fur is patchy."
"Danny, Kate, Leo! Darlings, we have a client!" Grace Valentine practically floated through the rooms of her enormous home, as she waited for the three to get downstairs.
Leo reached her first, "What's up?"
Flashing a dazzling smile, she clapped her hands together, "We get to be vets for the day! Get the van ready!"
As they drove, Grace pondered, "Now darlings, what do we know about ferrets?"
Kate shrugged in the seat beside her, "They bite?"
Danny nodded, "And they smell."
Rolling her eyes, the love goddess sighed, "Oh brilliant." Pulling out her phone, she began to surf the net.
Pulling up outside the B&B, Grace looked at the building with an appreciative eye, "Very nice, don't you think?"
Leo nodded, "Yeah. Now, let's help that little ferret!"
Kate screwed up her face, "I hate ferrets."
As Myka opened the door, she froze; the woman at the head of a small entourage, of who she assumed were veterinary nurses, looked startlingly like Helena.
Grace extended her hand, "Grace Valentine, are you Myka?"
She nodded, and numbly took the offered hand, "Uh, yeah."
The Goddess looked around, and frowned, "Is there a problem?"
Shaking herself Myka shook her head, "No! It's just you look... loads like someone I know. Hell, you're even both British. " Stepping back, she said, "Oh sorry, come in."
Helena's voice came from the top of the stairs, "Myka, darling? Who's there?"
Seeing the way Myka's eyes immediately bolted to the stairs, Grace could see her pupils dilating and could practically hear the agent's heart beating faster. She muttered quietly to Danny, "I'd say we've found our soul mate."
Myka called back, "It's the Vet to see Pete!"
"Someone say my name?" Myka's man-child of a partner bounded into the corridor, and ground to a halt, "Hey HG, what's with the nurse's outfit?"
Grace frowned, "I beg your pardon?"
"That's not Helena, Pete. This is Dr Valentine."
His eyes widened, "Oh, hey! Pete Lattimer!"
Myka turned as HG came down the stairs, little Pete nestled in her arms, "Well, here he is..." As she looked up her words dissapeared.
Danny's jaw dropped, "Mom, it's you!"
It took Grace a moment to shake herself, "Oh, yes! I see, hmmm." She made to look over the ferret, "Yes, the little fellow certainly seems to be under the weather. Would it be possible to see his cage?"
Myka nodded, "Sure, it's in my room."
The goddess nodded, "Excellent; Kate would you be a darling and check to see if there is anything you can see, which could cause this."
The writer nodded, "Yeah, sure thing Grace."
Looking over Pete, Grace stroked his fur thoughtfully, "Let's take a look at this little one then."
In her room, Myka gestured to the sock drawer, "He was asleep in there when I found him. But he sometimes stays in the cage over there."
Nodding, Kate knelt and pretended to be studying the drawer, "Hey, it's weird how much my boss and your friend look alike."
Myka nodded, "I know. There aren't many people like her around anymore."
Finding a few post-its in the bottom of the drawer, Kate flicked one up her sleeve, before standing, "Well, I can't see anything in here. it might have been something he ate."
While Leo listened to the ferret's heartbeat, Grace talked to Helena. The Victorian chuckled, "It there any chance we are related?"
Grace's eyebrows rose, "It would seem probable, but highly unlikely."
"You're telling me."
The Goddess frowned, detecting a hint of sadness in her voice, "Why is that?"
The inventor shrugged, "I have no close family."
"No brothers or sisters?"
"A brother. But he, unfortunately, passed away some time ago."
Grace touched Helena's shoulder, "I'm sorry."
Wandering over to the table, she stroked Pete's head with the back of her finger, "So what do you think is wrong with him?"
Straightening, Leo hung his stethoscope around his neck, "His heart is fine, and his wheezing seems to be getting better on its own. I'd guess that it was something he ate; he probably has an allergy to something he's been fed or gotten into."
"So he's going to be alright?"
Leo nodded, "Yeah, I'd say so!"
At that point, Myka walked in with Kate. "What's the verdict?"
Helena smiled, "He's going to be fine, they think it has just been an allergic reaction."
The agent gave a sigh of relief, "Oh good, I'd hate anything to happen to him."
Smiling, Grace crossed the room, to place a hand on Myka's forearm, "Rest assured, your little friend will be right as rain in a few days. We'll give him a shot of anti-histamines; just to be safe."
"Thank you." Grabbing her purse from the table, Myka asked, "What do I owe you?"
Grace shook her head, "First one is on the house. I do hope Pete is feeling better soon. If you need anything else; you have my number."
Kate handed Phoebe the post-it, "Here you go Phoebe, there were a few of these in her drawer. It looked like she was saving them."
Nodding, the titan dropped the small yellow square into the oracle. The page disappeared beneath the water with a slight crackle, "The oracle has accepted the offering."
As Phoebe lowered her hand into the pool, Grace muttered, "There is something a little off with her friend Helena. It as if she is..."
"Out of time." Phoebe turned to Grace, "Helena, is from a different time." Looking back to the pool she began, "Our client is, one, Myka Ophelia Bering."
Danny chuckled, "Ophelia." When Kate punched him he frowned, "Ow."
Rolling her eyes Grace snapped, "Just listen will you."
"She's a secret service agent... wait, no, she's a Warehouse agent."
Crouching Danny asked, "And what's one of those when it's at home?"
Casting a frown his way, she explained, "They collect and store dangerous artefacts in a place called Warehouse 13."
