Hope

Disclaimer: I do not own any FFXIII characters. Trust me if I did I wouldn't besitting her writing sappy fanfiction in front of a crappy desktop computer

OK cliche as it sounds this is yaoi Snow Villiers/Hope Esthiem. With the twist of a zombie apocolypse. Yup as I said, I'm cliche. Also I made Hope 16 instead of 14 because well it's my story and damnit I want too. Snow is still 21 though.

Halloween. Wonderful time of year in Hope's opinion, tons of candy, get to dress up and see how many people will recognize you, good times. Hope was preparing his costume for the party he was invited to by his very bubbly and energetic friend Vanille. She always seemed to want to bring him to every little event she found out about about, said he was always to into his books and needed to see sunlight.

So he decided that since she says he doesn't see enough sunlight he would go with it, he was going to be a vampire. He had found an awesome set of fangs online that he could temporarily glue to his eye teeth so he could still drink and such if need be, Vanille had made his cape and had helped him find an old victorian style suit. He was in the process of doing his makeup when he heard his mother call from downstairs. "Hope honey, come down stairs. I need your help before you leave tonight."

"Be right there mom." He answered back as he sat up from where he had his face just a little to close to the bathroom mirror. He looked at himself for a minute. "You know, I look pretty good with eye liner." He quipped as he turned to leave the room.

He made his way downstairs in time to see his baby sister running around the living room trying her hardest to fly in her new fairy costume. He laughed as she clung to his leg. "HOPE!" She cried. "Throw me in the air, I wanna fly. Mom won't help me." She pouted up to him with big emerald eyes, crocodile tears already welling up in the corners.

"Ah, the big bad mom won't let you fly huh?" He asked her as he grabbed her waist and swung her up in the air, listening to her squeel in delight as he swung her around.

"Last I checked I was a mummy, not the big bad mom Hope." Nora grinned from her seat in the living room. "I see you found my makeup." She said, standing up to check his work. "Pretty handy with the eyeliner, who have you been getting lessons from huh?" She asked with a little giggle.

"I watched you do your makeup all the time growing up mom." He replied as he made his way to the kitchen to grab a drink. "What did you need?" He asked as he filled a glass with water.

"I have to run your dad his lunch at work real quick so I need you to watch Kailee for a little bit for me before you leave." She stated as she grabbed a lunch bag out of the refridgerator. "Your dad has once again forgotten his own food, he packs it then leaves it sitting on the counter when he leaves. Every morning, it never fails."

"It's because he knows you will bring it to him, and then he can see you at lunch and ask you to stay and eat with him. Same routine as always, as you said, never fails." Hope said with a smile. His dad almost lost him family because he was to absorbed in his work. The day he realized that, was the day he decided to change his ways and started having lunch with his mom again, and dinner with his family almost every night again. "I don't have to leave for a few hours, so it's fine. Go enjoy lunch with dad."

His mother smiled as she turned to grab her car keys. "Kiona is outside." She said as she picked them up. "I just put her out to go to the bathroom, so she should be ready to come back in shortly."

"All right mom. Have fun." Hope waved her off as he walked to the back glass sliding door. He opened it and gave a slight whistle. "Kiona, here girl." He called as he watched Kiona, a solid black and white pitbull came running up to the door. "Good girl." He said, scratching behind her ears. His mom got Kiona for him his first year of highschool, she says she did it to teach him more resposibility. But he knows she did it because she was sick and tired of hearing him beg for a dog.

Ding Dong.

He heard the front doorbell ring and listened as he heard kids giggling on the other side. "Coming." He hollered as he helping Kailee pick up the big bowl of candy. He went over and opened the door, looking at three kids standing on their front porch, who he assumed to be their mother standing behind them currently scloding one of them for pushing his brother out of the way to get to the door first.

"Trick or Treat." Two fo them exclaimed, holding their bag up with big smiles.

"Well look at all of you." He said, helping his little sister grab candy and fill their bags. "Frankenstein, a pirate, and I'm guessing Iron Man?" He said to the littel boy that walked away from his mother. "Here you go." He said as he dropped candy in the last bag. "Enjoy."

