Three Days Later

"I t's gone?" Felicity asked.

"It's destroyed, at least. Now, it's up to us to make it disappear," Eliza said.

They'd decided to meet up in the middle of nowhere instead of at someone's house, just to be extra cautious, and found a cabin in the woods that was well away from where they'd destroyed the device and cleaned up the evidence the following morning at sunrise.

Now, Felicity and Rosie sat on one side of the table while Violet and Rachel sat on the other, and Eliza was across from her wife. The three pieces of corroded metal were sitting in the middle, and they were all looking down at them.

"So, we each take a piece?" Rachel asked.

"And we hide it," Lydia explained. "We don't tell the others where we put it, either. It's just an added precaution, but it's an important one."

"Make sure no one else can find it," Eliza added.

"Why don't we just beat it with a bat and break it into a million pieces and toss those into the ocean, but far away from where marine archaeologists might get curious?" Violet stared across the table.

"Hey, sorry. I was just doing my job," Rosie said. "How was I supposed to know what this thing did?"

"So, are we breaking it up into more pieces?" Violet asked. "I don't want all the pieces together, though."

"The energy. We don't know if there's any left," Felicity suggested. "It could be that if anyone finds all the pieces and magically puts them together, there's still some left over."

"How unlikely is that, though?" Violet asked.

"How unlikely is it that there's a device that brings people back from the dead or that there's one that can take you back and forth in time?" Eliza countered.

"True," Violet replied.

"We'll take our piece," Rachel said.

"We will, too," Rosie added. "And we will make sure it's far away from all shipwrecks."

"Maybe just avoid the water," Violet suggested, and a few of them laughed .

"We could always toss it in the Mariana Trench," Felicity offered back.

"No, don't tell anyone here your plans." Eliza held up her hand. "Just do whatever with it, but no one else knows. That's the only way we can all be safe."

Felicity nodded.

"So, this is it, huh?" Rachel asked. "It's really over?"

"Do we ever see each other again, or is it safer that we don't?" Violet asked, looking down at Rachel's belly.

"I think we keep in touch as needed, but we avoid each other for a while, at least. If anything happens that you think is strange, like you think you're being followed, you alert the group. But let's keep our distance," Eliza suggested.

"Agreed," Violet said.

"Yeah," Lydia spoke.

"Us too," Rosie added.