Chapter 3-Not so Kalm

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Chapter 3-Not so Kalm

The journey to Kalm had been quite uneventful. Tifa shared Cloud's Chocobo to Kalm, as, to his dismay, he discovered that his funds wouldn't cover two chocobo's and a room at an inn.

Although Tifa had wanted to talk to Cloud, Cloud had just seemed to want to sit in silence. So, with no more than a few sentences exchanged, most of which came from Tifa, they had arrived at Kalm, gone to the inn, and gone to their room.

Tifa sat on the end of the bed. She felt just like she did the night before the reunion. She felt just as alone. She wished Cloud would say something to her, yet all's he did was stand at the opposite end of the room with his back to her. Bored with lack of conversation and activity, Tifa simply stared over at him; he looked just like he did 2 years ago. All's that seemed to have changed were his clothes, he currently had adopted a shirt and a pair of jeans. He looked so..... Tifa blushed slightly as thoughts whirled through her head

........He looks great..........

She sat watching him for a little longer, vaguely subdued in her thoughts, until she was broken away from them by Cloud. He suddenly turned around and said in a voice that implied annoyance, "Aren't you tired yet?" "Huh?" She hadn't thought about it, she'd been so busy thinking and staring that she hadn't noticed how tired she felt. "Erm...yeh, a bit...." Tifa yawned, Cloud raised his eyebrow, "A bit?" Tifa looked annoyed herself for a second, but eventually replied, "I guess I'll go to sleep." Cloud nodded. Tifa stood there for a second, why was he being so cold towards her? 'Maybe he's just tired too' she thought hopefully. 'I guess I'll just get changed and....' Her thoughts halted, 'damn' she thought, 'why didn't I think ahead?' She had no change of clothes. She sighed. She seemed to be having a deja vu, sleeping in her clothes, just like 2 years ago. Again, time was repeating itself. Resigned to sleeping in clothes, Tifa took off her jacket, and put it in the back of the chair. She gave one more longing glance at Cloud, and then clambered into the bed.

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Tifa was running, running towards Cloud, but as much as she ran, the further away he seemed. She called out his name, but he seemed not to hear her, she called him again, he turned and smiled at her. She finally reached him, and slowed to a halt. "Cloud..." Suddenly Cloud was slept away by an eerie green light, and she was falling, falling, falling. She suddenly stopped in mid air; Aeris was there, "Aeris?" She asked in disbelief, Aeris looked at her, and then screamed. Tifa turned around and saw Sephiroth above her, his sword heading straight for her, Tifa screamed, as the blade ran through her. She fell to the floor in a pool of blood. As the life faded from her eyes, she saw Aeris kiss Cloud.

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Cloud sat a chair, thinking. Why was everything so complicated? Why did things always have to go wrong? Why...why did Aeris have to die? He stopped thinking for a few seconds to concentrate his energy on not getting too upset.

'But there's still Tifa...' he reasoned with himself, 'but she's not Aeris. But....But no-one is Aeris, except the girl at the bottom of the lake.' 'NO. Not the lake, the life-stream, a better place? No. Aeris was always thinking about the future, about our lives. She never thought that her's would end so suddenly, or did she? Did she plan it to end that way?' Cloud sighed. Even after two years of thinking this over, it still didn't make sense to him. All's his thoughts over that time had done was make it so that he could deal with it. He didn't even know if he could now.

But at least he had Tifa. He reasoned. She stopped. 'Did I just think that? But Tifa is my childhood friend...Tifa is....' his thoughts were stopped by a noise. He turned around and saw Tifa, turning in her bed, tears running down her face. Cloud rose from his seat and walked over to her, crouching at her side. "Aeris?" She mumbled. Aeris. The number of times he must have uttered her name in his sleep....

Tifa let out a muffled scream, and suddenly sat up. Cloud jumped back in surprise, banging his head on the bed next to Tifa's. Tifa looked around, "I...guess I had a nightmare..." she said dazedly. "Aw crap" She turned, to see Cloud sitting in the gap between the two beds, rubbing the back of his head. "Oh! Are you okay?" Tifa said, pulling back the covers and leaning over to inspect the damage, Cloud opened one eye, "Yeh I think." He stood up and said in a slightly worried tone, "Are you okay?" "Me?" Tifa asked in surprise, "Oh...I'm fine...." She said, going red.

"Good." Tifa glanced over at him, feeling slightly disappointed by his transition in feeling, from caring to not. "Goodnight then" She said, resting her head back onto her pillow sadly. "Erm, Tifa?" "Yes?" She said enthusiastically, sitting up again. "You, you said Aeris in your sleep, why?" "Oh that..." Tifa said, with disappointment. "I can't remember" she lied, resting her head back onto her pillow. "You definatly...." he started "See you in the morning" She said, breaking him off, and therefore preventing any further discussion on Aeris.

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