In case you haven't noticed, I'm a big Snow/Serah fan. Lightning is another of my favorites and I'm attempting to get her to realize how detached she has become to life faster than the game did. Please review and let me know what you think of the story. Thank You to everyone reading... Don't forget to review...

Snow knew he loved her from the very start; she was everything he ever wanted in a woman. Her beauty dazzled him and her warm personality drew him in like a magnet. He had never felt this close to any of the other women he had dated in the past.

One night, as they walked on the beach, Serah paused by the water and gazed over it, remarking how beautiful it was. She bent down and put her hand in the water, swirling it with her fingers, and then splashed Snow. "Hey, you!" he hollered, as Serah was laughing and took off running down the beach.

He ran after her, loudly saying "Come back here!" He caught up to her and embraced her by her waist, lifting her up and off her feet. She threw her arms around his neck and hugged him tightly, still laughing at her escapades.

Snow whispered in her ear "Serah Farron, I love you." It was the first time he told her of his true feelings and felt vulnerable to reaction he may receive. "Oh, Snow" Serah softy said "I love you, too!" as she turned her head slightly and kissed him on the neck.

He put her back on her feet, then sat himself down on the sand. He reached his hand out to Serah and gently pulled her down to sit in his lap. They embraced each other and passionately kissed on the softly lit beach, as Snow thought "You're the best thing that's ever happened to me."

As days turned into weeks, Serah and Snow spent as much time together as possible, as their relationship deepened even further. Serah had done a pretty good job keeping her sister at bay, feeding her small bits of information so she would accept the fact that Serah even had a boyfriend.

Serah had explained the whole situation to Snow, so he understood why she couldn't introduce him to her sister, at least until she had gotten her conditioned to the idea. Lightning had managed to wrangle the name of Serah's new boyfriend out of Serah, but Lightning had not recognized the name – but that would change sooner than Serah would have liked it to.

Amador, Lightning's commanding officer, knew all about Serah and Snow's relationship, knowing it wasn't going to pretty when the Lieutenant found out who Serah's boyfriend really was. Lightning was black and white, right or wrong – nothing in middle – and NORA was wrong in her mind, period.

Amador was close to Lightning and Serah, as he had met Lightning when she first joined the GC and mentored her through her training, later becoming her commanding officer. Serah had come to know him as a good friend and he was quite kind to her, listening to her problems when there was no one else she could talk to while she was growing up. She had come to trust his advice, especially about Lightning.

Like most people in Bodhum, Amador liked Snow and the NORA members. In his view, they were not of the malleolus kind, only tring to help people out where they could. The fact that NORA didn't like, or trust, the Sanctum or PSICOM, reflected his own feelings, but he would have to follow their orders if they claimed jurisdiction over the GC – NORA did not.

Lightning's regiment was on patrol again outside the city, as reports of increasing monster activity had been reported. She was anticipating the encounter, hoping to hone her fighting skills as they hadn't had an engagement with monsters for a couple of weeks. The regiment was split up into smaller groups to cover more ground and was supposed to meet up again in a glade up ahead.

Seems the GC wasn't the only ones hunting monsters that day, as Lightning's group arrived at the glade, it was littered with dead monsters. Amador was there with his group of soldiers and Sergeant Brea was there with his group, and there was NORA again. Lightning was immediately furious seeing NORA there, and started asking what had happened of the other troop members.

"We were ambushed" said one GC soldiers from Brea's group, "They came from every direction, all at once – we tried to regroup and attack, but we were left on the defensive. That's when the NORA guys showed up and gave us edge we needed to go into an attack position. We were able to start taking them down with their help. Amador gave us the reinforcements we needed and down they all went".

Then she heard one of NORA members shout "Hey, who are the HERO'S?" while raising his fist in the air and the rest of them responded, shouting "We are, monsters are no match for NORA!" She narrowed her eyes onto the one that had shouted, then asked one of the GC men, "Who is that?" The response she received made her entire body quiver with anger and her blood boil – "Oh, that's Snow Villiers – he's the leader – he's an OK guy."

"That's Serah's boyfriend? – leader of NORA! – thinks he's a Hero?" as she ran it through her head. "I don't think so – this is going to end now!" she murmured under her breath. Lightning pulled her weapon and approached the group and started yelling at them "You're going to get yourselves killed or somebody else killed by your interference!"

"Hey" Snow retorted, "You're the one we got out of tight spot about a month ago, as I recall."

"I was perfectly fine – I didn't need or want your help" she yelled back. "Besides", he shouted raising his fist in the air, "Hero's never die!" The NORA group rallied at that, all raising their fists in the air and yelling "Ya! Hero's never die!"

Amador stepped in realizing Lightning was at her boiling point "Lieutenant, let it go. We don't have any casualties here and I don't want any after the fact."

Lightning narrowed her eyes on Snow and made one more statement "Stay AWAY from my sister!"

