Verso makes a different decision. And when a butterfly flaps its wings, it can cause a tornado.

As Maelle closed her eyes on yet another day in the mansion, she opened them in Lumière, the day of the Expedition. With a chance to fix things, will Alicia manage to pull together this broken family? Or will her father's words come true? Verso Ending Maelle time travel fic

On a winter day before everything went wrong, Verso and Clea meet to discuss plans, and concerns.

Lune once thought the heart was a closed system: if you added something in, you would have to take something out. [Scene expansion of Lune and Sciel's first meeting. Lune/Sciel]

[Spoilers for the ending of Act 2] They thought the war was over. Back in Lumière, Lune seeks answers, Sciel longs for peace, and both struggle to define a future they never expected to have.

Staying and growing old was not a gift; it was not what he desired, but she forced it upon him. That first performance felt like his soul had been dragged through an endless void, yet apparently, he was to revel in entertaining. However, the same wound that created the grief which tainted the Dessendres' minds might have also given birth to his salvation.

Maelle grieves, Lumière endures. Lune begins to question if enforced happiness is happiness at all. Lune disagrees with the ending. Both of them.

Maelle no lo entendía. Era una Peintresse. / Podía pintar cualquier cosa. / Excepto una sonrisa en el rostro de su hermano. / OneShot. Maelle Centric.

In Lumière, every Gommage people disappeared in flower petals and ash, not even leaving a body to bury and mourn behind. Here, they were destined to never decay.

Alone. She should not have been left to manage all this on her own. Yet she had been. Her disappointment in her family was immeasurable, to say the least.