garden of the ancients

Title: Those Who Suffer Most
Characters/Pairing: Zack/Tseng, failed
Fandom: Final Fantasy VII
Rating: all audiences
Word Count: 1010
Notes: Been sitting on this one. It's whatever. Title from Motorama's He Will Disappear.

( AU. Zack returns to Midgar to find Aerith missing and the one responsible. )

Title: i love the moment when you put your hand over my mouth to muffle my endless verboseness
Characters/pairing: Zack/Tseng, Zack/Aerith, allegorical Zack/Tseng/Aerith
Fandom: Final Fantasy VII
Rating: T
Word Count: 2270
Notes: from the old 1sentenceorder on LJ. I went with the Beta table. Stories are not completely in chronological order, but do move in that general direction. I like some of these a lot, some not so much. Title comes from a Chinese poem, "I Love All the Unfinished Things."

Part ? of Retired From War, New Career in Circling.

( Do you want me to beg for forgiveness, Tseng wants to ask, but doesn’t, just steps as close as he dares in the old lamplight so Zack can turn up his jaw to see to the steel and the apology both. )

Title: Vestige
Fandom: Final Fantasy VII
Characters/pairing: Aerith +/- Tseng
Rating: basically gen
Word Count: 600
Notes: I love how uncanny and curious Aerith can be and wanted to channel some of that. Tseng's not amused.

( Aerith thinks he's probably just come to see her after a murder. Or whatever it is that Turks do. )

Title: screaming bullet i'm speeding beside you
Fandom: Final Fantasy VII
Characters/pairing: Sephiroth + Aerith
Rating: gen
Word Count: 250
Notes: AU. The evening of Aerith and Ifalna's departure, Sephiroth has a mundane conversation. Title from Tamaryn's Metal Beasts.

( She's at the age where she's above games. )

Title: first row, two across
Fandom: Final Fantasy 7: Crisis Core
Characters/pairing: Zack/Tseng, pre-slash
Rating: T
Word Count: 764
A/N: Zack's such a friendly busy body, I enjoy his partnership with Tseng a lot. There's a lot of things they have in common I want to unpack in more works, though it's hard to bridge Tseng's personality as presented in the OG with his persona in Crisis Core. It makes me feel like Zack's death was very trans-formative for him, or other, worse things were simultaneously taking place.

This story occurs during the end of the Banora Mission in CC.

( Tseng leans against the constraints of his seat-belt to place a clipboard in his lap. 'There’s a crossword in the back,' he says. )

Title: They Said That Man was a Tool but Not for Lack of Trying
Fandom: Final Fantasy VII
Characters/pairing: Zack, Cloud/cellphone
Rating: gen
Word Count: 1000

Notes: This is the start (?!) of an AU series I've had floating around in my head for a while. Some verse where Zack survives and is part of the rebuilding happening in a post-Meteor world, political scheming and all. He fumbles a lot. Hopefully this will be more than just Zack centric as I slowly figure out how to write it. And political intrigue. Ah.

Part 3 of Retired From War, New Career in Circling. Yes, series title is a variation of a Mitski album.

( After two months of working for the WRO Zack is terminated from employment. It's probably for the best. )

Title: Red on Red
Fandom: Final Fantasy 7
Characters/pairing: Cloud +/- Aerith
Rating: T
Word Count: 295
A/N: Takes place shortly after Cloud snaps at Temple of the Ancients. 

( He hadn't thought he could make her leave. )