Title: Fire
Author: Dancing Star
Crossover: PSI Factor / Warehouse 13
Pairing: Connor/ Lindsay, Pete/ Myka
Rating: 12
Category: AU, Mystery, Romance
Content:
Notes: Inspired by many great Warehouse 13- episodes and I want to note that I haven´t watched season 5 so far. Therefore, I can only guess what happened after Season 4. :-)

Fire

A low hum beside her head woke Myka from her sleep. First she saw the red letters on the digital alarm clock beside her then she felt the warm blanket, which embraced her body. She turned around and noticed that the bed next to her was empty.
"Pete?", She asked, sitting up. Her eyes took a moment to get used to the darkness. She swung her legs out of bed and managed to get up. The weight of her belly had become more and more in recent months, but she liked being pregnant.
Mykas shoes caused a shuffling noise on the wooden floor. She pressed the light switch and slowly walked down the stairs to the ground floor. There she entered the living room. The room was in darkness, but Pete Connor, Lindsay, Claudia and Steve watched a horror movie.
"Hey, what are you watching?", Myka asked, in this moment, everybody shrugged.
"You scared us," Lindsay stated, while Pete made room on the couch for Myka.
"Why didn´t you wake me up?", she asked.
"I did, but you slept very tight so I thought it would be better not to wake you," Pete said. On television, Keri Russell just entered a dark room where a tall, skinny alien was standing in front of a child's bed. Keri Russell screamed.
"How can you watch that?", Myka asked blankly, took a piece of cheese pizza from Pete´s plate and took a bite. "Smells terrible," she said. Her body went crazy since she was pregnant: She cried in the most unlikely moments, and shortly afterwards she laughed again. At the beginning of the pregnancy, she suffered from hair loss. She had developed an aversion to the smell of flowers and even the cheese on her favorite pizza smelled terrible.
"The weird thing about this film is," Connor said, "That this actually took place."
"Hard to believe," Claudia murmured. Some month ago, Connor and Lindsay had told many stories about their former profession. A few stories sounded so incredible that even the warehouse agents thought it was untrue. Then Pete, Myka, Claudia and Steve had to tell their strangest cases and Connor couldn´t believe that there really was an artifact, which forced people to tap dancing. "Since I started working in the warehouse, I´m totally crazy," Connor admitted, "I don´t know what´s true and what´s not..."
"What about the artifacts that we need to find?", Myka reminded them.
"Why do you say that?", Claudia asked. It was the middle of the night and they still had no idea, who had invaded Artie almost eight months ago in front of the house and stole the artifacts.
"I just wanted to remind you."
"Alright. Stop fighting."
They watched the movie. After about half an hour Myka had fallen asleep on the couch again. However, a loud alarm startled her.
"What is it?", Connor asked.
"An alarm from the warehouse," Claudia said, "There is probably a message."
They got up. "...I'm coming with you," Myka decided who had woken up again.
"You won´t," Pete stopped her.
"Why?"
He pointed to her stomach. "You can´t run as fast as before."
"I´m coming with you. Do not argue!"

