no. 05 :

[allmiracles]

[after a brief run-in with Peter, she heads out of the workshop and across Camp. it's dark enough that her visibility is hindered, and the threat of the looming zombies is enough that she keeps her wand out. just in case.

she stops outside the hotel and heads to the door without hesitation.]

Comments

[actualizedname]

You still died, Vanille. You died, alone and away from all of us, and that is my fault. After all I've tried to do and become, I still didn't protect you!

Please. Let me find a way to make up for this. For my failure to protect the people I love.

[allmiracles]

[shakes her head]

...

Okay.

But ...

[actualizedname]

What?

[allmiracles]

If you want to protect me, then do it just for that reason. That's all.

You can't keep giving pieces of yourself away because you feel like you've failed or you've lost.

[actualizedname]

What? I - I don't ... what do you mean?

[allmiracles]

You don't have to make up for anything.

[actualizedname]

Maybe not. But next time, I will protect you.

[allmiracles]

[nods]

I know you will.

[actualizedname]

I'm not Lightning, or Snow or Fang or anyone strong like that. But I will find my own way to protect you. Okay?

[allmiracles]

Mm, okay.

But if it's something huge, let me know, okay? I don't want to be too surprised.

[taking his hand and leading him gently back to the loft]

[actualizedname]

What do you think I'd do?

[keeping a weather eye out for monsters.]

[allmiracles]

Somehow, I think you'd surprise me.

[actualizedname]

Maybe.

[allmiracles]

I know you would. That's just what happens.

[actualizedname]

Have Serah and Noel been talking to you? Because the stories they hear really aren't that true.

[allmiracles]

What about the one where everyone loves you?

[actualizedname]

That's an exaggeration. No-one is universally loved. I'll settle for competent at my job.

[allmiracles]

There's nothing between?

[actualizedname]

You can be liked for being good at your job.

[allmiracles]

It sounds like more than just that.

[shooing him up the ladder of the loft]

[actualizedname]

I'm very good at my job? I really can't explain it.

[allmiracles]

[looking like she knows a secret]

It could be, but I think you're good at letting people see the future that you want.

[actualizedname]

It's a future that's bigger than I am. That's why.

[allmiracles]

But that's what you show people. Some people can't see it, or it hurts to look at. They don't know that there's more, and then ...

It's like ...

You open a door that no one knows is there that they didn't see. If there isn't one, then you make one.

[actualizedname]

So I'm the door keeper?