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Something About You
A/N: Alternate events aboard the Palamecia.
He would bow his head, start to cry, and she'd sit beside him, hold his hand, wrap her arm around him, all the way through his ordeal. Even when he had been on the train, with no idea as to who she was, what she was, where she had come from.
From the start, Vanille's touch had been comforting, always welcome.
Especially now, what with his mother gone and his father taken somewhere far away.
But now, watching her worry about this Fang, blame herself for some unspoken mistake, Hope felt it his turn to return the favor. When she fell to her knees, struck by fear and panic and guilt, he sat down beside her and touched her arm, only to find himself singing the song that she had sang to him following his mother's death.
The same song his mother had introduced to him as a child.
Hearing it, it helped give him the hope that his mother had named him for. Maybe it would do the same for Vanille.