Hey everybody thanks for reading and review I really appreciate it. Zini, I'm sorry about last chapter lol. I know alot of you want Mercedes to break her foot off in Quinn's ass (as Lucille put it lol) but she's 55 yall lmfao. Lamimi wants Sugar to do it...is she even in her right mind lol. Quinn is definitely a bitch here. I hope you all like how she is dealt with.
Sam rushed over ot the Arcadec as fast as he could. He made sure to place himself off duty to ensure that he didn't receive a call from dispatch. He knew that if Quinn released those memory clips it would not only ruin Mercedes career but any chance of them having a future together. Once he made his way past the security at the Arcadec he took the elevator up to Artie's office. He quickly said a silent prayer that he would reach Artie in time to intercept whatever Quinn had planned.
"I'm happy you're here...I have great news!" Artie said through a hologram inside of the elevator interrupting Sam's prayer. "Well, it's kind of good news slash bad news for some people...but I think you'll be happy." Artie smiled. Sam didn't even listen to him as he exited the elevator and made his way across the bridge into his office.
"Hold that thought!" he said as marched inside of the office. "I need your help."
"What's new?" Artie replied.
"So...Quinn stopped by my place a few minutes ago."
"Great! Did you tell her to kick rocks?"
"Kick rocks?"
"It was something we used to say back in my days...don't worry about it." Artie shook his head and waved him off. "Go on...what happened?"
"Well she came in demanding I tell her if I was cheating with Mercedes and then she found my memory chip."
"Cheaters always accuse others of cheating. Guilty conscience." Artie replied with a smile. "So now she knows she's not needed. What's the problem?"
"Well she's threatening to send the email around to ruin Mercedes life. I can't have her do that, Artie." Sam explained as he took a seat and ran his hands through his hair. "I need to know if you can intercept it all and delete whatever she has of it in her email and tablet."
"So...moments ago you were saying it was illegal for me to use my tools for our advantage and now you want me to violate more than one law and hack into her systems? Is that correct?" Artie asked as he rolled over to one of his many computers and started typing. Sam looked up at Artie and thought about what he was asking. He knew that it was illegal when he initially asked but he should have thought about what he was asking Artie to do. It was one thing if Artie wanted to violate the laws on his own but as a CPI he took an oath to not violate them himself or make others do it for him.
"Yeah...I guess I never thought about it. I just knew Mercedes career was on the line and I couldn't let that happen." Sam said as he thought about how massive this would be if it got out.
"Buddy, don't think about it too hard." Artie laughed. "I already got into her system and replaced what she had with something a bit more appropriate." Artie smiled mischievously.
"What about her emails? Did you check to see if she sent any out or have any back up?"
"I like the way you think, my friend and trust me I cleared all of that. I think she'll want to double check her files before sending those clips out." Artie laughed.
"What...what did you replace it with?" Sam asked as he leaned over and tried to look at his computer. Artie quickly cleared the screen then turned his wheels towards Sam.
"You don't have to worry about it." he replied quickly then rolled over to a safe and started putting in the codes to open it. "But what you do have to worry about it is what I wanted to tell you about when you came in." he pulled out the device and a memory chip then rolled back over to Sam. "You left this behind and I checked it out."
"Sugar's memory chip!" Sam reached out and took the chip then looked up at him. "Artie, look I meant to tell you about it but I wasn't sure it was going to do you any good after how sad you got from looking at my memories."
"It's fine, Sam." Artie smiled. "I needed to see it. I remember seeing her come to the security desk. I didn't know that she was the same woman from your memories I never gave her a chance to explain herself to be honest. I thought she was crazy but I see now that I'm the reason she is having those memories."
"What do you mean?"
"Well...when I initially created the device I wanted to make something to reverse injuries and in turn created the time reverser instead. When I realized that was what I did I wanted to go back in time to stop my accident from ever happening but of course you know that didn't work out." Artie sighed then looked at the device. "I was supposed to make it back and not return to 2045."
