Dear Cloud,
I don't know if you believe I'm really me yet, but I'd like to give you the opportunity to find out. Harvest and slaughter time is coming, and Reno may be a good husband and father, but he's a terrible farmer. I would really appreciate it if you would move in with us and help us out. Especially because I'm pregnant again, and due to the complications last time, I've got to be really careful so nothing happens to me or the baby. Hope to hear from you soon.

Love,
Tifa

Cloud stared up at the farmhouse, holding the letter in his hand. Yuffie had given it to him, after ranting at him for attacking Reno and Tifa. He didn't know what he was doing here, but maybe he'd find out the truth. He had found nothing to suggest that it wasn't his Tifa who had married Reno, it just didn't make sense to him. He walked up the stairs and knocked on the door. A few moments later, Reno opened the door and the brief surprise in his eyes was replaced by something darker as his eyes narrowed. Then he shrugged and turned his head towards the kitchen.

"It's for you, Tifa!" Reno called out before going back to all his paperwork on the coffee table, deciding what missions for his Turks were priority and which weren't.

"You came!" Tifa said happily when she saw Cloud in the doorway, and hugged him. "I wish you would have let us know first, but it's alright. Let me show you to your room. I'm making lunch right now, so when you're settled in, just come downstairs to the kitchen, it's right there." Tifa pointed towards the kitchen as she led him up the stairs.

"This is my room?" Cloud asked as she stopped in front of one of the smaller bedrooms.

"Yes. I'm sorry it's not that big, but the bigger ones are for the children." Tifa smiled as she patted her stomach. "Oh, one more thing." She took his Buster Sword out of its sheath. "I'm sorry, but until we know we can trust you, we need to keep this in a safe place. Don't worry, you'll have access to it for emergencies, but you can't carry it around yet. I'll go finish lunch now." Tifa kissed him on the cheek. "I'm glad you're here." She left, taking his sword with her, and a few moments later he heard a door close and open.

Cloud put his duffel bag in the closet and sat down on the bed. This felt unreal to him. He was a guest worker essentially, for his childhood sweetheart and her husband who had once been an enemy, and Cloud wasn't positive that he wasn't still one of the bad guys. He laid down for a few moments, then decided to use the bathroom before going down for lunch.

Tifa was feeding her son baby food and Reno was already eating his lunch when Cloud came into the kitchen. "That's your uncle Cloud." Tifa said as she tried to get Daniel to eat some peas. "He'll be staying with us for a while." Standing up, she faced Cloud. "It's make your own salad as you can see, salad mix in the big bowl, and for toppings there's hardboiled eggs, cheese, olives, mushrooms, ham…wait, where's the ham? Reno, did you dump all the ham into your salad?" Tifa put her hands on her hips and glared at him.

"Prove it." Reno mumbled, his mouth obviously so full of something that he was having trouble chewing.

Tifa sighed. "Well, if you want more ham, Cloud, just let me know and I'll get some. There's also bacon bits, jalapeno peppers, and red onions. Just homemade vinaigrette for salad dressing." She was distracted by Daniel flipping his bowl of peas onto the floor, and Miss Fit and Miss Chievous hurried over and cleaned it up. Grabbing the bowl, she put it in the sink before washing her hands and sitting down to have her own lunch.

"I'll show you around the place after lunch." Reno said when he could talk properly again.

"I can look around just fine on my own." Cloud replied, then caught Tifa's look. "But you can show me if you want.

As Reno and Tifa laid in bed that night, they reviewed the day's events.

"Do you think he'll prove reliable?" Reno tactfully asked, though they both knew he really meant if Cloud would prove harmless.

"I had him give me his medication so I can make sure he takes it. The Buster Sword is in a safe place. And I gave him the list of things that need to be done around here." Tifa replied, cuddling against him. "Everything will be just fine, you'll see."

Cloud heard the conversation, having his ear against their door. Quietly going back to his bedroom, he hoped that whether it was Tifa or a clone, she was telling the truth and everything would be fine. Now that he had seen the place, he could understand her fascination with it. It was just the kind of place she had talked about wanting when they were kids.

"Rude! Wake up, Rude!" Elena loudly exclaimed while shaking him.

"What's the big emergency?" Rude sleepily groused. "I wanna go back to sleep."

"Get me to the hospital right now unless you want our baby born here!" Elena snapped at him.

"What?!" Coming totally awake, Rude jumped out of bed and hurriedly got some clothes on and rushed out the door in a panic, then came back moments later and picked up Elena who was putting her bathrobe on, carrying her down to their car and opening the door for her, then going around to the driver's seat and starting to drive off before backing up and putting Elena in the passenger seat, closing the door and getting back in the driver's seat.

"Please don't be anything like your daddy." Elena spoke to her stomach.

Elena's contractions were two minutes apart by the time they got to the hospital. Four hours later, she was holding her baby girl as the doctor and nurses were making sure Rude was okay when he passed out when he saw the baby crowning, and hit his head. "Well, so far you're nothing like your daddy." Elena told her daughter.