There is seriously something wrong with me in this chapter! Anyways, I decided to blow your minds by the end of the story, which is coming Very SOON. But yeah, it will all make sense in the end. And I am just a messed up person. But yeah, enjoy. This is unedited because I have been writing all day, phew!

Maddy sat with Malcolm going over arrangements and such, her son in her arms. "A week, a week and I can see my husband and children again." She was beaming, her father, surprisingly enough had become more used to the idea of Maddy being married and a mother to two children, claiming to kill Marc if he hurt her in any way. However, Elizabeth was solid as a stone, insistent that she forget about the family back in Rome and leave them.

Maddy skipped to the kitchen after giving Henry to her father, Her smile disappearing when Elizabeth caught her arm. "Maddy, you cannot go back."

Maddy loved her mother, she took her words to heart, but now, she didn't understand what was so wrong. So she asked.

"Because, Maddy, I know who Marc is, I've known since before you were born. He goes by another name in later history with his second wife and seven children, one of whom Theon brought through with him. Maddy," Elizabeth cupped her daughter face. "Marc is our ancestor, and if we take him from his timeline there not be an 'us'. Do you understand know?"

Maddy pulled back from her mother. "I-I slept with m-my ancestor. Oh My god, I have an incestuous relationship with my ancestor." Maddy looked at her mother. "tell me you are lying."

"I wish I was, but I did a dna test on Marc while in Rome, we share one one thousandth of a gene, which, if history proves itself right, would mean he is our ancestor right around the time of 80 ACE. Maddy, I wish I was lying. That you weren't caught up in our history." Maddy was being strangled with a knot formed in her throat. She just want to cry.

She may not have loved Marc when they first met, but he made her feel loved and wanted and she was quickly falling for him. Life wasn't fair, she couldn't be with the person she loved and she couldn't bear to leave him either. Burying her face in her hands, she cried. Cried for everything she lost and would never get to experience with him.

"Who was his wife, this woman that is so important?" Maddy had to know, she had to know her husband would find someone good.

"Supposedly a Soothe sayer Devine vessel of wisdom. She had a nasty scar along her back and even warned the people of the wrath of the gods through Vesuvius. She went down in history that way. Maddy it's not you, it's not." The older woman looked sadly at her daughter, had the history of the family never been passed down Elizabeth would never have to rip her daughter from her lover, But the world was cruel.

"Let me take the baby back and at least say goodbye and warn them of the eruption. Please mother." Maddy begged the older woman who pulled her into a hug.

"I'm so sorry Maddy, I truly am, because when I was there, when I watched you with him. That was love. And I promise you this isn't the end, you will find someone one day." The girl could only nod, unable to speak. How could this be?

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Theon proved to be picking up English very well, having been taught by Maddy and Josh, and was moving up from construction worker to close combat trainer with the security forces of Terra Nova.

He seemed more at home in Terra Nova than in Herculaneum, and even Mars enjoyed it here, laying almost always at Wash's feet, dubbed the Tiger Woman, when he couldn't find Maddy. The really only off thing about all this was that Wash refused to rejoin the military, in fact she was most often found talking with Theon of ancient times or rather the future than even be around Taylor.

And Maddy helped build the new portal, waiting with dread when she must say good bye to her first love and their children. And all she could do was wait.

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"Maddy?," Malcolm asked, sitting next to her. "The portal terminus is ready." He watched her let out a sob, before sealing her lips. "I know that since you are going through, I constructed this, just activate it to come back home." He held up a beautiful gold pendent that had a glowing blue bulb at the center.

"Malcolm they already think I am a goddess, don't you think this would make it worse?"

"Yeah, but hey, you can freak out a lot of people, it'll be fun." He tried to coax a smile out of her and even say a shadow of one, but she looked away quickly. Her hair curtaining her face.

"This evening, prep the terminus for this evening." Maddy looked at him with a sad smile. "I wish I didn't have to come back alone."

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Maddy held Henry on her hip, dressed in a stolla that she stitched Owls on the shoulders of, it was one of her former house goddess's so why not. Maddy would certainly need her in her moments of weakness.

"Wait, Maddy, Wait" Maddy recognized the voice, but didn't believe it.

"What do you want Jessica?" She really didn't have time for this.

"To wish you good luck, that I hope to see you when you come back…please don't bring an arm back." She smiled a bit, then offered her hand. "I'm serious, a restart."

Maddy actually liked that idea and shook the woman's hand only to have a small poke from one of the woman's rings. "Oopps, well, um, see ya around." The woman stepped back and watched Maddy leave the colonies sights one more time.

And never come back.

(Hurculaneum, 77 C.E.)

Marc was laying in his bed, awake like every night. He missed his wife terribly now and it was going on the second month without her or his best of friends. He just kept looking for her. Rolling towards the window, he watched the twinkling lights outside, looking for the one that could be Maddy.

A bright blue flash dazzled his eyes outside the window and he heard a splash. Maddy!

Jumping up, he ran outside, to see a goddess in pink and glowing. He grabbed her, pulling her from the fountain and kissing her. Whispers of how he loved her fell from his lips, his other hand coming up to rub his son's very round head. "Never, I can't stand being separated from you again." He lifted her up, carried her inside where they greeted Lex and her slobbery self.

Maddy put the babe in his crib, watching him for a moment and silently saying good bye to him. She leaned down with tears rolling down her face and dripping to her bosom, to kiss her son on the forehead one last time before repeating the pattern with Leah and Sam, who probably never knew she was there.

When she exited their rooms, Marc grabbed her, Leading her to their own room. Maddy should have pushed him away and left. She should have, but instead took tonight, laying down with Marc after stripping and proclaiming her love for him. This one last time.

Ohh Cliff hanger, so that teaser scene from the previous chapter WILL be used in the next chapter, and is a VERy important scene. In fact it is one of the big ones that won't make sense till the end of the story.

And on that note, I sadly tell you there are only three chapters, (and MAYBE an epilogue) left in this story….dun, Dun, DUN