The Fifth Act, Chapter 23

[sinnatious]

Title: The Fifth Act

Rating: T for violence.

Summary: FFVII Time-travel. Gen. Cloud has an accident with a Time Materia.

Author's Note:  Luckily, this chapter is a rather short one, so I was able to get it out on time.  No update this weekend, though - I'll be going down to the coast.  So next chapter will be next wednesday.

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[sinnatious]

TIMING. :D Have fun~!

[sinnatious]

Draaaaaaaw! *___*

adsflkjfj, you guys are such awesome and understanding and patient readers, it actually makes me want to update faster for you! XD Good luck with the homework!

[ixtey]

aksjdhkjsa was totally not expecting another chapter today. I don't have time to put on a proper review though T~T , or even to read the whole chapter as school is driving me up the wall again, but:

“Price you pay, hanging around Commander Rhapsodis,” was Kunsel’s witty rejoinder. He stretched, yawning. “Going to take some time out?”
> misspelled?

Hope you have fun watching the matches bb! :D

[sinnatious]

D: I'VE BEEN SPELLING IT WRONG. *Curses all those greek people I know whose names end in 'dis'* I've fixed this one, will have to find the time to go through and fix the other earlier instances at some point. Thanks! So embarrassing!

[kaorismash]

ASKJHGJASKGLAKDHAJKSHGKAKJSHGKJL; ;_____; God, it's been ages since I've experienced the bipolar effect you are so genius at bringing about. I WAS SO HAPPY at the beginning with Kunsel's Zack impersonation, and then you just made me tear all up at Cloud and his internal angsting over his Zack. His memories of his zaaaack and their past shinra days and the quote oh gosh I actually teared up no joke akjhdg.

And of course, every reader probably got paranoid with the lack of Sephiroth and Cloud's lack of paranoia, so fitting that you'd try to give us a false sense of peace but we know you better than that /:)And then things just got WORSE AND I REALLY WANTED TO CRY WHEN CLOUD STARTED PANICKING. kjahsg. His heart monitor, I love his heart monitor, but I just get all sad that anything medical related is just going to send him into a fit of panic. And then, you do the hope thing with the leather instead of metal, only to have things go to hell. AND THE MENTIONS OF HIS GLOVE AND THE SCARS AND THE MAKO ;_______

[kaorismash]

Angeal's always been a tricky character with me, and I don't like him at all right now. :E

[sinnatious]

XD Always picking a character you don't like! Momoshiro, and now poor old Angeal... I will try and change your mind. ;)

Yay for bipolarity! \o/ IT GOES BOTH WAYS, WITH YOUR EVIL INSPIRATION, YOU.

And ahaha, I am getting predictable you think? :D

[kaorismash]

I don't dislike him on a Momoshiro scale! How can I when he's Zack's mentor? It's just he's such a moralfag character--my friend's words, not mine :D--except when he isn't. It may be because I have yet to see enough of him in the game--I have a really blurry perception of his betrayal, see--but I feel you'll be running him through mountains of guilt enough to make me feel bad for him. :( That and Genesis is gonna be on his hide. :>

You changed my mind about Genesis, though! Isn't that enough? :P I used to :\ at him quite a bit.

LIKE I SAID, I'M A BALL OF FLUFF. :">

It's less predictability than it is an ingrained expectation for doom and gloom. Plot wise I'm chasing my tail, as much as I love timetravel fics, I am an utter failure with creativity regarding them. MAYBE YOU'LL DO THE CRUEL THING AND THROW HIM BACK, FORWARD AND OUT OF EXISTENCE. IDK. This is clearly not the linear type of time travel fic (or IS it), and cloud's such a walking paradox and I keep coming up short for endings. but that's why you're writing it, so I shall

[anonymous]

Gah! You leave us with that cliffhanger and say you won't update for a week? Bad! *wags finger!*

[sinnatious]

It could be worse, anon. :) All cliffhangers here on out. Chapter 25 in particular is quite a doozy.

[demon_vampirate]

OMG ANGEAL WHY. WHYFORE YOU DO THAT TO CLOUD. BAD ANGEAL. ,>A<,

Okay now that's out of my system... I totally and completely empathize with Cloud for totally and completely different reasons. (You'd think that being hospitalized would make you hate medical facilities LESS...) I can't deal with doctors, and especially not needles... This chapter freaked me out no end, I won't lie.
(Now I'm gonna have nightmares of my best friend dragging me to the hospital like that and HOJO as the doc... [damn.])

Before that, it was great. I loved Kunsel and Cloud, and I loved Kunsel's assumption that the hornets were just some story he heard from Zack.
But the rest genuinely freaked me out. (I worried a friend in the library.)

And after all that I still can't wait for the next part. (Can't possibly be worse on the freaky scale than this.)

Update sooooooooon~

[sinnatious]

'Whyfore'? Channeling Genesis now? XD

Sorry for freaking you out! Can't really judge where the future is on the freaky scale though... Sympathies, I'm just as horrid with needles. ^_^;

One week! Sorry!

[demon_vampirate]

Always ^_^♥♥ (I kept quoting Loveless in my friend's Gaia RP yesterday, he'd be so proud of me...)

Don't apologize, it takes a lot to do that to me. That means it was well-done.

I knoooooow... Hopefully the week will be quick.