Chapter 37: Even in the labyrinth, there are truths

Antoinette, who lost her fear faster when she saw the spatial forces, was there, inside the ship, inside the labyrinth, inside the black hole. Now, Jonathan and his daughter Gretel were teleported to the ship. Hansel felt anti-aging when he knew that Sky Panther was on the ship, Antoinette didn't realize it at first, but after observing him, she noticed.

_ What's going on, love? - Antoinette asked him

_ Only you know - he answered somewhat stunned, a few tears came to his eyes but he wiped them away quickly because he didn't want Antoinette to see him like that.

_ Honey, I already told you that I don't like you hiding what you feel from me- said Antoinette trying to be empathetic, but her voice came out as if she were lecturing him- I know I'm not an emotional woman, but that doesn't mean I don't like you to express yourself with me, don't feel ashamed! - later, Antoinette gives him a big hug, something that characterized Antoinette, is that she gave very strong hugs.

_ Sometimes I feel like you're going to take the oxygen out of me! - exclaimed Hansel

_ I love that you still use the correct vocabulary! - Antoinette puts her hand on Hansel's head- If you don't feel ready, don't come down, I'll talk to him, you stay here, or else, go to the bedroom and I'll go to where we have the living room so I can talk to him and his daughter.

After hugging him again and giving him a tender kiss, she speaks again.

_ You freed me from the prison that an autistic person cannot be loved, in marriage, your spouse becomes your best friend, and although we are opposite personalities, that is the best! Because we unify our skills, abilities, skills, but the best part, the best of each of the two and we work as a team shoulder to shoulder like the pilot and co-pilot when flying a plane. I love you! Thank you very much for being my shoulder to cry on, but you should know that I am also your shoulder to cry on, to dry your tears of pain, sadness, despair or feeling betrayed, because if we are best friends apart from being husband and wife, then, if in the real world they say that a friend is with you in good times and bad, then, I will be with you in your happy times! But I will also be with you in your bad times, and that will be, forever, my eternal love. Because true love does not look for what they can give, but, true love looks for what it can give, and gives it with generosity, and that I will give to you.

Later, Antoinette goes to meet Jonathan. When Antoinette saw him, she puts her thoughts together and recites them this way:

"I told the real world that I was in my world, but to you that we are in the same world, I don't know what to say"

Gretel breaks the ice

_ I am grateful! In all these years that my father believed me dead, you were a great comfort!

_ Why do you say that? - asked Antoinette, you show your gratitude like Beatrice, my sister-in-law, does.

_ You love to see the good in others, my sister! - said Gretel with joy - so I decided now that I knew that you saw firsthand that Beatrice is grateful, I would copy her example, I was not so grateful! But now I see that thanks to gratitude, I can see that I gained a sister. My father told me that the whole time since you were kidnapped from your family, he sent you letters, messages and written advice, he took care of you as a father could!

Gretel's words were words that Jonathan and Antoinette did not understand, there was a lot of truth behind them, but the labyrinth made it impossible for them to understand that, for them, it was their autism. Jonathan suffered a lot believing that his daughter (Gretel) was dead for many years, but despite the pain, even everything he has suffered throughout his life, he was convinced that evil must always be overcome with good.

At some point when the spaceships caused partial amnesia in everyone on the Airspace-Wanderer, and subsequently, humanity forgot about the alien existence, while Yadir was unconscious, there were still a few minutes that Jawara fainted, and what he saw in his dream was the following:

There was literally a "Milky Way" galaxy that was crying for the lies that existed, Jawara walked bewildered on a planet where everyone regretted having been carried away by the lie, Genevieve (doppelgänger of his biological mother, who connected with a machine created by aliens so that she could be in the same dream as Jawara) stands in front of him. Jawara looks at her suspiciously, Genevieve speaks.

_ Son of my heart, I feel so much pain that my real son does not know that I am alive! But now that I am in front of his double, I know that I must still turn to you and give you the comfort you need.

_ Double? - asked Jawara

_ Yes, you are the doppelgänger of my son Aidan Tancredi, my name is Genevieve Cantwell, but for a long story that I will tell you later, I gave my son Aidan my maiden name, so

I also know my other three children- Genevieve smiles- in fact, his second name is Jawara, only on our Earth we call him by his first name.

_ Let's see, wait! Doppelgänger? Your son's double? Another Earth? What are you talking about?

_ Alien existence is a reality, the existence of the Multiverse is also a reality, now, we are connected through dreams, now, you are in your innovative creation, the Airspace-Wanderer, fainted, gigantic spaceships made you forget about the alien existence, but what you don't know, is that those ships are not ships that you can call allies.

_ Before I continue, my mother is Madeleine Harper, but from what I see, my mother on that planet, if the existence of the Multiverse is a reality, is not Madeleine, but you. How is that possible?

_ Because Madeleine is not your biological mother, your father is not Edward Malenfant either, and Sharon is not even your sister.

