I make it my job to find people, specifically to bring families back together. I lost my parents. I know what it's like to wake up and cry because you don't have a mother to comfort you from your nightmares or a father to make you breakfast. Since I know the pain of not having a mother or father I don't want anyone else to ever feel that.

I will go out and find the missing children that no one else is willing to look for, if a child has lost their parent and has nowhere to turn to I make it my business to find their parent for them-or else become their parent for them.

Aara

Aara could still remember her parents; her mother with angled, coal black eyes and long silky ebony hair and a father with light brown hair and clean shaven face. She inherited her father's hair it was such a light brown though that it could understandably be mistaken for a dark blonde, but her mother's coal black eyes-these traits were all she had left of her parents the only thing that she had to remember them.

Ever since she lost them she had been staying in the Midgar slums, it's not like she could afford somewhere better. In fact she preferred the slums because it meant her house was free of charge. Ever since Geostigma hit she found that there were increasing numbers of lost and orphaned children-and never being one to turn someone in trouble away she took in she took in every child with Geostigma she could find.

In her three storey house the third level had been converted into what the kids called the hospital wing- though Aara didn't necessarily explain it to the kids this way, she put all the Geostigma infected together for two reasons. Firstly for quarantine-she didn't want to be cruel and separate them but at the same time she couldn't risk infecting the others. She only allowed herself on the third floor. And secondly she did it for their comfort, to know there was someone else who knew what you were going through Aara was certain would bring the children comfort.

"Has anyone seen this boy?! Anyone!" Aara shouted from the street corner holding a large photo of the boy in hand it was the last of the posters she had been able to make. She had been walking up and down the streets. Depending on where she went searching some street corners were very familiar with her presence and many people were willing to be interviewed by her-some however, just found her annoying, "Come on, if this was your child wouldn't you want them to be found? If you were this child wouldn't you want to be found?" she pleaded with people passing by.

She had been at this for four hours and hadn't found much to her frustration, all she knew was where he was last seen, when he was last seen, his name and a list of people he knew. Suddenly Aara heard a scream from up the street and saw people moving quickly away from something-or someone.

She jogged up the street to see what was causing so much distress, it was a child with Geostigma collapsed in the street. He had collapsed face first into the dirt and was wheezing in his attempt to breathe.

"Isn't anyone going to help him?" she called out angrily as she elbowed her way through the people trying to get away from him. She managed to force her way through the throng of people fleeing or else staring at him in a mixture of disgust and horror.

She knelt down in front of him and rolled him over, "Hey are you okay?" she asked him softly brushing his hair back from his face, his skin felt hot under hand with a fever.

"Stay away I'm sick." He coughed.

"That's why I have to stay with you." She answered him and with that slung his arm over her shoulder pulling him up to his feet. He put all his weight onto her, too weak to stand on his own feet-she didn't mind she understood she had spent so much time next to people with Geostigma now she felt at times like she had it to.

She made her way to the crowd to push through, "Don't you dare infect me you-you freak." Someone snarled at her as she tried to push her way through.

She grit her teeth in anger not understanding how people could be so cruel to one another let alone a helpless child, "I'm not infected and if anyone around here is sick it's you for leaving this child to suffer." She growled in response and roughly pushed her way into the people.

There were yelps of terror and surprise and people instantly moved out of her way, she shifted the child's weight around and smirked happy that they made her life easier by moving out of her way. She walked with him like this for two blocks before he fainted, not sure if she could safely walk with him like that any longer she swept him up into the air carrying him princess style all the way back to her house.

Her walk was long but Aara didn't mind, all she cared about was getting him to a safe warm bed and getting food into his system. She came to a stop in front of her dilapidated house it's roof was actually sagging down on the right side and most of the windows had to be boarded up since the glass was broken.

Aara walking over to the door knocked on it with her foot, it was opened by Rin, one of the small girls she took in. She had met Rin two years ago and was unable to reunite the girl with her parents so Rin asked to stay with Aara. Her long chestnut brown hair was contained into to high pigtails.

"I'm going to take him up to the third floor and make some food for everyone, could I ask you to disinfect for me?" Aara asked the small girl.

Rin nodded, "Sure thing Aara." She chirped and dashed off to grab a mop. Since not much was known about Geostigma Aara treated it like any other illness keeping the sick separated from the healthy and constantly cleaning everything to prevent infection and for the sake of the sick. As she climbed up the stairs Rin followed behind with cleaner and mop in hand.

Aara finally managed to get to the third floor and open the door to the boys' room. Three of the children were bedridden and the others were else playing on the floor or sitting on the edge of the mattresses of their bedridden friends.

Aara sighed in relief because there was an unused mattress right next to the door. She collapsed to her knees placing the boy down on his new bed. He groaned and shifted and she gently pulled the sheets over him. She brushed the hair back from his face again, he was still running a fever and was sweating profusely.

"Auntie Aara who's this?" one of the boys asked jumping on her back and embracing her tightly.

She shook her head and ruffled the boy's hair, "I'm not sure he had already collapsed when I found him." She answered snatching him and putting the boy Sai in her lap. She smiled down on him with her evil grin and began to tickle him. He giggled and squirmed around in her lap laughing from being tickled.

"Stop it! Stop it!" he playfully cheered. Two of the bedridden boys sat up and laughed at the sight and a few of the other boys rushed over climbing onto Aara trying to win her attention as well.