Snow grinned at her and, clasping his hands behind his head, retorted back "So your Lightning Farron – yep, I see the resemblance now. I think it should be up to Serah who she sees – don't you?"

Without another word, Lightning sneered at him, sheathed her blade, and turned on her heels to rejoin her regiment; rage was running hotly through her veins, as she wanted put an end to him right then and there. "What was Serah thinking, hanging out with this bunch?"

Snow relayed the story to Serah of the encounter when he met up with her later that day. "Oh, dear!" she sadly said, as tears started forming in her eyes "It's not going to be a pleasant evening tonight, she's going to kill me."

"I'll go with you Serah, you don't have to face her alone" Snow told her, holding her close to him "I'll protect you".

Serah looked up at Snow and declared "No, I need to face her tonight by myself, besides it will only make her even more upset if you are there, and I have to start standing up to her. I have to make her realize this is my life and I need to live it on my terms, not hers." Snow didn't like the idea, but agreed to Serah's wishes.

Lightning and Serah had a long heated argument that night over Serah's new boyfriend. Lightning was in a rage, yelling that she didn't want Serah associating with NORA, and that Snow was not good enough for her sister. Serah stood her ground for once, reminding her sister that she was of age and could make her own choices – right or wrong – and that Snow was very good to her, protected her, and cared for her, and she wasn't going to stop seeing him.

"I love Snow" Serah said in tears, "and I love you too, you're my sister. Don't try to make me chose between you, because I can't. I want you both in my life." Lightning hated seeing Serah cry. She started to calm herself and tried to calm Serah by saying "Alright, you win, but if he does anything to you, or gets you into trouble – I swear, I WILL kill him!"

"I'd really like it if I could bring him over to meet you properly, you know, so you could get to know him better and he could get to know you better" Serah responded, tears still in her eyes. "Not yet, Serah" Lightning said sternly, "I'm not THAT OK with this yet." The thought of meeting him on peaceable terms irked her. Serah but had won this battle, but had not won the war, yet.

Today, Snow and Serah were going to the movies to see one of their favorite action-adventure heros in his new release. The theater was in town, so they left early to get the best seats. They had gotten down town a little earlier than what they had anticipated, so they walked through city and wandered in and out of the shops looking at all the new merchandise, just killing some time.

Serah had spotted a man's necklace with an emblem of a cat on it and, since the cat was the symbol NORA had adopted, she thought that would be perfect for her 'Hero'. She purchased it when Snow wasn't watching and tucked it away in her purse. Little did she know that when she was purchasing the necklace, Snow was in another part of the store purchasing cat earrings that he had spotted for Serah, since Serah was also now a member of NORA.

The wide sidewalk had a decorative metal railing that rose up about four feet and curved outward, toward the sidewalk, at the top. Metal hand rails rose up from behind the decorative railing, another couple feet. It made a perfect place to sit, and Snow picked Serah up by her waist and sat her on the decorative railing.

Snow leaned into her with his back facing the sidewalk and, with the additional height of the railing on which Serah was sitting, they were face to face with each other. They were in their own little world, talking, touching each other's face, smiling and laughing. The noise of the bustling little town did not reach their ears, they only heard each other. They were totally oblivious to the outside world around them.

Lightning's regiment was on guard duty this week for the city. She hated guard duty and felt it was a waste of her talent, but every team in the GC had to rotate to pull guard duty. Everyone was assigned sections of the city to patrol with the primary purpose of keeping the peace. She wandered the sidewalks watching for any sign of trouble, bored senseless.

That's when she spotted Snow and Serah, anger rose up inside her immediately at the sight of them so close together, and Snow touching Serah's face. She started to go for her weapon, when a large muscular arm was thrust in front of her and grabbed onto the handrail, blocking her advancement. It was Amador, her commanding officer.

"Now Lieutenant" he started saying "you weren't thinking of causing a ruckus were you?"

Lightning stared at him for a moment and responded "No, sir" as she saluted.

"At ease, Lightning, I'm speaking to you as your friend now" he continued "Look at those two over there," as he lowered his arm, bringing Snow and Serah into her view again, "They're in their own little fantasy world right now, everything is magical and wonderful – that is until the big, bad evil sister comes roaring in and destroys their magical kingdom." Lightning looked at Amador with a confused look on her face, then back at the couple again.

"I've been in that magical kingdom myself, a couple of times, and it's a wonderful feeling" he continued "and you don't want anything or anyone destroying it. Tell me Lightning, is that what you want Serah to remember of you, destroying her Utopia?"

Lightning looked back at Amador and said "No, I don't. It's just he's not good enough for her."

Amador laughed and said "Is any man good enough for her in your eyes?"

Lightning stared at the couple for a moment and responded, "No, I see your point."

