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As she opens her eyes she doesn't find herself back in the Qliphoth like she thought.
V and Urizen reuniting should have brought Vergil back and broken the illusion yet she's not back where she should be.

She's in her childhood home surrounded by memories, memories she wishes to forget.

"No, papa! Don't leave!" Y/n turns to watch one of the many scenes fold out in front of her. Her father leaving.
"Don't worry, Y/n. I promise, I'll come back for you." He slams the door shut while the little girl sobs uncontrollably.
Even then she knew that he would never keep his promise and just like she thought he never came back.

"You useless waste of a child", A loud voice screeches. She'd recognize that voice anywhere.
"Go to your room and don't come out until I tell you to!" The empty wine bottle smashes onto the ground next to the crying girl. "I'm sorry, mommy!"
"Go to your room!" Dinner always ended like this. Even though Y/n stayed as quiet as possible nothing could stop her mother from getting angry. Like she told Nico, her face is too similar to her father's.

Suddenly the door her father left through opens. In an attempt to escape her memories she leaves through it only to enter a new memory she'd love to forget.

"What is this", The curious teenager asks after swallowing the smoke. "That's weed, Y/n. The best thing to escape reality."
"Sweet."

The biggest mistake she could have done started right here in this very moment.
Whenever reality became too much she smoked, it was relief and comfort.

"Y/n, are you high again?" She turns around to many more voices.

A group of people is surrounding something constantly asking the same question.
Y/n fights her way through the crowd only to realize that in the center of it all is her 18 year old self cowering on the ground. Just now she notices the faces that surround her.

It's F/n.

Even though she only tried to help her constant pressure made everything worse, those expectations she could never live up to.

In a blink of an eye her surroundings suddenly change again.
This time she finds herself in a living room full of whites and beiges.

"So, tell me Y/n. Do you think the way your mother treated you was normal?" The girl shrugs.
"Guess so." The therapist takes notes on her iPad. "How did you feel when you found out about the abuse, when someone finally explained it to you?" She shrugs again trying to sink deeper into the cushions of the couch.
"I was confused, angry", She mumbles still struggling to find the words for her feelings.
"Yes, Y/n. Good. You are allowed to feel angry. What else did you feel?"
The girl sighs. "I just felt... and insane amount of rage."

As Y/n watches the memory in front of her she remembers the rage she felt.

After coming home from school she destroyed her room in a rage, her mother never cared.

No one truly ever did except for F/n.

...

Nero still can't believe what just happened.

V disappeared and now this man... the man that took his arm and plagued the world for a month, maybe even years, turns out to be his father. Did Y/n know about this? Y/n!

In a panic Nero looks around for Y/n who was just laying at the end of the illusion. Where is she?

Suddenly he hears groans coming from behind him. "Y/n?"
He turns around to find the woman he loves covered in blood and black liquid.
She stands perfectly straight, staring right back at him. "Did you know about this", Nero asks with frustration in his voice. Did everyone betray him?

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