Disclaimer: I DON'T OWN THE MIB SONG, THE SEAQUEST, OR THE RASCAL FLATTS SONG THAT HAVE LYRICS IN HERE.

Chapter 9:

Here come the men in black. It's the MIB'S. Here come the MIB'S. Here come the men in black, they won't let you remember. Na Na Na .The good guys dress in black. Remember that just in case we ever face to face and make contact. The title held by me MIB means what you think you saw you did not see….

"Katie, where in the world did Ben get those dance moves?" Kristin laughed watching the groomsmen attempt a line dance. The wedding had been lovely and every one was having a good time at the reception. Kristin couldn't remember the last time she had seen Lucas so happy.

"I'm not sure, Kris but, he really should send them back huh?" Katie said laughing at her ex-husband's best attempt to look cool doing such an outdated dance.

"Forget Ben," Abbey said pointing out on the dance floor, "Check out Manny!"

"Oh my Lord! He's going to break a hip!" Kristin quipped.

Manilow Crocker had taken his role as an usher in the wedding seriously. He had tried his best to look out for Lucas after Capt. Nathan Bridger disappeared and was honored when the young man had asked him to be a part of the groomsmen. So, when he was presented with the idea of the line dance he had allowed the younger men to teach him the dance, never admitting that not only did he already know it but, he had been quite good at it in his day.

Katie laughed to the point of tears at the group, "Oh Ben, had to of put them all up to this. I can't imagine this was Lucas' idea."

Bill Noyce smiled as he pulled up a chair, "You think this is funny? You should have seen them practicing."

"Oh, I bet," Kristin caught a glimpse of something in the older man's tone; she leaned over speaking only to him before continuing, "Bill, is something wrong?"

"Nothing that can't wait until tomorrow," Noyce replied with a sign, "I'm sorry Kristin, I just received some … news.. I will need to speak with you about it tomorrow but, there's nothing that can be done tonight so for Lucas and Abbey's sake I would rather wait until they're off on their honeymoon before we speak."

"Well, I don't like the sounds of that," Kristin replied curtly but as she looked at the young couple now dancing together to a slow love song she sighed. Bill was right, whatever it was could wait until the morning. Today was their day. "Very well then but, they're leaving at 10 in the morning for the airport. I expect to hear from you no later than 10:30."

"Really, that much time?"

"Well," Kristin replied with a slight sarcastic whim to her voice, "There are some things that never change. One of those things is Lucas' ability to always be late."

"True, and I bet Abbey is no help there."

"No, you know, I think she's worse than him." Kristin smiled, "Oh and I wanted to tell you how much I appreciate you helping the two of them with all of this."

"Well, you're welcome but, truth be told I didn't help them with much. They really wanted to do it all on their own. They didn't even accept half of what I offered."

"Well, it was still a lovely gesture." Kristin's thoughts were interrupted by the clearing of some ones throat.

'I hope the days come easy and the moments past slow and each road leads you where you wanna go and if your face with a choice and you have to choose, I hope you choose the one that means the most to you…."

Kristin looked up to the smiling face of the young man who had certainly become the most important person in her life. She smiled as he held out his had to her.

"Come on, Doc it's time for the mother-son dance," Lucas had accepted Dr. Westphalen's role as his mother years ago but, actually referring to her as such was a rare occurrence.

Kristin tried to hold back her tears during the dance. She wasn't sad by any means but she couldn't help but think about the past and about how far Lucas had come. There was a time after he was found in that raft she really thought; she would never see that smile again. Her thoughts wondered through everything that had happened in the last 10 years. She thought about Nathan, he would have given anything to be here for this, to see this day. Kristen felt Lucas hold her a little tighter and she realized she was crying. She tried composing herself once again as she looked into the blue eyes before her. This was the essence of their relationship, no matter what happened. No matter who came in and went out of their lives they would always have each other. She smiled hugging him tightly as the song ended.

"I am so proud of you and you know Nathan would be too, don't you Lucas?"

