Falling through the door Cloud breathed a sigh of relief; he looked at all the post that was all over the porch mat. Picking up the unmanageable clump and his bags he struggled into the front room. He slung his bags into the front room and dropped the letters on the sofa. He fell next to them into a helpless heap
"I'm home finally"
He thought he flicked through the letters and the old out of date newspapers.
"Crap, crap, crap and more crap"
He just stared at the roof and ran his fingers through his soft brown hair. He got up and went into the kitchen and proceed to bin all of the post that wasn't important, he wandered aimlessly back into the front room and turned the lights on the wall on, the room that he'd left 18 months previous looked untouched by anything but dust.
"Thank god I'm home"
He sat back down on the sofa and switched his TV on and flick through the channels after 10 minuets of flicking through the programmes he turn it back off again
"Mind numbing crap"
He said to himself.
He got up off the sofa and dragged his luggage into the kitchen and opened each consecutive case and dumped the clothes in front of the washer
"I'll do that tomorrow"
After taking twenty minutes to sort out all of his clothing he pulled the cases up the stairs and pushed them into his room next to his wardrobe. He then wandered back down the stairs sat back down on the sofa and fell asleep.
He'd been asleep for a good few hours before he received the phone call, he could hear a faint ringing in his head and awoke to find that it was the house phone that was making the noise he looked at the clock
"Who the fuck's ringing me at 20 past twelve at night?"
He shook his head and wandered over to the phone and picked it up
"Hello?"
"…Cloud…Please come quick…"
"Mum?"
"Cloud…there' someone here..."
"Ring the police mum and lock you self in"
"…I've done that…Cloud I can hear them…their coming up the stairs Cloud...I can hear them…"
"Mum…MUM!!!"
The phone went dead
"Oh shit…OH FOR THE LOVE OF GOD NO!!"
Cloud was at his wits end, what to do what to do
"Do I go? What about the police? Oh fuck!"
He ran to the hall picked up his keys and ran out the door got in his car and sped off into the night. He got to the house and it was surrounded by Shin-Ra solders and an ambulance.
"Oh for fucks sake no…NOOO!"
He screamed at the top of his voice hot silent tears ran down his face and into his arid mouth
"If you'd kindly move along please sir, this is a crime scene"
"No I won't bloody move along…"
He sobbed
"…That crime scene is my mother's house now if you don't mind I like to know what the hell is going on"
"You're Cloud Strife aren't you?"
"Yes…Yes now can I please go in and see what has gone on!"