Zack yawned, stretched, and smiled up at the ceiling sleepily. He'd slept better last night than he had in a while, thanks in part to the puppy that had come home with him last night. He wasn't planning on keeping the dog, not by any means, but he hadn't been taking to being alone very well, and neither had the puppy, after his siblings had all ( Read more... )

To say that it was surreal to be back on the island again after so long would be something of an understatement.

To day that it was surreal to be in an unfamiliar apartment, staring out one of the windows at an all too familiar island, not having to worry about anything more dangerous than a gremlin ( Read more... )

The chanting of monsters still echoed loudly in Zack's ears as he slumped down into the overgrowth, holding Cloud close in his arms and trying not to look as shaken as he felt. Genesis had been there, and Hollander, and while they'd given up on him, saying that his cells had already been mutated as part of the process of becoming SOLDIER, Cloud's ( Read more... )

Zack was tired. Bone tired. Bone tired and heartsick, following the road toward Gongaga with a sort of exhausted stubbornness that would have seemed at least slightly more reasonable if he wasn't hauling a comatose kid around with him all the way from Nibelheim. Cloud was slowing him down. There was no question about that. He'd been able to stop ( Read more... )

The bike had been... well, it had been awesome, the sidecar making it easy for two to travel quickly, and Zack was getting some impressive mileage on it. Cloud was still asleep, had been asleep since they'd left Nibelheim with no sign of waking, and while they'd done a decent job so far of avoiding notice, life on the run with only a bike, some ( Read more... )

You call yourself SOLDIER?

Everything was dark and pain. It always was. But there was that voice, Angeal's voice, cutting into the darkness, and Zack found himself opening his eyes to see him there, white-winged and disappointed, looking at him from the other side of the thick glass that had been his only barrier to freedom for years.

You tarnish ( Read more... )

It was a beautiful day, somewhere.

( It was never really a beautiful day. )

Hey! You've reached the voicemail of Zack Fair, SOLDIER 1st Class! I can't answer the phone right now, but that doesn't mean you can't talk to me when the beep sounds, anyway! So leave your name and number, and I'll get back to you as soon as I can, thanks!

*Beep!*

In creating this journal, the author has assumed the identity of a fictional ( Read more... )

[OOC: I'm pretty sure most of the game has him defriended. So I'm pretty sure this should be okay to post here, since he's been dropped and this doesn't have to be FH canon until the BDE where he fades into the Nothing anyhow. But today was the day that I was going to throw him into Nibelheim - There's a calendar with his name on it, it's been ( Read more... )

Okay, so Zack and Ino had come up with their Awesome Vacation Plans (tm), which so far had included a trip to see a play in Midgar, and then a long trip to the next continent over, where they'd be spending a much larger chunk of the week ( Read more... )