Cloud

[residentflorist]

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Lilium
Derived from Latin lilia, which may have come from a corrupted
pronunciation of a word from an extinct Eastern Mediterranean language
Humility, devotion, restored innocence after death

"Lovers used to give these when they were reunited."

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[residentflorist]

You do know you can say no. I've seen you turn down jobs before.

[the way she wasn't even entirely serious and now she's going to go with it because he gave her a real price.]

[residentmerc]

Yeah, I know.

[ sometimes your girlfriend has a kink and you indulge it? it's fine. ]

[residentflorist]

[stop don't call it a kink.......]

Six it is, then. [hehe. but...she pauses a little.]

...so. Yuffie's wish. [maybe we should talk about that.]

[residentmerc]

[ It Is A Kink ]

... Yuffie's wish.

[ there is the slightest bit of feeling a little lost and anxious when he thinks about it, because what if it worked. what if it didn't. what does it mean either way. ]

I guess we won't know if it worked until we get home.

[residentflorist]

[yeah, honestly, same. she's holding his hand and they're wandering aimlessly and she's worried about what it all means.]

Yeah. It's...I'm not really sure what to think. I know why she did it, but I'm a little worried about the ripple effect of what comes next. Not that I don't think we can handle it, it's just...scary.

[residentmerc]

[ holding hands walking around thinking of sephiroths. truly a nightmare ]

... We can handle it. However it shakes up. [ unless i decide this kills the cloud ]

[residentflorist]

[what if it doesn't kill the cloud. what if.]

I don't doubt that. All of us together will figure something out. Even if it's not exactly what we expected in the end.

[residentmerc]

[ violently soups his brain ]

Yeah. And... even if he's gone... I don't know. Things aren't that simple.

[ there's shinra, for one, but also there's cloud's unrelenting paranoia that sephiroth is never truly fuckin gone a wish would not change that ]

[residentflorist]

[don't make me violently soup YOUR brain.]

If they were, we probably would've thought about these wishes more seriously when we first got here. [so no she agrees. even with a wish, knowing what they know about sephiroth it feels a little too easy, and even yuffie herself seems to think that's a little true.]

[residentmerc]

... Right.

[ well she says that but cloud would've probably at least considered killing people if he knew aerith was dead back then buuuuuuuuut he didn't so it's fiiiiiiine he doesn't have to say it ]

Even if he's gone, we still need to get the black materia back.

[ no you dont but its fine ]

[residentflorist]

[hm...]

Do we? [she's not swaying him one way or another, she's really asking to see what cloud thinks he's saying because she's also really like "no we don't."]

[residentmerc]

Shinra was after it too, remember? Not to mention we need to keep it out of the hands of the Gi.

[ UNFORTUNATELY. THEY DO KINDA NEED IT. unfortunately x2 cl..cloud has it... ]

[residentflorist]

That's true... [but also, cloud, you're not you when you have the black materia! minor detail!] We should probably decide what to do with it when we do have it.

[she says, not entirely aware cloud already has it.]

[residentmerc]

Maybe there's a way to get rid of it?

[ like throwing it in the lifestream. surely that would never backfire. throwing a person or object into the lifestream. ]

[residentflorist]

[...there's a light huff of laughter.]

...we should think about it, but maybe it doesn't have to be right now on our last night here when we finally have a break. I know you're gonna be thinking about it, and I will, too, but this was about enjoying time together.

[not plot stuff.]

[residentmerc]

[ ah. well. that's a fair point. ]

Right. [ right. he can focus on things that arent ??? sephiroth alive or dead??? for one night ] ... What do you want to do?

[residentflorist]

[she answers this by giving him another little kissy.]

Beach still. It doesn't have to be anything elaborate, we could just watch the waves for a while. [but...speaking of.]

Could split that fruit Aqua gave us, too. [the fruit she probably never explained to cloud]

[residentmerc]

[ kissies are distracting and help with the sephiroth sludge brain, and he nods, but. uh. ]

... The star shaped one? Sure, I guess. If it's still edible.

[ it's been a bit. fruit are terrible. ]

[residentflorist]

It should be! It hasn't been that long. Besides, it's a special magic fruit, or something like it.

[so therefore it won't be rotten. that's how logic works.]

[residentmerc]

... It is?

[ THIS IS THE FIRST HE'S HEARD OF IT ]

[residentflorist]

Mmhm. Aqua told me that it's part of a legend in her world. If two people share the fruit, their destinies become intertwined. They'll be a part of each other's lives forever.

[residentmerc]

[ ah. there's a pause there where he kind of stares at her with his eyebrow furrowed... a little embarrassed and shy at the sentiment. on the other hand... ]

We don't need a fruit for that.

[ he'll share it with her anyway but ]

[residentflorist]

[...cute sentiment.]

We don't, but it was a gift. It'd be nice to appreciate it anyway, don't you think? [aqua is a friend and it was very sweet of her. also she likes the sentiment of the paopu itself.]

[residentmerc]

I didn't say I wouldn't eat it.

[ but it's just a fruit. also aqua is a good friend. she is also SO MEDDLESOME. ]

[residentflorist]

[she loves aqua so much...]

Then that's our plan for the night. We'll go back to our place, changing into something for the beach, take a picnic and that fruit and go get a little sun before the night's over.