Re: Crossover Final Fantasy VII/Kingdom Hearts II, Zack/Leon, «I'll tell you where Cloud is if...
There's a cool green antidote sliding down his throat and stopping the terrible certainty that he's going to meet his end piece by piece. He drinks it down, then curls up against the bulkhead and grins sheepishly. “Are you gonna be ticked if I admit you remind me of someone?”
“Only if you say it's Sephiroth. He went insane.”
That's a hard lodge of ice in his gut and Zack has to chuckle because trust Leon to never pull a punch. “Nah. This Wutain guy. Very serious. All business. Used to work with him sometimes.”
“Hn.”
“So I guess...”
“Cloud is relatively stable. He's in a committed relationship with Aeris and Dean.”
The cold knot eases a bit. Aeris was always able to make things better. Heaven help him she was going to beat him silly when he walked through her door. Ah well. As long as he didn't fall through her roof again right?
“Dean?”
“A hunter Cloud picked up from a hell dimension.”
“... I miss all the fun!” The blindness was wearing off and he could feel his handle on magic coming back, but he wasn't about to try another blitz. Not when Leon was watching him with an ether in hand and half the restorative already drunk. Without adrenaline fuzzing up his priorities, he could see the guy's sword was kinda, really weird. The facial scar was hot as hell. Where the man came up with the white t-shirt and all the belts though... “...strappy bits? They haven't broken you of those yet?”
“I'm not interested in participating in preformed arrangements.”
“Aaaaaah. You run and hide when the desserts come out. Does that mean you aren't Cloud's boyfriend?”
“Sparring partner.”
“Good. The kid needs someone to keep him working.”
“Cloud Strife is quite capable of taking care of himself, given proper motivation.”
Zack just arches a brow and hooks his arms loosely around his knees. That sounded way too much like military talk for 'I'm his CO and I can't actually admit how much I watch him and his family because it's socially unacceptable'. Good thing Zack had a lot of practice not caring a whit about social acceptability. He also didn't like the idea of the guy taking care of his friends and family being so... not a part of that family. He'd fucked up that way with Sephiroth. He wouldn't let it happen again. Zack Fair never made the same mistake twice.