A Future in the Past - Michael Jackson x Reader

She had spent years convincing herself that dreams were meant for other people.

Once passionate about singing and dancing, she traded the stage for late-night shifts behind the counter of a neighborhood bar, pouring drinks while pretending she didn't miss the life she'd always imagined. Music was the only thing that still made the weight of living feel a little lighter.

Then, one ordinary night, she fell asleep...

...and woke up in the same city, on the same streets, but in a different decade.

1983.

Struggling to make sense of a world she shouldn't exist in, an unexpected encounter leads her to audition for a top-secret production. No one knows who the artist is. The project is shrouded in secrecy.

Little does she know, she's about to step into the orbit of a young performer named Michael Jackson, just as he's preparing for the project that will change music history forever.

The only problem?

She already knows how the story goes.

Every song that hasn't been written yet.

Every record that hasn't been broken.

Every triumph.

Every heartbreak.

And every secret she's never supposed to tell.