For the Love of Her

By: ShinRa Bleeding Beauty & General Quistis

Disclaimer: Do you really think we own Final Fantasy VII, Squaresoft and its characters? :(

IMPORTANT AUTHORS' NOTE FOR THIS CHAPTER: Assuming you've played the game, you all know what happened regarding the explosion of ShinRa, right? So………………..

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            Scarlet covered her mouth in awe upon hearing and seeing the Tower explode.

Reeve's eyes were wide in disbelief as he watched events unfolding before his eyes. They were already outside, in a safer place… but they saw it all…

"P…President Rufus… is still… is still inside…" Scarlet stammered.

Reeve frowned, thinking that he should be doing something. With that, he ran off heading back to the ShinRa building.

Scarlet gasped and ran after him. "Reeve! Where are you going? It's dangerous there!" she called out as she continued to follow.

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            He could feel himself bleeding and weakening every single moment, but he still continued to walk, holding his bleeding left shoulder. "Tifa," he said softly as he staggered. He grunted when he hit a wall but he lost his balance and eventually fell to the floor.

"Closer…" he realized, seeing the end of the hallway. But he lost the strength to stand up, so he just crawled, leaving a trail of blood as proceeded to the room where the most important thing of his life was hidden.

The moment he got to the door, he grasped the doorknob with his weak hands and turned it. He coughed out some blood but he didn't care. He pushed the door open and he fell forward. He raised his eyes to the ceiling, his vision getting blurred. "I'm going to die…" he realized.

Of course, who wouldn't die at such an explosion?

He could feel his own body convulsing, but he still managed to crawl up to the bed where she is…

Though some parts of the room had already been affected by the explosion, he did not care; he wanted to be with her. He touched her wrist, trying to feel a pulse, like what he had been doing every morning when he woke up…

Still none.

He could feel his heart sinking as he embraced her tightly and kissed her lips, his blood staining her. With that, he closed his eyes and rested his head beside hers and breathed out his last.

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            Reeve and Scarlet finally got inside the building. Everything was quiet and still.

"I don't think we should be going up… the elevators aren't working anymore…" Scarlet told him.

Reeve ignored her and still proceeded to the stairs. "We have the stairs, Scarlet," he said as he led the way.

Scarlet turned around when she saw Elena rushing to her. She was coughing and dusting herself. "Elena," she said.

"Where is everyone?" Elena asked.

"President Rufus is upstairs, let's go and find him," Reeve told them as he began to climb up.

Scarlet shook her head in disbelief as she followed him. "What if we're too late? Anyone could've died easily with that explosion!" she said.

"There is still hope," Reeve said.

Elena watched as they disappeared up the stairs. She looked around, observing the whole area. "I think this place is going to collapse…" she thought before she headed outside to look for Reno. The moment she got outside, she looked up, back at the building and her eyes grew wide when she saw someone climbing up the walls of the building.

"What the…" she said as her eyes narrowed on the figure with long silver hair. She gasped as her eyes grew wide in surprise. "Sephiroth!" she thought in alarm.

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            Her lips twitched and she gently sucked in some air and then exhaled slowly. She could taste blood.

Soon, she opened her eyes and blinked twice upon seeing the broken ceiling. But she did not move.

There was something wrong with her eyes…

They were blank.

With that, she turned her head to the side and saw the dead figure beside her whose arms were around her. Instantly, tears filled her eyes and the moment she blinked again, they fell uncontrollably. "Who did this to you?" she thought as she reached out to him and embraced him.

There was something in her that she somewhat felt… she felt like a zombie. "What is happening to me?" she thought as her hand traveled to her chest, trying to feel any heartbeat…

There was none.

But she did not feel like being surprised. Slowly, she sat up and stared blankly at the broken window and at the figure with long silver hair.

He smiled evilly at her. "Finally, you're mine," he told her.

She just looked up at him as her hand traveled to the hand of the dead person beside her and grasped it tightly.

Sephiroth saw it and he cringed in annoyance. "What are you doing?" he demanded.

She narrowed her eyes at him before she let go of the hand, got out of bed and approached Sephiroth.

He descended to the floor with arms wide open to her. "Come here, Tifa," he said invitingly with an evil smirk on his face.

Tifa's gaze was just fixed on him as she neared him, but the moment when she reached enough distance, instead of falling into his embrace, she grasped his arms tightly, squeezing them.

Sephiroth realized that tears were streaming down her face and that her eyes reflected too much anger and hatred. It made him frown at her and he tried to move away but she still held on to him. "What the…" he managed to say when she moved her mouth to speak, "Lifestream wants you," she told him.

He wanted to say something more, but his own voice faltered… and the next thing he knew, he could feel his own body decaying. "What…what is happening?!" he thought in alarm.

Moments later he was dead.

Tifa let go of him and watched him fall to the floor with a cold look on her face before she slowly turned her gaze to the door where she saw Reeve and Scarlet staring at her in awe, wondering how she could destroy such a powerful man so easily.

But she ignored them as she turned back to Rufus and approached him again, staggering. When she neared the bed, she collapsed beside him, lying on her stomach and then closing her eyes after her hand found his and squeezed it for the last time…

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A/N: We know it's insane & confusing… -.-'