007 | nothing else matters

[atouchofstrife]

Characters: Cloud and YOU
Setting: Floor 38
Format: starting prose but will match
Summary: Cloud is sulking thinking about such things as Sephiroth and the Tower and missing home while avoiding everyone else.
Warnings: Nothing at the moment but will warn if anything changes


So Sephiroth was here. Cloud sat in a chair, not really watching the fog and the clouds, but instead thinking over everything that had happened in the last couple of months. He hadn't been paying much attention to anything else going on in the Tower, instead spending his time going from hiding on this floor to the farmlands to his dorm in the kind of fog that deep thinking brought out in him. He should have been keeping an eye on Sephiroth and Reno, but he just didn't feel like he could.

How should deal with this one? The last one was a bit saner at least; he could have left him to his own devices and did. This one though, this one remembered the last time they faced off. He also still talked about JENOVA like it was a real mother. That bit worried him a little. What if the J-cells decided to start finding more people to infect? How could they stop it without help from the Lifestream?

Cloud wiggled further into his chair, looking very much like a sulking teen and not a battle-worn adult that he was suppose to be.

Comments

[atouchofstrife]

"No, it's the one that I had fought in the ruins of ShinRa."

He blinked at Reno and then looked down at the bottle. Oh yeah, it was the stuff Reno made that was too strong for most people. Cloud smiled slightly and waved the bottle at him.

"Trying to get me drunk again?" He didn't bother to wait for a reply as he opened it and took a sip. "I know. Just let me deal with him."

[midgarhorizon]

"Maybe. I like challenges, y'know." Though he made a gruff noise and looked sulky for a moment. "You know how much I hate it that you're probably the only one that can deal with him?"

[atouchofstrife]

"Most Turks do," Cloud replied and took another swallow. He could stretch out his senses and locate Sephiroth if he wanted to; he doubted that the former General had woken up his cells yet.

"Doesn't mean that I don't always need backup, Reno. Someone's gotta make sure I don't fall face first afterwards."

[midgarhorizon]

"Can't say I'll get used to the idea of doing back up for you. Future Me must have gone through some pretty serious crap." The Turk went back to the makeshift bar and rummaged around in things, mostly just to do something with his hand. "So, Cloud, how're ya doing?"

[atouchofstrife]

"I think it all started when the Remnants cut your helicopter in half - while you were flying it."

He thought about it for a moment, swirling around the liquor in the bottle and watching the way it coated the glass. That was a loaded question and he wasn't sure exactly what he felt like telling.

"Tired, mainly. I feel like I should be doing something but there are so many things that could go wrong that I don't want to chance them."