Ok, but hear me out. A JackieNat AU where when Nat goes out with Kevin Tan in the adult timeline and he takes her to his son's soccer game, she is suddenly met with another face from the past, Jackie, who in this universe survived the Wilderness. Nat is surprised because Jackie had cut all the communication with everyone in the team and disappeared. And most of the other girls had no idea what she was doing or where she was, just for Nat to suddenly find out Jackie is actually now the coach of Kevin's kid's soccer team. From then, they reconnect, and the story has a lot of flashbacks to what happened to them in the wilderness after Jackie didn't freeze.
I'm not gonna turn this into a fic, but I wrote a sample of the moment Nat sees Jackie just because I couldn't resist it:
"The sound of claps pulled Nat's attention away from Kevin almost like instinct. Her eyes searching the field for the noise source, falling in the kid's coach standing in the field sideline. Natalie hadn’t really noticed her before. With her back turned to her, all Nat could see was her light brown hair, almost blonde, tied in a ponytail. A red cap and a red waterproof jacket matching the kid's jerseys. Nat's heart jumped a bit. A weird familiarity washing over her.
"Come on, guys!" The coach shouted at the team. Firm, but gentle. "I know you can do better than this!"
Natalie could've recognized that voice anywhere.
It had been ages since she heard it, more than two decades for sure. Still, it had the same inflection it used to have back in school, on the soccer field, and out. Hyping up a teammate, giving an impromptu pep talk, whipping them into shape after a random party fight.
The world could've as well faded around them, Natalie wouldn't have noticed, her eyes trained on the women.
She watched her turn her head slightly as she assessed the field, calculating, analyzing the game with a practiced familiarity. Nat almost forgot how to breath.
Seeing Jackie again was like seeing a ghost. Hauntingly beautiful even after all those years. She had a smile on her face, looking at the kids playing with affection. It looked nice on her. Nat didn’t even know she was living in Wiskayok. She wasn’t even sure she was still alive until that moment. For a second, even being clean, she considered the possibility of it being a drug induced hallucination. It wouldn't have been difficult for her brain to conjure up that image, Jackie always looked more like herself in a soccer field. Not the best player. Never the best player. But always rightfully there."