Disclaimers: As much as I may want to claim ownership of these two productions, I can't because Encanto (2021) belong to a whole lot of different companies that I can't remember the names of at the moment. Any characters that appear in this fic that are not a part of either original series, belong to me so don't take them without asking first.

Timeframe: This story is going to take place in the Encanto (2021) universe. I'm also making it so that the Madrigal family starting from Alma Madrigal going down the family list, is born in the mid-1930's instead of the original earlier time period that the series starts off in with Pedro and Alma, so that by the time Mirabel is born, she is born in the year 1990.

I am also making Julieta, Pepa, and their spouses (and Bruno) five years younger than what they were when they married and had the grandkids, so they are not in their fifties by the time Antonio is five years old.

Author's Notes: Because of the 'Wish Reboot' back to the night before her Gift ceremony, Mirabel's magic bedroom door remains and she receives a Gift this time around, as well as gained the power to become the next Candle Bearer when Alma eventually dies.

Warning: Because of their memories of their experience in the other timeline, both Mirabel and Bruno will stubbornly be completely different than what they were in canon, as they do things they didn't do in the original timeline, like being more stubborn and confident about things and not backing down and standing up more against Alma instead of quietly letting her treat them the way she did in the old timeline as one of the things they are trying to change for the better.

Years and Birthdays of Characters with info coming from Encanto (2021) Wiki:

-Alma Madrigal née Ramirez - Birthday: February 6, 1935
-Félix Madrigal née Hernandez - Birthday: November 11, 1959
-Agustin Madrigal née Santos - Birthday: June 19, 1960
-Julieta Madrigal - Birthday: October 17, 1960
-Pepa Madrigal - Birthday: October 17, 1960
-Bruno Madrigal - Birthday: October 17, 1960
-Mariano Guzmán - Birthday: March 19, 1982
-Isabela Madrigal - Birthday: August 7, 1983
-Dolores Madrigal - Birthday: September 5, 1983
-Luisa Madrigal - Birthday: April 12, 1985
-Camilo Madrigal - Birthday: April 21, 1990
-Mirabel Madrigal - Birthday: May 6, 1990
-Antonio Madrigal - Birthday: July 23, 2000

Word Count: 7,031

Summary: (Encanto) In the distant future where Casita falls, Mirabel and Bruno both die trying to save the miracle candle. But thanks to the last of the magic of the Miracle candle and a wish that Mirabel makes just as she takes her final breath, instead of staying dead Mirabel and Bruno both suddenly find themselves 'waking up' years in the past inside of their younger bodies the night before Mirabel's Gift ceremony with all of their memories of the possible future still intact. In an attempt to stop the events that happened in the original future, can Mirabel and Bruno save their family and make a better tomorrow for everybody? (Papa Bruno Madrigal AU)

Glossary:
'Hi' – thinking
"Hi" – Another language

Knocking Down Hesitation
Prologue: If Wishes Were Kisses
By: Sakura Lisel
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~-Mirabel's POV - Encanto Village, Columbia - Inside the Ruins of Casita – July 31, 2005~-

Pain.

That was all Mirabel Madrigal could feel as she slowly woke up to a splitting headache and a sharp pain to the back of her head, as her mind was feeling a bit foggy as she opened her dark brown eyes to absolute darkness surrounding her at all sides of where ever she currently was, as she found it hard to breath because of a weight that was lying on top of her in the darkness, and moving her body itself made the pain she was feeling feel a lot worse than it was before.

Agonizing pain seemed to fill every part of Mirabel Madrigal's body as she slowly came back to consciousness, as she found it extremely hard to breath, and trying to move her body seemed to make the pain worse. As she shifted her body a bit, she realized that she could still move her arms inside the cramped space she was in.

As she tried to move her head, she flinched in pain as the movement caused the back of her head to ache and throb more than it already was, as she her left arm as high as she could towards her head, and as soon as her hand came in contact with her head, she could feel her hand come away feeling wet and sticky.

The pain coursing through her head and body was all Mirabel was feeling at the moment and all she could focus on, as she came back into consciousness in total darkness, with a soft yet heavy and wet weight pressing down upon her body as her arms wrapped around it instinctively, as she tried to squint her eyes to get a good look at her surrounding despite everything being dark around her, and her vision being blurry since her eyeglasses were missing.

