"Helen? Helen, where are you?"

At the sound of John's voice, she put away her newly sterilized surgical tools and walked out of the room. "John? I'm here," she called as the bustle of her blue silk gown swished behind her. "In the examination room.

She slipped the leather apron over her head, and her long, golden ringlets fell back to their place on her shoulder as she folded it against her expanded abdomen.

"Helen, I have the most wonderful news!" He cried, excitedly, as he hurried toward her.

"What?" She asked, smiling equally excitedly at the pronouncement of good news. Since her father's disappearance several months ago, she was ready for something happy.

"They've asked me to stay on as a tenured professor at Oxford. Isn't that wonderful?"

"John!" She cried with a grin. "How wonderful!"

He bent his neck to look at her pregnant belly. "Children, can you hear it? Your father is going to be a professor at Oxford for as long as he desires!"

She grinned as a blond-haired young woman, dressed in a green gown much like her mother's, walked over.

"Ashley! Your father's received a fellowship from Oxford." She announced joyfully.

"That's wonderful, Father." Ashley said, her curled ringlets bouncing as she ran to hug her father in congratulation.

Something was wrong, Helen thought as she watched father and daughter embrace. Something was wrong...

Knock-knock-knock.

"Helen?" John asked, worriedly as he looked over at her. "Helen, are you all right?"

She gasped as she awoke to the sound of another round of knocking. Still in the Sanctuary she loved, she realized she'd left the century of her birth and returned to the 21st century. She sighed softly as she calmed down. No wonder the dream had felt wrong – Ashley could never have been happy in that century.

"Doctor Magnus?" Kate's voice asked through the wooden door.

Helen forced herself to sit upright and reached for a hand mirror. She looked a mess, she thought to herself as she tried desperately to tame her unkempt hair. Finally, she sighed and put away the mirror. It was no use. "Come in," she said somewhat disheartened.

The door opened, and the bounty hunter walked in. "Henry told me you were interested in watching a movie..."

"Yes," Helen admitted. "I am."

"Well, I have the perfect one." She said with a grin as she walked over. She handed the DVD case to Helen, who looked up at the younger woman in surprise. "Titanic?" She asked, curiously.

"Yeah." She said with a grin. "I mean, it's like...from your time period, right?"

"My time period?" Helen asked, skeptically.

"Yeah, like...you were around for the actual Titanic disaster, weren't you?"

"As a matter of fact," Helen said, nodding. "I was the one who instructed the Captain to furnish more life boats."

"And he didn't listen..." She said with the soft click of her tongue. "Man...that sucks."

Helen looked on the back of the DVD case to find Kate's name written in magic marker. "Do you like this movie?"

Kate shifted, uncomfortably. "No, I just thought you might..."

"You do like this movie." Helen said, looking over at the young woman in knowing amusement.

"Okay, I like this movie." She said, rolling her eyes. "So what?"

"Would you like to join me?" Helen invited with an amused smile.

"I have some stuff to do..." She said, looking at the door.

"I don't need to watch it right this moment," Helen chuckled.

"Yeah...it's a mission..."

"What mission?" She asked, raising an eyebrow in curiosity. "Will already briefed me this morning. He said that there were no impending missions."

Kate looked at the more sophisticated woman before she sighed. "All right...I'll watch it with you."

"Thank you." Helen said with a victorious grin.

"So, wait...you actually told the Captain of the Titanic to put more life boats on the ship?" She asked, sitting down on the bed.

Helen nodded. "Yes. I did."

"How did you know something bad was going to happen?"

"Firstly, I'd heard it from our friend, the mermaid, downstairs."

"She's got psychic powers, right?"

"Not necessarily the way you mean." She explained, "But yes, she has a special connection with sea creatures in particular."

"Wait...what?" Kate asked, confused. "I thought it was sunk by an iceberg."

"That's what everyone believes." Helen said, cryptically.

"What really happened?"

"They sailed into a pack of abnormal sea creatures. After one of them was killed by the metal scraping across its back, they worked as a collective to bring it down."

"Damn," she cursed softly.

"Indeed." Helen said, nodding.

"So...have you seen this movie?"

"Yes. When it first came out." She said, nodding. "And quite frankly, I was disappointed."

"Really?" Kate asked in surprise.

Helen nodded. "There were so many heartbreaking stories from that particular disaster, and yet they only referenced them and fashioned their own rather ridiculous love triangle."

"So, what's your favorite movie?"

"That's a difficult question as I've been around since motion pictures were first invented." Helen said as she leaned back against the headboard of the bed. It was apparent to Kate that she considered the question carefully. "Hm...I must admit that I have a fondness for Somewhere in Time."

"I hated that movie!" Kate said, shaking her head. "It's so sad! And she's so much older than him!"

Helen smiled softly. "I love the message. The hope."

"Hope?" Kate asked, raising an eyebrow.

Helen nodded. "From your perspective, you see a man who's lost his will to live after he loses his love, am I right?"

She nodded vigorously. "It was so sad."

Helen nodded, understandingly. "From my perspective, I see a woman who patiently waited until she could be reunited with her love in the only place where they could ever truly be together."

Kate thought for a moment. "Huh...never thought about it that way."

Helen shrugged. "As I said...different perspectives, Kate..."

The young woman nodded slowly. "So, are we gonna watch the movie or not?"

Helen laughed softly. "I suppose we had better start it if we're going to actually watch the film today."

The twenty-three-year-old grinned as she put the DVD into the laptop and started it. Helen, in turn, scooted over to the side so that she could sit back and enjoy the movie with her.

"Oh yeah..." Kate murmured huskily.

Helen looked at the young woman with a melancholy smile as she remembered the number of times she and her daughter had taken a few hours out of their busy schedules to watch a movie much like this.

How she missed her daughter!