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[herobydefault]

Tifa, can I talk to you? Off the record, please. Jenny, I need to talk to you too.

Sigmund, is everything all right? Anything on finding Mark yet? It's been a day or so...




...is anybody here opposed to us keeping a census?



[[Private to Zack//90% Unhackable]]

...hey, uh. Goddammit.

Sorry if...y'know. I. Yeah.

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[Private]

[herobydefault.livejournal.com]

And I'm not going to cut Tifa open, skewer you, slaughter the villagers or light the houses on fire. Don't feel like stabbing Aerith either, actually.


...I can still tell what's right and what's wrong. So don't look at me like that again.

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[wingenvy]

Cloud, I never said-

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[wingenvy]

....

Listen. I know your history. I know what happened in your life.

But... you don't know what happened in mine.

[Private]

[herobydefault.livejournal.com]

Enlighten me. We're always talking about me, let's talk about you. Tell me.

[Private]

[wingenvy]

... You know Angeal was my mentor, right? I was assigned to him as a one-on-one trainer when I was a Second Class SOLDIER. It's special prep for aspiring First Classers; the mentor has to recommend them. Before he disappeared, Angeal sent in the request. I became First Class thanks to everything he did for me.

[Private]

[herobydefault.livejournal.com]

Yeah...I think I remember you saying stuff about him.

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[wingenvy]

He was part of the Genesis experiments, way back when. He turned on SOLDIER, because of it. Kept saying he was a monster, losing himself because of how he was made. That mission, back in Modeoheim? When we first met? He was the target... he turned on me.

[.....]

I killed him.

[Private]

[herobydefault.livejournal.com]

[Shit, son, Cloud was not expecting that.]

...you... [And this is Cloud trying to think of something useful to say.]

He was the target we were after...? But I thought- I...wasn't it Hollander...?

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[wingenvy]

Hollander was part of it. He caused so many problems for us, but Angeal was working with him and Genesis. They were all listed as traitors to Shinra. That's... why we fought. Why he died.

...

Genesis, too.

[Private]

[herobydefault.livejournal.com]

[So they'd been after another insane, sadistic scientist and two renegade SOLDIERs, one of which was apparently very important to Zack. And Zack had ended up killing him.]

...did you kill Genesis, too...?

[Private]

[wingenvy]

[No hesitation there.]

Yeah, I did. I think.

[Private]

[herobydefault.livejournal.com]

[Cloud wasn't about to fault Zack for killing people; hell, he'd killed plenty himself. But it sounded as if Zack was struggling with the deaths he'd caused...especially Angeal's.]

You think?

[Private]

[wingenvy]

He was pretty much gone when I left him behind. I still had to get you to Midgar, so... I couldn't wait around. And I didn't want to kill anyone.

[Private]

[herobydefault.livejournal.com]

And you did this while we were on the run.

[Private]

[wingenvy]

...Yeah. While you were sleeping.

[Private]

[herobydefault.livejournal.com]

[Ouch. Burn, whether or not it was intended to be.]

...oh.

[Private]

[wingenvy]

I tried to kill Sephiroth too, Spike. Are you catching on to the trend here?

[Private]

[herobydefault.livejournal.com]

[Yeah.

He's catching on.]


...I'm sorry.

[Private]

[wingenvy]

I'm counting on you to hold it together. It's selfish, I know, but... I don't want to be put in that position again.

Especially not with my best friend.

[Private]

[herobydefault.livejournal.com]

...you won't have to worry about it. Promise.

[Private]

[wingenvy]

Okay.

Anything you want me to do? For you, for the kids, whatever?

[Private]

[herobydefault.livejournal.com]

Look after them. Get Tifa and Yoko; they'll help.

I'll fix this.

[Private]

[wingenvy]

Should we vacate and give you some space?

[Private]

[herobydefault.livejournal.com]

No, I'll go. Hold down the fort for me. Please.

[Private]

[wingenvy]

Right. I promise.