A/N: Yes, Brain Corporation does exist and they do basically what is talked about in this chapter.

Once the mother ship stopped spinning, Flynn cautiously opened the door, unsure of exactly what they would find. It was daylight now, but there didn't seem to be anyone around. A strong wind blew over the water causing a high surf. The trees rustled with the wind. Flynn spotted a few surfers out on the water by the beach, but no one that would be close enough to see the mother ship in the tree lines, surrounded by jagged rocks.

"Clear." Flynn finally said, leaving the lifeboat, followed by Lucy, Denise and Rufus.

Flynn immanently had his phone out, listening to the ringing, praying that someone would pick up.

"Hello?" A voice answered. She sounded a little different then he remembered, but it was music to Flynn's ears.

"Hey honey, it's me, you know, Garcia?"

The woman laughed, "Don't be silly! I know who you are. Are you done with your mission? Iris and I miss you! She keeps asking about her daddy."

Flynn smiled, tears streaming down his face, "I'll be home soon baby. I'll be home real soon. I love you Lorena. I love you and Iris both, so very much, more then you ever could know."

"I know darling. We love you too. See you soon." She blew him a kiss though the phone.

Flynn was crying as he ended the call, "That blasted time machine is all yours. I don't ever want to see it again. My family is back. That's all that matters to me. If I were you, I would destroy that damn thing!"

"I just might do that." Rufus nodded.

"We can't just leave it here, we have to take it SOMEWHERE." Lucy stated.

"Why don't you three take it back to Oakland warehouse for now. I'll drive back that way. If it's still empty leave it there for the time being. We'll discuss the best option for it when I get there." Denise suggested.

"And if it's not empty?" Rufus asked

"Get the heck out of dodge and then call me and let me know what is going on." she looked at them with raised eyebrows, "We have to tread carefully until we figure out what has changed in history. No one other then us remembers how things used to be."

The three nodded. "Let's get going then. Quicker I can get there quicker I can see my girls." Flynn was already getting back in the mother ship.

"Off we go." Rufus sighed, helping Lucy strap in before traveling to Oakland Warehouse.

Once they landed, Flynn was first out with gun raised. He scanned the warehouse. Still empty and dark, abandoned. "We're good." he called.

The three exited the lifeboat for what they hoped to be the last time.

"Good working with you. You too Lucy. You won't be seeing anything else of me." Flynn nodded.

"You can keep in touch, you know, friends." Lucy offered, "If you ever need anything, other then destroying American history, give me a call. I don't know who I will be or where I will be, but call me. I'd love to meet your family.

Flynn smiled brightly, "I think that's the nicest thing anyone has ever said to me." he nodded, "Sure, we can have a cook out or something one weekend. You, Rufus, Denise...you guys all come over."

Lucy nodded as did Rufus, "Stay in touch, Man. I wish you the best." Rufus shook his hand and Flynn hurried out the door, eager to see his family again.

I I I

Rufus pulled out his phone and dialed Jiya's number.

"Hello?" she answered.

"Hey Jiya...we made it. We're back." Rufus grinned.

"Um, who is this?" she asked.

Rufus' heart broke, "It's me, Rufus..."

"Rufus? Rufus Carlin?" she asked, excited.

"Yeah...last time I checked...You do remember me, right?" Rufus' heart beat faster now.

"Um yeah, from like ten years ago! You went off to Yale and I went to Stanford. We were going to keep in touch, but I guess life got in the way. It's been over ten years since I heard anything from you. How did you get this number?" she asked.

"Um...well...you still work at Mason?" Rufus asked trying to change the subject.

"Mason? I don't know what you're talking about. I never heard of Mason. I am working with a team at Brain Corporation over in Carmel Valley. We create human like brains for robots." Jiya smiled, "We actually have a robot that can go to the store, go shopping, and stand in line at the check out."

"Cool...Um, well I had been working at Mason. We were working with a time machine. I thought...I don't know, I thought you had been there once." Rufus sighed.

