Carpe Noctem // Rewritten.

Aster Wilkes spent three years learning to shift realities. She had one goal: meet Rick Sanchez, the smartest man in the universe, and finally feel like she belonged somewhere.

But Rick's grandson Morty wasn't part of the plan. Neither was Summer, with her sharp observations and carefully hidden loneliness. Or Beth, who just wants someone to talk to. Or the students at Harry Herpson High who've started gathering in her classroom every lunch, asking questions she never expected to answer.

Now Aster has a choice: keep chasing the validation she came for, or stay in the life she accidentally built with a quiet coffee shop owner who sees more than he says, a family that's starting to feel like her own, and a fourteen-year-old boy who finally trusts an adult to listen.

The thing about shifting realities? You can't take back the person you become along the way.

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Takes place after S1 EP6, which is Rick and Morty's change of realities. C-137 is the name of their new reality.