It was a starry night, the full moon reflected off the shores of New Bodhum brightly. A light hum could be heard as Hopes aircraft flew over his town. He grinned widely as his home came into view. He swooped down landing in front of his home. It's three a.m... He pondered whether he should go in and risk waking up his family or not. After a few minutes of going back and forth on his decision he decided he was too deseperate for sleep.

He approached the house's front door and entered his access code on the keypad, the door slid open with a light swishing noise. He stepped into the dark house walking softly on the tile flooring the living room was dimly lit by the moonlight reflecting off the ocean.

He stopped for a moment looking at the ocean feeling a massive amount of relief came over him as if he suddenly came to the realization he was home, he was safe and he accomplished his mission.

"Hope." A soft voice came from the corner of the room.

Hope spun around his heart beating fast as Lightning emerged from a corner in the room walking towards him.

"L..Light." Hope said just as he felt a blow to his cheek that sent put him on his butt. He looked up at her to see her death scowl.

"Don't you dare do anything that reckless again!" She scowled loudly enough to wake up the whole house, Sazh and Snow told me everything.

Hope looked to his side feeling a mix of embarrassment, sadness and hurt as he rubbed the slap mark on his cheek

"Hope." Lightning said. He looked up at her to see her offering her hand he took it and she helped him up.

He tried to step backward expecting another slap, but to his suprise she pulled him against her their lips meeting and she started kissing him passionately Hope's eyes shot open for a moment in shock but closed them returning her kiss their tongues exploring eachothers mouthes they could feel their hearts pounding against eachothers chest. After a good thirty seconds they pulled away from eachother.

Lightning smiled as she saw the bright blushing face of a speechless Hope. "I love you too, I have for years." Hope's face didn't change he looked blankly at her still processing what had just happened. She laughed, "Yeah they told me that part too." She smiled even more widely.

Hope shook his head. "Do you really?" He asked. She nodded still grinning something he almost never saw. He pulled her into him and kissed her but this time a lot more passionately as the shock passed.

Snow came running into the room in his boxers with his arms up in the air. "GOOOOOAAAAAALLLLL!." He screamed mocking a soccer referee as he ran up to Hope giving him a man-hug pulling him away from Lightning. Hope tried to pull back from the nearly naked man as he felt Snow put something in his hand.

"Snow, get off." Hope growled.

Snow pulled away from him "You did it dude, you won her heart!" he yelled obnoxiously. Hope facepalmed expecting Snow to get punched in the face any second but to his suprise he heard Lightning giggling (Something that he had never heard before.) he looked towards her to see her face in a wide grin, she seemed happy, she never really did, but he saw a genuine happiness on her face.

Hope looked at the thing that Snow put in his hand, Hope facepalmed again. "Snow..." He groaned through his free hand his other hand now holding a condom Snow had given him.

"Huh?" The blonde haired man asked.

Hope punched him in the face as hard as he could knocking him out. "Go back to the Jersey Shore." Hope mumbled.

Lightning laughed even harder. "Now, why would you punch him for giving you a condom?" She asked.

Hope laughed. He had never really seen Lightning like this before, She seemed so happy, relaxed and unserious. "I should probably tell you what happened shouldn't I?" Hope asked referring to what happened in Cocoon.

"Wait until morning." She told him leaning in to kiss him again putting her hand on his waste line. Her eyes widened as she felt something in his pocket. "Erm, what's that?" She asked.

"Oh..." Hope replied pulling out a yellow jelly-like substance from his pocket and placing it on the table. "I kinda met a new friend, who likes candy." The puddle rose up taking its normal flan shape. Hope pulled out a piece of candy giving it to the monster it grinned widely sucking it up with its mouth. "Can we keep him?" Hope asked.

Lightning giggled. "Fine, but only if you train it to attack Snow."

Hope nodded with a big grin across his face embracing the love of his life once again.

Hope opened his eyes looking up at the ceiling, he rolled onto his side to see Lightning on her side with her back turned to him. He wrapped his arm around her middle kissing the back of her head lightly then laying his head back into his pillow he closed his eyes intently listening to her soft breathing. She's so beautiful... He thought to himself.

Lightning rolled over. "Good morning." She said smiling. "Good morning beautiful." Hope said back giving her a kiss. She wrapped her arm around him burrowing her face into his chest closing her eyes sleepily.

"I love you Hope." She told him. Hope returned her gesture by kissing the top of her head and wrapping his arm around her. Lightning smiled to herself not being able to remember the last time she was this happy. She eventually fell back to sleep in his arms. Hope laid his head deep into his pillow and eventually drifting back into sleep.

The End?

Authors notes: I hope you guys liked it. :] this is my first time writing romance in a LONG time so I hope it wasn't too corny/bad. I have a poll on my profile to possibly add a fifth chapter, so if you wanna see that go vote. :D You can also vote against it.

I had to write this on notepad so please forgive any formatting issues.

Thank you for reading and continued support:]