'Why's my head bleeding?! What the heck happened? Why is it so dark, and where are my glasses? I can just barely see anything at all in here without my glasses,' Mirabel thought silently to herself, as she lowered her hand from the back of her head, as her fog filled mind tried to remember what had happened that caused her to be in her current situation, as a loud racking cough escaped from her lips, and she could taste something wet and salty coppery taste on her tongue when she coughed as her eyes widen as she realized just from the taste that it was blood, 'Am I coughing up blood? Why? Plus why does everything hurt…'

As Mirabel looked around, she could vaguely hear what sounded like her familia yelling her name from somewhere far away, as she heard their voices from what sounded like it was coming from somewhere above her, as she started to realize she was under some under some kind of debris.

As she looked around something above her was moved, and a small sliver of sunlight started to shine down at her in the darkness, she spotted the shattered remains of one of Casita's wall decorations lying nearby in the rubble, and her eyes widen in shock as everything that had happened slowly started flowing back into her foggy mind, as memories of the miracle candle going out and Casita collapsing filled her mind.

"Casita? Please no." Mirabel whispered as she realized what had happened, as a fresh wave of tears started to well up in her eyes as she began to remember exactly what had happened that led her to be in her current situation, as she realized exactly what had happened, 'Casita cracked and fell, just like Tio Bruno's latest vision showed us. I thought I was about to finally save the miracle, yet it's all because of my fight with Abuela that everything came crashing down around us.'

~-Flashback~-

As the memories filled her mind, as she remembered her last argument with her Abuela, that led to Casita's falling, and how she and the rest of the family had rushed to try and save the candle as Casita collapsed around them, while Casita used the last of her strength to kick the rest of the family out so they wouldn't be harmed by what was happening.

Mirabel remembered hearing everybody yelling at her to just leave the candle behind and save herself, but she had stubbornly ignored all of them and managed to make it to the tower room where the candle resided with Casita's reluctant help after multiple failed attempts by other family members who had tried to reach the candle only for their powers to completely disappear before they could get close enough to the candles location, causing Casita to use its powers to protect them while sending them flying out of the collapsing family compound.

Along the way up, Mirabel accidentally slashed open the palm of her right hand in a deep and jagged line as she grabbed hold of a broken piece of wall to help pull herself further up, but she ignored the pain as she quickly continued on her way up to the tower room where the candle resided.

Once she finally reached the top of the tower, she carefully pulled herself inside the open windows, as she feels the windowsill walls starting to crumble underneath her grip, as her feet hit the ground and she quickly ran over to where the candle was located, and gently scooped the miracle candles holder into her hands.

'I can't let the miracle die like this. I won't let it not after everything that has happened so far up until now. If we lose it, everybody is going to hate me more than they already do, especially after they all found out about Bruno's prophecy about me…' Mirabel thought silently to herself as she gently scooped up the container that used to house the miracle candle into her hands, and flinched a bit when she saw how much of the candle had burned away, as she started to turn around to head back the way she came, 'Oh my lord, there is barely anything left of the candle… there must be a way to save it from going out and save Casita and the miracle…'

As she held onto the candle, the floor started to collapse under her weight as more of the candles flame started to go out, causing her to cry out in both terror and pain as the sudden movement caused the still hot and oily wax from the candle to splash onto her injured hand, causing her to flinch a bit at the sudden burning sensation that filled her hand, as the wax causes the cut in her hand to glow brightly for a moment as a strange warmth seemed to briefly spread throughout her body from the brief contact.

As she started to fall with the floor, Casita used managed to create a slide from broken debris underneath Mirabel's falling body, causing her to slide safely to the ground below much to her relief, as she immediately gets to her feet off of the slide and starts running towards the nearest exit she could find while clutching the dying miracle candle, as she tried to avoid being hit by falling debris. Casita tried to protect her while she ran, but she could see that the magical old house was getting weaker with each attempt to help her so she just kept on running as fast as she could.

Casita had tried to help in her escape from the collapsing magical home as best as Casita could as furniture and other objects from inside the house got in the way of anything that came close to landing on top of Mirabel as she ran, and Casita had even tried to make the ground at Mirabel's feet move faster as it tried to sweep her out of the danger zone like it had done with the rest of the family, but each attempt by Casita seemed to be getting weaker and weaker with each passing second until it came to a stop completely as the miracle candle's flame completely flickers out and there was nothing but darkness inside of Mirabel's hands.

