Back In My Day

Final Fantasy VII

Chapter One – He's Back!

It was a sunny day in Midgar. The sun shone, warm and calming, over the city and its residents enjoyed everything that the beautiful summer day had to offer. All was peaceful. Well, all except for the Midgar Nursing Home. In room 209, one of the elderly residents was having another fit. This was nothing new, of course, and the attendants and nurses prepared to deal with it as they did each day. The resident often proved… difficult to care for. This resident just so happened to be Cloud Strife.

"He's back! I can feel it in my bones! Sephiroth has returned again!" He yelled, frantically waving his cane. His personal nurse entered the room cautiously.

"Mr. Strife please calm down! He's not back. You're fine." She coaxed, as she did each time he acted this way. She extended a hand, only to have it batted away.

"Don't touch me! You don't know! I fought him! He always returns!" Cloud shouted. The nurse could hear the mumbling and complaining starting from the other rooms as the noise escalated.

"Cloud! Shhh. You have to calm down. You're upsetting the other people here." She chided. Cloud, however, had no such thing in mind.

"Tell them to hide! Sephiroth is back!" he shouted at the top of his lungs. Panicked yells echoes from the hallway, the elderly men and women scrambling to protect themselves. They actually believed the yelling man, yet again, as the staff struggled to maintain order and quell the rising uproar of panic.

"Where's my sword? Where? He must be nearly upon us! Ya bastard, come out from where you're hiding! I killed you once, I'll kill you again!" Cloud ranted, swinging his cane as he yelled, and knocking out one of the men in the process.

"Somebody! Sedate him!" the Nurse called loudly. Two of the men struggled closer to Cloud, the larger sticking a needle into his neck with practiced accuracy.

"Hurry! Everybody… Take cover…" he said, his words slurring, before falling backwards into the waiting arms of the second man. His cane clattered to the floor as he snored lightly, a content smile on his face. The two men hoisted him into bed and covered him with the sky blue sheets.

"Fuckin' crazy ass Cloud." Came the relaxed southern drawl from the porch outside the window, accompanied by the creaking of a rocking chair and a thin stream of cigarette smoke floating lazily skyward. The nurse sighed heavily.

Just another day at Midgar Nursing Home.

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