Hey, I'm alive. Sorta. This probably has all sorts of typos. I just wrote it about ten minutes ago, reread it twice and decided not to wait any longer to post it because it's been a while since I updated anything. And I'm really tired and probably coming down with something. But I did it anyway. That either proves how much I love all of you or how much the oncoming illness is already eating my good sense.
Once More
"So do you think you might have though?" Zack persisted.
Angeal blinked, realizing belatedly that Zack had continued to speak even as he'd drifted off into his own thoughts.
"Do I think I might have what?" Angeal asked, grimacing slightly at the expression on Zack's face.
It wasn't sad because he'd been ignoring him…it was smug…Angeal was always lecturing Zack about paying attention…and now he'd been caught in a moment of distraction.
"I was saying, do you think you've ever had a past life." Zack repeated patiently, the apparent importance of the topic keeping him from gloating.
Angeal frowned. "Why would you ask that?"
Zack shrugged. "We were talking about it in one of my classes…like how some people just seem to be born to be in the army and all, and how maybe they were soldiers in a past life, and I was just wondering if maybe you thought…" Zack trailed off here.
"I doubt it." Angeal said flatly. "I don't really believe in such things. Besides, you know that I was infused with mako from an early age. There's nothing exceptional beyond that."
Zack disagreed with this of course, but that wasn't his point at all, so he ignored it. "I didn't mean did you think you might have had a past life because you're a good SOLDIER." He said softly. "I was wondering if maybe you thought…I dunno…maybe we did."
Angeal blinked, giving himself time to adjust to the sudden change in the meaning of the question.
Zack seemed to take his silence in a negative sense though, and was quick to attempt and fill it with an explanation. "I mean…just…sometimes it's like, like you know things about me that I know I've never told you, like my favorite foods, and what time I like to wake up on days when I don't have to get up early…and there are some things I'm good at, like getting you to open up and that thing with my tongue, no, the other thing…it just seems like…if it was possible and all…"
"That's an interesting theory." Angeal admitted. Zack perked up at the acceptance of the idea.
"Yeah, it's really awesome right? I bet we were. I wonder what we were. And how far back? I guess we couldn't be that recent, people would recognize us, old people and all. I bet we were really ancient. Way back when Midgar still had feudalism…"
Angeal wanted to point out that Midgar hadn't actually been Midgar during that time, but Zack wasn't giving him the chance to speak.
"I bet you were in the army then to, oh come on, it's just so you. And you were really high up, probably a General, right? And…"
"And you were a new recruit that we found along the way on one of our travels, but because you were so unruly and obnoxious they had to send you to me for special training, which, against better judgment, became a romantic relationship?" Angeal suggested.
"Exactly." Zack said in amazement. "Wow, if you knew what I was going to say, that proves it!"
Angeal stared at him. Seriously? Did he seriously think…
"But Zack…I am…and you are…"
Zack wasn't listening though. "Wait 'til I tell Genesis! I bet that we knew who wrote Loveless, he's going to be so jealous…"
At the risk of Zack actually bothering Genesis with such a notion, Angeal pulled him back by one arm, pressing him against his chest, and kissing him firmly. Zack responded happily, forgetting his plan entirely.
Angeal wasn't sure if there was such a thing as 'past lives,' or if he and Zack had ever had them, much less together, but he did have to admit, as Zack nestled himself comfortably against his torso, that there was something delightfully familiar about the feeling that tightened in his chest whenever Zack was near him.
I'm going sleep. Please Review. Reviews are good medicines I hear...