Goodbye Hero - Chapter 44/? [ffvii AU - rated M]
Across the Sky
Summary: Cloud's practicality saves the day and Zack's imagination causes upset. But, in what is a mostly boring trip across the Corel desert, Cloud makes a couple exciting realizations.
On AO3: https://archiveofourown.org/works/26342719/chapters/138123292
On ff.net: https://www.fanfiction.net/s/13691240/44/Goodbye-Hero
Cloud had goals that he aimed towards but when he gambled with his own future, he kept the stakes fairly small.
His last big dream had been getting into SOLDIER. In fact, his only big dream had been getting into SOLDIER. When that hadn’t happened, he’d picked himself up and set himself some more realistic ones.