"You know what tomorrow is, right?" Shelby looked up from the essay she was typing on her laptop and over to Cyd.
"The day our final reports for English are due?" she asked.
"No," Shelby laughed. "What's today's date?"
"That's a silly question, your computer tells you the date in the bottom corner, it's May 9."
"Meaning tomorrow's May 10, right."
"Right?" Cyd asked questioningly, not sure of where Shelby was going with this.
"And what do we know is supposed to happen on May 10, 2019 because of the fact that we've been to that day over a dozen times accidently and purposely?"
"Oh," Cyd's voice dropped. "Tomorrow's future lab day."
"Yeah. What if we still did something that makes it happen?"
"What if we changed the future and made it so it doesn't happen?" Cyd countered. She spoke again after a minute of silence, "You know the only way to find out is to actually live through tomorrow. If I remember correctly, it happens right after we leave the RV. If nothing happens then, we're okay."
"And if it does?"
"We re-live the last four years and try to make sure we're more careful than we were before. I mean we escaped right after they got us the time we figured out exactly when on May 10 it happens, shouldn't be too hard to do again."
"Yeah, I guess you're right," Shelby agreed, turning back to her paper.
That night, they anxiously got ready for bed, not really ready to see if the future lab was still going to happen or not. Both girls ended up hardly getting any sleep and requested coffee with their toast the next morning. They downed their coffee and dragged themselves over to the RV.
"So far so good," Shelby said to Cyd when they got to the RV.
"Other than the lack of sleep."
"What's the matter with you two?" Barry asked.
"You look like you're seen a ghost!" Naldo exclaimed.
"Oh, it's just future lab day," Cyd said with mock enthusiasm.
"What do you mean?"
"We've been to today a lot before. It's supposed to be the day where GDD captured us and takes us to the future lab," Cyd explained. "Anyway, you two are supposed to be going to school. If we're not there by the time school starts, they've got us in the future lab. If we are there, we'll talk then."
"All right. Come Ronaldo, let's get to school."
"Okay."
"Are you ready?" Shelby asked a few minutes later once Naldo and Barry were gone. It had been approximately the time it had before they left when they lived through the morning before.
"Yeah." The girls took hold of each other's hands as they stepped outside of the RV. They stopped just outside the door and looked to the sky where people from GDD might have been coming down to capture them, despite knowing that's not how it happened, they also looked to their left and right; no one was in sight. They shrugged and continued on towards school, now letting go of each other's hands.
They were surprised to make it to school without being captured by GDD. "You made it," Barry said in surprise when they joined him in class.
"Yeah, we're just as surprised as you are," Cyd said.
"Did we really keep the future lab from happening?" Shelby asked in a whisper.
"Maybe. But something could be different so it's not happening when we expected it," Cyd said.
The group didn't talk anymore as class began.
At the end of the school day, nothing had happened yet. Cyd and Shelby returned to their room along with Naldo and Barry since they had a presentation to finish for class on Monday. "So the future lab hasn't happened yet," Cyd spoke. "I wonder if we avoided it. Future me," she exclaimed, holding her hand up.
Shelby couldn't help but smile as they high fived each other. They ended up in the future, but it was unlike any time they had been to the future before. They stood at a park with extensive green grass, watching two kids run around. There was little dark haired boy and a little girl with blond hair who had to be about his same age. The wind made Shelby lean a bit closer to Cyd so their shoulders touched, sending them back to the present.
"Did we just see our kids!?" Cyd exclaimed.
"I dunno, that's what it seems like," Shelby replied.
"You did what!?" Barry exclaimed.
"Not now, Barry," Cyd scolded him. "Future me again." This time Cyd and Shelby hugged, when they reached the future, they found themselves sitting in the front pew of a church. It seemed like the same little boy and little girl stood up on the stage with a preacher. The only thing was that they little boy and girl weren't little anymore and were about 20 years older.
Cyd and Shelby found themselves dabbing tears from their eyes. They reached their hands out to each other again without looking anywhere else in the future. If they had, they might have seen the building reading 'Cyd and Shelby Incorporated' just a few blocks down the road.
"We're gonna be co-grandmas!" Shelby exclaimed when they got back to the present.
"How far into the future did you go!" Barry exclaimed.
"Far enough for my son to be marrying Shelby's daughter," Cyd spoke happily. "I wonder what are grandkids like, or our husbands."
"We don't want to know that much about the future, it ruins all the fun," Shelby said.
"Yeah, I guess you're right."
"I can't believe you went about 30 years into the future," Barry said, stuck on that.
"I guess we don't end up in the future lab at all," Cyd spoke, a happiness in her voice.
"Yeah," Shelby agreed. "I can't wait for us to be co-grandma's."
"Me neither."
"Co-grandmas, 30 years into the future," Barry said, ruining the moment.
CHCHCH
"You know, looking back on it all, I wouldn't change a single thing."
"Neither would I."
Two kind old women sat on the front porch of the house they had raised their kids in with their respective husbands. The two men were gone, despite the women trying to do whatever they could to prevent their deaths, it always happened in the end, death was inevitable. They had come to terms with that after losing their husbands and realizing that even time travel couldn't change that.
"Great-grandma Shelby, Great-grandma Cyd, is it okay if I sit here with you?" a little girl, whose resemblance to them in their younger days was evident, asked.
"Of course you can."
Cyd and Shelby helped the little girl up onto the bench with them. The little girl watched her brothers and sister and older cousins playing in the yard on the hot summer day. None of them had any idea of what their great grandmas had done or seen in their lifetime, all they really knew was that they were glad the two women were still around.
A/N: So, what do you think of the ending. Did you love it? Hate it? Have mixed emotions? I'd really love to know what you thought of how I ended this, and I hope you liked it.
I'm kind of sad to be ending this because this is the first story I've had have an ending on fanfiction and it's quite literally the closing of a chapter. I do have another idea for another Best Friends Whenever fic that I've started writing. I've got the first couple chapters and might post it in the future and see where it takes me.
And, who's excited about the new episode Sunday? I'm not sure I'll see it then, but it's usually online within the week.
So I hope you enjoyed the series, thanks for reading, reviewing, and I hope enjoying.
-CrazyHayniac
