It Depends

Even if I said the phrase "Let's go back to yesterday currently I could push the rewind to a 2x speed, going back to the moment they cut the leg should only take a day so tomorrow I will know if what I did work or not.

I felt dizzy after using my power… I have more or less gotten used to it, but the last time I used it was to only act for 12 hours. Now I was trying to push the limits and the lapse of time that it was going to work for was a full day. I have yet to figure out how the "cooldown" works, but it's likely that I will not be able to use the power again until at least tomorrow morning.

In the meantime, I had to prepare. For that, I had to investigate the infection and the bacteria…

My ability was to create a paradox, break universal laws, so while rewind bodies to an earlier state was an effective strategy, it takes a while to show results, and it would take at least a week for me to get to the point where they are infection free… I prefer to experiment with my powers in other ways, so I wanted to see if there was an option to create a different method to heal them using my power.

I wanted to go to the root of the problem and watch the infection and the bacteria… even if I can change their situation, it wasn't as simple as telling the bacteria "hey stop harming them… heal them" I had to understand the process profoundly, and unfortunately, all my knowledge about it came from my basic academics skill, the advanced biology came from my understanding of zoology, anatomy, and herbology.

Once I received the information from Maggie, I started to work on it, Medicine helped me a lot to understand the way the infection worked, spread and attacked the human body… I still lacked in some areas but in my mind already appeared a couple of ideas… instead of the bacteria multiply, they should fuse… changing the way the antibodies attack the infection… changing the way the bacteria attack the body…

There were multiple ways to do it, but I couldn't try any of them yet.

The main problem was that once I eliminate the bacteria, I had to find a way to heal the damage unless I somehow reverse the process, so the bacteria heals the damage before I remove them…

The bacteria had a particular ability that was used to attack the mitochondrion inside the cells making it less efficient. In simpler terms, the bacteria was attacking the power source of the cell. It took me hours and constantly asking things to Hope, Dante, and Rose to devise a plan with probabilities of working. My biology level didn't go up but if I read a little more about cells should be enough for it to level up.

The plan implied the attacking process being ineffective and reversible. I had to change the way a specific interaction occurs. Without going into details I wanted that every time a bacterium attacks a cell, it would be killing herself, and at the same time, it would reverse the process if the cell was attacked before.

I had to be precise on the way I changed these interactions, so I had to revise the process again tomorrow morning.

With nothing else to do I just wanted to go home, eat something and sneak out with mi girlfriend.

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A couple days went by after that…

With the party's help I revised the plan and found a couple of problem on my approach, but they were easily solved with everyone's support.

I was happy to found out that my plan to reattach Hannah's father leg worked perfectly. The treatment for the four affected people started under as we planned. I had to be more careful and change the laws for shorter intervals.

The first day went like this without a hitch, and by the end of the day, it was clear that the infections had backed of… it was so tiring that I couldn't sneak out that night and slept like a log.

It took two more days for me to finish the healing process and at the end of it, they just needed some rest to go back to their best form.

…

This has been my main task in the last few days, and Rose has been at my said most of the time…

Rose has been acting weird lately. I noticed that she has been pushing herself and being overly active at night… I could feel that something was wrong and that she feared something I had to put stop on it.

Tonight as we sneaked out and were in my old room I confronted her and asked what was wrong.

I could see that she didn't want me to know but this was going too far, and I feared that she would do something and end regretting it.

The words that escaped her mouth surprised me…

"If you had the chance of being with Hayley and me would you take it?"

…

I could help but feel that the question was some kind of trap, but I felt the serious concern of her voice and her heart…

I looked at her eyes.

I thought about the last weeks and Hayley carefully, something told me that this was the kind of questions that you should lie about… but I promised her that I will never lie to her… being with two girls was kind of "the dream", but would I really do it?

Two be honest because of pinky I have thought about it more times than what I should…

"It depends…"

Now I could understand a bunch of stuff that has been happening, Hayley seems to be spending more and more time out of the house avoiding me… Rose seems to be overly attached and trying to keep me at her side most of the time…

Probably one of them brought the topic out, and it ended in an awkward conversation… was this what happened when I was upgrading to C-Rank?

Rose looked at me for a few seconds as if she wanted me to explain a bit more, so I continued…

"If… and I said IF something like that happens I feel that there have to be ground rules for it to work out… the first and most important is that all three of us have to agree for it to happen no one can feel forced to accept the situation as it would lead to misunderstanding and problems…"

"You have to think about it…"

"Blame Pinky… if I'm not wrong probably, we wouldn't be even having this conversation if it wasn't because of him right?"

"…Right… stupid rat"

She acknowledges it… we were bound by morals and what would the people think… but Pinky's out of the box thinking pushed all of us to at least think about this.

"Anyway… it's difficult to not think about it after everything that Pinky has been saying. I imagined myself in that situation. First, there were my feelings… even if there are an army of girls dying for me that doesn't mean that I will be with them, so the first I did was thinking about how I feel for you and Hayley… I love you, and I want to be with you… there is no doubt about it…"

"And Hayley?"

At this point, we were both resting in the bed… no action this time just your usual conversation about bigamy…

"That was more difficult to answer… "where fire was ashes remain…" probably she is not as important as you in my heart right now, but between Hayley and I there will always be feelings between us and a lot of stories. We shared a lot, and she was my first love that will never change… to add to this her situation reunited us… What I'm trying to say is that it's not difficult to imagine a world where we never broke up.

"So…you want to be with both of us?"

"Don't twist my words you asked what if I had the chance… I said that it depends. Besides my feelings, there is something even more important… what you and Hayley think about it."

"Hayley said that she wouldn't be against it…"

I was surprised by it… now I understand how the thing got at this point.

"To be honest Hayley's opinion isn't the most important one… this might sound harsh but how does Pinky call you?"

"Main wife…"

"Keep that in your mind, you are the main person in my heart… I care about you and Hayley a lot, and I don't plan to left either of you alone. I get that this might be haunting you but remember that you are my girlfriend, not Hayley…

You are the one I share my bed with, and the one I love… You ask me if I would be with both… and it would depend on how things are… if we are all willing, I might give it a try… but if someone is not happy with that kind of relationship, I would never risk what I have with you for it."

She seemed deep in thoughts.

I tried to be as honest as possible… I wouldn't oppose such scenario… (who would?)

But if it jeopardizes our relationship in any way it wasn't worth it…

… We didn't do anything else that night, she snuggled into me and fake to slept peacefully.

I don't know how effective our talk was to ease her feelings, but I could feel that at least for now she was a lot calmer than before.