_ What are you talking about? Are you joking?

_ No son, I am the doppelgänger of your real mother, your parents died when you were born and she took you with her, Madeleine is an alien who manipulated everything with a strange liquid, making your adoptive father, Edward, believe that you were his blood son, just as she did with Sharon, but neither you nor she are children of this marriage.

Jawara shook his head and on his face you could see anguish and denial of what Genevieve was telling him.

_ Sharon was a girl who Madeleine made her biological parents believe that she was dead, she manipulated everything! She now knows that you are not her blood brother and she knows who her real family is, but even though they had decided that you should not know, given the circumstances, it is the right time for you to know this truth!

_ Stop saying that my mother is you and not Madeleine? - shouted Jawara - Stop saying that Sharon is not my sister and that according to you she is hiding it from me!

_ You must believe me, my son....! - Genevieve takes him by the arm but Jawara breaks free and steps back.

_ That is a lie! A cruel lie! I do not know who you are, you are not my real mother.

_ If you take a DNA test you will confirm that Sharon and you are not siblings, Aidan! I know that it is not easy for you to receive this news, lying is destructive, but as I heard from an autistic woman: lying is a prison but the truth is absolute freedom.

As Jawara listened to her, he felt terrible anguish, and a lot of desolation, but he was completely incredulous that Genevieve was the doppelgänger of his real mother.

_ You are not my mother! It is a complete lie!

Jawara wakes up, and tries to get Yadir to react. In the black hole, where time does not pass (respecting the laws of physics), Jonathan and Antoinette were talking.

_ Here the laws of physics prevail as far as scientists have known - said Antoinette - but the reality is that every law of physics, every law of nature, everything, absolutely everything! Has been lost now with the arrival of the end of the world, I fear very much for the universe!

Jonathan looks attentively at Antoinette

_ I don't understand how you can be so calm.

_ Are you afraid?

_ Maybe

_ Maybe, are you afraid?

Afterwards, Antoinette's mind was able to be "in the real world" again as far as possible.

_ I'm calm because... although if I'm honest, it's surprising that what the world rightly fears, many autistic people see as wonderful things, and the things we shouldn't fear, we fear a lot.

_ That's true, the real truth, but what I couldn't bear and that happens to any parent, autistic or not, was believing that my little girl was dead. My sister-in-law, Miley, died, she's dead, that's a fact, but if she were still alive, it would be a huge pain for her to know this truth: Kiara is not her lost biological daughter.

_ What are you talking about?

_ Kiara, my real niece is dead, there is another woman who is not from Earth 02 and is a Fighting Cat, and that is Kiara, the Cat of Earth, she is from this universe, The Base of the Multiverse. I've been investigating these past few months since we arrived here at the Base of the Multiverse, indeed my doppelgänger was a Warshapian, and that's logical because my niece Ginger's doppelgänger is Warshapian, and the doppelgängers of my other siblings obviously were, but they're all dead.

_ What about your brothers-in-law? You told me that you were in doubt that your brother Serguei (Kiara's father) was alive.

_ Of my brothers-in-law, all of them are dead, their doppelgängers here, I haven't located them, possibly perhaps they're also dead, who I suspect is not, is my sister-in-law Miley.

_ So if Kiara is not your blood niece, what tells her that she's not a human, she's an alien, she's the double of your dead niece, what about Serguei? Does he know that Kiara is not his daughter and that she's the double of his daughter? Does he know that his real daughter died?

_ I do not now,

he and his wife were searching for her tirelessly, Miley died shortly after I lost my wife, Leilani, losing Miley made "Serguei lose a lot of sanity", if he is alive, I don't know how he is, I don't know anything about him! He was always my support, although as an autistic I faced a lot of discrimination, Serguei, as well as my beloved Leilani and my friends, but speaking to you about my brother Serguei, he was my shoulder to cry on! Leilani was too! - Jonathan's voice breaks and he began to cry- I don't know where he is! They say that autistic people do not empathize or feel, but it will hurt me a lot when he finds out that Kiara, who they think comes from Earth 02, is not his daughter, she is his daughter's double, and although it is true, although my niece left forever, Kiara from here also lives in my niece and as father and daughter they can love each other, but Serguei is too sensitive and emotional!

_ And also because you love him, he is your brother, you love him very much, he is your brother! To that extent I love my brother Amani, Alexander and Britney, although I did not meet the last two until I met my family, I love them with all my soul... And your brother... Has he met Kiara yet?

_ No...

A loud bang is heard in the plane, as if a mysterious being was trying to destroy the plane. Jonathan quickly climbs into the cockpit to try to contain the plane, he spins it to get rid of the mysterious being, but like a cat, this being had its nails stuck in the Felifastleader. Later, this being enters and shouts:

_ You betrayed me!

Antoinette is deeply shocked by why those words and above all, who was saying them to her!

To be continued.....