Grace nodded, "I know about the Warehouse. You would too Danny if you paid any attention."
"Right. Her soul mate, is Helena Grace Wells- or HG as she is sometimes called."
Kate went to the pool, "Wait, HG? As in HG Wells?"
The titan nodded, "Yup! The same. Helena was a Warehouse agent in England, a hundred years ago." Phoebe's young face became concerned, "Oh, that's so sad... wait... and scary!"
Sitting on the stone edge of the oracle, Grace placed a hand on her shoulder, "What is it darling?"
"HG was so sad. Her daughter was murdered, and she ended up being bronzed for over a hundred years."
The Goddess looked at the image of HG encased in bronze visible in the waters of the oracle, "The poor girl."
Phoebe nodded, "Yeah. HG was de-bronzed by a man named James McPherson. He wanted to use HG to get access to Warehouse 2 in Egypt. But HG ended up killing him."
Danny's eyes widened, "Are you sure we shouldn't be getting Dad to deal with this Helena chick? She seems more up his alley than ours."
Phoebe pouted, "Wait! After HG was de-bronzed, that's when Myka met her. Myka is always by the book, and obeys the rules. But there is something about Helena that makes her break them. They work together on a mission- look HG saved Myka." As she said that, the image of Helena sweeping Myka into the sky with her grappling hook appeared.
Danny nodded, "Oldest trick in the book, carried off nicely."
"Yeah, well, Myka begins to trust HG; and eventually, after nearly dying to save their boss Artie, Helena is made an agent again- Yey Helena!" A frown returned, "While HG is in the B&B Myka and her begin to get close. They never actually voicing the bond growing between them, until... oh no!"
"What is it?" Grace's eyes widened as Yellowstone began to play out in the water. "Oh my... What is she doing?"
"She's trying to start a new ice age! But Myka manages to stop her."
Staring into the water, Grace could see the agony in the agent's eyes as she dared the woman she loved to take her life. Even though she knew Myka was still alive, she released a sigh of relief when Helena threw away the gun with a scream. "What happened next?"
"Myka is sad, she doubts herself, and leaves the warehouse. Then after helping Pete on a mission, she gets to see Helena again. But she isn't herself- she's a hologram."
Danny leant over the pool, as he watched Myka's hand go straight through the other woman. "Woah, that's weird, even for us."
Phoebe nodded, "Yeah, a few months down the line and the warehouse is in danger again, a man is trying to destroy it. Myka goes to a high school, and finds a woman who looks like HG; but isn't. Emily Lake is her name; she is kidnapped by the henchmen of the man threatening the warehouse. They then find out that Helena's consciousness had been removed from her body and placed on a coin. But when they go and get it, Pete suggests that they destroy it."
Grace released a small, "No." Before she realised she had spoken, "What happened Phoebe?"
The titan nodded, and placed her hand back in the water, "Myka argues against it. But Claudia brings HG into the equation, and Helena asks her to be brave and asks Pete to destroy the coin to protect the Warehouse; but most of all to protect Myka." The pool's water swirled to show Pete, with the rock above his head. Grace's eyes widened. "But he fails!"
Even Danny gave a sigh of relief, "I don't know how much of this I can take! How the hell aren't these guys together! There is more subtext between them than... than..."
Kate offered, "Xena and Gabrielle?"
"Exactly! I'm not sure what that means, but yeah!"
Phoebe looks again, "Myka gets trapped in a chess lock, but HG is able to save her! Yeah, go HG! When they get back into the Warehouse they work together to stop Sykes from shooting Pete- but Helena gets wound up in the rigging rope of the Marie Celeste. Myka tries to help but just gets caught up too!" Phoebe's forehead wrinkled, and she released a moan of pain.
Catching the young woman, Grace asked, "Phoebe! What is it?"
"Someone has messed with the timeline. There are two possible futures."
"Can we see them?"
She nodded, "Yeah, I'll show the original first." Phoebe smiled, "They saved the day! Yey! Wait..."
Grace asked sharply, "What?"
"There's something wrong. Oh no! There's a bomb! They can't stop it. Artie and Pete are trying their best but... wait... what is HG... Oh no!"
"What? What is it?!"
Phoebe's eyes began to water, "HG managed to put a force field around Myka, Pete and Artie. But she is trapped outside it."
Kate shook her head, "No, uh uh, that's not right! We saw her today, she can't..."
The pool showed Myka and Helena's eyes meeting, and the whisper of I smell apples passed between Helena's lips before the entire pool went white.
"NO!" Grace was on her feet, "No, that isn't possible! Show me the alternative."
Placing her hand in the pool, Phoebe showed Artie changing time, and stopping the bomb.
Pacing back and forth, Grace was wracking her brains, "And neither of them has voiced their feelings?"
Phoebe shook her head, "No. Not a word. They've barely spoken since they stopped Sykes.
Running both hands through her thick ebony hair, Grace nodded, "Right. We are going to get these two together; or my name is not Aphrodite! Danny, Kate, Leo! Let's get to work!"
On the way out of the summer house, Grace paused, "Phoebe, what will happen if we fail?"
The titan placed her hand in the pool, before quickly withdrawing it as if burnt. "HG will become disillusioned with humanity again; she'll try to destroy the world again. She'll fail. But only because Myka will stop her."
She frowned, "Phoebe?"
"Myka shoots Helena, then turns the gun on herself."
Rubbing her eyes, she released a long sigh, "Right then. No time to waste."
