OMG!! for the ff7 shortfic, what abouttttt
(abit stupid i know but im starving for Cloud fics 😭)
Not stupid at all! I think it's a really cute prompt. :) Hope you enjoy!
In Midgar, flowers are rare. Most of them can’t thrive there, not up on the plate and not down in the slums, no matter how hard you tried to grow them in a pot on your windowsill. In Kalm, though, flowers seem to be pretty much everywhere. They decorate the streets in large pots, they adorn windows and even hang from streetlamps in special baskets. They glow in the morning sun, and they fill the air with the rich aroma of something pure, something sweet.
They remind Cloud of you. Every time he sets his eyes on the colorful blossoms, he has to stop for a minute because the memories just come rushing back to him. The way your eyes sparkled when you smiled; how you used to giggle when he sneaked up on you while you were tending to your miserable little garden on the windowsill. Every time, he just stands there and stares at the flowers as he thinks of you and wonders if you’d like this place.
He wishes he could show you everything – the tall observation tower, the untamed and beautiful nature that awaits behind the walls of Kalm, and, of course, the flowers. But you weren’t here, you hadn’t left Midgar together with him and the others – no, you, brave and selfless and compassionate as you were, had decided to stay to help the people in the slums. And while Cloud has always admired you for thinking about others first, he still finds himself wishing that, just this one time, you’d had put yourself first. Because then, you’d be here with him now, admiring all those pretty flowers and laughing as he’d wrap his arm around your waist to pull you closer.
With a sigh, he looks at the beautiful flower arrangement in the large concrete pot in front of the inn he and the others are staying, and he makes a promise to himself. One that he’s adamant to keep, no matter what it will cost him.
One day, when he’s resolved this mess he found himself in ever since he decided to help Avalanche, he’ll bring you here. And then he will help you to build that peaceful, picture-perfect life you always deserved.
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