The Bandits, Chapter 6
Forgiveness
Tifa's POV
Working with Aeris and Yuffie would be fun I suppose. But Perry on the other hand, I can't forgive him for what he did. I was only trying to help him. It was when we walked to the waterfall by Corel.
"You enjoying yourself?" He asked me as we walked there. "Yeah, it's a nice hike from Nibelheim. That new path built by people in Corel really helps. Nibelheim and Corel have been very close but were separated by mountains, well this new path goes over those mountains. "We should be there in awhile. Getting tired Tifa?" he asked me as we walked up the final hill past the Corel Mountains. "No, I'm fine. Thanks for carrying me back at Corel." I thanked him. "Hey, I only carried you once. You carried me like three times." He told me laughing at the irony.
"We're here. That was quite the trek. How about resting on those rocks? Perfect view of the rocks." He offered to me. "Yeah, I'm exhausted." I told him sitting next to him. We just sat there for awhile until I spoke up. "How did things go in Wutai?" I asked. He said he was going there to fight Godo according to Wuatanese tradition. "I'd rather not talk about it. Sorry." He said sounding very depressed. "Maybe I can help." I offered resting my head on his shoulder. He liked that kind of thing, you think he's different but he's just your typical guy. "I'd rather not. Just leave me alone." He said firmly. "You dragged me down here just to mope around?" I said become annoyed with him. "No, I felt that spending the day with you and seeing a calm place like this will take my mind off of it." He informed me. "What was it?" I said one more time. "Leave me alone Tifa!" He shouted standing up. Still resting my head on his shoulder when he stood I fell on my face on the rock. "I don't want to talk about it! Just leave me alone. Sorry." He followed up. I just laid there with a shocked look on my face.
"Tifa, are you ready to go?" Yuffie asked me. She snapped me out of my flashback. Not that I don't sympathize with Perry, it's just that he yelled at me. If he'd only apologize. "Here guys. Take these." Aeris said handing us all headsets. "What are these for?" Cid asked. "To stay in touch. Just speak in these and we'll all hear you. I put the set on, it felt kind of cool. "When do we depart?" Vincent asked from the corner of the room. He hasn't changed at all. "Soon." Perry murmured.
We all left Kalm and got into the airship prepared by Reeve. It was a cargo ship, must be to conceal us. Yuffie was holding her food down like we'd all expect. Perry was sitting on a crate as Yuffie slept in his lap. I decided to talk to him. He'd do the right thing, but only if you'd kick him in the right direction though.
"Hey, how are you?" I asked him. "Fine I guess." He said after a minute of silence. "Have anything to say?" I asked. "No, not really." He said. "I'm going to sleep. Take my mind off of things." He said beginning to sleep. Maybe I was being to forceful. I'll try later. Hopefully this won't interfere in this whole thing.
"Hey, how's it going Tifa?" Aeris said walking up to me. "Bored." I moaned. "Yeah Cid, Yuffie, and Perry are sleeping. Vincent refuses to talk." She told me. "You look very different." I noted. "Yeah, I actually like it. It's basically a version of what you wear." She told me. Aeris' hair was the same but she wore a skirt that was a little longer than my old one, and a shirt that exposed her belly button. "I noticed you changed a little too." She added. I did actually. I wore my hair in the same fashion and the same shirt as always, but I wore a jean jacket over part of it and short shorts instead of that skirt I'd wear. Perry convinced me of that change. He said where he comes from that if a girl wore that she'd be hit on all the time, and not in a good way. I liked having my legs showing and these shorts felt a little more comfortable than a skirt. "Well, I think you look good in those." She complimented. "Those pants do make your butt look big." She said. "What? They do?" I said looking. "Just kidding. I had to use that joke once. Sorry it was you though." She apologized. "It's okay. We should be there soon. Hope Cloud is okay." I said worrying about my lover.
About an hour later we reached the base Reeve sent us to. "Damn, this thing was slow as hell!" Cid cursed out loud. "It...urk...was really...urp...bumpy." Yuffie said weakly from her motion sickness. I really felt sorry for her. She had to endure such punishment the entire time we spent traveling those years ago. When we left the ship a bunch of guys in red with guns greeted us. "You must be the Shinra escort. Help us unload this cargo to this area. May I see your passes?" he asked us. Everyone took out these odd keycard things. I took out one from my short pockets. "Alright. You're clear. Take the cargo down to the reactor. Follow me there." He told us.
I picked up a fairly heavy one. I was still quite muscular, I felt happy with this power. "Look at this chick here. She's quite strong." "Yeah, not a bad body either." Two soldiers said laughing to one another. "I'd advice you two to be silent, she is a human being, not some toy for your amusement. So be quiet or I'll silence you." Vincent told them in a deep but incredibly serious tone. It scared the two soldiers out of their minds though. "Uh, thanks Vincent." I stuttered. I never thought he'd do that. Perry said he cared, just that he never showed it though. "Don't worry about it. I can't stand people like that. Taking kind gentle people for granted. Not seeing who they really are." He said before backing away from the group.
