Re: Crossover Final Fantasy VII/Kingdom Hearts II, Zack/Leon, «I'll tell you where Cloud is if...
The brunet was hard and cold. Broad shouldered, lean hipped, and with muscles Zack knew came from swinging a sword. Leo moved with that gliding dancer's grace he remembered Sephiroth having, effortless and predatory, faint scars teasing in the dim light. He never raised his voice, kept his language clean and had the patience of a saint. Or a professional hit man.
It was all Zack could do to keep his expression impassive as Leo calmly dislocated Costello's other knee.
“Where is the Maiden's Tear?”
“God fucking damnit!!! Costello was a man in his late forties, who had lived his whole life in the kill ad be killed world of the organized crime family, and yet, the proper application of pain... “It's in the safe. The bedroom safe. The combination is...”
“Unnecessary. I don't care about your drugs, or your money, or anything else.”
Leo is ice, and considering Zack was Sephiroth's SiC, he knows the kind of life that leads to that gentle, absolute voice. He can't even console himself that Sephiroth wouldn't be just like this, exactly like this, if the situation called for it and it's messing with Zack's brain because he doesn't want to like Leon at all but he has to respect the man.
The bedroom safe is hidden behind a painting of of a city sky line, and Leo has it cracked open in under five seconds, bypassing bricks of white powder and stacks of money for a single red stone that shimmers like fire. Leo runs his fingers over it with reverence and Zack debates reaching for the materia for exactly as long as it takes for the man's silver eyes to cut his way with a calm dead stare. Zack likes breathing, he's been far too close to not being able to, often enough thank you.
He settles for arching a brow at the man. “You got what you wanted, now where's Cloud?”
To his credit, and Zack's shiver of unease, Leo doesn't even hesitate. Zack's not sure what's more upsetting, that Leo isn't afraid of him in the slightest, or that Zack has gotten so used to people being afraid of him that he's upset when they don't. He wants Leo to react, and maybe he even wants the guy to crack a little, but he's not sure how much of that want has to even do with Leo and how much has to do with the vaguest similarities to Seph that have Zack hoping in the first time since forever.
“Follow me.”
Zack really wishes that was harder to do.
He sort of thought there'd be a... well a car or a boat or something, not a ship. A space ship. That sort of boggled. Of course he'd known he wasn't on his world but he hadn't quite connected that ripping, killing blackness and Dark with space and the traveling through of said.
He wasn't sure Leo's ship would survive it either, the thing looked suspiciously... squishy. And a bit rainbow. It certainly didn't look like a machine Sephiroth, or Leo, would want to be seen near. Maybe the guy had a Yuffie paint it for him.