1. Doc

"I know who we can call…"

"Who?" Wyatt asked with a furrowed brow.

"Noah," Lucy answered as she ran to her bag and pulled out her phone.

"What? No," Wyatt said immediately as he glanced between Rufus and Lucy. "He's not a part of this."

"Exactly," she replied. "He's a doctor and he's not involved."

"There's not anything else-"

"We don't have a choice, Wyatt, and you know it," Lucy told him with a sigh. "I'm making the call. Hang in there, Rufus, okay?"

She rushed to the far side of the room as she dialed and Wyatt decided to focus on Rufus. "Help's coming, buddy. Hang tight."

"You know, 'hang in there' and 'hang tight' are not exactly very comforting," Rufus told him through labored breaths and hisses of pain. Wyatt continued to apply pressure to the wound and realized Lucy was right. Noah was their best chance to save Rufus.

"Sorry, man, can't think of anything else that might be any more reassuring," Wyatt said with a weak smile.

"Listen, I need you to tell Jiya something for me-"

"No," Wyatt cut him off. "No last words, Rufus. We're not doing it."

Lucy came back looking frantic and stressed and Wyatt wished he heard the phone call. Had Noah said something to put her on edge or was it just Rufus doing that to her?

"He's on his way. It won't take him long," Lucy told them. There was no more time to worry about it, they focused on Rufus and stopping his bleeding until her phone rang and Lucy sprinted to the door. Wyatt watched as she let Noah in. He'd never seen the guy before. He looked like the kind of guy Lucy might go for though. Tall, well groomed, obviously educated and successful.

Noah placed a gentle hand on Lucy's face and gave her a once over. He must have assumed Lucy was the one hurt. There was blood on her outfit so Wyatt couldn't say he blamed him. She shook her head which also, conveniently, shook Noah's hand from her cheek. She pointed to Rufus and then led him over.

Noah sprinted toward them, knelt next to Rufus, and then looked over at Wyatt. "We need to move him. I need something stable and elevated."

There was a break room with a metal table that they'd found earlier. "I know where to go. Help me lift him," Wyatt told Noah as the two of them carried Rufus into the break room and set him down on the table. Noah got to work as soon as they'd set Rufus down.

Wyatt turned to Lucy and nodded toward the room where the Lifeboat was. "Can I talk to you a minute?"

Noah looked up briefly and glanced between them. Lucy nodded and then squeezed Rufus's hand before following Wyatt out.

"Are you sure we can trust this guy?" He asked. Wyatt didn't know him beyond the little Lucy had said about him, but he already didn't like him. "I mean you don't really know him."

"What choice did we have?" Lucy asked. "Besides, I haven't told him anything and I don't plan to. He's better off not knowing."

Wyatt scoffed. "Lucy, he's gonna have questions."

"And when he does I'll tell him I can't answer. He'll hate it but you're right. I don't know him. I don't know him enough to trust him with any more than I have to," Lucy said as she gave him a meaningful glance. She reached over and placed a hand on his arms that were crossed over his chest. "The only reason he's here is for Rufus. He's not staying."

She squeezed his arm and then went back into the room where Noah was mending Rufus. Why did that ease the tension he was feeling in his chest? What did he care why Noah was here and to what degree Lucy trusted him? Why did he dislike the guy? Noah really hadn't given him any reason to dislike him other than…

Being romantically connected to Lucy.

Was that it? Was that why Wyatt didn't like him?

No, surely not.

He dismissed it and walked back into the room where Noah was still working diligently. Noah looked up at Lucy and then glanced over at Wyatt. His glance to Lucy was considerably warmer than his glance at Wyatt. Wyatt felt the tension in his chest again and bit back the urge to glare at Noah.

He paused as he realized what he was thinking and feeling and bit back a curse. Not now. This was not the time or the place to be jealous. Not now.

Once Noah finished working on and taping up Rufus, his demeanor changed. He seemed exasperated and angry. His tone confirmed that when he spoke.

