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I place down the bowl of ramen and smile. Victory! I finally made a good bowl of ramen without using a pack of instant noodles! Score one for me, the woman who lost her virginity to a fictional character in a fictional universe! Success!

"Someone seems very happy today. Uh...how are you feeling?" 

I look over as Emu moves over to the fridge and opens it, pulling out a bottle of water. "Sore, but pretty dang good." 

No one told me that I would be sore after this. I would like to write to the girls who experienced all the fun before I did and complain. I'm pretty sure Hiiro is going to realize what I did and is going to give me heck for it and then praise me. Now, I don't want Kuroto finding out. He'll be okay with it at first and then get ticked off. 

"I was kind of worried about you since you seemed to be pretty out of it after a bit. You were really trying to do it for a long time, huh?" He closes the fridge and moves closer to me, eyes heading down to the big bowl of ramen. "You're going to eat all of that?" 

"I was going to share." I look down at it as the steam rolls off of it. "I looked up a recipe and cooked it for what it said to. My Japanese is pretty dang good now isn't it?" 

"It has always been pretty dang good." He places down the bottle and wraps his arms around me as he moves behind me. "Elkie, your neck is completely bruised. Do you have makeup or something to cover it up?" 

"You didn't need to go crazy."

"No, I didn't, but you enjoyed every second of me doing so. You were begging for more," he states. 

My face heats up a bit as he kisses the side of my face gently. He just had to bring that up, huh? Why does he need to mention that? That's kind of embarrassing to hear about the morning after!

"Emu!"

"Cover up your bruises soon, alright? I don't want everyone congratulating me on having sex like I'm a total nerd," Emu tells me, moving back to where he was standing a before he hugged me. "It isn't bad to be a nerd, but I don't need random people around the hospital finding out and congratulating me. It'll make things awkward at work."

"Well, if it helps, Hiiro probably hasn't gotten laid." And he's going to keep on waiting until Saki comes back from a dead as a Saki zombie or something along those lines. How would she come back from the dead anyway?

"It helps a little, but still the order stands and rules supreme. Cover your neck up and be ready to follow me around for the day," he says, bossing me around. "We have important business to attend to."

"Hey, why do you think Hiiro doesn't get laid and Taiga does?"

"Taiga is able to not focus on one thing all his life, I guess," Emu answers, sounding a bit confused about his answer. "Taiga is still upset about what happened, but it isn't like it is the only thing that matters in his life. He's just a bitter old man now."

I nod my head a little, agreeing with his assessment, and stare at him. "That sounds about right." 

"The real question is how does Taiga even get people to have sex with him?" Emu sighs a little, looking off to the side. "Actually, I don't want to imagine those scenarios. It isn't as lovely as me imagining me and you." Aw, that is so cute!

"I liked it."

"Hm?" He looks at me, staring at me with his perfectly cute face. "What?"

"Doing it with you was better than imagining it." I was worried about having sex for a moment, but that changed quickly.

"We can do it more often if you want to." 

He wants that, but only if I want that? He's such an angel. I guess we can do it depending on what is going on around us. 

"We can try and do it again soon, but we both have to be free to do so." I don't want to end up in the middle of it and someone or something interrupts it.

"I understand how you feel. The last thing I want to happen is Hiiro coming on over because he feels like it and sees us together like that. I don't want to open the door up to him and see if he can figure out what is going on."

"I know what you mean, Emu." That sounds like a nightmare. "So, work soon?"

"Yeah, work soon." He nods. "We gotta do some stuff that probably isn't very exciting, but you can gladly tag along and wait in the CR for sure. Everyone loves and adores you anyway." Taiga isn't there, so of course everyone there does. If Taiga was, I would say no to that. 

"Sounds like a great way to spend the day waiting for you to get done with what you need to get done." I can wait for Emu to get done doing his job. I may hate waiting, but I can tolerate it as long as I end up back in his arms again.

We're going to have a pretty nice day.

