icedark_elf: (Cloud Angst)
icedark_elf ([personal profile] icedark_elf) wrote2006-09-09 09:02 pm

Five Angsty Ficlets

Got the words from [livejournal.com profile] artimusdin. This is the angsty set. War is AU.


Eating

“Come on, Spike, you need to eat.”

Zack tried to convince Cloud to sip the broth he had made. Had taken what had seemed like forever to catch anything to eat, and it had been so scrawny that all he could make out of it was a soup.

Which Cloud wasn’t eating, staring off into space, eyes vacant.

“Cloud, -please-!” Desperation. “I can’t keep doing this, Spike. I -can’t-, not like this. I need your help.”

This was the worst it had been. Cloud still wasn’t responsive, and Zack was getting harder pressed to keep himself moving everyday, let along Cloud.

He had made that promise.

“Please, Cloud, don’t make me do that. Please?” A small, broken word.

The Buster Sword gleamed nearby,

Zack had made his promise. He would never let them take Cloud back to the lab.

He hoped he didn’t have to keep it.



Sleeping

Ignore the blood, ignore the blood, ignore the holes that shouldn’t be there, ignore the way the skin felt, all cool and tacky.

He was only sleeping, right?



Practice

Practice and tests, that was all there was in his life.

Sephiroth preferred the practice. The way the blade felt in his hands, the way everything seemed to calm as he went through the forms. Sweat and the ache of effort. The feel of magic being released, and the crackle of its power.

So much better than the prick of needles and the stinging smell of a sterile lab.

One day, Sephiroth promised himself, he would make sure he never smelled a lab again. And then all that would be left was practice.



Friends

Friends…..

He didn’t have friends.

Turning to glare at violet eyes, he sighed.

“Traitor.”



War

They say the worse part about war was watching your people fall, and losing love ones.

Sephiroth didn’t care about anyone.

Not until Zack forced him to.

Then the man had the audacity to get hurt.

Face blank, Sephiroth looked down at the pale faced man, who was splattered with red. So much red.

Sephiroth didn’t care about anyone.

Not anymore.

[identity profile] artimusdin.livejournal.com 2006-09-10 01:10 am (UTC)(link)
*squeaks* **resists urge to cuddle the boys* *barely*

[identity profile] icedark-elf.livejournal.com 2006-09-10 01:16 am (UTC)(link)
They do deserve some cuddling, don't they.

Maybe I'll write fluff next.

[identity profile] artimusdin.livejournal.com 2006-09-10 01:21 am (UTC)(link)
YES! *wibbly-eyes* Please?

[identity profile] icedark-elf.livejournal.com 2006-09-10 01:58 am (UTC)(link)
*pets* I will. Tomorrow.

[identity profile] artimusdin.livejournal.com 2006-09-10 01:59 am (UTC)(link)
Good. They need fluff. Poor guys.

[identity profile] icedark-elf.livejournal.com 2006-09-10 04:43 am (UTC)(link)
I think I'm going to do random things. Universes, like Mercverse or PK or DemonyZack, or genres, like angst and fluff and stuff like that.

And then there will be just random ones.

[identity profile] artimusdin.livejournal.com 2006-09-10 04:44 am (UTC)(link)
I'll take whatever I can get. If it's fluff, all the better. ^___^

[identity profile] cephy.livejournal.com 2006-09-10 01:36 am (UTC)(link)
re: Sleeping. ...ouch.

[identity profile] icedark-elf.livejournal.com 2006-09-10 01:58 am (UTC)(link)
Sleeping was my favorite. *hugs it* As soon as I got the words, I knew just what I was going to write for this one. This and Friend. *huggles the boys.* So much angst.

[identity profile] pegunicent.livejournal.com 2006-09-10 03:05 am (UTC)(link)
You have my WarZack twitching. I think I liked the one on eating the most.

-rolls on-

So much pretty and I feel so unmotivated to work on homework now.

[identity profile] icedark-elf.livejournal.com 2006-09-10 04:39 am (UTC)(link)
*pets you* I felt like writing angst. So I did.

*scritches*

Sleeping was my favorite, with Friend right behind it. So much pretty angst. I do so love Eating, though, cause you -know- Zack would have kept that promise.

*feels urge to write ficlet to cover that possibility*