Sleeping with her Enemy

What The Hell

To everything there is a purpose

To every blade of grass

And every leaf on every tree

Every living thing will surely

Come to pass

And what will be will be

That's when the hurting' time begins


"What the hell do you mean you drugged her?" Sephiroth sated through icy clenched lips keeping his fury at bay by only a meagre thread, he felt that at any second he was going to explode.

Pushing his face up close to Kyle's he snarled at him white teeth showing against chapped lips.

Kyle didn't even flinch, his posture remained the same his eyes still held the same steel as he prepared to back Sephiroth down obviously he was not intimidated by the other man at all, in fact and to Sephiroth's annoyance he was sure he caught a flash of boredom in those jade green eyes.

"Listen to me and you best listen good, at the moment Lucrecia is working on Tifa, but what you must understand Sephiroth is that she is still in grave danger... they both are" he took a pause and made sure Sephiroth was really listening to him before he continued to speak.

"If Hojo or Zack were to find out what is going on Tifa and Lucrecia would both be in a lot of danger" Kyle saw rationality seep slowly into Sephiroth's eyes before he finally conceded and backed down.

Cloud had watched the way that Sephiroth had reacted to the news of Tifa and he was filled with mixed emotions and he was not too sure in which direction to follow.

He still did not forgive the older man for taking the heart he had tried for so long to capture.

However he could see from his actions that what Sephiroth said was true and he did indeed love Tifa and she him in return, although he had begun to think that the case previously it fully hit home in the face of how the silver haired man acted.

But where did that leave him?

What would he do with the broken heart that lay suspended and un-beating deep within his chest? He felt as though a part of him was missing and he knew with unfortunate certainty that it would never again be made whole.

Imaged began to bombard his mind, Tifa laughing and joking with the man stood before him now, her hair splayed out on a chest that belonged to someone else, wrapped up in limbs that were not his.

But it didn't matter any more, they had a mission to fulfil and he was going to make sure that he was there to get her out, he had promised he would always come for her when she needed him and it was a promise he did not intend to break.

They had taken the woman he cared so much for and beaten her, they had abused her and caused her a pain which had almost broken the mighty Sephiroth, and there was no way he would let them get away with such actions.

Soldier and more importantly Shinra were monsters, they took innocence and broke it, they too beauty and tainted it and they took gentle kindness and twisted it evilly.

It was those thoughts that started to make Cloud's unwavering control begin its first perilous crumbling.


Lucrecia eyed Tifa after she had finished her examination, the results were not good.

The shock that her system had received from Hojo's process had weakened her strength considerably, her heartbeat was weak also and it gave Lucrecia cause for concern.

But she knew that Tifa was a fighter and that she would not give up so easily now that she knew there was a way out and a way to be reunited with her love, if she cared for her son as much as she knew her son cared for her then Lucrecia knew their relationship would last a lifetime and beyond.

She smiled maybe in this world there was happy endings.

Tifa winced as she moved slowly bringing herself up onto her elbows, her body felt as though it were constantly being jarred with hot pokers but she did her best to not let the other woman see just how much pain she really was in.

Her mind felt like it was on fire and the rest of her didn't feel much better.

"So how am I?" she asked Lucrecia, she noted that the other woman's colour had paled quite considerably and she was unsure as to whether it was due to the situation they now faced or the outcome of the tests she had just run.

"Fine" came the reply and Tifa knew she was lying because she refused to meet her eyes.

"Lucrecia" she said softly "look at me" cool eyes raised and met hers she saw the sorrow in the other woman's eyes and once again she was struck by how gentle this woman was, the kindness she had showed her.

"I'm not alright am I?" she said and Lucrecia shook her head finally admitting what Tifa knew inwardly.

"You're very weak Tifa you're body and you're system has been through so much, I'm afraid for you" Tifa smiled at the considerate words.

"I'll be fine Lucrecia trust me I've been through worse torture than this" and it was the truth for she had been living in the tortures of hell since Sephiroth had left her and was plunged even further in when she realised what must have happened, while he was imprisoned within these walls.

