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wintersday ([personal profile] wintersday) wrote2017-07-05 04:24 pm

Fic: Vagrant

Title: Vagrant
Fandom: Final Fantasy VII (original game)
Major Characters/Pairings: Cloud, Barret
Wordcount: 100 words
Rating: PG
POV: Third person
Summary: Cloud wanders, until he doesn't.
Notes: Originally written as a giftfic for taichara on AO3.



In the end, there are some places not worth going back to. Nibelheim, Gongaga, the overgrown ruins of Midgar – they'll be there a long time, and it's good that they will be, but now that he can, Cloud would rather leave them behind.

For a while he wanders, living in wilderness, until he fetches up in Corel and finds it different, collapsing shanties replaced by solid brick and scaffolding.

"We're rebuilding from the ground up," Barret says. "Could use a hand."

Cloud thinks about it – settling in, putting his strength to building instead of battle.

"Sure," he says. "I'll stay."