A Life Worth Living
Summary
It seemed when Aries had joined AVALANCHE, the group no longer had any need for Tifa. They had all the strength they'd ever need, and now an extra healing power to assist them. They had their Ancient, the key to what they needed to know and do. And overall, Cloud had his girl. It was as if no one paid much attention to Tifa anymore, and she noticed that her need for the group was also slipping. Cloud talked mostly just to Aries, as did the other crew, and she was rarely brought along in battles. She had had enough. So after a fateful stop at CosmoCanyon, that night where everyone sat around the fire, probing their own thoughts and feelings in a silence or in emotional voice, Tifa thought of all these things. Making her decision, she left that night with a small pack on her shoulder and a new weapon to her glove, on her own, with no notice.
Two months later, she was back at Midgar, and had reopened her bar, and started to become a bit of what Cloud once was: a jack of all trades. She was known for doing local jobs, whatever they may be, and she was getting quite good at it. However, she was losing more and more jobs these days to another, a mysterious character that few knew much about, and what they did know was very little. Tifa was getting annoyed at the competition, and one day hunted down the fiend to scare him away.
But Tifa was in for a surprise. After finally tracking down the said person, she found that he was actually a she, and someone she knew: Jessie. Her old friend had a few noticeable handicaps, but she had miraculously survived the tower incident. Both women felt a similar betrayal by AVALANCHE, and soon the comrades were working together in Tifa's bar, and became closer friends than they ever had been.
Jessie was a different person by then, cold, collected, calm, and almost entirely emotionless. But as time went on Tifa was starting to ease open the woman's original personality, and Tifa was starting to have feelings for the other. Would Jessie feel the same? What's to become of them?
Soon they will both finally experience that they're lives are worth living, and will have to climb through a maze of twisted walls and ticking clocks to realize it.
A Life Worth Living
