A/N: So I came back from my vacation. Yay. Vacation rocked socks. I'm elated because I managed to buy the issue of Famitsu that features Crisis Core (just so you know). Anyway, I drafted this chapter while on vacation and I'll say this chapter is pretty wild. Tifa does have airtime in this chapter so, read on.

Tifa closed the door to Fait's bedroom carefully. The six year old couldn't get to sleep so Tifa had just gone in to tuck her into bed. She had taken the chance to examine Fait's injuries, which she had heard about from Yuffie. Tifa saw that Fait's injuries were not life threatening, unlike some that Tifa herself had received during her youth, but still, the people who gave them to her must have been pretty cruel.

Tifa collapsed into a heap on her broken and damaged sofa. She wondered how long more could she could survive in Edge with Fait. The furniture in the house was either broken or damaged, the walls were peeling. Tifa had no money or savings to maintain this house. She had already been holding down two jobs, one as a secretary in WRO and running the bar at night. But she realized that she had been coming home later and later with each passing night, just so she could earn a little more income by keeping the bar open for a longer time. Her friends had all wanted to give her some gil to help her along in finances, but she had always refused, saying that she wanted to be independent. But by the look of it, she'll soon have to accept the money just to survive.

"Thump…thump…"

Someone was knocking hard on her door.

"Tifa…Tifa!"

It sounded like…Cloud? But was it really him?

Tifa ran at top speed to the door and threw it open. In front of her was a tall blonde man carrying an injured girl in his arms. The girl's left arm was bloody, it looked a little like in had been mauled by some monster.

"Tifa, please, help her?"

"Where did you find her?"

"Find her?"

"Yeah, she's an orphan, isn't she?"

"No, she's my daughter, Reit."

Tifa was struck by this sudden revelation. Cloud was married and happy and he lived withanother woman

"Oh."

Cloud sat on the broken living room sofa. Tifa was inside a room fixing Reit up. It suddenly struck him that this house was a lot more dilapidated than when he had left it six years ago.

The door opened and Tifa came out.

"She's asleep."

"Thanks."

Tifa took a place beside Cloud on the sofa and sat down.

"So, has my house turned into a place where you bring your injured daughters to rest?"

What did she mean?

"No, I only have one daughter…"

"So, you don't consider Fait your daughter?"

This is going all wrong!

"No, Tifa listen to me. Lavine (you know who she is, don't you) died last month in a car accident, so…"

"So, you decided to come back?"

"Well…yes"

Tifa suddenly looked straight at Cloud.

"Have I turned into a substitute for Lavine?"

"No, Tifa, it's not what you think…"

"Of course it's what I think. You left me six years ago for Lavine and now that she's dead, you come back home and refuse to acknowledge your…no, my daughter and you've never even given me a shit piece of your news these six years."

Cloud felt a hard punch hitting his stomach. He keeled over from the pain and fell onto the floor.

"Tifa…stop…please…" But his piteous pleas were ignored.

"How many times have I struggled just to support Fait and myself? How many times was I scolded by my boss and had to bear with it just to earn that meager amount of money each month? How many times did I have to put up with old, perverted men, just to earn some cash? And you don't even give me a god damned sorry!"

"Tifa…I'm sorry…"

"Cloud…Cloud… are you alright?"

Cloud had passed out.

A/N: I told you it was weird. Tifa's a little cranky but I guess anyone would be if her daughter's been abused, her boyfriend had married another woman and had a child, he come back and tells you something that seems to be along the lines of "She died, so I came back.". Not to mention working with flirtatious old men every night.

This chapter is the end to this story but stay tuned to its sequel "Acceptance". You may have noticed the story is not labeled as complete yet and that's cause there's going to be a bonus chapter here next week/ ASAP on FUN FACTS! Lol…

So stick to this fic for its next update, till then…