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1. Cherry Wine by LIDDLEINTHEMIDDLE for Salthat, wavecrest

   Fandoms: Compilation of Final Fantasy VII  

   • Explicit
   • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings, Graphic Depictions Of Violence
   • M/M
   • Work in Progress

   23 Aug 2025

   Tags

   • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
   • Graphic Depictions Of Violence
   • Zack Fair/Cloud Strife
   • Zack Fair
   • Cloud Strife
   • Angeal Hewley
   • Genesis Rhapsodos
   • Domestic Violence
   • Codependency
   • Unhealthy Relationships
   • Dead Dove: Do Not Eat
   • Abusive Relationships
   • Dubious Consent
   • (the consent is not an ongoing issue and there will be chapter warnings for when it happens)
   • Cloud Strife Needs a Hug
   • Hurt Cloud Strife
   • Angst
   • Physical Abuse
   • Emotional/Psychological Abuse
   • Smut
   • but it's complicated
   • and not just by the consent thing
   • Abusive Zack Fair
   • probably the first time that tag has been used LMAO
   • Implied/Referenced Racism
   • Recovery
   • eventually
   • Cloud Strife Has Low Self-Esteem
   • Cloud Strife Whump
   • Lack of Communication
   • Genesis Rhapsodos Being Genesis Rhapsodos
   • Protective Genesis Rhapsodos
   • Protective Angeal Hewley
   • Past Genesis Rhapsodos/Sephiroth

   Summary

   The first time it happens, it’s Cloud’s fault.

   Zack and Cloud Fair are living the American dream: beautiful house, white picket fence, a big, healthy dog, great sex—they don’t want for anything. They dated for a year and now they’ve been married for a year. People kept telling Cloud the honeymoon feeling would wear off. It hasn’t yet. Cloud feels just as sick in love as he did from the beginning.

   They’re good. They’re doing great. Which is exactly how Cloud knows it’s his fault. He’s always the one that manages to fuck a good thing up. Zack’s good luck offset Cloud’s horrid luck for some time, but it was bound to wear off.

   --

   Zack and Cloud are all there is for each other. When one starts becoming abusive and the other is already low on self-preservation, this might not be a good thing.

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   Will post weekly on Saturdays unless indicated otherwise.

   Language:

   English

   Words:

   57,892

   Chapters:

   13/20

   Comments:

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   Kudos:

   153

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