Interlude I - The First Dream

[rhapsody-onfire.livejournal.com]

[The Junon Cannon. One of her favorite places, if only in her dreams. It no longer existed, having been destroyed just before Meteorfall. And yet, she still remembered it. Very clearly, in fact. She point to the very same places that she always sat, where Angeal stood, where Sephiroth stood as she recited LOVELESS or they sparred. The Cannon was destroyed many times.

She sighed softly, a breeze playing with her hair. She dug her hands into her pockets, only mildly surprised she wasn't in her normal uniform but a much more casual outfit. The hat had long since been set in the back, where she used to sit with her friends.

Her friends.

She hugged her stomach, looking down at the waters below the tip of the cannon. She struggled to keep her tears inside.]

Do I even have the right to call them as such?

[OOC: Just something tame for now as I get used to this sort of game. XD I recommend listening to this! This can turn into a nightmare if you would like, something happy, or keep it as just a melancholy dream. :3 Up to you guys!]

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[rhapsody-onfire.livejournal.com]

[She raised her brow at the question but obliged. Telling him the story that remarkably mirrored the one of the Genesis of Zack's world, not that she knew this. Of course.]

[hisdreamsmyfate.livejournal.com]

...so.

What's it like, where you live? Are you at ShinRa, or...?

[rhapsody-onfire.livejournal.com]

[She shook her head.]

No, ShinRa is no more. Reeve leads the World Regenesis Organization. I live on my own in what is left of Banora.

[hisdreamsmyfate.livejournal.com]

[That... gets a startled look out of him.]

Wait. ShinRa's dead? What happened? Who did it?

[rhapsody-onfire.livejournal.com]

Not who. What. Meteor had been cast and while the Lifestream had saved the Planet, Midgar was destroyed. ShinRa along with it.

[hisdreamsmyfate.livejournal.com]

...Meteor? What's Meteo--

[At the simple mention, Zack's form begins to flicker violently, the overlapping sound of various whispering voices seemingly coming from nowhere. Struggling against this, the SOLDIER hunkers down and *wills* himself back into control, his body solidifying and the voices falling silent once more as soon as it starts.

Apparently, certain words are triggers for the mako to go nuts, but he's getting better at biting it back, it seems.]

--sorry. You were saying? What's Meteor?

[rhapsody-onfire.livejournal.com]

...What was that?

[She tilted her head.]</small. Meteor is a spell that can be cast using the Black Materia. Sephiroth used it to try and destroy the Planet. I'm afraid I don't know all the details as I was sealed away, like I told you.

[hisdreamsmyfate.livejournal.com]

Nothin' you need to worry about. [And in all honesty, it really wasn't. Especially since things seemed to be so different between them, what happened with himself might not have even existed where this Genesis was from.]

So Sephiroth's still alive on your world? Man! I thought fallin' into mako would be enough to stop 'im...

[He'd hoped it would be, at the very least. Sephiroth never deserved that kind of a future. Not one that involves mindless slaughter.]

[rhapsody-onfire.livejournal.com]

[She shook her head.]

He did die. What's left is nothing like the person we knew. What I had said to him corrupted his mind, pushed him into madness and that madness is all that's life.

[She pulled up her knees and hugged them.]

I wish I could take everything back. Knowing what I know now... I wish I could back and change everything. Stop myself from starting a war, stop Angeal from trying to make you kill him, not even said the words I did to Sephiroth...

[She shook her head.]

But I can't. But I suppose living alone with no one left is a fitting punishment.

[hisdreamsmyfate.livejournal.com]

I know. There's times I wish I could fix things too, but what's done is done. The thing we do have to focus on is movin' on. And... I'd like to help, if you don't mind.

[He turns to the woman, giving his most sincere smile.]

Maybe we got off to a rough start. Even if things are a little different for you, for me, well...

It's up to you. Do you trust me?

[rhapsody-onfire.livejournal.com]

[She frowns at him.]

You are very quick to forgive what I've done. Why?

[hisdreamsmyfate.livejournal.com]

You're feelin' better now. Right?

That's what matters.

[rhapsody-onfire.livejournal.com]

I... I suppose so.

[hisdreamsmyfate.livejournal.com]

You do trust me this time. Right?

[rhapsody-onfire.livejournal.com]

Zack, I... never not trusted you. I just never really considered you a friend before.

[hisdreamsmyfate.livejournal.com]

I know. It... was hard, with you degrading an' all the shit that was goin' on at the time. At first, I just saw you as someone to be stopped.

...but then Sephiroth told me everything. About that wound, how you just started changing. He went nuts because you'd pushed him to.

[rhapsody-onfire.livejournal.com]

I don't know if you would believe me but I... never intended for Sephiroth to go insane. Not that I even told him everything in the right light. It was all an accident that never should have happened.

I'm sorry that it did, however.

[hisdreamsmyfate.livejournal.com]

Like I said, there's not much we can do now.

...well. Other than try to start over, I mean.

[rhapsody-onfire.livejournal.com]

...how do you start over with a dead man?

[hisdreamsmyfate.livejournal.com]

It hasn't happened yet. For me, at least.

[rhapsody-onfire.livejournal.com]

But it has for me.

[hisdreamsmyfate.livejournal.com]

Genesis, I'm gonna tell you somethin' I've wanted to tell you for so long now.




Shut up.

We're friends an' that's that.

[rhapsody-onfire.livejournal.com]

...






[A sandal was thrown at him. B|]

[hisdreamsmyfate.livejournal.com]

[Expertly, he dodges enough to keep the sandal from hitting his head, breaking back out into a grin.]

Hey, someone had to say it!

[rhapsody-onfire.livejournal.com]

It was rude!

[Have her other shoe thrown at you.]