A Glance of Innocence
The heavy steps of boots hitting the cold tile ground echoed through the hall, the two people were each holding a file case both stamped with idiot on it in bright red ink. The halls were a empty only a few couple soldiers passed through, but in hurry to get to their own destinations. The Guardian Corps Base was on a high alert for there so called 'mishap', all other transferring soldiers were put on hold while others were out assisting in the front lines and others to missions on Gran Pulse. "So what has rained upon our sunshine this time?" Fang said as she held her lance in one hand instead of a guardian corps gun like Snow had. Snow and Fang ended up at office that read Lightning Farron captain of section 1. Fang opened the door to see Lightning yelling on the phone at whoevers poor soul. "Well, well, Lightning what has happened to the base?" Fang asked as Lightning slammed the phone into the wall.
"PSICOM is what's fucking happening!" Lighting yelled as she grabbed her gun blade and unsheathed it.
"PSICOM?" Snow questioned in disbelief as he rubbed his stubble.
"Yes, Jihl has ordered them to go to Gran Pulse and investigate my men's mission! That bitch has no right! The Guardian Corps have stronger in there ranks and combat against PSICOM. PSICOM is just used for the public here on Cocoon. Like the police now." Lightning spat as Fang lifted an eyebrow and Snow just shifted in his stance.
"I thought PSICOM was working along with the Cavalry, that's strange for Jihl to be making a push like this." Snow said as Lightning nodded in agreement and Fang just shook her head.
"You know you could just ask Sazh to talk to her since he leads air force division of PSICOM and Guardian Corps while the Cavalry acts as the beacon war ship." Fang said as Lightning slammed her fists on the table.
"You don't understand, Sazh and his team went to Gran Pulse and haven't returned that's the mission is to find Sazh's team on Gran Pulse. Originally we would have dealt with it, but Jihl has sent her PSICOM men to find Sazh." Lightning said as Fang scratched her head.
"Okay so, me and Snow what do we do?" Fang questioned as Lightning turned to stare at the both of them.
"Go to Gran Pulse and escort my men back her, I will not have PSICOM kill them. If you could, try to find Sazh before that bitch does, it'll look better on the Guardian Corps we don't need to give PSICOM another reason to rebel." Lightning said turning from them and looking out the window to Bodhum.
"Roger, we'll find Sazh." Fang said as she walked away from the room leaving Snow to talk with Lightning.
Earlier that day
"Snow were going to pay a visit to the Guardian Corps base, Lightning is in a desperate need for help and were going to help her take the stick out of her ass and beat her ever fucked with her, with it, got it." Fang smiled as she set the file down on Snow's desk that still rainy day. Snow grabbed the file and read the stamp on it that read [IDIOT], Snow grunted in annoyance at Lightning's harsh sarcasm. He opened the file to see the report which was a few papers covering the team that went missing they and also the Guardian Corps who will need to be escorted back since PSICOM would open fire on them or anything insight that is not apart of there mission.
"Lightning wants us to go, huh? Another face I haven't wanted to face in a long time." Snow sighed out as he layed back in his office roller chair, it creaked back. Fang walked over to Snow and crossed her arms.
"Come on Snow. This is Lightning were talking about, but I'd be a tensed because you haven't spoken to her since the divorce, I'm pretty sure Serah's told Lightning what happened and if not then shit, she's left you in another position only a hero can handle." Fang encouraged as Snow rubbed his eyes and pushed his hair back.
"I guess your right, well lets not keep her waiting." Snow said getting up from his desk and putting on his large coat as Fang pulled out an umbrella.
Present time
"Before you start, I know exactly what happened." Lightning said still having her back to Snow as Snow just sighed in relief.
"You deserved better, because Serah stopped loving you the way you loved her and she couldn't stand to see you unhappy. So she decided it best to get a divorce, she had to let you go." Lightning said as Snow's jaw tightened holding back his emotions.
"I risked my life to save her, I did everything in my power to save Serah and we did. I would do anything for her and all she did was try to love me back." Snow grunted threw clenched teeth as his fist tightened.
"She had to let you go for the sake of both you. Didn't you take her advice?" Lightning said as Snow stopped and his eyes widened remembering.
