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Who: Cloud Strife (herobydefault) and Zack Fair (wingenvy)
What: Doin' sum research.
When: Right after this thread.
Where: Down in the tunnels.
Summary: Leto told Cloud that he found his papers. Cloud wants the others.
Rating: PG-13, maybe for imagery and language.
The trip to the hole was a cold one, and not merely in the meteorological sense. Ever since Leto had mentioned Cloud's papers to him, a stone had formed in his gut and persistantly sunk lower and lower; minutes dragged on. What did those papers say? Did they mention anything about Geostigma? Did they say anything about when he was kidnapped, brought back to life? Did they record his past? What was recorded?
...the suspense was the worst. And Cloud couldn't take much more of it. It shouldn't take long; just head down, skim a few of the rooms for the papers. People were finding files left and right, it shouldn't be difficult to locate a few more as long as he made quick work of it. He would be making quick work of it, after all. Very quick. Especially if Zack was there- it had been a mistake to mention it, a grave mistake. But Zack had a point; he wouldn't have mentioned it if he didn't want Zack there.
Still hiding behind him, Cloud thought darkly before shaking his head, scowling and kicking a rock into the hole. Hopefully nobody was down there; at least they'd had the courtesy to leave the rope ladders. He rubbed his arms a bit, even though the cold didn't actually bother him. Being mountain kid and also a Mako freak probably helped with that...although he hoped that Zack had the foresight to wear a jacket.
What if he was right? What if one look at those examination rooms set something off, and Cloud turned into a raving lunatic right there? What if he tore through files with the same ferocity as Sephiroth had through those books, locked himself down in one of those rooms and agonized over pages of numbers that didn't make sense? What if after all of it, he killed Zack, Tifa, the boys- all his friends- lit the town on fire? If he became another Sephiroth- would it happen without Jenova's help? Was everything he needed to go completely off the deep end located conveniently in his head, just waiting for the perfect moment to give him a little push off the diving board? Was going down there going to be the mistake that doomed everyone above?
"They can take care of themselves," Cloud muttered to himself, teeth chattering. He wasn't cold.
What: Doin' sum research.
When: Right after this thread.
Where: Down in the tunnels.
Summary: Leto told Cloud that he found his papers. Cloud wants the others.
Rating: PG-13, maybe for imagery and language.
The trip to the hole was a cold one, and not merely in the meteorological sense. Ever since Leto had mentioned Cloud's papers to him, a stone had formed in his gut and persistantly sunk lower and lower; minutes dragged on. What did those papers say? Did they mention anything about Geostigma? Did they say anything about when he was kidnapped, brought back to life? Did they record his past? What was recorded?
...the suspense was the worst. And Cloud couldn't take much more of it. It shouldn't take long; just head down, skim a few of the rooms for the papers. People were finding files left and right, it shouldn't be difficult to locate a few more as long as he made quick work of it. He would be making quick work of it, after all. Very quick. Especially if Zack was there- it had been a mistake to mention it, a grave mistake. But Zack had a point; he wouldn't have mentioned it if he didn't want Zack there.
Still hiding behind him, Cloud thought darkly before shaking his head, scowling and kicking a rock into the hole. Hopefully nobody was down there; at least they'd had the courtesy to leave the rope ladders. He rubbed his arms a bit, even though the cold didn't actually bother him. Being mountain kid and also a Mako freak probably helped with that...although he hoped that Zack had the foresight to wear a jacket.
What if he was right? What if one look at those examination rooms set something off, and Cloud turned into a raving lunatic right there? What if he tore through files with the same ferocity as Sephiroth had through those books, locked himself down in one of those rooms and agonized over pages of numbers that didn't make sense? What if after all of it, he killed Zack, Tifa, the boys- all his friends- lit the town on fire? If he became another Sephiroth- would it happen without Jenova's help? Was everything he needed to go completely off the deep end located conveniently in his head, just waiting for the perfect moment to give him a little push off the diving board? Was going down there going to be the mistake that doomed everyone above?
"They can take care of themselves," Cloud muttered to himself, teeth chattering. He wasn't cold.