Yays, I got this to reach 3000 words. (My sister seems a little obsessed with the amount of words per chapter)

First things first I need to say is that while it's in Fangs POV, she calls Serah by her real name unless speaking out loud, unless of course she's speaking to someone like Nataliah. While everyone at the school calls Fang Atla.

You know the odd thing about that name is that the name came before the meaning, it was a fake name fang was using in a dream of mine, I just gave it that meaning for the story.

Oh and just saying but this chapter is full of insults to popular people, I'm someone who gets bullied by them so doing that kind of thing is fun, and since the popular people at my school are really dumb it's fun to insult them.

Anyway enjoy the chapter.

Disclaimer: I do not own Final Fantasy, Square Enix does.

A Long Day

Fang sighed for what would have been the millionth time in the pass few hours, when she had said she thought that today would be a long day, she'd meant it. In fact, if anything that had been an understatement, considering that the still hypo Lebreau was clinging to her arm, and one of the strictest teachers in this school had been a substitute for her first period class and had put her on detention for accidentally dropping a pencil.

Couldn't help but think that she was out for her for some reason.

But in a way what topped this all off was being pestered by those annoying pest of people that are dubbed by the stupidity of high schoolers as popular all day. They didn't have any good reason for doing so, it all seemed to link up with the fact that for reasons unknown to her and the world of logic, Serah was bullied pretty bad here and they gave her the worst of it.

But as bad as it was, it was actually how she'd got into Serah's group of friends in the first place, it would always elude her to how Serah had made all those close friends so fast but that wasn't of any importance right now. Her 'friendship' with Serah and her friends had come about when one of Serah's worst bullies had tried to punch her in the face only to be smashed into the wall opposite him by a well-aimed kick by Fangs right leg. Ever since than Serah always seemed to like to keep her close, seeing as the entirety of the school were made effectively petrified of her because of that one instance.

Another consequence of that incident was her getting detention for two months straight, mostly because the teachers firmly didn't believe her she'd did it on instinct, that and because the poor boy she kicked had broken his nose and jaw when he hit wall. Still, Fang couldn't help but think that he'd have gotten worse if she'd kicked him with her other leg.

Fang's trance was broken suddenly when she felt Lebreau tugging on her dress, and her attention was brought back to the present. Looking to the side she made to look at Lebreau, only to find that the girl was nowhere to be seen until she lowered her eyes to see the girls form sitting on the ground. Ignoring the what the fuck moment over why and since when the girl was on the floor, Fang snapped at her "What, quit tugging my dress."

Letting go, Lebreau pulled away and started giggling incessantly. Rolling her eyes at the girl, Fang couldn't help but think that out of all the annoying about things that Serah's friends, how Lebreau went phyco when she had coffee had to be the worst of them. It ticked Fang off to no end, but of course, it wasn't like she could do much about it, as long as she was here she had to be the good little girl and not draw attention to herself like the sort a mind-snap certainly would. Here she had to keep up the façade that she was just a normal student and nothing more.

Snapping out of the trance that had overtaken her mind again for that short time, Fang took note that Lebreau was still sitting on the ground, and that approaching them both were god's unholy torture, the popular people. That would be why Lebreau had been tugging on her skirt Fang soon realised.

Inwardly groaning, Fang resisted the urge to face palm at the appearance of the pack of idiots, they were unquestionably what her already irritated self didn't need right now, but she was hit once again with the fact that killing them to liberate her of their pestilence was out of the question. So she was left with other option to bare it and wait til it past.

Sternly reminding herself not to slip up and call Serah by her real name in the conversation to come, Fang made sure to put on her 'I'm going to kill you in two seconds flat if you don't scram now' face, and she let a rather convincing but faked smile grace her features. It had the exact response Fang had wanted; the people in front of her look like they were just about to piss their pants.

"Well, well what do we have here, why have you all honoured me with your presence." Fang said making sure each word was drowned in utter sarcasm.

All the girls in the semi-large group smiled at her, which was not a good sign for Fang, after a moment or two, one of them stepped out from their ranks; a girl with a happy cheery smile plastered on her face that was so gleeful that it made Fang want to rip off her mouth just to destroy it, held her hand out to Fang.

"We're come to offer you an offer Atla." she spoke up.

"And what would that be, unholy demon dog sent from hell to eat me alive." Fang answered her, causing the girl to pull a face that was rather hilarious in her opinion; face it, the girl just couldn't pull off a scowl if her life depended on it. Biting down on her lip hard, the girl fought to keep her emotions in check, and not overly recovering from Fang's comment the girl continued on from where she left off.

