Thanks for the encouragement and for sticking with me.
Jane is back for a couple of reasons - she's on official business, but she also has to come to terms with the
fact that her own son does not know what she does. She's struggling with that on some level.
Direction
Helena felt that all too familiar tingling sensation emanating out from her right buttock where she was shot with the Tesla. Within seconds, she was losing consciousness and paralyzed. She fell forward on the doorman who was shouting; "you killed her, you killed her?' and panicking. Helena fought it long enough to hear a woman's voice assure him she had not and then she lost consciousness. Helena knew on its lowest setting, the person only meant to stun Helena into submission, and that it would wear off shortly. In those few seconds, Helena planned their demise.
Jane convinced the hyper young man to help her take Helena outside to a waiting car and gave him extra money to keep him calm. Then Jane took her passenger to the location they suspected she kept their item. As the government car was pulling away, Pete's car was pulling up and waiting for Helena who had sent him a text. He had the strangest sensation – of something being wrong – as he pulled up. He texted his boss – who texted back – you were late, so I took a cab.
"Oh come on, like by one minute," Pete complained, but still couldn't shake the feeling.
Myka shot up with a start. She had been lying on the couch, reveling in the sweetness that was last night when she knew something was wrong. She texted Helena who assured her she was okay. Myka thought at first it might just be Helena's absence and that this is what it felt like, but it wouldn't go away. She rushed to get dressed – she could feel Helena was ….and the more she tried to tune into it –the more it felt like….. Helena was both really calm – and pissed.
Jane had the agent who was driving - assist Helena to walk into her townhouse and they waited with her in the living room.
Myka was downstairs just as Pete was pulling away. Why was he waiting so long? Tommy looked a little too nervous for Myka who had given him the benefit of the doubt on his last transgressions.
"Thomas, did you see Ms. Wells leave?" Myka asked the young man who couldn't look her in the eye.
"Yes," he said shuffling papers.
"Thomas, tell me what's going on and I won't be upset," Myka tried.
He took a really deep breath. "They shot her," he blurted out.
"What?" Myka screamed and grabbed him by his stiff lapels.
"That woman that was sitting here all night. When Ms. Wells came down – and she was threatening me, that lady came up behind her and tazered her in her butt," Tommy said.
"What woman? What did she look like?" Myka asked shaking him.
"I don't know. Some middle aged lady. She knew Mr. Gore," Tommy said and Myka lost it.
She let go of Thomas' coat and pushed he backwards. "I will deal with you later. Better yet, I will let Ms. Wells deal with you. Word of advice, Tommy Boy," Myka said calling him by his nickname. "Run," she growled.
She ran outside and hailed a cab and called Helena, but no answer. Then she called Pete and he said Helena took a cab because he was late. "Something's wrong, Pete. I can feel it," Myka said. It confirmed his own vibes that were very unsettled. Then Myka remembered the honing device. She woke up Claudia and told her they had to find Helena. She hung up, waiting for Claudia to get the program and running. Then, it the quiet of the early morning, Myka quieted her mind and listened.
"!866 Central Park West," she said to the cabby. Myka was learning to trust her instincts and she knew where Helena was.
Helena was just finding out, too where she was. She jolted straight up in the chair and then realized they were in her living room. Had she been able to move, she would have lunged at her uninvited guests, but she was still coming off the full body sting.
"I will bloody kill you," she threatened. She looked at the oversized man who was standing behind the woman in the chair across from her. She stared at her, trying to place her.
"You're a Regent!" Helena finally said remembering her from the diner.
"Yes, I am," Jane said and smiled.
"You shot me in my ass," Helena complained because the feeling was most intense in that area.
"Yes, I am sorry about that Helena," Jane said and sounded sincere.
"What do you bloody want with me now?" Helena said moving her extremities slowly.
"Agent Miles behind me has the Tesla. I know you're upset, Helena, but I don't want you to do anything rash," Jane said.
"I think my lawyer made it perfectly clear to you people, that if you wanted anything from me, you had to go through her," Helena said and then thought about that. She didn't want them anywhere near Myka. Then suddenly she realized Myka might be picking up on all of this. If she was, she knew she would be on her way.
"OK, what do you want?" Helena said and made a concerted effort to calm herself down. If she was sending off signals, she didn't want them to appear urgent.
"I've been sent to take back what is ours," Jane said and her words infuriated Helena. Self-control was not something Helena practiced.
