This drabble was inspired by Daisuke. He's a Japanese foreign exchange student living with my boyfriend's family for the school year. I've come to see him as my older brother. On New Year's, he insisted on staying up to watch the sunrise, just as he always has with his family. …Which meant that he, my boyfriend, and one of my dearest friends had to stay up until 7:30 in the morning. It wasn't much fun for them.

…I also wanted to write something with little Roy in it, because he must have been one of the cutest kids ever. He's about… 3 or 4-years-old here.

…I'm not going to say much about this being the last drabble, because I really don't want to get emotional. So all I'm going to say is thanks for hanging in there with me. It really means a lot. If you want to continue supporting me, I would love it! There's plenty more FE fanfiction that's going to come out of me, and my goal is to have fun and fail to disappoint. ^^

Enjoy~.

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50-Future

(noun) time that is to come hereafter

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"Mommy, Mommy, look!" Roy pulled himself onto his parent's bed, pausing to pout before continuing his plea. "…Mommy, wake up!! Please, please, please, please, please!!!! Wake up Mommy, wake up!!" When that didn't work, he proceeded to jump around his mother.

Eliwood sighed as he walked into his bedroom. "Roy, Mommy has been very tired lately. Let her sleep, okay? …And don't run off again. It's too early for you to be making noise."

"But… but it's New Year's!!! Mommy can't sleep through the sunrise!!" Roy looked as if he were about to burst into tears at any moment.

"Mommy needs her sleep, alright?" Eliwood walked over to the bed and swiftly lifted his son into his arms, the small boy kicking and screaming the whole way as his father carried him out into his mother's flower garden.

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"Roy… ROY! Please, please, stop crying…" Eliwood was near tears now himself. The small boy screamed and wiped snot all over his pajamas and soaked his father's shirt with tears. …And nothing could make him stop.

"Roy, my child, it's okay." Ninian's soothing voice filled the air as she appeared from behind a cherry tree.

"MOMMY!!!!" The small boy wailed his final wail before running toward his mother, almost knocking the both of them over in the process.

Ninian smiled her warm, motherly smile, picked up her beloved son, and whispered soothing words to him as she sat herself down next to her husband.

"If he wants to wake me up, let him wake me up, Lord Eliwood." A sly smile slid across Ninian's face.

Eliwood's entire expression changed to one of horror. "You… you weren't awake, were you…?"

Ninian nestled closer to both Eliwood and Roy. "Don't think that you can hide anything from me." Roy began to squirm, so she let him go.

"…It's not that big of a deal, is it?"

"He's a child, Lord Eliwood. Everything is a big deal to him."

"Mommy, look! The symbol of the future, right?" Roy pointed to the rising sun, grinning from ear to ear.

"That's right, honey! …It's pretty, isn't it?"

"…Yeah!!" The small boy paused, lost in thought. Suddenly, he burst into speech once more. "When I grow up, I'm gonna be a great hero! I'm gonna slay the great, evil dragon with my sword and save the world!!"

Ninian chuckled a bit, even though the irony in her son's words pained her a little. "…Really? That sounds like a big goal."

"Yeah, but I can do it!! …What do want for the future, Mommy? Daddy?"

Ninian opened her mouth to speak, but Eliwood beat her to it. "To be with Mommy forever and ever." He kissed her. It was a long, gentle kiss.

Roy made a disgusted face. "Yuck! You grown-ups and your 'love' stuff…"

"Just watch the sunrise like you wanted to do so badly, Roy."

"GLADLY!!"

Roy never once looked at his parents for the rest of the morning, even though he knew that they never kissed again during that time.

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