Disclaimers: I only own Maria, not the F4 characters though, I'm not that rich…

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"What did he say?" Reed asked Ben about the phone call.

"I've already told you," his friend replied, "He said that if I don't tell her, he will, but how can I tell her?" he stressed and shook his head.

Reed put a comforting hand on his shoulder. "We'll get through it," he said.

The two were silent when Sue walked into the lab with coloured paper. "Which one?" she held up the swatches for Reed to choose. "Well?" she pressed. He seemed excited enough last night when they talked about doing up their room to make it more personal, now he was just… well, uninterested… "What?" she asked after a while, the two men looked at her solemnly, "Oh no… Is Doom back?" she asked.

Reeds features softened, he couldn't help but smile, "No," he said, "He's still in Latveria," he said.

Sue looked relieved, "So why the long faces?" she was still confused.

Reed looked at Ben, "We have a problem," Ben started, his voice gruffer than usual. "Well, I have a problem," he corrected himself. "There's this man, he keeps calling claiming to be Maria's grandfather," he said.

Sue's eyes widened, "But I thought your dad-"

"Her mother's father," he said breaking her off. "He's hell bent on telling her about her origin."

Sue was now even more confused, "What's so shocking about being Irish?" she asked.

"It goes a little deeper than that," he said sadly. "This man, he says that Maria's mum, his daughter, was different," he said.

A frown creased her normally smooth forehead, what was going on? "Different as in how?" she asked.

Ben looked at Reed, "Her mother could… foretell things," he said.

Sue nodded, "You mean like psychic?" she asked.

Ben shook his head, "Not quite," he said. He knew what he was about to tell Sue was incredibly unbelievable, but then again, had someone told him last year that they would all have mutated into superheroes, he wouldn't have believed them, so he gave it a go. "He claims to be a Demon, and says that Maria's mother was a demon," he dropped the bombshell.

Sue's eyes widened, "What? That's impossible," she cried.

Reed couldn't help but laugh, "And you don't turn invisible…" he pointed out.

His fiancé glared at him before looking back at Ben, "She doesn't know?"

Ben shook her head, "I don't even know if what he's saying is true. I've never met the guy before. I don't even know if he is who he says he is," he said.

"So why has her grandfather decided to show up now?" Sue asked, realising that's all she seemed to have been doing since she entered the lab was ask questions. "Sorry, I just need to know stuff, you can't keep secrets anymore," she said.

Ben smiled, "I wish I knew the answers," he said. "Right now I have just as many questions as you do…"

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A/n You have got to know who it's dedicated to by now!