Chapter Four-

Lucy and Flynn stepped out of the time machine from 1919 and rushed over to Denise.

"Who Did you vote for president." Lucy asked.

"Hilary Clinton." She said, a question in her voice.

"Who won?" Lucy asked.

"Trump, why was that not supposed to happen?" Denise asked.

Lucy grinned, "That one wasn't us." She moved to too stand next to Flynn, "If we could change that one thing, we would!" She laughed with Flynn as she walked towards the kitchen to make coffee.

Behind them Wyatt caught them in the hall, "Lucy can we talk?"

She turned to look at him, after the talk with Wyatt in 1919, she was hesitant to engage with him again until they both had time decompress and calm down.

"Maybe later, after dinner?" She said starting to back up.

"No Lucy, please. I need to talk to you. It's important."

She looked at Flynn, who looked at her with a raised eyebrow. When she gave him a small smile and nod, he gave her a quick small nod back and walked away.

Lucy turned back to Wyatt and followed him into the kitchen area. She turned around and faced him, her arms crossed over her stomach, almost like a layer of protection. "What's up?" Lucy asked carefully.

Wyatt sighed and ran his hand through his hair, "Luc, not Flynn ok. He is a terrorist, a killer, he has hurt you. He has kidnaped you. Taken you hostage to get what he wants."

Lucy shook her head at him, "Wyatt nothing happened with Flynn, he was there from me when I needed someone. He was there was I was lonely and tiered. And he is becoming a friend." She held her hand up when he went to speak, "We are friends, Wyatt, that's it. Friends. You are married…. To the love of your life. I can't…. wont… do NOT want to compete with that."

Wyatt shook his head at her, "OK, I get that Lucy, I do. But not Flynn, he needs to go." He said in a frustrated voice.

Lucy started to get mad, "What do you want from me Wyatt? I am confused by what you want. You want me to not be friends with anyone but you and Rufus. I can't be around anyone else. I can't engage with anyone else. But I get to listen to you leave this area. "She said waving her arms around, "And listen to you with your wife. Am I supposed to sit all alone? Be alone and wait for you to come be my friend when you want?" She took a deep breath and put her hand to her head, "He is a good man Wyatt, he is not just filling a space. He listens to me, he makes me smile and laugh…. Do you know how often I laugh lately … It's only with Flynn and Rufus."

She sighed and took another deep breath, "You made your choice and that's fine, I understand. I do. She was your everything. How many laws did you break to get her back." She said with ah humorless laugh.

Wyatt narrowed his eyes at her, "Do not do that." He growled. "I see what you are trying to do." His voice was raising with each and every word and he was yelling by the end, "DO NOT OCMPARE ME TO HIM."

Lucy narrowed her eyes at him right back and yelled right back, "YOU WANT ME TO COMAPRE THE TWO OF YOU? I CAN DO THAT! HE TOOK THE MOTHER SHIP TO GO BACK IN TIME TO GET HIS FAMILY BACK, TO GET HIS FIVE-YEAR-OLD DAUGHTER BACK. YOU WENT BACK TO GET YOUR WIFE BACK. THE DIFFERENCE HE WAS TRYING TO MAKE IT SO EVERYONE THAT WAS HURT BY RITTENHOUSE, EVERY SINGLE PERSON EFFECTED, WOULDN'T BE. DID HE DO THINGS WRONG, YES! DID HE MAKE MISTAKES, YES! HAS HE MURDERED PEOPLE, YES! BUT, SO HAVE YOU…" She paused taking a deep breath trying to calm down, "So have I. I have killed people too. One of them being innocent. …. Her voice broke as the tears started to run down her face, "Completely innocent, and I murdered him in cold blood."

