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「 i'll be the shield for you 」

Sep 07, 2009 22:43

characters: Zack, Cloud, plus a Kunsel!
location: In dem slums.
time: During, and not long after this wibble-inducing chat.
rating: T for Tuna.
open/closed: Closed for now.

( needless to say, i'll stand in your way )

cloud strife, kunsel, zack fair

Comments 9

encypher September 9 2009, 23:52:45 UTC

It took Cloud a moment to differentiate between the voice directly outside and its echo coming from his journal. Maybe... if he could get past the doorway...

Managing to hoist himself onto his feet, he inched around the frame, leaning his weight against the structure as he glanced around for--

--that has to be--

"Zack," he called as loudly as he could manage (which wasn't very loud at all), leaving his post so he could stumble to his friend.

neverwinged September 10 2009, 02:59:45 UTC

Well, that was alarming.

Zack picked up the pace with a worried expression, hurrying over to his friend's side. He knew from Cloud's tone that it was the Mako messing him up again, he knew that very well. Having spent an entire year with him like that, the image was very much engraved into his mind. And it was not a very nice one. Especially since he didn't know what all Cloud remembered.

His injuries were forgotten about as he moved over to help Cloud up, the relief of seeing his friend again overshadowed by worry.

"Hey, hang on there, Spike! I told ya just to keep talkin', you didn't have to get up or anything."

encypher September 10 2009, 04:08:58 UTC

Shaking, he was definitely shaking. It wasn't from physical exertion, rather, some overwhelming sense of relief that was (ironically) almost distressing.

"Sorry..." he mumbled, brow creasing in concentration as he tried to remember.

'Hang on.'

Familiar words. Cloud looked up at his friend, eyes searching and searching and utterly lost.

Safe... were they safe...? The truck...

"...where did you go?" He managed to ask, unable to recall anything save for a faint outline of Zack's departing image.

neverwinged September 10 2009, 04:35:39 UTC

... Cloud's eyes didn't look right like that. Out of all the times for Cloud to arrive in this city from, it had to be from after the labs. If Zack had to pick the worst year of his life - he'd had worst days, worst months, but a whole year was different - that would've been it.

He tried to smile as Cloud slumped against him, holding him up as best he can while trying to keep a bit of his weight off his chest. His ribs were, for the most part, healed. But recovery was a bitch.

"... you know, I got myself kidnapped by a bunch of smelly pirates," Zack admitted, believing that kidnapped by pirates was just as truthful as ... well, the truth. It still happened. Just, it happened a little while later. Four years or so. "But see? Got myself out there, too. 'Cause I knew you'd be lookin' for me."

encypher September 10 2009, 04:54:28 UTC

"Pirates," he repeated slowly, the idea quite foreign to him. Deliberating any further on the matter was a bit beyond his current capacity, and so, like everything else, Cloud took Zack's word for it.

"I was looking for you... but you found me."

He smiled back a little, expression dazed as if he wasn't quite sure of the meaning of his own words. But... it felt like he was on to something. Maybe...

Ah-- he'd been found twice, hadn't he?

"Kunsel found me, too."