A/N: This chapter gives you an insight as to who would play Ollie if this was something that HIMYM made. Also, we all want the Mother to have a doppelgänger, right? Well, I make it happen!

Chapter 35: Doppelgängers

I've said before that everything happens for a reason. Lucy taught me that a long time ago. She always believed that everything had a reason as to why it had to happen. Usually it was fate, or karma. You tell me something happens, and I might tell you the reason why it happened. Like why I met Juno: we met because we were meant to. Had that never happened, I may have never gotten back together with my family, because she was the one who pushed me to do it. November and December of 2012 was yet another turning point in my life. I started to get a clearer picture of what fate had been building up to for so long, and once I found the reason why all these things were happening, it blew my mind. Things were starting to fall together. But that wasn't for another few months. Until then, something kinda weird happened later as October was approaching it's halfway point.

Juno and I were heading back from a practice. Halloween was coming up, and I had a new costume this year. Since I went as Green Arrow every year, I changed it a bit and had a costume based on Arrow from the TV show. I was the only one I knew who watched it, but Robin recognized a few locations they filmed it in when I showed her a few clips, because she was from Vancouver.

"How's your week going?" I asked Juno as we headed back towards the apartments.

"Pretty good. Haven't heard much on Cindy and Casey."

They had gotten married almost a year ago, and were now looking towards adopting a little girl. I too hadn't heard much from them either. Nothing personal. Just the issues of life. Eventually things change, and the ones we were once close to move on with their lives.

We started down Broadway when a huge crowd of people were making their way out of one of the larger theaters.

"That was awesome!" Said one of the people in the crowd.

"Amazing." Said another.

"Wonder what they're talking about?" I wondered.

Juno pointed at a giant poster tacked up on the wall beside the front entrance. I recognized this show, because I had heard it winning a crap ton of Tonys: Once.

"Oh my god!" I heard someone shriek. I looked over and saw one of them was pointing at the two of us. "There they are!"

"Uh..." I said. "What?" I had heard of people mistaking other people for celebrities, but I had no idea who I could have been mistaken for. I looked over at Juno. She looked just as confused and horrified as I was.

Some of the people started to crowd around us, and that's when we both sprinted off. Clearly it wasn't enough for some of those people for them to give up. They chased after us for some reason which I didn't know just yet. I guess if they thought we were celebrities that we would give them autographs.

"Let's jump into a side alley and hide there!" Said Juno.

"Agreed!"

I didn't know what this was all about, but after a while, the crowd chasing us was starting to die down, and we finally slid into an alley right beside the theater. The remaining people chasing us ran right past.

"What in the hell was that?" I asked.

"No idea." Said Juno. "That was scary."

"You think they had all had a bit too much to drink before they came to the show?"

"I don't know. But they sure thought we were someone."

"Whatever. Let's go."

We started around the corner, but I ran smack into someone else.

"Oh, god! I'm so sorry!" It was a girl, a bit smaller than me. She had been carrying sheet music that was scattered around after I bumped into her, knocking her to the ground. She was about to reply, but then she looked up, and both she and Juno screamed. Then I looked at the person behind her.

"Gaaahhh!" We all screamed. All four of the people in that alley were looking at another person that looked exactly like them.

"What the hell is this? Did I just have a stroke?" I asked.

"Funny." Said the other guy. "I was gonna say the same thing." He looked close at me. "Are you even for real?"

"I'm very real. I'm the realest person you're ever gonna meet."

The two of us looked over at Juno and the girl. As one might expect, they were looking close at each other, just like I was to the other guy. Not every day you meet a doppelgänger of yourself.

"Okay, maybe less staring, and more explaining. Who the hell are you?" I asked.

"Uh, I'm Steve, and that's Cristin."

"Cristin with a 'c'." Said the girl. "And isn't this just crazy!" She gave a fake accent while saying the sentence.

"What's with the accent?" Asked Juno. "Are you from

Europe?"

"She stays in character sometimes after shows, and uses a Czech accent sometimes. We're the stars of Once." Explained Steve.

