Sephiroth

[Zack shuts up at that. Even when they were on good terms, Sephiroth always exuded such a power. He still does. And Zack would be stupid to fight him on this.

Sephiroth's words make sense, but Zack still can't forget what he went through. He's ridiculously stubborn, yes, but he just can't give in so easily.]

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[Sephiroth lets out a barely audible growl of frustration. The fact that Zack can't deny a word of it is painful.]

You can't have this both ways. I have tried to be patient with whatever your problem with me is, but I am not inclined to share personal information when it seems your only interest in me, Fair, is whether or not I am doing whatever has you acting like a trooper in Zolom territory.

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[You just crossed the biggest line there is to cross, Sephiroth. You just fucked with Zack. Have one very, very angry Cloud.]

Did you ever stop you think, for just two seconds, that what he's doing is to protect you? Zack's loyalty isn't that easily lost. Think about that before you accuse him of anything else.

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Cloud...

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No, Zack. You won't face this alone.

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...Just try not to piss him off.

Thank you.

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I piss him off, I'll handle it. He doesn't scare me.

We're a team, Zack. The ending of the event didn't change that.

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I'm just worried he's figured out about Jenova.

I know. We're always a team.

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Let him. He won't get far, Zack.

Meet me later. We need to figure out a plan. Just in case.

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Should I tell him? If he asks?

Sure, name the place.

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[He's silent for a long moment, because this is the thing he had been avoiding for who knows how long.]

I don't know the answer to that, Zack.

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[Sigh.]

Right. Guess I'll be wingin' it.

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You don't have to tell him anything, Zack.

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I know. I'll figure somethin' out.

And I won't tell him anything about you. That's not my place.

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You can't tell him about Jenova and not tell him about me, or make him question it.

[Video//Private//Unhackable]

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[Sephiroth is not exactly pleased himself, especially since this is something sort of personal that Cloud is butting into.]

Men are judged by their actions, Strife. His have been to avoid me. So no, I do not feel particularly protected. Nor am I inclined to discuss the matter with you, no matter how close you and Zack have become.

[The most incredibly formal way of saying 'butt out' ever.]

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You're smart. Yet you can't seem to figure out that he wants nothing to do with you.

He's not the same person you knew. Neither of us are.

[He's silent for a long moment, because there is so much more he could say, but he won't.]

Leave him alone. Or you'll have to deal with me.

[And he ends the feed. Don't bother calling him back, either, because he won't be answering.]

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[He waits a few moments before speaking up himself.]

Look, Sephiroth. There are things I just...can't tell you. 'Cause I've seen what happens when you find out.

[A pause.]

I don't want to see you go down that path again.

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[Once he's made sure no one is seeing this but him and Zack, Sephiroth looks more tired and pained than anything, even if the anger is still there behind it.]

Zack, as far as I've been able to tell, you don't want to see me, period. Keeping secrets does not require a communications blackout. Strife's right about one thing, at least. You're not the same person I knew.

If you want to know about my mother so badly, see what Vincent Valentine will tell you.

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It's not that I don't wanna see you. Before...things went wrong, we were friends, if I can make that assumption. But you and Cloud are right. Bad things happened to me. I've been through Hell. I don't always trust as easily as I did.

I'm not a kid anymore, Sephiroth.

[He goes quiet again, debating how much he should say next.]

...Vincent already told me the truth. I just...wanna know if you know. Because you deserve to.

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You've given no indications of that. [Frowny Sephiroth is frowny.] The only friend I had left.

[Gaia, Zack, grow some logical thought, would you?] Then the fact that I told you to ask Vincent should tell you something. If you absolutely must hear it from me in order to grant your peace of mind, my mother's name was Lucrecia. [And there's another small, barely perceptible twitch of pain.]

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[Sephiroth gets another silence out of Zack. But he does manage to speak up again.]

Because of Genesis. And Angeal.

[And speaking of his old mentor again, his own friend, causes Zack frown as well, but more out of sadness than frustration. He hates that he had to kill Angeal, hates that he wears the reminder on his face every day.

But hearing Sephiroth say that name instead of the name he feared hearing makes him sigh in relief.]

You don't know how much that means.

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[Sephiroth just nods; it's really so self-evident that it barely even needs THAT much acknowledgement.]

I would if you would tell me. [He shakes his head a little.] I won't press you for your secrets, however.

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[He could say it. He probably should say it. But there's still the hesitation Zack feels. What if he takes it the wrong way?

No. No, Sephiroth knows who his real mother is. Hearing the idea that Jenova could even be imagined as his mother should be ridiculous, right?

...Right?]

You...there was a time when...when you thought Jenova was your mother.

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