Well, I'm only one day late this time...
*glares at Aeris*
Well this was going to be posted on Monday but someone kept getting destracted by springkink.
*sighs*
Oh well, maybe next week.
Title: 1985 - 10 - Growth
Author: Scrolls
Rating: PG-13?
Fandom/Pairing: FF7/None (eventual Aeris/Cloud/Sephiroth/Zack)
Disclaimer: SqaureEnix Owns, I'm just having some fun.
Notes: Cloud woob, lots of plants, and a touch of food.
Summary: What if Momma Strife had taken Cloud and Aeris and gone to Wutai?
Constructive criticism will be hugged while flames will be used to line the bunny hutch.
Enjoy Ladies and Gentlemen.
1985 - 10 - Growth
The voices buzzed warning combined with the creak of the door opening finally pried Aeris from one rather stubborn lily. I’ll be coming back to you later she silently promised the flower as Cloud closed the door behind him.
“Hi Aeris!” He called, giving her a little wave, “Your mom sent me over with lunch.” He continued, carefully removing his pack as he came over to her. “Oh, still can’t convince it to bloom?” he asked nodding to the flower in front of her.
“No. Not yet anyway.” She told him, giving said flower one last look before picking herself up and walking over to the picnic spot.
“Maybe it just likes all the attention” Cloud suggested, smiling as he handed her a sandwich.
There it was again, that smile, free and bright and so happy. Not the smile he wore because he had managed to dodge the bullies or the one where he had been put in trouble’s way once again and didn’t want to talk about it or the one just after an enhancement when his senses hurt. Just happy. Happy to be here in the garden, with her.
“Maybe” Aeris replied, unwrapping her lunch and starting to eat.
The past few months had seen a subtle change begin in Cloud. No longer blindly and calmly accepting whatever was done to him. Now he fought back-oh he never hurt anyone-but the bullies were getting into a lot more trouble than usual.
The first time it happened Aeris had wanted to crow from the rooftops-Cloud had finally done something! But as much as she wanted to congratulate him she knew that if she made a fuss he would retreat, sputtering and sure that something would happen because of what he had done.
So each for different reasons they held their breath; Cloud for the moment when the world would come crashing down and Aeris for when he realized that it wouldn’t, that it wasn’t the way of the world for him to always be the victim. A couple days passed, Cloud looked around and realized that nothing was going to happen because he fought back, the sun rose, the rain fell, and he was still scheduled for his next enhancement procedure the following week.
It was alright for him to break the mold.
It was okay for him to fight back.
Aeris had wanted to hug him till he squeaked, wanted to track down the emperor and give him the eyes until he agreed to throw a feast in Cloud’s honor, wanted to find all those cold adults that said Cloud would be nothing and say “HA!” to their faces. Instead, with her mother’s help, she baked him his favorite desert; sour apple pie with caramel, with a touch of cinnamon and a sprinkle of chocolate. For Cloud that was his cream, canary, and catnip all in one.
And it wasn’t just his reaction to the bullies that had changed. Other things were starting to change as well. How he reacted to any kind of attention; instead of trying to imitate a turtle withdrawing into his shell, Cloud was starting to look at whoever was talking to him. How he was starting to slowly, if only in very little ways to actively go after the things he wanted, instead of simply waiting for a chance to occur, he was creating those chances. He was growing, slowly if surely, into what his heart wanted him to be.
Aeris’s one fear in all this was that something would happen to make him stop changing. She knew how much Cloud could grow, how deep his heart was. And that was excluding what the voices showed her, flashes in the corner of her eye when she passed by water, remnants of dreams after a long hard day, whispers when she saw him turning the bullies plans against them.
“I can’t wait for the wisteria to finish growing in; it’ll be so much cooler.” Cloud commented, eyes trailing the many branches of the vine that covered the roof of her garden.
“Yeah, me too.” Aeris told him, watching him turn to look at her, as if catching something in her tone. “Me too.” She repeated, smiling back at him.
She really couldn’t wait for Cloud to finish growing, to see what he would become.
P.S. If any of you are dinosaur fans, you have to go see Walking with Dinosaurs, it is so drool worthy.
