Lightning's grown more than Snow and Fang realize. It's going to cost them a bit of their dignity.

A brief insight into Lightning's daily life leading up to the Purge and what drives her. Oneshot.

Like flame, she consumed what she strove to protect. As she wrapped it in her embrace it would disappear, devoured by her touch.

NANOWRIMO FIC. PRE-GAME. After the death of Claire and Serah's mother, Claire enlists at the premier PSICOM military academy and training facility in Eden sponsored by the Cocoon government. Light-centric, from ages 15-21. More info in prologue.

Some battle scars can't be seen, but can be felt for life. A little battle of trust and wills builds the blocks of friendship.

Lightning doesn't give up; Amodar almost wishes she would. No real spoilers.

First he was her enemy. Then he was her ally. Then he was her friend, and now...he's her brother. Who knew it took Snow to be hanging by a single string of life to get her to realize that.

The birth of a culinary tradition.

Post-game. Winter on Gran Pulse is much harsher than the winters on Cocoon. But the Farron sisters have dealt with worse than frigid air and frozen earth before. Snapshot story written for Christmas.

Gen-fic. Hope awakens to find his worst nightmare, and finds that sleepwalking can sure be a drag.

"She should have died a long time ago…But they kept on sending her back. Even though there was nothing left for her. Even though she had given up on life long ago." M for violence, gore and language. Spoilers for the game. Formerly The Blood of a Goddess.

After a particularly nasty run in with a Megisotherian cub, where Lightning is forced to remove her cape to clear noxious fluid from Hope's eyes, Snow makes the mistake of raising her ire.

When traveling along the Archylte Steppe, Hope suggests playing a word association game to pass the time.

A collection of Lightning-centric snippets ranging from pre-game, post-game, AU, and beyond, with themes from mild romance, to friendship and family. Some are excerpts from in progress work, others, unfinished oneshots. T to be safe. Mild & implied yuri.

There were times that Lightning hated the people was traveled with. This time in particular, she really hated Fang.

A mishap while gardening leads to Snow pushing his luck, Lightning over-sharing, and Snow regretting every word. How was he supposed to know little miss soldier could actually act like a human being?

Snow has always believed that he was the hero, but Lightning thinks he needs to realize that there are heroes in the world other than him. They get into a violent fight with a Pulsian beast, but who will be the hero in the end?

Serah has been gifted with her 'happily ever after.' Now she wonders if there is any way she can give it back. Post Game. Possible spoilers. AU sort of . No death or violence. Introspective piece dealing with Serah after the game. One shot.

Lightning counts on herself and fights by herself. Now fate and a focus have tied her to this ragtag group of people. She seeks her own path to vengeance. Hope chooses to walk that road with her. Tale begins in the Vile Peaks. No pairing.Spoilers and AU. Cover by Denebtenoh

Nora and Hope are being sent to a place which spells for their certain doom, although they don't realize it. How will a mother say her last goodbyes, without actually saying goodbye?

After the game takes place, Awake is the story of Fang years after she and Vanille turned into crystal. But a war, an insane man, and haunting nightmares block her path to Vanille.

After Serah had been branded by the Pulse Fal'cie, she had dreamed that she had destroyed Cocoon. Here, it felt like she had.

In a world where the settlement on Gran Pulse is crumbling, a desperate Lightning searches for answers- despite all those warning her away. The past and future haunt her at once. Disclaimer: I don't own FFXIII.

A Western themed AU. Can Sheriff Claire "Lightning" Farron and the others possibly make it through all the trouble that lies ahead?

03: Over the course of the endless wars, Lightning has fought the fal'Cie Barthandelus, the puppet Raines, not to mention swordsmen with god-complexes and the maddest of mages – but she never expected to face this opponent. Light, Fang