For a moment, she felt like a wild animal escaping her enclosure. Her eyes kept darting around the mirrors of her car as she drove faster than she had in over a year. The thing about the fear she felt – it was real to her. It kept her in line. No speeding. Always tipping the right amount. No crossing against the light, etc, etc. Follow the rules and keep her head down. But she must have ran away from that when she ran out of the fundraiser. She was even driving barefoot, having thrown off her shoes in the parking lot as she ran to her car. She was heading home, knowing she had to do something. She had no idea what that something was but she was hoping it would just come to her when she got to her apartment.

She parked crooked in the parking spot, leaving the car unlocked as she ran to her door, glancing behind her the whole way. She threw the door open and stumbled inside, letting go of the breath she had been holding as the door closed behind her. She collapsed against it, trying to get her bearings.

And as she did, she realized something was off. Nothing looked off, but she has this feeling creeping up her spine that someone was in her apartment. She took a few steps forward into the small living room and glanced around, inhaling sharply as she noticed a dim glow coming from her bedroom. The bedroom she knew she hadn't left a light on when she had left a few hours ago.

She took a step and the floor creaked and she froze as she heard someone move in her room. A figure appeared in her doorway and she thought it was a ghost. Until it spoke.

"About time Lucy" Jiya said, smiling at her. The tears she thought were going to fall upon seeing Jessica did start at the sight of her friend. She quickly crossed to her, throwing her arms around her friend as Jiya responded in kind.

"Oh my God!" Lucy cried out. "This is real, right? You are here."

Jiya pulled back, nodding her head. "I am. But we can't stay here. You've got to pack everything you can fit in a few bags and we have to get out of here."

Jiya moved back into her bedroom and Lucy noticed her computer, which had been giving off the glow she had noticed from the living room. It didn't look like any computer she had ever seen Jiya with before. Jiya looked at her staring at the computer.

"I had to build it from scratch. Lucy. You have GOT to start moving or I'm going to pack for you." Lucy nodded and started to move. The way Jiya was acting and the frantic pace at which she was packing up her own things lead her to believe that they needed to get out of here and it needed to be now. Lucy quickly moved around the room, grabbing her two duffel bags and all the clothes and other things she could fit in both. Jiya kept check the time on her computer.

"Are you done? We need to get out of here." Lucy stopped, staring at her friend, shaking her head. "Jiya, what in the hell is going on? I need you to tell me…"

Jiya grabbed Lucy, turning her toward the computer screen. It was a video feed of the party she had just left. She held her breath as she watched Steven walking around the party.

"How long did it take you to get here, Lucy?"

"About 20 minutes."

She watched as Steven approached a man in a dark suit. Something about him gave Lucy the creeps. Steven whispered to the man in the suit and he took off. Jiya cut to another camera and showed her the man running out the door.

"This was from 5 minutes ago. We need to be gone before that guy gets here. We've got to move. Now. We have a 10-minute window." Lucy nodded, grabbing what was left and threw it in her bag. She grabbed her purse and her keys, but Jiya took them and threw them across the room. She did the same with the phone she held in her hand but she dug the wallet out of Lucy's bag. "We are taking my car and I have a phone for you in there. Let's go."

Lucy followed Jiya as she ran to a car down the block. A non-descript black something or other. Lucy didn't really notice. She just threw her bags in the trunk and got in. She barely had the door closed before Jiya pulled out onto the road.

Lucy looked over at her friend. Really had a chance to look at her. She seemed tired and on edge. "Jiya…"

Jiya shook her head. "Not yet. I swear, Lucy, I will tell you everything, but not yet. We need to criss cross town so you can hit ATMs and take out as much money as you can off of all your cards. And then we need to ditch the wallet. Cash only for the next few days. If we need a card, I've got one. But I try not to use it unless we have to."

So Lucy sat quietly as Jiya drove around town, stopping at ATMs at different banks until Lucy had amassed a few thousand dollars. Jiya pulled into a park and found the nearest trash can, throwing the wallet in it and she headed toward the interstate. For 30 minutes, Jiya drove and Lucy just sat there in silence. She watched her old friend keeping watch out of all the mirrors but not acting erratic. Lucy laughed in her head. She had spent the last year doing the same thing.

Eventually, Jiya pulled off the interstate and into an area with several hotels. She parked in a lot, at the back and motioned for Lucy to follow her. Lucy grabbed her bags and started to head to the hotel at the front of the lot, but Jiya hissed at her. "This way!" So Lucy followed her through a row of bushes and into the back lot of a motel next door. Jiya glanced around and quickly made her way to the building. Lucy understood. With outside entrances and no need to enter through a lobby, they could be invisible. Which is apparently what Jiya intended. They stopped in front of the first door they came to Jiya quickly opened it, motioning Lucy inside. Jiya shut and locked the door behind her and flipped on the light. Lucy looked around. Definitely not the nicest place in the world, but not the worst either, consider she used to time travel to some of the roughest times in history.

"Love the accommodations" she said, trying to break the tension. Jiya laughed. "They take cash and don't ask a lot of questions." Lucy sat down on one of the beds, watching her friend secure the door and making sure the windows were locked and blocked.

"This is all very cloak and dagger for you Jiya." Jiya cleared her throat, not really looking at Lucy. "I may… well… I may have had some help." Lucy looked at her confused. Jiya collapsed on the opposite bed, breathing for a moment before sitting up, resting her back against the headboard. She rolled her head over to look at Lucy.

