Kingdom Hearts

Memories chapter 2

A Dark and Stormy Night

A red cape and a lonesome soul come back to her in her dreams. The mentioning of a vampire of the sorts brings up an old fond nickname and of adventures into the underground. She had forgotten him at one point but that all came back quite quickly and unexpectedly. It came after seeing Cloud again for the first time, in his red cape and his claw, and it didn't help that they acted similar. Why did he do that? Did Cloud do it on purpose to bring back old memories and to keep her in this state of separation, the separation of past and present? Whatever the reason, she decided not to ask for the fact that she knew Cloud would give a half-baked answer. She remembered and held those memories dear, like all of her other memories of then. Now, she would always be on the lookout for any sign of them particularly him; rumors of a vampire taking over and molesting poor innocent girls, a sign of a monster, though she knew that he was no where near a monster, anything. But as time passed nothing came and all she was left with was her memories, just like everything else that had left her.

She remembers when she first saw him, she seriously thought he was a vampire; he slept in a coffin, wore red, had a dark and mysterious aura surrounding him, and practically screamed vampire with his claw and golden pointy boots. But then she soon learned, that he was more than he seemed; a lot more than he seemed. His past was tragic like everyone else in the groups, but his seemed oh so much more tragic, because he considered himself a monster. Everyone else just held the guilt of the past… well more past. He was consistently reminded of his guilts every time he saw Sephiroth, for that was the root of his guilt. But she remembers beyond this, she remembers the times she got him to crack a smile or to do this version of a laugh, each one was dear to her, for he never was happy enough. He was, she could say, her first crush. Who couldn't fall for those red eyes and mysterious aura, and it didn't help that he was a killer fighter and a gentlemen as well. Gosh, what an oxymoron. He was the only one who understood her, saw reasoning behind her actions, and accepted her after her attempt of materia robbing. He never looked at her in a suspicious manner, and in return she trusted him with her life and was there for him as well. She was the one who would play the fool to cheer him up, even though it didn't show. She was the one who played happy to show that happiness could still exist in a time of crisis. Now that she thought about it, she was always wearing some kind of mask, wasn't she? But at the end, she kept her role in the group as the little sister and never tried to tell her feelings for the stoic vampire. For at the end, it was pointless, he was hung up on that girl, and everyone viewed her as a child no matter how much she grew.

And then the memories turned dark, he was the last one of the group she saw. She was injured and he promised to come back with help, he told her to stay there until he came back. She promised and he turned into that dark and stormy night. So she waited and waited, days passed, but he never came back. Soon she was forced to break her promise to fight her way to survival until she somehow ended up in Now.

She sometimes unconsciously calls Leon Vinnie, and each time apologizing and laughing it off, making it seem like an innocent mistake joking about a secret lover. But at times, she feels that Leon somehow knows something but isn't saying, and she wants it to be kept that way. The less people know, the better. No pitting glances and no murmurs of whispering for her. She had enough of that Then, when she went home when it was home, and she didn't need it Now.

---author's note---

I know I uploaded the first chapter and claimed to be completed a long while ago, but today I had a sudden urge to go back and pick it up. Lately, I've been flakey, so I don't know how it's going to go. I might go back and finish a couple of other unfinished stories.

Since I'm in the mood to continue this story, I'm going to let you, the reader, to choose the character to write about in the next chapter.

So your choices are:

A) Cloud

B) Sephiroth

C) Godo

D) Reno

Tell me who you want by either PM or in a review.

Well, you know the system. RxR Thanks and bye!