Wyatt couldn't tell you what woke him up. But just as he closed his eyes and rolled over, his arm expecting to find Lucy's waist. He found nothing in her place, but a piece of paper.

"Lucy," he yawned out. He was use to this. In the past six months of living together and the nights of them staying at his place for the past three years, he knew she would wake up at odd hours of the night and do her lesson plans. But if and when he usually woke up without her there, that he could convince her to come back to bed. Tonight was no different, except...he couldn't hear anything. Nothing but silence met him.

Wyatt couldn't hear her in the kitchen bustling about making coffee or tea. Or the shower running because she said it helped her think of ideas. It was only then, that his Delta Force instincts kicked in and he knew something was wrong.

He pushed himself into a sitting position, his hand coming in contact with the paper. He sighed in relief when he saw his name. But the relief quickly dissipated, after reading the note.

Jumping out of bed, Wyatt struggled to put on his clothes from the night before as he dialed Rufus' number.

"She already call you? No, Rufus. Do not let her on the mothership!" The Delta Force operative paused to hear his friend speak, "No, it has nothing to do with saving history! She's going back to try and save Jess!"

Wyatt paused again to hear the pilot speak. "Of course I do! But not like this! Never like this. Not if it means Lucy too…"

"I'm on my way right now...but Rufus, I'm sending you a picture of the letter she wrote me, if I don't make it in time. I want you to take your phone with you and promise to show it to me if history changes. Promise me Rufus...Thank you. I'll see you in a little while. Just stall her for as long as you can." Wyatt said, before he hung up and got into his car.

"-And he deserves to have her back instead of settling for me. Because this shouldn't be my life, when I can do something about it. I have to try Rufus." Good. Wyatt thought. He caught them before they had left. But once more, his relief quickly left him, when her words registered with him.

She really...She really thought that? Did she really think that she didn't deserve to be his wife? That he still wasn't over Jessica's death? He thought he made it clear that he had made peace with Jess' death when he told her that they should stop focusing on fixing the past and focus on the present and new possibilities.

In fact in some weird way, he thought maybe Jess brought him and Luce together-that this was her way of saying he should be happy.

"And when it does work, what will happen to you? What will you do?" He heard Rufus ask. But Wyatt had already started to move. He didn't need to, because he wasn't going to let that happen. The soldier had already lost one wife; he wasn't going to lose another.

"It doesn't matter because you two aren't going." Wyatt told the pair as he moved forward. Lucy looked up, her eyes weren't quite filling with tears, but they were definitely misty. She pivoted back towards Rufus.

"You were stalling me." Lucy said her tone was filled with accusation.

"I told him to." Wyatt explained as Rufus held up his hands in defense. The soldier then looked at his best friend.

"Hey Rufus, would you mind leaving me and Lucy alone for a minute? There are some things I have to talk to my fiancé about." Lucy bit her bottom lip. This wasn't going to end well.

"Why?" That was the first question out of Wyatt's mouth, after Rufus had left.

"Wyatt, I…" Lucy tried to find the words, but they weren't coming. Instead she fidgeted with her engagement ring.

Her engagement ring wasn't an engagement ring at all, because once she told the boys that she didn't want a flashy engagement ring, like Noah had gotten her. Instead she had wanted something personal to one of them or both of them. So her engagement was a ring Wyatt had gotten for being promoted to Grand Master Sargent in the Delta Force.

Noticing the movement, the grand master sergeant swallowed then asked, "Do you…do you not want to marry me? Is that it? Do you think we're moving too fast? Do you want to time? Because Lucy, I can wait. We don't have to get married right away."

"No Wyatt," Lucy looked up abruptly, "I do want to marry you. But I also don't want you to wake up one morning and think about what could've been with her. I don't want you to have any regrets. I don't want you to wake up one day and feel like you're settling for me."

"Lucy…" Wyatt's hands cupped her face and the historian leaned into his touch.

"Look, I'm not going to lie to you and say I don't feel anything for Jess, because I will always love her. But I've…I've made peace with her death. I'm tired of living in the past. I want to look toward the future with you. I meant what I said three years ago. I want to explore new possibilities. I want to explore new possibilities with you."

"I love you." Those were the only words the historian could say.

"I love you too and I love what you were trying to do. But I don't want you to. I'll always love Jess. But I've made peace with her death. It's time to move forward. Now can we go home?" Wyatt asked, after pressing a kiss to her forehead.

"Well...we do have a wedding to plan."

"That we do ma'am."

Rufus shook his head thoughtfully as he watched the couple exit the building. Following after the duo a few minutes later, he wondered if there was a time when they were going to be one of those boring couples.

Probably not. He decided as he shut the door to his car and went back to Jia's apartment.

Long time no see guys. I'm sorry, but I hit quite a bit of writer's block with writing everyone's favorite soldier. Anyways as I got to thinking about it, I realized that there was another way I could take this story. So there will be one more chapter in this story.