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"I miss you, Liam. I can hardly wait until I see you again. How about a movie tonight? At 5 they're having a Quentin Tarantino movie night at the Hayden Cinema. They are playing all his best movies like Pulp Fiction Django Unchained, the Kill Bill saga, Jackie Brown, and, of course, Inglorious Bastards!" Emma grinned as she called her boyfriend on Saturday morning.

"I'm missing you too, Em. The Tarantino movie night sounds great. Do you mind if my best friend Nathalie joins us? She's a huge fan from Tarantino movies too. Nat asked me a lot of questions about you when she can finally get to know you. This seems like the perfect opportunity," he said. Then he added, "I just wonder what's going on with Dad and Uncle Logan. They have been acting really strange. Something must be going on."

"Oh that would be awesome! I'd love to meet her," Emma said excitedly. She thought for a moment and said, "You know, Mom and Dad have also been weird for the past few days." Before she could say anything more, she was interrupted by soft knocking on her door. "Liam one moment please," she said, putting the call on hold. "Yeah? Come in" she said.

Her father came in her room. Max looked at his daughter seriously and immediately began to speak, "Emma honey would you please come into the living room? We're expecting guests in a few minutes. You can call him back later."

The teenager briefly rolled her eyes and continued the conversation with her boyfriend, "Liam, I have to go, we're having guests. But I'm already looking forward to meeting you and Nat today. I'll call you back later."

"That's okay. I have to go now too anyway. Dad and I are going to have breakfast at the Manufactum Cafe," he said. "And Emma? I'm really looking forward to seeing you again tonight. See you soon, sweetie. Take care of yourself."

"You too. I will count the hours until we meet again. Bye" she ended the conversation and looked at her father a little angry.

But before she could say anything on it, he cleared his throat, "I know you're in a bad mood right now, but it's important that you come down now. Our guests will be here in about twenty minutes".

"Oh, it's okay, Dad. And thanks again for helping me with my science project. I don't know what I would have done without your help." Emma paused and considered how to ask the question on her mind. She said, "Hey Dad? I have a strange question for you."

"What?" he asked and nervously ran his hand through his blonde hair.

"Why were you the there the last few days? Could it be that you and Mom are planning to get together again? And if so, please don't hurt her. Sophie thinks that nothing is going on between you. But if there's a little hope..." she rambled. Max sighed, stopped for a moment and took his daughter in his arms.

He stroke her long red hair and would have done anything not to have this conversation today with Logan and Rory.

The last few days have been quite exhausting for him and Katherine. None of them would have ever believed that they would face Emma's/Norah's birth parents at any time. It took him so much strength to control himself during the meeting with Logan and Rory. Katherine had once again managed to calm him down with her mere presence.

He was still sorry that the marriage didn't last longer than six years. But that wasn't relevant now. The most important thing for Max and Katherine was that the therapists support their daughter Sophie and especially Emma aka Norah and her twin sister through this difficult situation.

If it had been up to him, they would have taken a different approach to the whole situation. But Logan and Rory were right. There would be no other way than to inform Emma about the DNA test.

However, the crisis also had its good side. The crisis had brought him and his ex-wife closer together again. There had been times after the divorce where they could hardly talk to each other without causing an argument.

After long consideration, they had decided yesterday that they wanted to try again being a couple after such a long time. And yet they still wanted to keep the relationship under wraps from their children. They would have other major life changes to deal with very shortly.

"Dad? Earth to Dad? Did I do something wrong?" she asked and slowly became nervous. She had seldom experienced her father so calm and introverted.

"No sweetie and I am aware that it seems strange to you that I have been here the last few days. But Mom and I had some important things to sort out," he explained.

Skeptically Emma looked at her father and was about to say something until she heard her mother's voice. "Where are you? Our guests will arrive soon. Max, Emma?",

"We're already coming, Kate! Honey, come on. And Emma? Please never forget that Mom and I love you and your sister more than anything else in the world. You and Sophie are the best thing that could have happened to me and your mother." he assured her with a caring smile and tried not to let his fear show.

"Oh Dad, I love you so much and no matter if you and Mom get back together I couldn't imagine a better dad than you!" she muttered and felt so safe in her father's arms.

Twenty minutes later, Rory was outside Katherine's house with Logan and Nathalie. Silently, Logan reached for Rory's and Nathalie's hands and gently pressed them.

