A single event, a slight difference, only twenty seconds too late and everything changed when Glynda Goodwitch failed to save Ruby from Roman Torchwick in their first encounter. Now, everything will change; for Ruby, for those close to her, those that would have been close to her, and for Beacon Academy itself and everyone in it. This is how just twenty seconds changed destiny.

A year after Raven died, Li Belladonna took Mei Schnee to a place of fond memories of the past. There they must deal with what's happened and will happen between them. Fic request by Ookaminoki who also created the cover art and the characters.