Chapter 4: Reunited
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Vanille skipped outside of the hallway, past the living room, and into the kitchen where Snow still remained as the huge man was currently separating dish plates across the counter. The young perky red head stopped at the counter before examining the three simple dish plates the man prepared for the former l'cie. One of the dish plates contained eggs, the second stripes of bacon, and the third stacked full of pancakes. Taking a quick whiff of the aura of food around her, she immediately hummed in delight.
"This smells delicious! I never knew you learned to cook this well, I guess I never gave it much thought back when we were on Gran Pulse huh?" Snow only turned to look down at the pulsian across from him before twisting around to retrieve a small plate from the cabinet a short distance behind him. "Well to tell you the truth I never really was that good at all with cooking back then. After Serah moved in with me a few months after you and Fang turned to crystal, she's been teaching me a few things about it."
Snow's lips shaped into a teasing smirk as the big lug returned from the counter and lowered the plate to the counter top. "When I started to get a good hang of it, Serah forced me to cook for her ever since. Can't really say I mind it either, I enjoy being able to take care of her." Vanilled smiled and nodded in response as Serah entered the kitchen from behind her.
"He does a very good job too." Serah spoke as she wrapped her arms around the enormous man's middle. "Vanille are you hungry? There is plenty here for you and Fang both. I'm sure you two must be starving." Snow grinned before folding his arms around the smaller farron in return. "I might actually need to throw some more eggs on the stove for Fang now that I think about it, she had one hell of a appetite back when we was l'cie. Not even a fully cooked gorgonopsid could satisfy that women." the blonde man quipped, receiving a small whack to the back of his head from the pinkette.
Vanille giggled at the display as she skipped over to the cabinet where Snow had just been to retrieve a much larger plate. "It's true. She's always had a bottomless stomach even back when we were kids. I had to help the maiden cook from time to time just to prepare enough for all the other kids plus Fang." Serah and Snow both shared a laugh as they observed the smaller pulsian started to stack some food onto the giant plate.
The couple gawked at the red head as she swooped up almost the entire servings. From what was a medium sized plate full of eggs and bacon, now only laid about two strips of bacon left with one egg. The pancakes was also fully cleaned out. The pair shared a glance before watching the red head skip off outside of the kitchen and disappeared back into the hallway. "Well she wasn't lying about Fang having a bottomless stomach then huh?" Serah spoke dumbfounded.
Vanille stopped outside of the guest room door as she balanced the large plate with one hand and went to turn the knob with the other. The knob refused to twist as the pulsian continued her futile attempts at unlocking the door before finally giving up. The red head let out a aggravated huff before planting a ear to the door to see what in Gran Pulse was going on.
Vanille's mouth shot open and quickly brought up her free hand to silence herself as she listened on. Audible loud grunts, whimpers, moans, and pleas all was heard from both Fang and Lightning. It seemed Fang always had the energy to please, starving or not, especially if that person was the one and only Lightning Farron. Vanille quietly as she could knelt down, leaving the plate a few feet away from the door before retreating quickly back into the living room.
The red head quickly planted her bottom onto the couch before bringing her face down into her hands at a attempt to forget what she just heard. Serah and Snow was in the middle of eating what was left of the breakfast in the kitchen before Serah curiously looked back to her. The younger pinkette dropped her utensils back onto the plate before hopping off her chair and stepped into the living room and stopped in front of the troubled pulsian.
"Vanille what happened? Is something wrong?" When the younger pulsian looked up to meet the pinkette's concerned look, Serah could note that the girls cheeks was flushed completely red. Vanille only shook her head before pouncing up and grabbed Serah's hand, leading the confused girl to the door that exited the house. "I'll tell you later, can we please just eat in town?"
Serah could see something was terribly wrong with the girl but she would have to wait until later to find out what was actually going on. "Okay-okay hold on! I need to get dressed first and then we can go. Lightning wanted me to go shopping with you to find you some new clothes anyway." The worried pinkette then twisted around to look at Snow who just stared at the two in confusion.
"I'm going to take Vanille out shopping for some extra clothes and we're going to eat out. Are you wanting to come along with us?" Snow shook his head before grabbing both his own and Serah's plate and bringing them to the sink. "I can't. I got a call from work this morning and they need me for a eight-hour shift at the bar. I have to be there in almost a hour so I need to get start getting ready." Serah nodded and hurried over to the man to give her boyfriend a tight hug before lifting herself up on her tippy-toes to give the man's scruffy face a kiss.
