Heres the next instalment hopes you like Written by Moi and the next instalment is what all of you have been waiting for... some fun between Snow and Hope so Chapter 11 will be for you. There will also be another couple for a little bonus as you haven't had a lot of pairings till now but until then hope you enjoy this one.

City of Dreams

"Not a lot of security here. For these people, the l'Cie panic must still seem like a world away. Oh, hey. Looks like they're putting Eidolons on Parade. It's starting soon. What do you say? Let's check it out?"

"Yeah sure" muttered Vanille wanting to see the group again, they had been separated for so long she wasn't sure if she could take much more.

The pair then turned to walk away when the tv in front of them switched itself on to show Light and co being caught before just as quickly going off again but not before Vanille saw Fang with the group making her walk to the now black tv and run her hand along the screen.

"It was her"

"Light and them will be fine, they escaped otherwise they would show the whole capture" explained Sazh "Now the parade awaits"

The pair made their way to the parade where discs began to fall all over the crowd and various little creatures seemed to float from them and soar back into the sky. A scene is then played between what was believed to have happened many years ago about pulse and cocoon and their summoners fighting it out with the Fal`cie eventually winning due to the aid of Valefor.

"Funny that the ones hunting us seem to be weaker than L`cie yet they won all those years ago huh?"

"I suppose" said Vanille trying to get off of the subject.

"Where to now?"

"You can choose" she said knowing that eventually she would have to leave and find Fang sure Sazh was welcome to come with her but she didn't feel that he would after all his son was around the city somewhere. "I insist"

"Ummm Oh i know a Nautilus Park date with the one and only me"

"Yeah but should we really be playing around?" asked the female frowning.

"Forget about that heavy stuff for a while and maybe it will fade away if not then we can sort it out later" he told her "Ok?"

"Okay" she said nodding slightly trying to sound that she believed him even though she knew for a fact that things wouldn't just go away in fact the longer she left things the worse she felt and the often got worse. She would have to come clean to Sazh soon about his son and what herself and Fang had done to me, that they were the ones who had made the small boy into a l`cie and sealed his fate.

"Vanille come on" called Sazh from a few feet away.

"So whats in this park anyway?" she asked after a few minutes of walking towards their destination.

"Well its an amusement park built by Sanctum, hah and us l`cie are going in bet they never thought of that did they?"

"Yeah, this place special?"

"Well i promised Dajh" explained Sazh as his thought tightened a little "I was going to bring him some day i just hope that at least i can tell him about it"

"Your get the chance"

"I suppose, well i know where he is so"

"Then what are you waiting for? You reckon i could come with?"

"Sure!" he said smiling a little "You got anyway out there?"

"Special like you have your son? No"

"That's kind of sad

"Yeah" she said slowly as a tear fell from her eyes at the thought of Fang.

"Im only kidding, i didn't mean to upset you" called the male as Vanille stormed off.

"Im fine thank you" she called yet was walking quicker as she went.

Petting Zoo

"Oh god the smell, I'm glad i don't work here, couldn't cope with that at all"

"It reminds me of home" said Vanille without thinking before she covered her mouth and took a quick inhale of air .

Luckily for her however the small bird that lived in Sazhs afro took that moment to fly off causing the male to chase ir and forget what Vanille even said. She smiled before running after the pair laughing as she went.

"At least he's having fun" she called.

The Chocobo chick suddenly appeared behind some older ones and flew towards the pair into his owners hands where he placed him back into the afro. Vanille caught up to them as the larger birds ran around them chasing various things that the pair couldn't exactly see.

"Always good to be among friends"

"Yeah fun times are doubled and your worries are far away"

"Nothing ever seems as scary when you have times to spend it with"

"Yeah" said the female with a grin "Your still number one of course"

"Haha thanks Vanille now when i see Dajh i can tell him all about this place, hes being held by the military"

"PSICOM?"

"Yeah seeing as hes a Cocoon l`cie they wanted to run tests to figure out his focus, there was nothing i could do about it which is why..." he began before breathing deeply and facing Vanille "Im going to hand myself in"

"No! They will execute you!"

