Chapter 18

"No..."

"It was a beautiful life I had Rev."

"No."

"I could have never met someone so irritating but lovable. I know I could never be the one who could ever be to you what you were for me. I hope you find someone as amazing as you."

"Don't say that."

"In these mere years of marriage, and the life I had you were my blessing, honey!"

"Gianna, no! Stop saying this. It's too depressing."

"If only I had made even more wiser choice, I might have not ruined your these years."

"What kind of stupidity are you pouring in? Gianna, hey! Bab-"

"The time had come, we should visit favorite place, huh? Right? Rev?" A new set of voice immersed, as if what Rev heard in the above context from Gianna wasn't a two way conversation but a distant memory. In which Rev who rested his head on the lap of Gianna, who was watching him having a nap on her patient bed, she never actually said this to him face to face, but at least when it's really something he should be taking care of; was himself. She felt happy in such moments, to see him nearly overdoing but also not forgetting himself. 

"I have to go, honey! I'll meet you after the test? Ok?" 

"No... No.. NO! DON'T LEAVE ME!"

After that the scream that he let out faded into a squeal, on a very tiny scale in reality. A tear drop leaving the side of the eye, merging into his silver hair. Rev who was controlling every movement of Jiro, Gianna's bot, fell asleep at the crucial time to make teen Gianna to meet teen Rev. How did he fell asleep? If on a scale of most insomniac, Rev would probably make a world record of not sleeping straight for 14 days, 10 minutes nap maximum, well in his century there were few stupid drugs that helped in making people even more stupid than the regular set of people. 

  With the message of how things ended up like this, first he didn't completed his intent of making changes in the first romance experience of Gianna. Then he not only fell asleep on the very next day he actually took sleep to be prepared for what he wanted to achieve by nonstop monitoring Gianna's date to find any faults in the bastard of a boyfriend. Also, engaging into finding his own whereabouts at that time, like how do you expect him to remember his daily routine after few decade. He hacked into his old girlfriends devices to get the data. For no precise reason, he only wanted to find any way to overlap the places they both ever once or maybe more of the times visited. In a one day chaos, he made a prototype of ever possible way of interaction, and even contacting himself to meet Gianna as soon as possible, but the version of teen Rev was a suspicious of every possible change in tech or anything in particular. "I know you were hopeless, but not to this extent." Is what the oldie Rev said to teen Rev. Since he made so many interference for not only one person in his present but whole world jumped a complete shift of 360°. Additionally, was the dream he saw after falling asleep was the cherry on the top, maybe not to take in a pleasant way but it was like this day was his breathing nightmare.

The current world Rev had was a little weirder than his usual changes, at least based the amount of changes he had encountered up until now. The lab was completely transparent, well on technical basis, there were glass wall for the room neighbors, and the window open to the world outside wasn't a window but the wall itself. The barriers were translucent, only for light not taking away any privacy, but the glass wall outside was transparent, as if not really exist. The lab clothes were awfully white, like fluorescent white. Dario was nowhere to be seen. 

Rev woke up to sleeping Gianna, he can go back rewind and redo all, but there was a smile on Gianna's sleeping face. He did went back although. He saw everything, every minute detail of expressions of both the parties, and judging from it was yet to happen there act of stepping forward into a relationship, well just the result of attraction of opposite, which took Rev by shock because from what he heard that was the very day they did it, because of Gianna told her first to Rev.

Should he be happy or confused? There is not space of jealously or sadness because he also gave his first to someone else. To the very thought of not getting a single thing in the desired result, Rev thought he interfered too much now, what if Gianna doesn't come to his life in the screening future. 

"Rev, we got some mail. What shall I reply to the main head?" That ones a familiar voice, no, not Gianna but Bridget. In Rev's head, he was thinking as to this change in his environment made such a change that Bridget became his life partner? To think yes she terribly reassembled Gianna with her feature but she wasn't Gianna. 

"Umm? Why are you looking at me like that?" Bridget asked, of course was looking like a clown to let his stare at her she is a clown. 

"Nothing, thought that you would never come out of jail. Never in my bad dreams too." Rev couldn't let his real feelings stop from coming out.

"Jail? When? Did I commit any crime?" Bridget all clueless to any possible word coming out of Rev's mouth. 

"Seriously? Did you perhaps lost your memories? I think Dario will help you out of my lab to your real place. Where is he? How should I call him in this version?" Rev looked at a tab nearby where you can contact your colleagues anytime you want, by simple messaging, since Rev never had a bot to begin with. He went on scrolling the alphabetical ordered list. No Dario was on the list. Maybe his last name? What was it? Rev knew it but something just wasn't getting located inside his brain. He arranged the list in the admissions, no one from a decade ago.

"What is wrong with you? You are playing a prank on me again? We have to stalk your deceased wife, no?" Bridget chimed. Oh so the project continue in this version too, well that was the goal of the life. "And who is this Dario? Never heard of him? Is he an old friend of yours?" continuing Bridget.

"What- how could not know him? I met him because you introduced him to me in one lunch we had in cafeteria, remember?" Rev was getting real worried now. "At the start of this project it was three of us." he added.

"Rev, we have been doing this for a year and a half now. It was only us, every time. Also, I don't quite remember going to any jail." Bridget was quite used to Rev behavior now, he acts polar opposite sometimes, but never mentioned any living person before, except Gianna.

So to jump to any conclusion in a simplest way Rev lost Dario in this newer version.