Zachary Fair was wild and untamed-a wolf in the form of a human. He was the Alpha Sentinel of Midgar and Cloud Strife - a simple Guide from Nibelheim had no clue what he was getting into when he stepped inside the wolf's den.

"I'm not marrying you because you're an Omega. I'm marrying you because you steal the very breath from my lungs. I'm marrying you because you make my heart race and my thoughts halt. Love like that, Cloud, it's not found very often." It wasn't destiny that he was supposed to marry Lord Zachary Fair. In fact, Cloud would call it purely accidental. Purely.

In the aftermath of the disastrous Nibelheim mission, Zack Fair returns to Midgar a hero. The dream has never meant so little. AU.

Zack Fair is an apprentice blacksmith living in the renaissance age with his uncle, Angeal. However, their lives are anything but ordinary when their entire kingdom has dragons as companions and workers! Zack's world turns upside-down when he realizes he's about to raise a dragon of his very own. CxZ Pair. Also features characters from other Final Fantasy's.

Wings curled about Cloud in a gothic beauty, and Zack couldn't help but stare. He promised to protect Cloud. What could he say now? With a feral growl, Cloud lunged. Zack didn't get the chance to block.

Aerith and Tifa are two roommates who have since come to terms with the fact that the house they bought is very much haunted. As they adapt to make room for their two invisible housemates, they unravel a story about murder, tragedy, and a love that surely went on after death.

Zack and Cloud, on the run. Gen.

To Cloud's astonishment, a previously undiscovered Materia pulls in Zack from a parallel world – a timeline where Cloud was the one who'd died on the cliff, and Zack had lived.

Zack and Cloud meet at two very different points in their lives. It's only natural they fall in love at two different points as well.

This is a little story about growing older, wiser and, of course, the trials of love. There is strife, turmoil, hardships, and good times ahead. Two people drawn together must fight to stay together, and for what they know as right. Those bent on destruction are in for a world of hurt. Take a seat, I'll tell you all I know. (au/pwp/series)

Save yourself; that's what he should do. He knows there's nothing good coming except pain and sorrow. But instead he'll take this as it is. Maybe it won't be so bad in the end...

Or "the fear of bridges." Okay, so Zack's not sure if Cloud really has it, but the kid is pretty weird around bridges.

Hair messy and unkempt, nice but too wild to manage. Teenage boisterousness which reared its head in moments of anger, but little self-control over such emotions. Cloud was clumsy and awkward. He stumbled over his words. He acted impulsively. And he was just so damn innocent and young. Cloud pretty much hit all of Zack's dirty fantasies- including ones he wasn't even aware of.

Things are finally heading in the right direction, but when Zack Fair shows up in Edge, his mere presence threatens to unhinge Cloud's already unstable mind. No one is sure if he can handle having the reality of his alter ego around, yet they can't just throw the confused SOLDIER out into the streets either. He has to stay and, hopefully, Cloud's sanity with him. CxZ Clack

A SOLDIER and an engineer are sent out to shut down a failing mako reactor. Neither anticipated how hard it would be to work with the other...or how rewarding.

Zack had never imagined Cloud would have such a dirty mouth on him. But, Gaia, he was so not complaining. One-shot, written for the FFVII Kink Meme. Zack/Cloud, complete PWP.

Zack laughed. He started to blur in Cloud's vision. Waving his hands, he walked away from him toward darkness and bid a farewell: "Live on, Cloud."

A world devoid of heroes is a world damned. What if neither Zack nor Cloud survived? A friendship fic – no yaoi. Rated T for character death. Could definitely be expanded, but for now, just a one-shot.

A simple service turns into something more... Alternate reality. For Clack Day 2014.

While at a party, Cloud and Zack discuss a movie… and the effect it has on others. Alternate reality, originally written for Clack Day 2013.

If there was ever that one person in your life you knew you felt safe with, it was him. Cloud knew that with every fiber of his being, after everything that he had gone through...Zack was the one thing in his life that was most perfect. He had lost so much, seen so much tragedy. But the day that Zack Fair had come into his life made everything change, and tonight, he would prove it

They say you shouldn't meet your heroes... But 'they' never said anything about kissing them.

AU, roleswapping. Cloud Strife is a tough-as-nails SOLDIER 2nd who's been trained by Angeal until he comes across an energetic cadet named Zack Fair that manages to capture his attention. Told in a series of drabbles.

