TEN – Remembering
You'll get him this time Cloud, I know you will
Her voice was soft and gentle. So much like the soft pink colour of her dress, so much like the gentle brown of her hair that was tied back with its pink bow. They were stood in the middle of her flowers, as they always were when they met like this but this time she was facing him. She smiled at him with that beautiful smile and he found himself melting. Even now, after all this time, he found Aeris Gainsborough the most beautiful woman he had ever met.
"I don't think I can…not this time…"
He belongs in your memories. And that is where he will be… He felt a cold touch on his nose You can do it.
"But what if I let her down? Like I let you down?"
You didn't let me down Cloud
"I let you die"
Dilly dally shilly shally.
"You say that a lot…"
She smiled at him The others will help you Cloud. And I will. We're a team, and we always have been
She gently touched his arm, and he shivered with the cold touch. And then his eyes snapped open and he found himself in the cockpit area of the tiny airship that Shera had given them. No one was back yet, and he was glad. He needed this time to himself, to remember her, to spend time with her. In truth, he had never stopped loving Aeris. And he never would.