The moment you heard the heartbeat, it was as if your own heart stopped. It wasn't cancer. You weren't crazy. You were pregnant though, and this wasn't your run of the mill pregnancy. However, you felt relief. It seems this was the best possible news on this situation. You didn't planning on having a kid yet and it was anything if not unexpected, but in the face of the other possibilities, this seemed like the least terrible scenario. Granted, technically you had spent enough time with Zen that he could be considered a one night stand. Well, maybe more of a four night stand. But there was one more thing - you loved each other. How had you fallen so deep for him was something you wouldn't understand. You looked at the screen and the doctor pointed at the little bean-shaped black area in the ultrasound. He said it looked normal, that it was still very early, and some other things that you found yourself tuning out. You leaned your head back and rested it on the exam bed, your free hand covering your head. The implications of this situation were huge and yet you felt relieved. It could have been worse. But being relieved at an unexpected pregnancy was beyond you. Was everything impossible to understand lately?

"Princess… are you alright?" Zen said, squeezing your hand.

"I'm… fine" but your voice didn't sound fine. You tried to talk and failed and realized you were holding back tears.

"I will give you guys a moment" the doctor said, taking the ultrasound probe out and printing out a picture of the ultrasound. "This is yours if you want to keep it." he said, putting it on the counter. "Take your time. I know this can be an emotional moment" he said, stepping out of the room.

"Babe…" Zen moved his head and placed it against your forehead. "It'll be ok. We will figure it out. Are you… are you not happy this happened? I'm sorry, I know I was irresponsible, I just… I just… I didn't think."

"No, no, it's not that. I'm happy, I really am" but why were you crying?

"We'll make it work. There has to be a way to make this work." Zen kept repeating until you found yourself nodding against his head. He pressed his lips against yours in a desperate attempt to reassure you. It helped. It helped a lot.

You took the picture, put your clothes back on, and walked out of the clinic holding onto Zen's arm. You felt like an emotional wreck on the inside but he was being so sweet and so perfect you forced yourself to put on a brave face on. Your time with him was limited to how long you could stay awake and you were going to make the most of it.

He stopped at a grocery store and bought various things to cook at home. You talked about your taste in food and agreed on something you both liked. You went home and cooked together. It was almost as if being together came naturally to you both and it helped ease some of your worries. Thankfully, the morning sickness didn't return when you were cooking and you were able to keep the food down. You mentioned to him that Seven wanted you to pass by his house again that day and before you even tried to maneuver some way to ask him to drop you off there so he wouldn't meet Saeran right away he hit you with:

"I can take you. I need to run some errands before the next show tonight and his place is on the way there. I can pick you up before the play if you want to come see it again?"

"I would love to, I missed the beginning"

"I should be able to get you a ticket." he said, smiling. "Great. This worked out pretty great then" And left it at that. You felt guilty not telling him the reasons you wanted to go to Seven's place but again, it wasn't your secret to reveal. You'd have to talk to Luciel about this, however, you didn't want to keep lying to Zen.

"Are we… are we going to tell the RFA members about… what's going on?" you asked him, pointing to your abdomen.

"Yeah, of course we'll tell them… just not yet. Let's give it some time first. Maybe even come up with a plan. Get some more information."

You agreed. Where you'd get the information was the question. Perhaps Seven could help with that. After eating, you both showered and Zen dragged you back outside. You were starting to feel the drag of not sleeping the night before but he took you to a small mall.

"If you're going to be around more often, we need to get you a few things" he said. He was right - you were still wearing the dress from the night before. You went to various stores and got a few things. You were glad Seven gave you a credit card but even then Zen paid for almost everything. "I'm doing pretty good financially in this play. I got an email from my agent too with another role lined up. Apparently I'm a shoo-in, the producers aren't even holding auditions for the role they want to give me" he said, pretty satisfied with himself. "I'm that good"

"You really are amazing. You'll blow them all away" you said, smiling back at him.

This went on for a few more hours before he took you to Sevens place.

"I'll come back for you in about an hour? Should give me enough time" he said, basically leaving you in Seven's front door.

"Yeah that should be fine, I think." you said, really not knowing how much time Luciel expected you to stay around.

"Perfect. I'll get you then and we'll get ready for the play. I gotta be there about an hour before curtain time" he said.

"Sounds like a plan" you added, while you ran Seven's doorway. Quickly enough, he came for the door. He shook Zen's hand and mentioned he'd go see the show next week. They made some small-talk and Zen basically told him to care for you with his life while you were gone. Seven rolled his eyes and laughed, saying how he'd take good care of you and not to worry. A few minutes later, he was gone and you were inside Luciel's abode.

