Two fics: Stretching His Legs and Wake Up (FFVII)

[icedark_elf]

Title: Stretching His Legs
Author: GW Katrina aka icedark_elf
Beta: forgottenlover
Canon: OGC
Theme + Number: 87-Second for mako_reactor
Claim: Sephiroth
Characters/Pairings included: Random doctor, lab technician, experiment
Wordcount: 939
Rating: K+
Warnings: None
Summary: Time to leave the labs.

Previous prompts found here.

Stretching His Legs

Fandom: Final Fantasy VII
Title: Wake Up
Author: GW Katrina aka icedark_elf
Beta: forgottenlover
Theme(s): 11-Illusion for 30_deathfics
Characters: Cloud, Zack
Rating: PG-13
Wordcount: 320
Warnings: Character death
Disclaimer/claimer: Squeenix owns all.

Previous prompts found here.


Wake Up

This isn't real.

It's an illusion, and hallucination. It's something he's dreaming, a nightmare.

But he can feel the blood on his skin as he touched the man laying next to him.

He could smell it, thick and clinging to the inside of his nose. Why does it smell so strong?

"Zack?"

His voice was raspy, and his throat hurt as he spoke the words. Absently, he nudged the man's shoulder. He should be waking up. Zack should be waking up. One of them should. Because this wasn't real. It wasn't allowed to be real.

Ignoring the cooling skin, he shook Zack's shoulder, croaking his name again. "Wake up." Zack was a lazy thing, but he always woke up when Cloud tried hard enough.

Always.

"Come on, Zack."

Why wasn't he waking up? Why wasn't Cloud? He didn't like this dream. It was even worse than the other dreams, the whispers and the hurt and fear. He didn't like those dreams, but he wanted those dreams over this one. This one hurt.

"Zack, -please-, wake up."

Zack wasn't waking up.

Curling up next to the man, Cloud rested his head on Zack's chest, willing it to move, wanting to hear the thump of Zack's heart. It was a familiar sound. A comforting one. He had been hearing it for a long, long time now. Every time they were still, he'd heard it, felt a hug. It was familiar, comforting.

He couldn't hear it. Wrong, wrong, wrongwrongwrong!

Zack was fine. Had to be fine. Zack was Zack, and it was as simple as that. Zack wouldn't let anything get him down. It was impossible. So that meant Zack must have just been really tired.

"Okay, we can nap here."

Ignoring the cold that seemed all around him, Cloud cuddled up closer to Zack. The skin under him slowly warmed, and that was good.

Now he just needed Zack to wake up.

Comments

[l6vil6rr.livejournal.com]

*sniffle*

[alydhe.livejournal.com]

*is devastated* Fine! Just keep my heart then! I'm gonna go sew up the gaping whole in my chest now. *sob*

[icedark-elf.livejournal.com]

*gives you tissues*

[icedark-elf.livejournal.com]

*puts heart in a nice decorative box and glees, then give you tissues*

[kemis.livejournal.com]

*wibbles*

[artimusdin.livejournal.com]

*wibbles* You know, I kinda need that heart. Can I have it back now?

[pegunicent.livejournal.com]

Aww. Um. Cloud? -pokes him- *eventually* you have to realize he's dead. >> -is now seeing Zack do the sparkly fade to green thing in order to make Cloud move-

Okay, my heart got ripped out a while ago by someone, and I sold my soul for poprocks, but can I at least have my *mind*?

[pyrotechnik.livejournal.com]

*stares at gaping hole where heart used to be* Well damn. That's gonna leave a mark.

In other words, this was very very sad. I'd like my heart back now, please.

[ladynero.livejournal.com]

*sniff* *sniff* *tears up*

[madamhydra.livejournal.com]

Meanie, for making everyone wibble! ::multi-headed snivel::

[the-perkygoff.livejournal.com]

*Makes the Big Wibbly Eyes at you*

[icedark-elf.livejournal.com]

*scritches*

[icedark-elf.livejournal.com]

Oooh.

*adds to new collection* Shiny heart.

[icedark-elf.livejournal.com]

Cloud says he doesn't have to do a damn thing, and continued to cuddle the deadZack.

*hides the body parts she keeps collecting.*

[icedark-elf.livejournal.com]

*hums and adds to the collection, making it all pretty*

It has produced a lot of wibbles.

[icedark-elf.livejournal.com]

*hands over tissues*

[icedark-elf.livejournal.com]

*gives a tissue box*

I've seemed to have done that, yes.

[icedark-elf.livejournal.com]

*pats and gives a tissue*

I've gotten lots of wibbles this time.

[ladynero.livejournal.com]

What can I say? YOu give me a wonderful story like that and I"ll start bawling on you.

At this rate, you're gonna run out of tissues to hand out...

[icedark-elf.livejournal.com]

I'm stockpiling them in anticipation for CC.

The end? Is gonna kill me.

[mogumogu.livejournal.com]

The napping big tugged at my heartstrings.

Yes, Cloud, take a nap. When you wake up, he will instead.