[IC - update post]

[actualizedname]

 [Earlier this morning a tiny teenaged boy went out to explore ruins in camp.

Some time later, said tiny teenager reappears at the outskirts of camp, eleven inches taller, thirteen years older and very confused.]

Somehow, I think I'm lost.

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[allmiracles]

Hope...

How long has it been?

[actualizedname]

It's been five hundred years since you saved Cocoon.

[allmiracles]

You're not that old.

[allmiracles]

...Ah...

You mean...

[allmiracles]

You were in crystal stasis?

[getting closer, looking a little fussed]

You didn't become a l'Cie again, did you?

[actualizedname]

No! No, I'm not a l'Cie. I created a time capsule to travel to the future.

[allmiracles]

[okay I am the most confused]

Time capsules?

[actualizedname]

It's my way of travelling to the future. Inside it, time slows down while it passes normally around me. When I wake up, I'm in the future.

[allmiracles]

Why would you make something like that?

[actualizedname]

To protect the future, one where you, Fang, Lightning, Snow, Serah, Noel, Sazh and his boy ... everyone is safe.

[allmiracles]

...



[small voice]

Oh, Hope...

[allmiracles]

[suddenly really big hugs]

[actualizedname]

[dfghduj;]

[allmiracles]

[shut up and like it]

[actualizedname]

[yes ma'am.]

You haven't really smiled yet. It's the thing I missed most about you, the way you smiled.

[allmiracles]

Fang and I wanted to make a future where everyone is safe.

You, too.

[actualizedname]

I'm going to be there, in that future. We're going to get that future, I promise you. Your sacrifice was not in vain.

[allmiracles]

I didn't want you to have to put yourself in that position again.

[actualizedname]

I put myself there. I knew what I was doing, and I chose it, because that future is worth fighting for.

[allmiracles]

[...

closes her eyes and breathes, and then there's a small gasp that accompanies a quiet sob.]

[actualizedname]

Back in Oerba you said we were all family. What sort of family would we be if we left you on your own?

[allmiracles]

When you have family, you want them to live happily no matter what.

[actualizedname]

That's why I'm doing this. One day we'll all be alive, happy and smiling, with you with us.

[allmiracles]

[sorry not gonna let go]

What happened?

[actualizedname]

Time was distorted after we came back from crystal stasis and Lightning disappeared, then Snow, and Serah and Sazh. Someone was trying to change time, and we have to change it back to how it should be.