So here we go, a series of drabbles/shorts about our favourite little chocobo!

I dedicate this to Jediempress and Shattered Mirror01 who reviewed my other KH fic 'Silence and Motion' from start to finish.

Disclaimer: I do not own Cloud and Aeris/Aerith.


Distance: the state or fact of being apart in space, as of one thing from another; remoteness; absence of warmth; reserve

Love and hate. Two different things, right? And yet, he both loved and hated looking at her. She wasn't right. She was supposed to be dead but she was there in front him.

When he first saw her, he'd been almost too shocked to say anything. "Aeris…?"

She had smiled. "Actually, it's Aerith."

He had been too afraid to ask what the change in name meant. Too afraid to ask whether this meant she was a different person.

She had memories, memories that Aeris had, but no-one knew better than him that memories could be deceiving.

For now, he chose to both love and hate her, drawn to her but keeping his distance.