Epilogue: Looking Towards The Future

As the months went on, Christina and William became more and more at home at Leenas, at the Warehouse, and in the 21st century in general. They both had been allowed to get their things out of the Escher Vault, which wasn't really much.

Christina had a necklace that Nikola had given her as a birthday gift one year, and an old Chinese Go set that Caturanga had given her long ago, despite how she could never beat him in that, or chess, or any other puzzle strategy game. It was a unique hand-crafted board with stones of polished obsidian and ivory, and she was happy that it had been kept in the vault for her. William only had an old pocket watch that Helena had given him when he completed a particular mission in 1895.

She had been surprised that he'd kept it all this time, having only given it to him as a joke due to how he had been late in arriving to the scene of the incident, which had inadvertently saved Helena's life as they'd later found out.

Though the two newcomers were still confused by many modern technologies, Claudia had made a point to teach them all about television and cars and appliances and indoor electricity and everything else she thought they needed to know about.

While Helena was grounded from missions, William went out after artifacts with Pete and Myka, and Christina had started going out after them with Steve and Claudia once her finger was completely healed.

The digit was still tender in a few spots, though it was usable again and didn't require pain medicine or bandages. Helena had been extremely anxious the first several times that Christina had been out on assignment, though she was slowly learning to calm down and focus on her own work, particularly after Mrs. Frederic had spoken to her about her nonstop worry.

Christina still called her mother on the Farnsworth every few hours just to check in and assure her that she was fine and that she could handle herself in the field.

Artie was still a bit wary around Christina due to her gift, but he had to admit that though she'd been an apprentice of Warehouse 13 only a short time, she hadn't forgotten her training from Warehouse 12 and was a very skilled young woman when it came to snagging, bagging, and tagging.

One evening, Artie was sat in his office, trying to ignore a very grumpy Helena, who was still annoyed that she'd been banned from experimenting even though her 'prison sentence' was nearly up.

After she left to go back down to the Warehouse floor, Mrs. Frederic appeared next to Artie, though he didn't jump quite as hard as he normally did.

"How are they doing?" she inquired.

"William and Christina? They're doing fine. Better than fine actually, they're both really good at this job." Artie said, looking at her.

Mrs. Frederic nodded, "The apprentices in particular… do you think they are ready?" she asked.

Artie raised an eyebrow, "Ready for…? Oh… OH." he said, realizing what she meant.

He thought about it for a moment, mentally reviewing Claudia's field performance before his thoughts shifted to Christina's. Though the young Englishwoman had only been under his observation for a few months, he felt confident in her skills.

Turning back to Mrs. Frederic, he nodded, "Yeah. I think they're ready."

-TO BE CONTINUED-

Wheeeee we are DONE for now 8D First non-commissioned story I've finished in aaaaages 3

SO my final question to you lot, which directly affects the next installment [which I've already started the first draft of], is Claudia still considered an apprentice or a full agent? I hadn't quite been able to figure that out. In season 2 they kept calling her an apprentice but in seasons 3 and 4 I don't recall if she moved up in rank or not. Not sure.

Well anyway, the next story as of right now is called Final Exam and will focus primarily on Christina and Claudia.

That's all for now!

-Akito