A cute six part drabble fluff series. Zack is smitten. AngealxZack

They weren't expecting everything to change. But it did. In the space of a moment. Co-written with Phoenix Dayze. AngealxZack.

Zack hasn't seen Sephiroth in a long time. ZackxSephiroth.

Zack carries Cloud toward Midgar. Inspired by mostly untranslated clips of Crisis Core! Zack, Cloud. WARNINGS: Umm...this is Crisis Core, so...spoilers and mentions of death. One shot.

Angeal is trying to work, and Zack is annoying him. As usual. Fluff. AngealxZack

It was little things that gave him away, small, nearly imperceptible changes in Zack's mannerisms that slowly chipped away at his secrets. Things that Cloud saw when Zack wasn't even aware that he was looking. Masochism, Cutting, CD.

You thought you got away with it, didn't you, Cloud? Sephiroth nearly whispered, icy intensity spilling from his very core. But I was there, Cloud, watching...and waiting... Darkness, Violence, Revenge, CD.

"Give up, Zack." Sephiroth advised him. "I've killed you five hundred times tonight. Once more makes no difference to me."

They had taken everything. His life, his soul, his mind, even his ability to move and speak, trapping him within his own inner void. All he had left was Zack.

A tearful admission, and a painful goodbye.

Zack and Sephiroth come together in the Lifestream at last, but when Sephiroth gets pulled back to life, things begin to change...

Cloud takes a jouney to a wellknown hilltop...

In the fleeting moments before death, Cloud seeks the answers to questions that have long been his burden.

Cloud had just about convinced himself that Zack could love him...

10 drabbles that cover snippets of Cloud's mindset from the labs to the cliffside to his returned memory.

Cloud stared, unflinching, into the emerald green gaze, the deep poison trying to swallow him whole. He wouldn't give in. Not to the monster. Not to himself. That's what heroes did.

Sephiroth chuckled, an eerie resonance. Foolish child, do you not remember. How can you forget such a brutal betrayal?

He stared down at Cloud. At the pristine beauty, the youthful face marred only by the pain he'd inflicted, the haunting shadows creeping over the innocent blue of his eyes. Eyes once full of questions and the damning hopes of childhood dreams. Hopes Sephi

More than anything, Cloud wanted to matter in Sephiroth's eyes. To be worthy of his position in SOLDIER. To bring honor to his company. But standing here, barefoot and barechested, that didn't seem likely.

Zack and Cloud are trapped in ShinRa's labs. Zack has to pull Cloud back from Sephiroth's control. ZackxCloud, ZackxSephiroth

What goes on inside of Cloud when Sephiroth tries to take control?

Cloud begs Zack to help him forget. What else can Zack do?

Zack has a task to complete in Nibelheim.

Zack can't get Spike to wake up. Zack, Cloud.

Vincent won't stop Cloud from doing what he wants to do. Rated for dark themes and thoughts of suicide.