New fic to follow up Lost Reason, and Nervous Breakdown.

Disclaimer: I am not making any profit at all with this fic, all characters used and settings belong to Square Enix

Note: this is a song fic and a one-shot

Enjoy!


Desert Rose

Concrete surrounding…

With a single breath

They are freezing my heat

From the scar, I'm suffering

'Cause I'm leaving you, being punished for my sin

No one lives forever (forever more)

I can't stay anymore

Time stood still for no one but me, each day- no, each second as I watched her; she became older as I remained the same. Even without Chaos and the other monsters, this accursed body of mine, had my physical twenty eight year old form, yet I was old enough to be her grandfather. She willingly gave her love and time to me, and greedily I took it all…

"Why do you have to leave, Vincent?!" said Tifa as she sat up from our bed.

I stood there silently adjusting the old familiar red mantle, and turning around to look at her moonlit face, I gazed one last time at her haunting beauty. Her rose pedal lips, her ebony hair, and finally her tear filled eyes.

"Why can't you tell me!?"

I then quickly turned and briskly walked to the door.

"Why…?" she said weakly.

I paused and hesitated but decided to tell her, "Because I must."

And without another word I left her crying.

I'm a criminal

Falling out of love

Just wanted to know

If you really need me

I'm a criminal

Without a doubt

You've got to show

If you really need me

You're my desert rose…

I travelled far, further and further to run away from the guilt I had. She deserved better, a monster of a man for a companion? I was no better than the beasts she defeated. Yet, she was still the one I thought of.

No lights are coming in…

But it's not the light

Nor the wind I'm missing

Wanna hold you in my arms

But I'm leaving you, put out of my misery

No one cries forever (forever more)

You can't stay anymore (hear my calling)

I dreamed of her, she was always within reach. Teasing and caressing, soft yet firm, yet the moment I touched her face she turned to dust. Slipping through my fingers, forever falling and I did this to her.

"Shhh, it's okay I'm here."

I blinked open my eyes, out here in the Nibelheim Mountains, her hometown nearby, under the thick evergreen trees, I heard her voice. I was dreaming, delirious, insane, it was utterly impossible that she'd be able to find me and yet just hovering within my eyesight, was the last person I would have expected.

"Vincent, it's okay. It was only a nightmare." she said with a loving smile as she brushed back my bangs.

I abruptly stood up and began walking away, "You should not have come."

Before I could counter her roundhouse kick, she had me down on my back. I was about to sit up when she stomped hard on my solar plexus. She then leaned over so I could see her trying to prevent her angry tears from falling, "Why does everyone think that I can't handle anything!?"

I'm a criminal

Falling out of love

I wonder how

We ended up like this

I'm a criminal

Always on the run

I know I was wrong

Let me love you again

You're my desert rose…

I watched as her tears slid silently down her skin. I watched as her knees buckled. I watched as she collapsed onto me shaking and occasionally pounding on my chest. I watched as she cried.

I did this to her.

I made her like this, a mere ghost of herself.

I'm a criminal

Falling out of love

Just wanted to know

If you really need me

I'm a criminal

Without a doubt

You've got to show

If you really need me

I'm a criminal

Falling out of love

I wonder how

We ended up like this

She continued to silently cry.

Each of her tears called to me, like pieces of her heart.

I sat up and gently cupped her face, brushing away her tears.

And again she asked the same question she did on the day that I left, "Why?"

I'm a criminal

Always on the run

I know I was wrong

Let me love you again

You're my desert rose…

"I am immortal. You are mortal."

"I don't ca-

"But I do."

The unsaid words surrounded us in the forest, neither of us made a move. Stubborn to a fault, we waited for the right words to come to us as we stared at each other. Tifa with her mud smeared cheeks and I sat still grasping her hands and feeling her pulse under my palm….

I'm a criminal

She was now forever twenty eight and as beautiful as ever.

The only difference between us now was that, I stole her time.

I'm a criminal

Falling out of love

Just wanted to know

If you really need me

You're my desert rose…


The song "Desert Rose" is by the Japanese J-rock band abingdon boys school. The song is the b-side song to their single BLADE CHORD. Note the format of the song is all messed up, there should be a space before every "I'm a criminal" signaling each stanza of the song.

This fic will probably conclude the FFVII, abingdon boys school song fic "trilogy"

What do you think of this one shot?