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Vincent's mind was a blur. How could this have happened? He didn't know where he was going, he just knew he had to get Yuffie.
He thought about the letter. Reno might hurt her if he was too bold in his rescue method. He had remembered seeing a gang of ex-shinra employees hanging around outside a warehouse in Kalm when they were there. "I'll go there,".
Yuffie sat in a dark, locked room, She didn't know where she was.
There were no windows in this room; she had managed to work out that she must have been in a basement.
"Yuffie," She heard someone whisper.
"Eh," She looked around frantically.
"Ah you are awake, sleepy head," Reno stepped forward and turned on the light.
"Reno, Why?" Yuffie was aware that she had been tranquillised and kidnapped, she had worked out that Reno was probably to blame for it.
"Now how are you?" He asked gently.
"HOW THE FUCK DO YOU THINK I AM!" Yuffie shouted she stood up and ran at him. He grabbed her wrists and held her still as he kissed her. She kneed him hard in the crouch.
"No, I won't let you hurt me again;" She smiled as he winced in pain
"I... Don't want to hurt you, I...I want us to get married," He stood up as the pain stopped. He had come up with that idea on the spot.
"Reno, I don't want to marry you, that is worse than raping me!" Yuffie stepped back.
"Ouch, Yuffie you'll see sense soon, You'll be staying here for along time my sweet, quite a lot of time to fall in love with me," Reno explained
"I don't think so," She snarled
"Oh who is going to save you, Your Little "friend" will stay away if he knows what's good for him," He grabbed her wrist and pulled her out of the room and down some stairs.
"You don't know Vincent, he'll kill you, he is more powerful than normal men," Yuffie threatened.
"Hmmm, Vincent is that his name? Vincent Valentine, how romantic, tough luck it could never be for the both of you, Yuffie Valentine sounds so perfect," Reno said sarcastically.
Reno pushed her into the lower basement and slammed the door behind her,
"I'll be back later, I'd seriously reconsider your attitude," He shouted through the door.
Yuffie walked over to the small bed; it was damp and cold, with no sheets or blankets. Yuffie lay down and sighed.
"I probably deserve this," She thought to herself.
"I don't deserve someone like Vincent; He should be with a pretty, nice, responsible girl,"
"Is this how it ends?" Her thoughts were bringing her down. Tears streamed down her face.
Vincent arrived at the warehouse and pulled the huge door open. He stormed through, he noticed it was set out with rooms, like a house.
He heard noise from a TV blurring. He entered that room. He saw the back of Elena and Rude's heads; they were sitting on the sofa
"Where is he?" Vincent growled. Rude span round his head quickly,
"Who are you, What do you want!"
"Where is Reno," Vincent grew impatient.
"I don't know," Rude turned round to the TV. Vincent's face grew red,
"I'd tell me if I were you,"
"Will you be quiet, Leni's trying to sleep," and Rude smiled to himself.
Vincent pulled Elena up off the sofa and held the Death penalty to her head. Rude stood up,
"Let her go," Elena stayed perfectly still in Vincent's arms.
"It's not nice is it, having important people taken away from you?" Vincent tightened his grip, He did not intend in hurting Elena and she knew this so she wasn't struggling; he just wanted to panic Rude so he would tell him where Reno was.
"Let her go and I'll tell you," Rude removed his sunglasses and glared at him.
"Tell me where he is!" Vincent shoved the gun against her head ,Elena shot threatening glares at Rude, she seemed more annoyed than scared
"Don't hurt Reno!" the blonde asked, Vincent ignored her
"I don't know, honestly, Rufus might know, he's through there;" Rude pointed to another door.
Vincent nodded and released Elena; Rude snatched her and held her tightly.
He gave Vincent a cold glare, he was gripping Elena, she looked up at Vincent. "Don't hurt him, please just don't hurt him!"
"Don't get involved Elena." Rude instructed.
She looked at Rude as if she was disgusted.
"Sorry, I just have to have her back," Vincent explained, Rude, who had nothing to do with Reno's little operation looked confused.He came to the conclusion that Reno was up to no good
Vincent pushed open the door that Rude had instructed him to.
Vincent scanned the room, he saw no one.
He heard some muffled screams; Vincent's senses were instructing him to look behind the desk. Rufus was tied to a chair; the chair was pushed over.
"Muffie, Me Mook Mer Mway," He shouted, Vincent couldn't work out what he was saying, he took the gag off from around his mouth.
