Author's Note: So, I know you all have asked for this through this entire series. The truth is, I wasn't sure how I would write one. I also don't celebrate Halloween, so I never wrote a Halloween episode, which is usually when those episodes are set. I thought of this idea the other day and got some input from one of you to see which little, yet such important, detail I should go with. That detail would determine the direction of the episode. So part of this story will be set back when the 4th Season would be set, because this is like a what if chapter.

[December 25th, 2021]

Maya's POV

I walked into Cory and Topanga's Apartment with Christian and Josh.

"Merry Christmas, Losers!" I yelled.

"Hey, Maya," Cory said.

Auggie ran into the room.

"Uncle Josh!" He yelled, hugging him. I smiled.

"Isn't he gonna be a teen next year, Tope?" Josh asked Topanga.

"Yes, don't remind me," she said.

"Hey, look at it this way," I said. "At least boy puberty isn't as bad a girl puberty."

"How is it worse?" Josh asked.

"Do you bleed once a month?" I asked him.

"Ew," Auggie said.

"Change of subject," Cory said, obviously grossed out.

"Agreed," Josh said.

"I think I've made my point," I said. "Need any help with dinner, Topanga?"

"No, I already got the ham in the oven," she said.

I saw the door open and saw KC, Farkle, Aaron, and Brooklyn enter (Brooklyn was in KC's arms).

"Merry Christmas everyone!" Farkle said.

"Merry Christmas," everyone greeted them.

"It's freezing out there!" KC said.

"When's mom, dad, and the kids getting here?"

"They'll be here shortly," KC said. "Mom was arguing on the phone with someone when we went over there."

"Who?"

"I don't know," she said. "But even Shawn looked upset about it."

"Well," Topanga said. "Whatever it is, I'm sure you girls don't need to worry about it."

"You're probably right," KC said. "So, when's Riley, Andrew, and Penelope getting here?"

"They're not," Topanga said. "They're spending Christmas at Andrew's mom's house."

"Oh okay," KC said.

"Is Ava coming over?" Aaron asked.

"Yes, with her mom."

I heard the door open and turned towards it. It was mom, dad, and our siblings.

"Hey everyone!" Shawn said.

"Merry Christmas!" Mom said. They walked more into the apartment.

There was a slight knock on the still open door. I looked at who it was and my face dropped. Mom looked at him.

"Kermit, I told you she wouldn't want to see you," she said.

"I know what you said, Katy," he said.

"Why are you here?" I asked him.

"I heard I have a grandson," he said. I looked at mom. "My…other daughter is friends with a girl named Charlotte that knows your husband."

"She knows me too," I said. I was getting uneasy. "Anyhow, Christian is not your grandson…maybe by blood, but not in any other way. You had your chance, Kermit. You never tried."

"Maya, I want a relationship with you," he said. I glared at him.

"Too late," I told him. "Just leave."

"I loved your mother and I love you, I just had problems back then," he tried to justify his actions.

"Funny way of showing it," I said.

"I'm serious, Maya," he said. "I loved your mother—"

I turned towards him. "I wish you had never even met her." I walked away but tripped on the rug.

KC's POV

Maya tripped on the rug and landed on the floor, knocking herself out.

"Just get out, Kermit!" Shawn told him. Kermit headed for the door.

Maya's POV

I woke up and stood up in the living room. The rug and all of the decorations were gone. Suddenly, Aaron appeared beside me.

"Aaron, where is everyone?" I asked.

"I am not Lucas Aaron Minkus," he said. "I am the Archangel Gabriel. I have taken the form of you nephew to be more familiar to you. You said that you wished that your father, Kermit, and your mother, Katy, had never met. God has given me the power to show you what life would have been like if what you wished had come true."

"Okay," I said. "So how do we do this?"

Suddenly, we were in Riley's room.

"What are we doing here?" I asked. I looked and saw a four year old Riley sitting the Bay Window, singing. "The day we met."

"The day you would have met if your mother and father had met."

"Wait," I said. "I wouldn't have been born…How did I not think about that?"

"You said those words out of anger," Gabriel told me. "That is very dangerous."

"So nothing happened," I said. "Because I wasn't born, Riley's here alone."

"To the contrary," he said. "Look." He motioned to the Bay Window. Someone climbed through the Bay Window. It was a six year old KC. I watched as Riley noticed KC.

"Are you a stranger?" Riley asked her.

"Yeah," KC said. Riley looked scared and was about to yell when KC stopped her. "Please don't. I didn't mean to scare you. I heard you singing, I like singing too." Riley looked at KC.

