Don't own FF or any of its bits and pieces.
So, this is my first attempt at FFVII, and I'm desperately afraid of OOCness. So lemme know if they are, and I'll do my best to fix it. Also, trying to branch out from fluff. Have I succeeded? If not, what would you suggest to do so? Please review and let me know.
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"Aeris?"
She likes to think that she's moved on. She keeps telling herself that she has, that she doesn't need him anymore, but deep down she knows it's not true. If it was she wouldn't still be tying the pink ribbon he gave her into her hair day after day, even long after its edges have begun to fray and its color to fade. She wouldn't look up at the sky and see nothing but his eyes.
"I've been waiting for you."
She feels it when he dies. She denies it, refuses to accept it, but the day his heart stops something inside her shatters. She pretends it's nothing, just another facet of her strange abilities or a result of her traumatic past. She still can't get to sleep that night, and when she finally does find slumber days later, her dreams are of SOLDIER eyes and blood dripping down pale skin and dark hair.
"Did you miss me?"
Learning that her visions were true is like losing him afresh, the pain breaking down the fragile shields she's built in the depths of her heart to contain the love she's so sought to bury and the hope she's denied needing. It becomes a constant, burning ache that doesn't lessen with the passing of days, and sometimes she wants to weep with the pain of it. But AVALANCHE needs her to be strong, and she holds back her tears behind her calm façade.
"C'mon. Let's get outa here."
He comes for her when she dies. His voice is a murmur in her ear as the world fades away, her essence abandoning her body to flow into the lifestream, and for the first time in a long time she sees him before her unmarred by a single drop of scarlet.
"I've missed you."
Her tears finally fall, catching on the corners of her smile as she says his name, and he wipes them away, forehead resting against hers. She wonders how she could ever have believed the lies she told herself.
"I missed you too, Zack."
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Sorry it's so short. But review anyway, please! Constructive criticism is wanted and welcomed. No flames, however. Thanks ever so much! ~Seeker