This is a song fic of sorts based on the song "Over the Sky" by Hitomi. It's part of a series of drabbles I did where I put my Ipod on shuffle and wrote until the song ended. Try it, it's fun!
It had been a year. One long year since the events that had ripped Cloud of the most important people in his life, but slowly, he was healing. The wound in his heart, while it would never leave him completely, was no longer a constant, stabbing pain, and Marlene and Denzel provided him with distractions from his grief.
He looked down at the worn photograph in his hand, smiling slightly back at that bright grin staring up at him. He remembered the day it was taken; it had been sunny and warm, and they had been taking advantage of a bit of precious time in between training sessions to lie under the clouds, interpreting their shapes and making out. "I miss you, Zack," he murmured, feeling almost as though he were there. "But... I'm surviving. I thought I wouldn't, that I couldn't, that it wouldn't be fair, but here I am. I'm surviving."
He finally knew that Zack would understand.
