Moment #3: Made-up

(haha this was a joke kinda story, think of it as an extra)

They were fighting some PEOPLE I DON'T KNOW WHO EXACTLY. Hope got hurt. In a flash Lightning (lol no pun intended) flew over to him. "Are you alright Hope? Is it - "

"I'm fine!" he said before running off quickly. Lightning kicked the last attacker off to next Tuesday and glanced back to see where Hope was going.

Vanille had been hurt sometime during the fight and was stirring feebly. Hope knelt down and began using his super medic powers to heal her.

Huffing and puffing, the last three people of the gang, namely Snow, Sazh and Fang, came running over after they'd taken care of their respective attackers.

"Vanille!" said Fang breathlessly, slowing to a stop when she saw that Hope was healing her lover - uh, I mean partner. "How is she?" she asked quietly.

"She's lost a bit of blood," said Hope, "but it's not too serious. There, she should be okay now."

Right on cue Vanille raised herself up and smiled reassuringly at everyone. "Yup, I'm good as new! Don't look so worried, Fang." She turned to Hope and beamed happily. "It's all thanks to Hope of course!"

Fang stared at Hope. "Right," she said. She turned away.

Sahz raised an eyebrow while Snow grinned and did his dumb thumbs-up thing. "Nice job guys, mission accomplished! As expected of heroes!"

No one was really listening as they were all busy getting away from the area so they wouldn't be caught in ANOTHER attack. Hope, jogging to keep up with Lightning who was walking strangely fast, eyed her nervously.

"Uh, Lightning-san?" he asked.

Silence.

"Um," tried Hope again. "Are you mad at me... or something?"

"Who said I am," said Lightning, perhaps a bit too harshly. She ignored Hope's bewildered gaze and crossed her arms. Not far behind them straggled Fang and Vanille, where Vanille was acting her usual cheery, cutesy self but Fang wasn't. Fang, who normally smiled indulgently when Vanille babbled about nothing, was frowning and sending death rays at the back of Hope's neck.

Sahz and his chocobo, watching all this, smirked (yes, even the chocobo). "Young people and love," he sighed.

"What was that?" asked Snow, catching up after he'd realized no one had waited around to hear his foolish speech.

"Nothing," said Sahz lightly.

Snow felt very left out today.