This chapter was edited by: Potentialslayer1


Claudia was in Artie's office at the Warehouse, smacking her head against the filing cabinet, as she tried desperately to do the assigned work that Artie had left for her. But the young tech couldn't concentrate. How could she? Her best friend, Jinks, and her big bro, Pete, were lost in The Labyrinth. Not exactly the best of places to lose your way in. And now Myka was back, after four years of no communication. She was finally back.

The redhead was actually grateful for the artifact disturbance that tried to rip her body apart molecule by molecule just a few hours back. Her life threatening encounter was the only thing that had managed to get her mind off of her friends and family in Greece. She detested her boss for making her stay behind, but at the least he was being pretty good at answering all her five hundred calls since he had left.

Suddenly the girl's head shot up in response to her Farnsworth going off. She shoved the remainder of index cards, which she had not yet filed, into a random drawer; half sticking out, before she bounced towards the desk to answer her communicator, praying that it was good news from Artie.

When she flipped open the devise she couldn't help but beam when seeing HG's unexpected face. "Heya HG, what's kick'n?"

But then she noticed the woman's pained eyes as she began in an almost desperate voice, "Claudia my Darling, I need your help. Myka's life depends on it!"

"Wha- What? Myka's in trouble? Yeah, anything you need," the girl shook her head, "What, is she like okay, or- ah- will she be okay?"

"Claudia," HG bore a sad but beautiful smile. "Darling, Myka will be just fine." The younger woman could see that she was not being entirely truthful but let it pass due to the more pressing matters at hand. "I just need to ask something of you, and I hate myself for requesting you do it because it's not the safest of things."

"No, no, HG. Whatever it is, I'll do it." Claudia insisted.

HG sighed gravely as she smiled again, "I know you will Love, but that doesn't mean that I want you to do it or that I have to like it."

"H, whatever it is, I'll be just fine." Claudia said in a reassuring voice.

The older woman nodded her head slowly before she began. "I need you to use my time machine."

"Really? Cool!" Claudia lit up for that in the past she had begged on numerous occasions to use it. The answer was always no.

"Wait, what?" The girl could hear Artie's muffled voice over the Farnsworth. HG pulled the communicator to her body, muffling her response to the old man there with her. Claudia pressed her ear to her device's speaker, trying to over hear them, but failing to.

After what felt like a life time to the girl, HG pulled the Farnsworth back while focusing the screen on her face once again. "Artie just told me that you blacked out last week."

"Yeah, I did." The girl's eyes then went wide, "Whoa! I was possessed by use of your time machine! Artie thought it was some other sort of artifact that affected me, but I told him that it was your time ma..."

"Claudia darling, focus," HG stopped her with a smirk. "This is good; it means that your travel was successful. Alright, what I need you to do is to go back to last week and get me Christ's Crucifixion Nail."

"Crucifixion Nail, got it," Claudia repeated and nodded.

"And put it in Vanessa's med bag for me. But make certain to keep it concealed somehow, so that she doesn't find it beforehand and remove it."

"I just went through my bag before this mission to restock it," Claudia could hear Vanessa's voice in the distance through the Farnsworth, "I didn't see any nail in it."

HG's face looked off to where, the redhead could only assume, the doctor was standing in the room, as the Victorian said, "Well, hopefully that's because Claudia hid it so well, and not because it's not there."

"I'll hide it in the bag's lining!" The girl interjected animatedly. "You should check now if it's there," she suggested.

Helena looked down to her side, longingly gazing upon that said item. Claudia could see intense fear in her eyes as they stared to well up. Before the woman reached out for the bag she looked back towards Claudia in her little screen. "Claudia, my Darling girl, you have to put it in here, no matter what you learn of its abilities."

"What? What are you talking about? What does it do?" Claudia's expression fell limp.

HG ignored her question as she continued on, "This is Myka's only hope; she needs this."

In almost panic, Claudia went to the computer and typed in the artifacts name into the data base. She found it within seconds before she started to read. "No," the redhead shook her head as she continued to read all the way through its description, "no," she looked up, back into her Farnsworth, "no, HG, you can't."

"I must Darling."

"But you might die!" She snapped as tears started to stream down her cheeks.

"Everything will be fine."

"No, don't you lie to me, HG! I'm not a child. I want you to tell me the truth." The tech eyed her as she asked, "Are you going to die if I do this?"

The woman looked to her as she gathered herself while taking a deep breath. "There is a good chance that I might, though, I also might not," She explained to her softly, "But one thing is for certain, if you don't do this, Myka will die. She doesn't have the chance that I do."

Claudia nodded as she wiped her eyes with her sleeve "I'm not ready to loose anyone," she sniffled.

"Hey," HG said in the most loving way possible, "don't give up on me here." She smiled warmly towards her, "I'm not dead yet," she laughed where she got a little chuckle from the girl as well. "I love you sweetheart." The woman smiled towards her dear girl, "and I am so deeply sorry for asking this of you. It's not fair for me to do so."

"Helena!" Vanessa called out to her in interruption, "I think Myka stopped breathing. I don't see her chest moving anymore."

HG looked to her side then to her other side then quickly back to Claudia before saying, "Do what you must, Darling," and with that the Brit snapped her Farnsworth shut making Claudia's screen go blank.

The girl sat in the empty room, blankly gazing at her disconnected communicator before she muttered, "And I love you too."