"Thank you." They all chorused as they turned to move onto his neighbors house. He watched as some teenagers were walking up the road, talking amongst themselves as another teen dressed as a zombie ran up behind them, pretending to attack them. Causing the girls of the group to scream and run around like crazy. He laughed as they all stopped and starting laughing at eachother. His sister laughing at the sight.

Then he saw something that wasn't right. Another person was walking towards them, dressed up as a rocker. A dead rocker from the looks of it. She had blood all over her clothes, neck, and face. Something was really off about her. She was acting like a better zombie then the guy before had. The group didn't seem to notice her at all as she walked towards them.

"Hi Hope." He was startled from his gazing as Vanille jumped into his line of sight. "Ah, did I scare you?" She asked, twirling around. She was dressed up as a princess, a very pink, and very frilly princess.

"You're bright." He said, as he moved to the side to let her in. "Kailee will definately love your costume." He said, turning to look for the girl again. She was still walking towards the group of teens, very slowly. "God, she looks creepy." He said, still watching.

"Who?" Vanille asked, moving to see where he was looking. "Eeewww." She said, looking at the rocker girl. "She went seriously overboard with the blood."

"I know. Looks like she going to try and scare those guys." He said, pointing back at the teens who were still completely oblivious. "And I think she is going to succeed."

"Oh hey look, its Julia." One of the girls said, pointing in the rocker girls direction. "I thought she said she was staying home tonight?" She said, looking at one of the guys in the group.

"Yeah, she said she wasn't feeling very good after school today." He said turning around. "Jules, are you feeling better?"

Julie just stared at them as she kept walking towards them, never waving, never replying. "Wow, Julie has gone all out this year for halloween." One said. "She looks seriously creepy and gross. She even got those milky contacts to cover her eyes. She plays a very good dead girl."

"Jules. What's wrong." The guy said again, walking towards her. He grabbed her shoulders, shaking her to snap her out of her funk.

"Hope." He was scared out of people watching again, this time by his little sister. "I'm hungry."

He looked down at her. "I will get you..." He was abruptly cut off by a loud scream, looking back up in time to see 'Julie' literally tearing the guys face off with her teeth. He fell to the ground and started flopping around. "OH MY GOD. Kailee get inside. NOW!" He said as he pushed his sister inside and slammed the door shut. He continued to watch from the peep hole of their door as hte guy who fell down kept flopping like a fish out of water all over the ground, only to stop dead still in the middle of the road. He watched as people ran around screaming, trying to get their children to safety just as the guy stood back up and started looking around before stalking towards a girl hiding by a bush across the street.

"Cliff." She cried, standing up from her hiding spot. "Cliff, are you ok?" She didn't get the chance to say anything else as he dove for her and started tearing at her throat and chest. He screaming in agony before falling to the ground in a flopping bloody heap.

"Oh my god, Hope what do we do?" He heard Vanille ask, looking at her as she watched through the window. "Should we call the police?"

He looked around, looking at her to around the room trying to find his sister. "Where's Kailee?" He asked, moving towards the couch.

"I put her in her room and turned on 'My Little Ponies'. I didn't want her to see this." She said, looking scared out of her mind. "What do we do Hope? What do we do!?"

"I don't know Vanille." He said, pulling out his cell phone and dialing a number. "Mom?" He said, sounding worried. "Mom are you there?"

"Hope? Is everything ok? You sound worried." Her voice said on the other line.

"Mom there is something wrong." He cried into his phone. "There are people attacking and killing people outside!"

"What! Are you inside? Are you safe? Where is your sister, is she ok? I'll be home soon, I'll bring your dad with me!" He heard her sound muffled while talking to who he guessed was his dad. "Call the police and stay inside. Don't go anywhere!"

He heard a click as she ended their call. "Hope?" Vanille asked, looking worried. "Are you all right?"

"Please tell me you're joking asking that." He bit out as he dialed 911 on his phone. "Yes, we have an emergency. Yes there are... Hello, hello are you there?" He stared dumbly at his phone as he heard nothing but faint screams. "What the hell is going on?" He asked himself as he hit the end button. "There is something very wrong here."

End chapter one. So what do you think? Be honest, first fic i've done in almost 8 years. So I know I'm rusty. R&R everyone.