It's not over

It's not over
Chapter 1:
Not over at all.

Zack's mako enchanted eyes slowly opened; he kept hearing someone, trying to get a reaction out of him.

"Hello, you all right?" the girl with the brown hair murmured, and Zack glared at the girl, her brown eyes, friendly in fact looked at the boy and waited for him to say something. "Seems like you're back" Tifa added and crossed her arms under her breasts. He peered up at the whole in the church roof, then back at her.

"An angel?" he wondered, and the girl laughed, shook her head and helped him up.

"No, I'm not… " his head cocked to one side, and stared at the flowers, not far away from them. Tifa glared at the lilies for a moment, and then she sighed and looked back at the boy in front of her. The silence was nearly embarrassing; a guy had fell through the whole in the church roof, landed and was now talking to her. 'He's good looking… Maybe he's sent by the planet?' she thought and bit her lower lip.

"where am I?" he licked his dry lips, and Tifa's attention went back on Zack. She rose up and smiled bright to the boy.

"church in the slums, it was really a coincidence, I'm not usually here, there's a other girl, one or two years old older than me, she's spending most of her time here, and she's the one who planted those flowers over there." She paused.

"They're wonderful!" he muttered, casting a glance at the colourful lilies. Tifa nodded, Aeris had really done a great work with those flowers, they'd known each other for a while now, and Tifa had met Aeris in the same church a few years ago. Zack stole a glance from Tifa when she wasn't watching him, and studied her. An attractive girl indeed, he could noticed that she was a little bit younger, but did that really matter?

"I know… she's doing a great job." The brown haired girl agreed and narrowed her own eyes at the flowers. She knew she couldn't do a great job like the brown haired braid girl had done; but after all, she was the first one to meet this new guy, right? So what if Aeris met him? She just had to make sure that she had Zack on her own for awhile.

"What's her name?" his question came unexpected, and Tifa's brows rose. Should she tell him the name of the flower girl? If she did, what would be the consequences? Tifa pursed her lips thoughtfully, it would be consequences, but she would also be able to face them.

"her name's Aeris" she told him, her brown eyes peered up at the blue heaven over her. Zack looked at the brown hair and smiled, they still hadn't told each other their own names yet, and he wondered what her name could be.

"and yours?" he wondered, licked his own lips and waited for her to answer. 'Mom always told me to not talk to strangers… so why would I give up my own name to a guy I hardly knows anything about? But this guy is damn hot… maybe it won't be that bad…'

"I'm Tifa Lockhart… and you are…" she finally answered, they shook hands, and Zack smirked up at the younger girl.

"Zack… Zack Fair. How did I end up here?" he had his famous grin on his lips, and still didn't know how he had ended up here, all he remembered was Angeal… Genesis clones and then it had gone black. And now he was here, in a slum church, he had no idea of how he had entered.

"you fell through the roof… you're one of them… aren't you?" she changed the subject, by judging his cloths, she perfectly know who he was. The only question she had left was why he was here around at all?

"one of what?" he tried to play stupid, but gave up when he found out that this girl already knew more of the SOLDIERS than he had thought the first time he had glanced at her.

"the SOLDIERS… you haven't by any chance met a blonde man there, have you?" she hinted about Cloud, but Zack had met a lot of SOLDIERS that had been blonde lately, but none of them knew a hot girl, he could tell.

"not as I can remember, why?" he lied, and Tifa's eyes rolled. Zack was sure a terrible liar, but she didn't bother to press the answer out of him.

"just wondered… oh, forget it…" she sighed, sat herself down in front of the lilies and watched them. Zack kept his own eyes at the brown haired girl. He just couldn't take his eyes off her.

"so you're the one who saved me?" Zack muttered, and Tifa turned around to face him. His mako enchanted eyes met her brown eyes, and then she looked away. The brown haired girl had no plans about being looking at as a hero thing, because she wasn't one.

