[ phone call - Cloud Strfe]

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[Ring, ring, ring! Wherever you are, Cloud, you better pick up this phone.]

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[Cloud picks up and instantly switches to video, showing him and Firion in Lindblum.]

Hey, Aerith. What's up?

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[She smiled faintly once she saw him.]

Cloud, I...I think we're in trouble. I am not sure what happened but that doctor guy, the one named Cid; he was killed recently by something resembling a 'demon'.

[Notices Firion in the background and blinks her eyes a few times.] Who's that?

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...was it you-know-who? [Yes, he means Chaos.]

[Cloud looks at Firion and smiles lightly.] This is Firion. He's a friend of mine.

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Well, it wasn't Nanaki so...[She just trailed off since she doesn't want to point fingers yet at Vincent.]

Hm? Firion...? I don't remember ever seeing him before. Is he a friend from your old military days?

[Aerith smiled brightly at Firion once he greeted her.] It's a pleasure to meet you too! I'm Aerith!

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There's only one other demon, and we know he made threats. [No need for privacy around Firion!]

Oh, no, Firion was in the Void with me. He... [Cloud gives Firion rather a personal expression.] Firion helped me through some stuff.

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He did? Oh...[She frowned a little at that but so far, she doubts anyone else knows about Vincent's powers other than them.]

We have to keep quiet, okay? We should lay low for a few days too, just in case.

[Looking utterly confused about this Void stuff, Aerith let her gaze linger on Firion for a few minutes.]

Did something happen in this Void?

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Yeah... I saw what happened with Shelke... I'll talk to her about it.

[He frowns but looks at Firion sheepishly. He hates explaining this to people.]

You won't believe me, since no one does, but there was a war there. Firion and I fought together.

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[Let's out a frustrated sigh once he mentioned her.] I don't even want to talk about it but we really need to be careful now.

[Blink, blink.] Why wouldn't anyone believe you? I mean, you...you wouldn't lie about something like that. I know you wouldn't!

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Cloud, did you ever tell Tifa about the Void?

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I'm not lying, no... but people have a hard time believing things they don't understand.

[He sighs and shakes his head.]

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[pinkgospel.livejournal.com]

That's still no reason to doubt you. A lot of weird things happened to us in the past, right? Sephiroth and JENOVA just to name a few.

[Sigh.]

...I would never doubt you, Cloud.

[Glances over towards Firion once he began to spoke.]

But still! It's not fair! Cloud wouldn't lie about something like this and if none of our friends believe him, then what does that say about us as a whole?

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It says that all we're good for as a group is fighting the bad things. We know that Aerith. AVALANCHE isn't a functioning family.

[He offers her a little smile. She should know how disfunctional they all are.]

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[The girl just sighed as she rested her chin upon her hand.]

We can be dysfunctional as heck, I know that. [Aerith smiled a little at Cloud.] I guess that's what makes us charming, right?

[Smiling a little more at Firion, the flower girl nodded her head in agreement.]

Great idea, Firion! Maybe we need to all meet up and just talk things through.