All characters and all settings taken from Final Fantasy 7 are property of Squaresoft, I'm just toying with their lives to make me happy. Olivia, however, is mine... And if you want her, Squaresoft, you're gona have to pay me for her... Enjoy :-)
Life leads to love -Chapter 5-Vincent woke in his bed. Looking around he noticed he was alone and sighed in annoyance.
He had dreamt that Lucrecia had come back and that they'd had the most wonderful date. She had confessed her love for him and he did the same. He then remember what must have caused that dream. The girl, Olivia, had found out that she could shape-change at will, and had changed into Lucrecia.
Olivia didn't know who Lucrecia was until Vincent had told Olivia. Then the girl had to make everything even more complicated. She kissed him. She made him believe that his darling Lucrecia was kissing him. He had believed it for a while until he looked at Olivia again, and it was Olivia. She had let her shape of Lucrecia drop.
At that he realised what was happening and had become angry and very sad at the same time. He did the only thing he could have, he fled, down to the basement and back into the coffin. He had left the lid off, and cried. He hadn't cried in years but he felt he needed to, and had promptly fallen asleep.
And so here he was. He wondered if Olivia was still at the mansion, or if she felt that she should leave. It was a very difficult position, and if they were to stay friends then they needed to talk.
Vincent quickly slipped on his black trousers and black silk shirt, his shoes and bandanna and ran into the main building.
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He looked almost everywhere for Olivia but couldn't find her. The last room he looked in didn't have Olivia in it, but it did have a note and a present. The note read:
Dear Vincent,
I wish to start this letter by apologising for last night. It was wrong for me to do that and un-called for. I wish to make up for my stupidity with this present. When you left last night I couldn't get to sleep, I kept on thinking of your face. I'm sorry Vincent but I think I'm falling in love with you. The sculpture is a present I made last night. Don't you think the resemblance in uncanny?
When you get this letter I will have left. Do not try to search for me, if you want to speak to me that badly call me on my PHS, the number is written on the back of this letter.
Please keep the present, it will not melt as I have seen to that.
Love Olivia xxx
Vincent put the letter down and picked up the ice sculpture. It indeed did look exactly like him. It was a sculpture of his face. Inside the sculpture was a green orb. Most probably that was how the ice stopped from melting, it kept its cool from the ice materia. He marvelled at it for a while then put it on the piano. It was one of his favourite spots to sit and think.
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Why? Why was her life so fucked up? No one really loved her, and now she'd found out that the parents she had grown up with weren't her biological ones. Vincent obviously didn't find her alluring or he wouldn't have run off like he did. She just wanted to make him happy, but he was so cold and closed in.
Screaming in frustration, Olivia kicked at the dusty path lightly and carried on her treck to Cosmo Canyon, not really noticing the small rustling in the bush beside her. So many different emotions were swirling through her head and Olivia was feeling very dizzy. Going into her bag and pulling out a bottle of smelling salts to calm her queasy stomach, Olivia took off the lid and inhaled the fragrance of mint, her stomach and head already settling.
The silence around her was giving her a terrible headache, her mind was far from quiet, and her dizziness was returning. The heat, the noises in her head and all the mixed up emotions were getting to her again, and without knowing she slipped and fell on a loose rock, knocking herself out on the floor.
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Moving along silently, as she had been taught to, behind the bushes, She silently followed her target... After fleeing Avalanche at the death of Sephiroth, Yuffie had gone back to her old ways of finding lost travellers and fighting them, hopefully stealing some materia in the mean time.
Yuffie watched the curious traveller dive into her bag and pull out a small glass jar, sniffing it lightly and then putting it away. Maybe she had more than weird jars in there, maybe she had materia! So carrying on silently she waited for an opportune moment to spring out on her pray. That was when she saw her trip and fall, and not get up again. She knew something was wrong.
"Gawd dammit! Now what am I supposed to do?" Yuffie said aloud to herself. "I can't just take her stuff and leave her there!" Stopping to think for a moment Yuffie finally came up with an idea. "I'll take her to the nearest town. Which would be Nibelhelm." So with her mind set in motion Yuffie picked up the stranger and slung her over her shoulder, surprised to find how light she was to carry. "This shouldn't be to hard, Nibelhelm isn't that far" And with that, Yuffie started to he off in the direction of the old town.
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"Vincent? Is that you?" Not knowing where she was, and how she got there, Olivia was a bit confused. And she was sure it was Vincent with his back to her. Turning around now, she could see that it was. "Vincent! Where am I?"
"This is your mind. I'm just the embodiment of your subconscious. I have taken the form of someone you feel comfortable with." Vincent smiled at her, one of the smiles she pined after.
"What am I doing here? And where am I in reality?" Olivia was really confused.
"Your mind is very messed up with emotions. We've brought you here to help you sort them out. Your body is being taken care of." Vincent waved his hands and a small window appeared, with a picture of Yuffie carrying Olivia's still body over her shoulder.
"Lady Kisargi!" Olivia exclaimed. "Wow, she's grown since I last saw her." Vincent waved his hands again and it was gone. Starting to walk away, Vincent spoke again.
"Come, follow me, I have some things to show you." Olivia followed silently behind wondering what things she was going to find out.
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Trudging along slowly, with her new package on over her shoulder, Yuffie didn't notice Vincent on the horizon, not until he had run to her, calling her name.
"Yuffie! What are you doing with Olivia?"
"Olivia huh? I just found her unconscious laying on the ground as I was walking past." Yuffie half lied. "I though I'd take her to the nearest town to see what they could do for her. What are you doing here? And how do you know her?" She probed.
"It's a long story, and I'm not about to tell you it. Give her to me and I'll take her, you can then go on your way." Vincent said, as cold and stotic as usual.
"Hey, I found her, and I wana make sure she gets well. From the looks of her, she comes from Wutai, so therefore, she is one of my future subjects." Yuffie finished, trying to sound as important and royal as possible.
"Fine then, you may come with us. But as soon as she is well, and you have spoken to her, you must leave." Vincent said while taking Olivia from Yuffie's shoulder and carrying her with one arm under her back and the other under her knees, holding her to himself protectively.
"Who are you to say what I can and can't do? But fine, I don't really wana spend too much time with you anyway, you might cramp my style." Yuffie said, running to catch up with Vincent, who was now walking towards Nibelhelm.
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