[it's a scoff, really, the way cloud spits it out.]
[sephiroth's decision to pull away didn't just individually affect him, but it also affected cloud. he must have known that he couldn't just walk away from it all and assume nothing would be the matter. because it matters, and it hurts still, and to hear no answers—just words that stall for an explanation—just makes it somehow worse.]
[he inhales and exhales sharply, biting down on his bottom lip and looking down at his shoes.]
[might as well answer the question poised earlier.]
I came here with Rufus. We're together.
[—but it's notfair. it's not as simple as 'we're together,' because it was years before he allowed himself to move on, years before he decided it was not worth holding on to someone who had taken his heart and ran away with it, left it stranded somewhere that it could never be recovered from.]
no subject
[it's a scoff, really, the way cloud spits it out.]
[sephiroth's decision to pull away didn't just individually affect him, but it also affected cloud. he must have known that he couldn't just walk away from it all and assume nothing would be the matter. because it matters, and it hurts still, and to hear no answers—just words that stall for an explanation—just makes it somehow worse.]
[he inhales and exhales sharply, biting down on his bottom lip and looking down at his shoes.]
[might as well answer the question poised earlier.]
I came here with Rufus. We're together.
[—but it's notfair. it's not as simple as 'we're together,' because it was years before he allowed himself to move on, years before he decided it was not worth holding on to someone who had taken his heart and ran away with it, left it stranded somewhere that it could never be recovered from.]
You left. You shut me out and left.