#john rittenhouse

[potterandpromises]

Okay, that’s a really extravagant banner for what this fic actually is.

Basically, during yesterday’s GGG group rewatch @ununpredictableme and I were discussing an AU where, instead of either killing John Rittenhouse or letting him go, they take him back to the present and put him in therapy. This is the quickest possible telling of that AU, because I need it out of my head.

“Just wait a minute.” Flynn steps forward and Lucy backs up even farther, sheltering the boy. “Please just hear me out.”

But Flynn can tell she has no plan, that she’s just biding her time waiting for Wyatt and Rufus to find them. Because there is no other way, he knows it in his racing heart. It gives him the strength to yank Lucy away by the wrist and raise his gun toward the boy, who cowers in the corner, looking at him imploringly, crying too hard to speak. 

He can do this. He has to do this.

“You’re right!” Lucy shouts and it’s enough to break him. Rittenhouse tries to run but Flynn grabs him by the arm. He holds them both tight in his hands. “You’re right,” Lucy says again, quickly, desperately. “We can’t just let him go, but what if we didn’t.”

She’s breathing hard, struggling to get the words out. Despite this, despite everything, Flynn feels like the helpless one. “What if we brought him back to the present.”

“What are you saying?” His voice can barely be heard above the boy’s sobs.

“I’m saying we can take him back with us and find him a foster family,” Lucy says, no longer struggling. “We’ll make sure he gets therapy... teach him there is another way.”

“What if he escapes?” Flynn croaks out, not ready to believe it.

“As long as we make it back to the present it won’t matter. If you’re right, Rittenhouse will be gone.”

He tries very hard to breath normality and fails. First, in that shitty bar, she gives him a future, now here she is, saving his soul— if that is possible— and destroying the thing that starved it all at once. He can only nod.

“Lucy!” Wyatt and Rufus come running and Flynn drops Lucy’s wrist like a hot iron. The three of them must be quite the sight but Flynn doesn’t look at their faces. He’s exhausted.

“We’re taking John Rittenhouse back with us in the mothership. We’ll make sure he gets the help he needs.”

“What, like put him in some kind of evil baby orphanage?” Rufus asks.

“Something like that,” she says. “I’ll ride with him and Flynn.”

                                                238 years later

Sipping her coffee, Lorena watches Lucy through the kitchen window. She’s talking on the phone and pacing. Lorena’s counted three loops of the yard thus far.

It’s been a strange, rough 18 mouth year. But she wouldn’t have it any other way. She likes her husband and her wife too much.

Her wife, who comes inside wearing a grave expression. “That was the social worker. John’s foster family doesn’t want him anymore.”

“I thought they were leaning toward adoption.”

“So did I,” Lucy says, walking stiffly to the other side of the room. “They seamed nice when I met them, and John’s been doing so much better on our weekly visits. I don’t know what happened.”

“Well what happens now?”

“I’m still recognized as his next of kin.” Lucy doesn’t look at her. “Not sure how they managed that.”

“Garcia was going to kill him,” Lorena says, as gently as possible. “Seeing him every day wouldn’t be any better for John then a another group home would.”

“I know,” Lucy says, but Lorena can tell she’s looking for a way to make it work. “But, and I know this sounds odd—”

“It doesn’t,” Lorena says. “Or if it does, it fits us.”

“He feels like my family. I took him here. People don’t want to adopt teenaged ex-cult members. I own it to him to make sure he doesn’t end up in an institution.”

Lorena looks at her beautiful, loving wife and signs. Unfortunately, this is one of the reasons Lorena fall for her. “Let’s call Garcia.”

[data2364]

Armin Shimerman as David Rittenhouse 2016 in Timeless "The Capture of Benedict Arnold"

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6227786/

[misscrazyfangirl321]

HDG n Kid + Timeless = While hunting down John Rittenhouse, Garcia realizes he cannot kill this boy, and instead grabs him and takes him on board the ship and has to awkwardly care for this kid of a mega villain while John tries (and prolly fails) to Cope. So. Much. Angst potential. Course no doubt that it destroys the rest of the series. But I haven't watched that yet so :P

I JUST MADE SUCH DELIGHTED NOISES

That's a thing I wanted when I first watched the episode, then completely forgot about. YES. GIMMIE.

[wellwhataboutme]

My father says that peasants are like the hands of a clock. Around and around they go. What does that mean? Because a peasant is no more capable of choosing his own path than the hands of a clock. Well... who chooses the path for them? The clockmaker, of course. And are the members of Rittenhouse the clockmakers? No one else can do it. Father says monarchies are too selfish and democracies are too chaotic. So the members of Rittenhouse are not part of, you know, any government? Not necessarily. Control is all that matters. Usually it's best exercised from the shadows. What about the people that want a voice in how they're controlled? Peasants can't govern themselves any more than ants can rule the jungle.

[hitchell-mope]

You have to off the kid as well.

[lucy-wyatt]

Timeless theory :

How much do you want to bet that because Flynn didn’t get to kill John (the Rittenhouse little boy) and John sat there afraid and cold begging for his life; that John will make Rittenhouse what it is out of spite because he never wants to be that vulnerable again…