An: I know I said this was completed but I couldn't help myself. These two are really the sweetest couple in the world. I hope you guys all enjoy!

Disclaimer: I don't own Final Fantasy. Not now, not ever.

1. Sacrifice

When money was scarce Vaan used to come home and lie about eating, giving her and the orphans most of the food.

2. Rain

Penelo tilts her head back to feel the droplets on her face; she loves dancing in the rain.

3. Loss

When her first brother died, she ran into her room, curled into a ball and cried all night.

4. Question

All he can manage is to nod in response when she asks him sweetly if her cooking's improved tonight.

5. Need

The night Reks leaves to enlist, Vaan falls asleep clutching Penelo's hands tighter than usual but she doesn't have the heart to pull away.

6. Mother

Her mother used to tell her to brush her hair and give it a hundred strokes to make it nice and shiny.

7. Brother

Vaan feels a tightening in his chest the first time he hears Kytes introduce him as his brother in front of his new friends.

8. Grains

Long ago, when their parents took them down to the Estersand beaches to play, Penelo and her brothers built sand castles and she would be their princess, and they, her knights.

9. Jail

He sits alone on the ground, trying desperately not to cry – because real men don't cry, his father always said- when he realizes that this time he might not be able to return to Penelo's side.

10. Haunt

The first time Vaan stabs a man, he recoils, eyes wide, as visions of his brother slumped over, bleeding on the palace floor, flashes painfully in his mind.

11. Luck

During their quest to save the world, every time they would stop at a shop, Vaan kicks up a fuss, insisting he and Penelo must always have matching armor and weaponry.

12. Interpret

Penelo groans then pushes Vaan away, hurrying after Fran. "Wait! What he meant to say was, you look very young!'

13. Jealousy

He has to keep repeating 'She's safe' to himself over and over as the last monster fell and tries not to get to jealous of Larsa healing her wounds, even though he knows Larsa will treat her just as well as he could.

14. Annoy

He smiles as she keeps swatting his fingers away as he slowly walks them up her arms while she's trying to concentrate on her reading

15. Swept

Vaan watches as she twirls, swinging hips and dainty footsteps, and smiles cause he knows she's putting in that extra sway just for him.

16. Fantasy

They never were the fairy tale couple but they count themselves just as lucky as the prince and princess who found one another.

17. Pulse

Due to a shortage of chocobos, they wind up sharing and when Vaan asks her why she's so tense, Penelo closes her eyes and leans back into his chest, smiling when she hears his heartbeat quicken.

18. Snow

Gasping, he whirls around to see Penelo standing behind him with a sly grin on her face. "Snowball fight!'

19. Advice

"Take it from me, Vaan." Balthier says, adjusting his collar. "Women like men who wear shirts."

20. Awe

Vaan's eyes grows wide as he shades them from the sun to glance up at the great green hulking leviathans. "Oh my god! Look, Penelo. Trees!"

21. Change

He doesn't know the exact point when this feeling between them turned from friendship to love.

22. Silly

Somehow, Penelo isn't sure they can ever they can ever say things like 'I love you' to one another without the other cracking up.

23. Usage

"Oi, I'm not your portable stove!" Vaan squawks, trying desperately to scramble away as the rest of the group closed in, swiping madly at his shin guards.

24. Dress

As they stroll down the streets of Archades, Vaan sidles closer and wraps a protective arm around Penelo's waist and wishes her clothes were a little less form fitting.

25. Preference

'What's wrong with putting Malboro butter, nature's most perfect neutral flavor, on my tuna sandwich?" Penelo asked in response to Vaan's look of sheer disgust.

26. Dumb

Despite Vaan's almost disturbing infatuation with the game, Penelo found 'Guess which hand?' to be the poster child for stupidity.

27. Superstition

They each had their quirks – Penelo always dances over the cracks on the street pavement and Vaan refuses to pick up any coin that faced tail's up.

28. Copy

Even though Vaan dislikes copying Balthier, he grudgingly admits toting around a lacy handkerchief has its own merits, especially when Penelo was sobbing into his shoulders.

29. Direction

She is his compass, without her he is lost.

30. Skin

As he watches Penelo twist and turn before the mirror, he silently congratulates himself for 'accidentally' putting a tear in her old clothes.

31. Wind

Because they want to challenge the skies and soar past the moon and stars, they name their first ship, Zephyr.

32. Fear

Every morning when he heads off towards the Aerodome for work, she can't bring herself to actually say goodbye.

33. Look

'Eyes on the road,' she snaps exasperatedly when she notices Vaan's gaze wandering slightly to his right again for the tenth time in the hour.

34. Glass

Sometimes, Penelo is sorely tempted to cast Silence on him and looking across the table at a drunk Vaan warbling 'yo ho, yo hoooo, a pirate's life for meeeeee' she mentally curses herself for letting Vaan order another drink.

35. Scared

'My turn to drive," she declares as she snatches the keys from his hands; when he loses the ensuing argument, he braces himself and clutches the armrests white-knuckle tight as she rockets the airship into the golden horizon.

36. Reason

Because her mother never bothered labeling her herbs and spices, neither does Penelo and as he watches her sprinkles another generous helping of seasoning onto dinner, Vaan hopes to the gods, its salt and not sugar.

37. Taste

He eyes the food with no small amount of trepidation, utters a small prayer then digs in - it was the thought that counts.

38. Fire

Vaan ducks swiftly as a book flies by his head and then tries to approach her cautiously, hands spread in silent apology for whatever he's done wrong this time.

39. Fever

'What did I catch from you?' she asks, eyes wide as his fingertips gently graze her forehead. 'Lovesickness.'

40. Vest

His body tingles against her cool touch and as he watches Penelo fumble with the clasp, he doesn't know whether to laugh or curse the damned piece of metal.

41. Six

He wants a big family; sometimes, he even secretly wonders what their children would look like –girls with his blue eyes and her delicate frame and freckles, or maybe boys with her smile and his long limbs - but he'd never tell her he's dreamed of them before.

42. Wait

He cracks one eye open, barely awake, and finds her happily staring at him from the other pillow.

43. Sing

Vaan smiles as he lazes comfortably in bed and hears a few lines from a song he's never heard of come drifting from the shower.

44. Cave

Angrily, Penelo surveys the carnage, the trampled wreck of scrap metal that was their airship, then twists and glares at Vaan. "Great, genius. Who uses a cave as a garage anyways?'

45. Prevention

If Penelo isn't right beside him, Vaan still can't pass by a fruit stall without trying to nick a starfruit. Old habits die hard.

46. Nostalgia

Even after they became sky pirates and hence can easily afford to splurge on small trinkets now and then, she is still loathe to remove the feathers in her hair because they were a gift from her father and she misses him dearly.

47. Facial Hair

'Don't you dare!" she barks, a frigid look stealing across her face the moment she saw Vaan lean into the mirror, fingering his chin.

48. King

He feels like the king of the world when she straddles his lap, her eyes, bright and mesmerizingly blue, moving closer and closer as she leans in to kiss him.

49. Physics

Vaan's sense of adventure eagerly sought out trouble and Penelo knew, inevitably, she'd be dragged along to wherever it wished to strike next.

50. Family

For him, home is wherever Penelo is.