Here is Chapter 5. Not very long, I know, but I don't think it really needs to be and thanks to everyone who's reviewed. This story should only be 2 chapters longer, but I may have to make it longer than that.

Italics: Afterlife or thoughts.

Warning: Snow and Noctis bashing this chapter! And I do mean bashing...

Hope's Perspective...

I woke up in my house in Felix Heights. Having no idea how I got there, because I had just died, I walked through the open door in front of me and spotted my mother sitting down in a chair. "How did you end up here, Hope?"

"Misery and having nobody left," I told her. After all, why should I have carried on? Dad had died the year before in a car accident. A pair of idiots racing both smashed into him, killing all 3 of them.

He was near the end anyway, but to die like that is just stupid.

I was pretty sure that Lightning didn't want anything to do with me anymore. Well, she got what she wanted: me out of her life.

"Nobody left? Are you sure?" Images of Lightning and the others once again flashed through my mind, stopping on one that I really didn't want to see: Light, Fang and Vanille crying over my dead body.

Vanille and Fang I could understand, because all Fang ever wanted was for Vanille to be happy.

But with Lightning, I had no idea why she was crying. The look she gave me when I got out that ring. I actually thought she would kill me. I was brought back to the present situation by my mother speaking.

"Hope. You're not ready yet."

Then I started to feel strange. It was like I was being dragged back into my body. And then I blacked out...

Lightning's Perspective...

My eyes were red from how long I'd been crying alongside Fang and Vanille. Snow was in a crumpled heap on the floor, out cold. He had tried to move me from Hope's body and got the worst beating in his life. Sazh had got the message and left us alone.

Then I felt Hope's body move. But that's impossible... But then something that made me think I needed my head checked happened...

Vanille's Perspective...

Why, Hope? Why did you do this? I am a very happy-go-lucky person, it's the way I am. But I couldn't do anything other than cry at seeing Hope like this. Then his eyes opened.

No. It can't be happening... But Hope's eyes were open, than he got up and started running away, screaming in terror. One thought ran through my head.

I've finally lost my mind...

Hope's Perspective...

The look in Lightning's eyes told me one thing:

I will rape you.

I will torture you.

I will chain you to my bed.

And I will rape you again and then beat you to death.

Having no other choice, I somehow found the strength to get up, start running for my life and scream. "I DON'T WANT TO DIE AGAIN!" Seeing them all chase after me only made me run faster.

Then I saw metal binding threads fly past me. I made my choice and flipped my Lionheart to gun mode, smashing myself in the side of the head with the barrel. Unconsciousness claimed me once more.

2 Week Time-Skip...

I woke up lying in a hospital bed with tubes where they really shouldn't be. Pulling the invading IV tubes out made me scream, but I got up and got my clothes on.

"Thank God for L'Cie healing." Limping out of the room I was just in, one of the worst thoughts to have at the time came to me.

I need to find the men's toilets... right now.

After limping around for a while, I found them and went in, only to see the 2nd worst possible person I could right now...

How do I do this and get past Snow without him seeing me? I only saw one answer to the problem. Sneaking up behind him, I jumped and smashed his head, face-first, into the sink and then the wall. Snow slid down onto the floor, showing no signs of getting up any time soon.

I went to walk away, but then an idea hit me and I turned around, looking at Snow and smiling.

After rifling through Snow's coat, trouser and shirt pockets, I found what I was looking for...

"Carbuncle Emerald Large Condoms..."

In case I ever get the chance to sleep with Lightning.

I had a very wide smile on my face as I went into one of the cubicle. It disappeared a few minutes later.

"What the FUCK! They're too small for me. I hate you, Snow!" I then kicked him in the face, which he probably didn't deserve. "Ah. It was fun anyway." I tossed the useless pack back under his coat and left the room...

To see Noctis Caelum walking away from a bed holding some blonde woman with blue eyes and a black skirt, straight towards me with a smug smile on his face, "Piss off."

I threw him out of the nearest window, which made the woman laugh, and then I walked away, getting into an elevator and pressing the Ground Floor button... to see Fang standing right in front of the doors.

She's probably waiting for it to come down. I pressed myself to the left side wall. When the doors opened, she went to walk in and got a bad surprise from of me tackling her and running away.

I had more bad luck headed my way though. Light and Vanille came in as I ran past them. "Why do I have so much bad luck?" Diving into my Velocycle, my shaking hands finally slotted the key into the ignition and I drove away at full speed.

Only to look in the mirrors; Light, Vanille, Fang and Serah were all on Velocycles, Light and Serah on one with Fang and Vanille on the other one. They were both after me. This will be a very long day...

I did say that Snow and Noctis get bashed, didn't I? Anyway, I hope you liked this chapter. Please review, I really appreciate it.