Make sure you read chapter 3 before this!

Hi! Sorry for annoying you the last chapter! I update really fast guys so try to check back every, meh, hour or so for now on. Hehe,no, like, two times a day. I just enjoyed writing that chapter so much it as hard for me to add more stuff to it, since I thought it was so pretty on its own! But don't fear! That one was only like 308 words but this one is probably gonna be longer than 308 words, haha. Enjoy!

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Hope realized he was in the nice light for a long time. Or at least it felt like it. Maybe it was only 5 minutes, but maybe it was years. Once getting to this point. Hope realized that his dream that he was having wasn't really something he fancied. He decided he wanted out. But that didn't really work in his favor, either.

"Hope."

"Mom?"

They were sitting at table suddenly. Just a plain white table in the middle of a plain white room. Hope was actually surprisingly calm, seeing his mother with him. It didn't really come to pass in his mind that he was dead at the moment.

"I want to talk to you before you go back," she said.

"But… what do you - where am I?"

"You're very smart, Hope. You're smarter than half of those kids in the class. You need more confidence. Oh, and I suggest that you talk to Lightning more."

"Why…?"

"Look for yourself," she said, smiling and starting to look down at the table. Hope looked down at the table as well, mimicking his mother's movements. The table was like a television. He saw… himself?

He didn't look very good either. He saw himself sleeping.

"Is this happening right now?"

"Just watch, Hope."

"Hope's slipped into a coma. His chances of waking up are high," everyone started to smile, "but his chances of dying are about 90%." All of their eyes welled up in tears.

"Wha…" Hope looked closer. Was he going to die?

"But… that's impossible! That can't be true!" Serah screamed. Light wasn't listening to them. Hope slowly began to look more and more relaxed.

"G-guys… Serah… Snow... Hope – the monitor – he's dying." Lightning's eyes began to water as she heard the beeping begin to slow down. Serah looked over in horror as she saw Hopes pulse slowing.

"Damn it, no. HOPE!" Snow looked over at Serah frantically. Serah just started crying hysterically and ran out of the room when the monitor declared him dead. Snow ran out with Serah to calm her down, on Lightning remained in the room, in complete shock. She sat and stared at Hope for what seemed like months, then finally took in a breath.

"Hope. I don't know if you can hear me… maybe you're watching me from death…"

Hope darted up to look at his mother who remained watching contently as if it were a movie. Hope looked back down and continued to listen to this Lightning he barely knew.

"I don't want you to leave, Hope. Please…" she finally began to cry again and then grabbed his hand.

"I… I love you…"

"It's time, Hope," Nora said, giving Hope a kiss on his forehead.

"I love you, sweetie. Never lose the Hope you were named for. We will not see each other for a very long time. I promise. But you need to go back now." Hope nodded and gave his mom one last hug and took a deep breath, not knowing where Lighting was or what she was saying at the moment.

"Bye, mom," Hope whispered, and he felt his relaxed feeling turn into exhilaration.

"I don't want you to leave, Hope. Please…" Lightning finally began to cry again and then grabbed his hand.

"I… I love you…" she stared at Hope and waited. Then she unconsciously leaned in, and her lips made contact with his. She stayed for a long time, ignoring Serah's wails from outside the room, Snow frantic calls of trying to calm her down. And there she waited. Hope suddenly felt life placed in him and he kissed back. Lightning immediately gasped and flung back. Hope opened his eyes and Lightning looked at his beautiful gentle face. Lightning fell to her knees and hugged him and kissed him and cried, knowing that it was probably not her that brought him back to life, but she never felt so happy to have someone she barely knew back into the world.

Hope finally looked into Lightning's watery eyes and smiled slightly.

"Lightning… what happened?" he asked. It was a pretty simple cliché question, but he wanted to know.

"A miracle," she whispered, and embraced him one more time, Hope's eyes watering and hugging back. Even though he was still so weak, he knew he had the ability to move his arms and hug her back. They didn't even notice when Serah first walked in, looking like a zombie and Snow walking in, eyes watering and looking exhausted. They came back to say their last goodbyes and to their amazement they saw Hope crying silently and weakly hugging Lightning, who had a lot more energy and laughing as she hugged him back. Serah finally broke the 5 second silence and screamed at the top of her lungs. Snow looked in confusion and also he found it quite funny. Lightning just laughed silently harder and continued to hug Hope, who was now slightly smiling and covering his ears.

"B-b-b-b-b-ut. HOW? You were completely dead?" Serah laughed and sprinted up to Hope and hugged him.

