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The Case for Bering and Wells

Continued from Page 3 of Part Three of The Case for Bering and Wells

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H.G.: What am I? Uh...I'm her...roomma-
Myka: Lesbian lover. She's my lesbian lover.

H.G.: Changing Plans and Falling for the Good Girl
When H.G. Wells enters into the Warehouse 13 universe in season 2, she's a woman on a mission. After over a century of conscious immobilization due to the Bronzer, the genius author emerges hell-bent on executing the vengeful plots she has been formulating "for a very long time." She is calm, cool, and calculating, with unparalleled intelligence and the ability to commit very devious acts with a smile still on her face. As season 2 progresses, we watch H.G. close in on her goal. What we also see, though, is H.G. unintentionally closing in on the one vulnerability to all of her meticulously thought-out plans.

H.G., who has "one of the greatest minds in history" (according to one ardent fan), makes a grave miscalculation by failing to account for one very important variable: matters of the heart. This is not unreasonable as H.G. has led a very solitary life, outside of Christina, seemingly relying on and thinking of only one person - herself. As she enters into the 21st century, without a "tether" to anyone or anything, she understandably does not worry about personal feelings getting in the way, as they never have before. Yet, when Myka Bering walks into the picture, even though H.G. does not realize it, a hundred years' worth of plans turn to dust. Getting close to a Warehouse agent clearly was one of H.G.'s strategies in getting back into the Warehouse, but letting one of the agents somehow make her way past H.G.'s walls, that had been impenetrable up until now, was never supposed to happen. Myka Bering ultimately becomes her plans' undoing and H.G.'s personal salvation.

Whether it is season 2, 3, or 4, Myka has always been H.G.'s Achilles' heel and the exception to the rule. 

In 2.07: For the Team, H.G. targets Myka as the person she is going to try and use to rejoin the Warehouse. How easy H.G. predicted this to be is anyone's guess, but it appears H.G. did not expect to have to divulge the painful memories of Christina 
in furtherance of her plots. When Myka asks her what she took from the Escher Vault, H.G. gives an uncomfortable laugh, as a sensitive subject is being brought up. When Myka walks away from her because of her non-answer, H.G. blurts out the truth, eventually leading to the disclosure that she has a daughter. Myka's metaphorical foot is officially in the door.

After H.G. saves both Myka and her own lives via the grappler, the women engage in a humorous discussion before Myka invites H.G. along for the mission. What is notable is that, regardless of H.G.'s designs, she is already allowing Myka to affect her. She genuinely finds Myka funny and considering the first two times they met, Myka pointed a gun at her head, H.G. also knows she's a force to be reckoned with. Her affinity for Myka is not feigned, and for H.G., this should be a problem, but she allows it.

Later at the Boiling Point plant, H.G. observes as Myka assertively interrogates the plant's staff and generally runs the show. Specifically, when the bad guy tries to make a run for it and Myka clotheslines the crap out of the bro, H.G. is seen standing by, a look of awe across her face, clearly impressed by Myka. This is no small feat, to say the least. For H.G., who never had another woman in her life come close to sharing any interests or qualities with her, watching Myka on this mission take on the role she always felt excluded for taking on was revelatory. H.G.'s realization and assessment that Myka may be an equal to her, which potentially no one has been deemed before in H.G.'s mind, signals the beginning of the 
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H.G.: Man, she is nuts. I think I'm in love
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Look at H.G. Wells losing her shit over Myka
end for "evil H.G."

In 2.09: Vendetta, things start off similarly for H.G. and Myka, with Myka resisting H.G.'s attempts to work her way into the mission. Myka insists that H.G. tell her why she was bronzed before they can go any further, and again, for reasons unknown, 
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Let me see if giving her the "sad eyes" works. Nailed it
H.G. tells Myka the truth, something that still is painful for her to discuss. H.G. does not lie and allows Myka in, revealing her vulnerability to the woman she is supposed to be trying to manipulate. When H.G. meets back up with Myka and Pete in Russia, Myka flirtatiously hands H.G.'s transmitter back to her, putting H.G. on notice that she knew H.G. had slipped it into her pocket. H.G. responds, "I thought you'd know" with amusement and the two continue to tease one another. By allowing Myka in and forming a sincere bond with her, H.G. is setting herself up for failure down the road.

