A/N: Chapter Two is up! Hopefully Chapter Three to follow soon, I might actually win this bet!

Lucas didn't notice the transition. One moment he was in the Science Office, arguing with Professor Z, and the next, he was alone in a dark, dirty, cluttered, empty room.

He looked around trying to get his bearings. A moment ago, this had seemed like the best option, now, in a completely different timeline, it seemed a little drastic. Lucas contemplated resetting the watch and returning to the world he knew, but two things stopped him. One was the thought of Professor Z asking him what he thought he had been doing, and the other stepped through the door behind him.

"Lucas? What are you doing here?"

He spun around and a smile lit his face as he forgot about his hesitance to stay a minute before.

"Josie! You're all right!"

"Of course I am." The clone said shortly. "Josie stayed here for a year; I could manage a few minutes."

Lucas paused, confused, "A few minutes? It's been hours since you left."

Josie relied, "Time moves at a different speed here." She frowned. "You have to get back, if you stay here too long, people will worry, what seems like a couple minutes in this timeline, is in fact, hours in yours."

Lucas thought, If time is so slow here, how long did our Josie stay here

Josie's clone broke into his reflection, "What are you doing here in the first place? The timeline is restored right? Avenir has been stopped?"

"Oh, yeah, yeah," Lucas reassured her before hesitating, "…I wasn't ready to give up on you." He lowered his gaze.

She pause, not sure how to respond. "Lucas…I choose to replace Josie here. In order to save the future, I have to stay."

Lucas shook his head. "No, there has to be another way, we didn't just forget about Josie, I won't just forget about you."

"You don't understand. The paradox, if I'm not here, this timeline would become corrupted, and potentially damage or even destroy the entire space-time continuum."

Lucas looked at her, sadness and denial in his eyes. Suddenly, he stopped and stared beyond her, realizing something, his brow furrowed as he looked for a loophole in his mind, then he jumped for the first one he saw.

"Potential damage?" He asked slyly.

Now it was Josie's turn to shake her head, "No Lucas, it's too risky."

He gazed at her, not moving, asking her with his eyes.

She sighed. "There is a chance that if I leave, this timeline will just collapse into itself. It would be like there never was this dimension."

Lucas's smile grew steadily bigger as she went on, Josie noticed and continued, "But there is also a chance that, as I said before, the timeline destroys the space-time continuum."

The smile never wavered. "So…there is a distinct possibility that you wouldn't have to stay here?"

"…Technically?" She sighed again, "Yes. But it's very unlikely." Josie put a hand to her forehead, as if with the pain of a headache.

Lucas noticed, "Are you all right?"

She took her hand away and gave a small smile, "Yes, I'm fine, I just think it would be easier to work this through if He was here."

"The Janitor?"

Josie nodded. "And Professor Zachary had some wonderful theories about what happened to Josie." She cocked her head, "In fact, I think that, given enough time, Zachary could've deduced where she was, and a way to get her back."

Lucas set the watch again and spoke without looking at her. "All right then, we need Z and the Janitor then you'll come back to my timeline with me?"

Josie shook her head in frustration, "No Lucas, we can't risk the Future just for mine."

"And mine," Lucas said under his breath as he continued to set the watch.

She paused, "Lucas! You're not listening to me!"

She stepped toward him.

It was too late; Lucas vanished

A/N:D I love it when Lucas just leaves, Chapter Three is being written, or hopefully already is by the time you read this! Read, Review and Enjoy!