The Fifth Act, Chapter 38 + Epilogue

[sinnatious]

Title: The Fifth Act

Rating: T for violence.

Summary: FFVII Time-travel. Gen. Cloud has an accident with a Time Materia.

Author's Note:  So we finally reach the end!  This chapter is really long, longest yet by far, which normally says to me that I haven’t been brutal enough with my editing machete yet, but I did say it would be out today, and god

Comments

[swyrel]

First reaction after reading this: NOOOO IT CAN'T BE OVER! Second reaction was lol'ing so hard at Yuffie. Go get her Cloud! And take Genesis along w/ you. <3 The tracking of Yuffie and keeping her safe over the next couple of years would make for an awesome spin off of this fic.

'Cloud suddenly wished he’d just jumped into the Reactor core. See them try and revive him then.'

Geeze...he's just being stubborn for the hell of it now, isn't he?

'Genesis looked absurdly pleased by the revelation for some reason. He probably didn’t want to know.'

I get the feeling that Genesis is so happy b/c he now knows it's Chibi!Cloud following him everywhere instead of Sephiroth and he's finally got that little part of his that was jealous of Sephiroth taken care of. And no, Cloud, you so don't want to know. It would just exasperate you.

I love the ending, but I kind of figured this would be the ending when Cloud talked about how he would've ended the Fifth Act of Loveless.

Sephiroth and Genesis tracking Cloud down. lol That's hilarious. And Sephiroth having him on suicide watch and then Genesis finding Cloud as soon as he gets back and demanding where he was. Man, Cloud is going to have a lot of watchdogs, isn't he? Speaking of that, where is the clone? Did Chibi keep him as a pet?

See, if Sephiroth does have Cloud on suicide watch, then Genesis so has to go w/ him to track down Yuffie. They would never let him go alone.

There are so many more things I want to talk about, but I can't think of them right now. They'll hit me when I read again. <3

Wonderful, wonderful story! One of the best I've ever read! And now that it's over, Sin, I must ask 'what next?' lol <3

[sinnatious]

Well, we do already know what ending Cloud wanted for Loveless - waaaay back in chapter 15ish territory, when he and Genesis first discussed it.

I seriously didn't think anyone would be that bothered by the Angeal wolf-clone's status so long as it was left alive, so I didn't bother writing about it. XD Clearly this was a mistake! I should have known. It's turned into the Karupin of this story. Let's just say it hangs around like an intelligent stray and mooches food off all the SOLDIERs and Clouds indebted to it.

Thank you, and thank you for all of your comments, too! As for what's next, who knows! I'm taking it easy for a few weekends, then maybe I'll start looking at some shorter fics in the fandom.