By 2.11: Buried, H.G. has comfortably inserted herself into the Warehouse family, but conversely, so has Myka into her life. In Egypt before the agents descend into Warehouse 2, Myka goes out of her way to bring up and discuss Christina with H.G., which H.G. softly permits. H.G. is ignoring one of the main rules of Bad Guy 101: Do not allow yourself to 

become personally involved or attached to the people you intend to screw over. The problem for H.G. is that she just can't help herself when it comes to Myka. Despite her intentions, a mutual bond has formed between the two, and H.G. has just made it that much harder to follow through with her plans.

We see this demonstrated again in the now legendary moment outside the tent in Egypt, where Myka's eyes almost bulge out of her head while she scans H.G.'s "British archaeologist" apparel. Besides hinting towards the more-than-friends element of their relationship, this scene also shows again that their relationship was multi-layered: they were friends; they joked; they talked about serious issues; and they were co-workers. No one else has any kind of relationship with H.G. that comes even remotely close to the one she has with Myka.


Once inside, they step foot into the Mind challenge, and when Pete tells the team that he's figured it out - that it's just like a challenge at the Pancake Palace, H.G. understandably is uncomfortable risking her life on Pete's guess. At this point, H.G. has no interest or respect for Pete and certainly has no appreciation for his intelligence. She yells at Myka, "No! If this is wrong..." Pete, not listening to her, talks right over H.G., explaining to Myka why she should believe him. Myka finally willing to go along with his idea, whispers to herself a quick, "Okay," and then she goes directly towards H.G., telling her, "He knows his pancakes," in an effort to convince her to go along with it. H.G. gives a "Fine, if you're in, I am" look to Myka, and the two of them start moving puzzle pieces together. Here, Myka is put between H.G. and Pete again, and when she trusts Pete, she goes first to H.G., feeling the need to explain her decision to H.G. Surprisingly, H.G. allows Myka to place her fate in Pete's hands and participates in a plan that she does not think will work.

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H.G. and Pete: MYKA! ASDKNDIKTPSKWJH!
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Regent Valda and Myka: What the fuck?
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H.G.: I better get some "under the shirt" action for agreeing to this
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Myka: Baby, you'll get unlimited "under the pants" action if we survive
By the end of 2.11: Buried, H.G., of course, moves forward with her betrayal by Tesla-ing Pete and Myka on the Warehouse 2 floor. However, it should be noted that H.G. never takes an affirmative action against Myka in the series. Yes, she Teslas her, but that has no long-term effects and was the only way she could get out of the Warehouse with what she sought. H.G. ended MacPherson's life without a hint of regret. She sent the trio of American boys off to discover the lost Warehouse, which ultimately 
led to their very painful and quite unusual deaths. H.G. sent a homicide-inducing artifact to Pete's girlfriend, fully aware that Pete or his girlfriend could be hurt or killed by it. When Artie attempts to shoot H.G. at Yellowstone, resulting only in him being shot, H.G. shows no concern to his health. 

In general, H.G. leaves a trail of destruction behind her, but when Myka demanded that H.G. kill her if H.G. wanted to go through with her endgame, that was the one person and one time H.G. could not go through with it. H.G. voluntarily, though certainly not happily, thwarts her own plans, knowing she likely would be re-bronzed or subjected to some other severe punishment by the Regents. She had 
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H.G.: I feel like I've hurt my chances for a 2nd date
nothing to lose at that point, but with Myka's life on the line, H.G. could not pull the trigger, figuratively and literally.

After the dramatic events that took place at the end of season 2, H.G. experiences a monumental internal shift. Where all of her pain and anger that arose from Christina's death was directed externally (i.e., blaming the world for her suffering) before; beginning in season 3, H.G. starts to redirect her negative feelings towards herself. Neither mindset is correct, but as the latter starts to take over, it becomes apparent that H.G. feels particularly remorseful when it comes to Myka.


Alone in episode 3.01: The New Guy, H.G. has absolutely no reason to assist the Regents in trying to get Myka to rejoin the 
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I really miss our talks. Also, the animalistic sex
Warehouse, and yet, there she is standing in Bering and Sons. In what is presumably an embarrassing moment for H.G., she softly and sincerely tries to get Myka to return to the Warehouse team, not because she would receive some kind of "quid pro quo," but because H.G. knows that was the best thing for Myka. H.G., standing in her drab prison apparel, lacking any control over her life, and appearing before one of the people she wronged to admit her own weaknesses, is the opposite of the H.G. everyone else sees. Instead, it is a raw, stripped-down version without ego, trying to help undo at least one of the wrongs she has caused. 

