Found [FFVII, Cloud/Tifa, PG]

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Title: Found
Author:windrider1
Rating: PG
Prompt: Final Fantasy VII, Cloud/Tifa: Midnight- Shrouded in silence and shadows... she finds him.
Word count: 156

AN: Most definitely not what the prompter had in mind, I'm sure, but it's what felt right. Enjoy!!



They reached for him in the eternal midnight of his mind; tendrils of shadow and horror that filtered through defense and pretense to slither deep and coil tight. Cold, they twined around him until voice and breath both failed, and he was unable to break their desperate tether and he alternately prayed for salvation and death.

A number.

A name.

A purpose.

Give me something...

The tendrils suctioned memory and heart, leaving him a shaking hollow husk, too shattered to cry out...too frightened of the reply.

It was then that she found him, dank and dirty, smelling of urine and vomit--his own?--in that train station and she pulled him from the dark with soft words and sturdy hands. With care and precision, she severed the tendrils locking him stagnant, and finally...finally he could move.

He had a name...

“Cloud?”

He had a purpose...

“Hello, Tifa.”

He no longer needed a number.

Comments

[vampslyr.livejournal.com]

May not be what the OP had in mind, but it's pretty awesome. High on the creepy, then we brake into the sunlight. Very good.

[windrider1.livejournal.com]

Thank you so much! :D **happy sigh**

[fenikkusuken.livejournal.com]

Very nice switch from despair to hope.

[windrider1.livejournal.com]

**grin** Thank you very much!

[sekiharatae.livejournal.com]

Oh, this is wonderful. I wish this were canon, and he'd held onto that certainty of not needing a number.

P.S. you didn't link this on your journal, and you DEFINITELY should so that people who don't watch this community can find it!!

[windrider1.livejournal.com]

Linked now! Thank you! And I'm glad you enjoyed it! <3 There are a lot of things I wish were canon that I read in fic...

[kitsune13-tam.livejournal.com]

still got to go back and review the other two (freaking lot of catch up to play for my weekend of hooky) but just HAD to say how much I adored this one. It's so raw and inky with emptiness - I feel the panic/pain/despair/emptiness. And then Tifa's arrival and the wound is soothed and set right to heal in time. So short that it gives us exactly and yet I long for longer because the healing honey at the end is so soothing. Excellent job! I LOVE it :D

[windrider1.livejournal.com]

**blush** Thank you!! ♥

[iskra-revoir.livejournal.com]

I liked it very much. It has a certain crude feeling to it that makes it more real, and then this little ray of soft light peeking through. Short and with purpose.

[windrider1.livejournal.com]

Thank you! I'm glad you like it! :D

[amethyst-key.livejournal.com]

Prompt here... again! (You've written for a ton of my prompts this time!)

I actually didn't have anything specific in mind for what I was expecting with this prompt, and if I did, I'm sure this would be so much better than my idea!

I love the wording you use to set up the image and feeling in the beginning -- Cloud's pain and desperation, how lost he is, how empty... and then, Tifa appears, giving him hope and bringing him out of the shadows.

Also, loved:
He had a name...

“Cloud?” Like, she gave him back his name.

He had a purpose...

“Hello, Tifa.” She's become his purpose.

He no longer needed a number. ... because he has her. (Am I reading into this too much?) Anyways, I loved loved loved what you did with this. :D

[windrider1.livejournal.com]

You are reading it just perfect! **is happy**

And I'm thrilled that you like it!!! <3 **is happy!!!**

[ratherlost.livejournal.com]

i absolutely adored the entire thing. it was short, sweet and gave me one of those face-cracking smiles that you only get when you read something this awesome.

great job ;D

[windrider1.livejournal.com]

Thanks! :) This was a unique prompt, and I enjoyed it.