"All right," he said. "Amazingly, from what I can see, it looks like there's no serious damage to his internal organs."

"He's gonna be okay?" Lucy asked in relief.

Wyatt did not like Noah's look that followed. He looked at Lucy as if she were a child, incapable of understanding the situation. When really she understood more than he did. Yeah, this guy needed to go.

"He was shot, Lucy," he said slowly as he kept his eyes on Lucy. "I treated him in a warehouse in Oakland without a medical history, blood work. He's stable. But you need to get him to a hospital."

Now he was just trying to scare her. It looked like he was scaring Rufus more than Lucy though. Wyatt held back an eyeroll as he replied, "Got it, doc. As soon as we can." Which was not now. They still had Rittenhouse hot on their heels. Not that this guy knew that.

Noah turned to look at Wyatt and the glare was back. "As soon as we...I think you gotta do better than that, actually." No, not as long as doing that would put both Lucy and Rufus in even greater danger.

"Thank you for professional opinion, doc," Wyatt said with a nod. He was certain he sounded condescending but Noah started it. "We'll take that under advisement."

Noah opened his mouth to argue as he packed up his medical kit but Lucy had decided that was enough of the conversation.

"Thank you, Noah," Lucy said softly. "We will. I promise. We just can't right at this moment." She crossed the room to him. "Let me walk you out, okay?"

Wyatt lifted a brow at Lucy. He didn't like the idea of that. She was going to walk him outside alone? Rittenhouse could show up banging down their door at any moment. If anybody was going to walk him out it was going to be Wyatt. He started to voice this when Lucy threw a silencing glare at him. He promptly shut his mouth and huffed with a nod.

His fingers curled against his arms as he had them crossed against his chest. Man, did that guy ever rub him the wrong way.

Rufus who'd been silent through the whole exchange cleared his throat to get Wyatt's attention. When Wyatt turned to face him, Rufus grinned at him.

"You okay over there, man?" Rufus asked as he moved to sit up. Wyatt moved immediately to help him.

"What? Me? I'm fine."

Rufus scoffed as his feet touched the ground. "Yeah, right. That was not a macho showdown I just witnessed. Not at all. You and Noah are obviously destined to be best friends."

Wyatt knew sarcasm when he heard it. "I didn't like the way he was talking to Lucy."

"He had a point though," Rufus told him. "If this were a normal situation, we'd be on our way to the hospital. We all know that."

"Exactly why his tone bugged me. He can't trust her to know that? He's supposed to be her fiance, right?" Wyatt asked as Rufus leaned his weight against him and Wyatt led him into the main room with the Lifeboat. "If he's close enough to want to marry her then he should trust that she's intelligent enough to know that."

"His Lucy is not our Lucy," Rufus reminded him.

"Thank God," Wyatt said with a huff.

Rufus chuckled as they walked. "Dude, you're jealous."

"What?" Wyatt asked as a bit of panic creeped into his voice. "No, I just think Lucy can do better than that prick is all."

"Yeah, sure, Jan," Rufus said with a smirk.

"Sure, what?" Wyatt asked him in confusion.

"You know like the Brady Bunch Movie where-Nevermind, I don't have the energy to explain it just now," Rufus said with a sigh. "I'll show you later."

He'd led Rufus to a seat just as Jiya and Agent Christopher came barging in. Jiya took off in a sprint as soon as she saw Rufus and sat down next to him. She looked him up and down before she spoke.

"Oh, god, what happened? Are you okay?" She asked as she kissed him soundly. Not giving him a chance to answer. Wyatt nodded at Agent Christopher and looked to the door as Rufus told her all about Al Capone.

Lucy wasn't back yet. She should be back. What was she doing?

"Where's Lucy?" Agent Christopher asked.

"Seeing Doctor Noah out," Rufus added with a grin at Wyatt.

Wyatt rolled his eyes and then climbed into the Lifeboat. Someone should keep an eye on the Flynn in case he jumps anytime soon. Might as well be him.