herobydefault | [Voice]

..."Met" makes it sound a lot more personal than it really was. [or it really was personal since they kidnapped her and Elfe spoke to her but nnnh her life and ridiculous numbers of kidnappings.] But I guess you could say that. Do you remember...? Barret said he always wanted to go to Cosmo Canyon because that's where it was founded, but he'd never been there before until we all got there.

Yes I remember that, but don't you change the subject.

What do you mean you met her but it wasn't personal?

It is not changing the subject, you were surprised there was another leader!

And it just wasn't a big deal. AVALANCHE was causing a lot of trouble for Shinra back then, a lot of people must have seen her.

[This look. You are totally keeping something from him.]

[urrrgh. She puffs out her cheeks because really why is she getting that look, all she said is that Elfé looked young.]

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...The old AVALANCHE already knew about Shinra wanting to find the Promised Land. That's why I met Elfé. But I couldn't help her, so nothing came out of it. [And Cloud can make whatever he wants to of that.]

She tried to use you too? To get to the Promised Land?

I wonder... She spoke politely, but when you get down to it, how they handled things showed no manners whatsoever! [She pauses.] They were probably desperate, too. She was sick. One of them thought the Promised Land would be able to cure her, but... what was wrong with her, it wasn't a physical illness. [She shakes her head.] There was a voice inside her, crying out in pain. I wanted to help her with that, but I didn't know anything I could do. In the end, I didn't do anything at all.

[Cloud feels bad that she was sick, but...]

Then she wasn't any different than the Shinra.

You aren't a commodity. You're Aerith.

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Oh, I know that. There are a few people who need that written down to remember. Maybe on their foreheads?

Maybe on your forehead. So they'll actually see it.

"My name is Aerith and I am not a commodity." [That last part is said in his Miss Cloud falsetto for your listening pleasure.]

Hojo's wrinkly old face deserves it more than mine! [Though gj, Cloud, she can't srs face when the falsetto starts so suddenly.]

Hojo's face got what it deserved.

[...come to think of it, does Aerith know? She was there at the end but he doesn't know if she knows everything yet.]

Huh? [No, she does not. Though it's not hard to get the implication, coming from Cloud.]

...I see. It's a little strange to finally hear.

...do you want to hear what happened? [Some of it Cloud doesn't want to talk about, but if anybody deserves to know it's Aerith.]

[It takes a moment, but she answers:] Please. I want to know.

Could you come over?

Sophie's asleep so I can't leave.

Be there soon.

[Aaaand eventually there will be knocking (soft, to not wake Sophie) on Cloud's door.]

[Cloud has to unlock the door to let her in -because Sophie is a demon child and will escape if he doesn't- and steps aside.]

Thanks.

[She steps in, taking a few feet into the living room area before she turns back to Cloud.] Professor Hojo... what was he doing?

[Cloud pauses -that's jumping right into it- before he quietly shuts the door and locks it back up. He heads over to the couch and sits down heavily on the armrest.]

You mean when we killed him?

[She remains standing, her hands clasped at her waist, though uncertainty flickers across her expression when Cloud sits down. Maybe she shouldn't have asked like that...]

Yes. ...Are you okay telling it?

I'm fine telling it.

[Cloud lifts a hand and flaps it.] He'd gone completely insane. Completely. He was trying to revive Sephiroth, and he even ended up injecting himself with mutated Jenova cells. He turned into even more of a monster than he usually was.

So we killed him. [And looking back on it, it felt very, very good.]

Revive...? [because someone doesn't yet know her killer was actually Jenova controlled by Sephiroth. But she looks both horrified and disgusted about Hojo injecting himself with Jenova cells. Of anyone, he would understand best what he was doing to his body.]

Didn't he understand what Sephiroth was trying to do? No... he probably did, but it was just another experiment to him. The way he thinks is just so... twisted and messed up... [It makes her angry, thinking about it, so she tries to stop.] But if he's dead now, he can't hurt anyone else again.

Exactly. So you don't have to worry about it.

[Because Cloud took care of it for you. ...Cloud and everyone else.]

[...He's seen a world where she finally wouldn't have to worry about Hojo.

She wants that life, so much, a mixture of hope and yearning (she missed that life) passing over her face. It's strange to think about Hojo really being gone. Sometimes, he seemed like a specter that would always haunt her.]

I can't imagine Shinra's going steady after all this. [And she doesn't even know about Gyahaha and Kyahaha kicking the bucket. Or... WEAPONs.]

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lmfao I just like BC for Aerith's fail!escapades.

everybody has fail!escapades in BC :| it's like its THEME

truuue but I like Aerith's the best. |D ...and Cloud's.

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