Disclaimer: Don't own this stuff ;D A/N: these are just going to be a series of one shots about the characters and their heroes.
"Argh, Pick up the damn thing will you." Cid stubbed out his cigarette and paced back and forth. He was pacing just outside his home, Rocket Town, although now it was rocket-less.
"Hiya!" came the bubbly reply when the young ninja finally answered the PHS.
"Aw thank £ for that, you ain't dead then?" Cid asked sighing with relief.
"Nope still alive, even if SOME PEOPLE insist on being a COMPLETE IDIOTS and going up on to the Mako cannon, even though I told him not to, almost getting us both killed!!"
"I told you to go back to Cloud." came a second voice in the back ground.
"OH that's gratitude!! What you think I'd just leave you up there, you would have totally died! Gawd you are some piece of work you know that!" She squabbled back.
"Ah shut up both of you! We just helped save the freakin planet!" Cid tried to light another cigarette, it fell on to the floor.
"My apologies Cid, you are right of course. Sorry Yuffie, thank you for coming to my aid." Vincent must have leant closer to the PHS for the first part of the sentence and retracted back to speak to Yuffie.
"Yeah, well, no big." Yuffie replied quietly.
"That's right, get along nice now ya hear. Cloud and the others went on to Kalm if ya wanna go on and meet up with them."
"Yup, okay will do! Hey Cid where are you then?" questioned the girl.
"Home." he answered with a momentary smile, he hung up on his comrades.
He strode into town and headed straight for his house.
"What the hell are you doing up there!" He called up as he got closer to his house.
"I was watching, what happened? Was that the life stream?" asked Shera, she was sitting up on the roof.
"Oh-Hoho, have I got a story for you." he said with a slight laugh.
Shera climbed back into the house through her bedroom window.
Cid opened the front door, he heard her hurried footsteps on the stairs.
He leant his spear against the far wall.
Shera bustled into the room, "So what happened then?"
"Oh I just help save the planet from that big ole pile of junk that was falling from the sky, that's all woman." His face broke into a grin, he rushed forward and lifted his companion up by the waste.
"Captain! Is it really true?!" she breathed, he was squeezing her a little to hard.
"You bet your ass its true!" he said spinning her around.
Shera laughed, a few hours ago she was sure she was about to die alone in an empty house. Happy tears streamed down her cheeks.
Cid put her down on the floor, he held her in his arms. They both looked a way from each other, neither one of them was used to the close proximity they were sharing.
"You must tell me everything, I'll make some Tea." Shera broke the akward silence and Cid released her.
She busied herself with the tea making.
"Could you see from the roof?"
"Oh yes, there's this green aura all over Midgar, its still there. Go and see, I'll bring the tea up."
Cid stared at her back for a passing moment, failing to find the words he headed up to the roof.
Holy was still pulsating over the once great city. He hoped that Yuffie and Vincent had gotten everyone out of that hell-hole, he pitied any sorry soul still trapped in there.
"Here." Shera passed him up a cup of tea, she climbed up and sat beside him.
They both watched the strange phenomenon.
"Is that Holy?"
"Yeah, Aeris, you remember Miss. Aeris doncha?" Cid said taking a sip of his tea.
"Of course, how could I forget her, she was so sweet, how is she?"
"Shit, Shera didn't I tell you?" Cid swallowed hard.
"Tell me what captain?"
"That son of a bitch Sephiroth, he murdered her." he shook his head as he remembered that awful day.
Shera gasped and covered her mouth, "Oh…oh no!"
"Don't you start bawling on me now." Cid shifted uncomfortably.
Shera sobbed, Cid scratched the back of his neck awkwardly and cautiously wrapped his arm around her shoulders.
"Look, ya see that! Ya see Holy, saving all our asses." Cid pointed towards Midgar.
Shera looked up and nodded.
"Well that's happening all because of Aeris, she summoned Holy, but that asshole Sephiroth was blocking it. So me and the others went down and taught him the consequences of messing round with us. We finished him off Shera and when we did Holy was freed."
She sniffed and wiped her eyes.
"All cos of Aeris."
"But its because of you as well, you are a hero Cid." Shera turned to face him.
"Ha! I like the sound of that! But…gah…you know I'd be nothin' without my hero." he said running his hand across his hair, he took of his goggles and dumped them on the roof.
"Who is your hero? I mean if that isn't an impertinent question." She asked as she dried her eyes on the sleeve of her lab coat.
"Argh, dammit woman! Don't make me say it!" he groaned.
"Say what?" She asked looking up into his tired, battle worn eyes.
"Grr, alright, alright! You are my hero, happy now! I said it!" Cid thumped his fist on the rough tiles beneath them.
"Me? But why?"
"It ain't just cos of the rocket incident, you saved my life that day, but its more than that. All I had in my life before I met you was my dreams, ya know, and they ain't worth shit in the end, but you changed that. I blamed you more and more so you'd feel more guilty, so you wouldn't leave, Grr I feel like crap for it but... well, If I didn't have you in my life Shera, then what the hell reason would I have to live for. I would have probably let Sephiroth beat me. You saved me, in loadsa ways." He spoke quickly, if he hadn't almost died many times that night he probably would have never had the balls to tell her what he had been thinking.
"I stopped feeling guilty along time ago, I just wanted to stay with you." she confessed "What else can I say?"
"How 'bout you just shut up and kiss me."
Shera laughed softly, she took off her glasses and folded them up.
"Oh hurry up, you are so slow!" he snatched her wrist and pulled her close to him. They kissed under the now meteor-less sky.
"Captain?" she murmured as she eventually broke away.
"What?"
"What on earth happened to the Highwind?" She had spotted the wrecked remains of the airship over in a far field.
"Yeah, got a bit trashed didn't she." Cid sighed sadly.
"We'll start work on a new one tomorrow morning." she announced enthusiastically.
"Ha! Man alive, I love you woman!"
A/N: Cid is difficult to write, but there ain't enough Cid/Shera around is there? reviews would be gratefully recieved.
