A few translations for this chapter, though note I will not do this for spells.

Cushlamochree: vein of my heart (some one that is as important to you as the blood in your veins)

Seanáthair: Grandfather

muintir: this is normally used for parents, but it can be used for clan and family members.

My Cushlamochree

Want to say thinks again to csgt your a big help and sorry for any and all of my errors!

If Gwen and Ben had not just been sitting, they would have been on the floor as Grampa Max slammed on the break. He had done so because the cabin was now filled with an intense orange and red light.

Gwen instinctively activated her aura sight. At the center of the blinding light she could see a shape. She could barely make out anything at first. It just looked like a random circle filled with curved lines. Though, as her eyes adopted to the light, her hand shot up to the necklace Ben had given her, which rested under her shirt. She pulled it out and looked at the charm and then at the symbol floating in front of her.

They were not exactly the same, but they were close enough that it could not be a coincidence. "They must be related somehow."

Then all the light seemed to be sucked in by the floating charm. The cabin became eerily quiet and still as if the universe itself was holding its breath.

Grampa Max came into view standing up from the driver area looking into the cabin with a determined frown across his face. Gwen and Ben didn't notice, for they were mesmerized by the charm. It started to hum causing the air around it to ripple like a disturbed reflecting pool.

At first nothing seemed to be happening, but then a slender manicured finger started pushing through followed by arms and then a whole person!

As the symbol disappeared everyone was able to get a better view. Now, standing in the middle of the cabin was a young woman wearing a short blue t-shirt, with tight fitting white pants, a contrasting black belt, and a black choker around a pale neck.

This woman stood fully erect with long bouncy red hair styled in a relaxed low ponytail and long bangs in the front. This all helped to frame her beautiful face which had a light brushing of red freckles that stood out against her almost ivory skin. These freckles started at her nose and crossed along her cheek like a permanent blush that drew everyone to her emerald eyes.

She moved some of her hair back away from her face, which revealed that her ears sported 3 different piercings, one large bronze hoop and two smaller piercings toward the top of her ears. Gwen found herself admitting that this looked classier than she normally thought piercings could be.

As she started moving, it was easy to tell that this woman chose a shirt that hugged her chest in a way that showed off her assets. She couldn't help herself, yet again feeling irritated as her tongue moved against her teeth making a "tsk!"sound.

The woman's eyes widen as she looked at Gwen and Ben. She rushed forward and placed her hands on the sides of Ben's face saying, "You're so little!" she smiled as her eye lid lowered at him and then she whispered, "I kinda miss you like this, even if you could be a major doofus!"

The voice sounded familiar to Gwen like the voice she had heard come from her in the vision she had the other day, though it had a slight Irish accent to it.

Gwen didn't dwell on this long as she heard Ben flustered voice say, "Y-You h-have pretty eyes."

Gwen looked over at Ben; he was blushing with a slack jawed expression as he stared at the woman in front of him. Gwen felt herself growing angry for no reason she could think of and rushed over pushing herself between Ben and the woman, as emphatically saying, "I don't know who you are, but leave my doofus alone!"

She blushed and thought to herself, "Why did I just say that!"

The woman raised an eyebrow saying in a quizzical manner, "YOUR doofus already, that is interesting."

She then looked confused, "Why are your accents so funny?" She then saw the Omnitrix on Ben's arm and said in shock, "How do you have the Omnitrix, Ben?"

Okay, Gwen was officially confused. "How did she know Ben's name and how does she know of the Omnitrix?"

The woman turned around as Grampa Max hesitantly approached her.

Upon seeing Max she beamed as she yelled, "Seanáthair!" and ran over throwing her arms around Grampa Max

Grampa Max said, "Seanáthair," and chewed on the word as he pronounced it then look shocked as he tentatively said, "Gwendolyn?"

Gwendolyn shot her head back, "Why is your accent off too?" She took a step back and her eyes glowed a purple-pink.

To Gwen, this woman that Grampa had just called by her name - 'Gwendolyn' - was ablaze with energy that seem to flow from every direction towards her.

Gwendolyn blushed and whispered, "Ah I see."

Everyone just stared at her as if saying, "Ah, I see what?"

She blinked and then said looking at Gwen, "Ah, yes, well, hello, I am Gwen, or, um, well, I guess Gwendolyn if you prefer, it seems I am you, but not you."

Gwen almost choke as she blurted out, "What do you mean you're me? How did you get here?!"

Gwen look to Ben for support, but he was still staring at Gwendolyn. She rolled her eyes and crossed her arms, looking at Gwendolyn and waiting for an answer, while tapping her right foot unintentionally.

Gwendolyn smiled and said, "You see, I was helping my Ben," she winked at Ben, "who works for SPeCTeRS. We were fighting an Ectonurite who had possessed a Chimeran who was wielding the Omnitrix."