As Mirabel continued to run, she could see Casita erect some kind of stone enclosure out of the ground a few feet away from her that was directly in her path. The enclosure was about a foot and a half off the ground and wide enough for her to get into if she crawled into it, and looked like it would be able to give her some protection from the collapsing house, if she made it to the enclosure in time.

'How can this still happen? everything was looking up and going perfectly, yet what? Why did it have to happen this way at all?!' Mirabel thought silently to herself, as she continued to run as she ran straight towards the enclosure, while glancing down at the now flameless candle in her hands, there was barely anything left of the candle except a small pool of melted wax inside of the candles holder, 'Just because I yelled at Abuela and pointed out that what was happening was her doing and not mine, everything went to hell? I have to fix this somehow…'

"MIRABEL! WATCH OUT!"

As Casita fell around her as Mirabel tried to avoid the falling debris while trying to keep ahold of the melted mess that was the candle as the still hot wax burned her hand briefly, the sudden shouting of her name caught her attention, distracting her long enough to look in the direction of the shout to see Bruno charging towards her, as his normally brown eyes were now glowing bright green indicating he was in the middle of a vision as he ran towards her.

Just then a loud rumbling sound caught Mirabel's attention, causing her to glance upwards in time to see Bruno's old tower bedroom starting to fall in her direction, just before Bruno went into a flying tackle straight at her body, his body colliding with hers as he knocked the two of them off their feet just as a huge piece of his old tower bedroom came tumbling down on top of the two of them and buried them under its weight with Bruno using his own body to try and shield Mirabel from the damage as he wrapped his arms tightly around her own body just as she instinctively wrapped her arms around his to hold onto him.

As they hit the ground and went sliding a few feet across the courtyard from the force of the impact from Bruno's tackle, Mirabel's head came in contact with the hard stone floor that used to be Casita's front courtyard, as they slid into a small stone enclosure about a foot off the ground that half covered their bodies from the falling debris, that Casita had managed to erect just before the candle completely went out.

As they slid into the enclosure, Mirabel could feel her head cracking hard against the stone wall of the enclosure as her eyeglasses went flying from her face, as her vision started to swim as she passed out just as her and Bruno's world was surrounded by darkness as falling debris landed above them.

~-End Flashback~-

As the memory of what had happened hit her, Mirabel quickly realized exactly what the soft and extremely wet weight that was on top of her really was, as she let out a startled gasp, as her grip on it tightened reflexively, and a loud moan of pain reached her ears, and the smell of coppery blood coming from above her filled her nose from the soft thing that was pressed against her body.

'Oh no… Tio Bruno… Dear lord, please tell me he's okay… that he's not dying because he tried to save me. Since he's on top of me, means he received the worst of what happened than I did when everything came tumbling down…' Mirabel thought frantically to herself as she tried to gingerly shift her body a bit under her uncles weight and the weight of the rubble that was on top of both of them, as she tried to get a better look at her uncle as best as she could in the little bit of light that was coming through the rubble, 'This isn't fair. I promised I would bring him back home to the family once this was all over, so people would stop talking badly about him.'

Now that she becoming more focused on what was going on around her, and she fought against the pain that was going through her own body, she realized that she could now hear her uncles ragged breathing coming from above her, as his breathes came in deep and ragged gasps of air, like he was having trouble breathing, and she could feel his heartbeat beating weakly against her chest.

As Bruno's broken body pressed against hers, she could feel his blood soaking into her clothes, and she could feel the heat coming from his body starting to fade away, as she slowly reached up with her injured hand as best as she could to try and gently touch his face to try and wake him up, and accidentally wound up brushing some of the leftover waxy oil from the miracle candle that had spilled on her injured hand earlier onto his face, which caused a faint glow to appear where her hand had touched his injured faces cuts.

"Tio Bruno? Tio Bruno can you hear me? Please speak to me if you can hear me. Are you okay?" Mirabel choked out, as she struggled to force the words out of her mouth as pain filled her own body just from trying to speak, as she felt relief fill her at the thought that he might still be alive despite everything that had happened as she looked sheepish for a moment when she realized what she had just asked Bruno, "Okay… I admit that was a really stupid question seeing the situation we are in… Tio Bruno, come on and please answer me!"