"Time machine? As in traveling to the future? No way!" Jiya gasped.

"More like to the past." Rufus stated.

"Past? Why would you want to go to the past. We've already been there. The future would be cool, to see what awaits us down the road...anyway...time travel...it's real huh?" Jiya asked.

"Yeah, it's real." Rufus chuckled a little, "I don't want to know what awaits me, I just want to keep things from changing in the present. Long story. Anyway, I don't think we're working on that anymore."

"Ah, that's too bad. Time Travel might have been cool." Jiya shrugged, "Well it's good to hear from you after ten years. Don't be such a stranger! I've missed us."

"Us?" Rufus asked.

"Um, yeah. We were the hottest thing going in high school. Everyone thought we'd be married by first year of college! Truth be told I was even planning our wedding." she laughed, "I was naive back then. I still believed in fairy tales."

"Jiya...I have never stopped loving you. What do you say we do dinner tonight? Just for old times sake. See where things go?" Rufus was filled with fear, afraid she was going to say she was married or no longer interested. The dead silence on the other end caused his heart to race faster.

Finally Jiya responded, "Yeah, sure, we can do dinner. Time and place?"

"Moe's at 6?" Rufus asked.

"Um...I am not familiar with any Moe's..." Jiya frowned.

"Okay, you pick. I can't think of a name right now." Rufus sighed.

"How about Shadracks down by the wharf?" Jiya asked.

"Um, yeah. That's in San Francisco right?" Rufus asked.

"Yes, you silly!" Jiya laughed.

"Okay, I'll see you there at 6." Rufus smiled, ending the call, he looked at Lucy shaking his head.

"What happened?" Lucy asked.

"Well, I guess Moe's isn't there anymore or Jiya doesn't remember it. That used to be her favorite place. She never heard of Mason but she builds brains for robots." Rufus laughed a little, "She hadn't seen me in over ten years. We dated in school and lost touch during college."

"Well, at least you two are back together now." Lucy smiled, looking down at her phone, "I tried to use mine but it doesn't work. I wanted to call Wyatt and see if anyone was there."

Rufus handed her his phone with a sympathetic smile.

Lucy's hands shook as she tapped Wyatt's name and heard the phone ringing.

"What you want?" a slurred voice asked.

"Wyatt? Wyatt Logan?" she asked. He sounded drunk.

"Yeah, that's me."

"Um...this is Lucy." she stated, knowing it was worthless.

"Lucy who? I don't know any Lucy." he muttered.

"I am a friend of Jessica's." she stated.

"Jessica? Lady you must have the wrong number. I don't know any Jessica either." Wyatt was getting aggravated now.

"I meant your wife..." Lucy frowned.

"Lady I am not married and I have one hell of a hangover so if there would be nothing else..."

"Sorry I must have the wrong number." Lucy sighed, ending the call.

"What's going on?" Rufus asked.

"Wyatt is drunk, not the happy friendly funny man I used to know. More like a shell of the guy who I first met at Mason. Apparently he's not married and never knew Jessica."

"Let me see the phone." Rufus took his phone back and opened Chrome typing in Jessica Logan.

No Results Foundation

"Well, I am not seeing anything where she was killed, but I don't know what her maiden name was. I have no way of seeing if she's still alive or ever existed. I don't know."

"Wyatt has his life back, but what kind of life is it? It didn't sound like the happy one he once had." Lucy said sadly.

"Fate has a way of working things out, Lucy." Rufus tried to comfort her.

"Yeah, that was before we went and messed with fate. Now look where it got us."

"Well it got us Wyatt back, Flynn got his family back. At least Jiya still knows who I am and agreed to dinner. I just get the pleasure of falling in love with her all over again." Rufus grinned.

"And where do I go from here? Where do you go? Is there no more Mason?" Lucy asked, tears starting to brim in her eyes.

"Hold on." Rufus dialed a new number on his phone.

