During the moment of her death, Mahiru Koizumi had a lot more that a baseball bat and regret for how things had played out going through her head.

Flashes of recent events started replaying backwards in her mind as if her mind was rewinding itself, memories of her discussion with Fuyuhiko, slowly she saw as they argued over his revenge plotting before she felt herself exiting the beach-house in reverse.

Then things started skiping a bit faster.

She caught glimpses of the last few hours; reading the invitation she now knew had been forged to lure her to her death, her meetings with Hiyoko and the others who had appeared in the game that stuffed bear had set as a motive, a motive that she now assumed was there for the sole purpose of killing her after all it seemed like there was no other way this tale could end. And just like that it now is replaying in her mind, taunting her with the story that led to this disaster.

She saw herself re-reading the note she had gotten telling her to play the game, her panicked viewing of the photos contained within. The pain in her head grew in regret for what she had allowed to happen, even if it was in the forgotten past.

The rewinding continued more showing her asking of Hajime to feed Nagito, before showing her last meeting with the deranged boy that helped convince her to play the game. She watched her and Hiyokos building friendship as they bonded over tying Hiyokos kimono, and the silent night of darkness she felt after the first trial due to being unable to sleep. Then the moment she dreaded arrived. She felt herself reversing back into the mountain that held the courtroom where Teruteru was executed for murdering Byakuya.

Thankfully the mental rewinding seemingly chose to be kind to Mahiru and it seemed to skip over the trail much quicker than it had other events, although seeing Teruteru basically come back to life was incredibly jarring. She watched as she used her photos of the party to find everyone's locations during the blackout, and then relived her shock and sadness at finding Byakuya dead under the table. Then things sped up, only brief glimpses of memory were distinguishable blurring so quickly Mahirus head pain began intensifying.

Then her memories stopped rewinding.

Mahiru found herself standing on a beach with 15 other teenagers and a white rabbit.

And then she blacked out.

Authors Note:

So I came up with a base concept for a story based around everyone's favorite photographer and decided to write up a prologue.
And here we are! Feedback is much appreciated. The future of this story is still vague so suggestions are also welcome.

Also in case it wasn't clear this is a Life is Strange AU

Starting rewriting this now, so updates will come back.