For a brief moment that seemed like it had lasted forever as she didn't immediately get a response from her uncle as nothing happened, but then the body on top of her shifted a bit on top of her, causing them to both flinch in pain from the movement, as Bruno's still glowing green eyes slowly opened up to stare down at her, as a wracking cough escaped from his mouth, and Mirabel could see blood starting to form on the side of his mouth.

"Mira… bel…? …Ey kid… do…" Bruno gasped out as another round of coughing escaped from his lips as he tried and force the five words out of his mouth, as he struggled to keep talking even as glowing green eyes started to droop closed once again, like it was becoming harder for him to remain awake, "Sobrina… r… u… okay…?"

"I'm fine thanks to you. Just hold on a bit longer and don't close your eyes. Please hold on awhile longer. Helps coming soon," Mirabel said, lying about her own condition to try and not make Bruno worry more, as she could hear the panic in her own voice as she heard how weak and far away his voice sounded to her ears, as she tried to keep him from losing consciousness again, as she could hear the sounds of voices getting louder from above the rubble, "I can hear mama and the others. They'll get us out of here soon, and we can get you mama's healing food to make you all better."

"I'm… fine… just a… bit… tired… Don't worry… about me…" Bruno mumbled a bit as he struggled to stay awake as he stared down at Mirabel for a moment, as he gave her a small reassuring smile, though it looked strained in the dim light, as the green glow in his eyes started to die down and his eyes returned to their normal brown color once more as a small chuckle escaped from his lips, but was quickly followed by a loud coughing fit as blood came shooting out of his mouth with each cough, "It doesn't even… urt… anymore. Glad… u… r… okay… Ur… mama and your Tia and Abuela…will… kill me… if anything… happens to you…"

"I promise you they won't be mad at you or will kill you, Tio Bruno, you don't have to worry. Just hold on a bit longer, please…" Mirabel said with a pleading tone in her voice even as she could feel the coldness that was starting to seep into her uncles body as she held onto him, as a wracking cough escaped from her own mouth, "everybody will be glad to see you again when we get out of this mess…"

~-Bruno's POV - Encanto Village, Columbia - Inside the Ruins of Casita – July 31, 2005~-

"…io …uno…"

Bruno Madrigal slowly came back to consciousness as he vaguely heard the sound of somebody calling his name, as he sucked in a sharp gasp of pain as any movement he made caused agonizing pain to shoot throughout his body, as a sharp stabbing pain went through his head.

Pain.

That was all Bruno Madrigal could feel at the moment, as it felt like his entire body was on fire, as it became harder to breathe, and focus on what was happening around him, as he lay unmoving on top of something soft, as he blearily opened his eyes a little bit to see nothing but darkness surrounding him, as his fog filled mind tried to remember what happened that got him in his current situation.

'OW! What the hell hit me? Oh, yeah thats right… Casita fell on top of me… I guess I really did it this time, and there is no coming back from this one.' Bruno thought silently to himself as he tried to not move as much as possible as more pain shot through his body as a wracking metallic tasting cough fell from his lips, 'Plus, if my injuries are as bad as I think they are, then by the time they dig me out, I don't think even Julieta's food will be able to help...'

"…io …uno… ear… me…?" A familiar sounding voice called him from some far away distance, as he felt somebody's hand touch his face, and he felt a strange warmth fill him that seemed to spread through his entire body before it quickly faded away just as fast as it had started.

As he heard the voice calling his name, Bruno's fog filled mind slowly became more fully aware as he focused on the voice more, as he realized who the voice belonged to, as he felt the soft object underneath him move underneath him in the cramped space under the rubble, as he felt the hand from before lightly pat his face as the voice frantically called his name again begging him to answer her.

Upon realizing exactly what, or who, it was he was lying down upon, Bruno started to move, grunting in pain as he moves while trying to push himself up as far as he could get himself, as he forced his eyes open and found himself looking down at his youngest niece's panicked face as she stared back up at him. As he stared down at her he could see the glowing green light of his eyes half lighting up the darkness.

"Mira… bel?" Bruno choked out as another wracking cough escaped from his lips, as memories of what had happened earlier started rushing back into his mind.

~-Flashback~-

Bruno had been busy walking down the hidden hallways behind Casita's walls, with a bucket of cement and patching holes in the walls, listening to the fight between Mirabel and his mother out in the courtyard, as he tried not to flinch in pain when he heard what his mother had said about him and Mirabel response as the younger girl started to defend him against Alma.

