A/N: Just once again reminding you that this is a year after the Heartcatch series ended.

Cure Narrative 12: Thunder

Season: Heartcatch

Main Characters: Olivier, Baron Salamander

Summary: Who didn't cry on their parents' laps when it thundered?

Italics: thoughts

Bold+italics: flashback

(I think it's needless to say whose POV this is)

I look out of the window, it's raining cats and dogs. The thunder boomed, just like that night so long ago...

I was bawling my eyes out, after all, who hadn't been afraid of the sound of thunder as a child?

The Baron had told me to wait under a roof of a certain building while he tried to bargain with a jewel-selling hawker.

I remembered the promise we made the week before, so I had been a good boy and waited.

But who knew it would rain?

And rain wasn't the worst part, the thunder was. Each time the thunder struck, I cried louder and louder.

I cried like I always did. I hadn't known any better. I had always been alone, I never had had a shoulder to cry on when thunder rumbles. But this time, it had been different...

Baron Salamander: Come now, Loup-Garou, we're heading home, I don't want to get wet.

I had thrown myself at him (at his leg, technically, I was short.), and still bawling my eyes out.

Baron: Hey, hey, hey! I just said I don't want to get wet!

Me: (sob) But... (sob) thunder... (sob) scary!

Then, I felt a hand resting on my head, and I looked at the Baron, crouching down to my height.

Baron: It's just a sound, Loup-Garou.

Me: But still! (Sob)

Baron: (sigh) Man, you are such a handful...

He scooped me up with one arm, the other holding the umbrella. I stopped crying.

Baron: Good boys don't cry over something like that, Loup-Garou! Aren't you a good boy?

Hearing that, I immediately dried my tears.

Me: Yes! I am a good boy and I will not cry.

Baron: Good! 'Cause it's been a long day and I need some peace and quiet.

I could never understand the Baron's sarcasm then, I was just purely happy that I wasn't alone anymore.

Baron: Huh? You aren't eating? The dinner's getting cold, and I even went through the trouble of cooking it up. Aren't you hungry?

I look at the dish in front of me, it's always overcooked, but it's always delicious.

Me: I'm just thinking of something.

Baron: (smirk) Eh? Is it about Cure Blossom again?

Me: No! (Blush) Ugh! Never mind.

I'm sitting in a proper dinning room with proper furniture. True, everything has changed much in the last few years, especially in the last one year, but one thing never changed.

As the Baron keeps on blabbering something about me and Tsubomi, I went back into my own thoughts.

Our journey has brought me a treasure, well, not just one in fact, but...

Me: Father?

Baron: Yes?

Me: Thank you.

End of Chapter 12

A/N: Yeah I know Olivier is very mature right now, but I think every five-year-old acts like that.