Final Fantasy VII

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Bloody Valentine

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In midsearch of the missing Vincent Valentine, Yuffie gets called from an unexpected lead and things get confusing and messing from there.

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Chapter 2- Links

"Lucrecia," she spat out the word like poison, "What do you want?"

Lucrecia had called her, panicked and upset. Aware that she was a link to the stupid bastard, she was forced to hold down her disgust. Yuffie then called Tifa and Cloud and now they were at the slut's apartment.

She sat in the couch, that she helped choose for him and stared at the slut's slight bulging stomach, "Want to start explaining so I can get on doing less painful things?"

"Yuffie," Tifa reprimended her, "She might be able to help us," she sent a silent threat, which Yuffie read clearly.
Fine, she wouldn't say any snide comments, out loud that is. Yuffie sighed, "Fine. Start."

"I'm pregnant."

"I couldn't tell," Yuffie replied dryly, "I thought that you were letting yourself go."

"Yuffie," Tifa reprimended giving her a not-so-light whack on her arm.

Lucrecia's fingers played with her untouched cup of tea, "I just found out a couple days ago."

"And?"

"My brother went to talk to him," Lucrecia's expression turned even more nervous.

"Brother?" Tifa gently pressed her to go on.

A deep male voice came from the doorway, "I went to talk to him earlier this morning."

Cloud jumped to his feet in anger, "Sephiroth."

Yuffie had heard of him. He was the CEO of the largest entertainment corporation owning most of the television stations in Midger. Often called the "Angel of Death" behind his back from being easily able to ruin people's lives at whim, it was easy to say that he was both feared and respected. She noted the start of a bruise under his eye and the swollen lip.

Yuffie turned to Lucrecia in disgust, "He's your brother?"

"It was kept secret," Lucrecia lifelessly said, "I didn't want anyone to think I got my jobs because of my connections."

"Apparently being hated and ruining relationships runs the family," Yuffie harshly glared at the two. Besides being the big honcho, he was also Tifa's ex-boyfriend before Cloud. Basically he quadruple timed her openly and threw her away when he was bored. Another proof that handsome men were jackasses.

"I'd watch your mouth before someone's out of a job, Wutian trash," Sephiroth sneered standing behind his sister protectively.

Glancing out of the corner of her eye, Yuffie saw Tifa avoiding looking at Sephiroth's directions. Cloud had yet to sit. This was great. Drama pilled a top of more. When was it going to end?

"So you went to talk to him," Yuffie steered the conversation back on track.

"When Vincent found about me being pregnant, he wanted me to get an abortion," Lucrecia rested a hand on Sephiroth's.

"Of course," Yuffie snorted, "The only thing after cuddly cute things he hates is kids. You should atleast know that."

"Sephiroth went to try to talk to him," she continued.

The three of them made sounds that clearly doubted the term "talk."

"It turned violent," Sephiroth simply stated, "He wouldn't listen."

"He got some punches in," Cloud commented amused, "So where did he go afterwards?"

He elegantly shrugged in his silver suit that probably cost more than her apartment, "He stumbled off somewhere angered. I didn't feel like following him."

"So the last person to see him was him," Tifa said outloud, more for stating the trail than in confusion.

Yuffie tugged on that trail, "The question is where did he go and why?"

"You know something else," Cloud glared at Sephiroth.

Tifa joined in the accusing, "Do the police know about this?"

Sephiroth glanced at them with an amused mocking expression, "I already have and why would I tell you everything know?"

"Because you're the top suspect right now." The room fell silent at Yuffie's underlying suspicion.

Sephiroth's eyes narrowed, "I didn't kill him if that's what you're thinking."

"Then someone must have," Yuffie leaned forward focusing on Lucrecia, "Were you so mad that you sent your brother to do the dirty work for you?"

Sputtering, Lucrecia turned pale," I-I-I would never do that!"

"Besides," Sephiroth went tense, "If I wanted to kill him I would have found a quieter way to do it."

Tifa and Yuffie concentrated their efforts on the weaker one.

"Did you want the child?"

"When were you going to tell the public?"

"Are you sure you only found out a couple of days ago?

"Why shouldn't we believe that you killed him?"

The cup rattled and shook in Lucrecia's hands and increasingly so as the questions got more accusing.

In the background, Midger news played softly. It was silent enough now that every word was heard clearly.

"In update to the Bloody Valentine's case, police are still is missing person search mode. There are no leads as of yet. We now turn to the head investigator of the case, Zack Fair."

"Welll?" Yuffie said, never for a moment taking her eyes off of the trembling woman.

"I didn't do it," she whispered as if any louder would shatter her self-control, "I swear I didn't do it. It wasn't my fault."

"Liar," Tifa burst up from her chair, "If it isn't your fault then who's fault is it?"

"Hojo's."

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