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.]

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[actualizedname]

Then let me help you next time.

[allmiracles]

[stops in front of her door]

...

[actualizedname]

[pulls out a crystal from his pocket in the shape of a star]

That's why I have this. To protect the ones I love.

[allmiracles]

[holds open her hands]

[actualizedname]

[gives her his spare hand. Alexander stays with him!!!]

[allmiracles]

[takes it. her expression and her shoulders fall, and she pulls him gently through the door.]

Come on.

[actualizedname]

You are important, Vanille.

[allmiracles]

You are, too. Stay here?

[actualizedname]

All right.

[allmiracles]

[well, she looks happy. or relieved, maybe. it's a little hard to tell.]

Good.

[actualizedname]

I am sorry I scared you.

[allmiracles]

[purses her lips, sliding off her bracelets]

You really scared me! If you say something like that again, I'll be really mad.

[actualizedname]

[gestures at the chair]

May I?

[allmiracles]

You don't have to ask.

[actualizedname]

It's your chair.

[sits down. It's like the lone concession he has made]

I'll do my best to not scare you like that in the future.

[allmiracles]

Do you still think those things?

[actualizedname]

Which things?

[allmiracles]

[quietly]

About being assassinated.

[actualizedname]

It's been tried.

[allmiracles]

[turns her head]

...

Why?

[actualizedname]

At first, it was because I was a l'Cie. The only one left. The most public. In time, that faded. But it's something you don't forget thinking about, hiding something like that in case the person you meet lost someone in the Purge and wants someone to blame.

It's funny. In the future where I came from, before I came here, they don't even know about the Purge. They've read about it, but they don't know about it.

[allmiracles]

Mm, the world just wouldn't change for the better in that way, would it? There were still people who were hurt ... and a lot of people who had to leave their homes because of what happened ...

[actualizedname]

Things are better. People are less afraid.

[allmiracles]

And that's one of the reasons we were fighting, right? We were l'Cie, but we were people, too.

[actualizedname]

A little boy told me, when I woke up in the future the first time, that he wanted to go another planet by the time he was my age. We hadn't dreamed of leaving Cocoon, when I was a child and he now dreams of the stars.

It was worth it.