Lightning's Thoughts
On Sazh
Sazh was…an interesting man. Lighting watched as he bounced around, taunting the giant Cactai. She wondered whether or not to tell him how dangerous those monsters were. If he got himself in trouble, they could get him out of it.
"Sazh!" Snow came running up to the middle-aged man, a spark of worry in his voice. Lightning turned her attention away and started her way down the hill and back to the rest of the group, Snow would take care of it.
She was surprised how fond she had become of him. When she first met Sazh, well, in all honesty she didn't know why she let him tag along with her. Maybe it was because she needed someone, anyone to be a constant reminder to keep going. Maybe it was because she felt strangely comfortable with him. Either way, they had stuck together.
The silly man actually reminded her a bit of her father, even though she barely remembered him. She could remember how she loved playing with him, how he would always take her and Serah to the coolest places, but now when she thought of his warm smile, she saw Sazh instead. It had to be something like his, right?
"Light!" Hope ran over to her, holding something in his hands. "Look!"
"What is it?" Lightning asked. It looked just like a chunk of metal.
"I made a compass, so now we can chart where we're going at little easier." Light just stared at him. Realization hit him. "Oh, I made it by taking a carbon based metal - carbon is an element, it's in pretty much everything…" Lightning smiled and nodded, not completely understanding what he was saying.
"Alright, I got pops back," Snow called, hurrying down the hill with Sazh.
"Who are you calling pops, kid?" Sazh cuffed the lug of a man on the shoulder.
"Who are you calling a kid, old man!"
"Oh, you're in for it now!"
"All right," Fang called over, "break it up you two!"
Maybe…he was like a father to her. Maybe, he was like a father to all of them.
A/N: I didn't really know how to end that one... :/