A/N: I thought about using the ending scene in Advent Children for 'Swim', 'cause then it would be all happy and nice. But then I thought of this scene in the game, and I was like, 'I LIKE THAT ONE.' So the original idea was thrown out the window.
Disclaimer: Final Fantasy VII Characters and Places belong to Square Enix.
All around him was green, green, green.
He watched with half hooded eyes as he fell through the mako-filled Lifestream, his mouth parted slightly allowing the liquid in through his mouth, down his throat and into his lungs, veins and brain. Slowly he felt himself falling into himself, retreating farther and farther from the reality that was his situation.
It was as if he was thrown into a pool of his own thoughts, his own memories and his own nightmares, and he hadn't learned how to swim first.
He watched as memories of a boy with black hair and a shit-eating grin passed by him; he watched as memories of a girl with long brown hair and a pink bow passed him; he watched as memories of a young boy with blonde hair and sad blue eyes watched the other boys play street hockey. He watched and he watched and he struggled to swim against the onslaught of it all.
But in the end, Cloud Strife drowned in himself.