I've been really, really bad about keeping up with this whole drabble thing. This is probably a 'sequel' to the last Sephiroth/Cloud.

Title: In Memoriam
Characters: Sephiroth/Cloud
Rating: PG

"I--"

He choked, split himself open inside and knew that things, everything was changing. There was the low hum of machinery, and the cool air from the vent overhead, and none of it meant nearly as much as the pale fingers splayed out over the polished metal table.

"You-- you destroyed everything I cared about."

The words were wrong, all wrong, but he forced them out because what he really wanted to say would damn them all. But the truth was there, burning and aching inside of him, just where it had always been.

"I don't remember," Sephiroth whispered, and Cloud wanted to weep.

Title: One Last Time
Characters: Sephiroth/Cloud
Rating: PG

Cloud's memories of the last time he killed Sephiroth are nothing more than flashes of silver and green. The others accuse him of using those remnants as fodder for his self-imposed martyrdom, but they don't realize that Cloud still loves Sephiroth, even after everything.

So when war breaks out, and ShinRa's new army of bright-eyed cadets come home broken old men, and Rufus proposes the one solution everyone's been afraid of from the beginning, Cloud surprises them all by being the first to agree.

After all, he's killed Sephiroth twice before. Once more will be worth it just to see him again.

I should never, ever have found this site.

( Final Fantasy VII, Bleach, and Loveless. Now with commentary! )