We eventually made it down to this Reactor. It looked much like the inside of a Mako Reactor. A memory I'll never forget. "This is the new Mako Reactor we've designed. Being underwater it can absorb more Mako faster. Quite an energy efficient machine." The guard told us. "But it's destroying the planet." Aeris said. "I thought you all were cooperating with this plan." He questioned. "But it's just a wrong way to get energy." She protested. "You three look suspicious." He said looking towards Yuffie, Aeris, and Perry. "You're those bandits aren't you?" he demanded. "No way! Why would you think that?" Yuffie said. "You are!" he shouted. "Then why did you ask?" Perry said. He was putting a strange device on the box he was holding.
"Security! We have them. The bounty on you three is quite large. 10,000,000 gil!" he said with a smile on his face. Troops were surrounding us until Perry pushed some button. The box exploded and the passage we were in began to collapse. He tackled me to safety from the blast. When I opened my eyes I was sealed from everyone, me and Perry. "Sorry if I was rough Tifa." He said to me. "It's okay." I said rubbing my backside from the sudden fall. "Everyone knows what to do. I think we have to get out of here still. Maybe this vent...you okay?" he asked me. I was crying. He didn't seem to care much about how I felt from what happened between us. He just went on. "You don't even care do you?" I choked out. "It's not that I don't care. It's just hard to remember." He told me. "Well some of us can't just forget this. Being in this reactor isn't helping." I said still crying.
"Oh, I know how much you hate this reactor. You've lost so much to them. Well I'll tell you what." He said holding a device. "This has enough explosives to destroy this whole place. I'll do this just for you. To erase the memory." He said. "Well, that still doesn't erase one unhappy memory." I told him. "Well, I've been thinking since you got here. And, well...I'm sorry." He mumbled. About time. Even though he was being as stubborn as Yuffie, he could be the sweetest guy you would ever meet.
"C'mon let's go. Gotta find everyone." He told me offering his hand to me. Instead of just standing regularly I just hugged him. "All you had to do was say sorry and I would have forgiven you in a second." I told him. "Well, thank you. But let's go. If we wanna blow this reactor we have to move." He said. "Yeah, we'll meet you down there." A voice said into my ear. "Forgot our headsets were on guys." Yuffie said. "You were listening?" I asked. "Well we'll 'blow this reactor just for you' though." Cid said laughing. "Oh, you guys need to learn privacy." Perry said holding the receiver. "Let's go. We need to hurry before more guards come find everyone." He said climbing into the vent. Out of all the unhappy memories in a Mako Reactor this would have to be my happiest. I had almost forgot why I fell in love with him.
Forgiveness
Tifa's POV
Working with Aeris and Yuffie would be fun I suppose. But Perry on the other hand, I can't forgive him for what he did. I was only trying to help him. It was when we walked to the waterfall by Corel.
"You enjoying yourself?" He asked me as we walked there. "Yeah, it's a nice hike from Nibelheim. That new path built by people in Corel really helps. Nibelheim and Corel have been very close but were separated by mountains, well this new path goes over those mountains. "We should be there in awhile. Getting tired Tifa?" he asked me as we walked up the final hill past the Corel Mountains. "No, I'm fine. Thanks for carrying me back at Corel." I thanked him. "Hey, I only carried you once. You carried me like three times." He told me laughing at the irony.
"We're here. That was quite the trek. How about resting on those rocks? Perfect view of the rocks." He offered to me. "Yeah, I'm exhausted." I told him sitting next to him. We just sat there for awhile until I spoke up. "How did things go in Wutai?" I asked. He said he was going there to fight Godo according to Wuatanese tradition. "I'd rather not talk about it. Sorry." He said sounding very depressed. "Maybe I can help." I offered resting my head on his shoulder. He liked that kind of thing, you think he's different but he's just your typical guy. "I'd rather not. Just leave me alone." He said firmly. "You dragged me down here just to mope around?" I said become annoyed with him. "No, I felt that spending the day with you and seeing a calm place like this will take my mind off of it." He informed me. "What was it?" I said one more time. "Leave me alone Tifa!" He shouted standing up. Still resting my head on his shoulder when he stood I fell on my face on the rock. "I don't want to talk about it! Just leave me alone. Sorry." He followed up. I just laid there with a shocked look on my face.
"Tifa, are you ready to go?" Yuffie asked me. She snapped me out of my flashback. Not that I don't sympathize with Perry, it's just that he yelled at me. If he'd only apologize. "Here guys. Take these." Aeris said handing us all headsets. "What are these for?" Cid asked. "To stay in touch. Just speak in these and we'll all hear you. I put the set on, it felt kind of cool. "When do we depart?" Vincent asked from the corner of the room. He hasn't changed at all. "Soon." Perry murmured.
We all left Kalm and got into the airship prepared by Reeve. It was a cargo ship, must be to conceal us. Yuffie was holding her food down like we'd all expect. Perry was sitting on a crate as Yuffie slept in his lap. I decided to talk to him. He'd do the right thing, but only if you'd kick him in the right direction though.