"Wait...what?"
"I was willing to sacrifice myself and give my younger self a do over. Inside of the device I placed a memory chip that Artie could use to see where I went wrong so that he could do better. After I'd have the talk with him I was supposed to break the device. The device would only allow only one of us to survive so I would have went with it." Artie explained. Sam wasn't sure he understood but he was more interested in seeing what part of this was supposed to be good news.
"Are you going to sacrifice yourself again?" Sam asked instead.
"No...I thought about it though. But, I feel if anyone deserves a do over it would be you." Artie smiled. "Plus, your other self wasn't born yet in 2015 so you wouldn't sacrifice your current self but you would stop your future birth from happening." Artie explained as Sam tried to wrap his mind around it all.
"This is really confusing. Wouldn't that stop me from existing?"
"What's born cannot be unborn." Artie replied then watched as Sam thought about what he was asking. Sam did say that he would do anything to go back and now that he had the opportunity he wasn't too sure anymore. He would be jeopardizing his parents from ever remembering that they had him as a son. "This is the only way that we can fix the way I've screwed up the time that I messed up." he looked over at the device then smiled at Sam. "You and Artie deserve this do over." Sam thought about it and returned the smile.
"So you're willing to sacrifice all of this?"
"I trust my younger self. He will have all of this plus happiness. If you make it back, you have to remember to take the memory chip out and give it to me then crush the device and all would be one again. I'll share whatever memories Artie has and all would be right in the world."
"Wait what do you mean if I make it back?"
"There's a chance that you might..." he rolled over and hooked up the device then mumbled the rest of the word. "...not survive."
"Whoa? Why not? That's not okay, Artie!"
"Well I haven't tested it out but theoretically it should be safe." Artie replied as he continued to hook the device up and press in codes. "Look I know I keep asking you to make these sacrifices but I really believe that this is the only way to fix everything." Sam stared at the device and then thought about what he'd have if he returned back to 2015 then smiled. He had nothing left for him in 2045 and he really missed his life with Mercedes.
"Alright, I'll do it." he replied as he made his way over to the device.
"Just put your hands right there whenever you're ready." Artie stated then rolled his wheels back. Sam smiled and gave him the thumbs up as he took a deep breath then placed his hands on the device.
Mercedes rubbed her temples as she looked down at the ring she was still wearing around her neck. She kept hearing the words Sam said in her head. She knew he was right that it was weird that her man didn't even know her ring size. She hated that he was able to read right through her when he barely knew her. Why did she even confess so much to him? Something about him just felt so familiar but she couldn't understand why. She was in deep thought about it all when Quinn came rushing into her office. She quickly flashed a smile on her face, happy to have something to take her mind off her love troubles. Quinn had been a great asset to the law firm. She was going to offer the young woman the associate position that she was after but thought she'd wait till the morning.
"Quinn, what a surprise? I wasn't expecting you, especially not at this hour." she smiled. "I actually have good news..."
"Yeah, I have some news for you too." she stated cutting Mercedes off. "First off, I want to be promoted to full time associate with my own office." Mercedes nodded with a smile on her face as she watched Quinn make her demands. "And secondly, I want you to stay away from Sam."
"Excuse me?"
"Yeah, I know all about your little love affair with Sam."
"Quinn, are you forgetting that I just bailed your other boyfriend out of jail? For free."
"Don't try to change the subject."
"Look, I'm going to give you a few seconds to get your mind right because I think you lost it on your way here." Mercedes replied trying to understand what the hell got into Quinn. She has never spoken to her this way before. "I would choose my next words wisely, Quinn."
"Oh I have and I have proof to back it up." she replied before pulling out her tablet. "Now, I want to also make partner within the next few months. I'm thinking Fabray & Jones would have a better ring to it."
"Are you insane?"
"I am minutes away from sending a video of you and Sam to every Judge, law firm and client that we have on the roster."