This is a selfless act and confirms that her feelings for Myka from season 2 to be sincere. H.G. speaks to Myka and manages to do what no one else is able to do within in a matter of seconds. She does this purely because she wants Myka to be happy. That's enough for her.

In 3.05: 3...2...1, when H.G. first appears to an unfriendly welcome by Pete, she responds initially to Artie and him with 

her characteristic sass, to Myka's noticeable displeasure. Afterwards, she relents and agrees to help the team, but only after she looks to Myka and receives the go-ahead. During the mission, when Pete makes another disparaging comment about her, H.G. actually refrains from firing back at him as would be expected. Instead, she only looks to Myka silently, attempting to stay within the confines of the "new H.G." she's trying to be. 

Later, when she is summoned to confront a crazed artifact-abuser, she willingly shoulders the blame for the accidental death of the man's father, even though mere hours beforehand, when Pete attributed the entire random fallout on her, she emphatically denied any fault, describing the accusation as "ridiculous." It's not as if H.G. has a change of heart from a couple of hours in her prison orb. Even when she first appears and sees Pete, she asks him whether he just brought her forth to berate her again, but as soon as she turns around and sees Daniel Varley and the exigent circumstances at hand, she swallows her pride and does what she believes to be the "right thing."

When Myka and H.G. are finally alone together in the Warehouse, putting Joshua's Horn away for safekeeping, H.G. commends Myka and even Pete about their work during the mission. When Myka graciously points out that H.G. played a role in the 

mission's success, H.G., in a true moment of vulnerability, tentatively asks Myka, "We did make a good team, didn't we?" Her face looks pleadingly at Myka, hoping for an affirmative answer from her. Who else would H.G. ever desire approval from? No one. Just Myka. When Myka brings up H.G.'s betrayal, H.G.'s face falls and she is too ashamed to even try and respond. H.G. is able only to express her regret to Myka before she is forced to return to the sphere.

Again, like in 3.01, there is no reason to believe H.G.'s reformed behavior to be anything but sincere, as she knows that nothing she did on that mission would alter the "sentence" she had been given. Her only goal then was to try and express her regret to Myka. Even though she is condemned to a life of imprisoned consciousness, H.G. still cares about how Myka feels about her and how Myka is doing.


Finally, in 3.11: Emily Lake and 3.12: Stand, H.G. receives the chance to try and make things up to Myka (at least, in H.G's head). In 3.11: Emily Lake, when Regent Kosan is 
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Promise you'll lock it down until I get out of here?
applying the Janus coin to H.G., he tells her to remember the important people and events in her life. A close analysis of the faces and objects that flash on the Janus coin reveal a very familiar face: Myka. Myka is the only person from modern times that appears on the coin (note: Pete does appear, but it seems only as a contextual accessory to Myka) and speaks to how truly important Myka is to H.G. 

When Pete proposes destroying the Janus coin, and thus H.G., H.G. enters the scene, encouraging Myka to allow it. This is not because H.G. necessarily agrees with Pete's reasoning or thinks this is the best answer for the Warehouse. Instead, H.G. has started to believe that she is indeed a "bad guy," and that "every time the Warehouse and [she] mix, lives are ruined." So, when an opportunity presents itself that will allow her to protect her loved ones from herself, while also letting her help out the Warehouse, H.G. jumps at it. The only thing that is left to take care of is Myka. Knowing that she will struggle with this decision 

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H.G.: I swear I didn't know you were wearing your leather jacket today too
more than anyone, H.G. focuses on easing Myka's mind before she goes. She even admits that Myka is the "one person who knows [her] better than anyone else." Once Myka has seemingly accepted H.G.'s choice, H.G. tries to reassure Myka by smiling and nodding at her, showing that some of her last thoughts were on Myka's well-being. 

Obviously, H.G. lives on, and the next time the two meet, H.G. is shooting a bullet, under Walter Sykes' control, at Myka, which strafes her jacket. H.G. immediately yells out "Myka, are you all right?! I didn't do that!" When Sykes blames H.G. for Tyler's death, H.G. vehemently denies blame and looks to Myka, desperate for Myka to know that she is a completely unwilling participant and has not betrayed her again. Sykes then chooses Myka to participate in the chess lock because of her relationship to H.G. When H.G. is out of ideas on how to solve it, she panics, yelling, "I don't know what else to do!" She 

then looks at Myka, tearfully, and says, "I'm sorry, Myka," thinking she is unable to save her. Instead, Myka sternly makes H.G. focus and tells her that she will be saving her life. Again, note the unusual circumstances. The cocky, self-assured H.G. Wells needs Myka Bering to convince her she can solve the puzzle before her. In a moment that may have only happened due to Myka's life being in danger, H.G.'s memory is sparked and Myka, as a result, is freed from the chess lock.

