Author´s note: First of all, let me thank you for giving my fanfiction a try. I hope you will enjoy it.

I am currently rewriting this story. So I´m going to post the rewritten chapter as they come.

To make things clear from the beginning, I want to let you know that this story is completely AU. It features characters as well as places and story fragments from FFVII and FFXIII carelessly tossed together and bent to accomodate my story. Characters may behave differently, events might take place in unchronological order and may be altered example in my story Sephiroth is the only one with the jenova gene. Genesis and Angeal are only mako enhanced like all the other soldier members, no alien genes. Just so you don´t get confused.

Please note that I am completely aware of my story not fitting the events or circumstances of neither of these games and I ask you to try and resist the urge to write tons of reviews telling me how things were supposed to be or how I got it all wrong.^^

Now that´s said: I won´t give away much about the plot at this point. I´ll tell you that much though: It is mainly set in the world of FFVII with some FFXIII elements before the events of crisis core when everything is still „alright", but will feature parts of the FFVII storyline later and ignores most of the events of both games.

My fanfiction features Lightning (who is determined to join SOLDIER in order to provide a good life for her sister Serah), all of our favourite SOLDIER heros and some other characters from both games will appear too.

As already announced in the description this story will be romance/drama with Lightning x Sephiroth as main pairing.

Last but not least I´d like to inform you, that I am NOT native english. So please take this little fact into account before you start flaming about my disrespect of language or whatever. Let me assure you, I love this language and I am writing here because I want to improve my language skills... so if you find some grammar mistakes – as I am sure you will – don´t be angry with me...if they annoy you just tell me and I´ll do my best to correct them.

I really appreciate constructive feedback, but I won´t change story parts or characters.

(I don´t own anything... blabla)

Rated M for reasons.

And now on with the story.


THANK YOU FOR READING. I HOPE YOU´LL ENJOY.