'Thanks a lot, Mirabel. It's good to know you have my back on this matter. In all these years I always chickened out when it comes to confronting mom,' Bruno thought silently to himself as he wiped a bead of sweat that was dripping from his face as he used the spatula on another crack as he tried to ignore the pain and hurt that filled him at the latest cruel thing his mother had to say about him ever since he had 'run away' from home and thought he wasn't around to hear her, 'mom needs a wake up call and somebody to call her out on her crap and…'

CRACK!

Jumping in shock at the loud cracking sound that seemed to echo all around him in the hallway he was in, Bruno's eyes widen in shock and terror as everything began shaking all around him, as cracks started splintering all across Casita's walls as it spread in all directions all around him everywhere he looked, as he spotted some of his pet rats fleeing down the hallway from his secret room.

'Oh no. Oh no. Don't tell me Mirabel and mom's fighting with each other is what starts Casita to fall? We failed to stop it!' Bruno thought frantically to himself as he started running around the halls trying to see if he could do something to stop what was happening, before finally giving up as support beams and other things started falling around him as he started running as well as he ran down the same way the rats were running, 'why does it always have to end like this even when we try and stop the bad things I see in my vision from happening.'

As he ran down the hallway, he soon came a dead end as more debris fell down around him, as he grabbed a nearby bucket and placed it on his head, as he gave Casita a quick apology for what he was about to do, before charging head first at full force at a nearby severely cracked wall on his right, and smashed through it easily and found himself safely outside of Casita and out of the danger zone, as his rats ran out of the newly made hole and scattered in different directions to get away from what was happening.

As he sat on the ground trying to catch his breath after his escapade as he pulled his bucket helmet off of his head, he suddenly gasped in pain as he clutched his head as his eyes started glowing a bright green color as one of his visions came to him right at that moment.

Groaning in pain when he recognized what the sensation he was feeling was, he couldn't believe one of his visions would pick now of all times to come. Unlike when he summoned a vision using his sand ritual, the sand ritual visions were painless, but when the visions came on their own it always left him with a splitting headache afterwards.

He really hated it when his visions came to without him summoning it using his sand ritual, but he also hated it because usually when they came out of the blue like it was now, it was usually to warn him of some impending future disaster that needed his immediate attention.

'Why couldn't it have done this before Mirabel and moms argument started up? Instead we got the vision of Mirabel and Isabela happily hugging each other, as a supposed way to stop Casita from falling.' Bruno thought silently to himself in anger as he sat on the ground and waited for the vision to start as he forced himself to relax as images started to fill his mind as a loud sigh of irritation and frustration escaped from his lips as he reached up to run at his throbbing forehead as he started to feel a headache starting to build up, 'Fat lot of luck that did even though it did briefly work for a short while until mom came and ruined everything like she always does when she's angry about something…'

~-Vision Begins~-

As the vision started to begin, he could 'see' images of Mirabel and the rest of the family filling his mind, as he watched as Casita began to collapse around everybody there as his nieces and nephews all rushed towards the the Candle tower to try and get to the candle.

Bruno saw Camilo and Isabela both completely lose their powers as they rushed to try and get to the tower, only for Casita to sweep them and the rest of the family away to safety outside the courtyard while Mirabel kept making her own way towards the candle as she climbed up the walls to the tower.

'Crap! So if Casita and the candle die, the magic Gifts that everybody has will die with them, if everybody's losing their powers. Even if it means losing Casita forever,' Bruno thought silently to himself, feeling sad at the idea of losing his powers, but at the same slightly felt relieved by the idea at the same time as a low chuckle of amusement escaped from his lips at the thought of losing his Gift, 'at least we'll all finally be free to be normal again after all this time. Maybe even mom will finally let up on the family if we all lose our powers and become normal…'

As Bruno continued to watch, he could see Mirabel reach the candle and grab it, before making her way back safely to the ground below with Casita's help when Casita creates a slide to send her down safely, before the fifteen year old began running for her life as she tried to avoid getting hit by falling debris as Casita continued to fall around her, as the rest of the family was being blocked by Casita from going after her as Casita tried to protect her from being hit. As she ran, he notice that she was holding what looked like the melted remains of the Miracle candle, as the flame slowly went out in her hands.