"Video of me with your boyfriend? Doing what? Talking at my car?" Mercedes laughed. "The audacity of this poor child." she thought to herself as she got up and opened the door. "Quinn leave before you make me do something that you will regret."
"Oh I won't regret anything once I hit the send button on this email." she smiled and handed Mercedes the tablet. Mercedes glared at the girl then took the tablet and pressed play waiting to see what in the world she was talking about. She watched as a video showed Quinn and Finn Hudson on her bed. She was on top of Finn riding him like the giant that he was. Mercedes smirked and looked up at Quinn then back at the video.
"Ummm...you're trying to blackmail me with your own sex tape?" Mercedes asked causing Quinn to snatch the tablet from her and glare at the screen. "I mean I can do better but you do have some impressive angles."
"Oh my God! No! What did you do?" she screamed as she tried to click out of the video and instead she clicked send. "No...no...No...stop!" she screamed at her tablet.
"Message delivered to all parties." her device said out loud.
"Look Quinn, you have to get up a bit early in the day to try to pull one over on me. I am a defense Attorney, did you really think you could blackmail me with fabricated nonsense?"
"It was here. It was. You and Sam were..." she paused then glared down at her tablet. "Sam. He screwed me. I am going to kill him." she charged towards the door. Mercedes followed behind her shaking her head as she stopped Quinn at the door.
"You know if you only stopped and listened to me you would have known I was planning to hire you full time anyway. Enjoy unemployment." Mercedes smiled as Quinn stomped away. She shook her head as she made her way back over to her desk feeling a bit woozy. She reached over to lean on the desk and missed it completely. She fell forward hitting her head on the desk and blacking out completely.
Mercedes woke up stretched out on a hospital bed. In the room, there were flowers all over the room with five sleeping heads. Two of them were sleeping in a corner leaning on each other, while on the opposite end she saw Sugar leaning her head on a man sitting on sofa with a cane across his lap. Mercedes so far only recognized Sugar then she looked a bit closer and realized that she was leaning her head on Artie. "How long was I out?" Mercedes asked herself as she looked down at her hands. On one side her hand was attached to a pulse oximeter and on her ring finger was a wedding ring. She smiled then frowned as she couldn't remember ever getting married. Did she actually go through with the wedding? She looked at her other hand and noticed that there was someone holding it and he had his head down on it as he slept. "Is this my husband?" she asked herself. "Am I having those dreams again?"
"Mercedes? You're up?" Sugar asked as she made her way over to Mercedes. The moment she said that everyone in the room woke up and came around her. She looked at the two younger ones that were already in tears as they quickly pecked kisses on her cheek.
"Mom, I'm so happy you're okay." they both said as they continued to kiss her.
"Mom?" Mercedes asked as she looked at them closely. They both did have some resemblance to her. The woman looked almost like she did when she was twenty-five, except she was lighter skinned and her hair was a dirty blonde color paired with a set of hazel almond shaped eyes.
"You scared us, mom." her son said as he wiped his eyes. He looked nothing like the other girl. He actually looked white with his blonde hair and freckles across his nose that paired with a set of deep green eyes and plump red lips. Mercedes blinked as she looked over to the hand that was squeezing hers and shook her head in shock.
"Who are you guys?" she asked causing them all to frown. The man holding her hand slowly let go of her hand then forced a smile back on his face and held her hand again. He looked familiar but she couldn't place him. He definitely looked like the young man crying next to her.
"Artie, get her memory chip." he said then looked down at her and smiled. "Don't worry. You'll remember us again, honey. You seem still a bit tired, get some more rest. We're happy to have you back." he added. Mercedes smiled nervously as she looked around the room then slowly she blinked herself back to sleep.
If you weren't confused before you might be now lmfao. Anyway, next chapter is the last chapter for this story and you will understand what happened here. If you have any questions I will answer them all either here or tumblr.