She looked up at Wyatt her face broken, her body posture utterly broken. Tears were running down her face and she was gasping trying to get her emotions under control. She just gazed at him, lost and wounded. After a few moments she took a deep breath and brushed the tears off of her face, "I am trying." She whispered, "To make it through this…. To survive…... when it feels like I have nothing left…. When I have no reason to fight anymore." She stood a little taller and cleared her throat. "I am so happy for you Wyatt, you got the one thing you wanted more than anything back. You fought and won. So far you are the only one who can say that. Mason lost everything, Rufus and Jiya are trying to make it through, trying to survive this, Flynn lost his entire family… and I lost my entire world… but you, you got back the one thing you wanted. And that gives me hope. Because if you can get what you want… then maybe we can to… maybe we can have happy endings."

She turned and walked to the door way, "But until we get to the end…...of all of this." She said gesturing at the bunker, "I need to survive. I need to find something that makes me happy … I need to be able to smile and laugh…... something to fight for." She smiled at him, "You have been a great friend to me Wyatt, and I hope that we can get that relationship back. Friends, and while I will take your thoughts into consideration. You are not my boss or boyfriend or father or anyone else who might think they have a say in my choices."

He shook his head at her but before he could say anything she cut him off, "Think before you speak Wyatt because I would hate for our friendship to be over." She said softly before walking out the door and down the hall.

She didn't see him break down crying in the kitchen. She didn't see Rufus, Jiya, Mason or Christopher hiding around the corner. She didn't see Flynn standing in the shadows watching her cry as she walked down the hall. She just pulled into herself one more time, refusing to break. It was only later when Flynn found her sitting on the couch at 2 am did she let her walls come down. Did she let the tears pour and the vodka numb her as she leaned against Flynn one more time. She used him for his strength, for his calmness, for his peace… but most of all she used him because she finally felt safe again.

-/-

It had been ten days since the fight between Wyatt and Lucy and the bunker was finally getting quiet. Wyatt had been spending more and more time with Jess and avoided Flynn and Lucy. Since Lucy and Flynn reused to hide away in their rooms that meant that Rufus, Jiya, Mason and Denise didn't really see them.

The group minus Jess and Wyatt had begun to come together for dinner each day to get to know one another and see what common ground they had. Surprisingly, even though Flynn was often quiet at dinner the others seemed to come to understand and even tolerate him better. It was only Lucy that would get him to smile, or to tell a story. The night before Lucy had told a joke and then teased Flynn and to everyone surprise, Flynn laughed. Not his reserved almost cold laugh, but a real and happy laugh. He was looking at Lucy, eyes crinkled and mouth smiling. The entire room had stopped to look at it, before looking away quickly so he wouldn't get uncomfortable.

Tonight, Flynn and Jiya cooked much to the frustration of Rufus. However, Rufus and Jiya could not cook, so no one allowed them to ever cook together. Mason was also on the list of being unable to cook. Every night it had to either be Flynn, Lucy or Denise on the nights that Denise stayed to eat. Wyatt and Jess were scheduled to make dinner tomorrow, and while they had come to dinner most nights, Wyatt's was silent and brooding and poor Jess was stuck trying to make conversation for both her and Wyatt. The team took pity on Jess and would talk to her and try to bring her into conversations. After a few nights she started to relax and talk to them, not worrying about Wyatt.

Flynn and Jiya had been talking and laughing through the making of dinner and when they set the spaghetti down Jiya grinned and said that she made the garlic bread all on her own. Behind her Flynn was shaking his head no and making a cutting motion under his throat. The team steered clear of the bread except Rufus, who had to be a good boyfriend. However, one bite later and he was choking on water as the garlic hit his throat like fire.

"Yum." He chocked, "A little strong on the garlic, but yum." He said, eyes watering. The rest of the team burst out laughing. Then the Alarm for the mother ship sounded through the bunker, making the team jump up and run from dinner and run to the computer terminal. "Where did they go?" Denise asked, waiting for Rufus to bring up the information.

"Hold on, hold on." Rufus said typing quickly.

Wyatt came running from the backroom where he had been with Jess, "Where are we going."

