A/N: As promised, parings are Misaka x Kuroko, with a little Saten x Uiharu along the way.

Before I start this story I'm going to bombard the hapless reader with not one, but two Author's Notes. Both of them are entirely optional and will simply provide you with the background I'll be using throughout the story. If you only read one, read this one.

To those of you who haven't seen or read anything about the Index universe: The following will be completely meaningless and you're going to be entirely lost. This is fanfiction, meaning I've been stripped of the duty of detailing how the world works. I'm using someone else's universe and that someone explains it way better than I ever could. Have fun and go watch the anime or read the manga/novels, it definitely won't be a waste of time :)

When an author makes a fanfic about main characters from an ongoing and highly intricate plot such as can be found in Index, it's impossible for the author to assume what the readers have seen. For example, I've only seen Railgun S1 and part of S2. I was forced to use the wiki in order to fill-in the blanks, so to speak. There are likely readers out there who've seen Index S1 and S2, but none of Railgun. Thus those readers will have a different view of the Index universe than I have.

There might even be at least one poor reader who hasn't seen/read a single episode/chapter. The point is I don't know what the reader has seen, but in order for me to write a fanfic without reintroducing every concept from the original work I have to assume the reader has seen a few things even if they haven't.

I'm going to assume that the reader has at least a basic knowledge of the Index setting, namely Academy City, as well as the magical system of the universe. As to exactly when this fic takes place, I've decided to start it on September 15th. If you're not a complete nerd/prodigy-who-has-memorized-the-timeline, then this means nothing to you. As such I'll list out the arcs that I'll be taking into consideration. Needless to say, SPOILERS might be present in their names. SPOILERS definitely exist in the following paragraphs, but they only spoil one movie.

Level Upper*
Index
Big Spider*
Poltergeist*
Deep Blood
Sisters*
Angel Fall
Three Stories
Kazakiri Hyouka
Orsalas Aquinas Rescue
Ensemble
Endymion*
Tree Diagram Remnant

These are all the arcs that occurred before September 15th. Obviously they don't all affect Misaka and Kuroko around whom the story will be taking place. I've starred the arcs that will most heavily influence the story. If you're curious, yes they are all arcs from Railgun (save Endymion)

Special note on Endymion: I like space-elevators. I'm not very fond of how they just magic'ed this particular elevator away with even less explanation than they usually give to magical phenomena. Therefore the space-elevator is still sitting quite soundly in Academy City, presumably saved by the actions of Touma et al. and not ghosted away by a 'miracle' after the fact. At the moment I don't plan on doing anything with it and I don't see anything I could do with it, but it's there.

Important Note: While I have listed a number of arcs and said they will be influencing the story, even a reader with just background information on the characters will likely be able to scrape by without a problem. At most some of the characters might idly reference a past event or kick A Certain Vending Machine. So if you think 'man, I don't want to spend hours figuring out what happened in all those arcs' then you're in luck. You don't need to.