A/N: In the Paying it Forward universe, Caius and Celes react to what they deem the 'Best News of the Century' when Fang gets told that the brunette will become the new head of the Clans of Oerba. Why are Caius and Celes happy with the news, and another set of news from Lasswell? Pairing focus: Fangrai (married), Sebusai (married), Celes/Locke (married) & Lasswell/Citra (newly dating)
Best News of the Century According to Caius and Celes
Locke is trying his best to not literally roll on the floor laughing his arse off at the view he currently has: his wife, Celes Cole, doing a bizarre dance with their mate/friend Caius Ballad, over what the trio deem to be the best news of the century that is tied to one Fang Yun-Farron. Locke tried... and failed. Spectacularly. Everyone and their mothers know that Celes has two left feet when it comes to dancing (which her singing more than makes up for that). And out of all people, Seven Yun-Farron, plus Sice, made sure to capture the shenanigans so that the Fangrai couple get the laugh of their lives. Fang will make sure that she won't let Locke and Celes hear the end of it in their own way - and by that, recreate what happened. Lightning is one who, unlike Fang, simply doesn't give a shit even if her life depended on it. The older Farron sister is a 'live and let live' type of person, especially after marrying Fang all those years ago. Mama is about to find out that she will be leading the Clans of Oerba, which will have everyone moving in the future. I hope Lassbrat will be okay with this... Seven wonders to herself, knowing that her younger brother just graduated from high school at the top of his class a semester early, at the beginning of the year, and just started his university studies, but being the Big Sis that she is, the silver haired lass couldn't help but worry about Lasswell. Despite his growth spurt that makes him taller than her, Seven is still older than Lasswell. Big Sis Problems, according to Sice.
It didn't take long for the outrageous dancing to stop... and Locke is still literally rolling on the floor, laughing his arse off, taking him nearly forever to finally stop laughing, all the while Sice did one action the entire time: shake her head full of white hair. The Sebusai couple, who have been married for a few years at this point and just wrapped up their training as Agito Cadets in Rubrum, while waiting for who knows how long for their assignment, which could be short term, long term... or permanent. Knowing that there is an Agito base just outside Oerba, the Sebusai couple know that they have a good shot of landing at least a long-term assignment there, on Gran Pulse. Sice is sure that Lucien and Enya will put in a good word for the pair, as a means to ease the anxiety of Worrywart Seven (Celes' nickname for Seven). Caius would put in a great word for them too. Speaking of Caius, he and Celes, post outrageous dance, make a call to one Lightning Yun-Farron about one other item: the pinkette's prep for retirement from the Guardian Corps, as the older Farron sister has put in enough years of service to retire, as Lasswell has news for his family although he is on a summer holiday break from university in Grandshelt at the moment, and is slated to return to Grandshelt towards the end of September. What no one knows is that Lasswell has a girlfriend... that he's scared shitless to introduce to his family, especially when one's parents are Fang and Lightning Yun-Farron.
This set of news will be interesting to say the least.
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Lightning's conversation about her pending retirement from the GC, and the news about Fang slated to become the new head of the Clans of Oerba, was quite a lot to take in, but knowing that the older Farron sister has put in the time with GC, and her faith that the GC will be great hands (Hope and Snow), Lightning knew that everything in her life and world will be okay. The kids are grown up and out of the house, Lucien and Enya are as healthy as they could be at the moment, and the pinkette no longer has to literally bust her arse to get paid now that she can retire! I can't wait to be in bikinis every single day with Snaggletooth... the older Farron sister mused to herself in amusement, knowing that one key topic Fang has ever talked about was the Fangrai couple being in bikinis 24/7 when they move to Oerba. The only reason why Lightning refused to say this out loud was because of Serah Villiers. The younger Farron would not let Lightning hear the end of it if those thoughts were made public. In the meantime, the pinkette was getting the house ready for Lasswell, so as to spare at least the Yun-Farron kids from a Hurricane Lightning Cleaning Spree, which Fang went through for far more times than the combined number of fingers and toes of each human member of the Yun-Farron family.
It was about 45 minutes later that all four humans of the Yun-Farron family arrived home, as there is more than one set of news the family is in need to hear, as some things are known, but not all. One of the most important thing for the family is that when it comes to key information, everyone had to know, no matter how good or bad the set of news turns out to be in the end of it all. Lightning felt this way because there would be at least one person for support if needed, and Fang felt the same way with the reasoning, which is yet another reason why Fang fell in love with Lightning all those years ago. Once everyone was where they were supposed to be seated, it was, of all people, Caius and Celes, who started the news (Locke was in a guest room taking a nap from all the laughter from earlier in the day). Caius and Celes took turns to explain everything that is related to the Clans of Oerba, which Fang was the only one with any amount of knowledge about it (outside of Vanille, of course). It was important to note here that either Fang or Vanille would be the next one to lead those clans, with Fang being the one who anticipated Vanille being named the next head of the Clans of Oerba for varying reason.
When Caius made the announcement that it would be Fang who will be the next head of the Clans of Oerba, everyone was shocked, knowing that the brunette lacks Vanille's intelligence. It was Celes who revealed the reason why: Claire 'Lightning' Yun-Farron. Lightning made enough of a positive impact on Oerba, with everything that Lucien, Enya & Fang have taught her over the years, Lightning's approach to resolving problems helped shape Fang to be a better person in the present time. Fang and Lightning together leading the clans would be more than enough to make Gran Pulse THE place to be for every human. Caius also noted that Lightning isn't the first Cocoonian to help lead the Clans of Oerba, and she also won't be the last. After a quiet hug between the Yun-Family members, the quiet hug being one of gratitude, it was Lasswell who had another set of news to share: he has a girlfriend who he is in a relationship with. He pulled out a recent photo of a lass known as Citra, one whose looks rivals that of Seven in a way, but unlike Seven, Citra has pink hair, just like both Lightning and Serah. The first thing that came out of Seven's mouth was any social media that Citra has, because the silver haired lass wanted to get to know her future sister-in-law, and according to Fang, Seven has the best judgment of character in the family.
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It was some months later that Citra, now reunited with her boyfriend Lasswell, saw a friend request on her social media that had an unique username of BigSisSeven, and upon finding out that the user of said account is none other than Seven Yun-Farron, Lasswell's older sister, Citra immediately accepted the request. Citra was shocked that Lassbrat's older sister, of all people, wanted to be buddies with her.
Best decision Citra ever made by accepting Seven's buddy request.
FIN
A/N #2: Next story is in the Second Time Around universe, and it's Take Two of In Her Honour (who this will involve is a surprise).
