All for Love

*Dramatic music just for effect* I've decided that this story is going to be split into two. I have a gap of about a year which I have no idea how to fill. Most of it is just full of boring missions anyway. Just normal every day life (my excuse). So from my last minute decision, Part 1 of the fic is called Beautiful Tomorrows. Part 2 will be called Doleful Yesterdays. Why you ask? They just sound appropriate ^_^. I've now updated all the chapters to accommodate for the change ^_^

Part 2 of All for Love starts just under a year after the wedding. Now I've cleared that up, this is Part 2, Doleful Yesterdays: Chapter 1

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Part 2: Doleful Yesterdays

Part 2: Chapter 1: All things Creepy

A little blonde haired girl slipped her small nightgown over her head as she looked out of her bedroom window. It over looked the small town of Nibelheim, situated near the tall mountains of Mount Nibel.

The town was quiet as always. The odd person returning home from a hard days work on the small fields just outside the town. If you listened hard enough, you could just about hear the dripping sound of the water in the well that sat in the middle of the town.

The girl noticed to basement light of the mansion go out. She sat on the window seat and curled her arms around her knees. She watched the stars appear one by one. The sky turn to it's darker shade of blue. She turned her head suddenly as her mother shouted for her to get in to bed. The girl sighed and reluctantly left the window seat, crawling under the covers of the bed.

Her mother entered to room quietly, gave her daughter a kiss on the forehead and tucked her in. She stood at the door for a few moments as she watched the little girl kissed her teddy bear good night and settled down to sleep. The mother left the room, leaving a small nightlight on.

The girl smiled at her teddy bear just as she fell asleep.

She was never awake to notice the fire3 spell as it began to melt the paint covering her home.

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"You're kidding me right!?" Reno exclaimed. Tseng shook his head grimly.

"I wish I was."

"So he just burned down the whole town?"

"That's what it looks like. There was no one left to confirm what happened."

"What happened to him then?" Reno asked. Tseng knew full well who 'him' was.

"Dead. Found him floating on top of the mako in the reactor. At least that's what everyone thinks. He disappeared later that day. Hojo said that he probably sunk in the mako." Tseng let a file drop onto the desk. "The President wants this covering up."

"What a surprise that is." Reno mumbled, picking up the file from the desk.

"He wants the whole town rebuilding, no matter what the cost." Tseng said.

"What's the point? It's not like the town was popular or anything." Reno questioned.

"Don't ask. I don't see the point of any of this either." Tseng rubbed his eyes wearily. "He's sending Urban Dev. out later today. He also suggested a Turk go with them."

"I take it I'm the lucky person then?" Reno asked, glancing through the paper file. He eyes came across some pictures of the town. "Shit. Is it really that decimated?"

"I told you before, there's nothing left besides the mansion."

"What the hell's in that mansion anyway?" Reno asked sceptically. Tseng shrugged his shoulders.

"Beats me. Never asked."

"Fat lot a help you are." Reno said as he walked out the door.

"Reno." Tseng called. Reno poked his head back through the door. "Helicopter will be waiting for you in around three hours."

"Yeah, yeah, I hear ya." Reno mumbled as he walked down the corridor.

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"I always get stuck with the clean up jobs." Elena grumbled as she stepped out the huge military truck.

"There's not much else to do now-a-days." Mentioned the male first class SOLDIER that jumped out the truck after the blonde. "I mean the war's ended. It's either guard duty or be clean up crew."

Elena pouted. "It sucks." She turned to face the man. "It's ok for you Marc, you got to fight in the war. You've had your lovely taste of battle."

Marc shook his head. "You young kids are always too hasty."

"Not hasty, just bored." Elena stated.

Marc laughed. "Get bored pretty easy don't ya?"

Elena spun around in a circle with he arms in the air. "You telling me that this isn't boring?"

"Meh, there's worse than this." Marc said.

"I feel pretty bad about the town though." Elena noticed a scorched teddy bear laying on the ground. She bent down to pick it up, wiping away some of the soot on it's face. "I mean who ever saw this coming."

"I heard Hojo got pretty pissed off when he hear the General got sent to Nibelheim."

"Wonder why?" Elena mused, dropping the bear back on the ground.

"Beats me." He knew Elena wasn't expecting an answer, but replied anyway. "Though I heard somewhere that Hojo was here a hell of a lot years ago, I'm talking like thirty years back."

"Gesh, is he even that old?" Elena watched as the blacked haired SOLDIER laughed.

"You kidding me? He's like late fifties at least. He's been with Shinra forever, probably from the beginning."

"Shows how much I know." Elena mumbled as she heard an helicopter touch down somewhere behind her. Marc turned.

"Must be Urban Dev." The man stated.

"Why are they here?" Elena asked before she thought. Marc smiled at her, messing her hair up with his hand.

"Think before you speak kid." He watched Elena scowl. The scowl turned to embarrassment to puzzlement.

"I still don't get it." She said.

Marc smiled at her and walked over to the newly erected tent just outside the town. Elena started dumbly at the tent for a few minutes before a voice interrupted her thoughts.

"What you actually doing El?"

Elena took a double take at the voice. "Reno!" Then she looked at him more sceptically. "What are you doing here? Don't tell me you're on clean up duty."

"Bodyguard duty actually, but both are just as boring as each other" He shrugged. "Aren't you gonna ask who I'm guarding?"

Elena looked at him again. "Does it really matter?"

"'Course it does." Reno gave a wink to someone behind Elena, so she turned to look.

"Reeve!" She watched as he smiled.

"Haven't seen you in a long time." He said, sparking off a conversation.

"You neither. I thought-" Elena started to ramble on. Reno quietly excused himself and walked towards the old Shinra Mansion.

It was eerie how the whole mansion had managed to stay completely in tact while the town was incinerated. The mansion wasn't completely unscathed, but it was only from years of disuse that it had fell into this condition. The door came open easily enough and Reno stepped in. The inside was just as bad as outside. Any furniture that was left was covered in dust. The whole mansion defiantly had a creepy factor about it.

Reno had heard from Tseng that the light in the basement of the house, hadn't gone out for days just before town burnt down. Not being able to find a basement door on the ground floor, the Turk wandered up the stairs. Seeing nothing but some sort of greenhouse at one end of the corridor, he decided to venture the other way. Easily finding the false wall in one of the bedrooms, it opened as soon as Reno came close to it. Through the doorway were a set of spiralling stairs, no banister, not to mention the walls looked slick with some kinda of green mouldy looking stuff.

"Who the hell would put a lab down here?" Reno mused out loud, walking down the wooden staircase.

"What are you doing here Turk?" A voice interrupted him while he was still walking down the stairs.

Hojo.... Reno thought. So that's where's he's been........ "Just checking around." The redhead answered.

"I'd prefer you do your 'checking around' somewhere else." Hojo sneered. Reno never answered, he just kept staring at the professor. "Well?" Hojo snapped when he received no answer. "Shoo, go snoop around somewhere where it's appreciated."

"Yeah, yeah I'm going." Reno muttered. You're hiding something Professor of all things creepy, and I will find out what it is. Reno watched as Hojo stormed back off into the basement muttering under his breath as he went. What the hell is he hiding?

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Yay a new chapter! So we all know what Professor of all things creepy is up to, but how far is Reno going to go to find out? See in the next chapter!