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AN: Sorry for not updating sooner, if you've seen my speel on my other fanfics as to the reason why its taken a while to update alot of these and such, but if you haven't, I'll repeat myself. I haven't had inspiration for the fanfics I've posted on here on the recent months and its taken a while to get new inspiration and its not easy when you're getting Skills you're gonna have to remember for testing on them for a class, on top of having to cram down a foreign language like Spanish that isn't easy to learn on top of personal crisises going on in my own personal life that are too many name and number. Either way. I'm on a Winter break until I start finding work after the upcoming first of the year due to numerous reasons that are personal in their own ways, but once I'm working...it'll be a while again before you guys see any new works or chapters from me.
If you guys can be patient in regards to the fanfics that are up at the moment in waiting for new chapters or any new fanfics once I have found work or begin my journey to find work, I will very much appreciate it. If you wish to email regarding anything, you can find it via my profile; you can even email me for my MSN and Skype screennames, I'll even get on the Internet vers. of YIM to IM peoples on Yahoo, but I won't bother with AIM. So, yeah. Unless its urgent, PM me. Until then, enjoy the new chapter of Stormy Weather. As crappy as it may read...I'm trying to work around various other random drabbles that are written up for this...believe me. The thing regarding Sephiroth in this will come about in a tail end to make up the ending of the next chapter. Stay tuned!
Chapter 7
Weekend visits tend to be something you would associate with a spouse or significant other visiting a loved in prison or even, for a young child that was dealing with a broken home where Mommy and Daddy weren't living together anymore and yet, every other weekend or even every weekend to visit either Mommy or Daddy. It would be a rare occasion when any College student would come home to visit their parents just to get away from the hassle, noise and chaos of College life, but for some, it was a way to just come home to a safe, sane environment away from the chaos that was or could be forming at the College. Roxas hadn't been home since leaving for the College the day after something as out of place as chaos that had not even formed on the College campus, but had been formed at place that he had thought had been a kind of sanctuary to escape to when things in the Real World seemed unbearable. Unfortunately, that sanctuary was being invaded by an unknown force that was making it hard to return to that sanctuary and to the Princess, as it seemed, being held against his will and the same could be said for an outside force keeping the Princess at bay away from him.
"…So, how's school going?" Leon was trying and starting to fail at trying to start a conversation with the boy, as nerve wracking as it seemed to him; it must have seemed like a redundant question to Roxas, "You keeping up with your studies?"
Roxas shrugged as he looked out the car window, "…School is fine, can't really complain about it too much because isn't there anything real special that's happened…"
Leon looked over briefly as he saw Roxas' fingers clawing at the armrest on the passenger side door to the way Roxas' body shifted about as if he was going to start throwing himself into a fit over something that wasn't there or hadn't been spoken about; he had to change the situation soon before he had an angry teenager on his hands.
"Have you met any new people at school, like, any new friends or at least run into some of the old group you use to run with in High School?" Leon cautiously looked towards Roxas who seemed to loosen his grip on the door handle as Roxas seemed to be thinking about that one.
"…I ran into Demyx the other day and nearly decked him because lately I've just been out of sorts lately; haven't seen hide or hair of Hayner or Seifer, let alone Olette or Pence. For all I know, they've got classes on days and hours I'm not around campus that much, but I've on and off seen Namine, on the side of…" Roxas' demeanor seemed to turn sour as if he didn't want to have to come out and say he was seeing her on a friendly, here and there date, kind of side of it all, "…She's different then how she was in High School; she had an epiphany of sorts as she put it that she's not all that into guys, but occasionally she'll date one on the side of here and there girl…"
"…O-Oh…"Leon seemed to blush slightly, "Sorry, I don't mean to laugh but I guess that's what happens once you've split with someone for another and you realize neither one was aware the other was interested in a different kind of person entirely."
Roxas just shrugged it off as he saw the familiar sights of home coming into view; Rinoa was standing near the Living Room window watching for them to come home, nervousness was etched all over his face as he balled her fingers now and again in the curtains of the window, but a gentle hand placed itself against her shoulder.
Cloud's soft gaze and soft smile seemed to smooth it all for her, but he couldn't help but feel a feeling of loss at not knowing what else he could do but stand and nod or at best, smile a smile he felt was false. It had felt false since the only time he had ever felt he could have truly smiled a true smile was during a time when he had felt utterly and blissfully happy with someone he thought cared about him more then life itself, but that became an utter lie itself.
"…S-Seph…Sephiroth…S-Stop this…" a soft groan of pain came from the soft lips that were then tasting something sour as the taste of salt and something of a strong taste of hard liquor brazened against his lips as tipsy fingers danced against his skin, "P-Please…stop this, you aren't in your right mind again…stop it!"
"I SAID STOP IT!" the sound of a resounding smack left itself echoing in the small room as it brought the drunken stupor of a man to his senses, but in the next moments it was a flurry of sounds, "…I can't do this anymore. I can't keep standing by and watch you drink yourself into oblivion…I'm sorry, but…I got to leave…"
A door opened itself as the sound of glass shattering shattered near his head the minute his shaking hand reached for the door handle as it was wretched back and that stale stench was overcome by the scent of a deep musk that carried out on the wind through the open bedroom window that became entangled with the harsh screams and cries of the night as in the morning, there was nothing but a feel of guilty redemption and a broken heart. Shaking fingers caressing against a frightened face as the frightened eyes in them dashed away just as fast as the broken man of the moment could dash away from the man, gather up his things and leave.
