Disclaimer: I don't own Final Fantasy, or any of the characters used in this fic. They all belong to Square-Enix. I only own any original characters that I choose to include, as well as any original plot ideas.
Never A Dream
A/N: AU in which Omega destroyed the planet, and Vincent meets Tidus on the Farplane; FFVII: DoC and FFX crossover.
"Have you ever wondered if your whole life was a lie?"
He had no idea who this boy was, or even why they were here together. Before, there had been Midgar, the stars drawing closer as he soared, the planet's life being drained away, and then nothing. No sorrowful cries for help, no prayers to the gods, not even any hope. Just a white light, and then this, a world of color and peace, filled with spiraling, dancing fireflies.
It was a strange question to be asked outright, and by a stranger to boot. Assuming this boy, who seemed so familiar, was a stranger. By the way he looked, blond hair and blue eyes, perhaps he was Cloud, somehow changed by death.
Vincent chanced a glance around, violet eyes falling finally to his empty hands. They were alone in this vast expanse. So no, this boy wasn't his friend. Had it been so, he would have known from the beginning, and the others would have been here as well. And Vincent himself hadn't changed.
"A lie," he repeated, solemn. And there she was again, watching him through glass, in tears, as though it were happening all over. Her betrayal, her marriage, in exchange for his life. "I know something of lies..."
The boy sighed, waving a hand at one of the fireflies, his blue eyes empty and distant. As though he'd been wrenched away from all joy. "What about a dream? Did you ever think that, maybe, everything you knew wasn't real at all? That someone else was in complete control...?"
That's how it had felt, watching, waiting, wondering when and if she, the woman of his own dreams, would accept him, his undying love for her.
Vincent just nodded.
But this life of his hadn't been at all like a dream. Changed from man to devil, in slumber for half a century, only to wake to a world he no longer knew. And then... death. Everything suddenly gone.
"No. Not a dream," he whispered, "but a nightmare."