"Are you bloody mad?" Helena shouted because it made her insane that they wanted her things.
"Agent Wells…," Jane said getting up and walking around as if she had been invited in.
"I am not your agent anymore," Helena shouted and it was a test to see how much she could move.
"Of course, I stand corrected," Jane said making sure the large agent was between them. She had heard about the Brit's temper. "We can't have you traveling back in time anytime you feel like it," she explained.
"I can't … ," but Helena didn't feel like explaining it all over again. "It is my bloody crystal," Helena said rubbing her hands together. She was getting the sensation back and was minutes away from expressing herself without words.
"Yes, we've seen an example of how well you keep your word," Jane said and that was enough to propel Helena out of her seat.
"I will bloody …," she was threatening when she heard her name being called in the sweetest tone.
"Helena?" Myka said from the doorway. Now Helena was caught between saying 'speak to my lawyer' and 'don't' you dare speak to my lawyer.'
"I remember you from the meeting, " Myka said to Jane. "I think I made myself clear that if you had anything to say to Ms. Wells, it was to come through me."
"This is ….personal," Jane said.
"I'll tell you what is personal, Agent…?" and Myka waited for her to fill in the blank, but she didn't. "Well, no matter. I think the item you're looking for in fact belongs to Ms. Wells," Myka pointed out.
"It became part of our inventory, once Ms. Wells was – housed there," Jane explained.
"I'll tell you what to do. You get the necessary paperwork that proves this item is yours and submit it to me. I'll be happy to look over it. If you don't leave right now, I will encourage my client to press charges for trespassing, kidnapping, and assault with a deadly weapon….. AGAIN!" Myka shouted and by now she was standing in front of Helena.
"Ms. Bering, I don't know if you realize…," Jane started but Myka had enough.
"If you don't leave right now, I will file those charges myself. What you people don't understand is that I am not under any obligation to keep your operation a secret. I will blow the freaking lid off your warehouse if you do not leave now!" Myka yelled in a very controlled voice. "And the next time I see you, if you don't have legal cause and the proper paperwork to ask to see Ms. Wells, I will go up one side of you and down the other," Myka said in her most menacing voice.
Helena had never been so turned on in her life.
Jane knew defeat when she met it. She didn't want to push her luck and so she nodded her setback. "You understand our concern," she said to Myka. Of course Myka did. It was the same thing she worried about when she heard Helena had the operational piece to the Time Machine.
"Ms. Wells will give you her word that she will not use the Time Machine without putting you on notice," Myka said because she thought that was reasonable.
The only place Helena wanted to travel to was upstairs with Myka. She would have agreed to getting Papal dispensation for using the Time Machine if Myka had proposed it.
"I have no need to use it," Helena said in a breathy voice.
"I have your word, Ms. Wells?" Jane asked.
"Yes," Helena said staring dreamily at her lawyer.
Jane was tempted to apologize for using force on Helena, but she didn't want to remind her lawyer about that. "Very well," the older woman said and took her leave with her agent.
"Wow, these people are one crazy bunch of …," Myka was saying but Helena was pressing her lips into her.
"God you're so hot when you're angry," Helena said to Myka as she pressed her up against the wall.
"You get turned on by the strangest things," Myka laughed.
"Darling, you have no idea," Helena purred in her ear.
"I can't believe them, " Myka said unaware that they were the last thing on Helena's mind. "Taser? Kidnapping? Home invasion? Is there nothing they won't do to get what they want?"
"Well, they are a rather serious bunch," Helena said.
"Helena, do you have that crystal locked up? I mean, who knows if they would break in. It's not like it's beneath them," Myka said.
"Yes, it's locked away safely," Helena assured her.
"Well, I hope that deters them," Myka said. "I'd feel better if we went to work together today," Myka said.
"Indeed," Helena said happy to have Myka anytime. "But we have time for that," the Brit said walking Myka backwards up the stairs to the bedroom.
When they reached the landing, Myka reached around to pull Helena into her and grabbed her right in the spot where the taser had hit. Helena let out a groan and startled Myka.
"The GPS disc apparently made the taser shot worse," Helena explained.
"Let me see if I can make that feel better," Myka offered – and decided it was time for that damn thing to come out.
She didn't need a device to tell her where Helena was anymore.
I just love it when Myka comes to the rescue and believes in herself.
It's part of her becoming Helena's true One.
What do you think?