"We've come here to give you the offer of joining us; a pretty girl like yourself doesn't deserve to have her reputation pulled down by hanging out with the weird kids."

It took all of Fangs power not to smash her head into the nearest wall hard enough to give her permanent brain damage. If they thought that Serah and the NORA crew were strange then they hadn't seen anything yet. Given, Serah was a bit stranger than most people out there, but at least she wasn't constantly saying that she wanted to dye her hair green anymore like she had before her memory was erased. And no one this stupid girl in front of her had met would ever hold a candle to the freaks and nutcases that inhabited Fangs world

Still fighting that tremendously enticing urge to hit her head against the wall, Fang made sure to answer the group in a way that she knew would piss them off "You have to be some of the thickest people I have ever met." holding up a finger to stop them from responding with the words she saw forming at their lips, Fang continued "Ignoring that on my first day here I nearly kicked one of your own through a wall, this entire conversation has been filled with insults directed to you, and any other person would have figured out by now that I hate you all, so I'm going to have to reject your offer, because when it comes down to it, it is just so untempting it isn't funny. I've been legitimately more tempted to go hit my head against a wall this entire time."

Fang watched on as the faces of the kids ahead of her distorted into angry masses of red at her words, all of them realizing that this wasn't going to work anytime soon. Some of them moved to speak in the seconds that followed afterwards but Fang beat them to, this time her voice turning venomous "And don't ever think of me like I'm as dumb as you lot, I know that you simply want to get me away from Topaz so you can bully her." the look Fang was giving them all turned pure evil as she spoke the words "But mind telling me one thing since your here, why on earth do you bully such a wonderful girl like her, wouldn't happen to be because she's prettier than the lot of you pigs?"

The effects were instantaneous, the girls of the group making the transition from annoyed to furious within the space of milliseconds and they all started screeching words of hate at Fang.

"Yeah right! How in the world could you imagine we'd be jealous of that pig?!"

"Yeah don't be stupid!" they all screamed.

Fang rolled her eyes at them, the girls she saw before her weren't beautiful, they couldn't even be called pretty, they were plain, makeup covered whores. During the period of screaming the boys in the group had done the smart thing and backed away, and Fang had to admit to herself that at least they seemed to have a strip of smartness in them.

They had learned early that Fang wasn't one to piss off, the girls on the other hand had constantly pestered her again and again, never learning their lesson. Funny, but you'd think a score of black eyes and a score and half of detentions they'd suffered through with Fang would do that.

"Dumbasses" Fang muttered under her breath, she had a pretty strong feeling that they were about to go over the line with this.

They'd grouped together and started whispering among themselves, probably thinking up a way to insult Fang without her tearing said insult to pieces.

Breaking apart, the girls looked back up at Fang and looked her in the eye. Stepping forward some, one of the girls said with a smile on her face. "You know what, you probably only hang out with Topaz cause your les for her."

'Couldn't they have come up with a better insult, that had to be one of the worst I'd heard all day' Fang thought, as she answered the girl without having to put much time into formulating her response. "Wasn't there anything better you could think of to say, apart from how Topaz has to be one of the most obviously straight person I've ever met, my liking of fucking girls is not an insult."

Oh how Fang wished she had a camera on her when she saw the looks they threw her way at the contents of the end of her sentence.

To the side of her, Lebreau failed to hold in a laugh and started cackling wildly at the group stunned faces, it wasn't like she was privy to what Fang had just told them but this was just too good an opportunity to pass up. Her mind making sure to take am metal picture of the image before her.

"Come on." Fang said to her as she turned on her heel and began treading in the opposite direction "let's get out of here before they recover."

Striding away from the teenagers Fang and Lebreau walked down the deserted halls with a certain destination in mind, a hidden area at the top of the school that the teachers allowed only them to stay at as it was meant to be out of bounds, so other students wouldn't bother them there, it would be there that they knew they would find the others.

Sliding up to her so that she could walk by her side, Lebreau fell into step alongside Fang. After a couple of moments where no one spoke, Lebreau reached up and whispered in Fangs ear "They'll never let you live that down you know."

Fang didn't need to be told that twice, of course she knew that they would hold on to her words and try their best to use it against her, had before she'd said them. "Any pacific reason why I should care."

"You have a point there, but can I ask you one question through?" Lebreau inquired.

"Yeah"

"Are you seriously a lesbian?"

"Who says I am, I've just found from experience that when someone accuses you of being lesbian or gay, they go away faster if you go along with it instead denying it." Fang answered her.

