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"Papa, Papa, why aren't me, you and Auntie Tifa going to see the flower lady?" a confused Marlene questioned.

"Coz, Auntie Tifa is not very well and someone had to look after her didn't they," Barret lied.

"Well, why couldn't I have gone, Cait Sith would have looked after me, he's my friend," She continued.

Barret sighed, "I'm sure he is, but it would be past your bed time by the time they got back, and you'll see Aeris as soon as she arrives, I'll come and wake you up," he said tucking her in.

"Do you want to know a secret?" Marlene giggled. "

What?" Barret decided to play along with his daughters game.

"well, Cloud and Aeris, Tee hee, love each other," She giggled and blushed

"And how do you know this?" Barret asked

"Because before she, you know, died, she told me that she loved him, and when I was speaking to Uncie Cloud he said that Aeris was the only person to see the true him, or something," She replied, she had almost drifted off now.

Barret nodded and kissed her head. "And also daddy, Auntie Yuffie is in love with......." her sentence was cut short by her falling asleep.

Barret smiled, Marlene was such a little gossip, he was sure that he would be told who Auntie Yuffie loved in the morning.

Barret was so proud of the way Marlene had recovered from seeing Midgar and Kalm being destroyed, she was a true fighter just like her father.

"Is she sleeping," Tifa asked as Barret re-entered the living room, he almost tripped over one of the bag's, every one was going to stay at his house tonight, so Barret and Tifa had had to check everyone out of the hotel and carry there bag's back to the station, they caught the train to the re-built Corel and had to carry the bags back to his house.

"Yeah, she's been up to her old tell-a-tail tricks again, she was going to tell me who Yuffie fancied," Barret chuckled, "But she fell asleep,"

Tifa laughed gently, she already knew the answer to that question.

Barret stopped laughing, "So how are you holding up," He said sitting down next to her

"Oh I just don't know, I've had a long chat with Elmyra about it, she's making me some tea right now, and she doesn't know what I should do about it either," Tifa explained, Elmyra and Barret had moved in with each other a few days after the Midgar incident, she had know where to live and her and Marlene had got on so well Barret let her move in, within a week he had fallen in love with her, and her him. Elmyra walked in to the room with tea for all of them.

"How are you dear?" Elmyra asked gently

"I just feel as though, I'm a spare part, that I don't belong to anything special, I wish that someone could love me," Tifa explained, she would have thought that Elmyra would have been the last person she could have spoken to, with her being Aeris foster mother, but she was finding it incredibly easy to say what she felt with her.

"There are other men, what about Vincent," Elmyra suggested Tifa sighed, "

I wish, he is slowly but surely warming to someone else, if I went with him it would only be a matter of time until he's sees his light, and its

"I'm sorry Tifa, I can't make excuses for the way I feel for Yuffie, Just like with Cloud,"

Barret's jaw had dropped, "What?"

"Don't be silly Barret, its easy to see that something between them that wasn't before," Tifa said turning her attention to him momentarily,

She sighed, "I just think that's it's end for me, like Cloud was a major part of me and who I was,"

Cloud stood at the edge of the water where he had laid Aeris to temporarily rest, he took a deep breath, he put his hand in his pocket and removed the Gold orb.

He knelt down and placed it into the water, it sparkled like mad and then released a silver mist, the mist surrounded everyone and clouded the water, slashes of colour formed in the mist as it started to swirl, causing a small beautiful, tornado in and above the water, the mist faded into the gentle tornado, it started to twist faster, the colour's started to fade into the water,

Revealing the Beautiful Ancient, she was hovering over the water, the magic had supplied her with a long, purple, sparkling gown with long diamond earrings matching necklace and bracelet, her hair was wisped up on to the top of her head with a bunch of curls hanging down here and there, some over the edge of her face.

Her Green eye's fluttered open and looked straight into Cloud's eye's, Huge smiles spread over both of there faces, Aeris ran over the water to him, causing a few mystical splashes, the water was shining as though it was made of a thousand diamonds.

Cloud reached out his arms and lifted her up, he span her gently and then lowered her to the ground, placing her bare feet on the grass, he put his hand's on her back and pulled her closer, she stood up on tip-toes and leant towards him, he leant down and kissed her lips gently, she tasted better than he had imagined and her lips were softer than he thought possible, neither of them wanted to break away, they had waited so long for this moment, the rest of the world seemed to fade away for the few moments they had wanted since the day they met. Reluctantly they broke away, the other's were cheering like mad, even Yuffie had a huge smile on her face. Aeris looked around at everyone, she noticed Tifa and Barret were absent, she would ask why later, right now she just wanted to enjoy the moment.

"I love you Aeris Gainsborough," Cloud shouted as he span her around again

"I Love you too Cloud Strife," She shouted as she was spun. Hearing Aeris's voice again sent waves of happiness through Clouds body, it helped him remember that this was real. Tears of happiness streamed down there faces,

"Nice hair," Aeris said gently touching his face,

"I did it specially, I'm glad you like it," Cloud whispered, he put his hand on her cheek and wiped away her tears. She rested her head on his chest,

"So many times I dreamed of this, but it was never this great!" she wrapped her arms round his waist. Fireworks exploded all over the sky, they were the brightest and biggest Cloud could find, Aeris gasped,

"Just like you promised, I thought that was a dream?" "It was, but dreams have a funny way of becoming reality, don't they?" he brushed his finger on her cheek and tilted her head up. There lips met again but with more passion than before.

A/N: this was a short Chapter, because I wanted it to just be based on Cloud and Aeris. XXX Next chapter soon

I'm renovating this fic at the moment, I have sorted out this chapter. I felt so stupid when i read over my anti-Reffie comment's, that was so pathetic of me.