Title: Holding Firm
Fandom: Final Fantasy: Advent Children
Characters: Cloud
Prompt: 068 - Choices
Word Count: 162
Date finished: 10/05/2006
Rating: G
Summary: The hard part of making a choice.
Author's Notes: Random.
Disclaimer: Characters are owned by Square Enix and Sony Pictures as far as I know.

Holding Firm

Making a choice was the easy part of life, really, Cloud decided as he sat on the bluff. He needed to check his phone for messages; maybe one would be from Tifa, though she hadn't called him lately. Most of the calls for deliveries came directly to him, now.

Edge looked… peaceful, for all that he knew it wasn't. It was better than Midgar, though, without a doubt.

He still didn't miss it.

He did miss Tifa, and with that thought, he got out his phone to check his messages.

He nearly didn't hear what she'd said, eyes closed at the sound of her voice, and had to listen a second time to get the message about Reno.

Yeah, the hard part about making a decision was holding firm, keeping to it.

Because every time he heard her voice, he wanted to go back on his decision to keep her from hurting all that much more when the Stigma finally defeated him.

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