Things Are Never What We Want Them To Be

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Characters: Everyone under the Strife-Lockhart roof.
Progress: Ongoing
Summary: Cloud and Tifa have a few choice words for each other
Location: Lindblum
Date: February 1804
Warnings: Screaming, shouting, angst, drama, ohhhh the drama!

[OOC: Cloud and Tifa will have their own thread, the rest of you are welcome to react in a subthread.]


Cloud was feeling pretty unwell after his trip to Wutai. He'd stuck around to check on things in the city and see just what could've caused Sephiroth to get his wing, but all he'd found was that the longer he stayed there the worse he'd started to feel. It had began as a stomach ache but by the time he'd left he was actually throwing up at times. He didn't know what it was but once he set foot in Lindblum, and off the airship, he felt increasingly better. He was still as pale as ever, of course, but at least he didn't feel like he was going to be sick every few minutes.

Stepping through the front door, Cloud headed upstairs right away, not bothering to speak to anyone as he made his way to the bedroom. He was in for a world of hell from Tifa, if she was home. He had his reasons though, and he'd stick by them. The kids had been safe with Firion and Cid, he wasn't going to leave them alone... but he didn't think she'd see it his way.

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Tifa had arrived back some time earlier, her mind full of the things she'd heard from Matoya. But when she actually walked into the house and discovered that Cloud wasn't there, all of that was for the moment forgotten. He'd abandoned the kids to go off to Wutai with Aerith to heal Sephiroth. And neither of them had told her.

He'd lied to her, that was the worst thing; he'd made a promise and he hadn't kept it. What on earth was she supposed to think?

Tifa was sitting on the bed with her hands clenched in her lap when Cloud entered. She looked up, and spoke in the icily quiet tones of someone who was about to explode.

"Did you have a good time in Wutai, Cloud?"

FOR THE KIDS AND CID

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Firion wanted to ask Cloud if he was okay as soon as the pale man walked through the door, but when the blond walked straight up the stairs, he refrained. The kids had been good while Cloud was gone, they stuck to training the dog and generally behaving.

But it seemed that even with Cid and Firion watching over them, Tifa wasn't happy. She also went straight to the bedroom as soon as she had gotten home. When Tifa started shouting and soon after, Cloud, Firion thought it best to usher the kids outside.

They didn't need to hear this. "Come on, let's play with the dog outside. He's been cooped up in the house all day, after all."

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Firion looked over when Cloud ordered him to go with him. Go with him where?

"Cloud?" Firion stood up with a slight frown. "Where are we going?"

It wasn't really a question of would Firion go with Cloud, it was where and why. Not only that but the kids shouldn't be left alone in this. He doubted Tifa was happy right now and the kids were worried too. What was Cloud doing?