Re: Crossover Final Fantasy VII/Kingdom Hearts II, Zack/Leon, «I'll tell you where Cloud is if...
Okay, Leo talked more than Seph. That was good. It might keep Zack from trying to joke around and loosen the guy up.
The inside was surprisingly spacious, and the walls didn't give when he leaned on one so that was a plus. The way Leo buckled in, twisted on the engines and threw them into the sky made Zack wish he had held on, because the floor was hard and the sudden pressurizing of the cabin had his ears ringing.
“Hn. Graceful.”
“Asshole.”
“So I'm told.”
“Woah. Okay. So... uh...” Zack's eyes crossed to stare at the glowing blue blade mere inches from his nose and carefully kept his hands on the floor. Leo moved fast. As fast as a SOLDIER maybe.
“How do you know Cloud?”
Zack arched a brow at Leo and wondered if maybe his boyfriend wouldn't be, well, his boyfriend when he finally got home. “I brought him home to Aeris. He was a raw recruit in the guard and the cutest thing to come down from the mountains. Wanted to be a SOLDIER. I was an idiot and an asshole and didn't tell him to get his ass safely back to Nibelhiem.” And if there was anythign at all in his life he regretted more than not hauling Seph out of the castle when he had the chance, it was letting Cloud follow him down to that hell.
But Cloud was alive. Leo wouldn't be so careful if Cloud wasn't. And Sephiroth. That meant... that meant Zack could still fix things. No matter how long it had been. He wouldn't believe otherwise.
“Hn.”
Zack tensed as something started beeping, but forced himself to relax when the sword to his head didn't so much as quiver, and Leo drew a small device from his pocket. It looked sort of like a detonator.
“Explosive decompression is a messy way to go, but relatively painless due to the speed.”
“Got it.”
Leo's lips twitched, then he moved away to check on the beeping thing. Zack stared at the ceiling and wondered if all Cloud's friends were slightly insane.
“Leon? Are you okay? Did you find it?”
Zack arches a brow, and then with a ripple of muscles and mako enhancement, he's on his feet and draped over the other man in a bear hug, easily pinning the brunet's arms to his sides, chin digging sharply into a bony shoulder with a bright smile. “He found me! Hi!!”
The voice belongs to a mouse on a screen who looks ever so confused. Zack is pretty sure it's from the sudden stillness and possible deathglare his new captive/captor may be giving the poor guy.
“Uhm. Leon?”
“The mission was a success, the return is still being negotiated, Sir.”
Zack waggles his eyebrows and bites back a grunt when the poor mouse blushes and Leon plants his elbow right into an unguarded kidney, but he's pretty sure they aren't about to die so that's fine.
“Erm. Okay. Uh... good! You need a vacation Leon! Have fun! Bring your friend home to the castle sometime!” The screen goes black before Leon can growl or splutter and Zack just grins like a madman because now he can die happy.
“So. We're still negotiating taking me back to Cloud?”
“...I'm considering the size of chocolate cake Aeris will bake me for trussing you up in a pink dress and dropping you in her living room.”
“I'm awful good at escapes and have no shame.”
“And I know Pain!”
Zack makes a mental note to learn how to cast using reflective surfaces because that's such a cheat, right as the behemoth slams into him and everything goes dark and painful. It's a nasty spell, he's been poisoned before and even if there wasn't a hand at his throat cutting off his air, he couldn't have dragged out a counter spell of his own. “....damn....”
“We're going back to Radiant Garden. I'm trusting that you'll behave yourself, because if you don't,” Zack can't see a thing but he can imagine easily enough the look in Leon's eyes as the next words purr out, completely ruthless and absolute. “This is nothing like what I will do when we're there. You will not have the time to regret, or fear, or feel, before I cut you down and blast your remains into their component particles. There will be no second chances, no Phoenix Downs, no Life spells, not even a tenuous connection to the Dark to save your will. You will not exist.”