Claudia's fingers flicked impatiently on the keyboard of her computer. Connor and Lindsay watched her. "Tell me, Claudia, can you track our missing artifacts with the computer?", Lindsay asked.
"I ever tried... Probably the thief hasn´t used the artifacts so far ..."
"Whoever stole the artifacts: As long as we are in possession of True Love's Kiss, they should be relatively useless," Pete suggested.
"But that doesn´t mean that someone wouldn´t steal the artifact."
"Perhaps you should bring your part of the artifact to a safer place," Claudia suggested, "Seriously, you should definitely take a little trip. I remember you and Myka haven´t been on honeymoon... Soon your baby will be born and then you won´t have time for a vacation."
"Sounds as if you wanted me and Myka out of the house", while Pete said this, he's brow furrowed.
Claudia had suggested they could use Ian Flemming's belt to travel to Mexico on vacation, but Pete told her that he and Myka were responsible for the warehouse. They couldn´t simply go on vacation. Especially not when an unknown person was in possession of a powerful artifact.
"You know, it's not true," she sounded horrified. With a look of disbelief she turned to Pete.
"Perhaps, the Council will approve a one week holiday when we brought the artifacts in our possession... And I don´t think the baby would disturb us in our holiday. The baby won´t bother us here in the warehouse... She will grow up here and get to know the warehouse. And maybe one day she will take our place in the warehouse", Pete said.
"She?", Lindsay asked, "Does that mean the baby is a girl?"
Claudia smiled. "Pete and Myka are expecting a little girl," she sang.
"All my life I´m surrounded by beautiful women."
"Where is the list of the top three names Favorites? I know for sure that there is a list."
"Claudia, no! "Pete called to her.
"I don´t think Claudia wants you and Myka out of the house," Lindsay said.
"Why would she do that?", Myka asked, who came in.
"Claudia wants to know how we name our baby."
"And why Claudia wants to have us out of the house?", Myka repeated when they all gathered behind the computer, "Is there trouble?"
"Don´t listen to her. You and Pete, you have the warehouse under control. You are doing a good job", Connor said to her.
In fact, Pete had almost memorized Claudia´s database since he and Myka had to guard the warehouse. He now knew about each artifact in the warehouse and admitted to himself that his task was very serious to him.
"Thank you," Pete muttered. He would do anything to safe the warehouse.
The computer showed them a video, which was uploaded to YouTube half an hour ago. "There it is...", Claudia muttered, "The video is from New York. There, a man appeared who was driving in a kind of chariot through Times Square. The horses, which were harnessed to the chariot, pulled a trail of fire behind him."
"What do you think? Which artifact is it?", Lindsay asked.
"The death mask of Tutankhamun," Myka suspected, "He was an Egyptian pharaoh who was known when Howard Carter in 1922 discovered his grave in the Valley of the Kings. At that time people still believed in the curse of the pharaoh: Some members of Carter's excavation team died within the first five years after the elevation of the sarcophagus..."
"How does the mask now come to New York?"
"I don´t know," Myka replied, "The mask was stolen in 2015 during an exhibition in Munich. Since this day no one knows who´s the thief."
"There was a warehouse in Egypt, right?", Connor asked.
"Very well observed... In any case, the mask is now surfaced in New York: It gives everyone who wears it, the desire to rule the world."
Claudia's computer showed a new message. "The Pharaoh's chariots have been spotted again: He leaves a trail of destruction behind. He's on his way to the West."
"Northwest", Connor corrected, "What could he want in the Northwest? What would help him take over the world? "His question sounded as if he already knew the answer. "He's on his way here."

"... It's all right, Claudia!", Pete exclaimed as he carried Mykas and his suitcase down the stairs. He put both suitcases outside the front door, "I solemnly promise we will send you a postcard from Hawaii."
"Modern people send holiday photos via What's app."
Pete had no idea how Claudia had managed to get him and Myka out of the house: She had talked to them until they agreed to make the trip. Claudia called it Honeymoon and Babymoon in one.
"Enjoy your Baby- Honeymoon," Lindsay said.
Myka now came down the stairs.
"Did you pack the artifact?", Lindsay asked.
"Yes, I have it here," Myka patted the side pocket of her summer jacket, "We will take good care of the artifact... I don´t understand why we can´t just drive to Colorado and see my parents... "
"True," Connor said to her, "Your parents are still the owner of the bookstore Bering & Sons, right?"
"Yes, why do you ask?"
"The crime writer Richard Castle is having an autograph session next week," said Connor, "You could have bring me a signed book..." Connor was disappointed.
Now Pete remembered Claudia's strongest argument: She said they could use the journey to safe True Love's Kiss temporarily. In addition, the death mask of Tutankhamun was on the way here... And Claudia suggested they should bring the artifact out of here as soon as possible. The young woman sat behind her computer and then booked a hotel on Big Iceland, the main island of Hawaii.
"We have to leave," Pete said, and glanced at his watch.
"Yes, all right," Claudia gave them Ian Flemming's belt, "Hold the belt and just think of the last table at your restaurant. The artifact will take you there."
"What, if someone is sitting at this table?", Lindsay asked, because this question was completely justified and Claudia gave her a bewildered look.
Myka took her bag and said goodbye to her friends, then she and Pete reached simultaneously for Ian Flemming's belt and thought about the last table in the restaurant of the Hawaiian Star hotels. They were immediately disappeared.
"And now we should take care of Tutankhamun."

