Seaside Getaway?

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Characters: Cissnei, Zack
Progress: Ongoing
Summary: Cissnei drops by and visits Zack because she's a little worried about him
Location: Luca
Date: January 10, 1805
Warnings: Fluff, more than likely.

This place was so strange to Cissnei. She liked the beach, no doubt, but this... even in civilian clothing (a chunky knit black sweater over a white tank top, skinny jeans and combat boots) she stuck out from the crowd, something she wasn't exactly used to.She noticed the women were rather gratuitous in showing skin and had more than enough laces and ribbons criss-crossing their chests and the sides of their legs. In her messenger back was trusty Rekka, leftovers from the food she bought from Wutai and something that maybe Zack would be vaguely interested in.

She flipped open her Sky Phone and dialed Zack. He shouldn't be very hard to spot, but she'd like to know where exactly he was.

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"We're all human, we all have the same issues," she began. "It's how they deal with it." Everyone looked so happy, whether alone or with each other. Life was idyllic and perfect.

She too had nightmares, but not of the past, but of the future. Things she couldn't control but that she might have to see. Time and reality suspended wasn't Cissnei's idea of a good time. Life wasn't okay, she knew it first hand. She was trained to distrust everyone.

For a moment, a brief moment, she wish she lived here, not as a Turk, but as a person. But it was only fleeting. Cissnei's life was her job, and her job was her life. She had nothing else, for better or for worse.

[fairesthero.livejournal.com]

He looked down at her. "Yeah, human issues." And then looked away, kicking some of the dirt on the ground with his shoe. "Not everyone has our problems, though." Which he was glad for. Not everyone could take it, or take it well. Sure, it sucked that he had to step up and lose his freedom in more ways than one, but if it meant keeping others safe and happy, then he'd do it all over again. He was capable of that strength.

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She looked down at the chocolate, realizing why it was so important to her; it was one of the few comforts she had gotten before she was recruited. "We're too screwed up to have normal problems," Cissnei said quietly. She wrapped it up and put it away to save it for later, a rainy day.

When she looked over at him, Cissnei noticed that he was very interested in the dirt. "As long as we're here, we're all we have." She put her hands in her pocket and looked straight out without any focus on anything. It was true. They'd make friends and allies, even enemies, on this world that weren't from their Gaia, but they'd never understand what they lived through.

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We're all we have.

That was the truth. Zack learned that brutally when he took care of Cloud that year. With Cissnei's help. He turned back to her, voice quieter than usual. "I can't thank you enough. Seriously."

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She shook her head. "It was the right thing to do." Cissnei put her hand on his arm and gave him an encouraging smile. "You don't have to thank me, really. It was the least I could do." And she meant it.

[fairesthero.livejournal.com]

"You didn't have to do anything, though." He looked at the hand on his arm and gently covered it with his own. "So I'll thank you all I want." Because he wouldn't get a change to do it back home.

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"You never were one to listen." Cissnei shook her head and took a good look at him. He had changed so much from when she first met him and it only hit her just now. Sure, he was still the same excessively flirtatious and confident Zack (I can't believe I just thought of those as good things...) but he'd grown up. "Just don't waste your breath on half-ass thanks," she said with a grin.

[fairesthero.livejournal.com]

"Half-ass," he snorted to himself, shaking his head with a smile. "I'm an all or nothin' guy, give me some credit." And this was true. If he didn't feel so grateful to Cissnei, he would've thanked her once and moved on, but...now he was even starting to see her as a friend and Zack really cared for his friends.

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She slipped her hand from his grip slowly. "Just some then. So, what else is there to see here? What's that building over there?" Cissnei pointed to the transparent sphere that rested on what looked like a pedestal. If she didn't know any better, she would've been hard pressed to not call it a giant snow globe.

[fairesthero.livejournal.com]

Zack's eyes followed her hand, resting immediately on what she was looking at. "That's the Blitz stadium. I don't know if you know Tidus, but he's apparently a really good professional Blitzball player and so, obviously, plays there."

Zack shrugged and looked to the redhead beside him. "No, I have no idea what Blitzball actually is."