Based on Lyrics by Evanescence; Hello and one of the most horrific incidents in Final Fantasy History.

He held her fragile body in his hands and stared at her lifeless blue eyes that once had so much

sparkle. Suddenly he felt something inside him brewing. A thousand voices speaking to him. Their

all talking at once but he can hear one distinct voice, it's his own.

"Has no one told you she's not breathing?"

He's too scared, he can't speak. He sits there with the love of his life lying dead in his

arms...Another bold voice.

"Hello. I'm your mind, giving you someone to talk to. Hello."

He's scared to believe what's happened, it happened to fast, she was there...he'd finally found her,

she smiled and then the dark angel had fallen from the sky and destroyed his happiness...but he

tries to stay strong...

"If I smile and don't believe soon I know I'll wake from this dream."

He thinks he's going crazy and the voices are starting again. He tries to think logically but nothing

works...

"Don't try to fix me I'm not broken."

He doesn't understand what's happening to him, he's afraid, angry, insane, sane, sad, mortified all

at once...but the voices are getting louder, now not only talking about what has happened...

"Hello. I'm the lie living for you so you can hide."

He realizes here that his whole life has been a lie and he starts to cry but the voices don't stop.

Suddenly, he hears the voice. The voice that brought a smile to his face what seems like eternities

ago, the voice, high, perky, happy....hers....

"Don't cry."

He wakes up from his thoughts and sees her dead, her eyes still open, her smile still smiling but

she was not speaking to him, nor would she ever again. Now he knows its real and all the voices

come together and seem to scream inside of him

"Suddenly I know I'm not sleeping!"

And all at once, all the good memories of her, ALL memories of her, come flooding back into his

mind...then one small voice....distant and faded....it's hers again and she speaks to him as if

everything were okay, as she'd always spoken to him. And as Cloud placed Aerith's cold body in

the water and watched it fall to the chasms below, he still heard her.

"Hello I'm still here, all that's left of yesterday....."

Derived from the death of Aeris, the final prayer...Final Fantasy 7.