~.~

"I think you did something you should have done a long time ago," Hiiro says and I freeze, my hand on a plate. There is cake here and he wants to talk? Why?

"I don't know what you mean." My neck is covered and he can't see anything that would make him suspect such a thing happened. 

"It doesn't matter if it took you that long to get him. You should have gotten with the Intern in the first place." 

I take my hand off the plate and turn to him, staring at Hiiro's cold face. "So, what are you going on about, Hiiro?"

"I know what you did. The Intern is way too jolly today and it isn't because you're back in his arms. Anyways, it doesn't matter if you did it or not with him. What matters is that we need to catch up about things here." He steps closer to me, eyes looking into mine. "I believe someone from this world started this mess, but I have no clue who did it. I would suspect Kuroto, but he brought you here to fix it."

I look away. "I still don't have a clue why he did."

"He probably found out something we haven't yet. I suspect it might have to do with our world being open to your world. That is the only thing I can think of," Hiiro states and I look back at him, my eyes going wide. Did he just say that someone from this world opened up this world to mine and it wasn't Kuroto?

"Did someone try coming to my world to take it over?" 

"I'll keep looking into it, but I don't think we're going to get far. I think that whoever opened this world up to yours didn't think of the consequences. I don't know how it happened, but my guess is obtaining free will."

"Free will?" So, they out grew their character and gained a conscious somehow? 

I don't understand how they can exist. My guess is there are other worlds out there and this is one of them. My made up story might have some truth to it after all. 

"You seem to be thinking about something. I assume you're thinking that multiple worlds exist and I suppose you're right on that. We don't have physical proof of it, but it would make sense. While we don't exist in your world, we do exist in a world."

"We live in a world full of infinite possibilities and nothing is truly impossible," I mutter out. This is an impossible thing and one of those infinite possibilities. 

"Elkie, you need to tell Emu where you're from or else you're going to complicate things if that Bugster finds out first." 

"Tell Emu that?" I can't tell him that right now. "What if he dumps me over it?"

"The Intern is probably aware that there is more to you than you have allowed everyone to know. I wouldn't be surprised if he knows that you're lying about what world you're from. He's not that stupid when he puts his mind to something."

"I guess..." He might know that and just won't admit that he knows about it. "Hiiro, what would you do if you went to my world? What if you met me there and I didn't know you were from another world?"

"I would tell you after getting enough proof to show you that I'm not from your world. You're not someone who is going to accept a simple answer like that from someone like me. If it were someone like Parad, you probably would believe it." 

He's not wrong on that. Parad would be believable due to this weird style and his ability to just teleport away. Bugsters have amazing abilities that I wish I could personally have.

"Hey, what is going on here? Are you catching her up on what is going on lately?" Emu's voice asks and I turn my head a bit, my eyes landing on Emu as he approaches us. He must be done up there for now.

"We were chatting about something. I hope that you two can talk about it in private. I suggest keeping the conversation down here instead of outside. I do not want her getting kidnapped again by Parad." Hiiro doesn't want Parad having me again? "Protect her this time. She's like a sister to me."

"Hiiro..." I would look at him, but I want to keep my eyes on Emu. 

"She wants to talk to me about something?" Emu blinks, his eyes on Hiiro. "It must be important if she wants to do it in private. Also, since you're suggesting that, it must be really huge."

Oh, it is.

A/n: Do you think Elkie will tell him the truth about where she is from? I am not sure if I'll do that or not, but we'll see.

Hmm...so, someone there opened up their world to Elkie's world? How about why it is getting destroyed slowly? I guess we'll have to find out later. I do know the reason for this and I hope it'll satisfy you when it comes out.

If you haven't yet, check out Wishful Nightmares. It is the spin-off to this and does not give out actual spoilers (in my opinion). You can wait until the end to read this, but I have two chapters up as a preview. It is similar to this story, but it is in Zero-One's universe and is totally different in what goes on (minus the similar scenario of just popping into another world). 

Thanks for reading and I hope you enjoyed the chapter :D Also, she just wants some cake! Hiiro, let her have some please!