Sleeping with her Enemy
Her Deception
And we'll be standing when you're gone
And we'll be heard again
We missed our chance but not for long
I know somehow we will hold on we'll be here
When you're gone
"What do you mean you think she's dead?" Yuffie exclaimed while Cloud just stood there in numbed shock staring at Sephiroth as though he had suddenly developed an extra head.
"Hojo had been inventing something called the psychic posinatron, it's a machine that has the ability to connect you to the person closest to your heart...the person you love" Sephiroth noted the pain that darkened Clouds eyes but he had to finish what he'd been explaining.
"They must have connected Tifa to it and used her love to show me what they were doing to her, then there was nothing...I...I couldn't feel her anymore" Sephiroth lowered his head and noted the droplets that were falling to the floor.
Tears... he was crying!
But it wasn't just sadness he felt within him but an inhumanly fierce anger, first they had taken him from her now they had taken her from him to a place where he could no longer reach her.
It was because of his connection to her that they had made her suffer the way in which they had; they had taken someone precious to his heart and spat on her in a way which caused such a rage to simmer within him.
The Shinra had to take beautiful things and break them or corrupt them, and now they had done it with Tifa, she was beautiful and kind and caring and so strong it made him want to weep.
But they hadn't cared, they had used her for their own ends and he was not going to let them get away with it, if they thought they could cross him and hope to carry on as normal then they were all in for a rude awakening.
They were going to pay; he looked up hard determination set on every angle of his face, he would make every last one of them suffer.
It was as though a fiery grip had squeezed his heart spilling out all of his inner darkness and letting it flow throughout his body and seep into every fibre of his being.
Inside Sephiroth felt the threads of his humanity threatening to snap.
Lucrecia trailed her hand down Tifa's arm and inserted the needle just above her wrist.
Glancing at the clock on the wall she added up the minutes, the woman had been out for over an hour before the drug could be administered... ten minutes was all it would take.
They'd be here soon to take the body, Shinra didn't like evidence of their mistakes lying about and Tifa's still body was classed as evidence.
She had to work fast, she heard the footsteps and turned briefly smiling at the Turk who entered the room, it was her associate and accomplice Kyle and she knew without a shadow of a doubt that she could trust him.
"You got the story figured out" he stated
"Yes" she replied, she blew a stray strand of hair from her eyes and a cool smile spread across her lips, for once she felt as though she were doing the right thing, she owed this not only to Tifa but to Sephiroth and all the times she should have saved him but didn't.
"I want you to tell Hojo that I'm analysing her data and that I'll get rid of the body" Kyle stared at her and she looked into his emerald eyes that shined with compassion.
"You know the penalty if your caught" he sighed, he reached out a hand and trailed it down her cheek his pupils dilating when she leaned into the touch placing a butterfly kiss on the palm that had caressed her.
"I don't want to lose you" he said hoarsely, she smiled and this time it was all warmth.
"You'll never lose me Kyle... I'm a lot cleverer than Hojo and Zack give me credit for, I know what I'm doing and I swear to you that after this we'll get away, we'll resign and go and live somewhere peaceful away from all this brutality" Lucrecia smiled again.
"Now you have to go and find him…find my son Kyle and tell him of our plan" Kyle nodded and left the room.
She didn't know what she would have done if she had never had Kyle in her life, he had been her only source of light besides her son and had been to him she had cried to every night as she relived all the things that Sephiroth had endured.
At first he had been her friend and confidante and she had never really had one before, her past with Hojo had made her naturally weary of men especially men who looked like sin yet spoke with charm.
Kyle was most definitely different to the other lackeys that Hojo employed; he actually had a good heart and generally seemed interested in her problems and care about what she thought.
It hadn't taken long for them to become lovers, she trusted him more than she had trusted any man before him.
She was glad that he was willing to help her, all though she knew he was a good man she had had a doubt on whether he would cross Shinra, she was glad he had proved her wrong.
Now all that remained was for him to find Sephiroth and bring him to the building, wait for Tifa to wake up and then the rest would be up to her, she would be the one that got them out and undoubtedly she would be the one to pay the price…but it would be worth the pain she would endure to see her sons heart whole again.
Lucrecia turned and looked at the clock…eight minutes left.
Hurrying through the woods near Costa del Sol a figure dressed in black moved with effortless speed over the wide stretch of land, time was a serious factor and he was determined to make good speed.
Kyle looked neither to the left or the right, his senses we're on full alert.
Like Sephiroth he too had extra abilities bestowed upon him by Hojo, not that he would ever thank him for it, the man was a menace and he deserved to meet a sharp and untimely end.
He had been subjected to experiments similar to Sephiroth, only he had been with Shinra for a lot longer, granted he had not suffered as much but he had suffered for a far larger expanse of time.
Lucrecia had been the one to pull him from his bleakness, he remembered when he first seen her walk in the lab, her hair trailing down to her waist and her cute little glasses perched on the end of her nose.
She hadn't agreed with human experimentation, the price for her obvious displeasure against it showed in the bruised skin around her right eye.