"Okay," she told her.

"Can we be friends?" KC asked Riley.

"Sure," Riley said. "Best friends." They hugged.

"I think I get it now," I said.

"I don't think you do," Angel Gabriel told me.

We were now in an apartment. I heard yelling and crying. We went to a room. An about thirteen year old KC was thrown against a wall by Anthony. I tried to help her, but the Angel stopped me.

"I have to help her!"

"You can't," he said. I looked over and saw mom motionless on the floor.

"Mom," I said.

Anthony left the room. KC crawled to mom. I could hear her crying.

"Mom, wake up!" She pleaded, crying. "Please." Tears started streaming down my face.

"She went back to him?" I asked.

"She never left," Archangel Gabriel told me. "Katy and Kermit met while she was still with Anthony and became friends."

Now we were in Abigail Adam's High school.

"Why are we here?" I looked and saw Riley. She was sixteen. She was on the phone.

"KC, please answer your phone," she said. She was pacing.

She sounded so grown up.

"Where is she?" Farkle asked. He looked like he usually does, not all geeky.

"I don't know," she said. "She shouldn't keep skipping, she's a senior. She still won't open up to me, either."

"I know. We've told her we know something's going on at home," Farkle said. "We're her best friends, but she won't open up to us."

"She was like that with the Friars too," I said. "Just not to this extent." I looked around. "Wait, where is Huckleberry?"

"Since KC never went to Texas, he, nor the other Friars, met her," Archangel Gabriel said. "She is the reason Lucas began fighting. It was his way of protecting her, his sister."

"That's why you're in the form of Aaron," I observed. "He wouldn't have existed."

I looked up and saw a TV with the news on. We were in the Matthews living room.

"A true tragedy in New York City," the news anchor said. Riley was sitting with Topanga, crying into her shoulder. Cory and Auggie were sitting next to them. "New York Native, KC, Clutterbucket, was found beaten to death by her father, Anthony Johnson, who was suspected in the murder of his girlfriend, Katy Clutterbucket five years prior to this. She was eighteen years old."

"No," I said. "No!" I said. Tears started streaming down my face again. I thought of something. "Jaxon would still be alive. Let me see how he would look now."

"Maya," Angel Gabriel told me.

"Please," I said, looking up. "Just one glance."

Archangel Gabriel shifted from the form of my nephew to a 23 year old Jaxon. He shifted back to Aaron a couple of seconds later.

"He loved her, didn't he?"

"Yes," he said. "It's time for you to go back now."

KC's POV

"Maya?" I asked, shaking her a little. She opened her eyes.

"Where's Kermit?" She asked.

"He walked out a few seconds ago," I said.

"I have tell him something," she said, sitting up.

"Maya, maybe it should wait, you hit your head."

She got up and ran out the door. I followed her.

She ran up to Kermit.

"Wait!" She yelled. He stopped and looked at her. "I still don't think we could have a real relationship, but I just have to say something."

"What is it?" He asked.

"Thank you for bringing me into this world," she said. "Even though you left, you helped my mom get away from a monster and you made me. I just had to thank you for that."

"Well, I'm glad I did," he said. "Even if we can't have the relationship I want with you, I'm glad that I at least know you are happy." He started walking away.

"Wait," she said. "One more thing." He looked at her. "I forgive you."

"That all I've ever wanted to hear you say," he said. He left the building. I walked up to her.

"That was big of you," I said.

"When I was out, and Angel visited me," she said. "Gabriel."

"What happened?"

"You know what I told Kermit before?"

"Yeah that you wished he never met mom," I recalled.

"He showed me what would have happened if they had never met."

"And what's that?"

"I wouldn't have been born, you would have been Riley's best friend," she said. "Mom would have stayed with Anthony and you would have seen her die, and he would have killed you later."

"I would have been Riley's best friend?" I asked. "Are you sure it wasn't a dream?"

"No, it wasn't a dream," she said. She looked over, and I looked to see what she saw. I saw a man who looked like Jaxon did, but older. He backed up into the window light and disappeared.

"What just happened?"

"I asked Gabriel to show me what Jaxon would look like now," she said. "Then I asked God. Gabriel then formed into that from his Aaron form. I guess maybe that was his way of showing us it wasn't a dream."

I looked at her.

Maya's POV

We walked back into the apartment.

"You okay, baby girl?" Mom asked.

"Yeah," I said. "I love you, mom," I said. I hugged her. She hugged me back.

"I love you too."

Author's Note: I don't think I've ever written a Christmas Special so close to Christmas. I hope you liked it!

Merry Christmas, Everyone!