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Moment of Awesome - The Stepford Cuckoos: With Doug Ramsey and Emma Frost already in on the secret of her existences, Fourteen calls Marie-Ange Colbert to drop the bombshell]. "...I'm starting over. Hello, Marie-Ange. There is something important that you should know." "Are you pregnant?" Marie-Ange asked, very slowly. "I am not telling Emma if you are pregnant." There was a long, long pause on the other end of the phone. "...okay," Celeste said. She wasn't even angry, or confused. More just a sort of smoldering amusement that was clearly evident in her voice. "I can almost see why that is where your mind went to first. Almost." "Out of curiosity," she asked, "Who on earth would have been the father?" The answer was a chuckle that went slightly distant sounding. "I have no idea." Marie-Ange finally answered, voice distant in the way of speaker phone. "You are one of the few people, you and all your sisters, that I cannot see much for. I have had one whole successful reading for you and that is before I even knew you. Everything else is... I would say confusing but confusing would have to do a lot of work. I get playing cards for you sometimes." "Ace of diamonds, I am guessing?" You weren't friends with Marie-Ange without picking up at least a few of the weird details that her powers worked on. "Most of the entire suit. Ace through five, usually, but not always." On the other end of the line, Marie-Ange flipped one-handed through a tarot deck. "I have notes at home, but. Well. Today you are." She let a card fall onto her hotel bed. "Ah. High Priestess, reversed. That tells me nothing, I already know you need to tell me something." "Right, I'm getting distracted." She didn't want to do this. She needed to do this, but that didn't exactly make it any more in her comfort zone. "Emma and Doug both know at this point, so I figure that it is unlikely you won't learn in the next few weeks. And I should be the one to tell you myself, so here we are." She took a breath. Right. Time for the hard part. "I would be willing to bet money the reason you have such a hard time trying to read for my sisters and I is that there... well, there's not an 'us'. Just a 'me'. I do not actually have any sisters. We are all the same person." Over the phone, Fourteen could hear the sound of something hitting the ground, and then a muttered word that had to be profanity, even if it was in a language she did not speak, but the profanity of extreme confusion and one Fourteen had just heard from the mouth of Doug Ramsey. It took several seconds of noises before she heard Marie-Ange again. "I. I am sorry, what? You are one person? How. When. Have you always been one person?" "Surprise?" 14 asked, sounding as sheepish as she felt. At least Marie-Ange was asking questions. That meant she hadn't broken her too badly.