"What are you looking for?", Lindsay asked Connor when he was standing on a ladder at the warehouse and rummaged in a shelf. Claudia and Steve were also on their way to them, because they had to talk about how they would defend the warehouse.
Connor stepped from the ladder and looked for an item in a box. He pulled out a wallet, turned around and took out the existing bills. Then he ordered the bills to a fan and grinned.
"What's wrong with him?", Lindsay asked.
"This is Larry Hagman´s wallet. Connor now believes he is an actor in a TV series", Steve said. Fortunately, Connor had not grabbed Mel Brook´s camera, because everyone who touched the camera, laughed themselves to death. In the truest sense of the word.
The artifact seemed to lose its effect. "Larry Hagman´s wallet," Connor commented and put the old bills back in the wallet, "I was not looking for that. I wanted to have that."He took an item out of the box. "This is the needle of the German Empress Cunegonde. It will help us to build a protective shield around the warehouse."
"Why does Tutankhamun believe that the warehouse could help him to rule the world?" Lindsay asked.
"He knows where all the artifacts are," Claudia said, "That's why he's on the way here."
"It was wrong to send Pete and Myka away with the artifact," Steve criticized his best friend, "We all know that. Artie himself said that True Love's Kiss is the strongest artifact ever", Steve reminded her, "Actually it has to be locked up in the Dark Vault... What if this lunatic finds out that the artifact is not here? Maybe he follows the two to the end of the world and..."
"Steve," Claudia called angrily, "You get on my nerves!... I didn´t send Pete and Myka away with the artifact, because it is a very powerful artifact, but for a different reason."
"What reason?", Connor asked.
"If we fail, and the warehouse is destroyed, the artifact is our only guarantee that humanity won´t perish."

A pillar of fire in the east announced the imminent arrival of Tutankhamun.
The hot, dry wind blew in their faces, as Lindsay, Connor, Steve and Claudia were busy trying to stretch the fine yarn with needles around the entire warehouse.
If the legend was true, then each yarn, which was excited by the needle of the Empress, transformed into a kind of shield. In her lifetime the Empress had succeeded to protect their hometown from war with a yarn. According to Artie the needle of Cunegonde was one of the oldest artifacts ever.
The pillar of fire grew and finally they saw a flaming chariot coming over the hill.
"He is there," Claudia said. For safety she had equipped herself with several other artifacts. Just in case that the needle wouldn´t help. It wasn´t common that they used the artifacts stored in the warehouse to defend themselves.
The chariot stopped and a heavy, burning figure stepped out. The earth shook, as Tutankhamun´s heavy feet stepped on the ground.
"He wears the part of the marble slab from the World Trade Center," Lindsay remarked. The marble chip was integrated into a chain that dangled around the neck of the Pharaoh.
Tutankhamun took the feather of the owl, rose a whirlwind and as he reached for the video tape from Roswell, it turned into a whip, which seemed to move on its own. The cyclone detects the four and carried them into the air.
"What's he doing?", Steve cried. Sand blew into his mouth.
The bow and arrow of Robin Hood, an artifact that Claudia had caught up, slipped from her shoulder. Before the artifact fell to the ground and fell into the hands of Tutankhamun, Connor grabbed the object.
"Aim at the marble chip!", Claudia called to him. Her hair blew in her face, but she could still see that the firestorm tried to reach the warehouse. However, the needle didn´t seem to fail, because obviously it protected the warehouse.
"Aim at him!", Claudia suggested. A gust of wind hurled her against the shield, which the needle had drawn around the warehouse. "Claudia!", Steve was horrified.
Connor took an arrow, drew it into the bow and tried to aim. His hand trembled and the wind didn´t help that he could fix his target well.
The protective shield around the warehouse, consisting of a sewing needle, set for a moment.
"Shoot! He shouldn´t reach the warehouse!", Lindsay cried, who saw how Claudia fell to the ground and lay there unconscious. The wind and the sand ached in her face.
Connor let go of the arrow, but the wind helped that it flew in the opposite direction.
"It doesn´t work!"
The cyclone brought Connor to the edge of the whirlwind, and he decided to try again. The arrow didn´t hit the marble chip, but the death mask of Tutankhamun and damaged it: Blue Lightning came out of the mask, the fire choked. The man behind the mask started trembling and finally fell to the ground. The hurricane disappeared.
Lindsay went to Claudia, as soon as she had solid ground under her feet again. Claudia's head ached when she got up. "Are you okay?", Lindsay asked as she helped her. The red-haired woman nodded. "Is it over?"
"I hope so." She looked at the figure that lay motionless on the ground.
"Is he dead?", Connor asked. They made their way to him. Meanwhile, Connor reached for another arrow from Robin Hood's pocket and cocked it in the bow.
"I hope so for us," Steve replied. He watched the chariot of Tutankhamun and noticed that he seemed to disappear slowly.
Claudia knelt beside the motionless man.
"Who is that?", Lindsay asked, when Claudia reached for the Mask of Tutankhamun with her gloved hands and pulled it from the head of the man. Steve took a XXL neutralization bag from the pocket of his black vest. The artifact sparked when they neutralized it.
"Do you know him?"
"No," Claudia and Steve answered in unison.
"I also don´t know him," Connor added. They thought for a moment what that meant.
"Is that the thief who stole the artifacts?"
"Possible," while Claudia said that, the mask carrier broke up and crumbled into dust.

