[Hearing Reign admit that does far more for Shell than he probably even realizes. What he intended to say only as a means to clear the air only further confirms it for Shell -- that clearly, in whatever future Reign is living in, Shell and One must be together.]

[He feels his heart swelling in his chest, flooded with so many conflicted emotions. Did he really just forget all of that? Why? Why would he forget a happy future with One, only to delude himself into thinking he's from the past? Or is he actually from the past-- from a "failed" timeline, in which the world ended and he never saw One again? Does that mean he'll never get to know about the happy ending he missed out on?]

[What will it mean when One wakes up? Which One is going to wake up-- the one he knows, or the one from the future?]

[And just what would he say if he saw Shell now, sitting almost naked in a pool together with Reign, covered in bite marks left by another man?]

[But that's not all he's feeling. Because above all else, despite everything else serving to make an already complicated situation even more complicated, he's happy to hear that Reign doesn't hate One.]

[Though with everything going through his mind, it'll probably be hard to explain why hearing that makes him start to cry.]

That's... a relief to hear. All this time, I was thinking you hated him, because of what I said...

I didn't want to think that the people I love hated each other.


[The jury is still out on how One feels about Reign, though.]