Yesterday's Shadows

Disclaimer: I do not own Final Fantasy, or any of the Characters. I (wish). I only own this story, and any characters that I have made up.

Rating:M for Attempted Rape in the Prologue and then for Sexual Situations later on.

Title: Yesterday's Shadows

Pairing: Tifa x Vincent

Summery:It's been three months since the events of Advent Children, and Tifa is still haunted by the things that happened to her when she and Loz fought in Aerith's Church. With Cloud off in Corel with Barret, who will be there for Tifa. Marlene was never kidnapped in this story, so while Loz and Tifa are fight after the phone call, Marlene runs and gets help.

About The Story:After the events of Advent Children, Cloud moves to Corel with Barret along with the children. That leaves Tifa to run the bar and on the outside, Tifa is trying her hardest to be the happy go lucky girl everyone knows and loves. What she's hiding though is how haunted she really is. Nightmares plague Tifa and she has never felt so alone.

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"Those with the greatest awareness have the greatest nightmares." Mahatma Gandhi
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.:Prologue:.
.::Just A Dream::.

Tifa is wandering around the alter of the Church, keeping her eye on Marlene, who is softly running her fingers over the petals of Aerith's flowers, and humming to herself.

Marlene looks up at Tifa and smiles, and starts picking a few of the flowers, probably gathering some to put on the Memorial in the middle of town..

Tifa looks up sharply when the double doors slam open, and she gasps when Marlene starts running towards the entrance. Tifa rushes forward and grabs the little girls arm, when she realizes it's not Cloud who has entered the church.

"Wanna play?" The man asks and Tifa stares at him, sizing him up because she knows that there's going to be a fight. She takes in the size of the man, who has silver hair, and out weighs her by about a hundred pounds.

Tifa pulls Marlene so the young girl is behind her as the man steps forward.

"I take that as a no." He smirks and Tifa backs up as he continues stepping forward. "Where's mother?!" He sniffs and looks down at the flowers he had just stepped on and winces. "Gross." He plugs his nose and faces Tifa again, who pushes Marlene away and nods her head, a sign for the girl to hide.

"Where's mother!" The man demands again.

"There's no one here!" Tifa glares at the man and looks around, making sure her charge is hiding.

"Fine, play with me." The man nods and chuckles.

Tifa pulls her Premium Heart out of her back pocket and tugs them on. Once they're on she nods to the man and smirks. The man rushes forwards and Tifa blocks his attack, the power of it causes her to slide backwards.

Tifa attacks him with constant kicks and punches, avoiding as many attacks as possible. The man shocks her with his Daul Hound, causing her to shrink away and gasp softly.

When Tifa uses her Limit Break; Meteodive and pushes off the man he grabs her, swinging her around until her head crashes into a pew. When he lets her go, she pushes off the wall, and using what strenght she has left, goes into her final Limit Break; Final Heaven and sends the man into a pile of broken pews.

She nods to Marlene, when the girl runs from behind a pillar, opening her arms to wrap around Tifa. She stops and places a hand on Tifa's side when they hear cell phone chiming.

Both Tifa and Marlene gasp when the man burst from the pile of rubble and answers his phone.

"She's not here!" He yells into the phone, his voice cracking with unshed tears. "I'm not crying!" He growls and his eyes roam over Tifa's body, a smirk on his lips. "Fine, I'll bring the girl." He snaps his phone shut and steps towards a broken pew in front of him and nods at Tifa.

She nods back and he flings the wooden seat at her, in which she breaks in half. What she doesn't expect is him to follow the pew and shove his Dual Hound into her stomach, pulling the trigger.

She moans in pain as he slams her into a wall of the church and tosses her to the ground and kneeling over her.

"Cloud..." She whispers softly, when she sees the look in the man's eyes.

His hands wander to her breast and he squeezes them roughly, leaning down and biting her neck. After a few minutes of him tormenting her breast and neck, he undoes her shorts, shoving his hand down them and forcing his fingers into her.

Tifa screams and whimpers softly, praying for someone, or anyone to come and save her. "Stop..." She whispers softly, praying that the man has a heart somewhere, or at least a conscious maybe.

"I like when my victims scream..." He undoes his pants with one hand while the other continues it's painful torment to Tifa.

She can feel blood pooling between her legs and she feels faint from the wound to her head. She closes her eyes and tries to block it out.

The man goes to shove himself in her, and Tifa prepares for the pain that is sure to follow but it doesn't come. She opens her eyes and sees the man looking at the entrance to the church.

He climbs off of her and grabs her by the vest, hauling her body off the ground. He bites her ear roughly before whispering. "You got lucky this time..." He smiles when he drops her back down and she groans in pain. "You'll remember this for the rest of your life...make no mistake of that." He backhands her, rushes from the Church.