"…Cloud…Cloud…Cloud…"
"Cloud…Cloud," Rinoa had seen that the man had drifted off into an odd stupor of sorts, almost as if the man had gone into a darkened comatose state as she shook him harder, "Cloud, are you okay?"
The minute the front door opened and the sound of a set of footsteps stepped and Rinoa's broke out again, "Leon, thank Gaia you're here…" she guided the man to the quiet and frozen to the spot blond, "He hasn't moved for the past five minutes from that spot or position…I don't know what is wrong…"
Leon looked the man over as he grasped his hands about Cloud's shoulder as he lightly shook him, "…Cloud…hey, did you fall asleep on your feet again?" it seemed almost like a joke to the man until he saw the man's arms tightly embrace about him, not a word muttered from the man just the sensation of the man nuzzling in close against him, "Cloud?"
"Welcome back…Leon…" the man finally spoke up; Rinoa stood in awed confusion as she forgot all about the reasons of why Leon and Cloud had been here or the realization Roxas was at home.
"…Hey Mom…"Roxas softly spoke up as he set his things down, "I'm here and in one piece…"
Rinoa slowly turned her attention to her son as she swept arms around him, quietly and softly sobbing as she embraced the young man, "Mom…come on, its just a visit, nothing huge…It's not like I've been off at war for 2 years plus and just gotten home in one piece…"
But to Rinoa it was a big deal, "…I'm just glad to see you home, is that a bad thing now?"
"…No," Roxas guiltily spoke up as he hugged his Mother back; Leon had lead Cloud out of the room and into the Kitchen to speak to him in private.
Once the men realized they were alone, Leon was the first speak as he gazed into his lover's soft blue eyes that had become softened, bloodshot and puffy from crying as he traced his fingers about the face and eyes, "What was all of that comatose act back in there? Rinoa is already at her wits end with thinking her own kid is going to one of these days just up and snap or do something she'll feel she's at fault for…what happened while I was gone?"
"…He called the other day while you were at work…"Cloud quietly whispered; it sounded like a child that didn't want to fess up to something guilty they had done while Mommy or Daddy were away, "…Leon…he's out…and he knows where I am…"
It was an answer Leon didn't want to hear or want to believe was even real or coming from Cloud, the nightmare was back and Leon had only thought that the one time he had heard Cloud scream out another person's name that night he had taken his frustration towards Axel out on Cloud was just a fluke, but…it wasn't. Cloud's eyes were scared and they darted here and there like a scared rabbit; it was as if the man was in his head, rewiring every single one of his own thoughts with memories of the past when he had been the nightmare, all those happy times at that one time that had turned into a dark nightmare each and every time his former love would drown himself into a bottle. It was like living through Roxas, aside from the alcoholic Mother; this was worse, Cloud's former lover had been a man that would come within inches of nearly overtaking the man in a rage of drunken passion to nearly killing the man for something stupid said or done when the man was drunk. The night Cloud had walked out on the man and just a few short months after Cloud had started seeing Leon, the ex-lover would come hunting, more or less, searching for the one that had gotten away. Numerous times they would have to call out the cops on the man to a trail of numerous counts and lost counts of restraining orders against the psychotic silver haired man; it had gotten to the point that it was going to have to land Cloud in the nut house or they were going to have land the silver haired psycho ex-lover in the wacko basket.
And that's where the man had recently been held up at.
"…C-Cloud…are you sure it was him…?" now it was Leon's turn to shake in place as he held the blond within arms length of himself, "Are you sure it was him…it could've been someone impersonating as him."
"NO! IT WAS HIM, LEON! THAT BASTARD IS THE ONLY WITH THAT ONE PARTICULAR KIND OF VOICE! DON'T YOU DARE AND TRY SAY I'M A LIAR LEON HAWTHORNE LEONHART!"
Leon pulled Cloud in flush against him as he calmed the frantic and panicking man as his fingers threaded through the man's golden spikes as he felt him quietly sobbing in his arms and shaking like a frightened child, "…I would never call you a liar…I just want to make sure it was him so we aren't jumping on the wrong person…that'll look bad for us especially if he does show up again…"
"…I…I know…and I swear to you…it was him…that sickeningly, sweet, psychotic voice dripping from that forked poisoned tongue was his him…he's found us again, Leon…I…I…I can't do this all over again…" Cloud quietly kept his voice against Leon's ear; he didn't want to drag Leon's small and fractured family into his own personal demon life, "…I'll be fine…let's just go and enjoy the time with Rinoa and your son…"
"…Cloud," Leon went to speak but he felt Cloud's shaking lips caressing against his own as he softly settled into the unspoken request as he sighed, releasing Cloud from his arms as they wandered back into the Living Room where they found Rinoa and Roxas sitting in silence.