They set out to clean up the Hotel after they had collected and neutralized all artifacts used in front of the warehouse.
The fiery tail of Tutankhamun hadn´t only left behind a trail of destruction: The Winds of War had also caused damage to trees in the area.
"How are Pete and Myka doing on Hawaii?", Steve asked. He picked up the shards of a broken flower pot and threw it in the trash.
"They´re fine. Pete texted me some messages, but I can´t figure out what it means, "Claudia said. She had texted a message to Pete this morning, and wanted to know how they liked Hawaii.
Then Pete replied: "We are fine. Hotel´s very nice. There is plenty of food such as pastor with ham and vegetarian. Hawaiian pizza and vegetarian pizza...."
Then Claudia wrote: "What is pastor?"
Pete: "pas" "pasta salad, I mean."
"I assume Pete hasn´t his new cell phone under control yet," Claudia added while she eliminated a bunch of shards, they had to thank the broken window in the front door. They still didn´t know who was the thief who had stolen them the artifacts, and probably the death mask of Tutankhamun from an exhibition in Germany.
"Before Pete and Myka come back tomorrow, we need to clean up the mess here," Connor suggested, "We go shopping. We need a new window for the front door, a new washer and certainly a few other things."
"Good idea," Lindsay and Steve loved the idea and left the house with Connor. Claudia complained because they let her alone with the cleanup, "You can´t leave me here..."