"I know but im sure they will listen to a final request right? I want to talk to my son just one more time to tell him about everything I've seen"

"Wait you can't"

"I don't want you to worry you aren't a part of this, i will give you plently of time to run before i give myself in"

"That's not what i meant and you know it!"

"I'm sorry, i can't do this anymore I'm tired of running"

"But-you can't! What about Dajh? He's a l'Cie because of someone from Pulse!.You can't give up without getting revenge" she yelled at him knowing that this was her moment "I know who it is. I know whose responsible. For the accident. The accident at Euride"

"What?" shouted Sazh "Tell me"

He ran to Vanille until there was hardly any space between them and grabbed her shoulders, Vanille wiped her eyes before looking into the males opposite her. It was time for him to know the truth so Vanille was going to tell me straight about what had happened.

"The person who ruined your life and your sons was..." she began before a bullet shot past her and smashed into the side of a nearby wall. "What?"

"Soldiers run Vanille" yelled Sazh pulling out his weapons and standing in front of the female to protect her.

"No way" she shouted back as she extracted her staff from her holster which she held in her hands "Together"

The female swung her staff so that it extracted the familiar wires out of the end which wrapped around one of the soldier's waists so that she could throw him into the wall behind her. He hit it was a clunk while Sazh fused the bullets from his pistols with his fire magic causing the other males to be blown back and fire to separate between the two.

"Go!" yelled Vanille as she grabbed the males hand and ran off away from the flames and the soldiers who were trying to get through the fire.

The pair ran for what seemed like five or so minutes when another lot of soldiers crossed their path there was about six of them and one of them was a robotic type male. Vanille waved her hands in the air to form a ball of the gas with her magic which she then threw at the feet of one of the males, the blast threw him upwards where Sazh fired an array of shots to defeat him.

"Three left" yelled Sazh as the robotic solider ran at him swinging his arm into Sazh who was thrown backwards to the floor.

Vanille swung her rod which extracted the wires from it which whacked into one of the human attackers legs causing him to fall. The female then used her air magic in fusion with her arm making the air like a knife which sliced through the males chest who groaned as his eyes closed.

Sazh was back up but was now in trouble as the mechanical male was far stronger than him. He looked around for anything that could help but there was nothing around him whatsoever. He gulped and decided to fire a flame at him to slow the machine down as fire seemed to not actually hurt him. Vanille however appeared from nowhere to fire a rifle from one of the soldiers straight into its face at point blank range. The machine fell to the floor like a ton of bricks.

"Thanks"

"No problem" smiled Vanille.

Sazh then pushed the female to the floor and fired his pistols the last attacking figure that didn't even get half way towards them before he fell. Vanille sighed as she got to her feet and looked at Sazh, he seemed distant like he wanted to be somewhere else or with someone else.

"Sazh?"

"Yeah?"

"Are you ok?"

"Im fine just want to see my son that all"

Vanille was about to speak when a gigantic machine crossed their path causing them both to get ready to fight yet again. It took them a lot of magic, effort and will power to defeat the creature but once they had the pair felt stronger than ever almost like their powers had groaned.

A door opened from where the rubble of the machine lay and the males son ran out of it towards Sazh much to Vanilles shock. The male embraced Dajh before smiling at the male.

"Why are you here Dajh?"

"Because you promised Daddy!"

"But.. how did you get her son?" he asked quickly.

To the pairs horror Dajh suddenly turned to crystal causing Sazh to kneel at the boy's side as a few tears fell from his face. A female walked towards them with various soldiers behind her the pair where now trapped.

"Your sons focus was to capture undesirables and serve Cocoon in the process. You should be proud of him"

Vanille looked at the female and remembered her from back at the power plant and she knew by the females stare that she remembered her too. She then saw a disk in her hand which she threw at Sazh.

"Dajh was a great help. He could sense power of Pulse origin. That let us monitor you. Words can't express our gratitude The data he proved on enemy l'Cie , and speaking of gratitude We enhanced the surveillance footage from the energy plant. Those are the Pulse l'Cie behind what happened. The picture's a little grainy, but I'm sure you recognized. You've spent so much too together." said the female Jihl.

"Vanille?" muttered Sazh as he saw the clip of the plant.