This was all a little too much for Gwen and she asked with furrowed brows, "What is a Ectonurite and a Chimeran, and what is SPeCTeRS?"

Grampa Max decided to chime in, "SPeCTeRS, Select PErsonal Capture Transport & REtrieval Service. They are a American exclusive branch of SECT, an Ectonurite is what Ben calls Ghostfreak, and Vilgax is a Chimeran."

Gwen was shocked and asked, "How do you know this, Grampa?"

Max smiled and started to say, "Well one…."

Gwendolyn interrupted with a very light giggle, "He was on a 'plumbing' job somewhere like Roswell and heard things. Right?"

Max gave a slight shrug, but smiled saying, "Yeah, something like that... Though my story would have been funnier." He gave Gwendolyn a toothy grin.

Gwen could not help, but to think, "Not you too, Grampa!"

She lowered her arms feeling defeated as Gwendolyn continued, "In the middle of the fight I was blasted pretty far away by an attack. Thankfully, I had a shielding spell up," Gwen perked up and started to pay more attention, "so after I recovered, I tried to use a scrying spell and a teleportation spell together."

Gwendolyn blushed and looked away as she finished, "I was trying to lock on to the Omnitrix, but I was also worried thinking about Ben." She looked back at Ben and placed her hand behind her before continuing. "Well, apparently there is some kind of anomaly here which let the spells find Ben and the watch in the same location, so now I am here." She quickly added, "but, as soon as I can find my Ben, I'll be saying goodbye."

Ben frowned and asked, "If I don't have the Omnitrix, then how can I fight baddies?"

Gwendolyn smiled, "Cushlamochree, you are a great man and you have never needed a watch to be that."

Max looked taken aback by what she said.

She continued with a wicked cheshire grin,"You are a doofus, you will forget the simplest things, you are stubborn, you are cocky, you can have a wicked mean streak, and you hold grudges."

Ben was taken aback and tried to protest, "Ha! Wha..."

She put up a finger silencing him mid-word as she walked towards him with a sway to her hips that made Ben blush again, " But, that is all in contrast to the fact that you can be surprisingly charming, you always remember what is important, you are accepting and thoughtful, you are loving to the point you would sacrifice yourself for others, and you can forgive people for their flaws... and you are also brave to a fault!"

After finishing these words, Gwendolyn reached Ben and leaned over, kissing him on the forehead as she whispered, "Most of all, you're my one and only doofus."

Gwen, before she could stop herself or think about what she was saying, yelled out, "He is MY Doofus!"

Gwen's face first paled then turned beet red as Ben looked toward her with the same expression of, "What!"

Gwen tried to back pedal stammering over, "I...I me..I mean... He is my cousin after all." She then grabbed the sides of her shirt and pulled them down frustrated.

Gwendolyn gave Gwen a smile that irritated her for some reason. It practically screamed, "I know something you don't!"

Gwen tried to change the subject as fast as possible, "Then what are you in this other reality?"

Gwendolyn smiled and snapped her fingers dramatically whipping her hand to her head.

To everyone's surprise in her hand and on her head was what looked to be a cheesy Halloween styled witches hat and she stated, "I am the Witch of Bellwood."

She stood in a pose with her left hand and arm stretched out to her side forming the shape of a 'hand 'gun with a glowing orb at the tip of her index finger. Her right hand pulled down the rim of her hat to cover her face.

Ben laughed at the display and Gwendolyn looked up from under that hat, wiggling her eyebrows and stating, "That always gets my Cushlamochree too."

Gwen just shook her head, "Why does she frustrate me so much?"

Grampa Max sighed saying, "Well, if we are going to make it to are next destination will need to keep heading out." He then looked at Gwendolyn and said, "Before you go, can we talk?"

Gwendolyn smiled and said, "Of course seanáthair."

Grampa turned around and went back to the front of the Rustbucket, started it up and continued the journey.

Gwendolyn while still smiling said, "I'll try and figure out what opened up this reality to mine, hopefully close it off, and then I'll go home."

She stood there and pulled one leg up and amazingly the other somehow, she sat cross legged, midair. She closed her eyes.

Gwen could again feel the air in the cabin flowing towards her counterpart and even without activating her sight she could see power moving within it.

Gwendolyn's eyes snapped open and she spoke the word, "Aperio."

Gwen was rooted in place staring at her because her eyes now glowed like burning embers with such intensity that she felt like a moth drawn to a flame. The air began to smell of ozone, the hairs on the back of her neck stood up, and her skin tingled as air seemingly crawled over her skin as it moved towards the floating figure in the middle of the cabin.

Gwen slowly pulled herself away from the scene unfolding before her, even though she was interested and wanted to see magic in action from someone who knew what they were doing, but she was unreasonably irritated by Gwendolyn.

