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And it was so well made...Okay! This is the last freakin' chapter! I stopped the last one where it was cause it met my quota so I had to. Fun place to leave off on huh? Maybe I should just write this and leave you hanging for a while. No..wait...if you're reading then I already posted it. Uh...I'm confusing myself. Excuse me.

Chapter Ten

"How could you do this to me!" I scream to Cloud. A million of my screams echo through the decrepit hall. You can barely see him, but I know he flinched. I can feel the dim moon light on me. I close my eyes for a second. Just stand there, taking deep breaths of the musty air. Cloud steps out into the center and slowly comes toward me.

"Tifa?" he whispers in shock.

I crack an eye open and look down, touching my hair. "No, Cloud. How could you call me that? It's me! It's Aerith," I pout. I sound pathetic. Why am I doing this? He knows I've lying now! Fuck.

"Tifa...what are you doing?" His eyebrows meet in a face full of confusion. Oh God. I'm so dead.

"Stop calling me that!" I shout. "Cloud please. Stop." I can feel a tear streak down my face. "You came for me. I had to come back to you. I know it's been a long time but we can still be together."

"Tifa." He says almost as if it's becoming funny to him. "Stop it."

My hand clenches around the rod. "Stop calling me by her name." I stop to think but it's so jumbled sounding in my head. I can't understand what I'm saying. Cloud continues to approach me at a cautious pace. With every step he takes, I take one back. "Cloud please don't be like this. I know we can still be happy together. Everything can be just as before. I'll even open my flower stand again."

"You couldn't. The flowers here are gone."

I look around me, taking in the destruction around me. I feel like this is the first time I've seen it like this. My heart feels like it's broken. "Things have changed," I whisper under my breath. "Cloud, I can't let you go. I just got you back. Please don't do this. Don't tell me I've lost you to that whore."

Cloud stops in his tracks. "Don't call her that. Tifa, don't say that."

I grind out, "Stop saying I'm Tifa. I don't look like her. I don't act like her. And I certainly don't dress like her." I pause. "You never defended me when she called me a whore. What makes her so special? What's she got that I haven't?"

"When did Tifa ever call you a whore, Aerith?"

A gentle smile plagues my lips as he calls me Aerith. "All the time lately. It's almost all she ever thinks!"

"Thinks?"

I look down again, my eyebrows rise a little seeing my cleavage. "That's right. You wouldn't know, would you?" My hand stretches one of my curls, looking at the tips. Yuffie didn't do that to my hair. It shouldn't be- "I'll be myself again Cloud. Please. Just wait a little longer?" I'm still stepping backward.

"Aerith, I just want Tifa."

"Cloud..no... You love me. I know you do. You always talk to me in your mind. Just admit you still love me."

"You let me go when you said I was forgiven. I have no obligation to be with you anymore," he says softly. He's getting closer. I loosen my grip on the steel rod. "I'm sorry it has to be like this."

"She can't have you. I've worked so hard to be here for you. She doesn't love you like I love you Cloud. She's doesn't know you like I know you. Cloud you were meant for me." He shakes his head. He's just a few feet from me now. I glare at him. "She can't have you. I won't let her. It's me. Only me," I whisper. My boot skims the ground, the rod comes behind my back. "Cloud," I say. The muscles in my body tense as I take a breath. I listen to the warped words running though my head. I can't break them. I don't know what they mean. I can't understand.

Cloud's fingers twitch. With every step they twitch a little more. He's getting ready for something. Something I can't stop. I don't have control anymore. Not even in my toes. He steps forward. His face is calm. His hands stop moving and he's only a step from me. The cool of his glove cups my cheek. I pressed into it. It makes me so happy my heart flutters. "Aerith," he whispered. I look up. "This isn't your body. Give her back."

The rod slips from my hand, clattering on the floor. Neither of us move from the noise. My arms slowly come up and wrap around Cloud. "Cloud...I'm sorry. So sorry." Warmth floods my body. I whisper, "I shouldn't have done this. This was...really stupid." I take deep breath, holding him tight. "I- I don't know what I was thinking. I just.."

Cloud whispered, "It's okay." I nod against his shoulder. Everything feels all right now. He doesn't seem, I guess you could say, obsessive anymore. I giggle. Cloud pulled away a little to see my face. "What?"

"It seems a little out of place but I couldn't help but think." I paused to get my words right. "You said you loved me."

