Her arm tightens around him while he speaks, that sense of protectiveness she felt standing with him in the field, using the skirt of her dress to try and shield them both from the leering glances of the others around them flaring again as she listens to him tell her about the life fled from, and the reasons why he left.
It strikes a chord with her, Aerith understands the desperate panic that comes from not having a choice. She's felt it gnawing at her insides many times inside the Shinra lab as a child, and the memory of it makes her shift over him, moving to cover as much of his body as she could while hugging him to her.
"It's okay to have a hard time," she tilts her head and kisses the side of his face. "Even when you try to keep going forward, sometimes the past comes back for a little while," the memory of Hojo leering at her through the transparent wall of her cell as an adult, before her friends returned for her threatens, and Aerith determinedly pushes it aside in favor of kissing him again.
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Date: 2022-11-13 03:52 am (UTC)It strikes a chord with her, Aerith understands the desperate panic that comes from not having a choice. She's felt it gnawing at her insides many times inside the Shinra lab as a child, and the memory of it makes her shift over him, moving to cover as much of his body as she could while hugging him to her.
"It's okay to have a hard time," she tilts her head and kisses the side of his face. "Even when you try to keep going forward, sometimes the past comes back for a little while," the memory of Hojo leering at her through the transparent wall of her cell as an adult, before her friends returned for her threatens, and Aerith determinedly pushes it aside in favor of kissing him again.