"So… Saeran is a bit… volatile still. He's gotten better, but he might snap at the slightest provocation. I've had a psychiatrist come evaluate him about 3 times a week and he's prescribed him some mood stabilizers but I don't think they've quite kicked in yet. The doctor said they take about 3 weeks." he said, looking at the floor. "It's only been about a week since he started taking those. I wish I didn't have to put him on meds but he had some pretty nasty withdrawal from whatever Rika was giving him and I just couldn't risk having him hospitalized - I didn't want him to hate me… anymore"

"I understand" you said, walking beside him.

"He has tried to hurt me before but I don't expect him to try and hurt you. Even then, I've taken some precautions. Here." he said, giving you a small contraption.

"What's this?"

"It's a low voltage taser. I trust you to use it only if you need it" You arched your eyebrows. Was the situation really that dire?

"Okay... " you said, taking the taser.

"I'm pretty sure you won't need it, but I don't want to risk Zen coming after me with the rage of a thousand suns if you're missing a hair"

"Ahah. Alright" you say, putting the taser into one of your pockets, next to your phone. As soon as you did that, you felt it vibrate. You pulled it out and saw you had a message from Zen… with a selfie attached.

Miss you already. Will be back for you soon Princess

Your heart melted. You realized quickly this was the first selfie he ever sent you - you've barely had the time since you had pretty much always been together when you were here. You treasured it like nothing else. You replied to his text and turned your attention back to Luciel.

"So… anything else I should know?"

"I… I don't know. Let's just get you in to see him. Just… keep your distance. I don't know how he'll react."

"Okay"

You followed Luciel down the living room and into a hallway. He stopped at a door and motioned you to stop. He knocked and opened the door.

"Hey, I've got someone here to see you"

"I've already seen Vanderwood today" you heard the voice in the room say.

"No, someone else" Luciel answered. "It's MC" Luciel stepped into the room and motioned you to step inside.

"Yeah ok… ay" Saeran had started to say until he saw you standing there. "Impossible"

"Hi" you said, waving shyly with your right hand. There he was, sitting on the side of a single bed. Pinkish hair covering his forehead and a mint eye tattoo on his arm. He was just wearing a tanktop. Despite the different eye color and the different hair, the similarities between both twins was striking.

"This is a sick trick Saeyoung, even by your standards" Saeran said, looking away from you.

"It's not a trick. I told you she was real. She is how I found you and Mint Eye" Luciel insisted, walking into the room and sitting on a chair across from Saeran.

"Get this poor girl out of here. I don't know how you found someone that looked so much like MC, but I made her. I made her from scratch. I created her looks and I programmed her personality. She is simply not real. And she" he said, pointing a finger at you "is a fake. All you do is lie, lie, and LIE. GET HER OUT OF HERE"

Saeyoung stood up and was about to push you out of the room before you stopped him. "Let me… let me try to talk to him"

"He's getting agitated. It just gets worse from here."

"Just let me try" you insisted.

"...against my better judgement" he mumbled but let you stay inside. You walked over to the chair Luciel had been sitting in and sat across from Saeran.

"Saeran… I'm… real" you say. There weren't many things you could say to him to help him change his mind but you figured you had to try. It occurred to you that the events from Another Story had not happened in this timeline and you might be able to draw on what you remembered from it. "Can I call you Saeran? Or do you prefer Ray?" That got his attention quickly. His eyes shot up into your face and he stared. He stared deeply into your eyes.

"Where did you hear that name?"

"That's what you told me to call you in a different time..." you said, without having a good explanation for how you knew about that name.

"Only Rika ever called me that" he said, his eyes fixated on you. "You look exactly how I imagined you… This was a great effort to fool me. You should leave before I hurt you"

"How can I convince you it is really me?"

"You can't. You're not real." he said. But his eyes were glued to you. You could see them trailing your hair, your eyes, your lips. "Where did you even find this girl?" he said, turning to his brother. "It was an excellent cast. She looks exactly like those pictures I made"

"I'm from another dimension." you start, trying to get his attention back to you. "I was in another dimension when I got the app. Somehow I ended up here. I have no idea how. This isn't even what I look like in my world" you say, your hands pressed against your own torso. "I'm just… I'm grateful that you made me. If it wasn't for you, I probably never would have made it here" you add, your arms somehow hugging your own body. You never would have met Zen or… "Just… thank you"

"What is wrong with you? Why are you doing this? Don't you know what he's done to me? How he betrayed me? Why are you trying to help him convince me of his version of the story?"

"Because it is the truth" you say, simply. "Rika tricked you and Saeyoung. She's the one to blame for this, not him, not you…"

"SHUT UP" he screamed at you. "You don't know anything about my life and what I've been through. Rika was my chance at happiness and it has been stripped from me. If you were really MC, why aren't you in love with me?"

"...what?"

"I made you" he says, standing from the bed and hovering over you. "I created you to be my ally and my friend against him" he pointed at Luciel but his eyes were still fixated on you. "I created your personality. I created the way you looked." he said, grabbing a strand of your hair. You felt Luciel step closer but you stopped him with your hand. "I created you for me. Not for anyone else. Why aren't you on my side?"

