After reading all of the Hope/light fic I can found, I have decided to write my own. I just have begin to play at the game (I just beat odin), so my characters must be a little OOC. But i have seen almost all of the cut-scene and the ending, so at last i know a little about the game. I will excuse myself for my bad English, but i'm a french writer. I hope you will enjoy this story non the less.

Chapter 1 : A new doctor

Bartolomew Estheim was worried for his son. Never since he was fourteen, his boy can have a normal life. He first had lost his beloved mother, then he had become a L'cie. Bartolomew had hoped that his son can have his life back after the crystallisation of Cocoon, but he wasn't lucky. He don't know how, but the name of the former L'cie were soon known by all of the people of the colonies. These people were afraid and they wanted a culprit for everything who had happen to them. The former L'cie were the perfect target. Hope had suffered a lot from this. As soon as his name was known for being a L'cie he had lost all of his friend. After that no one had wanted to talk to him anymore, nor even go too close to him. Hope had found some relief in his study. Bartolomew was angered with himself for not helping his son at this time, but his work was so important to him that he had failed to notice how his son was unhappy. He don't have failed to notice that Hope don't have any girlfriend. That's how he had found how Hope was lonely. Even his best friend Elira had turned her back to him when she had found out he was a L'cie.

The time had come for Hope to find a career. When he was younger, long before he become a L'cie, he had wished work in the politic, for helping his people. When he had lost his mother and begun his travel with his friends, his goal had changed. He had wished to become a soldier like Lightning. And he can have been if no one had said that he was a L'cie. Now, he don't know what to do. But it's not really true. During his travel, he was the best for the healing spell. He had found with it an other way to help the others. He wished he can be a doctor, but he know that there is a little chance to him to become one. Not that his grade were bad, they were excellent in fact, but because of his name. Who would willingly be teat by Dr Hope Estheim ? No one ! He is not blind, he had seen how the people treated him after they discovered that he once was a L'cie. They were afraid of him. He can't have come close to a girl before she run out as fast as she can in fear that he asked her to date him. Not that he had wanted to do so. His heart belong for one and only person, even if she had forget him. So, the only way for him to become a doctor is to become someone else than Hope Estheim.

Bartolomew was more than happy to help his son with his plan. He know that Hope was right to want to change his name. There is the only way for him to be able to live a fulfilling life. The example of Hope's friend was the proof of it. Lightning Farron had never become a member of the GC again. Sazh, Serah and Snow were the same. None of them can have found a job. For two years, they have tried to survive in the colonies, and they have barely. That's why they have decided to leave the colonies and go out on pulse to find a place were they can live. They have wanted Hope to come with them, but Bartolomew had refused. He don't have wanted to lost his son again, so he don't even say a word about the proposal to Hope. It was a mistake, because when Hope had finally found out that his friends were no longer on the colonies it had crushed his heart. Hope had believed that they had forget him, and Bartolomew can't have found the gut to tell him the truth. After that Hope had study even harder than before. His grade were so good that he had jumped two years ahead. But, with this Bartolomew had no difficulty to made a new identity to Hope. Eidan Hole was twenty when Hope Estheim was only eighteen. He was the son of a wealthy merchant and can afford the tuition for the study of doctor. And he had no link at all with the Estheim, father and son. Bartolomew is sad to have to give up his son for the time of his study, but there is no other way. Hope deserve all the happiness he can have, Bartolomew will made sure of it.

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Serah is a lot worried. She expected her first baby to be born in the coming days, and the new doctor is still not there. Sure there is a nurse with them, but it's not the same than having a real doctor. Serah don't have said a word to Snow about it, but her pregnancy was not an easy one, and it worried her. She know that she don't have fooled her sister, but she also know that light would not tell a word about it to anyone after promising her not to do so. Serah fell sad for her sister. More than any of them, Lightning had lost a lot of thing in her search to save her. If Serah was not this curious, she would never had become a L'cie, and Claire would not have to go to the Fal'cie to save her. Light had let all of her hope and wish go away in order to rescue her, and Serah feel guilty about it. Of course, Claire had nor said a word about it to her, but she remembered very well the days when Claire had said to her that she can't be a soldier anymore. But, Serah suspected that it was not the only reason for the sadness in her sister eyes. sazh, Serah and snow were sad about the decision of Hope's father, but Claire had take it harder than them. Serah knows that the boy had take a great place in her sister heart, not that she believe about something illegal, Claire is too proud for that, but Serah is not sure if the boy was a son, a pupil or something more to her sister. Hope was the only one Claire had let coming close to her, except for Serah, and she missed him very much.

