Disclaimer: Gabicg1 suggested the idea for this chapter after we threw around some headcanons and ideas. So all credit goes to her.
"So you two decided to finally make yourselves known?" Zakkiya asked as soon as they walked through the door.
"Shut up Uncle Zak." Sora retorted though Umiko ran to hug him.
"You sounded kinda panicked on the phone, is something wrong?" Ami asked Michiru, earning a sigh.
"Sora can tell you the same thing that she told me." Michiru answered, glancing over to the young teen who sighed.
"Ami-San, you might want to sit down." she stated, glancing over at Setsuna who was sitting on the other side of Michiru.
Please let me be right about this so I don't look like a fool in front of them!
"Ami...in the timeline that lead to the future I am from you and Michiru were related...sisters actually." Sora began, pausing as her mouth went dry suddenly.
"Wait...So you're saying that Ami's mom might not be Ami's actual mom?" Zakkiya asked, earning a sigh.
"Maybe, I don't know what is going on exactly but I know that there is a slight shift in the timeline here." Sora answered before turning toward the two water senshi.
"Do you remember your parents saying anything odd?"
"No." Ami replied softly, though Michiru closed her eyes.
"I remember my Dad wanting to tell me something but Mom ordered him not to. I was around maybe eleven at that time." Michiru answered.
Haruka reached over to take her hand then, offering silent support.
"Well there's a start." Sora sighed before pausing and sharing a look with Aki and Umiko.
"Focus on your powers….if there's a link between you it'll awaken."
The pair in question shared a look before closing their eyes, their symbols glowing on their foreheads.
A hospital room materialized in their mind's eye as a pair of babies were put in an incubator.
"Are you sure you don't want to hold them?" the nurse asked, earning a look of pure disgust from the woman on the bed.
"I'll hold them when they're clean."
The nurse glanced at the man who was seated beside the bed, rubbing his wife's hand.
"What about you sir?" she asked, only to earn a negative grunted response.
Opening their eyes again both water soldiers stared blankly at each other for several minutes before Michiru finally spoke.
"We're not only sisters….We're twins."
The whole room went silent, everyone's eyes growing wide at this sudden information.
"But how is that? I'm younger than you." Ami stated, earning a sigh from Michiru.
"I don't know…" The guardian of neptune began, only to be cut off by Setsuna.
"I knew there was something odd that happened eighteen years ago….No one believes a three year old." Setsuna stated, summoning the garnet rod and opening a projection.
The projection swirled until it showed a man dressed in rags standing in a doorway of a fancy house.
"We can't afford to keep her. We just want her to be in a good family." he was saying to a tall, slender man who was wearing glasses.
"alright...We'll keep her then….How old is she?"
"Just a few months."
The man with glasses looked down at the bundle.
"She's not even a year old yet."
"That bastard lied!" Zakkiya yelled, breaking the silence that had overtook the room.
"Why would Dad…." Michiru began, earning a sigh from Haruka.
"Why did he and your mother find it necessary to punish you for your emotions?" Haruka quipped, with a sigh as she put an arm around Michiru before adding "I think Ami had a better life than you did."
"It still isn't right."
"No." Haruka agreed "it isn't."
Zakkiya moved from his place by the door to put his arms around Ami from behind, sighing as he tried to process what had just happened.
"We should take a vacation...a weekend away so that you two can sort this thing out without worrying about anything else." he suggested, concern obvious in his voice.
"Yeah, good idea." Sora stated, feeling a familiar, heavy feeling in the pit of her stomach for causing them such distress.
"We need to know the truth Zakki." Ami began, earning a sigh.
"I know...But wait until you're not so surprised by it." he responded gingerly.