After Pete and Myka had returned the next day, Myka had put her artifact back to the provided for it place in her room. In the afternoon Myka went to sleep. After an hour she woke up, she was still tired but her stomach hurt. Myka swung her legs off the bed and got up. However, another pain made her fall back on the mattress.
"Hello?", she called out, "Is anyone there?"
The door to her bedroom was open and she was relieved to see Lindsay. "Is everything all right?",she asked.
"Where is Pete?"
"He and Connor are still at the Warehouse. But I believe they will come home soon. Why, what's wrong?"
"I think I'm in labor." The doctor had calculated the birth of the eighth of August. The baby was five days early.
"My God!", Lindsay was clearly overwhelmed, "Should I call Pete?"
"No, I´m fine," Myka reached out for her, "Let´s down stairs."
Lindsay helped Myka down the stairs. They decided they would wait him living area.
"Should I call Pete?" Lindsay asked again.
Myka grabbed the chair and leaning on it. Then she started breathing exercises. At this moment the main entrance door of the house swung open and Pete and Connor came in. Pete looked at Myka first. "Are you...?",he asked, and she nodded.
"I ...", he turned to panic, "I'll get your bags and..."
"If you want to take a shower after work, that's fine," Myka continued their breathing exercises. Lindsay stood beside her and supported her.
Pete ran up the stairs and shortly after they heard a door slamming. With trampling steps Pete came down the stairs, he pulled a black travel bag behind him. Then he reached for Mykas arm and led her out.
"Shall we come with you?", Lindsay asked. The two didn´t respond, but Connor had the car keys.
The ride to the nearest hospital took almost an hour. Connor stopped Pete's car in the driveway of the emergency room and let the two get off with Lindsay. He would park the car.
"Do you want to walk?", Pete asked. Myka stood beside him, holding her belly.
"No," she shook her head. Lindsay ran off to fetch a wheelchair. Then she took Mykas bag so Pete could push the wheelchair.
Connor caught up with her at the front desk of the maternity ward. Myka was just taken to a room while Lindsay signed the papers for her. When she was done, she and Connor had to stay in the waiting room. Meanwhile, Pete and Myka were talking to a doctor: "The baby can come," she said, "We take you to the delivery room and check your state every five minutes."
The doctor put her in a purple painted room and Pete made a comment about the wall color. Then he sat down on a chair next to Mykas bed and bit into a Submarine sandwich with cheese and ham. Myka looked at him incredulously.
"Are you hungry?", he asked as he noticed her gaze and offered her to bite into the sandwich.
"No," she shook her head, "How can you only think about food in such a situation?"
"I'm sorry," Pete put the sandwich in the bag.
A contraction shook her body and she grabbed his hand. "Is everything all right?", Pete asked.
"Nothing at all is alright," tears of pain welled up in her eyes.
"I see that you are making progress," the doctor smiled when she came in.
"Is it starting now?" Pete asked her.
"We are started."

"Are you done yet?", Claudia asked Connor and Lindsay two days later, when they hung a colorful fabric banner over the entrance door of Leena's Bed & Breakfast. Today was a sunny day.
"Yes," Connor jumped off a ladder.
"Great." Claudia had piled the baby gifts inside the house and Abigail was still busy with cooking food. Fortunately, no one had holed up in the warehouse, although Claudia believed that this would have been Arties part because he always said he couldn´t handle babies.
Claudia couldn´t wait to see the baby finally. So far, only Connor and Lindsay had been allowed to visit Myka at the hospital.
Claudia asked them into the house. There they had to wait till Pete came out of the hospital with Myka.
An hour later they heard the front door opened. "Hey Hey Hey!" Pete's voice was very quiet, when he saw his friends. Claudia, Steve, Abigail, Connor and Lindsay got up from the couch. "Is this the baby?", Claudia asked. The baby had dark hair and fell asleep in Mykas arms.
"You look so happy," noted Abigail when she hugged Myka.
"I am, thank you."
"What name did you choose?", Claudia asked as she looked at the baby, then Myka put the infant even in her arm.
"We couldn´t decide between Penny and Elisabetta."
"That both sounds terrible," Claudia muttered, "Wait... You don´t want to say in this way that you chose Claudia?"
"No," Pete shook his head, "Are you disappointed now?"
"We finally chose Zelda," she and Pete exchanged a hasty glance.
"This is a pretty freaky name..."
"We know. We wanted to follow Mykas example", Pete said, receiving a pat on the arm. They all laughed.
"Claudia, we wanted to ask you if you want to be her godmother."
"I'm not good at this stuff ...", Claudia said and the baby began to cry. The young woman handed the baby to Pete and Zelda snuggled up to her dad´s neck.
They were interrupted by an alarm. "What is it?", Myka asked. Claudia and Steve were suddenly in excitement.
"There is an alarm in the warehouse," Lindsay and Connor were already on the way out the door, "I have told you we shouldn´t leave Gordon Ramsey's frying pan unattended. It´s flaring the whole warehouse someday... "

Fin