We are back with Lucy's POV and a longer chapter...enjoy and please review!

Lucy left Wyatt and Rufus unloading the remainder of the supplies and headed towards Emie as she folded a blanket outside of the Empress's tent.

However for a brief moment she stopped as the sun was setting, dusk was truly settling over the South African horizon. It was absolutely stunning that it took her breath away. She wanted to talk to Emie before she joined them for dinner, but she was completely sidetracked by the sunset. She closed her eyes, taking it all in. Whilst the days were hot, the nights were cold. But it was a good cold at this time of the day that it sent a shiver down her spine.

A French voice took her out of moment, "Lucy?"

Her eyes instantly opened and Emie was moving over to her with a curiosity on her face. Lucy settled herself and smile, "Sorry Emie, i was just admiring this beautiful sunset" she replied in French and pointed towards the horizon.

Emie turned and laid eyes on it, "That truly is amazing" she breathed.

Lucy cleared her throat, "I was coming over to you actually. Would you like to join myself and my husband by the fire tonight for dinner?" she avoided adding that Alex would be there too. She had noticed Emie becoming particularly shy around him and didn't want her to say no.

"I would love to Lucy, thank you" she responded with a genuine smile, "i better get back to the Empress" she motioned to the large tent behind her.

"Of course," Lucy replied, "see you at dinner"

Lucy turned in the other direction and noticed Alex look the other way, obviously watching Emie. She pressed her lips together and thought she would dig a little deeper. She made her way over to him in the 'kitchen' area of the camp as he was unpacking tins they had been eating out of.

"May i help?" she asked entering the area. He looked at her a little sceptical and she wanted to roll her eyes. What was it with men in this era? She could move things. God knows how they treated pregnant women...

Obviously noticing some sort of annoyance on her face, he replied, "Well i need to get some more crates of food from the carriage if ya don't mind unpacking the rest of the tins?"

She nodded immediately, "Yes absolutely" she was hoping he would stay there so she could talk to him more. Anything she knew about how Alex felt about Emie was through Wyatt, and that was minimal, she wanted to see if the female point of view helped him at all.

"Thank ya Miss Logan-"

"-if i can call you Alex, you can call me Lucy" she interrupted him. She was tired of the formal way of talking to each other and hoped Alex's connection with Wyatt would make him happily settle into call her by her first name.

Alex smiled slowly, "Lucy it is. Well i thank you Lucy. You and your husband have been a wonderful addition to this trip. I love the old guy, but he was going to be my only company on this trip-"

"-not the only one" she smiled raising her eyebrows. She hadn't even said her name and she swore she saw him blush. He was a charming man, but one mention of Emie and he melted like she did.

Alex put down the tin and took a seat on a crate, he sighed heavily, "Can ya help me Lucy?" he asked. She saw the formal side of him drop become open. Out of the corner of her eye Emie and Reine appeared with the Empress, meeting with Wood and obviously taking a walk. For a moment Emie turned her head and looked over at them, her brow furrowed.

Lucy moved over and started unpacking the tins.

"Whatcha ya doing?" Alex asked, obviously confused.

"You want to talk about her?" she asked and he nodded, her eyes went back to Emie and she gave her a smile, in return she gave one back, "we've got to look like were doing something, otherwise she will think we are talking about her" she explained, continuing to unpack.

"But we are talkin' about her" Alex said in obvious confusion.

Lucy chuckled, "Yes but we don't want her knowing that. You want to be-" she nearly said 'cool' and that certainly was not a word used yet, "-aloof. She can't know you like her too much"

With Emie out of sight, Lucy finished with the tins and turned to face Alex, and was met with a very confused face, "But i do like her" he gushed.

Lucy couldn't help but smile, he appeared to have this crush on somebody he had barely talked to, "Ok Alex. Let me tell you about women" she pulled over a crate and sat herself down beside him.

Alex looked almost scared, "Should i know what ya going to tell me? I'm going to be honest wit ya, i'm not sure i should be havin' this conversation with a married women"

Lucy almost forgot her social standing and current role, "Of course. What i meant was, women like a man who shows that he likes her, and shows respect but isn't too-"

"-forward?" he counted, getting where she was going.

"Exactly. There's a balance," she told him, crossed her hands over her lap, "i believe my husband asked you to dinner tonight with us? I can help you anyway i can. Whatever you want to say to her...within reason of course, i can translate for you"

Alex nodded, a smile getting bigger on his face and it was like Wyatt was smiling at her, "Ah that would be wonderful Lucy, your ya star" she believed that was a British phrase to say 'she was great', she would certainly take that.

They heard two sets of footsteps approaching and Wyatt and Rufus appeared with the remaining boxes. Lucy saw Wyatt take a moment to register them both sitting together and Alex stood up abruptly, she rolled her eyes behind him, that wasn't going to come across well. It was going to look like they were up to something.

