disclaimer: I do Not own Final Fantasy, I do not own Cloud or Zack (sadly), but I own Sylvia


This chapter will be a whole bunch of flashbacks from Cloud, Sylvia, and Zack's childhood while Sylvia is a temporary coma. :) Enjoy!


"Zachary Fair, get your butt over here!" an eight year-old Sylvia yelled in front of his house. Beside her stood a silent Cloud, his hands in the pockets of his baggy pants. From the house came a loud battle cry, and the door slammed open. Out ran another 8 year-old boy with spiky raven hair and bright violet eyes. He ran up to Sylvia and lifted her up in his arms. She began to laugh and turn pink. "Z-zack, s-stop it!" she giggled as he tickled her.

He laughed and lowered her to the ground. Beside them, Cloud looked...angry? Zack smiled and ruffled his blond hair, even though they were the same height. Cloud glared slightly at his friend and Sylvia rolled her eyes. "Would you two not start this again. Zack, leave him be," she defended.

Zack only smiled lightly and looked at Sylvia. "You know Sylv, keep protecting him like this I might start to assume something," he joked. Sylvia glared and slapped him in the head before turning on her heel and walking away. Cloud looked at Zack.

"That wasn't very nice Zack," he muttered. Zack smirked at him.

"What, she'll forgive me, she always forgives, she can't hold a grudge," he answered simply. Cloud sighed as the two boys began to walk in the direction their friend had left. Cloud wondered about what Zack had said. Did Sylvia like him?

The trio sat up on the roof of Zack's home. He was the only one who had two parents. Sylvia and Cloud lived with Cloud's mother. They looked up at the stars in the sky and sighed together. Ten year-old Sylvia turned to both of her friends. "Do you guys want to hear a song?" Zack sat up eagerly, while Cloud remained his usual silent self. She giggled a little. "Okay, but don't make fun of me."

"I won't, but I wouldn't be so sure about Zack," Cloud muttered. Sylvia laughed and lay her head on Cloud's stomach. Zack looked at the two of them and smiled. "Okay, Sylv, what song?"

Sylvia smiled and listened to Cloud's breathing while she thought. "OK, got one."

"Look at me, I will never pass for a perfect bride, or a perfect daughter. Can it be I'm not ment to play this part?" she sang softly, and Cloud look at her and felt his heart flutter. "Now I see, that if I were truly to be myself, I would break my family's heart." When she sang family, she was thinking of Zack. He didn't know how she felt for Cloud, ever since he asked her two years ago.

"Who, is that girl I see, staring straight, back at me? Why is my reflection someone I don't know. Somehow, I can not hide, who I am, though I've tried."

"When will my reflection show who I am inside. When will my reflection show, who I am...Inside," she finished. Zack clapped, and Cloud smiled faintly at her. Zack scooted closer and lifted Sylvia into his lap. Cloud frowned as her warmth disappeared. He hated that about Zack, he always took the things he liked away from him. Sylvia looked very uncomfortable in the situation she was in and sighed.

"What do you guys want to be when you're older?" she asked. Cloud and Zack suddenly smiled at each other.

"Heros," they answered in sync. She looked blankly at both of them. "Why" was all she said.

Cloud sat up. "We want people to look up to us, and protet the people we care about. We've always felt looked down on, so we just want to proove people wrong," he explained with a small smile. Sylvia nodded.

They'd make great heros.

Sylvia stood in her room, packing the last of her things into a bag on the bed. She whiped a tear from her eye. "I'm sorry, Cloud, Zack." Her long dress reached her feet, a sleeveless blue sundress. On her bed was a black cloak, and she sat on the floor, and cried.

The door opened, where two 13 year-old boys stood. They both looked so sad, and she couldn't help cry more, knowing they knew.

"You can't leave," Zack whispered. She didn't look at him, and they approached her and sat with her. She looked at the floor, and more tears dripped off her face and onto the wood floors. Cloud put his arms around her, and she blushed the slightest pink. Zack did the same, and she continued to sob. She pulled free and stood up. Picking up her cloak and bag, she looked at them.

"Move on," she choked out. "But don't forget our memories. Never forget your memories," she whispered. She walked forward and hugged each of them, kissing them on the cheeks. Without another word, she left.

As Sylvia walked down the road, she sensed a presence, and turned to see a man in his thirties, wearing a strange uniform. "Sylvia Lark, you have been selected for the ranks of SOLDIER."

That's the last thing she remembered of the light, before she came to years of torture, and sleep, among the ranks of SOLDIER.

Not long after she was placed in her slumber, Zack and Cloud had joined SOLDIER, unaware that there best friend was also in the facility. Every night, the two teens would sit alone and talk.

"I wonder what happened to Sylvia," Zack whispered one night. Cloud sighed, in other words, he didn't want to talk about it. Zack knew Cloud Strife had loved her, but he'd never told her. Now, he couldn't ever do it. Zack also knew that Sylvia was there, at SOLDIER. He'd seen her one day, and handed her a dagger that he knew she'd remember him by, and she had only looked at him coldly, but he saw the pain in her eyes, before he walked away.

Cloud looked at Zack, knowing there was something his friend wasn't telling him. "Zack, why do you think she left." Cloud never said her name, just her or she, never Sylvia. It was like taboo to him now. Zack frowned and furrowed his brow at Cloud.

"I guess she wanted us to be safe," Cloud whispered. 'She loved you' was what he was really saying.

"Or maybe she found her family." 'She wanted you to love her'

Cloud laid his head down and closed his eyes. "I just hope she's okay, wherever she is."

'I want her back.'


End of chapter :) I'm sorry if you find this kind of mushy, but I thought i would einteresting. The story is that Zack liked Sylvia, Sylvia liked Zack, and Cloud liked Sylvia, but she does start to fall for him later ;)

Thank you for reading, please review, LONG LIVE ZACK AND CLOUD