"Estelle, is that you and Teddy?" Future Eden asked.
Future Eden and Future Teddy looked over.
"Ms. Starling?" Future Estelle asked.
The two of them soon hugged each other as they had not seen each other in ages.
"How have you been?" Future Eden asked.
"Not too well, I'm afraid," Future Estelle frowned. "My cousin and dear friend are rather mad at me."
"I'm sorry to hear that; would you like to come with me to see Catherine?" Future Eden asked.
"I would... It's better than being alone... At least Teddy is good company." Future Estelle replied softly.
Teddy quietly roared and nuzzled up against Estelle's cheek.
"How have you been, old chap?" Future Chuzzlewit asked Future Teddy.
"Oh, same old, same old..." Future Teddy replied.
"You've grown so big... Not as adorable or innocent..." Future Chuzzlewit noted.
"I protect my mama now." Future Teddy nodded.
"I'm going over to see Catherine because this flyer got caught on my window, like someone had meant for it to be brought to me." Future Eden said as she showed the flyer.
"Yes! That's why you brought me here, isn't it?" Eden realized, or at least, she thought she did. "Oh! This is where everything turns around. I want to follow her."
"Are you sure?" Christmas Future asked.
"Yeah, of course I'm sure," Eden replied. "Let's not waste a second."
"Hmm... What do you all think?" Christmas Future asked the little girls and their Pokemon.
"We might as well see how this ends." The girls shrugged.
"Very well then." Christmas Future agreed as she led with her exotic Pokemon.
"Holiday?" Future Catherine huffed to one of her workers. "Who said anything about a holiday?"
"But... But... It's Christmas!" the seamstress replied.
Future Eden and Future Estelle opened the door slightly to see what was going on inside.
"I'm aware it's Christmas!" Future Catherine snapped. "Which means there's only two weeks before we show the new line of the most popular label in London! You should want to work every day, but if you're not dedicated enough..."
"Oh, I am, I promise!" the seamstress feared about losing her job. "I'm sorry I complained Miss Beadnell."
"Good." Future Catherine said firmly.
"I don't understand. She doesn't sound like Catherine at all." Eden frowned.
"Sound familiar?" Jenny folded her arms firmly.
"Unfortunately, yes." Eden frowned.
"Eden!" Future Catherine then called out.
"Catherine." Future Eden replied as she stood with Future Estelle.
"Good evening, Catherine." Future Estelle greeted with a curtsy.
Teddy bowed as he sat behind Estelle since he was a large size now.
"Long time no see, Estelle, looking good, Chuzzie, you too, Teddy." Future Catherine replied.
"Charmed." Future Chuzzlewit mewed.
"Kind of rude to that seamstress though." Future Teddy said.
Future Estelle gently pet her Ursaring.
"We're surprised to see you working on Christmas, Catherine." Future Estelle said.
"I thought you'd be home with your family or... Or celebrating somewhere." Future Eden added in.
"I don't really celebrate Christmas anymore. I was a little soured on the holiday w-when was I soured on it again? Oh! Yes!" Future Catherine replied. "When you fired me because I came in late on Christmas Day."
"Uh-oh..." Eden frowned.
"Oh, right, um..." Future Eden stammered, suddenly guilty.
"No, it's okay," Future Catherine replied. "You actually did me a favor. You proved I'd been wrong and you were right."
"No, Catherine; don't say it, don't say it." Eden frowned as she knew exactly what Future Catherine would say.
"It is a selfish world... and in a selfish world, the selfish succeed." Future Catherine then said.
The girls then noticed that Eden was suddenly having a change of heart as she was supposed to. And where Estelle noticed a glimmer of something that looked like a heart shard. She went toward it in curiosity.
"Who knew this would happen?" Felicity frowned.
"Now, now, Ms. Starling still has a chance to set things right so this future won't be." Jenny replied, knowing this story very well.
Estelle soon got to the light and where she saw a little girl who looked a lot like Eden when she was a little girl. Jenny and Felicity noticed Estelle had wandered off and decided to go join her.
"Hello, are you alright?" Estelle asked as she was turned into Princess Tutu as she came over to the heart shard.
"Who's there?" the little girl asked.
"Don't worry, I won't hurt you, I just want to help you." Estelle promised.
"Y-You do?" The little girl asked before she saw Estelle extend her hand out to her.
