I'm gonna be updating this story daily because I have no life. I hope you guys enjoy it because it's the first fanfic I've written in about six years.
I don't own Final Fantasy VII unfortunately.
Chapter 2: Plans for the evening
Vincent stood in the command room on his own. What was this, he was blushing!
"Fuck sake Vincent, you don't blush" he whispered to himself, "pull yourself together man".
Leaving the room, he wandered back across the walkway, (hearing "WARK WARK WARK!" from the Chocobo pen, Red XII must be having a go at them).
"Calm down you overgrown fox!" yelled Yuffie. She was in the pen with Red trying to stop him from biting the chocobo.
"Apologies Yuffie, but my dog-like nature attracts me to eat birds" replied Red
Vincent peeked his head through the door. "Need any help" he smirked.
"Nah, we're okay Vinnie, Red is ju – whoa!" exclaimed Yuffie, "are you...smiling?"
Vincent realised he actually was smiling. Since speaking to Yuffie in the command room, he had been hit with a sensation of a million butterflies in his stomach, and now he was smiling. The idea of THE Vincent Valentine having any smile on his face was always a mystery to everyone.
"Must be a change in the weather" shrugged Vincent.
Yuffie smiled, "It suits you"
For a day filled with doom and gloom, and the chance that meteor would strike the earth and no one would be left alive, the crew of the Highwind seemed to be in good spirits.
Vincent walked back to the control room. Cloud and Tifa were chatting, nobody seemed to have a sense of worry on their faces.
"Cloud" started Vincent "what's the course of action?"
Cloud took a breath "I've thought this through, we may only have a few days until Meteor hits. We're all going for Sephiroth tomorrow. We know where he is and we know he isn't going anywhere. The Sister Ray destroyed the barrier around the Northern Crater so getting in is going to be a piece of cake"
Tifa continued "Cloud thinks it's best that we all go and spend time with our families, the fight tomorrow won't be easy, and...we might not survive, even if we defeat Sephiroth, we don't know what will happen, and we can't stop Meteor itself, unless there's some miracle.]
Barret is going to Kalm to see Marlene. Red is going to Cosmo to be with Bugenhagen, and Cid...?"
Cid looked over the Balcony, "yeah"
"Are you going back to be with Shera?" asked Tifa
"Shit...fucking hell! Do I have to, rather be with my true love, this fuckin' ship!" yelled Cid.
Tifa giggled "Well there you go. As for me and Cloud, we don't really have anywhere to go, so we'll be staying here planning what to do. What about you and Yuffie?"
Vincent decided to bend the truth about the 'date', he didn't want them to think he had gone soft and actually asked Yuffie to spend time with him.
"Yuffie is dragging me to the Gold Saucer. I'd rather not but...if you say no, she'll just annoy you until you agree"
Cloud smirked, "well, while you're babysitting, make sure you get your materia together, and don't let her get her hands on it, I don't want another wild goose chase like last time".
'Babysitting', way to have a friendly reminder of the age gap. "Fuck you Cloud" Vincent thought to himself. There was always tension between Yuffie and Cloud since she tried to run off with the groups' materia in Wutai. She had been forgiven but there was still a sense of awkwardness in the air.
Meanwhile in the Chocobo pen, Yuffie was keeping Red under control.
"Why are we even in here" she asked, "it just riles you up and makes you crazy for Chocobo butt!"
"Sorry Miss Yuffie" replied Red, "I just get animal instincts, plus the Hyper I took earlier didn't particularly help"
"Oh gawd, Cloud really needs to stop buying them, I mean limit breaks are good n'all, but ugh, sickness and just...ugh. Vincent has tranquilisers if you need one."
"Ah, I shall ask him for one then", Red thanked Yuffie, "and what of your plans for later, going to Wutai to see your family?" he asked.
"Nawh, Godo will just get all emotional and I can't deal with that wimp crying on me. Me and Vinnie are going over to the Gold Sauce for some funnnn" explained Yuffie.
"Aha, like you humans call a 'date'?"
"We'll see" and Yuffie winked. Yuffie liked Vincent, she didn't dare tell anyone, but everyone figured it out. They were always in a party together, fighting side by side, healing each other, and they were always close. The only one who couldn't see that was Vincent, "if Mr. Vampire takes his mind off his frozen ex for three seconds we might actually have some fun"
"It will. The best of luck to you both. I however am spending the evening with Bugenhagen. He is my only living relative."
"Oh jeez, talk about lonely, well you know you always have me and Vinnie. Hey doggy, let's go up to the deck, I need some fresh air" suggested Yuffie.