A/N: Well here it is, finally! I am hoping to have Chapter three up in two to three weeks; bear with me! If you like the story, review! If you don't review and tell me why! If you are too stupid to have an opinion review anyway!
Ding-dong! "Coming!" Tifa Lockheart Strife walked to the front door of her new house in Camerak (a rebuilt Midgar). "Yes?" she swung the door open, outside two men dressed in identical blue suits that placed them as Turks (a new form of police) or bill collectors.
"Mrs. Strife?" The one on the right asked.
"Yes?" Tifa said, so happy at being called 'Mrs. Strife'. "Is it about Cloud?"
"Please, have a seat." The one on the left, " I am Sam Johnstone chief inspector of the Turks. This is my partner, Bill Livingstone. Yes, it is about Cloud." Instead of sitting Tifa sprung forward, growing very worried.
"Has he…been arrested?"
"Please sit." Livingstone. Suddenly he turned to a uniformed police officer behind him. He said something that Tifa was unable to hear before turning once again to her. "I would like you to do something for me." His voice calm and reassuring, he guided her to a seat.
"Yes? Wh…what can I help you with?"
"I would like you to look at something, okay?" Livingstone turned to the same officer again. "Bring it in." Two more officers appeared in the doorway carrying a stretcher. They laid it down in front of Tifa. "Lift the blanket." An officer stepped forward and lifted the blanket. Tifa gasped.
"Do you recognize this man?" Johnstone stepped forward, almost eagerly.
"Y…y…yes. It…it...it's Cloud!" She broke down crying.
"Okay, get it out of here!" Livingstone commanded to the officers.
"Mommy?" A small voiced called form the bedroom.
"Get the kid." Livingstone pointed to the room the voice came from. Johnstone ran off. A minute later he returned with Zack Strife. Zack looked exactly like his namesake, the soldier who accompanied Sephiroth to the reactor on that faithful day when Sephiroth went mad. He had Tifa's dark hark, combined with Cloud's spikes. His eyes where the only thing that separated him form the original Zack; his eyes had a remarkable resemblance to the esteemed warrior Sephiroth himself. Tifa had always denounced it as a freak combining of Mako-Jenova eyes, and human eyes, but recently Cloud had begun to wonder if maybe young Zack had in fact inherited his eyes from Sephiroth. Tifa couldn't understand Cloud's reasoning, something to do with the Sephiroth cloning, he felt that maybe Zack had inherited some of Sephiroth's DNA from Cloud, but Tifa didn't quite get what he meant. Thinking of Cloud made Tifa start crying again.
"Mommy, what wrong, where Daddy?" Johnstone lowered Zack into Tifa's arms. "Mommy, has Daddy re-joined the lifestream?" Tifa stared down at Zack, he never ceased to amaze her, at only two he had the vocabulary of most six or seven year olds. Cloud had said that it was the Mako enhancements, meant to heighten a soldier's awareness, strength, and intelligence. He had been spending a lot of time teaching Zack the teachings of the Cetra, and of the ways of the planet. Tifa didn't really mind, it was Cloud's way of letting go of Aeris, now he didn't have too. She sniffed, then nodded to Zack. "Oh, okay, he be waiting for us?" Tifa nodded again.
"We had better be leaving, and ma'am? Careful of all people with long, thin swords, it appears that is the weapon used against Cloud." Tifa nodded and the Turks left.
"Wait here." Tifa put Zack down on the chair and walked to her pack. From inside of it she pulled out her old PHS and dialed a number. "Barret? You'd better come over here, Cloud's dead."