Drops and Ripples

Authors: Bard Linn and Kiraya
Genre: General/Drama
Pairings: Zack x Sephiroth, assorted past pairings
Rating (Overall): PG-13; R for this chapter.
Warning: Implications of intimacy.
Summary: “I can be discreet — I’m always discreet.”

Disclaimer: Final Fantasy VII and all associated characters and symbols are the exclusive property of Square Enix and its associates. We’re just borrowing them for a while.

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Authors: Bard Linn and Kiraya
Genre: General/Drama
Pairings: Zack x Sephiroth, assorted past pairings
Rating (Overall): PG-13; R for this chapter.
Summary: “I take it things didn’t go too well?”

Disclaimer: Final Fantasy VII and all associated characters and symbols are the exclusive property of Square Enix and its associates. We’re just borrowing them for a while.

( Chapter 36 )

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Authors: Bard Linn and Kiraya
Genre: General/Drama
Pairings: Zack x Sephiroth, assorted past pairings
Rating (Overall): PG-13; R for this chapter.
Warnings: Graphic descriptions of gore, particularly foul language, brief intimate contact. (One of these things is not like the others.)
Summary: “‘Awful’ doesn’t even begin to describe it.”

Disclaimer: Final Fantasy VII and all associated characters and symbols are the exclusive property of Square Enix and its associates. We’re just borrowing them for a while.

( Chapter 35 )

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Title: Smoke
Author: Kiraya
Characters: Subaru
Word Count: 224
Author's Notes: Slight spoilers for volume 16.

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Authors: Bard Linn and Kiraya
Genre: General/Drama
Pairings: Zack x Sephiroth
Rating (Overall): PG-13
Summary: “Well, face it, you were mostly angry at not having things go the way you wanted them to.”

Disclaimer: Final Fantasy VII and all associated characters and symbols are the exclusive property of Square Enix and its associates. We’re just borrowing them for a while.

( Chapter 34 )

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Title: Bad Day
Author: Kiraya
Characters: Zack, Cloud
Rating: PG
Word Count: 100
Author's Notes: Late response for ffvii_100's alternate universe prompt. Very likely to be expanded on in the future.

Today, Zack decided, struggling fruitlessly, was not his day.

He’d been walking through the slums, minding his own business, when he’d been attacked. Odd enough that someone was crazy enough to assault a SOLDIER — though it was odder still that this guy was stronger than he. And Zack could feel the strength ebbing from him, once the guy’d sunk his teeth into his throat.

The world spun, and suddenly his attacker was gone, blasted away. Zack stared, dazed, up at the boy who’d saved him — barely fifteen, but his eyes were so old…

“Oh, hell,” said his rescuer.

Title: Limbo
Author: Kiraya
Characters: Vincent
Rating: PG
Word Count: 100
Author's Notes: Late response for ffvii_100's alternate universe prompt. Butterfly Effect sidestory/snippet; may be edited and/or expanded upon in the future.

Vincent hadn’t really known what to do with himself after Cloud left for Midgar. The first few weeks were especially difficult, as he’d wake up, make a little tea for breakfast, and sit there brooding as he gazed into the fire. Eventually he began hunting monsters for parts and selling them, upgrading his gun and buying better materia. He became a sort of mountain guardian, fending off monsters that ventured too close to Nibelheim. After all, it wasn’t like there was much else to do in the area.

Even so, he was never quite able to convince himself to leave.

Title: Suspicion
Author: Kiraya
Characters: Tifa, Sephiroth, Aeris
Rating: PG
Word Count: 100
Author's Notes: Late response for ffvii_100's alternate universe prompt.

“I don’t trust you,” Tifa told him bluntly, watching him warily from behind the bar.

“In all honesty, Ms. Lockhart,” Sephiroth replied, “I’m not sure I trust myself.” He looked away. “I cannot understand why they would choose to bring a dangerous madman back to life…”

Tifa paused at that, the tirade she’d nearly begun fizzling as the former SOLDIER gave voice to her own opinion. The others she could understand — seeing Aeris again was wonderful, and they had all easily come to like Zack, but… why Sephiroth?

“Because everyone deserves a second chance,” said Aeris, from the doorway.

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Authors: Bard Linn and Kiraya
Genre: General/Drama
Pairings: Zack x Sephiroth
Rating (Overall): PG-13
Summary: “Aeris, I’d like you to meet Tifa Lockhart.”

Disclaimer: Final Fantasy VII and all associated characters and symbols are the exclusive property of Square Enix and its associates. We’re just borrowing them for a while.

( Chapter 33 )

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Authors: Bard Linn and Kiraya
Genre: General/Drama
Pairings: That'd be telling!
Rating (Overall): PG-13; R for this chapter.
Warnings: Implied sex.
Summary: “I could use a distraction, myself…”

Disclaimer: Final Fantasy VII and all associated characters and symbols are the exclusive property of Square Enix and its associates. We’re just borrowing them for a while.

( Chapter 32 )

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Authors: Bard Linn and Kiraya
Genre: General/Drama
Pairings: That'd be telling!
Rating (Overall): PG-13
Summary: “Very nice. I’ve been wanting to have this one for a while.”

Disclaimer: Final Fantasy VII and all associated characters and symbols are the exclusive property of Square Enix and its associates. We’re just borrowing them for a while.

( Chapter 31 )

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Authors: Bard Linn and Kiraya
Genre: General/Drama
Pairings: That'd be telling!
Rating (Overall): PG-13
Summary: Cloud was attracting enough attention already without moving up the ranks.

Disclaimer: Final Fantasy VII and all associated characters and symbols are the exclusive property of Square Enix and its associates. We’re just borrowing them for a while.

( Chapter 30 )

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