When Lucy is given a chance to save her mother, she takes it, unbeknownst to her that the cost will be leaving the Heartfilia family forever. In addition to that, she has to spend the rest of her life with the most evil mage of all time and accompany him until her last breath.

It was the way she spackled butter on her toast.

Ficlet. Dib thinks about the past, and a certain alien who might have not been real at all.