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Chapter 3

Brady got home from work that night and took Nicole aside to talk about what they had seen in town that day.

"So, my parents are John and Kate." He started. "And I couldn't be more confused about everything."

"I wonder how I ended up here in this time." Nicole said.

"I probably met you, fell in love with you, and then we got married and made a family." Brady answered.

"But why me and not Chloe?" Nicole questioned.

"Because she never left Philip." Brady answered.

Nicole nodded. "Do you wish she had?" She asked him.

Brady gave a chuckle and looked at the ground. He approached Nicole carefully. "No." He answered. "You and I are real." He told her. "Chloe and I, we were so, fake." He answered. "It was all about lust, never love. She didn't really have the personality I ever loved." He told Nicole. "And right now, I am with you and if we ever get back to our world Chloe is dead and I will stay with you." He told her.

"But do you love me?" She asked.

"We have only been together for two days, but I am falling for you." Brady told her. He held both her hands in his. "Trust me." He told her. "I am not just going to leave you for any reason. Right now, we are all each other has. Now, I want to get to the bottom of this mess and see if we can get back or if we are stuck here."

Nicole nodded. I hope he sees that I too am falling for him. It is not a money thing, it is true. She thought. "Who do you think is behind all this?" She asked him.

"I'm sure it is one of the DiMeras." Brady replied sitting down on a sofa. "But the question is, where to find the DiMeras?"

"They were nowhere in town." Nicole stated.

Brady nodded. "I wonder if it is like our Salem where the DiMeras come and go as necessary."

"Could be." Was all Nicole could offer about that. "Most likely." She added. "I mean, look at how Marlena turned out in both times. A doctor. And John and Kate both at Basic Black. If you get what I am saying..."

Brady nodded. "Yes I do." He smiled at Nicole. "It all fits. It is like a parallel time warp and we jumped into the bodies of the would be us's in a different world."

Nicole smiled as she began to grasp some of what was going on now. "In other words, all the same people exist and with similar professions and lifestyles, the only difference is that we are in the 1800's?" She summed up.

"Exactly!" Brady got really excited and pulled her into a kiss. When it was over they just smiled at each other. "I just thought of something." Brady said.

"What?" Nicole asked.

"What about the us from the 1800's? Where are they?" He asked.

"Hopefully not in our Salem." Nicole told him. "Our lives might be ruined by people who don't know about cars or electricity."

"Or they might make them better."

"Hopefully they are frozen in time for the moment." Nicole stated.

Brady nodded. "That is my hope as well." He told her. He was stretched out on the couch with his head in Nicole's lap. "And I will never get over Kate being my mother." He told her.

"Why?" She asked.

"It's just so awkward. I got so used to dad and Marlena being the perfect couple and now he's with Kate!"

"It is rather strange." Nicole commented on the whole thing. "And where is Victor?" She asked.

"Sadly he is probably dead." Brady stated.

"We could just ask the kids if they know Victor." Nicole suggested.

"Could." Brady said. "They might get suspicious and wonder why we have been asking them about people we are supposed to have known forever."

"They might. We could just check the graveyard for answers." Nicole told him.

"That's probably the best way." Brady agreed. "It's strange not having a TV in this room." He stated.

"Yea. But the silence is wonderful." Nicole answered. She had been looking at Brady's sexy face for so long now that she could swear she knew every inch of it.

Brady and Nicole both just relaxed right then. A loud noise from upstairs caused Brady to shoot up and Nicole followed closely. They ran over to the staircase to see Mark had fallen down it.

"Mark!" Brady shouted. He felt for a pulse. It was still going. "He's alive. I am going to take him to see Marlena." Brady told Nicole. She nodded and he scooped the boy up.

The carriage was still hooked up from earlier that day and they went into town. Marlena took care of him right away. But he didn't wake up for some time.

Brady sat and waited and waited. He had never been so worried. This was his little boy that was injured, and for the first time he knew what it was to be a worried parent.

Nicole walked in. "What are you doing here?" Brady asked. "I can bring him home when --"

"-- He is both our child." She interrupted him. "Besides, I am just as worried as you are about him." They were in the little waiting room of Marlena's office.

Brady nodded and hugged her. "I don't think I have ever been so worried." He told her. "And we have only been here for a day and a half."

She got a bit teary eyed and nodded against his shoulder. "I know exactly how you feel. Somehow I know he is my child and he means so much and just to lose him would --"

"--Hurt so bad." Brady finished her sentence for her.

She nodded and backed out of the embrace. She wiped a few tears away and Marlena came out of the other room. "He is awake." She told them. Both gave sighs of relief.

"Thank you so much." They both said as they went in to see him.

"Ma! Pa!" The boy lay on the table now fully awake. "I was running upstairs and I fell." He told them. "But I am okay now."

They fussed over him until the boy couldn't take it anymore. "I'm alive." He would tell them.

That night right before bed, Mark said something that confused Brady. "I have everything figured out Pa." He told his father with 100 percent certanty.

"You do?" Brady asked.

"Yes I do." The boy smiled at his father. "I almost died today, and of course it was scary, but you just have to keep going, no matter what. I went to another place for awhile." He told Brady.

"Where?" Brady asked.

"Far, far away." Mark replied. He drifted off to sleep.

Brady was left to ponder what Mark meant by that.

Chapter 4

Now in the modern day Salem

Lexie and a whole team of doctors had been observing Brady and Nicole for days now. Nothing. Their brains were somewhere else.

And mysteriously, two kids had ended up in that closet with them. They too had no brain activity. All four of them were lined up in a very long hospital room.

"Anything?" Marlena came over and asked.

"Nothing so far." Lexie replied. "But I did do a DNA test and Brady and Nicole are the mother and father of those two kids."

Marlena's mouth dropped open. "But she can't -- they cant ---"

"I know." Lexie was just as confused as Marlena. "And the boy opened his eyes for a few minutes and asked some questions, but that was it. He fell back asleep and hasn't woken up since."

Marlena nodded. "We will keep watching their progress." Lexie agreed and they both went home.

Watching from afar, Tony DiMera smiled devilishly. And only I can bring Brady and Nicole as well as their kids back to modern day Salem. He thought. I will make them suffer for just a little longer in the 1800's and then, maybe, I will bring them back here.

He went back to his house, where he had made the potion that would make both of them go back in time. "For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction. But this whole thing mixes everything up!" He smiled as he stared at the red liquid. "The two worlds are going to have to merge. And some people are going to have never existed." He once again smiled about the mess he had made. "Maybe I can delete people." He gave a devilish laugh and continued to ponder all that he could make happen.