"it was nothing…" she trailed off, but Zack shook his head, grinned wide and peered up at the blue sky over his head.

"Sure, but I want to give something in return" his voice was stubborn, and Tifa gave in. it would be interesting to hear what he had planned anyway.

"like what?" she gave him a sceptic look, but he was as headstrong as he always had been, and this was a great opportunity anyway, he could ask out this hot- or Tifa, that was her real name, to go out with him on a date.

"a date?" he suggested, and felt his heart sank when she laughed a little. She shook her head, and crossed her arms under her breasts again.

"don't be foolish, I hardly know you! Normal people would wait with things like that until they knew each other properly." She laughed again, and Zack bit his lip and tried to stay calm.

"Well, I'm not normal, miss Lockhart…" he rolled his eyes, and she stopped laughing and looked at the guy with brown eyes.

"There are a lot of stories about you guys around here, rumours spread by kids" she continued, she knew that the SOLDIERS had scared Aeris, but she wasn't that easy to scare. Cloud, he wanted to prove that he could be as great as the great Sephiroth, and Tifa had faith enough to believe that Cloud would make it.

"do you believe them?" she looked at him, the things she had heard hadn't impressed her, but most of them had scared her best friend, so she wasn't sure what she should believe, the kids, or that SOLDIER guy in front of her. She shook her head, and held back a yawn.

"I don't know…you guys have gone through some kind of surgery, right?" he nodded, and Tifa's eyes narrowed at the flowers again, even though she wasn't sure of what kind of surgery it had been, but she did know that it was a surgery.

"that's right" he didn't need to lie, she already knew about it. Tifa thought of Cloud again, he had recently joined SOLDIER, and then the surgery came into her thoughts again.

"a friend of me left because he wanted to join SOLDIERS… he wanted to proof to himself, his friends, and me that he was strong… I haven't heard anything from him… I was hoping you-" he cut her off, and she opened her mouth to continue, but no words left her mouth, so she closed it again.

"no, I haven't heard about a guy like that… " he replied fast, and Tifa gave him a confused look. If he didn't know a guy like that, why would he cut her off like that if he didn't know Cloud?

"oh, all right" she didn't bother to start a fight with him. Not now, she could ask him about Cloud later. "now that's amazing…" she added as she peered into his mako enchanted eyes, unable to take her gaze away. He smirked and gave her a confused look.

"what? My face?" he laughed and stared into her brown eyes, she pushed him friendly and laughed a little. A small chuckle from him as well.

"your eyes, they're as blue as heaven itself… never seen eyes like that" she continued to gaze into Zack's eyes, amazed over how blue they really were. He had to admit that her chocolate coloured eyes were pretty amazing themselves, but then he came up with something else to say.

"true sign of a SOLDIER; want to have a closer look, Ms. Lockhart?" he leant forward, nearly lost his balance and fell on her, but Tifa chuckled and pushed him friendly back and laughed again.

"oh, stop it!" the dark haired SOLDIER had started to laugh himself, and stared at the blue heaven again, a lot of people had commented his eyes. He did think it was positive, sometimes, when they looked at his eyes as pretty, and not as a sign of a SOLDIER. But it didn't seem to bother Tifa that he was one of them, and that was positive.

"you got to admit that they're pretty amazing, Tifa!" his eyes was amazing, it was the kind of eyes only a few people she knew had, and they was the kind of eyes she would never get tired of staring into. She was sure she could gaze into them for hours without getting tired of them. The brown haired girl nodded, and her voice softened.

"they are!" she agreed. And that wasn't even a lie, because it looked like he had taken a piece of heaven and placed it in his own eyes.

Authors Note:
well, kind of half long chapter. I started this a few moments ago, and I'll try to update it as soon as I can. Hope you'll enjoy reading this, I know it's not quite the story line of Crisis Core, and this has nothing to do with the game, it was just something I made for fun. The characters are (C) to Square Enix, I own nothing. This story is rated T, I'll update soon, promise!