Yet she had looked so beautiful standing there, her white lab coat had practically drowned his body but she had looked positively stunning, his gaze had been drawn to the creamy expanse of flesh shown at her neck.
He knew there and then that this woman was going to change her life…then he'd found out about her pregnancy.
She'd given birth to a baby boy and he was being used as a new type of experiment, it was why she couldn't leave, when he had become a Turk he had used his new role to find out as much as he could about this quiet gentle woman and had been shocked at everything he uncovered.
He'd understood then why she suffered day by day in a place that was a hell on earth, she was doing it to try and lessen the pain her son endured.
He stopped and sniffed the air.
He was close so very close, he could hear the voices just ahead of him, he picked up the scent of at least six people and one of them was Sephiroth.
Picking up speed he heading in the direction the scent was coming from, he had to get there and soon, time was most definitely not on their side and travelling with normal humans was going to affect their travel back.
He only hoped that he was able to get the job done.
"Calm down Sephiroth please" Aeris begged and received a look of pure fury from Sephiroth's searing gaze.
"She can't be helped now, so please don't do anything stupid, we just want the body so we can bury her" Yuffie butted in being the voice of reason even if it was trembling with her own unsuppressed emotions.
She turned to the men for support but for once they all seemed to be agreeing with Sephiroth.
"Those Shinra bastards need to pay" Barret condemned his eyes flashing with anger Vincent nodded although he hated not agreeing with Yuffie, Tifa had been a friend and well loved member of the group and now that group was calling for blood.
Cloud just looked thunderous but he was nothing compared to how Sephiroth looked his whole stance was consumed with anger he emanated rage and for the first time Yuffie was afraid of him.
They had just walked into a clearing when a young man dropped from the braches of one of the surrounding trees; he was dressed in the black outfit of the Turks.
Sephiroth drew his sward "you" he seethed "your one of the ones responsible" he went to lunge at the man who moved with lightning speed out of the way.
"Stop" he said, "I come bearing news of Tifa" Sephiroth went to lunge again "Lucrecia sent me" the man said and Sephiroth halted, his mother? Why had she sent this man to search for him?
"Who are you?" Sephiroth asked wearily the other man sighed.
"My name is Kyle Richards," he said "I am a member of the Turks and also Lucrecia's lover" he added his voice had taken on a tone of warmth when he had spoken her name.
Sephiroth gasped.
"You're the lover of my mother?" he said somewhat bemusedly Kyle nodded in answer his eyes seeming almost amused at the reaction from the silver haired man.
"We had both come up with a plan to help the young woman they had captured to escape" he looked at Sephiroth waiting for his words to penetrate through the other mans rage.
"We know what she means to you and we are going to try and help her to escape but we need you and your friends for a distraction to get her out."
Sephiroth shook his head, why was he tormenting him, Tifa was beyond his help now, didn't this stranger know that the love of his life was dead, he had felt her, he had felt the echo of loss when her feelings had been cut from him.
"Your wrong Kyle Tifa is dead."
"No Lucrecia injected her with a special drug it stops the heart nearly for a few hours making the beat impossible to detect" he stated softly, relief swept through Sephiroth as it did through the others.
"What do you want us to do?" he asked Kyle, he'd be willing to do anything to get her out of there, if she was truly alive then he didn't want to leave her there another minute longer than he had to.
"Huddle up and listen closely" Kyle said and they all bunched together to listen to his plan.
Lucrecia was a little anxious now it was five minutes past the allotted time and still Tifa had not awoken, she just hoped that she had not left it too late to administer the counter drug .
She preyed to god that this would work.
Just as anxiety was threatening to consume her, a shuffling noise alerted her and she looked down at Tifa, her fingers were twitching ever so slightly and then her eyes began to open ever so slowly squinting a little at the bright neon lights.
Coughing she tried to sit up but Lucrecia detained her, the action caused Tifa to frown but she stilled under the other woman's hands.
"Did it work?" she managed to croak out as Lucrecia started her examination, she smiled down at her, her eyes told the pale faced woman everything that she needed to know.
"They don't suspect a thing, as far as their concerned you are dead." Tifa's smile widened as she began thinking of freedom and Sephiroth.
Unbeknownst to them both they couldn't see that they were being watched, in her careful planning Lucrecia had forgotten to have Tifa taken to a room where there was no surveillance camera.
The small silver oblong moved in the corner of the room its red light blinked like an omen in the semi darkness and it was zooming in on Tifa and Lucrecia.
Its watcher grinned and soon his evil laughter ran out within the building.
Then one day we realized
That they couldn't hear our voice
And it's so hard to understand
When it's caught up in the noise
But the ones who fight and die
Are the truths inside the lie?
Now it's all built on our backs
And we struggle to survive
Lyrics taken from Goo Goo Dolls 'We'll be here (when your gone)
I am sorry that I kept you all waiting for the next chapter making you all think that Tifa was dead. I hope that you all like it and I promise I'll try and get more on the way to you soon. Enjoy.
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