I'm glad you are all loving the twist...now on to how it happened...ish...its over the next few chapters. And don't worry i do cover how it's effected their timelines etc...

Lucy's examination had been quick at the hospital, the Doctors were happy with the stitches, even though they questioned how it had been done and what was used. It looked pretty good and Wyatt had done a good job with what he had in 1880 South Africa.

They gave her a fresh bandage and medication that she took in the taxi back to Mason Industries.

During this time she had filled Jiya in completely on everything.

"You were always worried" Jiya commented quietly as they entered an empty office in the building with a laptop.

"How do you mean?" Lucy enquired, setting her water down and taking a seat.

Jiya put the laptop down and opened it up, "Well both of you said it was a complete risk doing this job together. That something could change, that you might even forget about each other and what you had. It scared you guys so much you put a box of memories together, a video-"

"-where are these things?" Lucy jumped on it instantly. A box of memories? She wanted to see these straight away.

"Because of the fear of that happening, you agreed not to keep them at your place. In case that place didn't even exist...so Rufus has them at his," Jiya told her, taking the seat next to her, "i have his keys. We can go there after this"

So they had thought ahead. It seemed like her. She was organised and liked control. It reminded her of a conversation she had with Denise once, she had done the same thing. Worried that it could be a different life they go home to, so gave Lucy a DVD of photos, so she would know the life she had.

"Ok lets get started," Jiya brought up the search engine, "so we believe Wyatt's ancestors meeting in the way they did with you there, somehow changed things?"

Lucy nodded, "I translated an awful lot for them. It was more in depth interaction in this timeline than in the original. But its my best guess"

"No its good. We go with that" Jiya agreed, typing in names. All the names that Lucy knew, they found stories and articles online. But one jumped out straight away, as soon as she saw the headline 'A new start for Woods Valet'

"This one" Lucy told her, opening up the article and started to read, "Field Marshal Sir Evelyn Wood V.C was undoubtedly a good judge of men. The thought occurs on reading that Mr Alexander Walkinshaw Sir Evelyn's personal servant for 5 years, intends shortly to make a new start in America with his wife and son, not withstanding the fact he is only 28 years of age-"

She stopped before going any further, that's not what Wyatt told them. They married in Britain when he was 32, he was suppose to go on more engagements with Wood in the original timeline. He had been his servant for over 30 years, not 5. This was so wrong already it scared her.

Lucy was too much in a daze and Jiya carried on reading the article, "The decision of the young man, whom Sir Evelyn often described as 'a tried and proved friend rather and a servant,' testifies to the grit in the man who was in 4 actions with him-"

"-no that's wrong," Lucy stated shaking her head, "Wyatt told me one night, Alex served with Wood in 9 actions, not 4" this wasn't right.

Jiya obviously not knowing the other timeline continued the article, "Walkinshaw had an exciting, not to say romantic career so far. He enlisted in October 1873, as a bugler and won the D.C.M in the Zulu War," Lucy sighed with relief, that was still the same, "He also holds other medals including the Khedive Star. He was one of the party of ten selected men who captured Cetwayo and after the Prince Imperial was killed, he was with the Empress Eugenie's party which visited the scene of her son's death-"

"But he was 28 Jiya, moving to America wasn't meant to happen until he was 50! Then at his wife's request they returned to France where they spent their remaining years!" Lucy was getting agitated.

Jiya raised her hands, "Ok calm down, i'm just reading the article out"

Nodding Lucy quickly apologised, "I'm sorry. But this isn't the timeline we knew about, does it say where Alex was going to?"

Jiya skimmed the article some more, "It says New York, but after that he could have gone anywhere. But we can look in the census-" she quickly typed and got themselves on the right site.

"I would say our best bet is to look for Wyatt's 3 times great grandfather, Evelyn Walkinshaw" Lucy told her.

But Jiya wasn't typing, instead she had paused before going any further, "Wait a minute" she looked like she was thinking over something.

"What is it?" Lucy enquired.

"I've heard Wyatt say that name before" she replied. She didn't think Wyatt spoke about him, he certainly didn't in their timeline. Evelyn was a shadow of his Father, having fought in the first world war and become a spy because of his French heritage. He deserted his wife and children and set up life in San Francisco where he died alone in a hotel room, his cause of death unknown. All of this Wyatt had told Lucy on their travels of Zululand.

"In what context?" Lucy asked her.

"He went on to become a world-renowned French professor at Standford," Jiya told her, which shocked Lucy. Professor? "saying that all of Wyatt's family on his Mothers side in the male line are professors-" she stopped mid sentence because they had cracked it.

It made sense, a new life in America when he was young gave him more guidance and freedom to choose the life he wanted. Not the military life his Father had previously had him go into. He would have only been a few years old when they moved, and possibly not even taken part in the first world war for the British.

Then something else hit her, something she hadn't even asked yet. But was a pivotal part of the puzzle, "Jiya how did we meet?" she took deep breaths. How her and Wyatt met could hold more answers.

A look of hesitancy came upon her face, and she looked uncomfortable, "Are you sure you don't want to wait until you see the tapes-"

"-how did we meet Jiya?" she wasn't going to ask again.

Jiya swallowed hard, "Your grandfathers were best friends. So were your Fathers," she informed her, causing her world to spin, "...you grew up together"

Ok so that article was one i actually found about my great great grandfather Alex. But she was right, he moved when he was an older man. He went to America for a while, only to go back to France where his wife was from and live the rest of his life there. So the article i wrote...is real, but amended. He actually had a 42 year career with Sir Evelyn Wood and WAS in 9 actions with him. Such an amazing military career.