Sleeping With Her Enemy

The Ultimate Sacrifice

Down to the earth I fell

With dripping wings

Heavy things won't fly

And the sky might catch on fire

And burn the axis of the world

That's why I prefer a sunless sky

To the glittering and stinging in my eyes


Tifa felt weakness clutch at her and smiled lightly, if the situation had allowed she imagined that she would have laughed at the outcome, fate it seemed was not without a sense of irony.

She had found her love at last only to have him taken away from her and she would be the one that took him.

She knew what it was that he planned to do, he was going to give her his life force, and he was going to sacrifice his life for hers, she wondered how anybody could have said he was selfish when she knew him to be so selfless, he had never lived a full life and now if he had his way he never would.

But she wasn't about to let that happen.

"Sephiroth" she whispered into the silver strands of his hair, it smelt of forests and the lightest of rains not an unpleasant smell.

He looked down at her his glowing eyes filled with tenderness; she felt the tears swell within her own gaze and reached up one pale hand to caress his cheek, wanting to feel its silky strength beneath her fingers one last time.

She had enough strength left she knew she could pull it off, but she also knew that he would fight; she had never doubted his love for her, like hers for him it was all consuming.

And for her love she was willing to pay the ultimate sacrifice.

Smiling up into his concerned face she fell in love with him all over again, it was not hard to see how she had fallen with him in the first place not when he was looking at her in the way that he was.

Even if he had meant to be her enemy, a Soldier crafted by Shinra that risked everything for her...for them!

She knew that she couldn't have stopped herself loving him if it meant her own damnation, she'd rather be damned to a lifetime of loving him without him near, than damned to have never known what it was like to feel his touch, a life where she knew that she was the one that had taken his life away from the world that could offer him so much.

She'd had her taste of heaven, now it was time he was allowed his.

"I love you" she said her voice husky with emotion; it was her first declaration of such to him, her first and her last!

She saw his eyes mist over and he choked back a sob, pulling her closer.

"I love you too," he said and she smiled, she had never doubted it, it had been her only form of comfort while he had been away, she had always believed in the fact that he loved her, but the opportunity for him to tell her had never been available.

She looked him in the eye "I'm sorry" she said lightly causing him to frown, and he felt a piercing pain in his arm.

She had given him the knock out medicine that Zack had injected her with earlier.

Sephiroth looked at her, his eyes wide as though she had betrayed him, in his eyes it probably was a betrayal, but she couldn't let him give up his life for her, not when she knew what he had been through to protect her.

She kissed him and he sank into that kiss with all the desperation of a man who was drowning and she was his only way to life.

In a way she was.

She kissed him with all the passion she had been denied over the years, kissed him with all the longing she had endured, but most of all she kissed him with the love she had always felt knowing that this would be the last time she could ever do so.

Sephiroth started to feel light headed and as his vision blurred he was vaguely aware of the sensation of falling.

Then nothing

She looked down at his still body the drug would only work for a few minutes, more than enough time to shut herself in the laboratory.

The glass was reinforced made so that Sephiroth wouldn't have been able to break it during his captivity and it had been put to the test and passed with flying colours.

She knew that once locked from the inside only Shinra personnel would be able to open the door, but when they came it would be too late to help her when they finally managed to open it.

She would be dead.

Secure in the room, Tifa looked at Sephiroth as his body began to stir, this would be her last vision before she slept for eternity, but to her it didn't matter she had seen him again.

She was still in awe of his beauty, the mane of silken hair she had loved to feel threaded through her fingers.

The plush lips of the mouth she had loved to trace, the glowing eyes green with envy that had seen through to her very soul, a body so sinewy in muscle and strength that she knew even Adonis would envy it.

It was better this way she assured herself as he sat up and blinked rapidly looking round turning to fix anguished eyes on her delicate frame slumped up against the glass of the door.

She was aware of him calling out her name, she pressed her hand to the glass his own pressed on the other side as through he could pull her through to him.

She mouthed the words I love you! To him saw him shake his head in denial as the realisation of what she was going to do hit him, he let the tears fall unashamedly down his cheek.

She saw out of the corner of her eye Cloud and another man running in her direction Lucrecia right behind them, she was fumbling with her pocket for the card that would open the door.

But all soon blurred and she pitched into eternal blackness, a smile on her full lips.

And all was still.


The helplessness that Sephiroth felt was unbearable, he put all of his strength into pounding at the unmoveable unbreakable glass door.

Anguished cries slipped from kiss-scorned lips as his love sank to the cool floor, her hand slipping from the glass door sliding slowly down to rest at her side.

He sank down further on his knees his heart shattering as the steady rise and fall of her chest rose and fell getting slower with every second that passed her breathing slowing down rapidly.

"Tifa please don't leave me' he whispered his voice thick with sorrow.

He'd fought through everything, risked everything and defied everything just so that he could see her again, but to have her taken away from him when it seemed that he was so close to having her warmth melt the ice in his heart.

Cruelty did not describe how he felt for mere words could not give it adequacy.

He heard the distant running of feet, turned and seen the blurry images of Lucrecia, Kyle and Cloud race towards him.

But it was too late all was too late.

"Forgive me" he said to his fallen angel, her look of love still etched on the now paled contours of her beautiful face.

The door finally opened and he scrambled towards her, her skin was so cold, he longed to warm it but he knew without a shadow of a doubt such a feat would never be accomplished.

Why had she given her life for him, he was a monster, he didn't deserve that kind of devotion especially from someone as beautiful as Tifa, someone who had had so much to live for.

Her eyes stared at him glassily, but he could not find the fire that usually simmered within her gaze, it had been extinguished and he had no idea who to re-ignite it.

With trembling hands he let his hands caress her face, his fingers gently closed her lids hiding her beautiful orbs from him forever yet he still held her body cuddled in his embrace, even when hands tried to pull him to his feet he just couldn't let her go.

Her face would forever haunt his dreams along with the sacrifice she had made.

Gleaming in the dark sea

I'm as light as air

Floating there breathlessly

When the dream dissolves

I open up my eyes

I realize that

Everything is shoreless sea

A weightlessness is passing over me

Lyrics taken from Nina Gordon's 'Tonight and the rest of my life'


Sorry if I kept you all waiting, well I have one more chapter to go and then this story is finished, should have it up at the beginning of next week if not at the end of this one. Well hope you enjoyed and please review, and don't all be saying of god you killed her etc because you haven't read the final chapter yet wink, wink

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