"My driving isn't THAT bad" Jiya sighed as she put the car into park on the quiet, dark street. Lucy opened her eyes. It had been a long day of driving – back roads, hills and turns, sketchy places on the side of the road to pee and get food and gas By hour 10, her back hurt, her stomach rolling every time they went over a hill and she was done.

Lucy glanced around – most houses were dark for the night. She glanced at her watch. 11:10 PM. A few street lights and some porch lights were all that lit this neighborhood.

"This is where Denise lives?" Jiya nodded and pointed. "Four houses down on the left."

Lucy started to open her door when Jiya grabbed her arm. "Not yet".

"Jiya, there is no one out."

"Yeah, but you see that big light at the corner, by the house?" Lucy looked and nodded. Jiya threw open her computer and pulled up a screen. Lucy was looking at a view of the house from what was obviously a camera on that light.

"Christ" she whispered. Jiya closed the computer and grabbed her bag from the back. She glanced at her watch. "OK, we need to go. Now. He was adamant about the timing." Lucy hurried out of the car, following behind Jiya. They got within one house, keeping to the dark of the yards when Jiya stopped short. "Wait".

Lucy froze and looked at her watch. The light of the house next door to where they were headed shut off at exactly 11:15.

"Damn, he's good" Jiya said, moving along in the darkness until they reached the front of the house. Lucy moved toward the front but Jiya grabbed her arm, pulling her between the bushes. They emerged into a small backyard.

"Now what?" Lucy asked. Jiya shrugged and was about to pull out the computer from her bag when they heard a door creak open.

"You two better move. That grouchy old man turns that light back on at 11:20 cause he swears that is when burglars like to do their thing." Lucy wanted to cry at the sound of Denise's voice from the basement door. They hurried through the door and Denise closed it behind them, looking out the window before pulling the shade over it.

She turned toward them and smiled. "Hi" she said and opened her arms as they both launched themselves toward her. "Are you two ok?" She asked. They both pulled back a bit and nodded.

"Tired. Hungry. In desperate need of a shower and some sleep but otherwise ok." Lucy said. Denise turned to Jiya. "You followed?"

"Not that I could tell. I followed his instructions to the letter." Denise nodded.

"Well, I can help with the food and the shower and the sleep since I have been told we all need to hunker down here."

"For how long?" Jiya asked.

"24 hours. I got a message that just about 11 tomorrow night we will get our window to leave."

"And go where?" Denise shrugged. "Not sure. Got some coordinates about 10 minutes ago and instructions to open the back door at precisely 11:15 PM."

"It better be to Rufus" Jiya sighed, hiking her bag up onto her shoulder. Denise smiled.

"I can do you one better." She motioned for them to follow her down the small hallway. It opened into a finished great room and they stopped short in their tracks. There, sitting on the couch, were Rufus and Wyatt. Jiya yelped and Rufus barely had time to get to his feet before she launched herself at him, forcing him back down on to the couch with her in his lap. Wyatt pushed himself up off the couch and moved over toward Lucy. She opened her arms to him and he hugged her. For a moment she relished being in the presence of her friends, of feeling a moment of safety for the first time in over a year.

"What? How?" She couldn't even put together a full sentence as she held on to Wyatt like he was a life raft.

"We got here about 30 minutes ago. Rufus beat me by a few minutes." She held on to him tightly but then it all hit her. She remembered there was something else.

"Jessica!" She exclaimed. She pulled back to see Wyatt's face. "What?" He asked.

"Jessica. I saw her."

"Where?"

"I was at this event… Lord, was that only a day ago? Anyway, I went to the bathroom to escape my creepy boss and she was there. Real cryptic and everything. Someone was there with her. She managed to drop me a note."

"What did it say?"

Lucy pulled it out of her back pocket, having the good sense to grab it before they left her apartment. She handed it to him and he read it quickly. He immediately went into pacing mode, running his hands through his hair.

"We have got to figure out where she is. We need to go. Now."

"NO!" Jiya yelled, as she stood up. "No. We finally have each other back and a chance to get the hell out of this mess. We will do what we are told!"

"Why? Because Flynn said so" Wyatt yelled back at her.

"He hasn't steered any of us wrong yet and he's managed to give us some lead time. Yeah, we are going to do what Flynn says" Jiya replied, hand on her hip.

"Not everyone is even here" Lucy said quietly. They all froze, looking at her. "Is he?" She asked, hoping that Denise had one more surprise up her sleeve, but Denise shook her head no slowly. "I'm sorry, Lucy, he's not."

Lucy looked at the ground, willing the tears to not fall. "Bathroom?" She managed to choke out. Denise pointed down the small hallway and Lucy took off, not bothering to look back. She closed the door, turned on the light and sat on the edge of the small bathtub, covering her face with her hands, letting out the tears of frustration and fear that she had been holding in for longer than she could remember at this point.

She heard the door creak open and felt someone sit down in front of her. She looked through her fingers to find Wyatt looking at her.

"Please don't start."

"I won't."

"I can't listen to you rail against him right now."

"I wasn't going to." They sat in silence for a few moments.

"A girl?" He whispered.

"That's what the note said. I honestly think she is just as screwed as we have been over the last year. But with a baby to contend with to. I can't even imagine." She finally pulled her eyes up to his face. He was staring at the wall over her head.

"We are going to find them, Wyatt." He nodded and looked at her. "I know we are. I just had a moment of weakness out there. I know we are. I was promised that…"

"What?"

Wyatt sighed. "I was promised that if I kept you safe over this next little bit, my family would be safe too. And that this would all be over and I can be with them."

The tears started to fall again. "Why am I the only one that hasn't heard from him?"

Wyatt shrugged. "I don't know. He's got his reasons. It could be…"

She just stared at him as he trailed off. "What?"

