Do You Love Me?
As He sat there sipping his drink as he scanned the bar from his usual table at the corner of the bar his mind replayed over and over again her question a question she had asked not to long ago.
"Do you love me?" The question tormented him as he kept a sly eye on her making sure or that none of the usual drunken lowlifes tried to hit on her.
Just as the bar was closing however a drunken costumer had approached her, it was oblivious to everyone that this man had a rather large crush on Tifa and that didn't sit too well with Cloud. He stumbled up to her and of course like most drunks tripped over his own two feet and would have fallen onto Tifa if it weren't for Cloud's warrior fast reflexes. He caught the drunk by the scruff of the neck and threw him straight out the door, he landed face first in a rather muddy puddle but before the drunk was back on his feet however Cloud had already slammed the door shut and locked it behind him.
Slowly he turned to face the women he had realised he loved all along.
"Tifa?" he asked seeing the rather angry look on her face.
"What the hell Cloud? There was no need for that!" Tifa shouted
"Sorry" Cloud replied scratching the back of his head as a slightly as he blushed rather red. Suddenly the words he wanted to say felt thick and heavy on his tongue and it was goanna be a inner battle to force the words out. Clearing his throat more than once he forced the words.
"Teef Do, do you remember the, the question you asked me a few months ago?" Cloud asked blushing even deeper. Tifa's eyes filled eyes filled with tears a mixture of fear, sadness and anger.
"Yes Do you love me?" she repeated her question she had asked only a few months ago just before Cloud had left to find a cure for Geostigma. Her tone was laced with angry she wasn't going to allow herself to show the fear her chest ached with as he could easily walk out again on her.
"Tifa I-I-I love you more than life it's self I always have but have been blind to it what with my past" Cloud rambled getting all nervous for admitting his feeling for Tifa. Tifa's eyes overflowed with tears as she slowly closed the small distance between herself and him but she had stumbled ever so slightly, Cloud caught her, they stayed like that for several seconds before Cloud brushed a stray hair out of her eyes which led to their first kiss. Breaking away Cloud whispered
"I love you"
With that footsteps were heard running back to bed, just as the bar lights were turned off and Cloud and Tifa headed up to bed hand in hand.
"Finally I thought those two would never get together even though it was plain for all to see hell even Sephiroth saw it" Zack sighed as he got up from the chair and headed over to join Aerith who was sitting on the couch reading.
"So they finally got together then?" Aerith sighed feeling a slight tingle of annoyance that the man she had once loved had finally gotten his act together and admitted his true feelings for Tifa but that soon subsided as Zack laced his arms around her and all that melted away she was with the man she was meant to be with and now Tifa was as well.