She felt even more irritated seeing Ben mesmerized by her. So, she purposely walked over, grabbed him by the arm and dragged him towards their bunks.

"Wait, what's going on!?" Ben stammered.

"We are going to play Sumo Slammers for a bit. I have some anger to take out on some ninjas," Gwen replied.

Gwen and Ben played Sumo Slammers for a few hours before Ben decided to call it quits and went to bed.

Gwen found she couldn't sleep, so she sat across the dining table seats, holding her legs to her chest and trying not to think of anything.

She didn't have much luck with that. Life seemed to be getting muddier all the time. She had just started coming into her own when suddenly she was having a weird vision and now there was an alternate her!

This frustrated Gwen, especially every time she caught Ben staring at the aforementioned other her. She didn't know why it irritated her, but it did!

"I need to stop dwelling on this and go to bed. Maybe everything will be better tomorrow," she thought with a sigh. She was feeling defeated.

Lost in thought, she didn't notice the other her coming up and almost screamed when Gwendolyn touched her knee and said, "We have to talk."

Gwen stoically held back the scream and instead snapped her eyes open and furrowed her brows while staring warily at Gwendolyn. She eventually managed to mumble, "About what?"

Gwendolyn eyes began to glow, and she whispered, "Sonitus placide." Gwen could see a gold ring form around them and the air became almost stifling.

Gwendolyn smiled, but it didn't bring any comfort to Gwen. It reminded her of a predator. She slipped her hand off Gwen and then asked, "So, let me guess, you found an interesting spell and couldn't resist testing it out?"

Gwen's head shot back, and she stumbled over her words, "What!?" Gwen then shook her head in denial stating, "I don't know any spells yet. I just learned of magic a few days ago." She pulled her knees closer to herself, hiding her mouth as she stared at a shocked Gwendolyn.

Gwendolyn raised an eyebrow and asked in a soft confused voice, "Are you lying?"

Gwen wanted to be mad, but she couldn't muster the emotions to do it and instead just whispered, "The only thing I've been able to figure out is something called Aura Sight." She blushed trying to hide her face behind her knees looking away from this...this other Gwen in front of her.

"Really? You can use Aura Sight without a spell, totem, or charm? And you only learned of magic a short time ago?!" Gwendolyn asked.

Gwen wondered to herself, "I don't know why this is so surprising. You are me, just with an accent and freckles, right?" She then rested her chin on her knees and looked at Gwendolyn now curious.

Gwendolyn wrinkled her nose, something Gwen knew she did when thinking, and finally said, "If that so, then you have a lot of untapped potential. More than I had at your age which is interesting, muintir."

Gwen could only say, "Huh, that is interesting." Then they both laughed breaking the tension that was wedged between them.

Gwendolyn walked across the table and sat down as Gwen asked, "So, what is with the ring," she pointed at the golden ring around them.

She looked up from Gwen at the ring and smiled while replying, "It's an enchantment called a ward, nothing short of a powerful magic user or maybe some Galvan technology can hear us inside this ring. It's something I crafted myself," she said the last part with a smugness that bothered Gwen.

Gwendolyn's eyes then dilated, and she got a far-off look as she added, "I didn't want to wake seanáthair...or Ben," her smile and tone soften at the end. Gwen was irritated again at her, but she didn't want to end the nice mood because of her own confusions.

Gwen hid her face behind her knees again. Gwendolyn smirked and asked, "What are you stressing about? I do the same thing when I am fretting over something."

Gwen mumbled, "Nothing that I am willing to talk about right now."

Gwendolyn shrugged saying, "Well, your thoughts are your own, but I'll say this." She stared into Gwen's eyes in such a way that Gwen shivered. It felt as if the other her was looking into the most guarded part of her mind as she said, "So, what do you think of Ben anyway, Gwenie?" Her smile grew cheshire after asking the question.

Gwen managed to keep most of her face hidden behind her knees, but still she had almost let her head rocket up from the out of nowhere question.

She still found herself blushing as she sheepishly replied, "He is my cousin. I love him very much, so much at times that I think I've lost my mind... and would do anything for him even if he is a doofus at times." Small tears appeared at the corners of her eyes as she finished saying her feelings out loud.

Gwendolyn smile grew more wolfish as she asked, "Your doofus?"

Gwen was confused answering as her face was growing warmer from the spreading blush, "What does that even mean?"

Gwendolyn looked up as if thinking and then stated, "Hmmm, only you can answer that question, but I'll add this. Has Ben ever called you 'His dweeb?' and how did it make you feel?"

Gwen closed her eyes and thought back to the time in the alley when Ben had said, "….that is something my Dweeb would say." she focused on words, "my Dweeb."

Her face grew bright red and an involuntary smile crossed her face as she said, "Warm, safe, loved, but also my heart ached and still aches when I think of him saying it." Gwen sighed in frustration, letting out her thoughts in a rush, "I don't know what it means or if it should even mean anything!"

