Chapters 2 and 3 of AE are up, 500 words into chapter 4. XD;; Snippet! I haven't done those in a while.
“What do you mean, gone?” Lightning demanded, her pace speeding up rather than faltering. Gadot and Sazh would just have to catch up with her if they wanted to stay in a group, then, because she wasn’t slowing down for them. They were adults, they knew how to run.
“He was right there, we were talking to him, and then he stopped responding. And we couldn’t find him.” Snow explained, although his voice was terse. “Sis, listen. We’re looking for him, I swear we’re going to find him, so just- don’t take it out on Lebreau. Please. She’s flipping out over here with worry. It was my decision, I made the final call.”
Her teeth were grinding as she pushed herself to run faster, what the hell had happened over there? and keep her breaths steady at the same time. It was a far enough distance that she refused to be winded before she got there. “Snow. What. Happened.”
“We found Mosley’s location, but it’s under the city. With the power out, there’s no way to get in or out of the walkways, so we decided to search the shops for supplies.” His voice wavered a moment. “Hope made good points for splitting up. I agreed with him.”
Of course Hope would opt for splitting up. It was the same decision Lightning had made when they had reached Eden’s crash site. Splitting up made the search faster. So far, there had been no dangers on the dead Cocoon. He really was far too much like her, and Sazh was right: soon enough, he would be a soldier and Lightning wouldn’t be able to keep him away from danger.
So there's, like, 3 people reading the story, lawlawlawl. That's alright. I was just a little sad when someone revealed that they wouldn't continue because they wanted HopexLightning instead, because this is mostly gen, yeah? And I'm sure I can write that pairing if I had to, but I'm sorry to say I don't ship it. They're like... siblings, to me. Hope doesn't so much have a crush on her as he has this obsession with wanting to live up to her expectations.
But hey, for the shipper~
Oh, and guess what? Playing FFXIII-2? I managed to skip all the parts with my baby in it. /weeps I somehow went straight from 5AF to 300AF fhdskafdkas, DAMMIT SERAH. I KNOW YOU WANT TO SEE SNOW, BUT I WANNA SEE HOPE, ALRIGHTS.