10 parts Complete Please be kind, I'm very self-conscious about my writing, especially ship fanfiction.
This was written in October 2019, so my writing may not look the same.
Taking place pre-Turnabout Beginnings/Turnabout Memories, during both cases, and post-Turnabout Beginnings/Memories. Post-first game, even. The third game was... barely non-existent and there was only so much of the first game that could've been so much different.
What happened during the time Dahlia and Phoenix were dating? We know from canon that him and Dahlia only met twice. How was he unable to tell the difference between Dahlia and Iris?
What would've happened if Dahlia never poisoned Diego post-Turnabout Beginnings?
An "alternate universe" where Mia never died, Diego was never poisoned, and Phoenix...? Well, let's just say his and Dahlia's relationship sank -- just like the canon universe. The beginning of the story starts at the end of Beginnings. It reverses back to before that afterwards, when we'll find out about why the trial went the way it did.
[Canon dialogue is placed in the story. I don't take credit for that.]
[Based on the song "Two Birds" by Regina Spektor.]