"Snow's a good man, and would never hurt Serah." he explained. "Hell, she's probably safer with him than a squad of the GC guarding her" Amador chuckled. "Lightning, let the relationship go where it's going to go…it may end and it may not, but if you break it up, she will always blame you."

Lightning was silent, still staring at the couple and pondering Amador's words.

"Now, if Serah was seeing that guy over there," he gestured towards a scruffy, stocky built man coming out of one of the shops, "I'd give you permission to kick his ass and make up an excuse to put him in lock down for a long time."

Lightning smirked, she knew who he was – all the GC knew who he was. A small time hoodlum and troublemaker, Tai Kane and with him was five of his worthless thug buddies.

Amador was immediately on his communicator, not liking what he saw, alerting others patrolling the vicinity of Tai's location.

"Lieutenant," he told Lightning "I need you to keep an eye on him, but don't make a move on him until I tell you to. We need something good enough that will keep him in lock down for a significant amount of time. He's up to something; he usually doesn't travel with this much company."

Snow and Serah decided it was time to get to the theater, so Snow had just set her back down on her feet, when he heard a voice directly behind him shout "Villiers – I've been looking for you!"

Snow knew that voice, he looked down at Serah and said softly, "stay behind me and don't let him see you, when I turn towards the sidewalk, step back into the crowd", Serah nodded that she understood.

Amador signaled to Lightning to hold her position, while he called in reinforcements. Lightning watched, as Snow slowly turned to Tai, moving to his side to position himself with his back facing the traffic of the sidewalk. Serah followed his every move and stepped directly back into the flow of traffic and disappeared into the crowd. Snow, knowing Serah was safe, now confronted Tai Kane.

"Come for another beat down, Huh?" Snow shouted, punching his fist together. Tai sneered, narrowing his eyes on Snow and declared loudly, " I brought some friends with me this time tough guy, and we're taking you down!"

Snow yelled back, "Bring it on!" as he positioned himself in his fighting stance.

All five of Tai buddies started for Snow, and as quickly as they came at him, Snow landed his fists into them, sending them to the pavement in a crumpled heap, bleeding from the blows. Screams of alarm could be heard from people, as everyone scrambled to get out of the way of the commotion that had just occurred.

A couple of the thugs tried to grab onto Snow, to hold him, but they soon found out that was a mistake as he punched them both, sending them crashing into the buildings. The other three thugs got up and tried again, but Snow sent them flying to the pavement again. None of them were a match for him. Now it was just him and Tai.

"You sure you want to try me again?" Snow mocked, still in his fighting stance. Tai pulled a knife and waved it at Snow shouting "This will even the odds, you son-of-a !" A loud gasp could be heard from the crowd, that had gathered on both sides of sidewalk, at the sight of the knife and everyone moved back as far as they could get.

At that, Amador gave Lightning the signal to move in. She ran in, did a mid-air flip, kicking the knife from Tai's hand and positioned her blade directly at Tai's throat, calmly saying, "Don't move or die, your choice."

He froze in place knowing that blade could take his head off in one single blow. He glared at Lightning, but she glared back with an icy stare, narrowing her eyes on the scum in front of her, causing him to cast his eyes away from her and down to ground.

Tai's buddies, bleeding profusely from their encounter with Snow, were already being arrested by the reinforcements Amador had called in. "Assault with a deadly weapon to start with" Amador was saying to the soldiers arresting Tai Kane. Other soldiers were dispersing the crowd and trying to establish order again.

Amador turned to Snow and asked what the beef was. "I had to throw him out of NORA House one night and told him never to come back – he was picking fights and trying to tear the place up, guess he wanted to get even" Snow responded with his hands resting behind head.

Amador left with the prisoners and Lightning quickly turned her blade on Snow. Snow threw his hands up and hollered "Hey, I'm innocent!"

She narrowed her eyes at Snow and said, "You take care of her, if you ever hurt her, you'll answer to me."

"I LOVE Serah, I would NEVER hurt her, and I would NEVER let any harm come to her, NEVER!," Snow snapped loudly back at Lightning. Lightning sheathed her blade and said "You better not" and walked away to continue on her guard duties.

Serah had witnessed the whole event and came rushing to Snow. He picked her up and swung her around giving her a big kiss.

"Snow, I was so scared for you!" Serah said, with fear in her voice, "but you were so awesome!"

Snow grinned at her and whispered in her ear, "Hey, I told you the Hero always wins!"

She smiled back at him and said, "You truly are my Hero! and you know what? - Lights accepted you!"

"Really?" he said, "Could'a fooled me!"

"She didn't tell you to stay away, she didn't kill you, you're not bleeding, and you still have all your body parts!" Serah happily exclaimed.

Lightning had turned to watch the reunion of the two and watched them dash into the theater, hand in hand. "I still don't like him, but Serah is so happy - if he ever hurts her – I WILL kill him, very slowly" she thought, as she turned and continued on her rounds, still pondering the words that Amador had spoken to her.