"He's got a mission right? He needs to complete his mission. I've been there. You try to turn off everything else to get the mission done. It works the best. I guess… I guess he knows that we will keep each other safe until the mission is over and then… I guess he figures…"

Wyatt didn't finish that sentence, not that she needed him to. Always the soldier, always doing what he thought was right, regardless of how the rest of the world saw it. Always being Garcia Flynn.

Wyatt groaned as he pushed himself off the floor, holding his hand out to her. "Come on. There's a ton of food and plenty of places to sleep. Denise needs to talk to all of us before you two crash."

Lucy nodded, wiping her hands on her face. She smiled up at her friend. "I really am happy to see you, Wyatt. You all… I've thought about you all every day since the last time we were together."

"Me too, Lucy. Me too. And we are going to end this thing once and for all so maybe we can all socialize like normal people."

"Who have met Lincoln." Wyatt laughed and nodded. "Yes, who have met Lincoln." He threw his arm over her shoulder and they walked back into the living area.

"All better?" Denise asked. Lucy nodded and sat down. Rufus pushed a plate of food to her and smiled a sad smile at her. Lucy looked up at Denise and for a moment, felt like they were back in that bunker, about to get details of a mission. She laughed to herself – they kind of were.

"Can I ask…. Where are Michelle and the kids?" They all looked at Jiya as she asked, it occurring to all of them in that moment that they seemed to be alone.

Denise laughed. "Funny thing. It seemed I won three all expense tickets on a 10 day cruise out in international waters. You know, where it's harder to get to people. They left yesterday for Miami. Cruise leaves tomorrow."

"Flynn is better than you" Rufus said, elbowing Jiya in the side. She scowled at him. "He's going to show me that trick when this is all over" she grumbled.

"So, here's the deal. I'm officially off work with the flu. A really bad case apparently. I've got to bumble around here tomorrow like the walking dead and you four have to stay in the basement. It's the only place in the house without windows. There's a small bedroom in the back, the couch pulls out and I've got some air mattresses. Believe it or not, groceries magically appeared yesterday so there's plenty of food in that little kitchen area."

"Chocodiles?" Rufus asked. Denise nodded. "The man thought of everything!"

"We have to be ready to go tomorrow night at 11 PM sharp. We will know when."

"And where are we going?" Lucy asked.

Jiya's computer dinged. "That never gets less creepy" she said, pulling it out of her bag. She quickly fired it up and opened the attachment – coordinates. She plugged it into a location service and they all just stared.

"That's the middle of nowhere" Rufus said.

"That's probably the point" Wyatt replied. "This feels like the ending, doesn't it?" They all nodded.

"OK, so here's the plan" Denise said. And for the next 90 minutes, they lobbed things back and forth to each other till they seemed to have a solid plan for getting from point A to point B. Lucy could feel her eyes drooping and Jiya had already fallen asleep on Rufus' shoulder.

Wyatt looked around. "We need sleep. Denise, you need to get up to your room now. I'll take the air mattress, Rufus and Jiya can have the large pullout bed and Lucy, you go take the day bed in the back." No one had the energy to fight.

Lucy stumbled back, not even bothering to take off her clothes. She kicked her shoes off and crawled under the covers, falling into a heavy sleep.

She rolled over, glancing around for a moment, not really remembering where she was. She ran her hand over her face as the door creeped open. She froze for a moment.

"It's just me Lucy" Rufus said. She let out a sigh of relief and remembered – Denise's basement. Wyatt and Rufus and Jiya. 11 PM tonight.

"What time is it?"she asked.

"Just after 1. We all just woke up. I guess living under the thumb of some assholes in black suits is mentally and physically exhausting. Jiya is emptying out the frig. Something about not knowing when we will get real food again. I told her we could pack a cooler of what's left but…" Lucy had pushed herself out of bed and had thrown her arms around her friend while he was talking. He sighed, hugging her back.

"I missed you too, Lucy." She slammed her eyes shut, willing the tears not to fall.

"I'm so happy you and Jiya found each other." He pulled back, resting his hands on her shoulder. "Thank you for getting her here."

"That's more like the other way around. She pulled me out of there and…" Lucy stopped.

"Flynn sure is going to a lot of trouble to make sure we all got together before heading out on this… either rousing success or suicide mission." Lucy smiled, but it didn't quite reach her eyes.

"You know, part of me always thought you and Wyatt would…"

Lucy shook her head. "Our moment passed. He's got a daughter. He deserves to have his family. And I deserve…"

"Someone who picks you first? Someone who will move heaven and earth to keep you safe? Someone who seems to enjoy calling you his wife more than he probably should?"

"That only happened a couple of times" Lucy replied, rolling her eyes.

"Still" Rufus said, smiling at her. "Look, we probably need to take this day one step at a time. First – food. I'm starving. I'm sure you are too." Lucy nodded.

"And then a shower. 10 hours in a car. Doesn't really work for you". Lucy elbowed him in the stomach. She followed him out to the main room to see a spread. For the next 10 hours, they caught up and tried to relax but they were always keeping an eye on the clock. The sunset and Denise was finally able to get back downstairs with them. From there it was pins and needles. At 10:45, they were packed and sitting there, waiting for… something.

"This is frustrating" Lucy said, staring at the clock. She would swear time was moving slower than normal. Finally it hit 11 PM and they all froze, bags and other supplies. The clock ticked one minute, then two. When 11:03 came, Lucy growled. And then, the lights went off. Denise ran back upstairs and came back almost as fast.

"All the lights in the neighborhood are out. Even the street lights. We are dark. This is it. Let's go." She threw the back door open, heading out into her yard.

"Let's finish this shit" Jiya said, nodding at Rufus and Wyatt.

"We're coming Garcia" Lucy said under her breath, pulling the door closed behind her.