Notes: Massive update!
Summary: When Cloud is gone, Denzel and Marlene will play.
For: Kisdota- The Freak Gamer
Normally at nine thirty at night, the children are asleep. Tonight, they are sneaking around in their room and playing with toys, stifling their laughter so not to get caught. They can hear Cloud downstairs at the bar, eating quietly. Denzel and Marlene both know that Tifa has gone out tonight to buy some supplies.
"I'm bored." Marlene says to her playmate. She drops her dolls onto the ground, looking around the darkened room for anything more interesting to play with.
Denzel looks around as well. He finds that everything in the room has been played with, whether it was during the day or just a few moments ago, it doesn't matter. There is nothing new in the room to play for the day. Suddenly he thinks of a great idea.
"Hey Mar…"
Marlene looks at him with wide eyes. Her eyebrow is lifted in question.
"How long do you think Cloud will take to finish eating" Denzel asked.
Marlene looked up in thought, her fingers drumming against her chin. Cloud just started his meal. He would eat Tifa's home cooked meal slowly and then he'll take the time to wash whatever dishes remained in the sink. He might even sit down at the bar and sip a beer to wait for Tifa to come back home. She shrugged when she came up with an answer. "Something like an hour."
Denzel nodded. The gears in his head are working. An hour is plenty long enough to play. There was even a sufficient enough time to get in and out of this room in a quiet manner and into Cloud's room. They would play there until either they were tired or until they heard someone coming, whichever came first.
He stood up and headed towards the door. He creaked it open and popped his head out through the crack. He strained to listen for the movements of a very quiet man. "Let's go Marlene!" He whispered, waving his hand.
"Where are we going?"
"To Cloud's room."
"Why?" She asked him and despite the fact that he had yet to answer her, she followed him out the door of their bedroom and into the hall. They crossed the narrow hall and into their male guardian's room.
They arrive in the dark room. Denzel reaches for the small lamp on Cloud's messy desk, where piles of paper rested. The light manages to become a spotlight to the object of Denzel's mind. It takes up an entire corner of the room where Cloud has propped it carefully against. Denzel turns to Marlene who is curiously watching him.
"If I can lift up Cloud's sword, then I'll grow up to be just like him."
"Yeah right! You're much smaller than Cloud, you'll never be able to even lift it up from the floor!" Marlene hisses at him. Her eyes dart between the sword and Denzel.
"I can too! I'm two years older than you and much bigger. Besides I'm almost as tall as Cloud! At least I can do it, you wouldn't be able to since you're a girl!" He retorts.
Marlene glares at him and releases an angry puff of air. "I'm a strong girl, just like Tifa!"
Denzel decides not to respond, since she's right about Tifa. He walks over to the sword and carefully edges it down to the floor. When it is standing up, it is too tall for him to be able to reach the hilt.
"Bet you can't do it." Marlene taunts. She crosses her arms and sits on Cloud's narrow bed. She is still upset with Denzel.
He kneels down and his hands wrap around the cloth covered hilt. He can feel the imprints of a set of bigger hands, ones that belong to his hero. He lifts up and his legs straighten out until he's standing. It's hard to get up, it is as if there has become too much gravity and it is weighing him down. He has managed to raise half of the sword up yet the very tip of it still remained on the ground.
Denzel heaves up with his hands. Still the sword doesn't budge. His face is starting to turn red. The sword doesn't move. It is heavy!
Marlene watches him and finally gets up from her position in bed and strides over. She grabs a hold of the hilt behind Denzel and lifts with all her might.
There! They got it up! They're balancing it between the two and the sword looks like it was levitating since it is impossible for the children to lift it up anymore.
The help Marlene provided leads to an argument.
"See I told you I could lift it up!"
"You only could because I had already lifted it halfway!" Denzel shouts. They have forgotten the rule to be quiet.
"Well it isn't like you lifted it either!"
And they start taking steps back, their hands and bodies still lifting the sword up. They turn to face each other, shouting.
"You couldn't do it without me!"
"No, you couldn't do it without me!"
And then in the next moment there was a loud crash and the sword got heavier. Marlene and Denzel let out a yelp and immediately dropped the sword. It thudded onto the ground and resonated in their ears painfully.
Thundering steps come along and the children look at each other. Their mouths are hanging open and their eyes wide. They have forgotten the rule to be quiet and now they were going to get caught! Worst, they thought, when they turned their head, they were going to be killed! The sword they had been carrying had dropped was still attached to the wall they had stabbed through by accident. It has left a long scar down on the wall. Tifa was going to murder them!
"What's going on here?!" Tifa shouted.
Tifa looks at the wall in horror. Cloud comes up behind her, peeks over her shoulder and groans. Tifa goes inside and takes the kids out while Cloud picks up the sword with amazing ease from the wall and props it back to where he had left it prior to the disruption.
Hours later and quite a lot of explaining, Denzel and Marlene end up grounded. They look down to the ground ashamed as they walk back up to their rooms. Cloud and Tifa sigh and sit together at the bar, nursing a bottle of vodka between them.
"That's going to take some money to fix that up." Cloud mentioned, already thinking of how many deliveries he would have to make to compensate for the loss.
"Not to mention how ugly the wall is going to look with a line of plaster on it. I hope you don't mind." Tifa replies. He shrugs in response. "What were they thinking anyways? Playing with your sword?"
Cloud doesn't answer and they sit in companionable silence. Suddenly Tifa lets out a laugh.
"Why do you have to have a big sword anyways? Are you trying to look taller with that giant sword attached to your back?"
He gapes at her.
"Or are you trying to compensate for something you're lacking, hm, Cloud?" Her eyes are teasing and she bursts out laughing. She leans over the bar and kisses him hard. She winks and tells him: "You know I don't really know what the fuss is about, your size is very satisfying as it is."
And he can only bury his head in his hands as he fights a blush while she laughs at his expense.
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