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"Has James arrivied yet?" Helen asked curiously trying to put her memory situation out of her mind.
"No," Nick answered, "we need to figure out why this is happening."
"Well presumably he's coming to help with the Cabal," Helen shrugged.
"Not about that," Nick told her rolling his eyes, "why your mind... died while you were sleeping."
"It could be nothing," Helen offered.
"It's not nothing," Nick stated firmly, "when your mind died and when you actually died you heard Dad and Will talking, that can't be a coincidence it happened both times."
"I have a head injury Nick, I'm probably just delusional," she informed him, "it happens and your powers aren't exact."
"You don't know anything about my powers," he replied, "and I'm not wrong about this."
"Even if my mind did 'die' as you put it then how come I didn't stop breathing? How come I recovered from 'death' when you woke me up?" she questoned of him a sharper tone than she'd intended, "it doesn't make sense."
"Nothing about you recently makes sense," Nick pointed out, "you remember things that couldn't possibly have happened yet they're true. And I'm not crazy, you're mind was like you were dead. There was a just... a void... I can't really explain it to you, its like explaining colors to a blind man."
"I don't understand it either Nick," Helen sighed tiredly.
"What if your memories were real?" Nick said and she looked at him disbelieving, "not long after Patty died you tried to find a cure for your longevity, you went looking for the tomb of the Mayan king Pacal and you found this abnorma-"
"The Guardian, yes," Helen interjected as Nick blinked in confusion, "did the same after Ashley died and it somehow sent me to a future where I had become patient zero to all of these... things."
"Exactly," Nick agreed, "maybe it or another similar abnormal sent you to this future where Ashley had never died."
"That's a bit of a stretch," Helen scoffed, "the last thing I remember before waking up here had nothing to do with that abnormal or any similar and it doesn't feel the same. There's no mysterious fog, or creatures and I didn't keep hearing Will and Nikola everytime I lost conciousness."
"What is the last thing you remember?" Nick asked curiously.
"Hollow Earth."
"Come again?"
"My father sent me a map leading to a city beneath the Earth's surface," Helen explained, "a city with greater technology than ours and we believed my father was there."
"But my grandfather died more than centurary ago," Nick complained frowning, "went missing on a trip to a Mecca back in the 1800s."
"That's what we thought too," she answered, "but he was or is alive, possibly from the advanced technology of the city and the Cabal were using him to create abnormal soldier-""
"Show me," Nick interrupted walking towards her and holing out his hands.
"Come again?"
"I can read more than minds," he explained, "I can see memories. Sometimes. Just take my hands and think about my grandfather and the city and all that stuff, and I'll try to see it."
"Why?" she wondered feeling apprehensive.
"Because seeing is believing," Nick offered, "come on, the worst that can happen is that I give myself a migraine."
"Well... okay," Helen hesitantly agreed.
"Nick, Helen," Big Guy greeted them peering in through the still open door, "James has arrived."
