Goodbye Hero - 35/? [ffvii AU] - rated M
Chapter 35 - Staring into the Flames
Summary: Cloud worries that he's not taking enough care of the team. Someone unexpected turns up, and something as well.
They'd been forming into a good team - everyone familiar with their places and comfortable with each other - but yesterday had wrecked that. It had filled the team with worry, suspicion, arrogance, and anger.
It was his fault Zack had gotten so badly hurt; that Genesis had been forced to reveal his mutation, and the team had splintered. Bad decisions, wishful thinking, no thinking….
On AO3: https://archiveofourown.org/works/26342719/chapters/96072916
On ff.net: https://www.fanfiction.net/s/13691240/35/Goodbye-Hero