By Compulsive Rookie
Hey guys! This is just a post FF7:AC fic, my first I might add. But that doesn't mean go easy on me! XD Enjoy!
Advent Children spoilers ahead.
The net from her gun whizzed out as soon as she pulled the trigger, his too, forming a criss cross of netting that cushioned their bosses' fall. He bounced a few times, before lying on his back, smirking.
They'd done it.
As soon as the net gun was fired, Elena had a strange feeling... a feeling of hope.
Tseng was on the other side of the gap, a net gun clasped in his firm grip too, and he nodded to her.
Now was not the time to lose her head; there was still things that needed to be done.
Reno and Rude had seen Rufus fall safely into the nets Elena and Tseng had set up, and the red head was climbing up the wall at a rather speedy pace.
Rude, however, was forced to go and find a ladder, as his bulky weight and build made it difficult for him to climb up as nimbly as his partner in crime.
If they weren't in such a difficult situation, Elena was sure she would have laughed.
She was so relieved to see everyone was alive - even Reno, who usually grated on her nerves every five minutes.
Sh'd believed that she and Tseng were goners when the silver haired men ambushed them at the Northern Crater, but now it appeared everything would work out better than she'd imagined.
Well, despite the miles of bandaging wound tightly around her stomach and the dull, aching pain, anyway.
Reno reached their boss first, giving him a helping hand over to Tseng's side of the gap between the buildings. Rude had sucessfully found a ladder, and was climbing up to the top of the large building from where Rufus fell, to try and retrieve his wheelchair.
It was only a matter of time before all four Turks had secured their boss, and were back on solid ground, facing their boss who was now re-clad in the white sheet, and back in his wheelchair.
"It seems you managed to survive, after all."
The president's first words to the two Turks he had thought he'd lost almost made them lose their stoic composure.
Everyone had been sure they'd died, but then again, everyone thought Tseng had died once before and were proven wrong.
"We're Turks, sir." Elena replied, trying to keep her voice steady. Those three words usually described a manner of situations to the president.
"Yes. But I didn't expect to get your bloodstained IDs back from a cocky bastard." Rufus replied softly.
Tseng felt a pang of guilt - trying to save Elena had resulted in the President having two less Turks to look out for him.
"I'm sorry sir, but I couldn't let Elena die." he replied, his head bowing slightly.
Rufus smirked. "Of course you couldn't. It isn't in your nature to leave a fellow comrade behind, Tseng."
But Tseng knew what the meaning behind those words really was.
He cared for Elena too much.
Reno and Rude often teased him about Aeris, but the thing was, he had never really thought of the Ancient as much more than a friend.
And after kidnapping her from the Slums, their friendship pretty much died.
Of course, later on he was presumed dead and she was slaughtered at the hands of Sephiroth.
Life sure did suck sometimes.
A light rain started to fall on the streets, and Reno looked around amazed.
It seemed to almost have some sort of healing quality... lifestream?
But... how could that be possible?
"Boss!" he exclaimed as a green light surrounded Rufus' Geostigma, healing the effected areas almost immediately.
The Turks watched on, eyes wide, as all traces of Geostigma left Rufus' hand.
They held their breath, waiting for a word from their boss that they weren't just seeing things.
"Am I the only one seeing that?" the red head exclaimed loudly, and to their surprise, Rufus stood, the blanket falling from around his face.
"It appears not, Reno." he said with his usual, trademark smirk.
"Spikey-ass did it!" Reno laughed, grabbing Elena's hands and dancing round with her gleefully, the rain sitting in droplets on the lenses of his goggles.
Even though Cloud was their enemy, if not former one, Elena reminded herself to thank him next time she saw him.
She swore even Rude seemed to be smiling.
"We're gonna rebuild Shinra!" Reno cheered gleefully, and regardless of what had happened in the past few days, all the Turks seemed to find his mood contagious.
"You all have the rest of the day and tomorrow off, then meet at the old Shinra headquarters so we can figure out what to do next. You didn't really think I've spent two years doing nothing, did you?" Rufus smirked.
"We've GOT to go out drinking for old times sake." Reno exclaimed, and the other three Turks mock groaned.
"Aw come on! You know you love booooooze!" Reno sang, dancing around with Elena some more.
"Why not? It's a rather important celebration, after all." Tseng replied.
Elena looked at him curiously, and he managed a small smile.
"The celebration that we're still alive... there's no more Geostigma, and we're rebuilding Shinra. I think that's beer worthy."
"Why don't you come along, sir?" Rude asked their boss, but Rufus just shook his head and laughed.
"Me? Go to a bar? No one likes me, I'd be kicked out. Go, before I change my mind."
It wasn't often that Tseng went out with his Turks to bars, because usually Reno would get in some sort of fight and be dragged kicking and screaming out by his peers.
But he wanted to go. It was a celebration of beng alive, after all.
He had a job to do. And it involved the one that he nearly died beside...