And then it made sense to me: "The fans were chasing us because they thought we were you guys."

Steve shrugged. "They chase the cast sometimes. Just proves we do our job right, and they love us for it. Plus the guitar might have confused them even further into thinking that you were me."

He gestured to my case, slung over my back.

"So you play?" I asked.

"Hell yeah. That's mainly what I'm supposed to do for the show." Said Steve.

"I gotta get a picture of this." Said Juno. She took out her phone. "Wait till all my friends see this!"

"The others inside won't believe this, either." Said Cristin. "We gotta tell them."

"I got an idea: We show them instead" Said Steve. "You two ever seen any Broadway shows before?" He said to me and Juno.

She said yes as I said no.

Steve looked at me. It was like looking into a mirror. "There's a first time for anything, Ollie. Tell you what. You two come to the show this Friday night. It'll be a great performance you guys won't forget. We'll also see if you can get backstage just to show the crew that this really happened."

"Seriously?" I asked. This was a really crazy offer to get from two people we just met who looked exactly like the two of us.

Cristin nodded. "The guys who run this production won't believe this unless you two come to the show. This is crazy!" She laughed.

I had heard Ted and the others had met dopplegangers of themselves, but never did I expect mine and Juno's to be Broadway actors. Cristin was right: this was crazy.

Later that week I was at the show. Juno didn't tell Louis, because she soon found out that he didn't like me either, but she wasn't so mad at him about it that she'd break up with him. We both tried our best to hide among the crowd. I kept my hood up the whole time, and Juno did a number of methods to hide her face, that I won't talk about because, truth be told, they were crazy.

Once was a great story, although it was weird to see someone who looked exactly like me to be playing a guy in love with a girl played by someone that looked like Juno. Other than that night we met, I never saw her that way. I thought it was an amazing show that didn't need insane special effects or anything to be great, and I understood why it won all those Tonys. Because it had a story that was good enough as it was.

After the show, Juno and I were invited backstage by Steve and Cristin, and as one might imagine, everyone thought it was insane. I think at least seven people took pictures with me and Steve, or Juno and Cristin.

When I got the chance, I pulled Cristin aside.

"I got a question to ask."

"Ok, shoot." She said.

"What did you say when you said 'miluju tebe'? I somewhat doubt it meant 'it looks like rain'." I was referring to a scene in their play. The girl Cristin played said something. It was Czech, but she shrugged off the translation by saying to Steve's character that "it looks like rain". But I had a feeling it wasn't the real translation.

Cristin smiled. "My character really said to Steve's that she loved him."

I smirked. "Isn't that sweet."

"So what's your relationship with my doppleganger?" She asked.

"We're friends. Really close friends for quite a few years."

"Nothing going on?"

"Oh, god no." I replied. "Never could see Juno that way. Never really been in a serious relationship in my life."

"Did you ever consider the possibility of a relationship with someone?" She asked.

I kept thinking how weird this was that despite her looking exactly like Juno, this girl was almost a complete stranger to me. And she was giving me questions into what I wanted to do with my life.

"I have. For a long time I've been considering it, but I've never found the right girl. Me and a few friends constantly talk about waiting for that 'One' to come around in our lives. I know I have yet to meet her."

Cristin put her hands on my shoulders. "Don't give up, Ollie. Whatever hard path, or difficult life you've gone through, as long as you keep faith, you'll find that girl. She's out there."

"Thanks, Cristin. I feel it too. She's out there, and she's coming in fast."

May 23rd 2013

It's been so long ago, but almost like yesterday that me and Juno found our doppelgängers. I think back to it as I walk across the runway. My plane will be leaving soon. As I keep walking, a feather falls into my field of view. I think back to that song that Steve and Cristin sang.

"Falling slowly/sing your melody/I'll sing it loud."

The feather floats right into my hand. I place it in my pocket and keep walking. This is the weekend where I'll have to do what I'm meant to do: make sure fate plays out.

A/N: For clairvoyance, Steve is Steve Kazee, who co-starred with Cristin Milioti in Once. When I picture who would play Ollie, that's what I would think. It makes a good reference to Once.