It's baaack! XD
Yuffiewas pretty confident that she was going to pee her pants any second. Vincent's mansion was completely immersed in darkness save for the television flickering in front of her. Vincent had long since gone to sleep upstairs, since it happened to be somewhere in the realms of three in the morning. Basically, Yuffie felt very alone and very, veryterrified. She cursed under her breath, regretting buying this stupid video game. Possibly regretting not returning her Playstation after getting it for her birthday. Maybe even regretting being born at all. But definitely regretting buying the game.
She supposed they called it F.E.A.R. for a reason.
While Yuffie realized that many people might see her as a creepy, dark-haired, little girl, the creepy, dark-haired, little girl in thisgame was a freaking menace! And Yuffie wasn't that creepy. Only when she sneak-attacked people in the middle of the night. Or tried to catch Vinnie changing, but seriously, who wouldn't wanna see that?
But back to the matter at hand. As soon as she got comfortable in guiding her badass character around the dilapidated buildings of the game, that stupid, psycho, SKETCHYlittle girl would pop up and the game would get all laggy, and the screen would go red and sometimes get all bloody and it was really taking a toll on Yuffie's bladder control, especially since the TV room in Vinnie's house made weird noises. Actually, the whole of Vinnie's house made weird noises, but that was beside the point.
The worst part was that Yuffie was only twenty or so minutes into the game! She had already seen one dude eating people, another guy pop out of absolute nowhere around a corner and now this stupid girl wouldn't go away! If this kept up, she was surely going to pee her pants and make a big stain on Vincent's couch and she was surethat he would NOT appreciate that and she would get in a lot of trouble and he would kick her out. And then she'd have to go back to living with Tif and Spikes, which would have been okay if they hadn't been trying to procreate. Even that wasn't terrible, seeing as Yuffie knew they were both gorgeous and their kids would be awesome but… having to hear the attempts at creating progeny every night got a little old… and gross.
So Yuffie had ended up moving into Vincent's mansion, which wasn't bad at all considering he had become her sorta-maybe-boyfriend. The words "Vinnie" and "boyfriend" were weird together though, so Yuffiesettled for simply calling him her man-slave. She wasn't sure how much he appreciated it, but he never protested against it other than getting that squinchy look on his face and shaking his head. Sometimes, if she was lucky, Yuffie got a little sigh along with the head shake.
As her thumbs nudged the joysticks and her Point Man consequentially crept along the wall of crates, Yuffie muttered a few more curses. She reallyneeded to go to the bathroom; the ninja had had a few too many Red Bulls in preparation for a night of gaming. That was another thing she regretted—she really needed to cut herself off from any and all energy drinks. She was already a high-strung person by nature, and with a game of this creep-caliber, Yuffie was jumping every little noise. Even the grumbling of her own stomach had her nearly leaping from her seat, holding back an earsplitting shriek.
To make matters worse, the music had that kind of unsettling quality about it that settled in the pit of her stomach and made her want to cry and curl up and run away all at the same time. At least, that was when there was music playing; for the rest of the game there was only simply silence, broken only by the footfalls of her character or the gunshots and screams of the enemies she had to kill. Those long stretches of silence increased her anxiety, magnifying every outside noise, adding to her jitters. After a few more minutes of gameplay, Yuffie's fingers froze on the controller.
She was about to have to head into the basement of one of the buildings, and she. Did. Not. Want. To. Who knew what was down there? Probably hoards of creepy children, lurking, waiting for her poor, unsuspecting character to stumble into their creepy little hands so they could eat his face off! Yuffie hated basements. She had hated going into the basement of the Shin-Ra mansion all those years ago, although if AVALANCHE hadn't they never would've ended up with Vinnie, so she could thank basements for that.
But this basement was different. It was dark, with flickering lights and dripping somethingthat was probably blood and Yuffie knew that as much as she didn't want to go in there, she had to if she was going to get anywhere with the game. So she flicked on her character's flashlight, and started forward with trepidation.
Almost as soon as she had headed in, the music started up and she saw the little girls creeping figure flash across the screen. Her heart lurched and she wanted to throw the controller down and run away into the safety of her bed. Glancing around the room cautiously, she cringed at the gnarled shadows thrown about the walls. Why was she up this late? Still, she surged ahead. But then there was the giggle! Yuffie hated creepy little girls and their creepy little giggles! And then the shadow of the little girl was right behind her and she almost screamed, but held herself together by stuffing a tight fist between her teeth.
