Evilestguyever: This came to me as I was thinking of something to present to my English class, and I thought it seemed to be somehow related to Cloud. There are no names, so if you're a Clerith fan, take this as a Clerith fic. If you're a Cloti fan, take this as a Cloti fic. Reviews are much appreciated.
Light and Dark
His heart was filled with darkness.
Filled to the brim with pain, suffering, guilt, anger.
He was a broken man.
A man in pieces.
A man overwhelmed.
A man consumed;
Consumed by his own inner darkness.
He shut out the world.
And the world gradually forgot about him.
People said he was a hopeless case.
But she didn't listen.
She didn't care.
He told her to leave him alone.
But she never was good at following orders.
She saw the darkness in him,
And she accepted it.
Because she saw something else.
Something that everyone else missed.
She saw the light.
The little flame flickering in the depths of his heart.
The little flame that promised to be a raging inferno.
And she nurtured it.
And it grew.
It grew brighter.
And brighter.
And even brighter.
And it pushed back the darkness.
Step by step, the darkness receded.
Receded all the way to the far corners of his heart.
The man felt happiness again.
He felt love again.
He was alive again.
But sometimes the flame flickered,
And the darkness started to creep back in.
And it threatened to consume him again.
But she was there for him.
There to keep him whole.
There to be his light.
And that was enough to keep the darkness at bay.