Drabble #90: Separation
Summary: Separation is never easy
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Cloud had never before considered the possibility of falling in love. It just wasn't his style. But he had never met a woman like Aeris before. The way she smiled, the sweet sound of her laugh and the sparkle in her eyes. They were all beautiful features that made him feel something he had never felt before. They were all in his memory now.
After she had died, he had tried so hard to push his emotions aside, to force himself to keep going. He had forced himself onwards, desperate to destroy Sephiroth and save the Planet that she had loved so much. But the separation was agony, a pain he had never felt before.
Things never got easier after that. He tried to move on with Tifa and start a family but in the back of his mind Aeris remained. He always dreamed of her and even when he awoke, for a split second he would grudge Tifa for lying next to him instead of the flower girl.
He knew Aeris didn't want him to be like this. He knew she wanted him to be happy but he couldn't be fully complete without her. He would think of her all the time no matter how hard he tried not to. Being separated from her was the hardest thing he had ever been forced to do.
And it was the one thing he couldn't change.