A/N: Plot bunnies have been stewing in my head for some time now, so I thought I'd give my FFVII OTP a whirl. And I've always had a soft spot in my heart for writing letters, even though nobody really does it anymore.
He writes, she writes back, things happen. You know how it goes.
Ink-Scratching
First Letter: First Snow
Aerith,
I'm not much good at writing letters, but I did promise I would. And you did say I could, so. Here goes.
How are things? Right now we're camping out in the mountains of, uh, somewhere. I kind of forget the particulars right now—it's been mostly just scouting terrain and training the grunts—and it's snowing. It snows like you wouldn't believe up here.
You ever seen snow, Aer? I don't like it very much. I mean, it looks nice and all, especially when the sun's going down and the light bends all sparkly on the rocks… and it's also good to ball up and throw at some of the other guys when we get time to goof around. But the cold just makes you feel horrible and the frost gets everywhere and it kind of sucks when you yawn and find you've cried icicle tears.
And, well. I've just wasted half a page complaining 'bout the weather. The heck? That just makes me sound like some sort of pansy. Which you know I'm not.
Right?
Ah, whatever. Told you I wasn't any good at writing letters. I've pretty much wasted this one; they ration everything up here, even notepaper. I still have to steal some extra pages from Seph so I can write my folks. Poor guy doesn't write home to anybody. He's probably too cool for that sort of thing. (You've definitely heard of Sephiroth. There's no one alive who hasn't heard of Sephiroth, unless they live out in the sticks. He's a first class. Like me, hehehe. And underneath all that hero-worship he's a total stiff who doesn't like me calling him Seph, but that doesn't matter.)
On top of all that, the mail truck only comes once every couple of weeks! Man.
Take care, anyhow, whatever you're doing. I wish you were here.
Or, maybe, given the circumstances, I guess it'd be better to say, "I wish I was there?" Yeah?
Never mind.
- Zack Fair