Booker looked down in disbelief, this couldn't be happening. This was all supposed to end a while ago, he remembered him dying. He remembered her dying. And suddenly he opened his eyes and was in an apartment with Anna.
But if he came back from the dead, why not her?
'Mister DeWitt?'
He picked up the phone.
'I'm here… Look, you guys don't have anything to worry about, I know her. And I'll try to get in contact with her as soon as possible.'
'No problem, but please let us know in advance next time you want to pick Anna up.'
'Will do.'
He hung up, and sat on the couch. He rubbed his eyes, this was all a dream, he was dreaming. Elizabeth was dead, perhaps someone had impersonated her? But no one knew about Elizabeth except for him, well, him and the countless Columbian residents, but other than that no one.
'YOU WANTED TO TALK TO ME?' He shouted into the air.
Two lights flickered, with the last flicker; two figures appeared out of thin air.
'Ah, came to your senses at last?' Robert asked.
'Came to his senses?' Rosalind said, 'Look at him, the man's a mess, nothing we can't fix though.'
'What did you do to her?' Booker asked, he wanted to know, no, he NEEDED to know what happened. He needed to know how it could be possible that Elizabeth returned how all of this mess started over again.
'Anna is safe, we can assure you that.' Robert spoke.
'But why? Why is this starting over again? It ended, we all died. It's not a happy end, but happy endings rarely happen anyway.'
'We never died.' Rosalind said, her tone sounded quite offended.
'You're telling me you did all this?' Booker lifted a brow.
Rosalind looked down towards the floor; Robert looked up to the ceiling.
'We're not going to say we didn't do it.' Robert spoke, 'We had no evil intentions at all, we regret our actions, we truly do. We absolutely hated how it ended for the two of you. I personally believe we shouldn't have send Elizabeth to Rapture, but she insisted. When Fink-'Robert shuddered. 'when Fink banished us into space and time, we got more power than any of us could have ever imagined, not only could we travel between dimensions, but we could do so much more.'
Rosalind continued.
'We rarely used these powers however, because they required a huge amount of energy, and I couldn't bear to watch my brother suffer. In the end, we decided we wanted a happy ending for the both of you, so we brought Elizabeth back.'
'How?' Booker asked, he understood most of what they did, but some of it was still incredibly foggy.
'In another universe,'
Another universe, Booker thought. That meant Elizabeth had problems with nosebleeds, which he himself got when he saw a place where he had two different memories of..right?
Rosalind continued. 'This isn't the only baby Anna, you know. Countless of Bookers are fathering countless Anna's as we speak. And one Anna,' Rosalind held back her tears. 'One Anna was an orphan, one of which her father died at Wounded Knee. We took her, convinced her that her name was Elizabeth Comstock, and left her in this universe.'
Booker wanted to open his mouth, but Robert interrupted.
'We know this wasn't a humane thing to do, but Anna, or Elizabeth is doing much better here, they treated her horribly. As long as she doesn't go anywhere near France, she'll be fine.'
Booker looked confused.
'She resided in an orphanage in Paris, the universe has a cruel sense of humor.'
'But your powers,' Booker said 'you brought me into Columbia with no problems. How come Anna was such a strain?'
'It wasn't traveling between universes which was hard, it was giving her memories back. We had to witness all the bloodshed in Columbia again just so that she could get all her memories back.'
'So she knows who she is?' Booker asked, he wanted to wrap up this conversation and find her.
'She sure does.' Rosalind and Robert sighed.
'But…You didn't bring me back?' Booker asked, this was perhaps the most important question of all, he knew no one who had that much power to bring him back.
'We didn't.' They both said at the same time
Second chapter yeeh , This might be a bit out of character for the Luteces, I think I portrayed them a little weird, but it was necessary for explaining a little bit. Reviews are appricated!
