Summery: Aeris has
something she needs to tell Seth. Seth/Aeris POV.
Rating: Um...PG. Yeah, that sounds about right.
Disclaimer: I don't own FF7, but someday I will. Oh,
you wait.
"Life just sucks, I lost the one.
I'm giving up, she found someone.
There's plenty more, girls are such a drag."
-Blink 182, 'Dysentery Gary
Aeris's POV
I looked up and down the streets of ruined Midgar
for my husband, but the darkness shielded him well. I could not loose him,
though I do not deserve to keep such a wonderful man. This life of mine
would be unbearable without him, the world would shut off its once glorious
light and forever be dark. This was all Cloud's fault. He was the one who
made me fall flat on my vows to Seth, he was the one who kissed me, he
was the one that told me he loved me after I became a married women. Damn
him.
It was all Cloud's fault, ever part of it. He
just could not get the point that I was in love with Seth. Now, I have
neither of them. What am I supposed to do with no one to guide me? Mother,
I wish you were here to help me. Even daddy would be helpful, anyone who
could place the pieces of my torn marriage back into some order. I can't
do this by myself, it's impossible.
Than I see him, staring at a little girl who holds
close to her mother. After all my search, I have found him. Now what do
I say to make things right again? My cloths are as muddy as they have ever
been, my hair is a mess, and all I want is my husband back. Today just
does not seem to be my day. For right now I forget about my dress and my
hair so I may focus on my most important possession.
"Seth?"
Seth's POV
It wasn't fair, I had her first. Cloud should
have backed off before it got out of control, before I hit him. Now I'm
lost in the nowhere part of Midgar and without the one person that makes
living this horrid life worth wile. She is my light from the banks that
guides me from troubled waters to the safe harbor. She is my everything.
Yet, she loves another. How am I supposed to forgive such a terrible sin
as she has committed.
A little girl with pink ribbons entwined in her
short brown hair rushes past me and I have no doubt that I had just seen
a glimpse of what my dearest wife looked as a child. The girl runs and
I decide to fallow her as though she may be a sign from a higher power
telling me where my travels should take me. I see the girl stand beside
a young women, younger than Aeris, and hug her tightly around the waist,
standing on her tip toes to do so. An unexpected smile breaches my face.
"Seth?" That sweet voice calls my name from a
distant life, a life I did not really want to return to. Sure enough, I
turn around and there stands Aeris. Her silver dress covered with mud and
what seems to be grass, her hair hung loose down her back and waved slightly
as the wind rushed up behind her in giant gusts. Those tendrils seemed
to reach for me in desperation, unwilling to give up on what could never
be saved.
"What is it?" I asked, turning my back on her.
I faced the child whom now had a companion: a torn doll that seemed to
be older than I am. She held it against her white shirt, sending dust to
cling to the once clean material. If I was not mistaken, she was watching
us, suddenly interested in the adults arguing. Not that you could really
call it arguing, we had not yet raised our voices, though it was inevitable.
"Please look at me. Let me know you hear me when
I talk to you," Aeris asked in a low voice. I barely heard the request,
but obliged to it all the same. Carefully, I lifted my head to look into
her tear stained face. A sudden wave of guilt over powered me in that moment.
All I wanted to do was wrap my arms around her a whisper that I forgave
her, but that was something I just could not bring myself to do.
Aeris's POV
His eyes were even more beautiful than before.
The blue irises beckoned me and said what he refused to tell. I reached
up slowly and pushed a stray gray strand of his hair behind his ear. My
hand stayed hovering over his ear for a few moments, but digressing when
it was evident that he was hurting when I did that. He hurt because he
doesn't see me as a wife anymore. He sees me ass a betrayer, just like
his father.
"I love you so much. You're the only person I
want to be with. I know I said that I love Cloud, but I love you more,"
I tried to explain. He would have none of it. He began to walk around me
in circles, like an animal and its prey. He stood still in front of me
after circling me twice. His hands made a steeple under his chin. His eyes
boar into mine, asking his unanswered question.
"Why?" The question came from his mouth. His eyes
seemed to darken as I grasped for a suitable answer. It quickly became
apparent to me that there was no suitable answer, nothing would make that
pain that he held in his eyes leave. I closed my eyes and thought. Seth
imposed an interesting question: Why do I love Cloud? I had no answer.
