Way of Living
CloudxReno; occasional other pairings.
AN: hey, everyone was doing a collection of drabbles so I thought... why not? XDXD
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A horrible rumble...
Screams of fear and terror...
The flames that followed the strong explosions...
The smoke that rose from the ground after the platform collided with it and with thousands of people...
Hundreds of innocent children...
"Reno!"
Reno jolted awake and punched the man leaned over him by instinct. The redhead looked around wildly and put his hand to his face, feeling the skin wet under his fingers, half from the sweat and half from tears he had shed in horror and guilt.
"Reno..." The punched man called softly, ignoring his bleeding lip to run his strong arms around the redhead's waist, pulling him to his chest. The Turk struggled to break free but ended collapsing on Cloud's chest, crying and shaking against his lover's collarbone. "Shh, it's okay..." The blond hushed, soothing his love's back.
Guilt.
They were both familiar with it.
Aerith and Zack's deaths always haunted Cloud's heart like the fall of Midgar's Sector 7 platform always haunted Reno's. The blond couldn't have done a thing to avoid his friends' destinies but Reno could have salved hundreds of innocent people.
But he didn't.
It was just another order he had to fulfil without arguing.
And because of that, the last screams of all of those people would echo in Reno's head until the day he would return to the Lifestream, standing next to those he had killed just for the sake of the ones who paid him.
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Theme: Guilt
To: Jennrr
Word count: 204
I read your review before I went to school and wrote this in my Math class XD I hope it's good cos the class sucked. Dx