"Yes. That young lady's terrorist assault at the Euride Gorge is the reason Dajh was made a l'Cie. Ironic, isn't it? The very girl you're protecting is the one who stole your son" laughed Jihl.

The female looked at him and nodded slowly before tears fell from her eyes and hit the cold floor where she then turned and ran through the door that Dajh had come through moments earlier. Jihls soldiers went to follow her but the female grinned and stopped them before she addressed Sazh.

"You want us to finish her or would you prefer to Sazh?"

Sazh got to his feet and without another word he ran after Vanille causing Jihl to laugh as he saw the male pull out his pistols. She then looked at her soldiers who were waiting for her orders.

The rooftops

Sazh ran onto the roof of the building where he found Vanille with her back to him crying her heart and soul out. The male would of felt sorry for her if it wasn't for the fact that she had caused him so much pain and that she had cause his own self to be turned into crystal.

"Vanille" yelled Sazh as he finally caught up with her.

He pulled out one of his pistols and aimed it towards Vanille who shut her eyes for a split second before standing up onto her feet. She turned to face the male that she had been travelling with for so long.

"My name is Oerba Dia Vanille and I'm a l`cie of Gran Pulse and to everyone on Cocoon evil" she told him with a frown as she raised her arms beside her "Shoot me for your son"

"Don't you even" growled Sazh as he waved the gun around making Vanille jump backwards slightly "You think you die and everything will be sugar and rainbows?"

The female shook her head as Sazh shouted louder and louder making her cry even more, she didn't know what she had to do or say to make the event ok, maybe there was nothing that she could do.

"Then what can i do?" she pleaded back to him as bigger tears dropped to the cold floor "What do you want from me? If i can't live or die then what do you want me to do?"

"Don't ask me, you figure it out" muttered the male clutching his chest tightly as he began to feel like it was burning.

"I don't know i don't know" she yelled dropping her weapon to the floor which hit the ground with a slight bang.

"That makes two of us" he told her as he lowered his weapon to its holster before turning away from the female and falling to the floor "It's over, there isn't anything to do, shooting you won't help yet neither will living"

His brand suddenly reacted as a red glow came from the male causing a blast to erupt propelling Vanille backwards and onto the floor with a scream. Sazh then yelled as flames surrounded him and shot upwards into the sky to form a sphere shaped ball full of flames. The ball suddenly exploded causing an eidolon to fall to the floor in front of Sazh who looked at the figure with no fear in his eyes.

"Do your worst you freak!" yelled the male trying to get the flamed creature to kill him as he couldn't think of a way out of what had happened to his son "Come on!"

Suddenly to his surprise Vanille appeared in front of Sazh with her hands out stretched protecting him although she was still crying. The female figure built of flames just laughed and began to walk towards the pair yet Vanille didn't move.

"Move Vanille it's finished" yelled Sazh.

"It's not over" she yelled still protecting the male.

He was shocked that Vanille would risk her life for him after what was said yet maybe she was truly sorry. Sazh took a split second decision and got to his feet where he fired his pistols at the figure walking past Vanille who wiped away her tears as she picked up her rod, ready to fight. Sazh lowered his weapons and looked the flamed female in the eyes where she yelled at the pair.

"You want me?" he asked with a smirk "Come and get me"

Bryhilde, the female eidolon ran at the pair with her weapon held firmly within the female's hands. She then launched herself upwards before crashing down in front of the pair who quickly moved out of the way. Sazh fired a various amount of bullets towards the summon who screamed in fury as it swung her weapon knocking the male into the throne that was behind the group.

Vanille screamed after him before wrapping her wires around Bryhilde and her weapon which she detached from her hand in a quick motion. She then tried an air spell at the creature yet instead of helping it caused more damage and the flames around the eidolon began to erupt around it even setting the floor on fire.

"Sazh" yelled Vanille as she backed away from the other female.

The male rolled across the floor shooting as he went before grabbing Vanille and running back behind the throne. Bryhilde took this chance to pick up her weapon again which she then used to throw herself to the throne. She swung her weapon which destroyed the back of the throne making the rubble fall upon the pair of l`cie underneath her.

