Alpha: And the drabbles continue…

Many Worlds One Shot Collection

Justifiable Vices (Lightning)

Pride

She was a willful and stubborn type. She was also confident and rightly so in her own capabilities.

Because of that, she was not going to admit to anyone even to herself that she felt her ego suffer a huge blow when Hope decided to go to Snow of all people on solving some math equation that she herself had a hard time with.

Forget the fact that Snow actually knew the answer to the problem.

Greed

She wasn't a selfish person or pegged herself as someone with a greed for anything. In fact she was more of the giving type rather than the taking type.

So there was no reason for Vanille to suspect her of taking her sweet strawberry roll cake that Hope had offered Vanille earlier that day.

What? They were good, especially since it was made by her sister. It's not her fault Vanille waited to the last minute to get some cake by the time it's nearly gone!

So she had strawberry filling and cream on her cheek. Hope didn't have to look so smug about it. That could have been from earlier, she was just careless about wiping her face this time.

Well it could've been!

Sloth

She hated for things or people to slow her down. She wasn't a very patient person, well when it counted and when she really wanted to get something done.

But she suppose it's alright to indulge in a little down town when Hope huddles up to her for warmth and company while she kept watch on their small group. Fires burning and waiting for the down pour to cease.

Rage

There were a lot of moments, especially in the beginning when Lightning was very angry, even almost losing it that her eidolon had attacked Hope. After that she did her best to quell that anger, after all she wasn't the only one suffering and cursed because of the Fal'cie.

But seeing Hope getting taken down by that awful pack of lobos, the group knew that they were eating pretty well tonight.

Gluttony

She had a habit of coveting people she got close to. With everyday passing on their journey, Hope was becoming such a person. She couldn't help but stick to her promise to protect him as much as she could. Something about him being young and looking up to her when he was scared made her heart jump in her chest and her face light up with a small smile and then she'll catch herself hugging him more often then she would like to admit.

Hope loved the attention sure, but having Light in her own way fussing over him 'hurting' himself because he fell off the chocobo was just too much and embarrassing.

Overprotective Lightning was just as overwhelming as 'cold, ruthless and stay the hell outta my way Lightning'. It was like you couldn't win, no matter what Lightning you got.

Now Hope too could sympathize with what Serah must have gone through with her sister as he silently allowed Light to fuss at him and smooth his hair down…and…oh god! Did she just do that annoying licking her thumb to wipe the dirt smudge off his cheek thing?!

Envy

She wasn't jealous…

So what if Hope was making attempts to bond with Fang? Or was ignoring her after their little argument? Or was giving her the space she said she needed away from him? Or was idolizing Fang like he did her? Or that Fang kept mocking her with those idiotic shit-eating grins that told Light how much she enjoyed being the cooler, sexier, big-sister mentor to Hope.

Pfft! Fang surely loved to toot her own horn, sexier than she? If you loved the exotic wild type!

The point is she didn't care at all! Hope could do whatever he wanted, even if that included being corrupted by his new idol!

And no, she was not turning red in the face because he managed to say her name, look at her with that puppy eyed look of longing. No her heart did not just skip a beat from that pitiful look he sent her way.

And NO! She didn't just break her makeshift eating utensil because his attention was back on that other woman who wrapped her arms around his shoulders and whispered something in his ear that made him laugh!

Nope, Lightning was not jealous of Fang at all!

Lust

Six years ago if you said Lightning was going to suddenly find herself having the hots for Hope Estheim, you would have gotten suckered punch or worse.

Lust was a funny thing, one minute you're not giving much thought to someone you've known and treated like family for a long time.

The next you catch yourself staring at an older, roguish looking, taller than you, oblivious to how he's flexing certain chest and arm muscles, boyish smiling, gorgeous shy green eyes, and cute ass strutting Hope Estheim.

Just a moment ago, he was just that kid who finally grew up that she mentored and who was her pupil and came over her house to visit when he could.

All of a sudden he's that young man that comes waltzing in her kitchen with no shirt on and only wearing his green jean shorts, strutting about without a care in the world or how his anatomical make up was making her hormones pick the perfect time to go haywire.

He smiled at her she thinks she might have giggled like a silly school girl when he looked her way.

Didn't matter for all she remembers is maybe faintly hearing Hope's nervous protests to her dragging him by the wrist to her bedroom.

She'll just later blame this all on the fact that perhaps she's went too long without feeling a release of sexual tension and she was at the highest peak of her ovulating cycle and Hope just happened to be the poor fool who got caught up in the spider's web.

Eh, he'll thank her later for it anyway.

Alpha: …my drabbles are a fucking goldmine! (awkward laugh) A goldmine I tell you! Oh god why am I sharing these again?!