"No matter how the whole situation turns out today, Ace, Dolly, we'll get through it together as a family." he smiled encouragingly at his wife and daughter.

"Yes, Dad, we will get through this. I am so excited to meet her but still a bit nervous too," Nathalie said.

"We all are, Nathalie." nodded Logan, took a deep breath and pressed the doorbell.

Moments later Max opened the door. When he saw Nathalie, he was startled for a moment. He froze and stared at her. She was really the image of his adopted daughter Emma. He tried to shift his gaze.

"Good morning Logan, Rory. And you must be Nathalie, right?" he greeted her after he got his act together again.

"Good morning, Mr. Hoffman. It's nice to meet you," she said and was a little shyer now.

"Me too Nathalie. Come in," Max asked her with an inviting gesture.

"Thank you and Max, I am very grateful to you for agreeing to do the test. I know how hard this must be for you, but we hopefully we will find a solution", Logan reassured him.

"Yeah I hope so too." Max muttered to himself when he let the family into the house.

The lively chit chat between Emma and Sophie stopped immediately when Max was in the living room with Logan, Nathalie, and Rory.

The youth therapists opted not to intervene immediately. They had to give the young girls time to understand the situation as well as they could at their age.

Nathalie turned around. In the next moment her heart almost stopped when she saw Rory and Logan Huntzberger standing in the living room with a young girl that looked exactly like her. Except that she had blonde hair.

None of the people in the room said anything. The silence became almost unbearable. A pin dropping would have sounded like an explosion.

"This can't be real," Emma whispered as she stared at Nathalie. Didn't she just say two days ago that everyone had a doppelganger? And now there was a girl standing in the living room that was her doppelganger. She shook her head and couldn't believe what was happening now. Emma instinctively knew this was not a mere coincidence. This girl, whoever she was, where ever she came from, was her twin.

Intuitively, Kate reached for her daughter's hand, but her daughter immediately pulled her mother's hand away. "Emmy Darling I.."

"Don't touch me and how dare you to call me Emmy?! I'm never talking to you and Dad again! Sophie! Come to my room with me," she said in a low voice jumping up from the couch.

Max cleared his throat and said, "Sweetie, I'm... I'm sorry, but you have to stay here now. You need to take a DNA test."

"I certainly won't do that. I mean look at her, it's obvious that she's..." she had to stop for a moment.

"...my sister." Emma ended her sentence for her.

With a hurt look in her eyes, she continued, "Dad, you said to me that I and Sophie were the best thing that happened in your and Mom's life about twenty minutes ago when you were holding me in your arms!

You lied to me! You have lied to me my whole life! Neither you or mom would had had the guts to tell me I wasn't your kid? You had to hide it from me.

You let me believe that I was your child for fourteen years." She said getting angry and let herself be led by her blind rage.

Tears were pooling in her eyes. "My whole life has been built on a lie. Why? Why didn't you say anything?"

Sophie, who still said nothing, stood up without a word and approached her sister. She pulled her into her arms. At first Emma resisted, but then she let herself fall into the arms of her sister.

"I'm so terribly sorry munchkin. So sorry. I..I don't know what I should say now. Except that I'm here for you not matter what is coming in our way. We're going through this as sisters." she said firing cold gazes to her parents.

"Pinky promise?", she whispered and looked into her sister's eyes.

"Sure pinky promise.", she nodded and couldn't hold her tears back any longer too. A flood of tears escaped from Sophie's eyes.

Sophie could literally feel the fear and despair that went through her little sister's body. She trembled all over her body and just couldn't stop crying. "Of course pinky promise. I won't let you down," she whispered, gently stroking her sister's pale cheek and kissing her forehead.

"It's good to know that I can at least rely on one person here in the room. I'm so glad to have you in my life Soph," she sobbed.

"Oh sweetie, of course you can always rely on me. We are sisters forever, whether we share the same DNA or not. I really don't care," she tried to comfort her sister with these well considered words.

Logan, Rory and Nathalie were still standing on the same spot in the living room watching the two crying girls. They felt so helpless and alone. Seeing their daughter cry almost made Logan and Rory lose their minds. "We have to do something Logan..." Rory whispered in a fragile voice and could hardly hold back her own feelings.

"I know Ace, I know," he nodded and desperately tried to find a solution to defuse the situation a little. But none of these ideas that occurred to him would improve the situation. "Daddy do something. This is about my sister..." Nat interfered now and was trying her best not to freak out now.