Well this was going to be posted on Monday but someone kept getting destracted by springkink.
*sighs*
Oh well, maybe next week.
Title: 1985 - 10 - Growth
Author: Scrolls
Rating: PG-13?
Fandom/Pairing: FF7/None (eventual Aeris/Cloud/Sephiroth/Zack)
Disclaimer: SqaureEnix Owns, I'm just having some fun.
Notes: Cloud woob, lots of plants, and a touch of food.
Summary: What if Momma Strife had taken Cloud and Aeris and gone to Wutai?
Constructive criticism will be hugged while flames will be used to line the bunny hutch.
Enjoy Ladies and Gentlemen.
1985 - 10 - Growth
The voices buzzed warning combined with the creak of the door opening finally pried Aeris from one rather stubborn lily. I’ll be coming back to you later she silently promised the flower as Cloud closed the door behind him.
“Hi Aeris!” He called, giving her a little wave, “Your mom sent me over with lunch.” He continued, carefully removing his pack as he came over to her. “Oh, still can’t convince it to bloom?” he asked nodding to the flower in front of her.
“No. Not yet anyway.” She told him, giving said flower one last look before picking herself up and walking over to the picnic spot.
“Maybe it just likes all the attention” Cloud suggested, smiling as he handed her a sandwich.
There it was again, that smile, free and bright and so happy. Not the smile he wore because he had managed to dodge the bullies or the one where he had been put in trouble’s way once again and didn’t want to talk about it or the one just after an enhancement when his senses hurt. Just happy. Happy to be here in the garden, with her.
“Maybe” Aeris replied, unwrapping her lunch and starting to eat.
The past few months had seen a subtle change begin in Cloud. No longer blindly and calmly accepting whatever was done to him. Now he fought back-oh he never hurt anyone-but the bullies were getting into a lot more trouble than usual.
The first time it happened Aeris had wanted to crow from the rooftops-Cloud had finally done something! But as much as she wanted to congratulate him she knew that if she made a fuss he would retreat, sputtering and sure that something would happen because of what he had done.
So each for different reasons they held their breath; Cloud for the moment when the world would come crashing down and Aeris for when he realized that it wouldn’t, that it wasn’t the way of the world for him to always be the victim. A couple days passed, Cloud looked around and realized that nothing was going to happen because he fought back, the sun rose, the rain fell, and he was still scheduled for his next enhancement procedure the following week.
It was alright for him to break the mold.
It was okay for him to fight back.
Aeris had wanted to hug him till he squeaked, wanted to track down the emperor and give him the eyes until he agreed to throw a feast in Cloud’s honor, wanted to find all those cold adults that said Cloud would be nothing and say “HA!” to their faces. Instead, with her mother’s help, she baked him his favorite desert; sour apple pie with caramel, with a touch of cinnamon and a sprinkle of chocolate. For Cloud that was his cream, canary, and catnip all in one.
And it wasn’t just his reaction to the bullies that had changed. Other things were starting to change as well. How he reacted to any kind of attention; instead of trying to imitate a turtle withdrawing into his shell, Cloud was starting to look at whoever was talking to him. How he was starting to slowly, if only in very little ways to actively go after the things he wanted, instead of simply waiting for a chance to occur, he was creating those chances. He was growing, slowly if surely, into what his heart wanted him to be.
Aeris’s one fear in all this was that something would happen to make him stop changing. She knew how much Cloud could grow, how deep his heart was. And that was excluding what the voices showed her, flashes in the corner of her eye when she passed by water, remnants of dreams after a long hard day, whispers when she saw him turning the bullies plans against them.
“I can’t wait for the wisteria to finish growing in; it’ll be so much cooler.” Cloud commented, eyes trailing the many branches of the vine that covered the roof of her garden.
“Yeah, me too.” Aeris told him, watching him turn to look at her, as if catching something in her tone. “Me too.” She repeated, smiling back at him.
She really couldn’t wait for Cloud to finish growing, to see what he would become.
P.S. If any of you are dinosaur fans, you have to go see Walking with Dinosaurs, it is so drool worthy.