A/N: Yay reviews…love em' so. To answer some daunting questions Chibi Taryn Demon, nope, at the end of chapter 3, Zack and Aeris go home and sleep together….Oo, man, that kinda makes her sound dirty……shrugs oh well……on to other news….I might be taking this story into a different direction within the next few chapters….depends on how I feel in the morning.

Well moving on….

FFVII and all the characters don't belong to me, they belong to their owners at SE

Life on Standby

Chapter Four: Silver Bullet

"So you say he's a new kid trying to make it into Shin-Ra?" She loosely wrapped her arms around his waist, pushing her head farther into his back. She could feel him breathing softly, his heart beating ever so softly. She loved days like this, days when they didn't fight, days when they could just go out without the fear of one of them messing up.

He nodded his head and placed a hand on her pale arm, "Yup, he wants to be in SOLDIER, but as of now he doesn't have what it takes to make it, so he's doing guard duty."

Aeris nodded her head understandingly, she held Zack closer, "That's sad, I hope he makes it in, I know what it's like to be disappointed when things don't turn out the way you intended."

He sighed heavily and patted her arm, "Well he's a nice kid, not many friends, I was hoping maybe that you could be his friend."

Aeris nodded her head, "Sure thing, I love making new friends and meeting new people."

Cloud looked at his watch for what seemed to be like the twentieth time in the last few minutes. He sighed heavily, he hoped Zack wouldn't ditch him to go do god-knows-what with his girlfriend."

"Oi Cloud."

He looked up and saw Zack waving his arm. Cloud nodded and stood up, his eyes falling from Zack to the girl standing behind him. Her waist length chestnut brown hair fell around her in soft ringlets. She wore a simple white sundress that fell off her shoulders and clung tightly to her curves. She was pale but lovely, like a lily in the middle of a desert. Her eyes, he couldn't take his eyes off of her emerald pools, he felt he needed to touch her just to know that she was real. He wanted to drink her life and become smothered in her being.

"Cloud, this is Aeris, my girlfriend." Zack grabbed hold of her arm and gently brought her over to him.

"Nice to meet you Cloud," her voice was like a small sliver bullet, piercing his heart, she extended her arm, offering her hand. He reached for her hand, closing around it tightly, an electric pulse shot through his body. He wanted her right now, but like everything else in his life, he couldn't have her. Like everything else in his life, all good things belong to others.

He hated Zack.

Well not really, but he hated the fact that Zack was able to have this angel every night, while he got nothing more then an old filthy cot.

"So guys, shall we sit down and do some of the ordering." Zack pulled out a seat for Aeris and sat next to her.

Yea, kinda short, but I think the plot is actually doing the moving thing now….anyways, I'll work some more on this one and the Samurai Champloo one. Later days loves.

Celest no Tenshi