Set in Edo Period Japan,Cloud is an artist and Zack is a Samurai.They want nothing more than to be together,but is it possible when the Shogun has his sights set on Cloud? Or can their love still turn out to be a masterpiece in the end? AU Yaoi ZackXCloud

Tumblr wouldn't let me post this where it belongs, so here I am. Zack and Cloud as puppies, Angeal as their loving owner.

Sniping bots on the Nibel Plains is easier than accepting the mess they're in, but not by much. [Crisis Core]

Sometimes the price of freedom is too high but we end up paying regardless of our wishes.

One Shot. There is no mercy. Or forgiveness. And Tseng does what he always has. Look the other way.

Some of Zack's final thoughts. Really bad summary, but it's just a little piece about Zack's final moments. Based on the song Bleeding Out by Imagine Dragons. WARNING: mild yaoi

Zack finds a black cat and contemplate keeping it as a pet until it gets sick.

'It begins with a truck, and a rock.' Sometimes going back to the beginning is the only way to make it through to the end.

Zack comes back from a mission in a very bad state.

Zack does what puppies do best when Sephiroth starts trying to move in on his little trooper. One-shot, written for the FFVII Kink Meme. Zack/Cloud, yaoi.

It's the smell of blood, the sound of rain, the feel of icy cold, the taste of words that feel so wrong on your lips and it looks like the end.

After a break-up, Zack's best friend takes him out to have a good time. Zack isn't really looking for a hook-up, but some people are too compelling to just forget about. This is a fic for KlikStar. Yaoi warning.

When Zack tries summoning with a new materia, he finds more questions than answers. Moogle Fluff fill for Fayah as part of the Final Fantasy Exchange 2010.

Hah, a sound. He is still breathing… No, he is not.

It all starts with a drinking contest between Reno and Cloud. Zack has to take care of a drunk Cloud. Yaoi warning...Tease warning...ZxC...a little bit of Reno taunting/torture, a little Rufus and a tad of Sephiroth...the whole story is a tease. COMPLETE

Aerith was prepared for a lot of things when she started volunteering at Midgar Hospital. Death, blood, guts. . .surely not a front row seat to the weirdest romance story she'd ever seen. After all, chocobos and porcupines just DON'T mix. Clack AU

Nightmares plague two companions just a day after Modeoheim. A cold, empty world is all the comfort they receive, until one starry night brings them together.

Wandering the halls of ShinRa is a murderer - and it's Zack Fair. At least, that's who all evidence points to, so it's up to Sephiroth to discover the real killer. But as two stories unfold, more questions than answers are raised, and time is running out.

Prompt #49: Stoned. Shotgunning and a lazy evening sky. ZxC.

War is hard on every man, from the lowliest grunt to the greatest General, and it makes equals of them all, as Sephiroth discovered when he is stranded in the forests of Wutai with only a wounded Zack Fair and his own problems for company.

"I want to give you a gift.." As Cloud struggles to deal with the events of the previous year, he is offered help from a surprising source. But will this 'gift' prove to be a blessing or a curse?

/Clack/ When Cloud rescues a box of kittens from the streets of Midgar, he had no idea that one of them would help him regain something he'd lost. Oneshot.

The difference between being "Zack Fair, best friend," and being "Zack Fair, inamorato," is in the small subtle things. Zack/Cloud

Some bonds could not be broken even by death.

One-shot. After Avalanche tries to blow up the Sector 5 Reactor, Cloud starts getting messages from a mysteriously well-informed stranger on his PHS.

A night under the stars can be as beautiful as every cliché describes.

Zack and Sephiroth are left to deal with the repercussions of Angeal's betrayal, and the stress is wearing them down. An innocent act proves to be the breaking point for them, sending tempers flaring and hurtful words fracturing a budding friendship.

Cloud Strife was a fairly normal teenager, working at his local supermarket to save for college. Zack Fair was a fairly abnormal customer, who seemed to think making his cashier blush was his greatest mission in life. Clack AU

A month apart from each other … when simply waiting is no longer enough to calm the insecurities in Cloud's heart, he ignored everything to share a single moment with Zack. Zack/Cloud mild shounen-ai fluff and angst.

AU Clack When Zack was five years old, he decided he wanted to marry Cloud Strife. Looking back, that was probably one of the best decisions he'd ever made.

Zack has returned, not from the dead, but from hiding. Cloud is relieved to see the old friend he had to keep swearing was dead, but Tifa and the others don’t quite get what’s going on… No slash.

