AU. As a chemistry teacher, the last thing Cosima Niehaus ever thought possible unfolds down the hallway from her classroom, sending a wave of fear throughout Evanston High School. The tragedy hits far closer to home than she could have imagined, and the entire town is left to pick up the pieces of their shattered community, with her so dangerously close to the center.

AU: After being pulled apart from the person who mattered most to her at age seventeen, Cosima Niehaus' life fell apart in more ways than she could comprehend. Half decade of nightmares and 3 additional years of trying to pull herself together later, she's forced to face the lie that gave her false hope & the pain of knowing it came from the one person who vowed to always love her.