Ch4

In the morning everybody awoke to the great smelling food of Aeris' cooking. They had a good breakfast and afterwards Aeris left. Aeris walked into the church and started to tend to her flowers. She looked up and saw the hole that Cloud had made a long time ago. She giggled remembering what happened and turned her attention back to her flowers. She stopped and looked around "Please give me a sign of what the price of me coming back is." A very rare expression appeared on her face one of irritation. "I can only pray that it has nothing to do with my friends. She found a comfortable spot and folded her hands together and closed her eyes. Cloud walked into the church finding Aeris in this position.

He stood there seeing the peaceful expression on her face. While watching her the memory of her death came back to him. Remembering this is what made him run to her and pull her into an embrace. Aeris sat their dumbfounded and thought she could hear sobbing. "What's wrong Cloud?" She put her hand on Cloud head. "I just saw you sitting there like before, and I don't want to lose you again." She pushed Cloud a little ways away from her "I'm not going anywhere." She smiled at him "You go ahead and head back I'll be there soon." Cloud nodded and walked out. When she knew he was gone "About that sign I was talking about." When she stood up she walked outside to find Cloud sitting on his motorcycle waiting "I had a feeling you wouldn't take long." She smiled "Leave your bike here and let's go for a walk.

They somehow found themselves in the park. She smiled and ran to the slide. (A/N the one that looks like a hamster face!) She climbed to the top "Cloud get up here!" He smiled and climbed up there and sat next to her. She turned to him "Remember the day we came here." Cloud nodded. "Aeris scooted closer to Cloud. To Cloud she kind of looked scared "What's wrong?" "Have you ever had a bad feeling?" "Don't worry I'm here I'll protect you from everything." Cloud now facing her "I have one question did you ever forgive me?" Aeris smiled "For what?" "I let you die I almost killed you." "Cloud… I never blamed you not once." Cloud got a look of shock on his face. "How could I blame you Sephiroth was the one who killed me and the one who was controlling you?" "Thank you Aeris." "Cloud… I need to tell you something that I didn't have a chance to say last time. Cloud Strife I love you." "Aeris… I… love you to." Cloud leaned in and kissed her. After a couple of seconds she realized how late it was. With her face as red as her jacket she said "We should head back before the others start to worry." "You're right." They walked quietly back to the church and they climbed on Cloud's motorcycle. "Hang on." They were riding down the road when some monsters appeared, Cloud disposed of them quickly Aeris just watched in awe as to how quickly Cloud defeated them. When they had almost reached Seventh Heaven someone appeared in front of Cloud bike and he quickly turned and he knew he was going to crash so he pulled Aeris into his arms. When they both recovered Cloud looked for the idiot who got in front of a motorcycle. When he saw who it was his eyes got big "Sephiroth." Sephiroth turned his piercing gaze towards Aeris "Did you actually think you came back by yourself I'm your price."