Final Fantasy - All Series Fan Fiction ❯ Du, Du hast, Du Hasst Mich ❯ Nine ( Chapter 9 )

He wouldn't throw up. He wouldn't throw up.

His face contorted and he leaned over the side of the bed and threw up as someone came into the room.

He'd already thrown up the popsicle. What was he throwing up now, his spleen?

"Yeah, that's what I think of these guys too," Cloud said.

Cloud was here. Oh good, he could watch him vomit on himself.

"Uh… how are you feeling?" Cloud, an utter goofball. Good old Cloud.

"Certifiable," Vincent said. "You have to help me. I can't go back there. She's on the loose. And I don't understand half the stuff in my head!"

"Vincent, calm down. You're being hysterical." Cloud looked at the IV's, hoping there was something for Vincent to adjust his pain medication. There weren't any. Just a bunch of bags with complicated names and even more complicated instructions.

"I'm not insane, not about this. Please, Cloud. You have to kill her."

"Kill who? I'm not killing anybody without a damn good reason. That isn't a weedwhacker on my back."

"She wants to kill me."

"Well, that seemed kinda obvious, you ending up in the hospital and all. Who are you talking about? Look, start over."

"I'm not insane, Cloud."

"Fine. You're not insane. You're just not making sense."

"I shot Lucrecia." Vincent groaned. "I'm sorry, it's hard to stay awake. I think Jenova's trying to kill me now."

"What do you mean you shot Lucrecia?"

Vincent took a deep breath through the tube up his nose. "I don't have any clue how I got there. There was just some sort of dream and then I'm in the snow and Lucrecia's asking me to help her. She just wanted to die and I had my gun and I didn't know how I got there. I just wanted to help her. I thought maybe everything would be okay if I helped her. I thought maybe I'd go back home. She said she just wanted to die and needed my help." He shook his head slightly, blinking away his drowsiness for a few more minutes. "I shot her. I finally gave her what she wanted. Me.

"Cloud, I set Jenova free."

"Vincent. This isn't your fault."

"Everyone keeps saying that, but she's still out there. I don't want to get you killed, but you're the only person I know-"

"I understand. Don't worry. You get some sleep and stop worrying about it."

Vincent closed his eyes and sighed. He knew it was a losing battle against the drugs. He learned that lesson long ago. "Please, don't tell him," he mumbled before he, effectively, passed out.

Cloud didn't need that one explained. He wouldn't tell Cid. But that meant he couldn't take him along. That was understandable. He couldn't really take Cid away from Vincent at a time like this, and even if he could, he couldn't risk what might happen to Vincent if something happened to Cid.

That did create a problem. Vincent and Cid had been the ones he took with him everywhere until the end. The others were nowhere near as strong.

"I wonder if he's going to finish this," Cloud said, checking out the tray of hospital food someone had left for Vincent.