Humming as she took in Fang's reply, Lebreau let a silence form between them for a time. Eventually thought she broke it by telling Fang "You know what through?" she said a small chuckle in her voice.

"Yeah?" Fang responded

"Don't you wish you could have taken a picture of them looking at you like that, it kinda just made me think 'Damn it Lebreau if only you had a camera on you'."

"If only Lebreau, if only." Fang replied to her comment, secretly not all that caring of it

Turning a corner they came a upon a door that led outside the building, and walking out of it the pair made their way towards the top of the school to a circle of trees that hid what lay inside it from view. Walking up to the trees Fang and Lebreau slipped in between the thick trunks and greeted the people inside.

Looking around the group and taking note of who were there, Fang turned to topaz and asked her asked "Where's Snow and Gadot?"

Glancing up from her food, she shrugged and said "My moneys on detention."

Now why did she think that Maqui and Yuj were actually betting with her on this?

Sitting down on the grass, Fang unslung her bad from her shoulders and pulled out what she had to eat. Thinking back a bit, but she'd always hated school, it didn't matter that she had never spent all that much time there. she'd never really gotten the chance to, her life hadn't exactly wanted to be normal, or provide a happy childhood for that matter, face it the death of her parents and getting painfully caught up in the war between pulse and cocoon didn't really give you one.

Snapping out of what she was sure was her millionth trance that day; Fang saw that, though it was beyond her why, that Serah and Yuj had begun to play a game of poker.

What the hell? They even had chips.

Crawling a bit closer to them she laid down on her stomach, resting her head on her hands , playing spectator to the game for a while until she asked "Where exactly did you get all this?"

"Yuj brought them to school." Serah answered quickly, with an air about her that it was the most normal thing in the world.

"And why dear Topaz did he do that?" Fang probed.

She shrugged, answering "Bored I guess."

From then on recess passed without many goings-on for a certain amount of time, that is until Snow and Gadot arrived on the scene. Getting up from the ground and greeting the two boys, Serah gave Snow a little hug and questioned "Where have you two been?"

Snow scratched the back of his head, answering "Mrs Kathina's detention actually"

Just the words Serah had been waiting for and she out of the blue shouted "Yes, you owe me twenty bucks Yuj!"

Had Fang been any other person she would have laughed at that, it was just as she thought, they had been betting. Flicking her gaze to Snow and Gadot she told them with faked humour in her voice

"She's got me in for lunch; I dropped a pencil and bam, detention, that damn teachers got it out for me I tell you."

"A pencil? You serious?" Snow said with disbelief clear in the words.

"Yep, just a pencil." Fang reaffirmed.

Snow shook his head bewilderment; he'd heard a few bizarre reasons for Kathina to give out detentions, but none quite so out there as simply dropping a pencil. Ending the conversation, Snow and Gadot moved to sit on the grass, taking out their lunch as Serah and Yuj resumed their poker game.

By the time the bell rang Serah had practically decimated Yuj in poker and Snow and Gadot were 15 to 12 in an arm wrestling competition, and Fang had spent the majority of lunch listening to Lebreau almost constant rambling as she gone and bought the inhumane torture, at least when in her hands, ice coffee, at the canteen after snow and Gadot had arrived.

Groaning Fang slowly got up and tried to slink away without Lebreau following her, cursing the fact that they shared nearly all their classes. She said a quick goodbye to Serah, Snow, Maqui and Yuj while Gadot distracted Lebreau, and Fang snuck out of the area silently without being followed.

Gotta admit, Fang thought to herself, while she didn't overly view them that highly, they'd been good enough friends to her to know to distract Lebreau without even asking them. Even if she'd still had to sit through an hour of class with her next period, but it being last class of the day that made up for that mostly.

It was then of course that she remembered that after this she'd have to deal with Nataliah.

Being frank, Nataliah wasn't that bad, but she was a chatterbox when she wanted to be, which Fang was a polar opposite of in every way perceivable, so she preferred to keep Nataliah at arm's length when needs be.

Pausing to remember which class she had next, Fang started her way towards the science classrooms, to say she was looking forward to the next class would be a downright lie. science when it came to it was anything but one of her favourite subjects, in a school like this and outside of it.

Stopping outside the classroom, Fang halted her pace and waited beside the door as the class's students accumulated around her and the dread of the time when Lebreau would inevitably turn up rose up in her chest. Unfortunately for her, that time came all too soon, and the form of Lebreau skipping down the hall towards her soon appeared before her.