A box, hidden in the closet of Sergeant Zack Fair, holds a key to understanding Cloud Strife. Zack/Cloud /Help Haiti prompt/

On the day of a new beginning, Cloud gets a chance to close a chapter he thought he'd never close. Past ZC, some CLC.

Cloud wanted to see her, but he didn't want her to see him. Backstory/pre-canon. One-sided Cloud/Tifa, Zack.

When holiday plans have to be canceled because Zack is sick, he realizes that sometimes things don't always go as planned, and sometimes love has a funny way of showing. A Valentine's Day-esque Zack/Cloud one-shot. Mild shounen-ai fluff.

Zack x Cloud -Yaoi Warning- A fateful afternoon in Cosmo Canyon leaves Zack meeting a mysterious elder speaking of future events involving a young boy in need of Zack's guidance. Several days later, he is assigned an understudy, and the prophecy begins.

Cloud should know better than to try using a pout as a defense against someone like Zack. AU, yaoi, PWP.

They are two-hundred and sixty-six days, six hours and forty-three minutes into their escape when Zack starts to lose it. Inspired by "Soulmates" by Placebo. Requested by a friend.

In the dark underworld of the Yakuza, nothing is as it seems. Centered around the conflicts, forbidden loves, and bloody business of Yakuza, agents Zack and Reno, their 'father' Sephiroth deal with a mixed up Cloud in over his head. ZxC

For the first time in far too long, Gaia decides to turn the hand of victory in favor of Zack Fair by allowing him to survive the fatal encounter with the Shinra army that should have left him dead.

Pre-AC. On a lone cliff side near Edge, a soul denies passage into the next life and waits until it isn't needed anymore. Slight Bleach crossover-pretty much a cameo. Non-yaoi, although there are assumptions made otherwise.

Friends are just friends and sex is just sex. But sometimes, the two are thrown together and the boundaries and feelings built up in friendship can be completely forgotten. Cloud/Zack, Clack. Birthday!fic for a disgusting excuse of a human being.

Unable to escape the nightmares of his past, Cloud finds himself searching for answers to a mysterious envelope that appears in the bar which simply had the word "Live." written inside. A word that surfaces from his memory of the SOLDIER from long ago.

Make a wish.

A series of drabbles/oneshots involving Zack and Cloud! Now with Depressed!Zack, Kiddie!Cloud, plenty of Angst, and good old teasing and fluff! Worth a read for those that like Clack.

He was supposed to stay with him and keep their routine going, not become Cloud's personal champion and change things forever. implied Clack

Cloud decides he shouldn't be the only one getting hickeys. He's just a little too timid to do it while Zack's awake. Z/C, oneshot. Happy Birthday, Cloud!

It started when Zack looked up and saw Cloud walking by. Captivated, he followed him into class. That was when it all went downhill with a serial undergarment thief, a rumour, two very irate friends and a whole string of misunderstandings. ZxC

Done for 100 themes on DeviantArt. Zack is in his final hour and shares what is left of him with Cloud. I'm not good with summaries that catch the eye but, give a read for S&G. R&R is always appreciated.

Tonight,Cloud is going to give Zack all his love.In the backseat.Yes, I was inspired by Bubble Pop Electric by Gwen Stefani.I didn't want to steal the title so this is what I came up with. CloudxZack. Warning: Yaoi, Graphic Sex. Rated M. Read and review!

Cloud hated door-to-door salesmen— especially that one obnoxious one named Zack Fair who wouldn’t leave him alone. Zack/Cloud, for Shirosenshi Kisetsu 116.

Zack and Cloud after a long mission. Lighthearted, a bit of fluff and maybe a bit OCC

/Clack/ Written for LJ community 7rainbowprompts; two guys too stubborn to resist destiny. Theme nine: Everything can turn into a good memory. Even dirty, smelly, crunchy old leaves...that they're supposed to be raking. Oops.

Zack likes Cloud’s every smile. Cloud likes Zack’s every grin.

Zack pisses Sephiroth off. Crack, humor, silliness. Hint of Zack/Cloud

Zack returns from an exhausting mission. Zack/Cloud. Fluff. One-shot.

AU Cloud once owned his soul, but unlike so many others that sold theirs, he still remembers how it’s supposed to be used. ZackCloud smut oneshot with few mentions of other FF and KH Characters

One-shot. The Lifestream was not big enough to contain Zack. And Aeris had a bizarre sense of humour. Zack/Cloud, chocobos, mild crack. Sort of shounen-ai.

