Author's Notes:

This is an alternate ending to Good Intentions. If you haven't read that story before, please do - otherwise this isn't going to make much sense.

The point of divergence is around 80% of the way through Chapter 9 of the original story. For the sake of simplicity, I have reproduced the whole of Chapter 9 here, so you should be able to read up to the end of Chapter 8 of the original and then carry straight on into the start of this one. The chapters in this story have been numbered accordingly (i.e. the next chapter from this is titled Chapter 9).

There are a couple of places where the text isn't suited to the FIMFiction format. In those cases, there will be a link out to a PDF. Look for >>>Click here<<< under the chapter heading or in the author's notes.

The story is complete at 13 chapters + epilogue, and around 93.5k words. If you want to hear more about how this story came about, check out the blog post.

Now - on with the show...