This is intended to be directly after AC and takes place between Cloud and Yuffie.
"I couldn't save her."
"Do you think she wanted to be saved?"
There was hesitation after a pause as thoughts were reconsidered. "I…I think she did. I think she wanted to be saved but…but knew she couldn't…that it wouldn't work, otherwise." There was no uncertainty. "That if she was the world wouldn't be."
A slight considering breath. "How do you know that?"
There was a slight shake of the head, hair swaying. "It's what she tells me."
The voice held controlled incredulity but was not condescending in any way. "She told you that?"
Another more defined shake of his head. "No…not in words…exactly."
"Then how?"
His mouth opened, lips forming and reforming in one undesired word after another before he grew frustrated and let out an annoyed breath. "That's just what I feel when I see her."
"You speak with her." She was surprised, but why? He'd always been different so why this shock? She laughed ironically and gave her own shake. It was not quite disbelief. She'd say more surreal. She gave a punctuated nod at him. "So why you so down?"
He was quiet for a moment, long eye lashes kissing his cheek as the lids fluttered in watching his fidgeting hands. "Because I wanted to grant her wish."