She laughed in joy and slowly peeled the children off of herself, "Alright, alright guys I have to go now and make supper. Could I ask you all to keep an eye out on him for me? And get me once he wakes up."

"Yes ma'am!" Sai stated standing up and puffing his chest out.

She got to her feet and walked to the door of their room, "Be back soon." She chimed.

She walked over to the bathroom on the third floor which thankfully still had running water-though the water heater only worked about half the time if even that-usually they had to heat the water themselves. She scrubbed her arms clean afraid that she could spread a virus through the house.

She then dashed down stairs to the kitchen, "I finished moping the floors Auntie." Rin said as she padded into the kitchen the mop and cleaner still in hand.

"Thanks Rin." Aara said as she began to prep for dinner, just a simple soup for tonight it was the best she could manage with what little they had. Resources were being stretched thin, Aara had never had to take in so many children at once. But since Geostigma hit the number of children who she couldn't reunite with their families increased dramatically either because their parents had died or their parents abandoned them because they were sick.

Rin grabbed a stool and pulled herself up next to Aara insisting on helping, only seconds later was the kitchen flooded with children eager and excited to be of assistance. The children all adored Aara for her caring, motherly nature and her willingness to help them when no one else wanted to. Children flocked to her and loved playing with her and she loved nothing more than playing with them.

Dinner was made and she served all of the healthy children first. The dining room consisted of several dilapidated tables and chairs scavenged from the streets, abandoned houses or the dump, some of them pushed together creating clumps everywhere.

"Thank you for the meal!" the children called out in near perfect synchronization to Aara who smiled at them.

"Eat up!" she called back and then prepared the trays to carry soup up to the sick children. Just as she started up the stairs Sai was dashing down them. Despite the fact it was a short distance he was already winded from being sick.

"The boy… he's awake his name is Tomo." Sai panted.

Aara would have ruffled his hair if her hands were free but they were filed with the trays of soup, she settled for giving him a warm smile instead, "Thanks Sai. Now back upstairs it's time for dinner." He nodded and began to climb up the stairs slowly still exhausted from his dash.

Aara quickly felt the strength leave her arms as they slowly climbed up stairs she was getting exhausted but made herself hold onto the tray refusing to let it fall. When they finally got to the third floor she sighed in relief and trailed after Sai to his room.

She put the trays down by the doors and gave her arms a short rest before caring a bowl of soup to each of the children who obediently sat on their beds or sat up in their beds. The soup was soon passed around and Aara crouched down next to the new boy-Tomo.

"Hey, my name's Aara, I heard your name was Tomo." She greeted stretching her hand out to him, he looked at it and took it shaking it gently, "You collapsed in the street and I brought you here so you could get better. But if you need to get home, or if there's someone you need to get to I can take you there myself."

"Oh, thank you… but there's only me." He answered her.

She smiled at him, "That's alright, most everyone here only had themselves and now we have each other. If you want to you can stay with us, we look after each other here."

She saw his eyes shine and water as they widened and looked at her, he released a choked sob of relief and happiness and he stuck his arms out-willingly Aara embraced the small boy who cried into her shoulder.

"Thank you. Thank you." He cried into her clasping onto her desperately.

She rubbed reassuring circles on his back, "It's okay, it's okay I've got you. We won't ever let you suffer alone again." She let him cry for a few second longer before pulling away, "Now, crying isn't going to do anything but let your soup get cold and cold soup is no good soup. So eat up." She told him in a motherly manner passing him his bowl.

He accepted it gratefully and began to eat, Aara got to her feet brushing off her pant legs. She looked to the other boys in the room, "Can I ask you all to be nice to your new brother Tomo, show him the ropes and play with him?" she asked them.

"Yes Aara." They called back smiling up at her from their meals.

"Thank you." She replied and with that dashed down stairs to get soup for the other rooms. She returned a minute later much faster than her first trip up the stairs this time going to the girls' room. This one was admittedly more decorated then the last one. The girls had drawn on the walls various designs of flowers and horses and princesses, there was also a pink blanket albeit filled with holes because Aara had found it in the trash and brought it home spending hours scrubbing it clean, that was hanging on the wall as decoration. The girls had circled around in the center of the room cutting out paper designs they had told her they wanted to make paper decorations to decorate their room.

They glanced up at her, "Mommy!" shouted one of the youngest girls there, Clover who leapt up to her feet in excitement. She lovingly referred to Aara as her mommy no matter how many times Aara and the other children tried to correct her.

"Hey girls." She greeted, "I've got supper!" she chirped lifting up the trays, the girls smiled up at her excitedly and rushed around her for their dinner. The soup was soon passed about and the girls quieted down to eat.

Satisfied that everyone had been fed Aara made her way back down the kitchen washing her hands before sitting down to have a meal herself. Once she finished she walked into the kitchen to happily see that all the kids who had eaten in the dining room had put their dirtied dishes in the sink neatly. She made her way upstairs to collect the dirtied dished up there and brought them downstairs.

She washed everything by hand and then put all of the children to bed before going to bed herself.

Author's Rambling Space

So I know Geostigma isn't contagious and is the host infected with Jenova cells, but Aaara as an ordinary citizen wouldn't know that so she's treating it like it is. I also know the kids should be covered in sores and such but I just didn't want to add that in. Just so you know!