When Myka and H.G. find themselves on the other side of the Warehouse wall, blocked from trying to enter the fray taking place in Warehouse 13, they sit down and work to find a way to reopen the lock. H.G., though, has something else on her mind and says, "Myka, I'm sorry." She goes on to explain, "You should have destroyed the Janus coin the moment you found it, then I wouldn't have caused all of this." By this point, H.G. is fixated on the theme of "H.G. messes up, Myka suffers for it." Myka, though, is having none of it. She reaffirms her faith in H.G. and orders her to keep helping out with the chess lock, much to H.G.'s surprise and delight. When Myka goes on to playfully correct H.G.'s moniker of the couple - putting "Bering" before "Wells" - H.G. acts offended, but her affection for Myka is unmistakable.
 
Towards the end of the episode, when the bomb artifact is discovered, there are 9 minutes and 23 seconds left before detonation. Right then and there, H.G. has a decision to make. She can either: 1) Join up with Pete, Myka, and Artie to try and defuse the bomb - saving the Warehouse and herself; or 2) Try and save Myka's life. The first option contemplates the possibility of survival for H.G.; in the other scenario, she willingly accepts her own death in exchange for a chance to see Myka live.
It appears she made her decision almost instantaneously.
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H.G.: God, I'm going to miss how crazy she is
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H.G.: I'll also miss how good I look right now
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H.G: Damn it, these gloves are hard to put on!
When H.G. sees how little time remains, she knows the likelihood of the team figuring out how to neutralize the artifact is low. The bomb artifact likely requires some other artifact or Warehouse-y solution that their limited timeline does not allow them to reach. Instead, she focuses her energies on what she has a better chance of accomplishing - protecting Myka from the blast by using her technical and scientific skills. She is an inventor until her last breath.

So, by the time the team reaches the Ovoid Quarantine, H.G. has already made her choice, thereby accepting her impending demise. She immediately splits off from the trio, without a word, as she knows that Myka would never allow her to go through with her plan if she knew. She stays silent, quietly but quickly solving the puzzle and saving the day to ensure the one person who deserves the opportunity to see another day actually does. When the mini-barrier materializes around Pete, Myka, and Artie, H.G. lets out a wide smile of relief, realizing Myka will not be sharing her own fate. Even though H.G. is now moments away from certain death, she uses her last moments to thank Myka, and as the bomb explodes, she gazes at Myka peacefully with a smile, attempting to comfort her even at the end. In two seasons, H.G. goes from caring for no one and wanting to watch the world go up in flames to sacrificing herself for the love of another and the good of everyone.

Only Myka could make H.G. smile in the face of death
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The next time we truly get to see Myka and H.G. interact is 4.15: Instinct, where a starkly different H.G. greets us. Myka, of course, takes notice of this and not in a good way. She becomes determined to uncover the cause behind H.G./Emily Lake's peculiar behavior and as the episode unfolds, the reasons behind this changed woman emerge. Early on, when Myka questions Pete as to what's going on with H.G., he suggests that H.G. is choosing a "normal life" to avoid ending up "crazy, evil, or dead." Considering H.G. has literally already experienced being crazy, evil, and dead during her time at the Warehouse, this guess by Pete cannot be far off. 

H.G. tells Myka to leave her out of the mission, which Myka listens to not at all. H.G. makes this request because 1) she truly does believe that when she joins up with the Warehouse, only bad things can result and 2) she knows the more she is around Myka, the less strength she has to continue living this "normal life" she so desperately is trying to make work. H.G. knows Myka can see through to H.G.'s truth more than anyone else, and she does not want the scrutiny, as her resolve in living this life is fragile enough as it is.

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Are you buying this?
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Not one bit
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How about now?
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Do I look like an idiot to you Wells?