Snow you have to let go...you need to let me go...find someone who's going to love you...I can't love you the way that you love me...Snow...
"Serah I can't...it's so hard." Snow said as he closed his eyes as his eyes watered.
"Snow don't worry, Serah is happy. You should find someone to be happy with too." Lightning said putting her hand on his shoulder.
"I can't..."Snow trailed off as Lightning just closed her eyes.
"I still love Serah." Snow said as he looked into Lightning's eyes they were aquamarine blue, very beautiful.
"You have to forget and move on like she did. It was hard for her too." Lightning said as Snow kept his head down.
"We all have problems, Snow. It seems like your past is coming to haut you and it is slowly ruining who you are." Lightning said hugging him as he returned the hug from his sister.
Snow stood at the bar drinking, he had finished Lightings request to go and escort her men and later he and fang found Sazh and his team who were injured and quickly sent to a medical bay. Everything worked out, Fang had fun since she was back on her home planet, the air was clear and smell fresh, it was nothing like cocoon where there was either and explosion or pollution from the power.
Snow breathed out a heavy burden as he drank down his sorrows, what a hero he was?
"I've got a hand it to you for taking them down. There come a time where you'll wish they'd end it and made things easy." He remembered her steps clicking on the ice.
"Maybe I should've Fang." Snow said to himself as he drank his bottle and then paid for the tab and walked home.
...
"Looks like the storm is over we can all go and bathe in the warm sun." Fang cheered as she put one boot on her desk and her fist in the air and playful smirk on her face as she and Jon stood in the office.
"For real, man. I'm hitting Bodhum and picking up CHICKS!" Jon said smiling as he made squeezing motions with his hands where on his wrists were wristbands saying BOOBIES. Fang laughed and turned her attention back to her work as she drank some cool tea, she turned through paperwork and read over each of them putting her signature or either grading the tests. Fang noticed that Snow wasn't at work.
Snow stood crashed out at his messy apartment, he was on the couch asleep with a blanket covering his bare bottom and the rest was bare, and his apartment needed some seriously cleaning. A young girl fully clothed emerged out of his bedroom and looked to him and shook her head as she quietly made her way out of his pig pen, as she walked down the halls she ran into another woman taking note that she was very beautiful and her eyes had a lot of alluring sex appeal. She kept her head down just passing by in her small dress she wore the night before, Fang didn't pay any mind to the girl but when they passed she took in her strong scent that was Snow's and Fang instantly had an idea why Snow wasn't at work.
Snow awoke to hard knocking on his door he blinked a couple times and put a hand to his face as he shielded his blue eyes from the sun seeping in through his rectangle windows at the top of the wall. He got up off the couch only for the small throw blanket to silkily slip off and reveal his %$*# to the cold air. He grabbed the throw from the floor and tied around his waist as he couldn't find his clothes he was wearing from last night.
"I'm coming." Snow said under his breath as he squinted his eyes and his head throbbed from a massive hangover. He reached the door knob and opened it only for it to reveal a very alluring Fang who stood in front of him dressed in a dress that went to her mid thigh and she wore her boots (similar to Marceline collared blue dress in Adventure Time).
"So I see, you had a wild night." Fang said crossing her arms over her chest and letting herself in as Snow closed his eyes and shut the door.
"One-night stands don't suit you." Fang remarked as she took a seat at the bar stool in his kitchen. Snow tried to process what had happen the previous night only to remember and let out a frustrated sigh as he buried his face in his hands. Fang took notice that Snow seriously needed to clean up his apartment.
"Snow, you seriously need to clean this place up. I'm surprised that girl could even manage to have sex in such a garbage can, no offense, man." Fang said smiling as she grabbed a pill and dumbed it in a glass of water and set it next to Snow on his coffee table in front of him that was scattered with bills and mail from a long time ago.
"Thanks." Snow said watching the pill dissolve and drinking the water down, a nasty taste, but already kicking in and soothing his hangover.
"So how was it?" Fang asked as Snow paused and smirked awkwardly.
"Uh very drunk and blurry." Snow said as held his throw close to him.
