if you're lost, you can look
and you will find me
time after time
if you fall, i will catch you
i'll be waiting
time after time
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The first time he meets Lucy Preston is while he's sitting in an uncomfortable armchair in the waiting room of Mason Industries.
She cautiously walks in and plops down in a seat inches away from his propped-up feet, and Wyatt can feel her eyes on him, even though his are closed.
The first time he speaks to Lucy Preston is when she asks if he's asleep.
He smirks.
"No ma'am," he responds, almost immediately.
The first time he sees Lucy Preston is when she tells him to stop calling her 'ma'am' and he can't help but open his eyes to observe the woman who had asked so many questions.
Wyatt could've swore all of the air had been sucked out of that waiting room.
All he knew was that he was lost in her dark brown curls, ivory skin, and just, wow - drowning in those brown eyes already.
The man hadn't felt this way about anyone in well, ever.
Jessica, his late wife, had been beautiful, of course, but he had known her their whole lives. He had watched as she had grown, and he along with her, but Lucy? Lucy seemed as if she was abruptly dropped from heaven and into the chair across from him out of literally nowhere.
Her beauty was astounding to him, to put it mildly.
The first time he talks about fate with Lucy Preston is the night they get back from their first mission.
She's arguing with him, saying that fate is real, when Wyatt is sure it isn't.
With a huff, the historian storms away, evidently believing she won't win this argument with him.
The first time he sees Lucy Preston cry is in 1865.
She had just witnessed the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, and was in tears because damn it, she was this close to saving him.
Lucy wanted to forget the whole tragedy surrounding her personal hero, but it was kind of difficult with the man's blood staining her dress.
Wyatt ached to take all her pain away, but he knew he couldn't.
So instead, he reached across the Lifeboat and took her hand in his, nestling them in her lap, purposefully on the bloodstain.
He wanted her to know that he was there for her and that he wasn't going anywhere.
The first time Wyatt gets jealous because of Lucy Preston is in 1944.
She's getting hit on by the actual, real-life James Bond, and to be honest, Wyatt hates it.
He knows that there's no way that they would ever get together because, let's be honest, they were probably leaving that German hellhole pretty soon.
It still didn't stop the soldier from wanting to be the real James Bond every time Ian grabbed her hand, though.
The first time Wyatt realizes he's in love with Lucy Preston is when she has a death grip on his hands while dodging gunfire at the Alamo.
"Rufus needs you. I need you," she cries, and the emotion in her voice is breaking him.