Gasping in horror as the images started to fill his mind, Bruno began to start to see the image of Mirabel running through Casita's courtyard as the house fell apart around her, as large chunks of the house hit the ground around her, though it looks like Casita was trying to help in her escape, but Bruno could tell that Casita's attempts were getting weaker by the second, as the house created some kind one foot tall stone enclosure that was further ahead of Mirabel on the ground.

Before Mirabel could reach the enclosure, the flame on the candle finally went out completely as Bruno looked around as a loud rumbling sound reached Bruno's ears, before he finally glanced up in time to see what used to be his old tower bedroom started to crumble and fall as it fell towards Mirabel's fleeing form, as Casita tried and failed to try and protect Mirabel as the tower fell on top of her as she glanced behind her with terrified eyes, and she was buried under a few tons of rubble before she could reach the enclosure, just as everything became dark around Bruno as the vision comes to an end.

~-Vision Ends~-

'Oh hell no! No way. I'm not letting that happen if I can try and stop it from happening. Not on my watch,' Bruno thought as anger, becoming filled with panic as the vision came to an end, as a stubborn and determined look appeared on his face, as he quickly stumbled to his feet from the dirt floor, 'will that particular vision happen. If I can just get there in time, maybe I can save her. Mirabel doesn't deserve that to happen to her.'

Reaching up to grab the handle of the bucket on his head, he quickly yanked it off and tossed the bucket to the side as he started running as fast as he could, as he hoped he made it in time, as his eyes continued to glow green as he ran, 'Maybe if I can just get there in time before my tower bedroom starts to fall, maybe I can still save her, even it means I have to die instead...'

As he sprinted around the house he could already hear the sounds of his familia screaming out Mirabel's name, and he made it around the house in time to see Mirabel come tumbling down a slide that Casita had created that led down from the Miracle Candle room, as the fifteen year old immediately started running while clutching the miracle candle in her hands.

Knowing what was soon to come, Bruno picked up his pace and started chasing after Mirabel, hoping that he would catch up with her in time, to get her out of danger when the telltale rumbling sound signaling that his tower was about to fall reached his ears, as he glance upwards to see it started to crumble and fall down towards Mirabel, who was also looking up at the tower as the last of the miracle candles flame finally went out in her hands.

"MIRABEL! WATCH OUT!" Bruno shouted out as he managed to get a few feet behind his niece, causing her to look back at him with shocked and fear filled eyes, before he charged at her with a flying tackle, his body impacting with hers as he wrapped his arms around her, as the force behind the tackle sent the two of them flying a bit further away from where Mirabel originally had been standing.

As the two hit the ground with Mirabel pinned underneath his own bodies weight, Bruno kept his arms wrapped around Mirabel's slim body in an attempt to try and shield her from what he knew was coming, as his grip tightened around her body as he glanced over his shoulder to see what was left of his tower bedroom still falling towards them, before they were both buried under the debris, and everything went dark as Bruno was knocked out.

~-End Flashback~-

As Bruno looked down at Mirabel, he realized just how much trouble they were both in, and knew that it wasn't good as his bleary eyes scanned the area they were trapped in once more before looking back down at Mirabel once more.

'Well, even if I die here, at least hopefully I gave her some time to be rescued, by getting her away from the original spot she was in when my tower fell on her in the vision,' Bruno mused silently to himself as he tried to smile down at Mirabel despite the pain he was in, as he started asking her questions about how she was doing, and answering any questions she gave him in return as he tried to reassure her that everything was going to be fine, 'She still got hurt, and looks almost as bad as I feel. She definitely would have been dead by the time help finally got to her under the rubble in the original crash area…'

As his eyes began to close more, his breathing started to become more ragged sounding with each passing second as his body started to slump forward to lie on top of Mirabel's body once more, shuddering a bit from the sudden cold that seemed to spread through his body despite Mirabel fading voice pleading with him to stay awake and hold on until help came. But he was feeling too exhausted to stay awake even for another second despite his best efforts to do so.

'I just wish that if I could have a second chance to fix things, that the first thing I would try and fix is how I handled Pepa's wedding day. Then maybe just about everything that happened afterwards over the years could have been avoided.' Bruno forlornly thought silently to himself, as his eyes started to close as he became harder to keep them open, as the green glow in his eyes slowly started to fade away, 'just so she wouldn't still have a grudge against me all these years later for a disaster she caused by over reacting to what was meant to be a joke I made. Including a whole lot of other things I did back then…'

In the next few seconds, Bruno's breathing came to a stop completely as darkness filled his mind and he knew nothing more after that.

