After a very long delay, Part 2 is here (sorry Sacred)! Sorry for the lack of ReTi here, but I hope you can still enjoy the interaction between Yuffie, Reeve, and Tifa here. Thanks for reading and I hope you'll come back for Part 3!
Disclaimer: FFVII and it's characters belong to Square Enix.
It was finally time to call it a night. So after handing Yuffie the diagram of her materia for her shelf, Tifa walked Yuffie toward the door.
"So you'll meet me at 7:30am at WRO Headquarters right?"
Tifa groaned a little, but eventually smiled and nodded.
"Good, that should give us plenty of time to talk to Reeve about my idea before the main meeting. I have to say this might be one of my most brilliant ideas."
"Which probably means it will be a pure disaster."
"Gee thanks for the vote of confidence."
"Your welcome."
"Bite me."
"Not tonight Yuffie I'm too tired."
"Gawd Reno really has been rubbing off on you."
"Oh speaking of rubbing, have I ever told you how talented Reno is rubbing my-"
"GOODNIGHT!"
And with that Yuffie took off to her car as Tifa giggled. Sometimes it was too easy to press Yuffie's buttons. Tifa came back in and closed the door. As she wearily headed back up the stairs she glanced at the time. 1:00am, Tifa sighed...why do I always go along with Yuffie's hair-brained schemes? One word...curiosity.
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Tifa was about to fall out of the chair in Reeve's office as she nodded off for the third time since she had arrived. Yuffie had run out to use the ladies room, apparently when she gets excited she drinks a lot of water, so that left Tifa waiting for Reeve all alone. She was like a zombie as she quickly grasped for her coffee cup. She had even gotten a large in hopes that the caffeine would keep her eyes open. So far however no such luck. As she continued to stare at Reeve's empty chair she was brought out of her haze by the door opening.
"Hey Tifa, it is really good to see you."
"Hello Reeve."
Tifa got up to hug her friend. As always he looked extremely professional and amazingly did not look almost any older than the day they had first met. With all his responsibilities that really surprised Tifa.
"So do you know anything about what Yuffie is planning."
"Something that will probably get us all into a lot of trouble."
"Hey can't you guys at least hear me out before you begin teasing me?"
Both Reeve and Tifa turned around at Yuffie's outburst as she walked into the office.
"Gawd I can't leave for a second without my plan being knocked...and you two haven't even heard all the details yet."
"You have 15 minutes to make your case."
"Yes sir." Yuffie said as she stuck her tongue out.
"Okay so as you both already know I have retrieved that transfer materia from the professor."
Both Reeve and Tifa nodded.
"Well I know that a note has already been sent to the professor asking him to come here to discuss the pros and cons of the materia."
Reeve nodded again
"I also know that you were going to give the materia to our research team be analyzed in our labs."
"My idea is, after reconfirming that the materia is safe to use on a person, I think it would be great for the WRO to be able to show him the pros and cons with an actual human case where one party is originally unaware that the materia is going to be used on them."
Reeve looked like he was about to protest but Yuffie kept going.
"Come on Reevy we know he was going to sell it, he had already sent out feelers to a lot of interested parties and I am pretty sure he can have no way of knowing which ones may be terrorist fronting as academia. Plus all his cases were of willing participants on both sides, at least documented research wise. We have a real chance to show the pros and cons in a real life setting."
Reeve's eyebrows went up, apparently Reeve could get surprised by certain words in Yuffie's vocabulary too.
"Plus I already have thought of the perfect person to take on this task....Tifa."
Reeve stared at Tifa for a moment as she shifted uncomfortably in her chair.
"I see why Tifa would be a good candidate, we know her well and know she is strong...but who would be the other unknowing participant?"
"Elena."
"Elena?"
Reeve stood up now, clearly not expecting a Turk to be named.
"Yuffie why on earth would you pick her?"
"Why not Elena."
Reeve sighed, "She is a strong, smart woman...but we all know she sometimes doesn't think before she says something or takes a course of action and can be...emotional."
Tifa smiled.
"If this materia works the way it is suppose the Elena would be able to use Tifa's fighting skills. Of course that is one of the selling points. You all the sudden know the other person's skills while keeping your own mind. You are still you but get the advantage of knowing all about someone else."
"Yup exactly why I think this is perfect."
"Yuffie."
"No, please hear me out. You know damn well that Tseng doesn't tell you EVERYTHING that goes on with the Turks even now....wouldn't it be to our advantage to be able to truly find out if they are truly behaving by sending in a mole for a day?"
Reeve leaned forward on his desk toward Yuffie , he was agitated because he knew her argument was a good one.
Yuffie leaned right back at him on the other side. Tifa couldn't help but notice how entertaining it was watching the two of them go back and forth.
"It will only be for one day"...
"Half a day."
"Fine by me."
Reeve stared at Yuffie for another few moments, it was obvious he was thinking the idea over one final time. He then turned his attention to Tifa.
"Now before Yuffie does her victory dance, how do you feel about all this?"
"It seems wrong and it is obviously dangerous....however, I can't lie; I am curious."
"Okay Yuffie I will give it my blessing and present the plan in the meeting."
"Wahoo Reevy, I knew I could count on you!"
Yuffie ran over and gave him a kiss on the cheek.
Poor Reeve, Tifa thought, he and Yuffie were the Ying and Yang when it came to their philosophy of what it means to be professional. Yet somehow they made a good team.
"Yuffie please, can you pretend to be professional for one more minute."
"Oh sorry boss."
"There is one last stipulation you have to meet if you want my cooperation...what is it that you two haven't told me?"
Yuffie did her best innocent and confused impression. But as soon as Reeve looked at Tifa, her averting eyes and tomato red cheeks gave them both away.
"Tifa?"
"Oh alright, she wants to see the part of Reno's life he keeps closed off from her. There ya happy now?" Yuffie blurted out.
Reeve raised his eyebrows at Yuffie's confession and then turned his attention back to Tifa, his face became very solemn.
"That is pretty deceitful Tifa."
Tifa looked down, completely embarrassed, she was sure he would scrap the whole idea.
"I love it."
Both Tifa and Yuffie's mouths dropped open as they watched Reeve smirk in delight. After taking a couple moments Tifa was able to recover her ability to speak.
" Really?" Tifa asked as Reeve nodded and smiled. Yuffie was still blankly staring at Reeve.
Poor Elena, she will be so confused." Tifa said quietly.
"Nah, she'll get over it, especially when she sees whose body she has taken over. I mean who wouldn't want to be trapped in that body?"
" I'm sorry what was that last part?" Yuffie asked staring at him incredulously.
Tifa just began to laugh. And it was looking like her and Elena were going to be having a very interesting morning very soon, but for now Tifa would continue to enjoy this morning with Yuffie and Reeve.