Vanille screamed again yet swung her rod upwards to deflect the flames attack while Sazh moved from the rubble and threw a piece of it at the creature who yelled in agony as she fell to the floor. Sazh saw that the rubble turned to water when it touched Bryhilde for some strange reason which neither him or Vanille, he guessed from her expression, could understand.

However the pair soon picked up the rest of the rubble and threw parts towards the flamed female who forced herself upwards and blasted the pair with fire shaped like a wheel, this attack destroyed all of the rubble and threw the pair backwards making them lose their weapons.

Sazh could only watch as his summon walked closer with her weapon held high ready to strike. She swung but was thrown to the floor by a burst of water, Sazh turned around and saw Vanille laugh.

"We might have our own type of magic like I do with air and you with fire yet that boost earlier i think we can now perform any magic although it will be a lower standard then the original l`cie controlling it.

"Then let's do this" said Sazh turning towards his female summon.

The pair threw their hands forwards sending bursts of water at Bryhilde who screamed in pain. Vanille grabbed her rod on the way and threw the pistol back to their owner who caught them. Sazh nodded thanks as he turned the weapons on a fallen and weak eidolon.

"You have to finish this Sazh make her yours" exclaimed Vanille with a slight frown.

Sazh threw a couple of water spells at the figure before aiming his weapons and firing them dead into the chest of the enemy who yelled out before she suddenly began to growl at the pair causing Vanille to walk a bit closer out of curiosity. Bryhilde began to fold up as armour sprouted along with four wheels and a cage type shape, within seconds she was race car which Sazh got into smiling as he put his thumbs up before the flames disappeared back into the male.

Vanille looked at the male and began to walk back before she opened up her arms and closed her arms, Sazh had pointed his guns at the female again, he was just inches away and could see the female's chest going in and out at an incredible speed, she was scared.

"Lots of things can be forgotten or excused but shooting kids isn't one" said Sazh and he lowered the guns away from the female.

Vanille fell to the floor and took a deep breath as tears begin to fall yet again, she was still alive and it was thanks to Sazh he had almost forgiven her for what she had done and the female was eternally grateful. She was happy until she opened her eyes properly and saw that Sazh, to her horror, had a pistol pointed at his head.

"No Sazh" she muttered slowly.

Sazh threw his pistol back into its holster before falling to the floor and sat opposite Vanille still not looking at her in the eye. Vanille knew that it wasn't right to smile so she didn't yet she was extremely happy that the male hadn't gone through with killing himself.

"Why can't i do it?" he yelled to no one "I have no reason to keep living. I cant even kill you"

"Oh Sazh" cried Vanille getting to her feet and walking closer to the male in order to comfort him.

Suddenly a group of men surrounded the pair with their rifles aimed at them causing Vanille to gasp at them. They pulled Vanille and Sazh from each other and forced them on their knees although the pair struggled to get free. Then they both looked up as their focus was drawn towards the female now walking onto the same floor as them.

"You should be proud. Your son's a hero. The boy who saved Cocoon, We'll erect a memorial in Eden and put his crystal on display." said Nabaat.

"He's a little boy" yelled Sazh as he struggled to get free.

"As the son of a Pulse l'Cie, he would have lived in shame and misery. Isn't it better he be treated with reverence as a monument to sacrifice?" asked the female with a cruel laugh "mm"

Vanille hung her head, she knew that it was her fault and there was nothing she could do about it. Sazh however was overcome with anger and the male struggled with all his might to get free while yelling at the sky making Nabaat smile before lifting her sword against his neck and he one swift strike he was knocked out.

"The next time your eyes open will be your last" she told him as she walked away with Vanille yelling after her "Oh and be careful with them, every tool has its uses"

The soldiers pulled Vanille to her feet and dragged her towards the ship below while Sazh was put into a white coffin type bed which was used to take him to the ship. Nabaat followed them on laughing.

"This will be great news broadcast for your little friends to come running then it will be their turn to die"

Vanille turned towards her with her mouth opened and her face full of shock, if they came to rescue them then they were dead but maybe if the group were together and now that they had Fang too and Albion then maybe, just maybe they could get out of that place. She smiled causing Nabaat to frown and followed Sazh to their holding cell where she should wait for him to wake.