Memories

[cetrary]

[ Aerith is in her garden tending to leaves when a few of them fall down. Memories. Well, she kinda expected it'd happen to her eventually too. So, she's not...entirely surprised. Still...the memories distract her enough to get caught up in the garden and her thoughts. ]

Bodyguard hiring is in session.

Hojo is a psycho. He's gross, disgusting, and a terrible person. Talks about dissecting her mother and just being generally creepy.

Aerith in a dress and Cloud is a loser.

Childhood captivity with Shinra. Content warning: attempted murder of a child.

Comments

[heartofalion]

So you beat a guy with a chair.

[As horrified as he was mentally, he still wished he could've seen it.]

I hope you left him unable to move.

[cetrary]

I did! He deserved it and I definitely left him unable to move.

[heartofalion]

[He 'hmphed' in a quiet sort of pride even if underneath it he was worried for her. Guys like that he would've personally beaten into the ground.]

Glad you got him. Sounds like you're pretty happy with your handiwork there.

[cetrary]

I was! They were just taking us like we were prizes. It's awful and I'm happy I got to give him his just dues!

[heartofalion]

[Leon would've shoved his gunblade through them and he grimaced.]

How many guys were in this room?

[cetrary]

There were three of them I think. When Tifa and I didn't get picked the Don gave us to those three. Evidently they always get the 'leftovers'

[heartofalion]

[By Aerith's words he figured this Don was the top dog. This person had to be blind to not pick her, however the way this was all being told to him made his skin want to crawl.]

What kind of woman did this..guy pick?

[Half of Leon didn't even want to know, but he was trying to avoid what her fate would've been had she not rightly cracked the guy over the head with a chair. In Leon's eyes that was getting out of what was deserved the easy way.]

[cetrary]

Oh, well, Cloud actually!

[heartofalion]

[Wait, what?]

Cloud?

[Somehow this information wasn't processing.]

[cetrary]

Yup! Evidently he was more Corneo's type than me or Tifa. Was kinda rough on the ego.

[heartofalion]

So..let me get this straight. Cloud was there with you two, and this..Corneo guy picked a guy over you two ladies.

[Still not computing.]

I don't get it. Cloud looks like a guy.

[cetrary]

He didn't know he was a guy at the time! See, his friend Tifa decided to try to get information out of Corneo by competing in this gross thing he does where he picks a bride from a small pool of women. In order to try to rescue her Cloud and I had to get in to that audition. And in order to get into the audition Cloud had to look like a girl.

[heartofalion]

[Leon wanted to faint.]

A..girl? How in the world did you guys pull that off?

[cetrary]

We got him a really nice dress! And had some help with makeup.

[heartofalion]

[He's dying or at least mentally wilting.]

A dress and make up?

[Wow Aerith, way to slay Leon here.]

Do I even want to know what you did to his hair?

[cetrary]

Yup! We even got him to do a dance. You should have seen that, he was a surprisingly not terrible dancer!

Would you believe we didn't actually do too much to it?

[heartofalion]

[He's dead.]

So he's got secret dance moves.

[cetrary]

Oh yeah! Very secret. Though...I'll give you a tiny hint. They look a bit like him fighting.

[heartofalion]

Are you serious?

[Leon is fighting the urge to picture this and flush his brain out at the same time.]

[cetrary]

I kinda wish I wasn't, but unfortunately I am. He kinda got into though after a bit. I think Andrea helped him see a new side of himself.

[heartofalion]

You wish you weren't serious?

[This had him fold his arms over his chest as he listened to the rest and a very slight smile showed.]

That sounds like the Cloud I know back home.

[cetrary]

Well, I'm not trying to say that dance moves that look more like fighting are bad but uh, maybe they weren't that great? [ She's trying to be nice!!! ]

Is he also really quiet and grumpy sometimes?

[heartofalion]

[He silently chuckled at Aerith's description of Cloud's dance moves. That must've been something to see. But at the question he nodded.]

Yup, sounds like he didn't change no matter what world he's in.

[Which Leon found reassuring.]

[cetrary]

I kind of want to meet your Cloud. But...I'm not sure if the world can handle two of them at once.

[heartofalion]

[Leon laughed a little.]

I don't think this world can handle such a thing. And it would be way too weird.

[Especially if the Aerith he knew showed up.]