"Please dance with me, Spirit of Christmas." Estelle smiled.
The little girl then took Estelle's hand. The two then smiled to each other once they gained each other's trust. And where during the dancing, Estelle could already tell when Eden had lost her Christmas spirit.
"So, you know who I am?" the little girl asked.
"Of course, you're Ms. Starling's Christmas Spirit." Estelle replied.
"That's right." The little girl nodded.
"And how adorable you are," Estelle smiled. "I hope you can change her."
"I hope to help her see the light." the little girl smiled back.
The little girl soon turned into a heart shard.
"Whoa!" Estelle blinked as she then took the heart shard. She then came back to the others.
"There you are, what happened to you?" Felicity asked.
"I found Ms. Starling's Christmas Spirit." Estelle told them.
"That's great." Jenny smiled.
"How did you do that?" Felicity asked.
"Princess Tutu helped." Estelle smiled.
"Anyway, we better hear what else Future Catherine has to say." Jenny said.
"Good idea, Jenny." Estelle nodded.
They all soon got back to Eden as they were about to hear Future Catherine continue to talk.
"I'm not 100% sure that's really true." Future Eden said to Future Catherine about her aunt's advice which she lived by.
"Oh, I am; I tried to be selfless, I looked out for you, I looked out for everyone at the Gad's Hill, I even tried to help out one of the poorest orphanages in London," Future Catherine replied. "Know what happened?" she then rhetorically asked.
"Fired you." Future Eden guessed with a frown.
"I found nothing. That orphanage I was helping?" Future Catherine sighed. "It closed down while I was away. I'd had no idea. There was one little girl I was ready to take in myself. "But she was gone. They all were. Scattered out in the world to try and fend for themselves. You can imagine."
"Um, by any chance, was the little girl you were going to adopt named Tammy?" Future Estelle frowned.
"Yes... She was so sweet..." Future Catherine confirmed.
"She wouldn't have had blonde hair, would she?" Future Estelle gulped.
"Yes, in the most beautiful curls," Future Catherine nodded. "Have you seen her?"
"I-I did see her, but she wasn't well." Future Estelle frowned.
"How bad was she?" Future Catherine frowned back.
"Oh, please don't tell me she ends up like Tiny Tim..." Jenny begged with tears in her midnight blue eyes.
"I'm afraid she died from the cold." Future Estelle frowned.
"No..." Jenny whispered.
"She died...?" Future Catherine's face paled.
Eden looked even more guilty now. Future Estelle nodded out of sadness.
"Catherine, listen. Don't make the same mistakes I made," Eden tried to apologize now, but it was far too late. "You're better than that. Don't be like me. Do you hear me, Catherine? Catherine!"
"She can't hear or see you." Felicity reminded her.
"We're ghosts, remember?" Mismagius added in.
"Oh, right." Eden frowned.
"So, you can't help me?" Future Eden asked her former friend.
"I'm done helping people, Eden," Future Catherine replied, trying to hide her grief over the death of Tammy. "It never works."
"Oh, I-I see; I'm sorry we bothered you," Future Eden frowned. "Merry Christmas, Catherine."
"Eden... Here, it's cold out there." Future Catherine then threw her former friend a scarf.
"Oh, I've got it, I've got it!" Future Eden tried to grab the scarf before it would fall in the snow.
Future Estelle and Future Teddy both helped her in getting the scarf. Eden looked very sick from her guilt.
"You know, someone once told my father that the past can hurt, but you should face it head on." Estelle advised. She soon let the heart shard go back into Eden.
"What're you doing...?" Eden asked.
"Shh..." Estelle shushed her as she gently went to work.
And where Eden soon felt something in her heart that she hadn't felt in years. Estelle smiled hopefully.
"This can't be my life!" Eden begged. "There has to be some mistake, there has to be a way to change things."
"That chance passed long ago as of now this is the road of your future." Christmas Future said to Eden as Ninetails nodded.
"You can make things right in the past/present though." Jenny told Eden.
"That's right." Felicity nodded.
The Pokemon agreed.
"Please, please," Eden begged. "Just give me another chance."
Ninetails looked up to Christmas Future. "I think she has learned her lesson, Mistress."
Christmas Future nodded as she used her magic to send Eden and the others back to her house. The little girls and their Pokemon were in the guest bed as the sun was slowly coming up.