"Hello?" A lady's voice answered.

"Mom? Hey mom. How are you?"

"Rufus! Good to hear from you. You have been so hard at work at that Mason place, we never see you anymore! David won his game last week, he can't wait to tell you. When will you get to come home?"

"I should be there shortly, mom." he smiled, "just calling to check in with you."

"Well it's good to hear from you. Hurry home, I'll have a good home cooked meal waiting for you." she promised.

"Mom, I have a friend from work. She has lost everything and has no family. She has no one and no place to go. I can't go into details, but...can she use our spare bedroom for a while?" Rufus asked.

"Why of course she can! Bring her on over. I'll have her a place set at the dinner table!"

"Thanks mom." Rufus smiled.

He hanged up and looked at Lucy with a smile, "Welcome to the family."

I I I

"Iris? Lorena? I am home!" Flynn called, a bit surprised Iris didn't run out in the yard to meet him like normal. Lorena wasn't at the door to greet him with a hug and kiss, like she used to.

"Girls?" Flynn called frowning. He had talked to Lorena. She said Iris missed her daddy. They were here. Where did they go?

"Hello Flynn..." A woman's voice drew out as she stepped from behind a door way, gun trained on him.

"C...Carolyn? What...what are you doing here?" Flynn stared at the woman he knew as Lucy's mother only from pictures Lucy had sketched in her journal. The journal talked about Lucy's mother being involved in anything.

"You really don't think bombing a building would kill Rittenhouse, did you?"

"How did you know?" Flynn glared at her, "What have you done with my family?"

"I killed them...or at least I will. Once they watch you die." She purred from her lips, a cold stare in her eyes. "The Hearst Theater is bombed the same day one of our members is shot to death a mile away. You really don't think we knew it was a calculated hit?"

"You shouldn't know anything is different. If you aren't in the time when changes takes place, then you don't know anything changed. This doesn't make sense, how do you know we changed anything in 2017 by going back?"

"When Mason seen the mother ship leave and couldn't get a hold of Rufus or Agent Christopher they knew something was up. So did Ben. He called me and I told him how strange Lucy was acting. We got Emma involved and we took the lifeboat back to 1979. We had planned on stopping you, but we arrived just as the explosion happened."

"You're saying Emma works for you? How did you go back, you can't visit a time you already exist in."

Carolyn laughed, "Not only does Emma work for us, she is a part of us. Like I told you, Rittenhouse will never end. You really think ALL Rittenhouse members are ever in one place at one time? Sure, you put a dent in us, but we are like the government, we always have a few designated survivors." she glared, "And that little detail about not being in the same time..." she shrugged, "It's just a suggestion, really. I knew I was at college that day because I met Ben then. I knew I couldn't go to the college. Besides, I stayed with the ship, Emma was going to do the dirty work."

"So what are you gonna do now? Kill me?" Flynn asked, raising his hands.

Carolyn leveled her gun at him, "Yes, with you dead and your family out of the way, we still have both time machines and Mason Industries is still trying to figure out how to get one built." she laughed.

"We're not dead yet..." a voice came from behind Carolyn before someone knocked her to the ground. Carolyn's gun flew from her hand and Flynn grabbed it up quickly pointing it at Carolyn.

Lorena was laying on top of Carolyn, her hands tied behind her back, a large gash bleeding on her head, but alive.

"Iris, where is Iris?" Flynn asked.

"She's tied up in the bedroom. She's okay, just terrified." Lorena whispered.

Carolyn struggled under Lorena and Flynn pointed the gun, then thought better of it. There had been enough killing, and he couldn't kill someone in front of his wife.

He helped pin Carolyn down, using his belt to tie her wrist tightly behind her back. Next, he quickly removed the duck tape holding his wife's hands and pulled her into a long deep kiss. "Go get Iris and the duck tape. I am calling the police." Flynn told her, dialing 911 while keeping his gun trained on Carolyn.

TBC