 icor 2007-08-21 . chapter 1I like this - really like this - perhaps moreso than anything you've done before with the pairing. Then again I may be bias, because I do love brutality in my Cloud/Aerith fics, and you did choose to write about a scene I've alwayed wanted to see explored, and always meant to myself. I particularly like the way your Cloud is outside of himself but completely aware of what he's doing, almost as if he's watching what's happening in the same way the reader is. This is Cloud at his breaking point (and therefore, best), still sane enough to realise that even if he's the one doing the beating, she's the one who turn out okay inside; wonderful.
"But he doesn't want her to go, not to danger or to safety. "
Well that's just Cloud's feeling summed up, isn't it? :) The last line is just sweet, which makes this all the more horrible - and I mean that in the best of ways. |