"I… " you couldn't tell him you had fallen in love with Zen. Your situation was too perilous and he could hurt you if he was as volatile as Luciel claimed. "I am on your side." you said, but your hands were shaking. "I am on your side. I did all this for you. I did it to help you. Rika was not good for you. She was drugging you, Ray. She brainwashed you.

"STOP-"

"No" you said, standing up in front of him. "I told Saeyoung everything I could to rescue you from Mint Eye. So you could be happy. So you could have the life that you deserved. I didn't do it just to redeem Luciel. I did it to save you.

"SHUT UP" he screamed again, covering his ears and shutting his eyes closed. "YOU'RE NOT REAL. YOU CAN'T BE REAL" he screamed, bending over as if just hearing you speak caused him pain. Luciel came over and pulled you away from him, walking over to his brother.

"Hey, hey, calm down. She's telling you the truth. How else would I have known where to find you?"

"She's not real. She can't be real…" he continued to repeat as he sat back down on the edge of the bed. "...how?" it was a whisper you barely heard.

"I don't know..." you say quietly but loud enough for him to hear you. He stopped covering his ears and looked at you again. "How can I convince you?"

"How did you know the things you told Saeyoung?"

"Well… in my… where I am from… I can… I can interact with various timelines of this reality. Since I had seen a few variations, they gave me different information about you, Rika, and Mint Eye. In one I was with you in Mint Eye. You cooked for me and gave me flowers. You liked wearing a blue rose on your magenta coat." you said. He looked so distraught. His eyes were frantic, moving from side to side as if he was actually absorbing the information you were giving him. "I'm sorry I couldn't help you sooner. I wish I could have. I'm just glad you're safe now."

It felt like hours passed. You tried your best to explain how you knew what you knew and telling him the things you recalled from both Another Story and Seven's secret endings. You did what you could to persuade him and it seemed like it was working. He started looking less frantic. He started nodding with some of the things you said. It wasn't until the end when he asked:

"So who is the lucky member?"

"Huh?" you asked.

"I can see it. From your story, you're in love with one of us. It's not me. Is it Saeyoung?"

"No…" Saeyoung answered for you

"Don't tell me its V"

"No…" this time you answered. "Zen"

"Ah… the actor." he said, looking away from you. "I should've known. Even Rika loved him" You all stayed quiet in what seemed like a very long and uncomfortable silence until Saeran broke it again. "I need to think about this. Just… just leave me alone."

"Ok." you say, getting up to leave the room. You turned and saw Saeran lie on his side on the bed and Luciel stare at him longingly. He really wanted to have his brother back and it was plain to see. You stepped out of the room and Luciel followed shortly after. Your phone vibrated just then, a text from Zen saying he'd be there to pick you up in a few minutes. You hadn't realized how long you had actually spent with Saeran that Zen was heading back already.

"Thank you" Luciel said, closing the door behind him. "I'm not sure if this helped or not but at least he was starting to believe us after.

"Yeah… I hope it helped" you say, putting the phone in your pocket. "I wish I had more I could say to him but I don't remember everything off the top of my head" you say, looking down to your feet. "I wish I did."

"I think you did ok. If you knew too much he might think I'm feeding you information" Luciel said, walking towards the front of his house.

"I guess…" you say, following closely behind him.

"I really appreciate this, MC. I owe you"

"Don't worry about it. I was happy to help. At least I hope it helped" you say, heading towards the door.

"Zen's not here yet" Seven said.

"Oh. He sent me a text that he would be here in a few minutes" you say, carelessly checking your phone again. "Oh, here" you said, giving back the taser. "I'm glad I didn't need it"

"Right. Good. I'm glad also" Luciel took back the taser from your hands. A beep sounded through the living room "I think Zen's here now"

"That's your doorbell?"

"Not a doorbell. More of an alarm if anyone stops in front of the door." he said, walking towards it. Then, you heard a doorbell. "That's the doorbell". He looked through the peephole and opened the door. Zen stood there with a bouquet of flowers. You giddily walked towards him with a spring in your step - it was impossible to deny how happy he made you feel.

"For my princess" he said, handing you the flowers.

"You shouldn't have" you said, taking the flowers from him. "They're beautiful."

"Just like you" he added, as he leaned to give you a kiss on the forehead. "Did he behave?" he asked you pointing towards Luciel.

"He behaved"

"Good."

"Of course I behaved! And where are my flowers?" Luciel said, walking over towards Zen and shaking his hand. "All good?

"Yeah, yeah. Thanks" Zen said.

"Anytime" Seven answered, walking back towards his doorway. "Have fun at the theater tonight" he said, as he went in through the doorway.

"Ready for tonight Princess?"

"Ready for anything with you". You said, and hopped on the back of his motorcycle.