InsaneJournal

Seeing how early it really was he decided to go back to his bed. So with that thought, he climbed the stairs back up to the part of the house that held his and Tifa's rooms and quietly went back into his room... Only to stop and stare at his bed. How...? I... maybe I'm hallucinating or sleepwalking, or dreaming, dreaming would be nice. I'll ask Tifa to come look and make sure I'm not seeing things again. That is a great idea... He turned around and walked out of his room, ignoring the lumps on his bed for the moment. The blond entered Tifa's room and walked over to her bed. He reached out and shook her shoulder. Blurry red-brown eyes met clear shining/glowing blue and the young woman made a curious sound. “Tifa? Can you... come look at my bed and... er... this sounds really stupid, but could you make sure I'm not hallucinating or dreaming?”

“Cloud? I... sure, I guess.” She yawns and rubs her eyes. “Did you check on the kids?” Tifa asked quietly as she put on her slippers.

“Yeah, they're all sleeping soundly in they're beds. That wasn't what I was worried about.”

“Didn't think it would be, but I could hope...”

“If it is real... don't do anything rash? They seem okay, er... feel, maybe? None of them have the feel of being adverse to our health. Just giving you a bit of warning.” He whispered this as they're between the two rooms.

“They...? Oh... my...” Tifa stopped at the sight before her and Cloud quickly back-peddled to avoid knocking her over. “I don't think you're hallucinating...” Three figures were curled and wrapped around each other on the blond's large bed. He'd gotten it and one of similar size for Tifa so that the kids would have room to sleep in the same bed after nightmares. The one closest to them was turned towards them, tanned body held by a thinner, paler arm of the only woman in the bed. The silver haired man had an arm around the girl and a hand buried in the tanned man's thick and spiky black hair. The woman's other hand was curled up under the tall, silver haired man's cheek. Cloud slipped past Tifa and padded silently towards his bed. He stood there for a few minutes, just looking and memorizing how peaceful the three looked, just in case it wasn't real and what he was about to do made them all just fade away. Which... wouldn't actually surprise him...

Cloud leaned over and poked the black-haired man on the shoulder. The man's arms uncurled, his hands wrapped around the blond's arm and gently, but insistently, dragged the other down into a warm embrace. The arms then rearranged the blond into a comfortable position for them both and then settle around his waist. Wide blue eyes stared at the woman in the doorway as his lips mouth 'I wasn't expecting that'. Her red-brown eyes twinkled with suppressed laughter and she watched as the darker man's head nestles into the blond's neck. The black haired man mutters a few unintelligible words and settles back down with a small smile and his prize. Cloud gestured for Tifa to come over and silently says, 'You may as well, I think the bed will hold us. And this'll probably be the best route so that when we all wake up we can find out what happened, right?'

Tifa smiled as she walked over and let his arms wrap around her and her arms went around him and the dark haired man. 'I know what happened,' she whispered as she looked up at him. 'You finally got the happy ending you wished for...' her eyes closed on the most breathtaking smile she had ever seen the blond make.

Cloud lightly kissed Tifa's forehead and fell into the calmest sleep he'd had since before Nibelheim, with his loved ones all together and as sane as could be.