Authors Notes: Yayy!! I got some reviews!!! ^_^ I'm so happy! Ok well I'm
gonna try and put it into paragraphs as that seems to be what everyone
wants. I don't own FF7, if I did I'd b very rich, but I'm not ;_; I don't
own the title for this chapter either; its taken from Creed: 'One Last
Breath' which totally rocks ^_^ Ok I wont keep ya hanging on anymore.
Here's the drama chapter. I know it overlaps a bit with the last chapter
but I need to go over it to write the rest.
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Chapter Four: "I'm Six Feet From The Edge And I'm Thinking."
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Tifa stopped in her tracks as she heard a voice calling her name. In reality she didn't have to look to know who it was. She had heard that voice calling her name in her dreams enough to recognise it instantly. Ignoring the pain she felt at his voice, she forced herself to turn towards him, if only to allow herself to look at him one last time.
Seeing him stood there sent a piercing arrow through her heart; it stood to rub in almost what she had come to realise; that her life was a mess and it was totally pointless without him featuring in it. Cloud muttered something and stepped towards Tifa, with a gentle, caring smile upon his face. This confused Tifa even more; ("I thought he was in a mourning period for Aeris? Why is he bothering to comfort me?") and she stepped back out of the reach of his outstretched arms. The gentle look on Cloud's face faded, to be replaced with one of worry as Tifa broke into a jog, and then a run, away from Cloud. Tifa felt like she couldn't bear to feel Cloud touch her as a friend; couldn't bear to feel him without knowing she meant anything to him, compared to the devotion she felt in her heart for him.
Tears flowing down her face again, she ran through the dusty corridors. Her long hair flew behind her freely, as the clip she normally wore in the brown locks was already far behind her. The shorter strands of hair around her face stuck to her wet cheeks, and she had to keep brushing them back. People jumped back to the sides of the passage as the sobbing Tifa shot past, followed by Cloud, who fell into a group of people standing on a corner. Tumbling to the ground, he could only watch as Tifa left his sight. Soon, Tifa had reached the first ladder, which led to the level of networked caves above the living level. With an athletic leap, she grasped the rungs and started to haul herself up.
She was an extremely fast runner, so Cloud had had trouble chasing her. Soon after, he reached the ladder himself and frantically began to pull himself after her. "Tifa?? Tifa!!!! What the hell're ya doin?" he yelled up at the already empty hole at the top of the ladder, to be met with no answer. "Damn!" he muttered to himself, this chase had already taken it out of him because he had lost a lot of time picking himself off the ground back there, and to run anywhere near as fast as Tifa had tired him out no end. Still, the former SOLDIER continued to pull himself up after Tifa, his mind spinning and his stomach knotted up with worry and desperation. ("Never before have I ever seen her this bad.") he thought, ("What the hell could be wrong with her? God if she does anything stupid before I get there.") Reaching the top of the long ladder he hauled his body up with a groan; his arms were bruised badly from the mission in the North Crater a few days ago and he was glad he didn't have to climb any more, because he could feel them starting to give way. With a holler of "TIFA!" he set off running down the pitch black tunnel towards his childhood friend and newfound love.
~*~ Continued in next chapter. its too big to leave as 1!!
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Chapter Four: "I'm Six Feet From The Edge And I'm Thinking."
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Tifa stopped in her tracks as she heard a voice calling her name. In reality she didn't have to look to know who it was. She had heard that voice calling her name in her dreams enough to recognise it instantly. Ignoring the pain she felt at his voice, she forced herself to turn towards him, if only to allow herself to look at him one last time.
Seeing him stood there sent a piercing arrow through her heart; it stood to rub in almost what she had come to realise; that her life was a mess and it was totally pointless without him featuring in it. Cloud muttered something and stepped towards Tifa, with a gentle, caring smile upon his face. This confused Tifa even more; ("I thought he was in a mourning period for Aeris? Why is he bothering to comfort me?") and she stepped back out of the reach of his outstretched arms. The gentle look on Cloud's face faded, to be replaced with one of worry as Tifa broke into a jog, and then a run, away from Cloud. Tifa felt like she couldn't bear to feel Cloud touch her as a friend; couldn't bear to feel him without knowing she meant anything to him, compared to the devotion she felt in her heart for him.
Tears flowing down her face again, she ran through the dusty corridors. Her long hair flew behind her freely, as the clip she normally wore in the brown locks was already far behind her. The shorter strands of hair around her face stuck to her wet cheeks, and she had to keep brushing them back. People jumped back to the sides of the passage as the sobbing Tifa shot past, followed by Cloud, who fell into a group of people standing on a corner. Tumbling to the ground, he could only watch as Tifa left his sight. Soon, Tifa had reached the first ladder, which led to the level of networked caves above the living level. With an athletic leap, she grasped the rungs and started to haul herself up.
She was an extremely fast runner, so Cloud had had trouble chasing her. Soon after, he reached the ladder himself and frantically began to pull himself after her. "Tifa?? Tifa!!!! What the hell're ya doin?" he yelled up at the already empty hole at the top of the ladder, to be met with no answer. "Damn!" he muttered to himself, this chase had already taken it out of him because he had lost a lot of time picking himself off the ground back there, and to run anywhere near as fast as Tifa had tired him out no end. Still, the former SOLDIER continued to pull himself up after Tifa, his mind spinning and his stomach knotted up with worry and desperation. ("Never before have I ever seen her this bad.") he thought, ("What the hell could be wrong with her? God if she does anything stupid before I get there.") Reaching the top of the long ladder he hauled his body up with a groan; his arms were bruised badly from the mission in the North Crater a few days ago and he was glad he didn't have to climb any more, because he could feel them starting to give way. With a holler of "TIFA!" he set off running down the pitch black tunnel towards his childhood friend and newfound love.
~*~ Continued in next chapter. its too big to leave as 1!!