The dreams never go away, never change. The friends who betrayed him so long ago a constant strain on Cloud's psyche, forever fed by the opening that Cloud has left them, the one thing that Cloud doesn't see. He's still waiting for someone to save him...

“Give up, Zack.” Sephiroth advised him. “I’ve killed you five hundred times tonight. Once more makes no difference to me.”

They had taken everything. His life, his soul, his mind, even his ability to move and speak, trapping him within his own inner void. All he had left was Zack.

A tearful admission, and a painful goodbye.

Zack and Sephiroth come together in the Lifestream at last, but when Sephiroth gets pulled back to life, things begin to change...

Cloud takes a jouney to a wellknown hilltop...

In the fleeting moments before death, Cloud seeks the answers to questions that have long been his burden.

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.

Cloud had just about convinced himself that Zack could love him...

Zack and Cloud steal a moment alone.

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

Cloud could never forget Zack. And he would never stop waiting...

Cloud stared, unflinching, into the emerald green gaze, the deep poison trying to swallow him whole. He wouldn't give in. Not to the monster. Not to himself. That's what heroes did.

Sephiroth frowned. “Cloud, you’ve got to stop this. What you’re looking for…what you think is waiting for you…it’s just a fantasy.” He traced a tender hand down Cloud’s cheek. “It’s not real.” He whispered. I'm real...

Sephiroth chuckled, an eerie resonance. Foolish child, do you not remember. How can you forget such a brutal betrayal?

Fluff, fluff, fluff! Basically a test to see if I could find a way to squeeze SephirothCloud smex into Advent Children and make it feel right.

He stared down at Cloud. At the pristine beauty, the youthful face marred only by the pain he’d inflicted, the haunting shadows creeping over the innocent blue of his eyes. Eyes once full of questions and the damning hopes of childhood dreams. Hopes Sephi

More than anything, Cloud wanted to matter in Sephiroth’s eyes. To be worthy of his position in SOLDIER. To bring honor to his company. But standing here, barefoot and barechested, that didn’t seem likely.

Zack and Cloud are trapped in ShinRa's labs. Zack has to pull Cloud back from Sephiroth's control. ZackxCloud, ZackxSephiroth

An AU series of ten drabbles. What if Sephiroth had been captured in Nibelheim and held in the labs like Zack and Cloud?

A MAJOR rewrite of one of the hilltop scenes in Advent Children. Sephiroth struggles to take control of Cloud. SephirothxCloud

What goes on inside of Cloud when Sephiroth tries to take control?

Zack has to help Sephiroth reclaim his faltering control over the Jenova cells. ZackSephiroth

Clouds tries to seduce Sephiroth and gets somewhat tangled up in his own inexperience. SephirothxCloud

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