/Clack/ SOLDIERs should be able to handle anything without complaint - except colds, where it's perfectly acceptable for them to turn into big ol' babies.

It was quiet, finally. No soldiers, no Turks, no helicopters, no ShinRa. Now there was nothing. Now there was no one. Now it was quiet. Spoilers for the end of Crisis Core.

/Clack/ Life doesn't normally come in the form of yes or no questions, but Zack's totally not going to let that stop him in the pursuit of a stubborn little blond.

During a training excursion, officer and cadet bond in an unexpected manner. ZxC, yaoi, oneshot.

Zack could still remember the first time he had allowed himself to press his lips to Cloud's soft, pliant ones. The first time he had allowed himself to indulge in that one little perverse pleasure.

Zack loved mornings, but more importantly, he loved waking up to his lover.

I shot a SOLDIER today, and in doing so I shredded an Angel’s wings. Trooper pov for the end of Crisis Core . Oneshot. Nominated for Best Angst in the 2008 Genesis Awards!

Zack/Cloud YAOI. “'I need this,' Zack whispered almost reverently, as if he was kneeling at a pew instead of between Cloud’s legs."

/Clack/ I wanted to be there for him, but we'd just met. It wouldn't be enough. Not yet. /may contain Crisis Core spoilers/

Oneshot. Zack returns to Midgar after a solo mission.

Photographs are little stands against the flow of time. They preserve a moment, a face, a smile that will never be seen again. Cloud finds a picture of Zack, the man who was once his best friend, and reflects on what he actually remembers about him.

I wouldn't leave you hanging like that. We're friends, right? / Zack and Cloud, fifty oneliners.

Even heroes need someone to start them on the right path...and sometimes, those people need someone to give them a kickstart as well. Even if it's from their future self.

Zack watches Cloud sleep, and then wakes him up in interesting ways.

REVISED AND EXPANDED! Zack is poisoned on a mission and Sephiroth must find the antidote within a very limited timeframe.

50 little themes about Zack and Cloud, some oneliners, some a little longer. Humor. Shonenai warning! Don't like, don't read.

Zack tries desperately to explain why and how he ended up being chased by a trio of amorous fangirls. Very mild Crisis Core spoilers.

10 drabbles that cover snippets of Cloud's mindset from the labs to the cliffside to his returned memory.

Unlike the vibrant, laughing prankster Zack was in public, once alone, Zack never smiled. And the more Cloud watched him, the more he fell in love with Zack's silence, his masks, and the depth of emotion in the violet eyes that no one else ever saw.

As Aerith walks away, and Zack watches, Cloud remembers. ZxCxA, End of Advent Children.

Oneshot. Zack is shot during a mission.

Cloud begs Zack to help him forget. What else can Zack do?

Pain was like an addiction to Cloud now. A vibrant, searing proof that he was alive. Still breathing when he should have been dead. Still here, locked away in a vicious reality. He should be dead. He prayed for death. But Zack...Zack wouldn't let him go..

preNibelheim. Even happiness leaves room for questions.

Cloud gets visited by Zack.

Cloud looking at Zack after he died.

After five years of running, they finally thought they were safe. The experiments were in the past, and all that mattered was their blooming love. But when they start thinking it's too good to be true, that's always when things go wrong. ZxC, pregame.

[Zack x Cloud] It’s been five long years since this started, five long years since he first heard Cloud scream like that...

Cloud watched as Aeris and Zack leave him at the church in Midgar, and remembers... Oneshot, shounenai Zack x Cloud, very short.

Zack and Cloud celebrate Valentine's Day. Or maybe not. Oneshot, ZackCloud.

...will fall together. A few short stories of two SOLDIERs who are, contrary to popular opinion, alike in more than their love for spiky hair. Multichaptered, ZackCloud. [temporarily dead]

Cloud hates to be protected by Zack because he fears being considered weak and childish. When the two go out for a drink, Cloud will finally prove that he's more than a child. [ZackxCloud]

They left then, leaving a tiny willow shoot basking in the warmth of the sun. An apology fic. Cloud and Zack shounenai. A smidge depressing, death and reincarnation mentioned. Concurrent to FFVII epilogue. Possibly rated high.

Cloud's doubts, worries, and conclusions on himself and Zack. Yaoi.

*SHOUNEN AI* ZackxCloud.. a year after Zack's death, Cloud revisits the site where his lover died.