"Hey, how are you?" I asked him. "Fine I guess." He said after a minute of silence. "Have anything to say?" I asked. "No, not really." He said. "I'm going to sleep. Take my mind off of things." He said beginning to sleep. Maybe I was being to forceful. I'll try later. Hopefully this won't interfere in this whole thing.
"Hey, how's it going Tifa?" Aeris said walking up to me. "Bored." I moaned. "Yeah Cid, Yuffie, and Perry are sleeping. Vincent refuses to talk." She told me. "You look very different." I noted. "Yeah, I actually like it. It's basically a version of what you wear." She told me. Aeris' hair was the same but she wore a skirt that was a little longer than my old one, and a shirt that exposed her belly button. "I noticed you changed a little too." She added. I did actually. I wore my hair in the same fashion and the same shirt as always, but I wore a jean jacket over part of it and short shorts instead of that skirt I'd wear. Perry convinced me of that change. He said where he comes from that if a girl wore that she'd be hit on all the time, and not in a good way. I liked having my legs showing and these shorts felt a little more comfortable than a skirt. "Well, I think you look good in those." She complimented. "Those pants do make your butt look big." She said. "What? They do?" I said looking. "Just kidding. I had to use that joke once. Sorry it was you though." She apologized. "It's okay. We should be there soon. Hope Cloud is okay." I said worrying about my lover.
About an hour later we reached the base Reeve sent us to. "Damn, this thing was slow as hell!" Cid cursed out loud. "It...urk...was really...urp...bumpy." Yuffie said weakly from her motion sickness. I really felt sorry for her. She had to endure such punishment the entire time we spent traveling those years ago. When we left the ship a bunch of guys in red with guns greeted us. "You must be the Shinra escort. Help us unload this cargo to this area. May I see your passes?" he asked us. Everyone took out these odd keycard things. I took out one from my short pockets. "Alright. You're clear. Take the cargo down to the reactor. Follow me there." He told us.
I picked up a fairly heavy one. I was still quite muscular, I felt happy with this power. "Look at this chick here. She's quite strong." "Yeah, not a bad body either." Two soldiers said laughing to one another. "I'd advice you two to be silent, she is a human being, not some toy for your amusement. So be quiet or I'll silence you." Vincent told them in a deep but incredibly serious tone. It scared the two soldiers out of their minds though. "Uh, thanks Vincent." I stuttered. I never thought he'd do that. Perry said he cared, just that he never showed it though. "Don't worry about it. I can't stand people like that. Taking kind gentle people for granted. Not seeing who they really are." He said before backing away from the group.
We eventually made it down to this Reactor. It looked much like the inside of a Mako Reactor. A memory I'll never forget. "This is the new Mako Reactor we've designed. Being underwater it can absorb more Mako faster. Quite an energy efficient machine." The guard told us. "But it's destroying the planet." Aeris said. "I thought you all were cooperating with this plan." He questioned. "But it's just a wrong way to get energy." She protested. "You three look suspicious." He said looking towards Yuffie, Aeris, and Perry. "You're those bandits aren't you?" he demanded. "No way! Why would you think that?" Yuffie said. "You are!" he shouted. "Then why did you ask?" Perry said. He was putting a strange device on the box he was holding.
"Security! We have them. The bounty on you three is quite large. 10,000,000 gil!" he said with a smile on his face. Troops were surrounding us until Perry pushed some button. The box exploded and the passage we were in began to collapse. He tackled me to safety from the blast. When I opened my eyes I was sealed from everyone, me and Perry. "Sorry if I was rough Tifa." He said to me. "It's okay." I said rubbing my backside from the sudden fall. "Everyone knows what to do. I think we have to get out of here still. Maybe this vent...you okay?" he asked me. I was crying. He didn't seem to care much about how I felt from what happened between us. He just went on. "You don't even care do you?" I choked out. "It's not that I don't care. It's just hard to remember." He told me. "Well some of us can't just forget this. Being in this reactor isn't helping." I said still crying.
"Oh, I know how much you hate this reactor. You've lost so much to them. Well I'll tell you what." He said holding a device. "This has enough explosives to destroy this whole place. I'll do this just for you. To erase the memory." He said. "Well, that still doesn't erase one unhappy memory." I told him. "Well, I've been thinking since you got here. And, well...I'm sorry." He mumbled. About time. Even though he was being as stubborn as Yuffie, he could be the sweetest guy you would ever meet.
"C'mon let's go. Gotta find everyone." He told me offering his hand to me. Instead of just standing regularly I just hugged him. "All you had to do was say sorry and I would have forgiven you in a second." I told him. "Well, thank you. But let's go. If we wanna blow this reactor we have to move." He said. "Yeah, we'll meet you down there." A voice said into my ear. "Forgot our headsets were on guys." Yuffie said. "You were listening?" I asked. "Well we'll 'blow this reactor just for you' though." Cid said laughing. "Oh, you guys need to learn privacy." Perry said holding the receiver. "Let's go. We need to hurry before more guards come find everyone." He said climbing into the vent. Out of all the unhappy memories in a Mako Reactor this would have to be my happiest. I had almost forgot why I fell in love with him.