She pressed on, felling the bad guys along the way, until she came to yet another corridor with one flickering light, and only darkness beyond. She gulped. As she continued, the little girl's shadow flashed along the wall, moving slowly and sluggishly and (of course) creepily. At the end of the hallway was a drop down into water. Again, Yuffie had that nervous, sinking feeling in the very bottom of her stomach. This wasn't going to be pleasant.
She was right. As her character dropped down into the water, the familiar red tinge appeared on the screen as the motions began to lag. She maneuvered through the water towards the door at the very end of the watery hallway. Right as she approached it, however, a skeleton shot up from the water, flinging itself at her and finally Yuffie had had enough. The scene in and of itself wasn't all that scary but her nerves were shot and she was out of the room like a shot, barely even stopping to click of the TV.
"Get the FRICK AWAY FROM ME YOU CREEPY PUNK!! VINNIIIIIIIEEEE!!! I NEED YOU!"
In her haste to get away from the TV room, Yuffie hadn't realized how bad her coordination would be in the pitch black of the rest of the house. She made it as far as the stairs before she tripped and fell in a mewling pile of unhappiness and scraped elbows. Somewhere in the depths of the upstairs, Yuffie heard a crash.
"Oh crap! The little girl's coming and she'sgonnaeatVinnie!! Crapcrapcrapcrap!" Moments later, however, Yuffie felt a little ridiculous as light flooded that entrance hall and Vincent came crashing down the stairs. She felt slightly less ridiculous when she realized he was shirtless. Then she just felt warm and tingly inside.
He froze when he saw her lithe form sprawled across the bottom stairs. One dark, silky eyebrow slowly rose up his forehead. "Yuffie… What is wrong?" His voice was fuzzy with sleep, and Yuffie felt a different feeling settle into the put of her stomach.
The ninja in question scrambled to an upright, somewhat mussed position. "Vinnie! I'm SO glad the stupid girl didn't eat you! I was worried for a second that it would've been all my fault, 'cause I was the one who woke you up and everything but you're alright!"
Vincent slowly crossed his arms over his chest and Yuffie died a little inside. Nothing should ever cover those abs, nothing.
"Yuffie. What happened?" Vincent's tone was becoming disapproving, and the petite young woman realized that this was her chance. She threw herself up the stairs and against his chest, forcing him to uncross his arms.
"Oh, Vinnie! It was terrible! I should've never bought that stupid game, or at least played it when it was light out cuz it was so scary!" All the while she was saying this, Yuffie was nestling herself further against the gunman's chest, one word blaring in her mind.
'Yummy.'
Vincent's arm slowly encircled her, loose yet comforting. "Well, you've shut it off now, so why don't you put it away for a few days and go to sleep for now?"
Now Yuffie really saw her chance.
"Vince, I don't think I'll be able to fall asleep in my room! This game was really scary, you don't understand! Do you think… maybe… I could sleep with you?" She pulled back and gave the gunslinger her best and biggest and shiniest puppy eyes. What she saw in his own crimson gaze surprised her, and made her squirm slightly.
"I think… that would be alright." Vincent gently took her hand and led her up the stairs.
Minutes later, as she nestled in close to the sleeping gunman's chest, wondering how she was going to keep her hands to herself for an entire night in Vincent's bed and positive that now she was curled up with him she never wanted to leave, Yuffie had an awful realization.
She still needed to pee.
AN: So, I don't know if this chapter is as funny as the previous ones, but I think I like it the best. This story is officially back and in-progress, although updates may be slow since I have a huge other fic that I'm working on. Also, I upped the rating to T since we're getting a little bit…. Sexier. I'm thinking about doing this chapter and what happens after from Vinnie's POV… Review if you want a lemon! JK! But… not really if a lot of people want one… but maybe still JK =P Either way, enjoy!
Oh and one more thing, I haven't actually played through F.E.A.R. except for the very beginning at about 1 in the morning with my boyfriend over at his house. Scariest thing OF MY LIFE. So all the fear in this chapter? Totally real. Maybe I'm just a wuss, Idk. Anyways, review! I missed you guys!