This is my lone Final Fantasy VII fic. Despite having a fan for something approaching a decade, I never bothered to write a fic on it until I was in Rome. Because it IS Sephiroth x Cloud to an extent, I have been in denial of it. XD No need to go into all of that though. This one's for vasher.

And WHY do people put my one-shots on Story-Alert? I have 82 fics on FFN, and only two aren't one-shots. Does this say anything? And it even says "Complete" under the summary. Bah! For some reason I have a good five or six people who all put The Branding on an alert. Kind of makes me wonder if I didn't end it well. Hrm.

Anyway, have a ridiculously weird/short FFVII fic. And don't expect much more of it, either. Not unless I'm feeling particularly nostalgic again anytime soon.

PG, Cloud POV. Angst. Vignette.

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