faicinn_rocais (faicinn_rocais) wrote in areyougame, @ 2010-02-08 00:32:00 |
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[KHII: Cloud/Sephiroth/Aeris] Bedside Manner
Title: Bedside Manner
Author: faicinn_rocais
Rating: T
Warnings: none amazingly enough
Word count: 566
Prompt: Feb 8 - Kingdom Hearts II, Cloud/Sephiroth/Aeris: hurt/comfort fixit - "What do you mean 'he doesn't remember Nibelheim?' ... ...What?"
A/N: This was all I could think of. Might come back to it later and revise; who knows? I'll post a link in this post if I ever do.
Sephiroth blinked, green eyes blank with confusion. “What do you mean ‘he doesn’t remember Nibelheim?’……What?”
Aeris just gave him a patient look while Cloud slept on, oblivious to those in his room. “After his stint with the Dark, and with Hades, in return for power, he paid a price he probably isn’t sure is worth it now.”
“And that price was Nibelheim?” Sephiroth inquired, one leather clad glove fondling golden spikes of hair.
Aeris shook her head. “He doesn’t remember Nibelheim,” the Ancient girl repeated. “He remembers his home, growing up in a mountain village, and his mother to a certain extent. He remembers Tifa from all the travelling they did together, but he doesn’t remember Nibelheim. The Name of it was taken from him.” She paused, unsure if she should continue, but Sephiroth gave her a look, and the girl nodded. “He’s a bit skittish around fire, but he doesn’t know why; says he’s always not liked it.”
Sephiroth looked at Cloud. He had returned covered in blood from a head wound that had made his hair appear almost the same colour as Sora’s. Where he had gotten it from, they could only guess at, but Sephiroth could hardly believe that Cloud of all people would go to such lengths to beat the Darkness out of him…but, then again, he could. Zack had always been determined to the point of stubborn, and Cloud himself had been his own brand of stubborn. From what Aeris told him Hojo had done…
Tingling sensation made him shiver and he looked over at Aeris only to find her preening his wing. In his thoughts, he had let the feathered appendage materialize. “Don’t worry; he’ll get them back,” Aeris soothed.
Sephiroth raised a brow. “What makes you say that?”
“I’ve gone looking,” Aeris said mysteriously. “Cloud’s stubborn is a brand all its own; you should know that, silly.”
Sephiroth looked at her askance. Silly?
Aeris just laughed.
Cloud muttered something in his sleep and rolled over, blankets falling half off the bed in the process. Before Aeris could reach to fix them, their silver General had pulled them to their right position and tucked their blond to bed.
“It’s up to him now, really,” Aeris said, a sad look on her face. Sephiroth gave a sigh to that; if Cloud was one thing it was stubborn. If he didn’t have the memories, or didn’t want to remember, what were the two of them to do? “Oh don’t look like that!” Aeris chided. “I’m sure with you better, and the Darkness gone from your Heart, things will come back to him and his stubborn will make him remember if nothing else.”
Sure enough, when Cloud rolled over again, dazed blue eyes stared at him and then at Aeris in confusion. “Sir, what’s Aeris doing here?”
Perhaps he needed some more sleep. Aeris just smiled and went with it. “You got hurt, silly!” she chided. “I came to fix you!”
“Oh,” Cloud said lamely, his eyes trying to focus and failing. “Good. I’m not feeling too good.”
“You managed to gain a concussion worthy of an award,” Sephiroth played along.
Cloud hummed. “Would ‘splain things.”
Aeris admonished him with a cluck before sending a Cure and a Sleep at him. “He’ll remember.” Aeris decided. The finality in her statement reassured Sephiroth. The three of them had all the Time in the Worlds.