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Gale got Louise pregnant. Gale leaves for Montreal.

Louise finds out she’s pregnant and meets with Ancra. After, with Eroica’s help, Louise tracks down her father and begins to contact him and make amends.

Catherine is heavily against this development, as not only does she feel that it would take her friend away from her, it would also result in Louise’s child being exposed to her grandfather. But they remain close and give birth to their daughters on the same day. (Baby was born in September.)

Catherine says that she can accept the development as long as she and Louise can go together to meet the grandfather. (Eroica would have a hard time going anyway, since she has twins.) Tragically, there’s a car accident that results in the deaths of Louise and Catherine’s baby. After the accident, Catherine keeps Louise’s child as her own, with the tacit knowledge of Timothy and later her parents. She flames Gale over the phone and strives to make sure he never finds out the truth.

Eroica and Catherine become closer after the incident, but Eroica becomes suspicious when the baby looks more and more like Louise. Eventually, Louise tells her the truth, and this leaves a rift between the two (partially driven from their conflicts earlier in their friendship; Catherine sees Eroica as an “outsider”). However, Eroica nevertheless helps Catherine move to the other side of town and then sells Catherine’s old house to Ancra.

Eroica and Ancra raise their children together. However, Eroica’s family gets messed up when Maximilian leaves, in part due to his disgust over how Eroica helped Catherine conceal her lie. Eroica, Martin, and Ancra raise the children together, and Eroica (despite being the most “heroic”) is also the worst parent.

Later on, when Eroica and Martin finally part ways, Martin confides in Ancra that he feels bad for Eroica for suffering due to wanting to help her friend. It’s through this that Ancra realizes that Catherine’s second daughter is actually Louise’s and Gale’s. He and Collis end up leaving and travelling the world so he can pursue “the truth”. (He meets with Catherine and later Gale, and both want to maintain the status quo.)