"I know doc," Lucas said looking down,"I wish he were here."

"Me too, Lucas, metoo."

...

Cmdr. Jonathon Ford angrily paced the room. He was never a man to wear his emotions on his sleeve but, this, well this was a little much. His captain had just explained to them all that somehow 10 years had passed and not only did they not remember the last 10 years, they hadn't aged either.

"Sir, with all due respect, this is absurd. You can't really believe this can you?"

Nathan sighed as he looked around the room at his crew. They were all looking to him for the answers. Answers were one thing he didn't have.

"I know it seems strange and, I really wish I could explain it. I can't but, I know it's true. I've spoken to Bill Noyce."

"The Secretary General?" Anothy Piccalo asked from the other side of the room.

"The retired Secretary General actually, and I've seen a great deal of evidence to prove that we're certainly in the year 2032."

"Well what kind of evidence Sir? I mean there's lots of things that could be faked you know. I mean Lucas can alter the dates of just about anything given enough time." Tim O'neill added his concern to the growing number of questions floating in the room.

Nathan sighed as he spread the UEO personel files he had already studied across the table making sure the file of Lt. Cmdr. Lucas Wolenczak sat on top of the pile. As he watched the collective gasp over take the room Capt. Bridger cleared his throat and began his speech.

"There it is. There's your evidence. Like I said, I don't know what happened and these guys aren't exactly happy that I don't know where we've been the past 10 years but, the year is correct. Our Lucas is a 27 year old Lieutenant Commander in the UEO and from what I've heard quite the fighter pilot to boot. I wish I had something more reassuring to say to all of you but I don't. As it stands the UEO has classified our very existence which means as far as the world knows we're all still dead."

"Dead?" Miguel Ortiz said in shock from across the room," Our families think we're dead?"

"Yes, and from what I've seen we have a lovely monument," The captain said dryly," Tomorrow we will all be debriefed and assessed by a UEO doctor. While we try to figure out what's happened you are all to remain on base. You will be issued ID cards with fake names. They're confident no one will recognize any of us but, you must all do your best to blend in until we can sort this out and go back to our normal lives. Well, what left of them anyway."

"Well what if they can't figure it out, what happened to us? I mean they can't keep us here forever can they?" Ensign Lonnie Henderson said from the cot she had been sitting on. The captain couldn't help but notice how meek her voice sounded. He looked up and realized she was holding Addison, a stuffed bear she had smuggled off of the Seaquest.

"They'll figure out something. I know this is stressful people but, try to take some solace in the fact that were all still alive and together. At this point that's all that really matters."

Tony looked at the personnel files on the desk. '27 years old,' he scoffed to himself," No way, the kid's actually older than me now.'

"Hey cap, you said Luke's a fighter pilot? Who the hell is he fightin' with?"

"Well, I was hoping that could wait until tomorrow but, there's a war going on with Macronesia."

"Macronesia? The Australian mining colony?" Commander Ford recalled looking at his captain.

"Yes, I don't know all of the details but, apparently they just signed a peace treaty again. That's why they're hiding us. The UEO feels that if the world knew the Seaquest was back some of the fringe colonies would consider it an act of war."

"Good Lord, what did we come back to?" Tim said doing the sign of the cross with his crucifix.

"I don't know Mr. O'neill, I simply don't know.

…..

Bill Noyce looked on as Kristin Westphalen and Lucas Wolenzcak finished their dance. He had no idea how he was going to tell Kristin that Nathan had been found. Hell, he had no idea how he was going to break the new to Lucas either. The pair had been through so much because of the Seaquest's disappearance, he wasn't sure how they would react to the sudden reappearance Nathan and the Seaquest. Suddenly a slight glare caught his eye. He looked at Kristin and smiled. She still wears her engagement ring after all this time. Maybe she will take the news better than he was expecting. Then again, maybe she'd Nathan for putting them all through all of this. Who knows only tomorrow will tell.