Title: Battle Wounds
Fandom: Final Fantasy: Advent Children
Characters: Tifa, Cloud
Prompt: 016 - Purple
Word Count: 185
Date finished: 09/26/2006
Rating: PG
Summary: Those bruises don't heal so well.
Author's Notes: This is my second attempt at this color (same theme). At least I could finish this one!
Disclaimer: Characters are owned by Square Enix and Sony Pictures as far as I know.

"Bruises," he said softly. "I'm not sure why they didn't heal."

"From what?" she asked.

"The fight at the Forgotten City. And in the tunnel," he added a second later.

"Show me," she said. He pulled his shirt off, and she found the small, round dots of dark purple, paired up with, perhaps, five inches between them. "Oh," she said softly. "That looks familiar."

"What do you mean?"

"I have a couple of those, too," she said, smiling. "You didn't expect me to end up collapsed in the middle of Aerith's flower bed without the help of that pile driver, did you?"

He looked surprised. "I… hadn't thought of it," he admitted. "At least, not in those terms," he added when she drew back further from him, one eyebrow raised. "They weren't… normal."

"No, I guess not," she mused. "They probably couldn't be."

"And they are gone," he said firmly, "and you are here, and I am here, and the bruises will fade." He leaned forward and kissed her again.

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