When Youngblood opened his eyes, he was back at the Paramour Mansion, standing in the kitchen with Pepper and Revenge. Pepper stayed there for a while, looking disoriented, while Revenge went into the living room, sat on the couch, and moped. Youngblood poured himself a cup of coffee, and he thought about everything that had just happened. Not for the first time, he wished that he had his sketchbook with him. Maybe he could tease apart his racing thoughts if he could draw them out. Maybe he wouldn't have this flurry of emotions: fear, sadness, and above all, regret. He wasn't sure that he regretted marrying Lindsey, whoever she was, but he definitely wished that his future self hadn't broken Frank's heart. Then again, could he really regret something that he hadn't done yet?

He thought about Frank and all of the memories they'd made together. He thought of him coming to every My Chemical Romance show, the days they'd spent together designing T-shirts, his beautiful hazel eyes, the tattoos on his skin, the way he'd felt when he kissed him. He thought about how Revenge and Pepper smiled whenever they mentioned Frank, how their faces seemed to light up when he walked into the room, how they seemed so in love with him. Youngblood decided that the answer was a resounding yes. He could always regret hurting Frank, even if he hadn't done it yet.

The three Gerards stayed quiet for a while, but Pepper was the first to break the silence. "That was weird," he said as he adjusted his black marching band jacket.

"Yeah, I know," Revenge said.

"It was like the time machine glitched or something," Pepper said.

Revenge and Youngblood looked at each other in confusion. "Glitched?" Youngblood said.

"Yeah," Pepper said. "I typed in that we were going to Colorado in 2007, but we just ended up here again. The time machine must not have worked, but I guess that makes sense. It's probably just because the Watch doesn't let people go to 2007. Anyways, we should figure out where Figment went. Do you guys have any ideas?"

Now, Youngblood and Revenge were even more confused. "Pepper, we went to 2007," Youngblood said.

"We did?" Pepper said.

"Yeah," Revenge said. "My Chemical Romance was playing at Projekt Revolution, and backstage...backstage...you were..."

Revenge couldn't bring himself to finish his sentence, so Youngblood did it for him. "You were getting married to some woman named Lindsey."

"I don't know anyone named Lindsey," Pepper said.

"I know! That's the problem!" Revenge exclaimed.

"And then we found Frank crying about it after the ceremony," Youngblood said. "Apparently the version of us from 2007 left him and then married Lindsey really quickly afterwards."

"That's horrible! I would never do that!" Pepper exclaimed. "You guys must be making this up just to mess with me."

"We're not," Revenge and Youngblood said simultaneously. Youngblood wished that they were making it up, that this was all just a bad dream, but it felt so real. He knew that it had actually happened, that this was his future.

"This is bad," Pepper said. "Why don't I remember any of this happening?"

"I don't know," Youngblood said. "I remember it all pretty clearly."

"Me too, although I wish I didn't," Revenge said.

"How could I forget something like that?" Pepper asked. "I feel like I'd remember crashing my own wedding. What the hell is wrong with me?"

"I don't know," Youngblood said. "Maybe we can ask Figment when we find him. He would probably know why Pepper doesn't remember anything."

"Yeah, but then he'll know that we went to 2007," Revenge said.

"That's true," Youngblood said. "He'll be mad if he finds out about that."

"I'm scared," Pepper said. "If you're not just messing with me, and you're telling the truth, then I'm going to break up with Frank next year. I don't want to do that. I love him so much."

"I love him too," Revenge said.

As much as Youngblood liked listening to his older selves gush about their relationship with Frank, they needed to stay focused. "Hey, don't you guys think we should be looking for Figment?" he said.

"That guy's such a killjoy," Revenge said. "We're better off without him."

"We can't save Frank unless we have Figment," Youngblood said.

"We have his time machine. We could just go to 2016 ourselves and make the deal with the devil that I suggested earlier."

"And leave Figment stranded in 2006?"

"Serves him right for taking my vodka away."

