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Note: Apparently my brain didn't pick up on the "Fix-It" part of the prompt for four of these. But they're retcons, at least! ...don't hurt me?

Title: Coup de Gras
Characters: Cloud, Sephiroth
Team: SOLDIER
Word Count: 100
Warning: Character Death

He wanted to scream, cry, and rage; to yell at Sephiroth until the man told him why he’d done it, why he’d destroyed everything.

Instead he picked up the Buster Sword, and ran up the stairs as silently as he could to gather momentum, and then slammed into Sephiroth, through Sephiroth.

Gasping as tears fell down his cheeks, he hauled the sword and swung it around in a flat arc, feeling the shock of the blade meeting bone, and then the General’s head was falling into the reactor.

Sobbing with exhaustion, he returned to Zack’s side.



Title: Fallen Angel
Characters: Cloud, Sephiroth
Team: SOLDIER
Word Count: 100
Warning: Character Death

The whining, sniveling human was a barely-noticeable weight on his blade, and Sephiroth eyed it coldly. It had hurt him, as few others had ever achieved, worse even than the traitor had managed.

He turned, Mother’s head in one hand and his sword in the other, the pale child pinned upon the silvery metal like a particularly odd butterfly, so delicate, so beautiful, so breakable.

Had he more time…but he didn’t It was too bad. He dipped Masamune downward as weak hand scrabbled at the metal, and watched the child fall into the depths of the reactor.



Title: Promises
Characters: Zack, Cloud
Team: SOLDIER
Word Count: 100

Zack coughed out mako as he propped himself up on the floor of the lab, trying to remember what had just happened. He shook his head in and then looked up to Cloud’s tank.

The kid was as unresponsive as ever, and Zack hauled himself up to start toward Cloud’s tank to let him out too.

Footsteps and yelling voices jerked him to a halt, and he looked over his shoulder toward the door. Too close. If he wanted to get out, he had to go now.

Agonized eyes looked to Cloud.

“I’ll come back! I promise!”



Title: Successful Experiment
Characters: Zack, Cloud
Team: SOLDIER
Word Count: 100

Cloud was way too quiet, even if it was useful when they were on the run and trying to get away from the troops hunting them. The Turks hunting them even, and wasn’t that a kick to the gut? Not that he hadn’t expected it.

But Cloud was too quiet, and his hair was too pale, and his eyes looked like they’d absorbed the mako because they were way too green.

Suddenly Cloud stirred listlessly, and Zack focused on him like a hunter.

“Seph…iroth. Master…” His voice was dazed and dreamy, responding to an unheard Call.



Title: We Are- Ow!
Characters: Genesis, Zack
Team: SOLDIER
Word Count: 100

“We are…monsters.” Genesis spread his arm out to the side, echoing the dark, demonic sweep of wing that marked him as violently Other. Not even Angeal’s ever-optimistic puppy could spin this a better way.

Which was why he was taken by surprise when said puppy moved forward far too fast and delivered a rather impressive right hook to his jaw.

“Don’t say that! You’re not! You’re coming back with me, and we’re going to fix you!”

Genesis could only stare in stunned confusion as he was lifted over an armored shoulder and carted away.