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[herobydefault]

Tifa's gone home. Sorry to her friends here.


Filtered to KH!Cloud/50% Unhackable]

[A muffled attempt to start a sentence, and then he just forgets it and there's a dull sound as he switches to Private instead.]


[Private/50% Unhackable]

Can't even give us a minute to say goodbye, can you.

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[wingenvy]

[....Well, shit.]

Bar?

[herobydefault.livejournal.com]

Rather not. Sorry.

She knows all my favorites anyway.

[wingenvy]

Right, right. Sorry. That was-

...

Wanna talk?

[herobydefault.livejournal.com]

[There's a long silence, and then-]


...I wouldn't say no to the company.

[Action]

[wingenvy]

[BFF incoming.]

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[herobydefault.livejournal.com]

[Hey BFF. 'Sup. Just...sitting here on the bed and staring down at the floor.]

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[wingenvy]

['Sup. You look miserable. Zack flops down on the bed beside Cloud, shoulder to shoulder, scratching the back of his neck. Now, to try and cheer him up or act as a listening ear if he wants to talk? Decisions, decisions...]

[Action]

[herobydefault.livejournal.com]

[Cloud looks down at his hands instead. Picks at a nail.]

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[wingenvy]

[....Right.]

You'll have to take over her cooking duties. You can manage that, right? I mean, Aerith and me already do our share- oh, and there's extra chores now, too. You can do the dishes since we're better at laundry. Oh, and grocery shopping. Man, I hate grocery shopping...

[Ramble, ramble, ramble...]

[Action]

[herobydefault.livejournal.com]

[Mumble.]

I'll do all that stuff besides the cooking.

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[wingenvy]

[Small victories.]

Y'know, it can't be impossible for you to learn how to cook. There must be some way to do it. I mean, you're pretty clueless about a lot of things, but this is just following basic instructions, right?

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[herobydefault.livejournal.com]

Some people can't garden. Some people can't swing a sword.

[Cloud reaches down, starts to untie his bootlaces. He's not going anywhere after all.] I can't cook.

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[wingenvy]

[Sigh. Well if you wanna be a defeatist about it.]

You wanna do something? Spar, fish, cartwheel around the village? Aerith said something about building a doghouse for that friend of yours.

[Action]

[herobydefault.livejournal.com]

[Cloud snorts and finally looks at him, raising a brow.] ...I'm pretty sure Red would bite me if I suggested he live in a doghouse.

[Action]

[wingenvy]

[Hello, there you are. Have a smile.] Then you'd have to smack him with a newspaper. Bad dog, bad dog!

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[herobydefault.livejournal.com]

[Back to the boots.] Yeah, I really don't think I should do that either. Maybe to you.

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[wingenvy]

...But I've been such a good puppy.

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[herobydefault.livejournal.com]

[Cloud snorts, then just...quiets down again, elbows on his knees and head hung.]

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[wingenvy]

[And Zack isn't sure where to go from there - he's never been very good at this - so he shifts a bit awkwardly and puts his hand on Cloud's back, close to his shoulders. Hopefully a platonic enough gesture that won't make him start fussing about relationships.]

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[herobydefault.livejournal.com]

[Fussing about Zack putting a hand on his back is probably the furthest thing from Cloud's mind.

In fact...maybe he just. Leans a little bit closer.

A little bit.]

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[wingenvy]

[Which is a relief, because he didn't want to start a fight. There's nothing romantic about comforting a friend. C'mere, you dummy, stop being so antsy.]

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[herobydefault.livejournal.com]

[Sigh. Cloud runs a hand through his hair.]

...just seems kind of...I don't know. Ironic? Deserved?

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[wingenvy]

[Sidelong glance. Buh?]

What do you mean?

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[herobydefault.livejournal.com]

I'm always the one running off on her.

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[wingenvy]

It's not like she chose to leave, Spike.