"A miracle," Lightning repeated, finally letting go of Hope and whispering in his hear so quietly no one could hear or notice, "Don't tell anyone I kissed you," then she smiled and ran out of the room to get the doctor.

"Hope…" whispered, sitting at his bedside, smiling gently. Hope smiled back quietly. Snow was sitting in the corner, grinning widely, texting his friends at school. They probably were really worried, seeing as they saw Hope carried away, barely conscious and pale, and then Lightning getting a phone call 5 minutes later; all the students attempting to listen to Serah's weeping and the sound of machines and "clear" continually being played on her phone. They saw Lightning's usually bored looking face turn into complete horror and saw her sprinting out of the classroom, and didn't come back the rest of the day, neither did Snow or Serah, or, most importantly, Hope himself. Snow texted and called everyone, saying that he literally died then randomly came back to life.

Serah continued to look out the window peacefully, her eyes puffy but her personality back to normal. She slowly watched Hope resting, oblivious from everything that happened in the past 5 hours of being revived, being slipped into a coma, and then dying and coming back to life…

"Some first day of school…" Serah jumped when she heard Hope's scratchy voice, then she looked over at his smiling face and laughed. She watched him slowly fall asleep, and then they were interrupted by a door slamming open and a doctor for once actually looking happy. The door immediately snapped Hope's eyes open again. Lightning mouth 'sorry' to him, then the doctors looked at Hope.

"It's amazing. But I'm going to want to take some blood samples and other tests before we let him go, just to be safe," Hope looked a little worried; but he really just wanted to go home. Even though he couldn't go back to his own home, he would be happy to stay with Serah, or better, Lightning. It would be nice if she actually agreed, which was unlikely.

The doctor got out a long needle and filled it with liquid, and walked towards Hope, who gulped.

"This may feel cold," she said, and put it through the IV he had on. Hope shivered and tensed up, weakly looking at Lightning who grabbed his hand, and fell asleep.

"I figured we should do the tests while he's asleep; he's had enough happen to him today." Light smiled and sat in the waiting room, calling her friends and telling them she's ok, along with Serah and Hope.

After a couple days, Hope was released from the hospital. Most of his time there was him sleeping, waking up to eat some sort of smoothie, the only thing he wanted to hold down, then he would go back to sleep. Lightning thought he was too young for a wheelchair apparently, so she carried him piggyback to the car, Hope laughing at her stubbornness the whole way, and then fell asleep of his way back to the school. Once they got in the parking lot, Hope finally brought up the urge to speak up.

"L-Light?"

Serah and Snow looked over him, and Lightning replied with a "Hmmmm?"

"I think I left one of your suitcases in your room when you, kicked me out-" Lightning had a mild face of guilt when he said that, "So can I get it? It'll only be a minute-"

"But it's your room, Hope, get your stuff out of Serah and Snow's and then bring it right to mine. I-I'm sorry I kicked you out last week." Hope smiled. He was successful. Besides, he didn't want to sleep on the couch anyway. He would get his own room, and, things would turn out how he wanted them to be. Making friends, in a, rather unique way this time, and, almost having a mom again.

Lightning piggybacked the still weak Hope up the elevator, avoiding stares of a couple and people saying "Oh my gosh! They're back!" And then made it back to their room.

"The teachers said we don't have to go back to class for the next few days considering the trauma we all went through this week ," she laughed to herself and then walked to her room. She pulled out the suitcase he forgot and set it next to his other.

"That's all of your stuff, I think. So, do you want to do anything? You hungry, wanna do homework? Watch a movie, sleep?" Hope laughed at her hospitality and shook his head. After a couple of minutes of thinking, Hope suddenly felt super tired, and went back to sleep.

Lightning walked back in to talk to him about what happened, but then saw him asleep. She realized how late it was then picked Hope up like a baby and carried him off to his bedroom. She gave him a kiss on his forehead, then stepped into her room to crawl into bed. After sitting there for a few minutes, she got back up and sat in Hope's room on the floor, and fell asleep there.

Oh my days I adored writing this! It was kinda emotional for me, since when I was 13, which was around 2 years ago, I went into a coma and it was hard because my family was so sad about it, and I don't remember most of it, since it all felt like a dream, but I obviously eventually woke up, and everything was fine, but I felt so much like Hope right here. :) SO, anyway, I am going to write a sequel to this, this was just an intense part to my big story, which I've realized is gonna take a LONG time to write. Oh no, hehe. SO much work. I will try to upload a new chapter everyday but for spring break since I live in California I'm going to Disneyland on Thursday and Friday so I may be gone those two days. But thank you for reading! I mean it!