"Hold on, hold on." Rufus said, moving over so Mason could start typing with him.

"Got it." Jiya said, "July 8, 1856. In Smiljan, Lika."

"Where is that?" Wyatt asked.

Flynn finally spoke up, "It was part of the Austo-Hungarian Empire, a region of Croatia. There is only one reason that they are there, and it is not good."

Lucy gasped, "Nikola Tesla. He was born in 1856."

Flynn frowned and nodded, "July 10th, 1856, to be exact."

"We need to go, now. What if they are going to kill his Mother before he gives birth." Lucy said running over to the machine. Flynn nodded and followed her quickly.

"No, you are not going." Wyatt said, grabbing Flynn and pulling him back.

Flynn turned to Wyatt with a grin, "Well unless you suddenly learned to speak Croatian, I am the most important person going." He turned to Christopher. Who shook her head, "He is going, end of discussion."

Wyatt shook his head, "I do not trust him, and I can't go on mission with someone that I don't trust. He is manipulating everyone in this bunker."

Denise raised an eyebrow, "He is not manipulating me." She held up a hand to silence Wyatt when he went to speak up. "I understand that you are upset about the past and are having a hard time coming to grips with this new team. But a team it is Wyatt, and if you don't want to be on it. That is your choice. But Flynn, the only one of you that speaks Croatian, is going on this trip. We can discuss you guys taking turns when you get back. That might be better to give you guys breaks anyway."

Denise looked over at Lucy and Rufus who were standing at the door of the time machine, "Are you ok with this? You guys have to be able to work as a team."

Lucy nodded, "I am ok with everyone on my team. I will go with Jiya, Rufus, Flynn or Wyatt. I know that we all want the same thing. The ability to stop Rittenhouse and right some of the wrongs they have done."

No one missed how she named Wyatt off last in her speech, but they turned to look at Rufus when he spoke. "I agree with Lucy." Rufus refused to look down at Wyatt knowing he would see a look of betrayal. "The most important thing is stopping Rittenhouse, I want a normal life, I want to move on … with Jiya. We can't do that until we stop them and say what you want about Flynn, but his number one goal has always been to stop Rittenhouse. Plus, I believe him when he says that he will protect Lucy and hopefully me." He said with a shrug.

Flynn looked up and nodded at him.

"Plus, I don't speak Croatian, I am pretty sure that Lucy and Wyatt don't. So, I am thinking that he needs to come to at least help us communicate."

Wyatt's face turned red and blotchy and his face, "So all of you in here say that you trust him, that you are willing to bet your life and mine on him." He growled. You could tell the fight that they had gotten into earlier was still fresh in his mind.

"Yes." Lucy said standing up straighter, "trust him with my life and I trust his word. If he says that he will not hurt anyone in here, then he won't. I won't be worried until he tells us that he is no longer on our side. He has never lied before, I don't see why he would start now."

Wyatt turned to her with narrowed eyes, "Maybe that is because you are sleeping with him." He snapped. The room gasped, and his eyes widened when he realized what he just said in his anger.

Flynn's eyes narrowed at Wyatt, "For respect of Lucy's, somewhat friendship with you. I am going to let that go. But don't ever talk to her or about her like that again." He snarled.

Lucy's eyes were wet when she looked down at Wyatt, but her voice was strong, "Like I told you before Wyatt, nothing happened. We talked and relaxed in this hell hole that we can't leave…. He was being a friend to me. Something that you seem to be failing at over and over again. I truly do not understand what it is that you want from me. You made your choice." She looked over as Jess came in the room, "Now live with it. You can choose to be friends with me or we can just be work associates, its your choice but either way you will respect my choices." She turned over to Denise, "We need to go, we cannot let anything happen to Duka Tesla, if anything happens to Nikola Tesla the entire world is going to change. From the way our modern world works in science, electricity and engineering to laws and political standings. It could destroy the future that we know, or if Rittenhouse is trying to take over and shape and mold him, then Rittenhouse would have even more power."