Gwendolyn smiled saying, "You will in time." She frowned slightly. "If your Ben is anything like mine, and I think he is, that is all you will need: time! Hmmm, now on to other matters, like teaching you a few spells after I fix the tear in time around you."

Gwen narrowed her eyes and asked hotly, "What does that mean?"

Gwendolyn smiled again, "Nothing nefarious, trusts me, but does your Ben charge head first into whatever danger is happening in front of him?"

Gwen shot up turning in the seats to face her slapping the table as she yelled, "Yes! He doesn't even think the situation through or how anyone might feel if he gets hurt!"

Gwendolyn was shocked as a magical wind rushed over her from Gwen. To most people they might feel a strange warm breeze, but it had an untapped power backing it and she could feel it hit her like a solid mass.

Gwendolyn nodded her head and said, "You are going to need training muintir to safely tap into your powers."

Gwen asked in a quiet voice, "Whom could I find to train me?"

Gwendolyn just shrugged as she replied, "That is for you to figure out, though like I said earlier, I'll give you some tips before I go."

Gwen placed her head down on the table and felt the cold surface against her cheek. She stared over at the wall for a few moments before asking, "What are your feelings for Ben?"

With no hesitation at all she said, "He is my Cushlamochree. What else is there to say?" Gwendolyn smiled at Gwen. Gwen looked up to catch the smile that she knew she had never used before, though she couldn't place what the smile was for it still caused her to blush.

Gwen looked her in the eyes and asked, "What does that mean?"

Gwendolyn stuck the tip of her tongue out still smiling and then stated, "I don't want to pollute this timeline too much, so I think you should figure that out yourself."

Gwen could feel her face growing hot again all the way to the back of her ears and for some reason her heart was fluttering. She had been feeling this way a lot lately and it confused her.

Gwendolyn recognized the turmoil in her counterpart's face and gave a reassuring smile as she said, "This is going to be the start of a confusing era for you, so just try and relax and go with the flow. I promise everything will be alright."

Once she finished, they both noticed the ring on Gwendolyn's hand turn purple. Gwendolyn sighed and stated, "Well, I just found my Ben, so I'll teach you a meditation technique that will help you center your mind for image training." She smiled at the ring then added, "It will also help you control the mana in you and around you, which might help you control your power and yourself safely."

Gwen's attention was now fully focused on Gwendolyn. Anything that could help her become stronger was a priority no matter what her inner conflicts at the moment were.

At that instant Gwen noticed that the ring on her hand had something engraved on it.

Gwen leaned forward, but could barely read some of the words, "You are forever mi…" She didn't get any further before suddenly piercing hot pain shot through her head and she screamed.

Gwendolyn's eyes widened, and she instinctively put up a shield around herself. The semitransparent purple shield rippled as Gwen continued screaming.

Gwendolyn quickly started chanting a spell to calm Gwen down when she noticed the liquids in the cups in front of her were now floating in midair and boiling and the wood of the table started to steam, crack, and smoke.

The rippling of the shield grew more intense as the moments went on. Even the gold ring of her ward started to flicker like it would fail.

Even though only a few moments had past for Gwendolyn, for Gwen it was like hours. Her hands pressed sharply against her temples as she tried to will the blinding white pain to stop. Through it though, she could see images three opened suitcases, a female sheriff placing fingers against her forehead, and a handsome man sporting a goatee saying, "What is it, my one and only?" and then a shared passionate kiss between them. As, each fragmented memory passed through her mind the pain became more and more intense.

That was until a voice pierced the void yelling, "Oblivio reddere somnio." All Gwen knew from the moment those words were spoken was the peacefully but still black emptiness of a dreamless sleep.

Gwendolyn stood over Gwen huffing as perspiration ran down her face and she exclaimed, "What in the nine hells?!"

The table directly in front of Gwen and the seat behind her was blackened, "What is so different about this reality?" Gwendolyn said exasperated.

She frowned as she went over to pick up Gwen, so she could fix the damage done to the Rustbucket before anyone notice, but before she could she stopped.

Laying across her younger self's chest was a long white feather that was at least as long as her torso. "'Hmm' things sure are interesting over here. I'll need to tell Ben about this when I get back… well after our date," Gwendolyn said with a smile.

Now, through the whole ordeal Gwendolyn had been distracted protecting herself and placing Gwen into a peaceful rest, so she never noticed that her charm had been broken or that Ben was sitting up in his bunk, looking confused at the damage in the kitchen as well as blushing from hearing what Gwendolyn had just said.

A/N

So, work told me that we will be working every day until the end of November, so there will be huge delays for DOAA and BTW. Work lies to us all the time, so I am assuming it will be until 2019. XD

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