"Alright babe, please be careful at work today okay?" Snow returned the kiss before dropping the dishes into the sink before folding his gigantic arms around the small-lithe figure and lifted the pinkette up with his ease as she was flung up over his shoulder. Serah gasped in surprise before she broke out in giggles as she pounded her tiny fists into the man's large back. "Will do! Though how about we get changed first ."
Vanille watched the couple exit the kitchen together and into the hallway where they disappeared into their room. The red head folded her arms impatiently before flopping her head against the center of the houses door, trying so desperately to think about anything else then what was currently plaguing her mind. Vanille was only joking around earlier about Lightning having her way with Fang with so soon after she just returned, who knew the soldier was actually going to take it seriously.
Vanille waited as patiently as possible for the next ten minutes before Serah emerged back from the hallway and back into the living room. The pinkette peeled from her flan pajamas and was now dressed in a pink v-neck t-shirt that slightly showed some cleavage along with a pair of lightly colored tight-fitting blue jeans. Vanille also noted the girl to be wearing a tanned purse that looked to be made from a skinned gorgonopsid pelt.
Vanille watched as Serah sauntered over to her, not seemingly to be in any rush as the women was digging through her purse to make sure she had everything she needed before heading out. The young red head took that moment to do a quick scan of the younger farron. Vanille always found Serah incredibly attractive ever since she first laid eyes on her back on Bodhum's beach on Cocoon. If her and Snow somehow happened to not work out, she would definitely..
"Hey Vanille are you ready to go?" Serah spoke, now who was currently standing right in front of the younger pulsian. After realizing she was still gawking like a fool she quickly shook her mind free of the trance she found herself trapped in before responding with a slight blush coloring her cheeks. "Y-yeah sure! Let's go." Vanille stepped out of the pinkette's way as Serah opened and exited through the door with the red head only a few steps behind her as she closed the door behind her.
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Lightning was laying on her side before she rustled awake at the sound of Fang's obnoxiously loud snores filling the room. The soldier groaned, she really needed to get a muzzle if she was hoping for any good night sleep anytime soon. Lightning felt the strong pulsians arms that was currently wrapped around her waist pull her in closer into Fang's middle, the pinkette knew she was going to be stuck there for a while even if she wanted to escape.
Lightning turned in Fang's muscled arms before gently resting her forehead on the pulsians as she closed her eyes, cherishing the last few minutes they would have together alone until the end of the day. The soldier brought her hands up to brush against Fang's cheeks gently before whispering into the sleeping women's ear.
"Fang we need to get up..Serah and Vanille are waiting outside and you should really eat something before you starve to death." Lightning was only given a groan in return before Fang turned her head away from the soldier, refusing to wake up so soon. Not about to give up so easily, she grabbed the huntress by both shoulders and proceeded to shake the sleeping figure gently at first but progressively started to get more aggressive.
"Fang you really need to wake up before those two start asking questions now just get your butt up already!" Fang groaned and finally her eyelids opened to slits to reveal her lover hovering above herself with a very demanding tone in the soldiers voice. Fang always loved Lightning's voice, especially whenever the women got angry. The huntress found it to be unbelievably sexy.
"Yes ma'am. I always thought you was kinky in a way but already this early in the morning?" Fang quipped. Lightning's cheeks started to flush a deep crimson before she fixated a glare towards the older women. "Shut up Fang." Lightning broke away the eye contact for a short moment to check the clock over at the nightstand beside the bed. It was already three in the afternoon and she arrived around ten thirty in the morning. Were they really at it that long? Lightning returned her glare back to Fang before hopping off the bed and started to search for her clothes that was currently scattered around the floor.
"Besides it's not morning anymore it's three in the afternoon. Surely they already know something is up by now unfortunately." Fang situated herself to sit back against the bed railing as she watched Lightning's naked back side bent down multiple times as she picked up each piece of clothing. For a moment there she almost forgot the ability to speak. "Oh them? Don't worry about it, the old gang never found out about us back in Sulyya Springs did they? Besides why does it really matter now?"
Lightning thought that to be a pretty good question, why did she care so much about if everyone discovered their love for each other? Was it really so bad to have people that was close to her want to be involved and support them? It would definitely be a subject she would have to think about later. The pinkette looked back to Fang as she started to redress.
