Again a very short chapter. I'm very sorry about it, but it can't be helped. This is shot chapters or wait a whole month before I can update. Thanks to my reviewer for your kind reviews.
Chapter 11 : soldier
Commander Amodar can't believe his own eyes. He was so sure that the girl was Lightning Farron. It's impossible that the girl is someone else. He had known Farron for too long to be fooled by her. In a way he had known her better than her own sister had. The girl was so sad when she had first go to the training facility. At this time she was only fourteen years old, but even back then Amodar had seen something special in her. A sort of inner Light that no one else had. He had known that one day she will do something important to Cocoon. Of course, he don't have expected for her to become a L'cie and destroyed the Fal'cie. But he was sure that her future would be one of the brightest.
That's why he was so worried about her when she had woke up from her crystal stasis. She was no longer the Lightning he had known and loved. It was normal considering what she had gone through. He had hoped that with time she will become herself again. But the contrary had happen. Lightning had lost most of her anger during her fight as a L'cie, which was a good thing, but she also had become more secretive too. More than once, Amodar had tried to make her talk about her problem. But, like expected he can't have found anything. The girl was a grave when she wanted to.
And one day she had disappeared without a word. Which was very unusual for her. The girl was everything but a deserter. He can't have explained what had happen to her. And it had worried him a lot. Even if he don't have said it out loud, Lightning was the daughter he never had. And now that he had some explanation, he can't believed it. How can have Farron regressed from a few years without anyone noticed it ? And what is this story about her being Serah and Snow's daughter. He can't understand why the two of them have accepted to play this act. Or is this something else he is not aware of ?
He really don't know what to do. In a hand he know that this Belle Villier is in fact Lightning Farron, her reaction to his words had proved it, but on the other hand he had no proof of it. The pictures taking during Lightning's time as a GC soldier were destroyed with Cocoon. And seeing how the girl had reacted when he had confronted her with the truth, he was certain that she will not help him to convince her new family about her true identity. In a way he can understand it. He was sure that Lightning don't have her whole heart into her job after she had come back, but he was also aware that she had nothing else to look for after. Maybe it will be for the best if he let the things go the way they are now, but he needed some answer. And even if it means destroying her new life, the commander can't let her go without knowing why she had done what she had done.
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Belle feel more happy after she had talked with Hope. They have spend their time at thinking about what to do with about this man. It don't have take too long for Hope to understand who this man is. There were not a lot of people who have known Light before the fall of Cocoon, and most of them, as soldiers, where killed during their time as L'cie. So it don't take to be a genius to know that the man must be the commander Amodar. Which was a bad news for them. If Amodar had found the truth, no one can know how he will react. But Hope don't wanted to worry Belle too much, so he hided his worry. But as soon as she had returned home he go to visit the commander.
Hope was very aware that he was followed, and this fact made him smile. He don't have believed for one second that he had fooled her, like she don't have fooled him when she had said she was tired and wanted to return home. In a way he was very happy that she was willing to come with him to confront Amodar, but he was also worried about the commander saying too much. It looked like Belle was not aware that she once was Lightning, and Hope don't wanted for to find it out like this. Belle had changed a lot since their journey to Obera, but she don't have become like Light anymore, and he found himself liking her the way she is now.
Hope was so lost in his thought that he don't see the man who come to him with a knife at hand. Fortunately for him Belle had saw him, and she reacted by instinct. She run to the man and broke his arm with one move. She don't know when she had learned to react this fast, but she was glad to be able to do it. The man was on the floor wailing in pain, but Belle don't take a look at him. She focused herself on Hope and his shocked face. She don't know if he wanted to yell at her or hug her. She don't know what to do and she felt a great relief when she heard him thanking her. She smiled at him, but her smile faded when she heart the soldier coming their way. She don't wanted to stay there and give explanation for things she don't understand herself. Hope understand it. He take her hand in his and they both ran far away from the voice of the soldiers.
When they finally stopped to run they found themselves in a park. They both looked at each other and both laughed like mad. Never before they have acted like this, and it give them some sens of freedom to be able to do it. Hope was always more mature for his age, and in a way Belle was too. But they both are still adolescent, and it felt nice to be able to act like one of them for once. They seated on the grass and they talked about everything who come to their mind. The commander Amodar was so far away from their mind now, that it take for Hope to be almost asleep in his bed to remember that he had planed to visit the commander this day. But it was not very important, for now the commander don't had done something wrong and with hope he will kept his idea to him until he found a way to prevent him from destroying Light new life.
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Serah was furious. How the commander dared to make such a joke ? Serah can understand that the commander missed her sister as a soldier. Because that's what she was, a very good soldier. But it was not a reason for Amodar to have Belle. There is no way for her beloved daughter to become a soldier ! Serah would fight the idea with all of her being. She had seen what the GC had done to Claire and there is no way for her only child to suffer like this. And what is it to say that Belle was Lightning ? Of course her daughter looked so much like her aunt that some people would thought that Belle was in a way Claire. But her daughter only had the same face than her aunt. Her personality was so different that anyone who know Belle can't see in her anyone else But belle herself. The commander must be tired and he had see what he wanted to see when he had meet their daughter. There will be no other reason.
Like his wife, Snow was angry with the commander. Long ago he had thought that the commander was a great man, because he had let them fight. Snow was very grateful at him to let them fight as NORA, but there is some line who would not be crossed, even for a good man like him. Belle is their daughter and he will be damned if he let the commander made of her a second sis. Not that he don't liked his sister-in-law, but he wished a better life for his daughter than the one of a fighting warrior. And he don't embarrassed himself with nice word to make the commander understand that there is no way for him to have his daughter ever.
Amodar left the Villier's house with the feeling that he had made a big mistake by coming here. He had wanted to open their eyes, but now he knows that they were not ready to heard the truth. And it was normal in a way. Who in his right mind would accept to raise her eldest sister as her own daughter, and told so to a stranger. The only thing he had gained by this was to have made the Villier being against him. He looked a last time at the house, and when he turned around to return to his house he found the way blocked by a very determined young man.
" It will be better for everyone if you forget what you have found. " Said the young man.
" And if I don't wanted to ?" Asked Amodar.
" I think you are a wise man, commander. You know what will be the best for you !"
" Stop it Estheim. You are not a blackmailer. I know you."
" That's why you have to take it seriously. No one wanted Lightning back, or at last they wanted her back but not at the cost of the life of Belle."
" So, you know the truth."
" Yes, I know."
" And you won't say anything ?"
" Of course not. It will be Belle choice to tell the truth or not. But I will be always on her side. And my father would be on my side. Good day commander."
Hope leaved the commander with a lot of worry. Sure, he wanted Lightning back but not at all cost. He was well aware of what Bartholomew Estheim can do to him if he dared to go against his son's wish. So he don't have the choice. he don't liked it but he had to write a letter of excuse to the Villier, because there is no way for them to accept him in their house ever. It was a shame to loose such a great warrior but his carrier is more important than a soldier as good as she was. Belle had won. He will never talk about what he had learned again.
To be continued.
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