When I was writing A Step to the Left, I found it really difficult to actually stop, and I wrote a whole different end to it that I scrapped because by that point the fic was eleven pages long and it was just getting silly. I wanted to write even more after that.

But then the people who replied to the fic on the areyougame comm asked if I could write more, so I figured I could resurrect this as an "alternate" ending.

Please note: given that this was the original ending to the fic, some bits of it don't match up with the fic and other bits are repeated.

( A Step to the Left: Alternate Ending )

AND I WILL STOP SPAMMING YOU ALL NOW.

Title: A Step to the Left
Pairing: blink-and-you'll-miss-it Zack/Cloud, background Seifer/Zell
Warnings: AU, gratuitous mangling of FFVII & FFVIII canon
Summary: The more Cloud's life changes, the more fate cracks a whip to bring it back on track.
Notes: For an areyougame claim. The prompt was as follows: Crossover, Final Fantasy VII/Final Fantasy VIII, Cloud Strife: testing - He couldn't qualify to be a SOLDIER, but maybe he could make it as a SeeD. Link goes to the fic on the areyougame comm.

[ A STEP TO THE LEFT ]