"Ah thank ya lads!" Alex exclaimed and clapped his hands together, "i will see if Miss Reine is able to cook us up some more fantastic food for tonight" and with that he disappeared out of the kitchen area.

"What was that about?" Rufus asked, obviously confused with how quickly Alex left.

Lucy looked at Wyatt who was unpacking some of the food from the boxes and not looking at her. Did he really think that something was going on with her and Alex?

"He wanted advise on how to approach things with Emie," she stated, Wyatt still didn't look up, "so i told him to basically play it cooler than he has been" she told Rufus with a chuckle.

"Yeah that dude can't be jumping up every time she appears to see where shes going. If i was her i'd be turned off. No matter how good looking, chivalrous and gallant he is-" Rufus stopped as now Lucy and Wyatt's eyes were on him, he shrugged, "what?"

"Are you sure you don't have a crush on him?" Wyatt asked sounding serious.

"Very funny," Rufus responded and gave a childish face to him, "you know what i mean. Dude is basically you 138 years ago or... now...or i can even work it out anymore" he gestured with his arms like he gave up.

"Is Emie joining us tonight?" Wyatt finally addressed Lucy and she wanted to comment on it, but felt like she couldn't when Rufus was there. She felt embarrassed as she still couldn't work out what was going on with them.

So instead of saying something now she just nodded and was going to keep it simple, "Yes she is"

Rufus looked to Wyatt and then back to Lucy. Doing it a few times as both of them stared at each other, "Ooookkkk, as always i know when its my que to leave. I'm going to get that book from your tent and actually do something relaxing on one of these trips and read"

And then it was just her and Wyatt, she started to unpack the other box that Rufus had brought in. Fresh vegetables lingering the top, placing them down on the makeshift cooking bench, she sighed, "What's going on Wyatt?"

"Nothing" came his instant response. That's when she knew something was wrong.

She put down the cabbages in her hand from the box and turned to him, she wasn't going to do this with him, so decided she just had to say it, "Just for clarification. Alex was constantly looking at Emie and i told him to tone it down. I told him i would translate anything he wanted to ask her," she caught his attention at the sound of her voice which she now had realised had got upset, "Alex and Emie...are your four times great grandparents Wyatt. I am here to help you. To make sure they fall in love and go on to create the rest of your family!", she was breathing heavily and all this time he was just staring at her, his eyes darting to her mouth and now watery eyes, "so If your upset about something Wyatt, please just say it"

All she heard was her breathing, she didn't realise she had got so worked up. He just stared at her, with his lips pressed together. He had listened to every word and was tapping the box on the bench and then, without a word slowly moved away and turned his back on her. She let out a heavy sigh and closed her eyes, raising a hand to her forehead in frustration. Why couldn't he just talk to her?

"Why do you do this?" she asked louder than she probabaly should have, and opened her eyes and saw him standing with one arm against the pillar to the entrance of the open tent, looking at the sunset, the same sunset she had not long ago been admiring.

His back was to her and his head was bowed and a heavy sigh came from him, "I dont mean to shut you out" he admitted quietly.

She moved closer, standing right behind him, "Then why do you?" she whispered.

He turned slowly at the sound of her voice, but with his head still looking down, not making eye contact with her.

"Wyatt?"

He finally raised his head and she saw the water in them, he swallowed deeply and cleared his throat, "Because your the first women i've been close to since Jessica and it scares me"

Lucy knitted her brow, "But there's Jiya and Agent Christopher-"

"-not like that"

She felt her stomach flip, was he saying this? He was comparing his relationship with her, to that of the one he had with his wife?

"Lucy," he breathed out, just the way he said her name like that gave her goosebumps, "i don't know what this is," he motioned between them, "but i know i have that fear. And I've only had that fear one other time. It feels exactly the same and i don't think i can go through that again"

"Wyatt what is this fear?" she asked him confused.

"Its not one thing. Its so many things," he told her, his striking blue eyes burning a hole into hers, "fear of taking a step forward, fear of forgetting what i had, fear of messing things up, fear of not being good enough. Fear of,-" his eyes wouldn't leave hers, the last moments of the sun setting was reflected in them and she took a deep breath, "fear of losing you altogether"

Her mouth open, she felt speechless, "Wyatt-"

"The Empress wishes to dine with Mr Wood tonight to talk about the last few days of the expedition-" Reine had entered the area with Alex and they were taken completely by surprise. Lucy quickly wiped the tears from her eyes and turned to them and smiled.

"I better freshen up for dinner," she spoke to them as they nodded, completely unaware to what they had walked into. She gave a backwards lingering glance to Wyatt who watched her intensely, "i'll see you at dinner" she whispered to him.

Without another look she picked up her dress and walked on, trying to hide her emotions. But her face must have shown all of them, thankfully she saw no one else on the way back to her tent.