Derek has been in a lot of bad situations. This one easily makes the top five. Or would, if Dean and Sam Winchester were actually acting like the sadistic psychopaths he expected them to be.

Spoilers, second person POV, Hope. Implied Hope/Lightning. The problem with changing reality is that you're not sure how much has actually changed.

Pre-game. "There are some things you just do." Sometimes, Lightning felt as if she'd lived her entire life by those words. Of sisters and sacrifices and how, in that moment, in the beginning of that end, none of it was ultimately enough.

Life is in the little moments. [Squall. Yuffie. And sometimes things never change]

Set preCoM. Spoilers. Namine hears many stories before bedtime, each as different as the Organization member who tells them.