FFVII: Inside
Title: Inside
Fandom: Final Fantasy VII
Characters: Tifa/Cloud
Prompt: #28 Inside ( Lammybug's Prompt List)
Word Count: 645
Rating: T
Summary: It all has to do with what was within.
Disclaimer: For entertainment purposes only. No Copyright infringement intended.
Inside
Cloud was not, by any stretch of the imagination, a vain person. Having not only traveled with him all around their planet and, not to mention, living with him, she would have noticed if he was. He wasn't. Which might seem strange to some, considering it looked like his hair took a lot of work to look as it did. She can say by experience though, with complete and total honesty that he didn't do much with it to make it look as it did. As a couple, she could easily claim to be the more vain of the two of them. Simply, because she was a girl and girls always cared about such things. Cloud, did not.
So, it's a bit of a shock to see him looking at himself so intently in the bathroom mirror. Not in that casual regarding way that he usually did when getting ready, but with cynical scrutiny. She had wondered about the long silence while getting ready for the day and had just peered in to see if anything was wrong, to find him like this.
"Cloud?" she asks tentatively. "Is something wrong?"
"My face," he replies without taking his eyes away from his reflection. Another scowl at himself scrunches up his features.
With a small frown, she moves to stand beside him for a better look. A quick perusal and she's sure he looks just as good as he had yesterday.
"I... don't see anything wrong with your face," she states carefully.
"That's the problem."
"What do you mean?"
"That maybe instead of having such a baby face I should...," he pauses to think of the right words. "...have scars. Like the rest of me has scars. Like I'm scarred on the inside."
"But it does show what you are on the inside," she insists, pressing against him so that they stand before the mirror together.
Mako blue eyes stare down at her in confusion.
She turns to face him and places a hand on his cheek. "It's the loveliness of your spirit that make your face like this," she explains, tracing his features gently. "Yes, you have scars, so do I. But deep inside yourself, you're beautiful. Your face is a reflection of that."
He frowns at her words, clearly not in agreement with her assessment, but notices the stubborn set of her chin and wisely does not comment. Instead, he settles for a petulant look when he says, "Now I really have to do something," he looks back into the mirror and then smirks at her. "Call me beautiful in front of Cid and I'll never hear the end of it."
She gives him a mischievous look before replying. "Well, I could be jealous that you looked very pretty as a woman," she teases.
Blue eyes widen in horror and a rush of red stains his cheeks.
She chuckles at how adorable he looks all flustered as he does but refrains from adding more to his apparent embarrassment. So, she pushes up to kiss him on the lips affectionately to appease him.
"That you did it for me makes you even more wonderful on the inside."
Though still more than a little embarrassed about her bringing that particular incident up, he chuckles before pulling her against his chest.
"You're the only one I would do that for," he says.
"Which is why there is nothing wrong with your face," she smiles.
Fandom: Final Fantasy VII
Characters: Tifa/Cloud
Prompt: #28 Inside ( Lammybug's Prompt List)
Word Count: 645
Rating: T
Summary: It all has to do with what was within.
Disclaimer: For entertainment purposes only. No Copyright infringement intended.
Inside
Cloud was not, by any stretch of the imagination, a vain person. Having not only traveled with him all around their planet and, not to mention, living with him, she would have noticed if he was. He wasn't. Which might seem strange to some, considering it looked like his hair took a lot of work to look as it did. She can say by experience though, with complete and total honesty that he didn't do much with it to make it look as it did. As a couple, she could easily claim to be the more vain of the two of them. Simply, because she was a girl and girls always cared about such things. Cloud, did not.
So, it's a bit of a shock to see him looking at himself so intently in the bathroom mirror. Not in that casual regarding way that he usually did when getting ready, but with cynical scrutiny. She had wondered about the long silence while getting ready for the day and had just peered in to see if anything was wrong, to find him like this.
"Cloud?" she asks tentatively. "Is something wrong?"
"My face," he replies without taking his eyes away from his reflection. Another scowl at himself scrunches up his features.
With a small frown, she moves to stand beside him for a better look. A quick perusal and she's sure he looks just as good as he had yesterday.
"I... don't see anything wrong with your face," she states carefully.
"That's the problem."
"What do you mean?"
"That maybe instead of having such a baby face I should...," he pauses to think of the right words. "...have scars. Like the rest of me has scars. Like I'm scarred on the inside."
"But it does show what you are on the inside," she insists, pressing against him so that they stand before the mirror together.
Mako blue eyes stare down at her in confusion.
She turns to face him and places a hand on his cheek. "It's the loveliness of your spirit that make your face like this," she explains, tracing his features gently. "Yes, you have scars, so do I. But deep inside yourself, you're beautiful. Your face is a reflection of that."
He frowns at her words, clearly not in agreement with her assessment, but notices the stubborn set of her chin and wisely does not comment. Instead, he settles for a petulant look when he says, "Now I really have to do something," he looks back into the mirror and then smirks at her. "Call me beautiful in front of Cid and I'll never hear the end of it."
She gives him a mischievous look before replying. "Well, I could be jealous that you looked very pretty as a woman," she teases.
Blue eyes widen in horror and a rush of red stains his cheeks.
She chuckles at how adorable he looks all flustered as he does but refrains from adding more to his apparent embarrassment. So, she pushes up to kiss him on the lips affectionately to appease him.
"That you did it for me makes you even more wonderful on the inside."
Though still more than a little embarrassed about her bringing that particular incident up, he chuckles before pulling her against his chest.
"You're the only one I would do that for," he says.
"Which is why there is nothing wrong with your face," she smiles.