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Shoot me I'm a Fool

[Mu ]-Era 1973 – May,17

"Pale blue with little white clouds if it's a boy and pale pink with little yellow suns if it's a girl, what do you think about this?"

"I don't want any child, Lucia"

She sighed. "Anyway we'll have to buy a house, your flat is so small we hardly can stand inside together, and there is no room for the baby…"

"I said I don't want any child" Hideaki growled. "And I feel very good in my flat, no way I'd move anywhere else!"

The woman frowned a bit. "Don't be upset, darling… You just need some time to get used to the fact you're not alone anymore…"

Hideaki mused everything was easier before Lucrecia burst in his life.

"Lu" he said, cutting her off in her blather. "Why are we here?"

"To work…?" she answered with a bit of hesitation.

"Yes. To work. Not to speak of random matters of life and hypothetic children's bedroom. So now, stop talking unless you have to tell me something really interesting and related to our current work, understood?"

As Lucrecia nodded the door of the lab opened wide with a "Hi, folks! I've got something for you!"

"Hello, Gast" Hideaki said without even minding looking at him.

"Good morning, prof!" Lucrecia said with a wide smile. "What's up?"

"Hideaki, catch a glimpse over this file" Gast passed by the woman as if she even didn't exist to hand the papers to the Wutain. "I hope you're pleased, it's a real honor to get such an order…"

The paper was about one of Gast's specimens by the name of JENOVA. It was an Ancient, or 'Cetra', and the goal of the scientists was to study it and establish an experimental protocol to clone it into recreating the race of the Ancients. The whole thing was going to take place in Nibelheim and Hideaki and Lucrecia had been chosen to work over there on the project. Their security would be ensured by the Turk Vincent Valentine.

Hideaki chuckled. "How wonderful! Nibelheim! You're such a nice guy, Faramis!"

Gast cleared his throat. "What's wrong? You should be happy…"

"I'm not stupid, you're sending me and Lucia to the other end of the world, with that poor trash of a Turk of Vincent… you just want to get rid of us for a good while… and I should be happy…?"

"Hideaki… it's a great experiment here…" Lucrecia began, "it'll be really interesting, perhaps the greatest project we'll ever have to work on, recreating a race…!"

"How pretty, indeed."

"And Nibelheim is a very lovely place…" she tried again.

"Yeah, peasants are just so charming creatures…"

"Oh, for Shiva's sake! Can't you just try to look on the bright side of life!"

Hideaki closed his mind to Lucrecia and Gast's "you should be happy, it's not everyday you get the chance to do such experiments", "no one is trying to get rid of you, you're a brilliant scientist" and other "it'll be like vacations but with great scientific experiments that will change the world's history for sure!"

All the 'brilliant scientist' had in mind at this moment were pictures of Gast and Lucrecia meeting death in the most horrible ways he could imagine.

"Oh, crap! keep on being all grumpy as you wish, I don't care!" Gast finally shouted. "You're leaving within one week anyway!"

And he left, mumbling with anger something like "such a stubborn fool!"

Hideaki smirked as he noticed he had been retrograded from 'brilliant scientist' to 'stubborn fool'.

"You're happy! You made him mad!" Lucrecia fumed once Gast had closed the door. "Can't you think a second about all the opportunities you may be missing that way?"

"Just repeat once what you said?"

The woman blinked. "…Can't you think a second about all the opportunities you may be missing that way?"

Hideaki was looking right in her eyes. "You understand?"

Lucrecia let out a long sigh. "You yet wasted all the opportunities you could have and you think that's why we're going to Nibelheim, right?"

Hideaki was still pissed and wanted to applause her with huge sarcasm to congratulate her for finally understanding the situation, almost on her own, but he thought Lucrecia would not appreciate and it would be even worse if she went hysterical. So he just nodded.

"Even if you were right, darling, can't you try to see this as a chance to show Gast and the world all you're worth?"

"Hmm, maybe" he answered to quickly end the discussion. He didn't want to tell her Gast was a cheater anyway and would get all the honors for doing nothing if the things went all right but would let them all the responsibilities if troubles occurred.

Lucrecia considered her husband's final answer as rather positive and started to muse about which clothes she would bring.