~-Mirabel's POV - Encanto Village, Columbia - Inside the Ruins of Casita – July 31, 2005~-

As she held her uncles body in her arms, she could feel how cold his body was getting with each passing second as she felt his heart beat weakly against her chest, as she also could hear Bruno's labored breathing coming his mouth as he lost consciousness once again.

"Sleep well, Tio Bruno and have peaceful dreams where ever you are now…" Mirabel murmured softly to her uncles now lifeless body as it lay in her arms, as she bends her head forward as far as she could reach to place a light kiss on top of his head, not caring at all about how dirty it now was as she kissed it.

Knowing there wasn't much she could do to help him without her mom's magic healing food, all Mirabel could do was just hold onto Bruno's body as he 'fell asleep' in her arms, as tears fell down her eyes as he stopped breathing completely a few seconds later as his body went completely limp against her own, and she knew immediately that he was gone and she was now all alone in the darkness.

'This isn't fair… I promised that I would bring him back home to the family when this was over. He wasn't supposed to die in this scenario. No… I mean we weren't supposed to die here. At at least i don't think we were supposed to.' Mirabel thought silently to herself as she felt tears well up in her eyes, as she clutched his rapidly cooling body against her own, as a shiver of pain coursed through her own body from the movement, as she refused to let Bruno go for any reason, 'Of all the insane and horrible things that could have happened because of the prophecy, why the hell did this one have to be the final outcome?'

As she lay there, she started to hum the Family Madrigal song to herself to try and calm herself down as a loud wracking cough escaped from her own lips, as she tasted the metallic taste of blood in her mouth once more after coughing for awhile, as she began to find it harder to stay awake too as her breathing became more labored.

'I guess I'll be joining Tio Bruno in death as well? I was really hoping they would have found us by now…' Mirabel thought silently to herself as she stared up at the ceiling of the enclosure she was in as her eyes started to close, 'I just wish that I could have had a chance to change how things ended up happening, and save everything and everybody. Especially if I had a Gift to help me out, maybe things would be different too…'

With those final thoughts Mirabel's body went limp as her arms fell from Bruno's body as she took her final breath and she knew nothing more as everything became black.

As Mirabel died, a faint glow started to form on the injured hand that had the Miracle candle wax spilt on it, that seemed to momentarily spread across both Mirabel and Bruno's bodies before it quickly faded away as fast as it had come.

To be continued...

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Author's Notes:
So what do you guys think? This chapter is completed at 17 pages. This is my first attempt at writing a Encanto (2021) fanfiction story. Please tell me what you think of it in reviews. Do you guys love it? Hate it? What? Though extremely rude flamers won't be tolerated. Please tell me what all of you think of this story of mine.

Since Mirabel is supposed to be the next Candle Holder after Alma dies, seeing how in the end of the movie Mirabel was able to bring Casita back to life, I thought that was the best way of making her wish to work, because of her still unawakened candle holder powers semi-activating because of the oil from the miracle candle. It woke up just enough to grant her wish to save herself and Bruno by sending them 10 years back in time to the bodies of their younger selves when they died.

If anybody is wondering about how the wish even activated, remember Mirabel's open hand wound and the oily melted wax from the miracle candle splashing on it, and the glow that happened afterwards and the same thing happen when she touched Bruno's open injuries with the same hand that was still covered in the waxy oil so she basically unintentionally spread the candles magic to include Bruno. It also grants Bruno's own final wish too.

UPDATE: Speaking of Bruno's wish, since it's not implied in the summary, so to hopefully stop any confusion about exactly when they 'wake up' in the past, remember what Bruno's main wish was? *lol* Bruno's going to be 'waking up' in the year 1982-1983, with Mirabel being born in the year 1990. It is the year 1995 when Mirabel finally 'wakes up'.

So Bruno at least has about 12-13 years further back in the past than Mirabel does before any of the grandkids are even born, in order for his wish to be granted, so he's going to have years to change some things before Mirabel is born and her own memories eventually 'wake up'. One of the changes he's going to make is, getting married and having his own family and kids by that time. Which is the reason for the Papa Bruno Madrigal AU tag in the summary.

Started On: November 8, 2022
Completed On: February 4, 2023