"Yeah well Serah was still trapped in stasis otherwise knowing her she probably would have found out one way or another and to be completely honest with you I'm not even exactly sure why it bothers me so much." Lightning slipped back into her pair of blue jeans before sauntering over to the bed to run her hand through Fang's brown wild locks.
"It's not because of you either it's just I spent all my life working on pushing people away and blocking out my emotions that I never expected I'd be able to meet somebody that would ever break me down the way you did. I'm just not used to this is all and everything is happening so fast I just don't-" Fang smiled before silencing Light with a swift breath taking kiss before speaking.
"Love it's all right don't worry about it. I mean sure Vanille is probably going to make a fuss about it for a while but that's just who she is. Everybody knows you have every right in the world to be happy especially after everything you have been through. You have nothing to worry about Light I'm certain everyone will be pleased to know that you found somebody you can find yourself to fall in love with and I for one believe I'm the luckiest person on both Gran Pulse and Cocoon that you choose to be with."
Lightning smiled faintly before slowly pushing her lips forward to meet the pulsians as she closed her eyes. Fang did the same as the pair shared a deep passionate kiss for almost a full minute before Lightning hesitantly pulled away. "Thank you Fang...I really needed to hear that." The huntress gave her girlfriend a reassuring nod and smiled.
The soldier fixed her stance and straightened her back before extended out a hand towards Fang. "Come on let's go into the kitchen, I'm sure the others are outside waiting for you and I'm sure your probably starving at this point." Fang grimaced and rubbed her stomach at the reminder, now that she thought about it she was actually starting to feel pretty starved. The huntress grabbed the hand offered to her and was tugged off the bed and landed with a stumble on the wooden floor.
Lightning noticed the tumble immediately and held tightly onto Fang's as well as pressing a hand to the pulsian's shoulder to help steady her. "Hey are you okay? Are you sure your able to walk like this?" Fang chuckled and nodded as she took a moment to find her balance while taking a few baby steps in front of her to confirm she was capable of making the rest of the way into the kitchen. "Yeah I think I'll be okay for the most part. You really drained me out of what little energy I had left earlier with that little stunt you pulled back there." Fang quipped, giving the soldier a teasing wink as she went to unlock and exit through the bedroom door.
Right when the door opened Fang luckily noticed a pan of food a few feet away from the door before accidently stepping on it. The huntress gave a questioning look behind her at Lightning who only shrugged in return before she did the same and bent down to retrieve the overly-stacked plate of food. Giving the food a few experimental pokes at the food with the fork already supplied for her, she tested how good it would still be after sitting for who knows how long.
Fang gave the plate a quick sniff, taking in the overwhelming smell of pepper filling her senses causing her to wince in effect. "Vanille must have been the one who got this plate for me, that girl knows how much I like pepper on well..pretty much everything." Lightning nodded and took a mental note of that before she walked past her girlfriend and into the kitchen herself.
Fang was quick to follow while forking some eggs and wasting no time digging into the food before even getting to the table. Lightning scurried around the kitchen to gather the dirty utensils and plates that was seemingly now scattered all over the place. Serah trained Snow to do many things and the man was slowly starting to become more like a decent human being in time but the tree-like idiot of a man still had a long way to go, like learn to clean up after himself for instance.
Lightning dumped the large dirty piles of dishes into the sick and pulled up on the facet knob to start the hot water. The pinkette peeked out from the corner of her eye over to the kitchen table where Fang was still stuffing the food into her mouth rapidly, Lightning feared Fang might choke if she kept it up much at that pace much longer. After returning her attention back to the sink she reached over to grab the bottle of dish washing soap that was conveniently placed beside the sink and squirted some into the small tub of water and was quick to start building up the suds.
Before she was about to get started, Lightning talked over her shoulder to Fang as she made her way over the fridge. "What do you want to drink Fang? We got milk, water, and some orange juice but if you want anything else I can run to the store and get it for you if you would like?" Fang paused and downed the last piece of the pancake that she was currently chewing on before answering with a smile. "Just some water is fine, thanks for asking though. You're so cute when you try and spoil me y'know?"
Claire did not dignify that with a response and only turned away as heat started to rise up to the women's cheeks. Lightning was so confused on how to go about treating her lover, the last thing she wanted to do was be too clingy and affectionate in fear she might smother the women or try and keep her distance but Fang would eventually lose interest with her and move on. Fearing the latter might be worse, Lightning decided to go with the first option and hope for the best.