Denise nodded at her and waved them into the life boat, "Flynn get in. you do whatever you have to, to stop Rittenhouse. They cannot get their hands on Duka or Nikola in anyway."

Lucy shook her head frowning, "No it is more than that, we have to protect them. Nikolas upbringing, his path it effects our world today. Hell, there is a lawsuit currently over the Tesla patents, imagine if Rittenhouse changes it so that he was never born, and we lose all that he brought to the world, or worse they take Nicola and raise him within in Rittenhouse. We MUST preserve this history at any cost." She said fiercely.

Denise nodded at her, finally understanding. "Fine, protect Duka at any costs, and get her and her baby home safe to her family. Kill any members of Rittenhouse that stand in your way." She said looking at Flynn. "Come and take some more weapons." She held out another gun with a silencer and extra rounds.

Flynn nodded at her walking over to grab them quickly before walking over to the time machine. Lucy watched as Flynn whispered something to Denise, she narrowed her eyes as she watched the ongoing silent argument between them. After a moment or two they both nodded, and Flynn walked over to the time machine. He climbed in and went to follow Rufus in, he turned last minute to look at Wyatt, then he looked to Lucy who nodded at him in agreement, then he climbed into the Time machine.

Lucy turned to look down at Wyatt, "Are you coming? We could use the entire team." She said holding out a verbal olive branch. She watched the emotions fly across Wyatt's face, finally he turned to Denise, "I am going because I don't trust him, and I need to keep Rufus and Lucy safe."

Denise nodded, "Fine but Lucy is in charge of all of you. She knows the past the best next to Flynn and she is the only one that you all listen to."

Lucy nodded in agreement and climbed into the time machine, taking the seat next to Flynn, who turned and grinned at her. "I get to go home, pre-revolution. How exciting." He said.

She grinned at him, "Yes, nothing like a country of turmoil and no real amenities like running water, coffee stores or real hotels with real beds."

Rufus turned to look at the two of them, "Yep and I get to be Black again in a country with no real black people and no rights."

For once Flynn agreed with him, "You are right, you will stand out like a sore thumb. I think it would be best if you stay with the time machine and protect it when we get there."

Rufus turned and looked at Flynn, "Are you saying that because you don't want me around or because you think it would really be better for me to stay?" he asked as Wyatt was climbing into the machine.

Flynn shrugged, "You can go with us if you want, but you were not wrong when you said that the color black will stand out. The area we are going is not known for servants either, so your usual cover might not work." He looked at Lucy, "It is up to you, according to Christopher you are in charge."

Lucy looked at Rufus with a frown, "I don't want you getting hurt and I am not sure if we will be able to keep the cover. Maybe it would be better if you stay and watch the time machine. However, it is up to you, if you want to come we will figure it out."

Rufus nodded, "Let's see when we get there what the situation is."

Lucy started buckling in, "That sounds like a good plan."

Flynn reached over and clipped her straps together and then pulled them tight. No one noticed the look that Wyatt was giving them. "I agree with Lucy." Flynn sadi sitting back in his seat to buckle in.

"I disagree." Wyatt said pulling on his straps in frustration, "We have never had to leave a team member behind before. I don't think that we should start now."

Rufus was facing forward starting the machine up, "Yes but there were only 3 of us before, now that there are 4 we can be in more places at once."

Lucy nodded as she sat back, "Plus the most important of all of us is Rufus. Without him we don't go to the past or more importantly back home to the present."

Rufus turned and looked at Lucy with a grin, "Are you trying to bench me only, so I can get you home?"

Flynn grinned, "That's one of the reasons I am keeping you safe. I already left Croatia once. I would hate to get stuck there in 1856."

Rufus laughed, "See I knew that you would protect me…. Even if it is only to protect yourself." He said.

Flynn laughed at him, "Fine take me home Rufus."