So, when Myka appears uninvited at H.G.'s new residence and secures a sit-down discussion with her, H.G.'s defenses are already on high alert. She puts forth justifications before Myka even asks the questions and appears very uncomfortable explaining herself. Myka, beginning to grasp how far off this "Emily Lake" is from her H.G., attempts to respond nonjudgmentally, but there's a massive elephant in the room and both women are aware of it. At the end of the conversation, Myka makes a last ditch effort to get H.G. to participate in the mission with her and 
she frames her proposal to H.G. in relation to Adelaide, knowing the little girl is a large part of why H.G. is residing with Nate. As usual, Myka is H.G.'s weak spot, and H.G. cannot resist, even though she certainly would like to be able to.

When Bering and Wells get a second opportunity to have a private discussion, this time Myka finally starts doing the one thing H.G. feared she would do - question the life she is leading. When H.G. becomes tellingly defensive, instead of easing up, Myka bears down, knowing it may be the only shot she has at getting through to her. Myka finishes by pointedly telling H.G., "You are denying who you are to chase a ghost. This life - it's not who you are." By H.G.'s reaction, Myka's words struck a chord and for a moment, her carefully crafted facade falls away.

This exterior continues to crumble despite Myka's later recanting of her earlier statements because too much has been said and Myka's presence pierced too many holes in H.G.'s "reality." By the time H.G. and Myka are having their final conversation before Myka departs, H.G.'s smile is withering. Just as Myka knows that H.G. is not being honest with herself, H.G. also can read Myka and knows her encouragement to stay with Nate and Adelaide is nothing but an act of kindness done out of love for H.G., not out of sincerity. As Myka is driven out of sight, it becomes apparent that her brief reappearance into H.G.'s new life has taken a considerable toll on "Emily Lake" and the last shot of H.G.'s face reveals the true turmoil taking place within her. 

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Conclusion
For Myka, H.G. will always be the brilliant inventor and beautiful soul that she has come to know and adore. Myka sees the pain, the vulnerability, the humor, and the gentleness in H.G. that no one else can see. She also sees and has experienced first-hand the darkness that lies right at the edges of H.G.'s mind, waiting for the chance to seep back in. Myka has yelled at H.G.; she's cried with her; she's comforted her; she's laughed with her; and she's risked her life and her career for her, without hesitation or regret. She's H.G.'s biggest fan, and sometimes her only fan. While Myka lives a life of rules, structure, and control, H.G. has been the sole person to make her question authority and embrace the unconventional. H.G. makes her feel alive in a way no one else does and gets her to do things that she would never consider doing for anyone else. H.G. inhabits a special place within Myka that no one else can reach and has left her imprint on every inch of Myka, inside and out.

For H.G., Myka is always the outlier in the data, the anomaly that she cannot figure out or predict. In Myka, she finds an equal, intellectually and physically. She finds a friend who makes her laugh and also a person capable of pulling her out of the dark recesses of her mind that seem inescapable. When others have given up on her or condemned her, Myka has stood by her, believing in her. Even when she has hurt Myka, Myka still is there. As a result, we have seen the impossible with H.G.: The confident, self-assured charmer has become a woman who desperately seeks out Myka's approval (Read: she's whipped); the vengeful woman who attempted to destroy the entire world turned around and willingly gave her life for it just a year later; and most importantly, Myka brought out the humanity in H.G., when no one, including H.G., believed her to have any left. H.G.'s struggles are far from over, but the opportunity to live, to truly live, exists because of Myka and will only happen with Myka by her side. As far as H.G. goes, Myka is hope personified.

Bering and Wells is ultimately an inevitable eventuality. Both of them have, at various times, tried to dislike or put walls up against the other, but those efforts invariably failed one after another. They have been separated by time, distance, and even a Janus coin, but their bond has only deepened, and together, they have experienced wonders that are endless and fought against circumstances that, at first, appeared insurmountable. When in each other's presence, somehow, they become both stronger and weaker, harder and softer, and they become their true selves, their best selves. Each of them has caused a seismic change within the other. Preconceptions were challenged and rules by which they lived were rewritten. These two truly do know each other better than they know themselves and their paths are undoubtedly destined to converge. Almost any description of Bering and Wells will be inherently inadequate, as their relationship as a whole is comprised of so many facets that to a certain degree, they defy categorization or comparison. Yet, the description of them as "just best friends" is so incongruous with the canon of the show that it becomes untenable. At its core, the story of Myka Bering and H.G. Wells is a love story, not a traditional love story by any stretch of the imagination, but most certainly a love story, rooted in a profound and transformative love that at a minimum, encompasses love that is deeply romantic in nature.




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