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Where did Mark go when he time-travelled? What happened after Tom died and transferred his being into the embryo Olivia was carrying, and became Cath, a fate Olivia would’ve had to endure if Cath hadn’t come from that alternate future to stop it?
Who is the daughter, Cath, that Olivia will now never give birth to, really? What is her life like, having to deal with Olivia in a reality where she was too distraught to raise her? And why did she figure, after killing Ethan in all other possible realities, he should compromise with Tom, her old self, in what she knew to be the deciding reality?
This the story from Cath’s side, the badass version of the Rectifier that Tom would’ve become if not for Cath interfering with her alternate past to change it, and hence killing herself inside it in the process.
From her time inside the womb, where the heartbroken emotions of Olivia feel like they’re poisoning her system throughout each term, Cath becomes a stronger, harder version of the Rectifier than she was when she was Tom.
When Olivia won’t hold or look at her, Cath has to learn to deal with the separation of Adapter and Rectifier bond she was used to. She was a different child, Olivia was a different mum, and this was a different life she would lead. After she receives her second infusion at aged three, on what would’ve been Tom’s fourteenth birthday, giving her additional astrophysical abilities, Cath wonders if she could make it less different.
How?
If she could create a vortex that opens up to her past, and find her dad, Mark, before he went missing, she could warn him about all the things that go wrong. Better still, if she can find him before Lucy’s stepdad came, then he could go back and save Lucy, not to mention the rest of them that die unnecessarily before their time comes. If she could make up for all the bad things her mum ever went through or lost, it will lessen the grief in her system. With Mark’s disappearance causing Olivia the most frustration, bringing an earlier version of him through may even allow for some loving emotions inside her, which could make her more receptive towards Cath.
It’s only after she gets her dad, and is excited for Lucy to come alive in her reality after he goes back and saves her from her stepdad, Cath realises they’ve created a completely separate timeline.
Thankful just to save people in one reality at least, even after her mum dies saving her life, Cath is determined to sort things out for Omnipion in the new past timeline they’re creating. She may have the incline to kill Ethan in her reality, and all the others they viewed to get the scope on what worked and what didn’t, but she knows Tom needs to compromise. Out of the thirty three they know, sixteen wins and sixteen losses, she knows his has to be the deciding reality.
The problem?
There were just two memories left to connect to, which she hopes to use in order to walk through into that new past reality and make Ethan listen to Tom.
- The battle where Ethan either kills or banishes Mark.
- The death of her old self, Tom, as he transfers his being into the embryo Olivia is carrying.
With half of Mark’s being already in Omnipion, she knows she can only travel through at the first point and collect his dead body. Once she brings him back, she can place the plasma being she has on ice inside him, essentially saving his life. It means he can never travel back through the vortex again, however, but at least he’d be alive somewhere.
At the second point, Tom will have already transferred his being, meaning she can extract it from Olivia’s embryo, and place it back into Tom’s dead body. It may kill herself in that reality, but she knew first-hand that losing an embryo was better for Olivia than losing Tom.
More importantly, in these last two attempts, she had to make Ethan listen to Tom. It didn’t matter how much pain Ethan had caused them, what he’d taken, he needed to listen to her old self’s idea to compromise. It was the only time the Rectifier was pure enough to do so. The only time she didn’t truly hate him, like she did now.
Can she make sure Ethan listens?
She will threaten him if not!
Will she, in the time she will have left, be able to communicate to Tom all he needs to know?
Cath may have been able to pull Mark through to her timeline, sending him back to change all she knew the original Olivia hated, but can she ensure Tom can create his own bridge to them?
If so, the original mother she loved, who got to meet her in the flesh twice, could reunite with the only thing she will have now lost; Mark,
After all her hard work, and no more memories of the past timeline to cling to, all she can do is hope, with the information she leaves Tom, that he will, after gaining his second infusion, make it to their side. A hope to create the normal family life that version of Olivia always dreamed of.
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