No ownage of the FF7.
Drabble thirty-eight: In which Lily waits by a train.

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Lily had heard that all Wutai soldiers would report back to Midgar, in a big train that would arrive close to Sector Seven.

Now Lily didn't know the meaning of it all, but she definitely heard the Wutai soldiers part and rushed to the scene with her son.

So everyday, Lily would stand at the steps, holding her son's hand with bright hopeful eyes.

One day, there was another woman that also stood by the steps with a child at hand. She and Lily got along great.

"They can't see...can they?" The child of the other asked and Cloud could only nod and stare at the hopeful women.

"They can't."

"Can...you?" The girl asked, her brown hair tilting slightly as she asked him the question.

"Not really. I just...know." There was a long silence.

"You have very pretty eyes. I'm Aeris."

"You..." Cloud shook off his discomfort, this was a person like him, no father and a disillusional mother, "I'm Cloud."

Aeris gave a timid smile.

"Why do you think they can't see?" Aeris asked, watching as the train stopped to let off passengers.

"Because they don't want it to be true, I guess."

The two just stood there silently, watching as their mothers got disappointed.

The days continued like that until one day Aeris told Cloud to not let his mother cry.

"Why?"

"...Your dad was trying to see you two off...but he already went back to the planet."

"I see."

The two mothers received letters about their dead husbands and cried long and hard because of it. Cloud somehow found that he wasn't surprised, so all that he could was comfort the other.

Cloud only went back to see Aeris once again and they both sat at the train, as though waiting for their fathers out of habit.

"How did he look like? Your father I mean." Aeris looked up, brushing back some tears that had somehow started.

"He was tall...he had brown hair...brown eyes...and he told me to tell my mom that he was sorry."

"And my dad?"

"Also tall...also had brown hair...but he had very pretty green eyes."

"Did...did he say anything?"

"He said...tell them both I'm sorry and that I loved them so much...and...and he wished he could have just held you just once." Cloud became quiet again and looked to the train out of nothing more then habit.

"I'll tell mom that, she'll get happier...It was nice to meet you Aeris." Aeris smiled fully for the first time,

"It was nice meeting you too Cloud."

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Drabble 38, end! Awww, how bittersweet. I'm sorry, I just wanted to make one where Cloud met Aeris, is that a bad thing? (Hears some people yell "YES") Anyway, thanks to macalaniaprincess (It's poisonous? (Stares at stories with a different light)), Beeria, Elanor Pam ((Wouldn't know how it feels)), Tolea ((Sweatdrop) I don't know why I was laughing then...but now I have to...BWAHAHAHA!)