Conrad woke Yuri up the next morning for their morning run. Other than good morning nothing else was said. It unnerved Conrad some, but he wasn't sure how to broach the subject. It's not every day someone loses their fiancé to someone else through what Conrad believed to be trickery.

By the time they came in for breakfast Cheri had settled down a little, but most of breakfast was mostly her talking about reception plans. Yuri was bored but then he noticed Greta wasn't there. After the breakfast dishes were cleared away he managed to slip away and went to her room. He figured if she wasn't there then perhaps she was with Wolfram.

x-x-x-x

Greta was still majorly upset about what she learned.

^Flashback^

"Wolfram, are you okay?"

"Yeah, Gisela said I'll be fine."

"Is it true? They said you're not engaged to Yuri anymore!"

Wolfram by this time after talking to his mother, Gunter and even Gwendal he had reluctantly accepted his fate. Knowing a Blood and Fire Ceremony was the only way out and very few people who had ever performed those had survived. It was especially more dangerous when only one of the parties involved wanted it annulled. It could mean certain death. Even if Murata agreed to do the ceremony with him and annul the marriage there was no guarantee that the annulment would be approved or that either of them would survive it.

"Yes, Greta it's true. I'm afraid that I can't be your father anymore."

"But Greta likes Wolfram being her father!"

"I'm sorry." Wolfram said looking away from her. It was too painful. He didn't want to lose his daughter but he had adopted her because he was engaged to Yuri and felt it was his responsibility too. Now he was no longer engaged to Yuri and so he no longer had the right to be called her father. "You should go I'd like to be alone."

Greta had been devastated by this and ran to her room crying.

^End Flashback^

Yuri knocked but when he only heard what sounded like muffled crying he became concerned and knocked again, "Greta, can I come in?"

He heard what he thought was a muffled "Go Away!"

Now more concerned he opened the door. He was shocked to see her on the bed crying. He ran over and even though she fought him he picked her up and held her in his arms. "What's wrong Greta?"

"Why Yuri, Why did Yuri break up with Wolfram!"

Yuri winced he didn't think by breaking up with Wolfram it would upset her so much. "Look Greta, I'm sorry. But I'm not in love Wolfram; I like him and love him to death as a good friend, but that's all. I didn't think it'd upset you so much. It's not like a lot has changed. I mean we're still your fathers."

At that Greta pulled away and looked at him and said, "But Wolfram said he can't be Greta's father anymore!"

"What? Did he really tell you that?"

Greta nodded sadly. Yuri was furious! He couldn't believe Wolfram did this. So he set the little girl down and grabbed her hand.

"Come on Greta, we're going to get this straightened out."

They arrived at Wolfram's room and Yuri almost threw open the door and barged in. But restrained himself and simply knocked loudly.

"Go away, I'm tired!" He was tired alright. Tired of listening to his mother's exciting babbling, tired of Gwendal's lecture on how he should have paid more attention to what he was doing after he stepped on something strange. Or Gunter that marriage was the least of his worries on something like that. Not knowing what he stepped on could have lead to a whole number of problems.

Yuri then threw open the door and walked in with Greta in tow. Wolfram looked up at hearing his door slam open and was surprised to see Yuri standing there with Greta.

"Yuri, what are you doing in here; haven't you done enough to me?"

At that Yuri sighed, "Look I'm sorry. I knew that doing that ceremony would mean that we wouldn't be engaged anymore and that you and Murata would end up engaged instead."

"So you planned all this?"

"Hey no one told me about any kind of dangers or side-effects associated with this switch. I didn't know it could get you two married!"

"Well if you've come to beg for forgiveness, then I guess I can be persuaded to accept."

Yuri so wanted to snap that he hadn't come here to beg for forgiveness. He might have snapped something back had he not felt Greta squeeze his hand. Reminding him why he bothered to come here at all.

"Why did you tell Greta that you weren't her father anymore?"

"We're not engaged anymore."

"What does that have to do with Greta?"

"I agreed to adopt her because we were engaged."

"So what because we're not engaged anymore means you no longer care about her?"

Wolfram glared at him, "Of course I care about her! Do you think I want to give her up? But the fact remains I'm married to Geika now, I can't be her father anymore."

"Why not? Is there a law that says because you adopted her with me while we were engaged, that because we're no longer engaged and you're married to someone else that you can't be her father?"

Wolfram just blinked not knowing how to answer that.

"If there's not then what's the problem? In my world whether people just break up or get divorced if they have kids together then they rarely sever all ties with the children."

"Divorced?" Wolfram asked in confusion.

"Ah, well you see in my world when two people get engaged, if they decide they don't want to be engaged anymore they simply part ways. Divorce well you see when two people get married if they decide they don't want to be together anymore they come to an agreement and sign a paper and that's it. If they have kids and they're living apart they work out visitation rights."

Wolfram looked ready to explode, "Do you take me for a fool? That's the stupidest thing I ever heard!"

Yuri growled, "Yeah, well if you don't believe me you can ask Murata or if you don't want to believe us ask Conrad I'm sure he knows."

Wolfram sputtered, he wasn't sure what to believe.

"Look it doesn't matter. Even if there's a law, I'll reverse it or make a new one! When I agreed to do this ceremony, I never thought that this would affect you or Greta. As far as I'm concerned if there's no law against it, which I'll ask Gunter about, then why can't you remain her father too?"

"But-But it wouldn't be proper!"

"Proper? I don't care if anyone like it or not. You are Greta's father; unless you don't want to be."

"Of course I do, you wimp. I just didn't think you'd want me to be."

"Look Wolfram, what happened between us, is between us. This has nothing to do with Greta. I would never ask you to stop being her father." Yuri never would deny that Wolfram was as much Greta's father as he was if not more so. Day's even weeks pass by in his world while in this world months can pass by before he returns. So Greta spends more time with Wolfram. So why Wolfram thought Yuri would deny them the right to be together he would never know. Yuri pushed the girl towards him. Greta ran over crying into his arms. Yuri smiled and closed door with a smile.