In Another Universe [Dr. Strange's Daughter]

Chapter 8: It's Our House

Stephen is now walking all by himself, retracing every step he took the day he found Eli. Eli, on the other hand, went to the other direction. He insisted on going with her but Eli thought that it'll be faster if they separate ways . They just agreed to meet at that exact same spot they parted after an hour. While looking for the book that Eli described, he found himself in front of the place where the she bumped into him— the cemetery. Stephen took a second to think if he'll go to Olivia's grave. He never really visits Olivia unless it's her birthday or death anniversary.

Seconds have passed and he's still frozen on where he was standing. He shakes his head and decided to just go on with what he was doing. He continued walking. 

Ever since Eli's arrival, Strange had been feeling ,well, strange.

To start, Multiverse is a topic that he knows frighteningly little about. Second, a girl that looks exactly like his dead daughter came from another universe on the day of Olivia's death. If you ask Wong, he believes that Eli and Oli are the same person. But Strange on the other hand believes other wise. As much as he wants Eli to be Oli, a part of him doesn't want it to be true because at the end of the day Eli had to go home to her universe and he'll be left alone... again.

With all of the things he's been thinking, he didn't notice that he had come far long from the cemetery. He found himself in a familiar neighborhood. Stephen looks up and exhaled a deep breath. After several years, he did not thought he would come back to this place. It was him and Christine's dream house.

When they were still together, Strange lived in a very nice and expensive penthouse with a great view. But he would be lying if he said that he didn't think of having his own little suburb family. He dreamt of building a family together with Christine in this very house.

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Flashback

"the movie wasn't that scary"

"Really? then why did you scream like a little girl? " Christine chuckled

"that wasn't me" Stephen denied. Confused as to where they are, he asked "Where are we going anyway?"

Stephen looked around and all he sees are houses that are almost identical to each other.

"I really like this neighborhood" she smiled looking at him "Imagine raising a family here. Big kitchen, big living room-"

"Little kids running around" Stephen chuckles

Christine looked at him with a smile.

"what?" he asked while chuckling

"Nothing. We never really talked about having kids before" she says

"Well, Oli's a teenager now and I figured how nice it would be to have little you and me" he says softly which made Christine's heart flutter. "And besides, this neighborhood is actually nice" he looks around

As they continued to walk into the neighborhood, they both found themselves in front of a house with a "for sale" card on it. They both look at each other with smiles on their faces and looked back at the house again. No words were needed. They knew this was the house they wanted.

"This is it, Stephen" Christine holds his hands

"Our dream house"

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"Our dream house" he says under his breath

Memories flooded his mind just by looking at the house. It was suppose to be him and Christine's house by now, he thought. But the universe isn't in favor of that because the woman whom he dreamt of living this house with will be marrying another man . 

Strange was about to walk away when he saw a familiar figure out of the corner of his eye coming out from the house.

"Stephen!" it was Eli

He furrowed his eyebrows. "what is she doing here?' he thought

"what are you doing here? I thought I'll be meeting you in an hour?" she asks

"what am I doing here? " he says putting an emphasis on the I. " What are YOU doing inside that house? Eli, you can't just go inside a private property" he says sternly

"nobody owns it, it's still on the market" she pointed out to the for sale card "see?"

"and besides, it's ours" she calmly says

He furrows his eyebrows in confusion "I'm sorry, ours?"

Eli shook her head "Oh uhm not in this universe . It's our house in my universe"

Stephen's eyes widened with what Eli said.

"This exact house is where I live in our universe" she clarified

With that, things just got stranger.

AN: Happy New Year everyone! xoxo kayi