It made her realise that she had to get out, she had to tell him that she loved him.


Hojo looked over his notes, he couldn't understand what had gone wrong, he'd done everything right and yet it had gone so disastrously wrong and he hadn't predicted it at all.

He pictured her still body on the table and shuddered, those glassy eyes he knew would haunt him till the end of his days.

Sighing he pulled the lose strands of his hair behind his ears.

Taking a sip of his coffee he gasped when he was suddenly overcome with the most intense pain.

His eyes watered and his cup clattered to the floor smashing loudly sending a pool of hot dark liquid over the floor, he heard the slight drip of something thick and turning his gaze to the floor her made out the steady drip of what looked like blood mingle with the black coffee.

He looked down at his chest and saw the huge sward tip protruding from the front of his body.

His eyes looked up, he could just make out the reflection of someone within the computers monitor and his gaze clashed with glowing orbs and he gasped in shock and recognition.

"You" he managed to croak out before darkness blocked out his last view of the world.

Placing his foot on the back of the chair he pulled on the blade feeling satisfaction rip through him as it squelched sickeningly, he held it up in the dim light the gooey liquid dripping from its pointed end.

Wiping the blade on Hojo's white lab coat Zack admired his handiwork, his face had the look of someone who hardly looked human, his eyes were bloodshot and a peculiar smile touched his lips.

"I never really liked you" he said matter of factly to Hojo's still body, his smile broke out into a grin as he exited the room, he had only one destination in mind and he couldn't wait to reach it.

The sound of his laughter could be heard as it reverberated through the building as he made his way to the secondary med lab.


"We're taking a train to Shinra?" Yuffie said bewildered as they waited at the station.

Kyle laughed lightly, he knew that it would take time to reach the Shinra headquarters if they went on foot, with the passes he had acquired from the building he would be able to get them literally at Shinra's front door

"How else did you think we was going to get there little one" he teased his voice velvety making her blush.

Vincent felt jealousy rip through him, god that guy was smarmy he was just one of those people who oozed charisma and Vincent felt rage boil within him, but he instantly quelled it when Yuffie blew him a kiss.

She was safe.

He was never really big on the social front, like Sephiroth and Kyle he too had had enhancements from Shinra only whereas they had not altered the appearance of the two men who accompanied their groups Vincent himself could make no such boast.

He looked down at his clawed hand and sighed.

They had taken his beauty from him, he was not a vain man but he had kept a picture of how he had looked originally, his body had been flawless and almost perfect……he didn't have that any more.

Yuffie gave that back to him, she didn't look at him like he was a monster, she looked at him as though he was someone to be desired and a part of him could not understand it.

But he was glad that he had her in his life, he may not be the most forward or vocal of people but she knew that he loved her and that he loved her fiercely.

It was why he could relate to the silent ex-general, he knew that Sephiroth felt the same for Tifa as he himself felt for Yuffie, he also knew that the other man wondered just what it was that his lover saw him in much the same way that he did.

It was like they were kindred, although he would never admit this out loud, he doubted that Sephiroth would appreciate the sentiment being that it would embarrass him plus he doubted he would have been able to say such a thing anyway.

Turning his attention to Sephiroth he made his way over seating himself on the ground next to him.

"We'll get her out," he said slowly, Sephiroth merely nodded a look of pain and anguish etched out on his face but there was also a warmth in there directed at the Vincent for his kindness.

Vincent knew he would never see a more tortured soul than this and as the sound of the train could be heard in the distance Vincent only preyed that they were not too late to heal it.

And all the things you never said

Or didn't have the strength to say

And everything you ever did

That time won't ever wash away

Fears that you've been living with

Come running' down your face

Running down your face

When the hurting' time begins

Taken from Annie Lennox's 'The hurting time'


I'm really sorry for the wait guys I've been so busy with college (I known I know its no excuse sobs) Anyway hope that you all like it and I'll have another one up soon, its nearly ended sniff, sniff please review or flame whatever let me know if you liked it.

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