His eyebrow spazzes and my body tenses. "I did, didn't I?" I nod slowly. His arms wrap around me, he squeezes me tight. As I hug him, I begin to feel colder. His skin on mine is almost chilling. Cloud pulls away from me, smiling. "Let's get out of here." I smile. He takes my hand and takes a step forward. I didn't move. My body still felt cold from his. I move my free hand, testing my control over it. It seems normal enough. So why am I so cold? Why do I still feel like this? She's not in- Tifa you're being stupid again. I gotta stop reading those thrillers. "Tifa?" I look up.

"Right. Let's go Cloud."

A gentle smile slips onto his face and I smile back. It feels so great to have him back. And although I can't explain what happened and why I acted like that, I know it's gonna be okay now. We'll be okay. My boot slides forward, Cloud whispers my name, I look up. I only saw the glint. I had no time to react. I just stared at Cloud, the smile still on his face. And I still smiled back. He took a step toward me and hugged me tightly, wedging the hilt of his sword into my body. Cloud put his hips into it, getting in that extra bit of strength, getting the thin metal to push through the other side of my dress. "Sorry Tifa. You can't come this time. I won't let you get between us anymore. It's your turn to join the life stream."

I could only breathe as Cloud pulled back from me. He shook his sword loose, drops of blood making mud in the dust. The hot liquid spills down my dress, soaking into it, dripping off the hem. I just stare at him. My lips part, I try and say something but I only look like a fish. Cloud shakes it once more and drops the giant blade between us. Tiny breaths come out instead of the words I'm trying to say. I stumble back to the edge of the floor, my hands to my ripped chest, everything in me spilling out. Every thing's dim but I can still see him. Still see his smile. "Cloud," I breathe.

His face changes to horror. His hand reached out. I stretch out a red hand to him and he yelled my name. I could barely hear him. He ran to me. Held me. "Tifa!" I was terrified of him. He cradled me to his chest. He's so warm compared to me. I know I'm soaking his shirt but I didn't want to move. I don't think I could have anyway. Blood's filling my mouth. My lungs. "Please," he whispers. "Stay with me. Tifa."

I try to smile and blood pour from my mouth. I let it run out for a second. "I think I'm dying."

"Don't talk. You'll be fine if you don't talk."

I shake my head. "No Cloud. I'm not gonna be okay." Blood bubbles burst as I form my words and take my final breath. "But...at least I know you loved me." A tear hits my cheek but it's not my own. I stop holding myself to wipe Cloud's cheek. "It'll be okay. Take care of the kids for me?" He nods, more tears falling on me. I can't get my hand up to wipe his cheek again. He can't get his mouth to say anything. The dust of the church settles around us. I die in a puddle of my own blood, being held by the man I loved. The man who killed me.

My body twitches and convulses as I begin to choke on myself. Cloud sits me up. "Tifa, I love you," he whispers. It's the first time he's ever told me that. I smile and try to return his words but I can't. My body's so cold now. There's nothing I can do.

I can't think anymore. Maybe there wasn't enough left in me to think with. I can hear it though. I can feel her sliding in to take my last words from me. My end is her end. I laugh while I still can in my head. I die just like she did. Except this time she gets to be with him. I'll just go back. "You really love me?" I gasp out. A smile breaks out on his tear streaked face.

"Yes," he cries. My hand falls to my side for a second and then Cloud stares at me like I stared at him. My eyes move down his face to his neck and down the long, metal rod still in my hand. He re-coats my hand with his own blood as he stares at me.

"I'm sorry Cloud. We just wouldn't be happy together if you only thought about her. It was the only way," I gurgle. I gasp as our ghost killer leaves my body and I have reaction again. "No.." I whisper. Cloud stares at me but he doesn't move. I pull the rod from him and his body jerks. "No," I say again.

"Tifa," he wheezes. He collapses under me and we fall to the ground. Wilted flower petals and dust fly up around us. Every thing's dark. His pale face can barely be seen now. This is it for me. This is the end. I get my hand around his back and pull myself close. Cloud doesn't move anymore. He just stares at me. I strain my body to just get a little closer. If I could just kiss him one more time I could die happy. Our lips almost touch. This is the end.

So that's it. That's the end. Leave me one and tell me I'm a bad person. Check the story again later. I'll add the epologue soon.