Chapter 7: "A new era"
Ok, since I left you all hanging in the last chapter, I've decided not to leave you waiting any longer… So here's the next chapter…
Reno woke up with a jerk. He opened his eyes, but closed them tight again, due to the light that blinded him. After managing slowly to open his eyes, he looked around.
"Ah…not again…" he moaned.
Everything was awfully white and filled with light. He was in the hospital once again. Looking towards the window, he saw a black figure, standing, staring outside. The figure slowly turned to face his bed. It was Tifa. But she was different. Her hair was cut short, and she looked awfully thin. Instead of her usual black suit, she was wearing a long black dress. When she saw that he was awake, her eyes widened in surprise and she let out a little scream.
"Oh my god! You're awake!!!" she shrieked, and ran to his side. "How are you feeling?"
"…great actually…just a little sore…" he smiled at her. Tears were starting to start down Tifa's face.
"Hey, hey, what's that for now? I'm fine didn't I just tell you?"
Tifa wiped her eyes with her hand and smiled at him. "It's just… I'm so happy…the doctors were starting to think you would never wake up…"
"What…what do you mean? Why?"
"Look…Reno…I know this will be a really big shock for you…but…I've got to tell you… you've been asleep… you've been asleep for 5 years now…"
"WHAT??" Reno's mouth dropped in surprise.
"Yes…your injury was very bad… I…I rushed you to the hospital as fast as I could but… you had surgery… but then it got infected… and surgery again…and…"
"Hey, hey, HEY! Wait! One thing at a time! I've lost five years of news you know, could you please start from the beginning?"
Tifa took a deep breath. "Ok… so… five years ago… it was the day you got out of jail… after I had left you in the cell, I went to another of my clients, there in the same jail…as I was leaving, a short while later, I saw you standing on the sidewalk…I wanted to walk up to you and ask you one more time to come and crash at my house for a while… I knew you had refused, but I thought maybe I could persuade you… but then I saw the limo stopping in front of you… and you just jumping in… I thought it was weird, I knew it was Yazoo's limo and I had this weird, uneasy feeling, so I jumped in my car and followed you… I stopped a little farther from you, behind some trees… and when I heard the gunshot…I came running…I found you lying on the ground, in a huge pool of blood…and I carried you as fast as I could to the hospital…you went immediately in for surgery… the doctors said you might not make it…you made it..but then you fell into a comma… your injury got infected twice… we almost lost you once…and you are in a comma ever since …"
"Oh my god…" murmured Reno. "I guess I've lost a lot of news eh?"
"Well…yeah…actually…nothing is the same anymore… you see… we are in war right now…"
"War?? With whom??"
"Well…you see… there was talk, a couple of years ago, about nuclear and biological weapons… that were built somewhere here in our country… other countries were starting to claiming that we were threatening the world's peace… that we wanted to destroy all other's… our president claimed he didn't know anything… police started investigating… people were accused of being involved… especially high-ranked personalities… big investors, politicians, business-men… many are still left to rot in jail… but the other countries were still accusing us…one thing lead to another…and the war was declared…"
"…god…and I was just sleeping the whole time…" Reno's head was starting to spin, so many facts hitting him at once, he needed time to make contact with reality.
"Here in the city we are safe…but since you are awake, you can't stay here anymore… you see, all the hospitals are filled with wounded soldiers…I've fought to make them let you stay…now I'll take you to my house…"
"You don't have to…"
"I won't take no as an answer." Tifa's eyes pierced his.
"…ok then…" Reno was too weak to protest.
But yet another question was burning his lips. He looked at Tifa, almost like he was trying to guess an answer even before he had asked the question. Tifa's eyes took suddenly a sad expression and she looked at her feet.
"You…you can't find him…"she murmured.
"What?... but… what are you talking about? I didn't ask you anything, I…"
"I know…I know you want to ask about him… Yazoo… you'd better forget about him…you won't find him…he…he is…dead…"
Reno felt a sharp pain in his chest. His throat went dry. "…what…? How…? …when?..." he managed to choke out.
"Well… after he shot you… he disappeared for a while… I had told the police I thought he shot you…but everyone was against me… all his staff and family claimed he was out of town at the time…and I didn't really see anything…I just heard the gunshot…anyway… after a while he came back in town…and then the investigation about the weapons started…and he was accused of being involved… and… when they went to his mansion…they found him dead… hanged from the ceiling…I… I'm sorry…I know you had feelings for him…"
Reno turned his head towards the wall. Tears were burning his eyes. But something inside him didn't want to believe it. It was like a part of his heart was dying. When he turned back towards Tifa, a cold expression covered his face.
"I just wish I was the one who tied that rope around his neck."
His icy eyes made a chill run through Tifa's spine. Just then a nurse walked in. In seconds, his room was filled with people, doctors, nurses, talking to him, talking with each other, wondering how he managed to wake up. But his mind was not there anymore. It was flying back in time…back when he had longed for Yazoo's warm touch… and then back to the other Yazoo, the one who, scared by his feelings, decided to "eliminate" him… only to end up "eliminating" himself…he had to get out…out of this hospital…into the world…to find his connection with reality…to realize everything, everything he had lost…by himself…
He,he,he… And a whole new part of the story begins!! What do you think?? Twisted, twisted??haha! Well… guess you'll have to wait until the next chapter…to find out what's going on…5 years later!! Review, review please!! Do you like the new twist things are taking???
Small spoiler: For those of you who are getting tired of the fantasy and action, we've got romance and sex coming up! hehe!!