"So...uh...are you gonna clean this place up or what?" Fang lifted an eyebrow as he laughed and searched for some clothes.
...
"There all clean!" Snow said as he smiled in triumph and looked around his living area that was combined with the kitchen his windows were cleaned and blinds open, his wood floor was mopped and sparkly, his kitchen dishes were cleaned, his trash was all sent down to the dumpster, mail assorted, his room cleaned and walkable, bathroom clean and shiny, and his couch thrown away so Fang stood in his bedroom looking through old photos.
"What are you looking at?" Snow said as he heard Fang's laughter as he walked into the bedroom where Fang stood criss-crossed on his bed, her boots off, as she held a picture she remembered very clearly. Snow climbed onto the bed to sit beside her on the fresh clean sheets and duvets, he blushed as he seen the picture.
"I remember that day, you thought it'd be fun to bathe in the springs alone since Sazh had gone off to find Chocobo and Hope with Lightning learning philosophy and Vanille with Sazh." Fang said holding the picture of her and Snow sitting together the same one he was looking at a week ago.
"Why were you looking in the first place? Can't a man get his privacy?" Snow said as he sat back against the head board taking off his black bandana and letting his hair fall loose.
"It's not the first time Snow. In Oerba there were men and I had to train alongside many of them, so yours isn't the first I've seen, plus you left me...disappointed." She smiled on that last part like if she was joking.
"Right, but my manhood happened to have been hidden from your prying eyes and the world leave the poor guy alone." Snow said as he looked through other photos of after there l'cie days.
"Still funny when I got your reaction." Fang said as Snow just face palmed and looked at the photos of him and the gang and then at the ones of him and Fang at Nautilis for a bro trip.
"Dude it was not funny. I was having a moment." Snow said chuckling as he remembered.
Flash back:
Fang stood with Lightning and Hope who were boring her with philosophy and Vanille had gone off with Sazh to find Chocobo and Snow had gone off to the spring where he was probably bathing, Fang assumed.
"Fang, Snow has been gone for awhile, will go and check and see if he's all right." Lightning said as she stopped talking with Hope and turned to Fang who was lying down on the grass staring up into the sky. She arose from the grass bed and looked to Lightning as she nodded her head to the request and walked off to the Springs of course fighting a few monsters along the way and then the entrance was in sight. She looked around and the spotting Snow in the water sitting down as he rubbed soap over him, Fang climbed up the cliff to get a better angle since she was bored. Snow stood up standing since he needed better access to his lower regions to wash off and there Fang watch and laughed loud and he heard her. Looking up to see her there perched atop the cliff laughing. Snow blushed and quickly covered his junk.
"What the fuck, Fang! I'm washing here!" Snow shouted as he threw the body scrubber at her, it missed.
5 minutes later
Lightning heard laughter and looked to see Fang and Snow walking back to the small camp, something had happened when she found Snow since Snow was blushing and Fang was laughing non stop.
"What happened?" Hope asked as he chuckled at seeing Fang on the grassy floor laughing and Snow hidden in his little cabin bed.
"Nothing happened." Snow said as he shut the curtain and blew out the candle in the small makeshift tent.
"Oh god." Fang said wiping tears from her eyes and later crawled in the tent with Snow since everyone else had there own little tent to share, nobody wanted to be bunked with him so Fang was left and didn't mind at all.
"Honestly it wasn't that funny." Snow whispered to Fang later that night as his back was facing her as they slept.
"For me it was. Don't be shy." Fang whispered back at him as he turned over to look at her and to be face with her smiling face. Snow brought out his hand from under the covers and put it to her face.
"Go to sleep." Snow said as Fang giggled quietly.
In the morning they took a picture sitting down on a bench rock still bickering about the other day.
End
"You know all these pictures you have is mainly of you and me." Fang said as she glanced at each photo.
"That's because were always around each other, I mean look at right now for example." Snow said looking at her light green eyes.
"Well if it weren't for me you'd be dead." Fang said looking into his light blue eyes. They stared at each other for awhile.
"Are we having a staring contest?" Snow questioned as Fang smirked.
"No because you blinked like five times already." Snow just laughed and rubbed Fang's hair making it all messy.
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