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"So you're clear on the plan?" Helen asked of Nick as she lay down on the bed.

"Inject you with this stuff to stop your heart," he informed her holding up the needle of serum to show her, "then I wait five minutes exactly before giving you CPR."

"Very good," she praised him as she rolled up her sleeve, "ready."

"Are you absolutely sure you want to go through with this?" Nick inquired of her worriedly for the tenth time.

"I'm certain," she confirmed yet again, "we need answers and this is the only way we're going to get them, so proceed Nikola."

"Don't call me Nikola," he moaned before sighing, "okay here goes nothing. It bleeping well better work."

Hesitantly but with impressive accuracy injected her with the serum, she opened her mouth to tell him he'd done a good job but her mouth felt incapable of moving, her eyes flickering shut as already she could feel her heart beat slowing, hear the echo of the last few final beats. Nick's worried face blurred into nothingness as she succumbed to death.

For a minute there was just darkness before her body seemed to regain strength and she tenuously opened her eyes, instead of her warm cozy bedroom in the Sanctuary she saw gray rocks and stone and found herself shivering as she sat up.

"Helen?" her father's voice questioned and she glanced to her right to see him sitting there, looking tired and worn but nonetheless she smiled broadly as she saw him and hugged him tightly.

"I missed you father," she told him firmly, "its so good to see you."

"I know," he replied pulling away to smile at her, "I was beginning to worry that you'd never wake up."

"About that..." she muttered wondering if she should tell him considering how she only had a few minutes before Nick revived her, "I'm actually most likely going to pass out again in a few minutes so be prepared for that."

"What? Why?" he questioned worriedly frowning at her.

"The corridor to the left is block-" Nikola said as he and Will rounded a bend, coming into view, both gaped as they saw her before he smiled, "and Helen's awake, finally some good news."

"I only have 5 minutes before Nick revives me," she told them quickly as they sat beside them, looking as exhausted as her father, "so talk fast. What's going on?"

"Did she hit her head?" Will asked worriedly.

"No!" Helen protested, "look just tell what happened to me."

"We have no idea, you were unconscious when I found you," Nikola informed her.

"Well do you at least know whether this world is real?" she asked earning three puzzled looks.

"Are you sure she didn't hit her head?" Will wondered aloud.

"I'm serious," Helen told them cursing her lack of a watch, "I had to die in the other world to wake up in this one but I keep getting glimpses of your conversation over there, Nick thinks that if I have to die in the fake world to permanently come back into the real world but I don't know which one that is so please, give me something."

"What other world?" Nikola questioned looking stumped for once.

"As far as I know here is real," Will offered unhelpfully.

"If there are two worlds, realities or whatever," her father explained, "then it is likely that since you are apparently caught between them that this Nick is right, my guess is that whatever they did to you is highly untested and unstable and you should get out before something goes horribly wrong."

"But how do I tell which reality is real?" she asked.

"Whichever one you feel most in tune with," her father told her.

"Isn't it obvious this world is real?" Will informed her, "I'm real, you're real, here is real and there are a lot of things going on here."

"The other world feels real too," Helen pointed out, "and there's a lot going on there too, you have no idea what its like."

"It's kind of a pointless question," Nikola told her shrugging, "think about it, whoever you ask is going to say that their world is real. You'd have to be psychic to get an unbiased view."

"Psychic..." she mused thinking of her son.

"That's what I said," Nikola muttered.

"Don't worry about that now," Will said retrieving some bottled water from his backpack and handing it to her, "try get your strength back, we need to keep moving."

"Nick!" Henry yelled much to her confusion as she looked around and saw no sign of him, "Nick! Nick! Nick!"

"I'm listening," her son's voice pointed out, "I'm just kind of trying to keep time here."

"You okay?" Nikola inquired frowning, "you're face just went 5 shades paler."

"Err... yeah," she replied reluctantly taking the water from Will.

"That's funny!" Henry laughed, "you can't keep time, its not something you can collect like DVDs. Why are you watching your mom sleep anyway?"

"You still with us Helen?" her father asked worriedly placing a hand on her shoulder and she realized she was staring off in a random direction.

"Did you want something Henry?" Nick questioned tiredly.

"Yeah I'm fine," she told them with a forced smile.

"There's this lady on the phone and err... she wanted to talk to you," Henry explained, "her name was Dana Whit-something and she said it was important."

"Stall her Henry, I can't talk right now," Nick snapped, "I have to revive my mother."

"You shouldn't bother her, she's sleeping," Henry pointed out.

"Hopefully I'll see you all soon," Helen told the others glancing at their worried faces as her eyes started to drift shut.

"No!" Nikola yelled.

"C'mon Magnus, stay with us!" Will added but her she felt herself falling back.

"Oh Helen," her father sighed.

Abruptly she opened her eyes and shot up, panicked glancing around the inside of her bedroom with Nick standing beside her just as he had been when she 'left' a few minutes ago, she put a hand to her still aching head but felt oddly more at home here. He let out a relieved sigh as he half collapsed into a nearby chair before shooting her a dark look.

"We are never doing that again," Nick told her seriously, "ever."