"He's alive!? And He's your next-door neighbor?!"

"Well technically he's across the street from us." Serah Sighed and adjusted the grip on the phone. "He seems harmless enough, and doesn't remember anything."

"Harmless?" Lightning seemed to have a calm voice, but Serah could tell that she was far from calm. "He did try to kill you, many times if I'm remembering correctly? As well as Noel who is your son now! He also caused the end of the World! An-"

"Alight!" Serah interrupted, she was quite sure that Lighting could go on for hours about various things that Caius Ballad had done to the world. "But he has no reason too!"

"Why not?!" Lightening demanded.

"Because Yeul's alive!" Lightening fell silent.

"She was his reason for fighting." Serah continued "I know that he mentioned her quite a few times to me, and I bet that you had heard about her too." Serah could basically see Lightings Gears turning. Which was quite the feat considering that she was miles away.

"You don't have to move," Lightning decided to kill that train of thought herself. "On one condition." Serah felt her heart drop. What if it was something Crazy? Lightning was sometimes crazy.

"I'm coming over." Serah let out her breath. "Don't invite or see him until I'm there"

"Light I don't need a baby sitter, but sure, if it makes you feel better." Once Lightning realized that Caius wasn't a threat she would relax.

DING DONG DING DONG

"I've got it!" Noel was running down the hallway before Serah or snow could even react. He pulled the door open to reveal Serah's older sister. "Auntie Lightning!" He reached out and hugged her legs.

"Hello Noel," Lightning wasn't going to lie, she wasn't the best with kids. How many times did she tell him to just call her aunt? "How are you?"

"I'm good! We made cookies yesterday but they're all gone now!" His faced darkened "We didn't save any for you, sorry."

"It's okay," Lightning felt the tug of a smile on her face. "I didn't even know I was coming until late last night."

"Yeah, Mom didn't tell me that you were coming until this morning! I'm just glad that it a Saturday!" His face light back up. "So, I get to see you more Auntie Light!"

Lightning looked up from Noel to see Serah approaching.

"Light!" Serah puller her into a hug "It's great to see you!" Thank goodness Lighting thought. Someone that she could talk with normally and didn't have to be as careful with her. Not that Lighting would like to hurt Serah. Quite the opposite, she came all this way just to make sure that Serah was okay. All that way was a mere twenty miles away.

"Are you sure?" Serah asked. Odd that after all this time she was nervous about what lighting would do. She didn't want her to go to jail, or get punched back. Granted if she got punched back She was going to have to move if that happened. She really liked her house two. Leaving Noel with Snow, they had journeyed all the way across the street to see Lightning old arch nemesis.

"Remember what I said," Serah turned towards Light, "No Punching, and try not to swear him out either."

"Unless he punches first"

"Only if he punches first."

"Ready" Serah asked.

"Always," Serah raised her hand and banged it against the door.

"One Second!" a deep voice replied from the house. Lightning visually stiffened almost like she was going into a fight stance.

The door was pulled open and Caius Balled stood before them.

"Ah Miss Villers," Caius smiled at her. "Here I was worried that it was another sales man trying to sell Vacuums. Don't mess this up Caius, he thought to himself. He might have Done something wrong last night but he was going to make friends!

"Who is this with you?" Just be polite, he told himself.

"This is my sister lightning," Serah gestured at her now shaking sister.

"Is she okay?" Should I have offered my hand to her? You can shake hands with friends, right? He really needed to make more friends. "Do you want to come in?"

"Oh She's fine, She just has a job interview tomorrow." She cast a glance at her sister. "We just wanted to see if Yeul could come over to play with Noel."

"I see, let me get her. I'm sure she'll be delighted." With that Caius disappeared back into his house.

"Are you okay?" Serah asked.

"Yeah," Lightning unballed her fists. She didn't even notice that she was clenching them. "It's just weird. We were fighting to the death but now he's not." Serah nodded.

"We were all fighting before." She paused "But we don't have to anymore." Lightning didn't get a chance to reply as the door opened. Yeul ran out holding a small bag.

"Don't run across the street!" Caius yelled. "At least look both way first." He mumbled that last part.

Caius was about to turn back to face the sisters when his phone started ringing. He glanced at the number. He sighed.

"It's from my work, I have to take this." He turned back to sisters. "I'll be here the whole day, Bring her back before eight pm alright?"

"Don't worry!" Serah relied as she started to walk away, pulling Lightning away with her. Caius nodded and shut the door behind him.

"That wasn't so bad?" Serah grinned. no punching!

"Yeah."

A/N Hey Guys I haven't forgotten about this fic!