"I agree with Youngblood," Pepper chimed in. "We need to find Figment. We can't just leave him here, even if he is annoying and cryptic sometimes. Let's take one last look around the house, and then we'll try to retrace our steps."

"That won't work," Youngblood said. "It's been two hours since we last saw him. He could be anywhere by now."

"I've got an idea," Revenge said. "We could summon him!"

"Summon him?" Pepper said, confused.

"Let's see...we're going to need a pentagram, a knife...AND CANDLES!" Revenge shouted. "I NEED CANDLES! WHERE CAN I FIND MORE CANDLES?"

Pepper and Youngblood looked at each other in confusion. "I don't know," Pepper finally said. "Why do you need them?"

"What kind of a question is that?" Revenge said as he climbed upstairs to look for more candles. "I need them to summon Figment, obviously. I don't really want to do it - as I said, we're better off without him - but you guys insisted that we can't just leave him behind, and I've always wanted to use this spell..."

"I still don't get it," Youngblood said. To be completely honest, he had been confused ever since he'd left 2002. A part of him couldn't wait until this was all over and he could go home.

"Nevermind," Revenge said. "I'll be back in a few minutes."

While they waited for Revenge to come back, Youngblood sipped his coffee, and Pepper continued to panic over his lost memories. "Why don't I remember going to 2007? That seems like something I should remember!" he said. "Youngblood, are you sure that the time machine didn't glitch?"

"I'm sure," he said.

"And you're sure I was there with you and Revenge?"

"Yeah, you were definitely there. You were really depressed about the version of us from 2007 breaking up with Frank."

"I imagine that I would be. That's just horrible. Why the hell would I do something like that?"

Youngblood was about to say something when Revenge came back downstairs with a fresh coat of red eye makeup, a Ouija board, and too many candles to count. "Did you really need the Ouija board?" Pepper asked. "We have too many ghosts in this house as it is."

"It's for summoning Figment," Revenge said.

"Ouija boards are for communicating with the dead, and Figment's not dead," Pepper said.

"I sure hope he's not," Youngblood said. He'd long since accepted that he would die one day, that his brief, meaningless existence would come to an end. If he died alone, then so be it, but dying while time traveling seemed like a particularly awful way to go.

"He's probably dead on the inside," Revenge said. "Like me."

"You're not dead, you just dress that way," Pepper said.

All of a sudden, the door opened, and the three of them quickly looked for somewhere to hide. However, they soon realized that they had no reason to panic. Figment was back.

"Hey Figment, we were looking for you!" Youngblood said. "Where have you..."

"We don't have time for this," Figment interrupted as he frantically locked the door. He then looked straight at Pepper. "I see you found my time machine."

Pepper took off his watch and handed it to Figment. "I'm sorry," he said. "We found it in the cabinet, and we just wanted to try it out. Apparently, we went to 2007, although I don't remember it."

"You went to 2007?" Figment said. "That was the one year I specifically told you not to go to!"

"Is it really banned by the Watch?" Youngblood asked. "They didn't stop us from going there, and there weren't any obvious problems."

"Other than the future version of us breaking up with Frank," Revenge added.

"I said, we don't have time for this," Figment said as he quickly typed something into his watch. "We need to leave this era now. The Watch is after us."

Youngblood's eyes opened wide when he heard that. He wondered what they had done to attract the attention of the Watch. Was this their punishment for going to 2007? Maybe the Watch had some way of telling that he, Pepper, and Revenge had just returned from a year that they weren't allowed to go to, or maybe they were chasing them for some other reason. He wished that Figment would just tell him what was going on.

Youngblood heard a knock on the door, and he panicked. Meanwhile, Figment started typing faster. As he entered information into his watch, Youngblood glanced at his hand. He wasn't wearing a wedding ring.

Youngblood wasn't quite sure what to make of this information, but he didn't have much time to think. The knocking grew louder, and Figment pressed the last few buttons on the time machine. Only Figment knew where exactly they were going, but nevertheless, they disappeared.