Woot! As promised, I will leave one more chapter;I hope you all like it!
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Disclaimer:I own nothing in this story, except for the original characters and the storyline (of course).
Oh, and I don't own Cloud or Kadaj (though I wish I owned the latter...er, former...I mean...AARGH!!! I wished that I owned Cloud...T.T)

"OKAY so let me get this straight; you stayed at the mall past closing hours, then used an illegally copied key to break into Gamestop, where you didn't steal anything, you just kidnapped a video game character who has somehow been brought to life. Is that the gist of it?"

"Yep, that's about all of it," I said.

"Hmm. You should have at least stolen a video game or two." I sighed, yeah, that's true, I suppose;Can't believe I didn't think of that...--hey, wait a minute...!!

"Okay, would you stop saying it like you weren't there! Because you were!"

Lindsey pouted. "Yeah, trying to forget that part."

"Lindsey, we have an unconscious video game character carrying a huge-ass sword in your back seat, so I think you trying to forget that he's there is a little pointless! He's kind of obvious!"

Lindsey stuck her tongue out at me. There was a moan from the backseat. I quickly spun around (well, as much as I could, being in a seatbelt and all...I had switched to the front seat, once I made sure he was okay), checking to see if he was alright.

"Do we need to take him to the hospital?" Lindsey asked. I gave her a look that said, 'are you crazy?'.

"Are you kidding? He's not a real person!"

"You mean he's like an illegal alien?"

My eyes got wide. "What the hell is wrong with you?! You're making a joke at a time like this?"

"Yeah.....So?....Gotta lighten the atmosphere somehow."

Again there was a moan from the backseat. He needs a place to rest...I thought, trying to think of the best course of action. "...Head to your house Lindsey!"

"My house? Why?"

"Your parents aren't home right now and neither is your sister!"

"Yeah but...but I've already put my butt on the line for you tonight and now you're bringing him to my house!"

"I know Lindsey, I know! But please! It will mean so much, and it's just until, you know, he wakes up and then I'll figure something out after that." I gave her my best determined look;I just had to help him, somehow...

Lindsey thought for a moment. "Whatever. He can come over." I breathed a sigh of relief.

"Thank you. Thank you Lindsey, so much." She nodded, then turned back to the road.

"You owe me, big time."

"Of course."

After that, we drove in silence for a while.

Finally, we got to Lindsey's house. "Help me with him!" I grunted out as I tried to heave Cloud out of the car. Geez, why in the world is he so heavy?!

"Eh. Why does it feel like I'm making all the sacrifices?" Lindsey mumbled. I rolled my eyes.

After a good few tries, we finally managed to get him into the house. I immediately started towards Lindsey's room, half-carrying, half-dragging Cloud.

"Where are you going?!" Lindsey yelled.

I gave her a surprised look. "To your room..." I said slowly like talking to a retarded person.

"What?! What?! My bed?! Christina!"

"Yes. Your bed."

As I turned and pulled Cloud up the stairs, Lindsey muttered, "First I break and enter for her, then I help her kidnap a guy with a sword (who could possibly be a homicidal maniac), then I bring him to my house, where he takes my damn bed!"

As I laid Cloud down in the bed, his eyes opened wide. I gasped.

"Where am I?" he asked.

"At a safe place."

He looked confused for a moment more and then his head nodded. "Where's my sword?"

"Here; my friend has it. She won't do anything to it (or with it for that matter)." That last part I said more to myself than anything, but I think he got the message.

He nodded again. "Who are you?"

"My name's Christina. Why were you in there that bubble? And how on earth did you get here?" I said quickly.

"Ugh," he started, holding his head. "There was a guy...Lucian...I was...tracking him. And he caught me. Then there was this white light...and I can't remember anything after that." I crossed my arms and looked down, deep in thought after all that he'd told me.

"Well, that's strange. But it doesn't explain how you defied all rules of physics and how you're standing in front of me...."

He blinked. "Defied rules of...what?"

My eyes widened. I could have smacked myself. Of course he didn't know he was just a character in a video game. To him, he was a real person and his world was just as real as the world we're in this second. But the question isn't if he believed that simple truth or not. The question was if he would believe me if I told him that his whole world was a lie, and that there were people out there who controlled his every actions. I was pretty sure that would shock him, and that the last part would probably piss him off. But it had to be done.

I uncrossed my arms, making eye contact with him. "Cloud. You're not from here."

"That much is obvious." I sighed inwardly, Geez, this is awkward...

"No what I mean you're not from 'here' here as in you are not in your world. This is my world, and in my world...you're a video game character."

"...A video game character?"

"Yes...a bad-ass fictional character, but completely fictional nonetheless," I said, my face drooping sadly as I said the last part of the sentence. I guess I had to realize it sometime...but it's so much harder when...when he's right in front of me for goodness sakes!

"I'm not...real?" I sighed again, and answered.

"....No."

Cloud was silent; his head down. I went on quickly, taking his silence as permission to. "Well, you're not real in the sense that you were created by someone else, but you're real in the sense that you're here with me now, and I can touch you and you can touch me...." I trailed off as I realized that I was babbling. I almost facepalmed, I was acting like an idiot because of someone who would probably never care about me the way I did about him...

Cloud's head was still down. I, as well, was at a lost for what to say.

But at that moment there was a loud scream from another part of the house. Cloud's head jerked up and I turned toward the door in a moment. "What was that?," he asked, getting up.

"I think it was Lindsey. There must be something wrong; I have to go see." I moved toward the door.

"Wait, I'll go first," Cloud said, going around me and heading down the hall.

I followed him silently, preparing to come to the rescue of her friend.

Geez, what have you gotten me into now?

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