I truly did not know why.
"I don't know," I answered truthfully. Seth bowed
his head and ran a hand through his tumbling hair, but it soon returned
to obscure my vision of his face. Suddenly, he inhaled deeply and raised
his head to once again look at me. The next thing that came out of his
mouth would shock me.
Seth's POV
"You swear on the graves of your parents that
you love me more than you love him," I said before I could convince myself
not to. I knew it was the only way I could begin to trust her. She loved
her parents too deeply to lie when it came to promising by them. She opened
her mouth wide as though to replay, but no sound came out. Aeris looked
away from me, but soon straightened herself back and looked me straight
in the eye.
"I swear upon the graves of my mother and father
that I love you more than Cloud," Aeris said slowly so that I would clearly
hear every word. Her eyes told me that she was not lying, nor did I truly
think she would. I held my arms out to her, signaling that I wanted to
give her a hug. At first she was puzzled, but as soon as I motioned that
I wanted a hug, she all but threw herself into my grasp. I placed my arms
around her tiny waist and hugged her fiercely. That was when she picked
the time to tell me a little secret.
Aeris had yet to tell anyone of our little baby
that was to be born in six months. Though part of me believed she told
Tifa, the two had gone shopping for baby cloths since Aeris and I had returned.
Even though my beloved wife forbade me from fighting with Cloud, I occasionally
would with the others. It was never major, just friendly arguments about
different things. Such as fighting with Yuffie about which weapon I should
use; I had many a time told her that my objectivity was to heal, not hurt.
I was AVALANCHE's chief, and only, doctor.
Every time I passed Cloud on the deck of the Highwind
or had to sit across from him in the Operation Room he would give me one
of the most evil looks I have ever witnessed. Aeris never saw them of course,
he was always Mr. Nice around her, and told me to just ignore it until
Cloud came around. There would be no luck with that at today's meeting.
"In other news, Seth and I are going to have a
baby!" Aeris announced to the whole team. Tifa, as I suspected, did not
look that surprised. Yuffie, however, was jumping for joy. Next to Yuffie,
Vincent sat mum and unreadable like always. Cid nearly choked on his cigarette
smoke, Barret smiled slightly, and Reeve shook my hand in congratulations.
Reno, Rude, and Elena grabbed a bottle of rum the pilot kept for special
and passed around glasses of it to purpose a toast. During all this my
eyes wondered to Cloud who sat staring at the wooden table top as though
my brother had resurrected and planned on destroying the world again.
"Cloud?" Vincent asked from across the room. The
blond hair rose to show a face that was belonged to a person whose heart
was being torn to pieces. He stood up and approached me. He looked as though
he might slug me at any moment, but instead his hand and grasped mine in
a firm in a handshake.
"Congratulations, you won. She's yours, don't
hurt her or I will kill you," Cloud said and walked out. Nobody followed
him, but instead stood and watched him leave. After the door shut with
the barest of noise, Reno began a toast that I only half paid attention
to. My mind kept drifting to Cloud and how easily he let go. Of course
a baby is nothing to try and mess with. Perhaps he just realized that Aeris
is mine.
"I want him dead. Do you understand, dead," Cloud
whispered in the dark wet alleyway. It had been a week since Seth and Aeris's
announcement and Cloud had one last card up his sleeve. Kill Seth, marry
Aeris, and raise the baby as though it were his own. The name Seth McGregor
will never be brought up again in his presence. No one will ever know that
it was he who had Seth killed, everything would go perfectly as he expected.
"Yes, sir," The hit man answered. He left the
alley with the money the spiky haired blond had given him. Cloud smiled
to himself and walked out of the alley back to the hotel in Midgar they
were all staying at. The rain that fell around him did not seem to cause
him much worry, nor did the puddles that lay in his way. The smile still
shadowed his face.
To Be Continued....
Author's Note: Hello! Hey, is it just me or is this story
really starting to turn into a soap opera? Anyway, I'm going to start working
on a new FF7 Vincent/Yuffie story called "I Remember". Gotta go. May the
Force be with you all! :)
