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It had just been another day in the Madrigal family as everyone was getting ready for Antonio's Gift Ceremony. They had been mostly spread out in Casita getting everything set up and ready and Mirabel was keeping Antonio entertained and trying to keep both of them out of the way of the decorating.
"Woah!" They had not however been prepared for Casita to suddenly all but force them into a chair and slide them across the floor and into a hallway.
"What the hell?!"
"What's going on?"
"Camilo is this a prank?"
"Not me this time Mami!"
"Someone explain to me what just happened."
It seemed like the rest of the family were brought sliding down the hallway as well before they were unceremoniously tossed into a room that Mirabel had never seen before. It had some couches and chairs and a table and some snacks and a nice warm fire but... she had never seen this room before.
As everyone got up, Luisa apologizing to their dad for landing on him even though it wasn't her fault, Mirabel glanced around while holding Antonio in her arms protectively. She didn't recognize this room...and there was already someone else here.
"Who are you?" Mirabel's voice cut through the noise of her family trying to figure out what was going on and if anyone was hurt from the surprise slide and rough landing. That and the noise of her Tio Bruno apparently joining them and being near hugged to death by his sisters.
Immediately everyone in the family turned towards her and in turn looked at the young man sitting on a loveseat.
"Oh you haven't met me yet. Nice to meet you. My name's Adrien." The young man, he must be close to Luisa's age, said nodding at them all with a small wave.
"How did you get here? Were you the ones who brought us here?" Abuela asked stepping forward as she stared down the man. Was he a threat? She didn't recognize him and with how small Encanto was everyone knew everyone else. She especially knew everyone in the village.
"Us? Nah we thought you did it. One minute I'm about to be struck by lightning as a warning and the next I'm here with mi amor." The man said nodding towards the snack table where a woman in a teal dress was standing and apparently grabbing some food.
"Struck by lightning? By me? Why would I strike you with lightning as a warning?" Pepa asked looking confused as she looked at the man.
"Because you're very protective of your special little cloud. Right mi vida?" Adrien asked grinning as he looked over at his wife as she turned and started making her way back towards the love seat. Pepa gasped sharply. She only used that title for one person.
"Adrien I swear you'd better not set Tia Pepa off again. She and Tio Bruno had you shaking like a leaf when I managed to call them off." The woman said and everyone gaped as she sat down in Adrien's lap with her plate on her lap, her dress showing off the bulge of her stomach.
"Is that..." Isabela was gaping in disbelief at the woman while Mirabel squeaked, a tic she picked up from Dolores.
"Me?!" Mirabel asked in a rather high pitched voice as she stared wide eyed at the pregnant slightly older version of herself in the mans lap.
"Oh man their faces are hilarious. I wish we had a picture. But yes. Hello family. As you've pointed out I am indeed Mirabel Madrigal. This is my husband Adrien Madrigal." The slightly older Mirabel said kissing her husbands cheek before she began snacking on some of the arepas.
"YOU MARRIED MY SOBRINA?!?!?!" Pepa nearly shrieked, Felix covering Dolores's ears just in time, as thunder and lightning flahsed around the weather witch.
"Tia Pepa please don't kill my husband." Older Mirabel was entirely too calm about this as she contently snacked on the food.
"You don't....you don't look much older than my Mirabel does now. How old are you?" Julieta asked stepping forward and eyeing her daughter with tears in her eyes. Her baby girl was so grown up but still looked so young.
"Seventeen." Older Mirabel said immediately and everyone glanced at Mirabel who was holding Antonio.
"Don't look at me! I don't know him!" Mirabel said defensively while Abuela was glaring at her.
"Of course not. You haven't left the Encanto yet." Older Mirabel said and every head whipped towards her at that.
"You left the Encanto?!" More than a few voices cried out in shock and disbelief as a few looked back at Mirabel who looked just as stunned.
"Mhm. According to the note that was on the table this book here should explain it." Older Mirabel said leaning forward a bit to tap the coffee table that had a note and book on it.
"Why should I accept your husband as part of the family? Especially since it seems you abandoned us?" Abuela demanded sharply but Older Mirabel smiled at her.
"I forgot that being in the past meant you still had your head up your ass. Just read the book Abuela, and be glad the Abuela from my time isn't here. She'd probably punch you for thinking I abandoned you all." Older Mirabel said and everyone gaped at her for that while she took a sip of some orange juice.
"How do I tell between you and my Mira?" Antonio asked as Mirabel let him down from her arms only for him to immediately walk over to Older Mirabel who smiled softly and pulled him onto the loveseat next to her.
"Well everyone can just call me Mira I suppose. Or you can just call me Mami like you do in my time Tonio." Mira said tickling him a little while everyone slowly sat down in stunned disbelief and confusion.
Mirabel squeaked at hearing that Antonio called her mami in the future. Did something happen to Tia Pepa? But that couldn't be possible. Not when Adrien said he had just been threatened by Tia Pepa. Looking over at Tia Pepa who was on a love seat with Tio Felix Mirabel saw the same confusion on her face that she felt, although thankfully it didn't look like Tia Pepa was upset.
"So who wants to read the first chapter?" Adrien asked nodding to the book on the table to bring everyones attention to it.
"Candle in the Night?" Isabela asked reading the title and honestly confused about what the hell was going on anymore as she sat on a couch with Luisa and Dolore. Her little sister, her hermanita, had left the Encanto? And gotten married and pregnant?
"I'll read." Luisa said taking the book into her hands and looking at the small summary on the back of it. She felt her blood run cold and her mouth go dry as she read the summary.
" Mirabel is tired. " Everyone glanced at Mirabel who looked confused.
"Tired of being pushed aside." Suddenly Mirabel found her shoes to be very interesting.
" Tired of being known as the giftless one. She decides to run away the night of Antonio's ceremony far away."
"So this starts next week?" Bruno asked although he looked upset and worried from where he sat in an armchair between the loveseats his sisters were occupying with their husbands.
"Looks like it. Mirabel..." Julieta looked worried as she looked at the younger version of her daugther who was sitting on a couch with Dolores who merely reached over and put one hand on her arm.
"Don't look at me. I've got no clue." Mirabel said and everyone glanced at Mira now who continued to munch on her food while Antonio had his arms around her expanded belly, hugging her close and his head resting on her stomach.
"Will they be able to find her and bring her back home?"
"We shall not leave the encanto to look for you." Abuela said and she was glaring at Mirabel who shrunk in on herself a little bit but wasn't surprised even if it hurt a bit. Dolores wrapped an arm around Mirabel's shoulders and pulled her into a side hug while glaring at Abuela.
"Oh you didn't." Mira said casually and everyone else suddenly looked awkward or upset.
"But you'll figure out what happens faster if you read the story si?"
Adrien apparently feared Pepa, rightly so in everyones minds, but had no fears of Abuela. No one was sure how to take that.