20| WHY IS SHE A PUPPET?

[ Chapter Twenty ]

❝Do you like pushing people away who try to care about you, John?❞

[Legends of To-Meow-Meow]

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Once they got to the Bureau, Charlie went into the Bureau alone, and John and Myra stayed inside the jumpship. Myra knew she had to stay behind because John and Charlie both didn't trust her but Myra honestly was tired of fighting John and Charlie on this.

"What's happening? Talk to me, love? Is everything normal?" John asked over the comns as Myra sat in the captain's chair with her feet on the screen.

"No. In fact things are actually pretty far from normal." Charlie responded.

"What do you mean?" Myra asked through her comn.

"Nate, Ray and Rory are dead in this timeline." Charlie said.

"What?" Myra stood up and began to pace the jumpship.

"No reason to panic. We still got this. Okay, we find out how the boys died in this timeline and then we go back and save them, and hopefully when they return they won't be magical creature murderers." Charlie said.

"Hopefully." Myra emphasized.

"We're not going back to New Orleans, Myr. We can do this." Charlie argued

"Fine whatever." Myra sighed, and sat down next to John who was sitting with Zari.

"What happened to them?" Charlie's voice came over the comns.

"Who?" Myra asked.

"Sara and Ava." Charlie said, "Okay, if anyone knows what happened to the guys, it will be them. Hang tight on the ship. Looks like I'm joining the S.O.S."

"Good luck." Myra said and then turned to John as the comns went silent.

"Look, I know you want me to put things back to the way they were." John said, "But that's not going to bloody happen."

"Stop being so stubborn." Myra glared at him and then sighed, "Look, I understand that you don't want to hurt him. But, time is literally broken. Look at what it's done to everyone."

Zari meowed and John sighed, "No, I'm not all right to be honest, but, it's better than letting Dez die because of me." He looked at Myra, "I'm sorry, Myra, but I can't let him go to hell because of me."

Myra sighed, "Even if we can't get things back to normal?"

John looked at her in almost pity and Myra had her response.

Myra nodded, "You know, I was actually starting to like you." She scoffed.

"Good thing you haven't." John responded.

"Do you like pushing people away who try to care about you, John? I mean, you have a whole team of people now who would fight for you and yet you decided to go behind their backs and take matters into your own hands." Myra crossed her arms over her chest, "I would assume you do, since you won't listen to us."

John glared at her but didn't say anything, and Myra sat back in her chair, "That's what I thought."

John suddenly turned on her, "You know what? Now that we have this time, what's going on with you and Charlie?"

"Nothing." Myra shook her head forcing herself to remain calm and neutral.

"Nothing, eh?" John asked, knowingly.

"Yes, nothing." Myra insisted, "We're friends, now. And it's none of your business."

John held up his hands in surrender but Myra could see a smirk on his face.

"Oy, wake up losers. I know how to fix this. Right, we got to take care of the Fairy Godmother in Salem." Charlie's voice came over the comns, "Fire up the ship. I'm heading there now."

Myra groaned but got up and sat down in the captain's seat again, before getting it ready, "Since you both aren't going to listen to me, we're going to do this your way."

A couple minutes passed until Charlie ran onto the ship, dressed as Amaya.

"Why the hell are you dressed as Amaya?" Myra asked her while John asked, "How were the Sirens of Space Time."

"Long story, Myr. And they are not the Custodians but they may actually be worse." Charlie answered, "Now, let's go save the lads."

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Myra decided to stay on the ship again, while John and Charlie went down to deal with the Fairy Godmother. She looked at Zari sympathetically, "I know, I tried, Z. They're just ridiculously stubborn."

Zari meowed at her.

"Shut up." Myra blushed, "Of course I'm doing this for the good of history."

John and Charlie came running back to the ship and Myra stood up, "How'd it go."

"Great." Charlie answered and hopped into the captain's chair before moving the jumpship away from Salem and into the Temporal Zone.

"I mean, I hate to jinx it but I really think we did it this time." John smirked at Myra.

"Let's hope so." Myra responded.

"Yeah, I hope you guys are right." Zari's voice came from behind them and they all turned around to face her.

Myra gasped and Charlie and John looked at Zari in confusion.

"What's wrong? What are you looking at? Do I have something on my face?" Zari asked, only she wasn't back to their Zari. Instead, for some unknown reason, she had turned into a puppet.

"Bollocks." Charlie cursed and flew to the Waverider.

"Lovely." Myra cursed, "Someone needs to go to the Waverider or the Bureau and see what's going on."

"I'll go." John volunteered as soon as they landed in the cargo bay.

"Alright. Be safe." Myra said, as John went into the ship and sat down looking at Charlie.

"What?" Charlie asked.

"I didn't say anything." Myra responded, rolling her eyes.

"Allright, John. Anything yet?" Charlie asked.

"Don't rush me love. Who knows what surprises wait for us in here?" John responded and then paused before continuing, "Sounds like a team meeting. I'll just pop in and say hello."

As John's voice disappeared Charlie looked at Myra, "We'll fix this."

"And if we don't?" Myra asked, "I'm not living on the jumpship for the rest of my life. Even if we somehow 'fix' the timeline, there's still going to be cracks that we can't see. We'll mess up someone's life. How is that right?"

"Myra's right." Zari said, "But you haven't listened to us this entire time, so why would you now?"

"You both may be right but sending someone good to hell is also not right." Charlie added.

Myra sighed, "It isn't but John made his choice before so he's going to have to live with it. Just like I made a choice years ago that in turn got my sister killed. We've all done things we regret."

The three sat in silence until John returned.

"What happened? Did you figure out why I'm a puppet?" Zari asked.

"Yeah, it's worse than I thought." John commented, "After we managed to separate the Fairy Godmother from Prudence, she somehow glommed onto Rory. You can probably figure out the rest."

They all groaned in disgust.

"Well, we're just going to have to keep fixing what's broken until we get it right." Charlie said and fired up the jumpship again.

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Word Count: 1180

Hey guys! I hope you enjoyed! Just one more chapter in this episode, sorry I've dragged it out for so long.

(The gif at the top was made by me. Please do not steal it.)

What did you guys think? I live for the arguments between John and Myra.

I love you all and will see you soon with chapter 21.

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10. 23. 20