"Shit it's good to see you." The tears started to fall again. Cause Jiya was right. It was so good to see a familiar face that could be trusted. They both cried for a minute until Jiya shook her head, wiping her face with the back of her hand. "Ok. You have questions. Shoot."

Lucy laughed. "It really is just one. What the hell is going on?"

Jiya sighed. "I wish I even knew where to start. Did you wake up in a room with some asshole in a suit telling you crazy shit?" Lucy nodded. "Yeah, me too. When I woke up again, I was in this condo and that was it."

"Me too."

"So, I just towed the line for about 6 months. Trying to figure out what was going on and why and if there was a way out. And then, one night, I'm laying at home watching Netflix and my phone dings. It was a notification about someone commenting on a post from this Battlestar Galactica message board I didn't think even existed anymore. I hadn't been on it in years or whatever. I had forgotten I was even a member until that moment. I thought it was just spam so I ignored it. Then I got 5 more in the span of 10 minutes. So I checked. At first, it was just directions on how to build that computer. Told me to respond with a certain GIF once I got it done. What can I say? I was intrigued and bored, so I did it. Took me about a month to get all the parts and build the thing. So, once I got it done, I did and then I got a message to start using the new computer. What the hell at that point, right? Even if I got busted by these covert dicks, I decided it would be better than living like I was. Alone and scared. I logged in through the new computer and kept waiting for someone to bust in the door and drag me away. But they never did."

Lucy was enthralled. "So… who was it?"

Jiya pressed her lips together, taking a moment. "Well… at first it was all anonymous. I wasn't sure if it was someone I knew or a good Samaritan or what. Turns out it was someone I knew. I wasn't sure at first. But as the messages went… it just felt familiar. And then the messages turned to a plan. That's when I insisted on knowing who it was on the other end. If I was going to stick my neck out, I needed to know who was pulling the strings. So I said as much. I just got a picture. No clue what it was at first. So, I searched. Finally found it. It was a picture of the Zagreb National Theater. That's when I knew."

Lucy thought her heart had stopped for a moment. "Flynn" she breathed out. Jiya nodded.

"Flynn. Once I realized that, I knew I was going to do whatever he said. Hence all the cloak and dagger stuff tonight. He's the one who told me exactly what to do and how to get you out. He is the one who sent me the info on how to hack into the CCTV feed from the event tonight. He… Lucy, he knew Jessica was going to be there. I don't know exactly everything he knows, but he told me that tonight would be the start of getting all of us out of this." Lucy felt her heart thudding in her chest. She thought it was so loud she was sure Jiya could hear it too. She swallowed the lump in her throat.

"Now what?" she choked out. Jiya laughed.

"Well, I was told to make sure you ate. Because, as it was sent to me, 'she's looking too thin'. First we get food. There is a diner around the block. Lots of greasy, home cooked food. Save room for the pie. Then we come back and shower and sleep. Tomorrow is a long day." Jiya stared at her friend and smiled slightly. "I totally lost you at she's looking too thin, didn't I?"

Lucy shook her head. "He's… he's seen me? Is he nearby? Can I see him?" Jiya shrugged. "Honestly, Luce, I have no idea. We've only communicated in message board texts. I don't know if he's around the corner or across the world. But everything he has told me to do has lead me to you and getting away from my guy and your guy. I know that he's looking out for us. If we follow his plan and do it the way he says, we will be safe."

Lucy ran her hands through her hair. "Jessica talked to me in the bathroom earlier. I was hiding from my boss in the bathroom and I was standing at the sink and there she was. There was this gruff woman with her. I bet money it's a bodyguard, babysitter type person. Anyway, she dropped a note at my feet as she left. She's lucky I saw it."

Jiya's mouth dropped open. "What did it say?"

"Find the team. And tell Wyatt it's a girl."

"Shit" Jiya whispered. Lucy could only shake her head in agreement. "Ok, well, that explains what we are to do next."

"What's that?" Lucy asked.

"Denise. It's going to take most of the day but we have to drive to Denise."

"But doesn't she have the same kind of… supervision… that we did? Won't we get spotted?"

"I've been lead to believe that Denise's watchdog has been… let's just say taken care of. And these guys are so covert they only check in once a week. I got told yesterday that I had a week to get to you and then to get to Denise. So we have 6 days before anyone realizes what's going on. Even your guy. He knows by now you are gone but from what Flynn has told me and what I've dug up myself, they have no way to communicate except for this once a week drop. So we will have a 6-day head start."

"So let's go now!"

Jiya shook her head. "No. Flynn said we need to stay put tonight. I don't know why but he has yet to lead me astray. We go get food and we sleep. Trust me. Once the adrenaline wears off from all of this, you are going to crash. Hard. We need sleep to function tomorrow."

Lucy fell back on her bed. Flynn. Looking out for them from who knows where. "I want to see him, Jiya. The last time I saw him…"

Jiya grinned. "Yeah. The sexual tension at dinner almost made it uncomfortable." Lucy threw a pillow at her. "Lucy, I have to believe we will see him when it's time. Him to me. Me to you. Us to Denise."

"Rufus?"

Jiya nodded. "I know where he is. He knows I'm on my way. He's waiting. Flynn told me as much."

"Good."

Jiya stood up. "Ok. Food. Showers. Sleep. And tomorrow…"

"Denise" Lucy replied. Jiya shook her head and headed for the door, Lucy right behind her.