Stopping right by Fang, the hypo Lebreau poked her in the shoulder playfully, complaining "Hey Atla, why didn't you wait for me?"

Fang bit back a groan of annoyance, loathing how it was always her who had to spend the day with Lebreau.

"Sorry." Fang muttered in apology, of course truth be told she wasn't at all sorry but Lebreau wouldn't notice that.

Humming softly, Lebreau wrapping arms around on of Fang's, reinstated her position of obsessively clinging to her and said cheerily "Okay apology accepted."

Soon after that the teacher came and everyone present walked inside the room and took their seats, the teacher eying Lebreau warily throughout this. Fang guessed he noticed that she wasn't quite sane right now and knowing all too well what Lebreau was like after she'd drank ice coffee, he had every right to be.

The lesson that followed was boring, maybe not to some of the other students but to Fang it was. She loathed science, as well as this school for that matter and if it wasn't Serah she was protecting here she would have never put a foot near the place

In her boredom her mind wondered to something their teacher had told them in one of their previous lessons, first off and what was now common knowledge to the students of this class, the teacher was a disaster master in every meaning of the word. He'd told them on this particular lesson that had taken her mind from the current of the multiple bones he'd sprained, twisted and broken. Two of which included breaking his leg while playing ultimate Frisbee and yes that's apparently possible, seeing as if you get your foot caught in a sprinkler while running your body doesn't always agree with stopping. And the easily worse of the two, when he'd gotten into a car accident and gone head first into a ditch, cracking his skull on impact, put him into a coma that one did.

Disaster master indeed.

Fang thanked the gods when the bell finally tolled out across the school, signalling the end of the school day. Groaning quietly she got up from her seat and left the room with Lebreau following her.

Sliding up beside Fang as she strode away from the classroom, Lebreau asked "Hey Atla, can you come out with us after school?"

Fangs reply was quick and short "Sorry, can'.t"

"Aww, why not?" the girl whined.

"I'm busy."

"But you're always busy."she retorted

"So I noticed" Fang said back, not overly affected by anything being said to her.

"How come? what do you have to do that so important?" Lebreau questioned her a little peeved.

"Work." it wasn't the biggest lie, she'd probably get this afternoon off but her line of work she always had to be ready for anything that could happen, so leisure time was out of the question.

Sighing in defeat, Lebreau patted Fang on the shoulder, the next words she chose to say dripping in unfitting seriousness "Can I kill your work?

"Love you to." Fang muttered quietly, refraining from saying the rest her mind wished to say about how she'd probably get killed in the processes if she tried.

Saying goodbye to Lebreau at the gates Fang made her way over to the black car waiting for her stationary in the car park. Opening the door and climbing inside, she found Nataliah sitting by the left window; she also noticed how the driver, still Travis was visibly a lot tenser then he had been in the morning.

Glancing up at him curiously, she asked Nataliah "Just wondering, but what exactly have you been telling him to make him so tense?"

"Oh, just filling him in on some things." Nataliah replied nonchalantly.

"Heh, like that narrows it down." Fang grumbled, taking her seat by Nataliah.

Shrugging off the reply, Nataliah questioned the women beside her "Are they going anywhere after this?"

Fang nodded "Yeah, down to a café"

Nataliah pouted "Aww, I wanted to go home."

"Not my problem."

Nataliah huffed and told Travis to get going, leaning back in her seat only for seconds before lurching forward "Oh wait I just remembered!" she exclaimed, reaching into her pockets and taking out a piece of paper mumbling "How'd I forget this?"

Noticeably hesitating handing them to Fang, she clamped her hands about them, her eyes transfixed to their white expanse dotted with black.

"Pulse got their hands on some of cocoons records today; they were a little dated but still useful" she informed Fang, handing them over somewhat tentatively to the women whose eyes widened when she saw what was written upon them.

"I found those among them, I thought you might want to see them." Nataliah finished, a little unsure of herself.

Meanwhile Fangs eyes scanned over the page in her hand, she couldn't believe what she held in her hands. The paperwork was at least six years old but it told her what she'd wanted to know for so long, even if it wasn't good news.

Cocoon agent: 66578, Oerba Dia Vanille, MIA.

Heh heh heh, I love the ending of this chapter.

Also I do believe that my science teacher Mr Webb snuck into the story, all those disaster master things I wrote actually happened to him (In the car accident I believe he'd been riding a bike and had nicked a car) He also managed to split his head open after living in a new house for only two weeks, how fun.

Please, review and Ill give you chocolate