they walk

"It wanted to go outside," continued Cloud. "You came downstairs before it could." "What was it after?" asked Cid, who was now properly paying attention. Cloud shrugged. Then he took another breath. You're over it. You're over it. You're over it. "It said I was part of a project," he said dryly. Cloud hallucinates. Voices sometimes, or music -- it's hard to tell. It's just another consequence of Jenova's encroaching presence in his DNA, and four years after Meteorfall everyone's more or less adapted to it and other oddities associated with being not quite human. Mostly. What begins as a chance encounter with something that isn't Jenova soon leads to a fight for survival that can no longer be contained in the spaces between numbers, as Cloud tries to keep himself together and finally put his past behind him. COMPLETE! Please read the tags.

There was no air, no weight, no light. All that existed around him was a chasm of nothingness. And then there was the sight of white eyes, waves of silver hair, and wings surrounded by a golden ring of light. “You are chosen, Cloud. Don’t disappoint me.” He was ready. He had spent a decade preparing for this. Sephiroth/Cloud Where Cloud is raised as a sacrifice to an evil god.

Meeting a new girl who just got to Shinra, Zack tries his luck but is shot down by the blond beauty. Surviving Hojo's lab, they both find more than they thought they ever would about each other. Now it is a race to stay alive and ahead of the military to avoid recapture. AU and OOC. Zack/Cloud Not yaoi, Fem!Cloud. Not a crack plot. All Zack POV. More warnings inside as needed. *Work in Progress*Beta reader is SubZeroChimera on ffnet.Please leave your comments and kudos!Disclaimer: I do not now or before and most likely not in the future, own Final Fantasy, Square Enix or any of the characters.