Claire grabbed a water bottle that was located at the bottom of the fridge before pushing the door closed with little effort with her knee as she sauntered back over at Fang. The pulsian finished up the last remainder of food before Lightning sat the bottle down beside the empty plate and pulled up a seat beside the huntress. The soldier rested her head down onto her lovers tanned and muscled shoulder as she nuzzled into her lovers side.
Fang smiled warmly at the contact as she twisted the bottle top open and brought the tip of the cylinder to her soft lips, gulping down the cold aqua as it passed down her throat. The huntress took down almost half the bottle with one chug before returning the bottle back to the table top and looked over to the soldier. Fang closed her eyes and sighed in delight as she pressed her face through her girlfriends pink locks to search for the women's ear and found it almost instantly. The huntress teasingly nibbled on the tip before whispering. "I love you sunshine."
Lightning shivered at the charming accented tone being sung into her ear as her already reddened cheeks deepened in color. Fang stood up slowly from her chair as she gave Lightning time to lift her head back from the pulsian's shoulder and looked up to her in confusion. Fang snickered as she tugged Lightning from her chair and slung her up into the pulsians arms where she wrapped tanned arms around the pinkettes neck, bringing her into a deep and sudden kiss.
Fang teasingly pulled away as Lightning pushed her head forward to continue the passionate moment. "And I'm about to prove it to you right now." Fang reached down behind the soldier to grab a hand-full of the women's rear before hoisting Lightning up on counter beside the sink who released a sharp gasp in return. The huntress wrapped Lightning's long tender legs around the pulsian's waist and wasted no time in capturing the pinkette's lips once again.
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"You heard them doing what?!" Serah exclaimed from the food court inside the local New Bodhum Mall. Vanille quickly pushed a hand to the girl's lips to silence her as a few surrounding people started to look at them curiously. "Shh!" Vanille waited until everyone around them started to go on about their own business before she retracted back her hand and sighed. "Yeah I think so. Either Lightning was giving Fang a really good massage or they was...you know."
Serah cringed and made a disgusted sound. "I liked that bed to! Ugh, I think I might have to burn it now." The smaller farron spoke disappointingly. Vanille looked at her apologetically before she continued. "I'm sorry! I didn't figure this would happen already so soon. I figured since Fang finally just woke up that Lightning would at least wait a week or two before they started doing...that. I only left them alone for like two minutes too!"
Serah shook her head of the thought, just wanting to be rid of the image of Lightning taking full advantage of a weakened Fang in her guest bed room of all places. Serah grimaced and attempted to purge the thoughts from her mind until Vanille continued on. "Well I guess I should have seen this coming after all..me and Fang shared dreams and thoughts during our crystal stasis and let's just say that she...um..had a very 'vivid' imagination. Like this one dream she had where both of them was riding on bahamut one night and Fang just all of a sudden jumped back on Lightning and started tearing apart all of her clothes-"
"Enough!" Serah interrupted as she covered her brought her hands up to cover her innocent ears. "I don't want talk about my sister's sex life anymore Vanille!" Vanille nodded in agreement. "Right..I'm sorry." she apologized. "Serah slowly started to calm down before releasing a sigh and getting up from her chair suddenly losing her appetite to finish off her waffles.
"Let's go find you some clothes. Hopefully we will forget about this soon enough. Though I am glad to my sister finally starting to be happy again. Even back before I was a l'cie Lightning never looked to be happy, not truly happy anyway. Fang really did the impossible when she changed my sister the way she did and in a way I'm grateful. Finally she can stop fussing about my safety and well-being all the time now that she met someone and I really do hope Fang treats her well. She deserves it."
Vanille grinned happily at the change of the subject and nodded. "She will Serah don't worry, I've known Fang all my life and she's nothing but loyal. She'll treat Lightning like a princess." Serah giggled at the image of her sister being something that feminine, Lightning was and probably always will be a tom boy but it was interesting to see her sister being taken care of for once.
Serah gripped onto her friends wrist and pulled the younger pulsian along with her to the shopping strip of the mall. Vanille almost tripped over herself while trying to keep up with the younger farron as they hurried up the stairs and out of the food court. Despite what happened this morning, the two girls felt like today was going to be great after all.
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Author's Notes: Hey guys here is once again another update! First off I would like to apologize for how long this took to get out there as I was having some computer problems all weekend and had a few things come up during the week but it's all taken care of now! With that said I should be back to my normal posting schedule of getting two chapters in and If I'm lucky maybe three a week. As usual I appreciate the feedback and let me know what you guys think of the latest update! Hope you enjoy it.