Title: Desire
Fandom: Final Fantasy: Advent Children
Characters: Cloud, Tifa, Cid, Denzel, Marlene
Prompt: 009 - Months
Word Count: 166
Date finished: 07/05/2006
Rating: PG
Summary: Cloud realizes just how stupid he's been.
Author's Notes: I have no idea where it came from, but it seemed to fit.
Disclaimer: Characters are owned by Square Enix and Sony Pictures as far as I know.

Desire

When Cloud pulled into the square in Edge, after dropping a sleepy Marlene off at home, he saw Tifa - really saw her - for the first time in months. She was alive, vibrant, everything he wasn't, and he just wanted to... drink her in, experience her again - even take her up on her offer to fight the Stigma together.

And his body stirred in ways it hadn't for a very long time.

Now was not the time. But maybe later, after the Bahamut and Kadaj and his brothers were taken care of, maybe then, if he groveled enough. He didn't know if she even still cared, Marlene's chatter notwithstanding - even if he wasn't sure he believed her, at least it had kept him awake.

So he carefully avoided looking at Tifa too much, just so he could concentrate on getting this done.

But the one time he did meet her eyes, he saw that she did still love him, and his heart lifted.

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