And him getting the enfeeblement ring stuck on his finger. He was just testing out equipment in his room when he realized the ring didn’t want to come off.

Fuck.

He tried everything. Pulling it off. Hitting the ring against counters. Breaking it. But the stupid thing wouldn’t budge, it didn’t even dent. He would have to get help. But Gaia forbid he asks for it, though. If Barret or Yuffie caught wind of this, he’d never hear the end of it.

That’s why when you ended up at his apartment, checking on him after hearing nothing from him the entire day, you almost flattened him with a frying pan. You mistook him for some monster.

> “Ribbit!” (Wait! Don’t hit!)

There were only so many frogs that sounded like Cloud Strife. It took you a minute, and a little more to laugh, for you to come to terms that it was indeed the Ex-SOLDIER.

> “Oh my god, I should tell Tifa.”

> “Ribbit.”

> “Okay, okay, fine! I’ll keep it a secret, for now. Let’s try to get that off, shall we?”