Dr Eidan Hole is looking at his new dispensary. He was the youngest graduate doctor from the New cocoon university. He had graduate two years ago, and start to work just after that. He was very good at doing his job, and the people were stunned when he had said that he wanted to go to this small village so far away from the colonies to work. But there is nothing left in the colonies for him then after the death of his father. He had began to search for the former l'cie as soon as he had started to work. It had take him time but he finally had discovered that they have build their own place where they can live freely, with time others people have gone there and now it's a small, but active village. It was situated not too far away from the sea, in a very fertile place. Hope had wished he can go to them to know why they have leave him alone, but his father was ill and Hope can't have leave him like this. But now, there is nothing to stop him. Hope had sell-ed all of his father belonging, he don't plan to ever return to the colonies. With his work and the money he had inherit from his father, Hope is now a very wealthy man. And if his money can help the others then he thinks that it will be worth it.

When he entered the room, Dr hole saw a woman in the floor screaming in pain with blood on her. He don't take him two second to notice that the woman is pregnant and actually in labor. But something is very wrong, and the nurse who is with the woman seem to think so too. Without losing time, Dr Hole order the nurse to help him to carry the woman to the consulting room. The pregnant woman is in a lot of pain and she is trashing in the table. So the doctor had no other choice but sedate her. He made a Cesarean and deliver the baby quickly. It was a healthy boy and he give him to the nurse. After that he take care of the mother. Fortunately, it was not as bad as he had thinking first. But an operation is needed. It take him four hours to made all alright again, but he was happy. The woman was still alive and with a lot of rest and some time she can have other children in the future. That's only now that he really looked at his patients face, and his heart stopped for a minute. At first, he believed that it was Light, but after a close examination, he understand that the woman is no other than Serah, Light little sister. He can't help it but let a sigh of relief escape him. The nurse come again to help him to made a bed for the woman. Dr hole leave the two woman alone and go to his office. He looked at the couch and his tiredness hit him. Soon, he found himself deeply asleep on the couch.

Snow and lightning had go out the village to fight some nasty monster who wanted to come too close from their village. It had take them a whole day to find the monster, to destroy it and to return to the village. They both are starved and Snow invite Lightning to his house to eat with them. But when they entered the house the fear felt upon them. There, in the entry, there is blood. Snow and Lightning looked at each other with worry. Snow become hysterical, but Light keep her mind. She run to the neighbour ans asked them question about Serah. She learn that her sister had go to the dispensary. She tell Snow what she had learn and the two of them run to the dispensary. There, they found Serah and her son safe and asleep. Snow began to thank the nurse when she interrupt him by saying that it was not her who had saved Serah's life but the new doctor. Snow and Light go to the doctor's office to thank him. They found the man dead asleep, so Snow leave the room to go to Serah's side again. Light stay in the office to wait for the man to wake up. She study him, and found him very attractive with his silvery blond hairs and beard. This thought stunned her. Never before she had looked at a man and found him this handsome. She felt a strange guilt for thinking like this, and she don't know why. She made a faint sound and sit down at his desk. Eventually she too fall asleep. It was a gentle hand shaking her who wake up. The doctor was no longer asleep and he is looking at her with his stunning green eyes. The man is tall, even taller than snow, but not with his built. The more she looked at him, the more she is sure that she had meet him before, but she can't found when.

" Good day Claire." Said the smiling man.

And then it hit her. She can't believe her own eyes. it can't be him ! Since when had he become this tall, this handsome ? This is with a disbelieving voice that she asked.

" Hope ?"

To be continued.

I hope you have liked. I think this paring is great when they are both adult. As long as Hope is more than eighteen i have nothing against them being a couple. The difference of age don't matter very much. One of my friend had marry a woman who is ten years older than him, and they are very happy together, they also have a boy who is really cute. Don't forget to review and I will try to write the next chapter soon.