(Opening)A/N: My half of a trade: Pr0nZ for art.

That said, I’m miffed that my PS2 can no longer read PS1 games. Angst! Rage! Unhappiness! So I’m basically taking artistic license with what, exactly, everyone’s weapons look like, since I can’t access my FF VII file, and any in-game descriptions are buried under more relevant data in the online walkthroughs (like names, stats, locations, and number of Materia slots and if they are linked or not).

Also, having played through FF7: Crisis Core, and FF7: Dirge of Cerberus, I’m taking massive artistic license with Cait Sith. Why? Because he was near useless originally, even if Reeve was awesome himself. Because his sneaking around missions in DoC make perfect sense for a mini-game that never happened in FF7. But mostly because his limit-break in Crisis Core was so fucking awesome I’m calling haxxz and saying he can buff the party like mage/priest/druid/whatever else can cast buffs on other players in WoW (World of WarCraft Online). Honestly, Curage Boost was like one of my favorites, right with Lucky Star, Healing wave, that Moogle one where all your Materia leveled, and Phenix--though you got that closer to the end game, to replace the nice potion lady with her free Phenix Downs.

Still, he’s gonna rock with Enemy skill Materia in this, if needed.

I apologize to all FF VII purists, but I’m using updated/more recent versions of Materia names (e.g.: Thunder vs. Lightning/Bolt), and calling her Aerith not Aeris.

Lastly, all ‘mistakes’ are there for a reason.
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(Closing)A/N: I had started this before starting a play through of FF7, so I forgot Cait Sith’s true identity was exposed much later. Just go with it. *Sweatdrops* I can’t fix it without Cloud’s logic falling through, and then people would know this is a dream from the start.

Same with Holy and knowing what the City of the Ancients looks like. Part of it is suspension of disbelief. One could, however, argue that Jenova-roth/Sephi-nova is feeding information into Cloud’s head via his clone’s eyes and the prior knowledge that Mommy dearest has about the Cetra.

Yes. Sephiroth really did haxx into Cloud’s dream-talk with Aerith in the game canon. At the end. It’s why everyone went rushing off to protect her: because they thought he could get to her. You could say this is a ‘What If?’ where Sephiroth haxxz in, as per the game, but then takes it a step further with the long dream sequence.

And this is about the only kind of situation where I’m okay with the old, ‘it was all just a dream’, trick. I’m sorry if that switch at the end upset any of you, but it was the only way I could think to work in legitimate sexy-timez during the game-time.

Lastly, best wishes to , because this fic was all for her. Hope you liked it!

As always people, feel free to review, and throw in your two cents about it.