"Yuffie, He took her away," Rufus gasped for air.
"Where, did you see her, is she harmed?" Vincent's eyes grew with fear.
"Yes, I saw her, she was unconscious, out there on a chair, I told him to let her go, he tied me up, said that I wasn't going to mess things up for him," Rufus wriggled, He was still tied up. Vincent untied him.
"Do you know where he went?" Vincent allowed Rufus to get up.
He stood silent for a while, "Midgar Ruins, an underground bunker or something, I over heard him talking,"
"Sector seven," Vincent remembered all of the underground passages there
"But my father, he destroyed sector seven," Rufus exclaimed.
"The whole of Midgar was destroyed, the rubble could have been blown away when meteor hit. It's the only thing I can think of," With that Vincent left.
Rude and Elena walked into the room, "I think that you'd better explain what our friend is up to, don't you?" Rude said. Rufus rushed past them.
"Don't hurt Him, he's ill, he needs help, Please don't kill him!" Elena screamed hysterically, the two other men tried to calm her down, "If you kill him, I'll kill you!" the woman threatened, but Vincent had already left.
Reno sat at a small table with his hands covering his face,
"This is what has become of the once proud Turk," Reno sighed. He remembered why he had become a Turk, to help out his family. They were dead now. His mother, father and brother. They were in Midgar the day Meteor hit, looking for him.
But he was out drowning his sorrows, all because of Shinra. He had a sister but she was an arrogant little bitch, she ran off to become a pilot when she was 17.
Maybe it worked out for her, but to Reno she was dead as well. If they were alive now they would be so ashamed.
It had just became apparent to Reno that he had snatched a 16-year-old girl from the arms of the man she loved.
He was 25 it was time for him to grow up and realize he can't have everything.
But could he do it? He had to know he stood up and left the room to go and speak to her. Water dripped on o the back of Yuffie's neck,
Where was she? She touched the wall. It was concrete, there was a metal frame around it but mostly it was concrete. Yuffie shivered, it was cold wet and smelled, the floor was covered in puddles where the water had leaked through the top.
"Maybe Vincent or the others won't come here; maybe this is what my life is supposed to be like?" Yuffie rolled onto her back.
"Vincent Valentine," the name played on her mind, she couldn't forget him or how warm he was when she slept with her head on his chest. She remembered waking up the night before; she tried to remember how he looked in his sleep. She closed her eyes.
He was smiling sweetly, the clouds had cleared and the moonlight was resting on his pallid skin, his hair dark was all over the place, it was like huge ink splash on white paper.
Her thoughts were abruptly put to end by the clink off boots on the floor. She sat up and stared at Reno. "Hi," he sat next to her Yuffie swallowed the lump of fear that had formed in her mouth. "You aren't happy are you?" Reno kept his eyes on the floor.
"No Reno, no I am not. You took me away from the people, that for the first time in my life could consider friends," Yuffie looked at him. Something had changed.
"Why don't you love me," Reno whimpered. "Oh Gawd don't cry you wimp!" Yuffie exclaimed.
"I didn't mean to hurt you, you just hurt my pride," Reno turned to face her. "Look, I just don't love you, I'm sorry, and you don't love me," Yuffie hugged her knees.
"Yes I do!" Reno shouted
"If you loved me you wouldn't have held me down and raped me," Yuffie felt her face getting red.
Yuffie had the perfect chance to kill him, but she didn't, she could see Reno wanted to talk, strangely she didn't feel so scared off him at the present moment.
"I'm sorry, maybe it's the drink or the drugs, I don't know anymore! You think that I'm proud of what I did, well I'm not, I just saw you there on your own and wanted to punish you," He started,
"Ever since I lost my job, I lost my life,"
"You could get another job," Yuffie suggested.
"Who is going to employ someone like me!" He shouted. Yuffie pitied him for a brief second.
"Start a fresh, get rid of the booze and the drugs and get a girlfriend and a job, and some help," Yuffie smiled slightly.
"I want you," Reno whispered
"It wouldn't work, I'm scared of you, but we could be friends?" Yuffie sighed
"I have friends; I want you as a girlfriend,"
"NO, Reno, no, you can't have me, you need someone new, I can help you find someone, you could love them like I love Vincent," Yuffie seemed to get through to him this time.
"Maybe, okay I'll get help, thank you, I needed a reality check," Reno accepted that it was better to have her in his life than not at all.
Yuffie gave him a small hug, but pulled away quickly.
"Yuffie Fortune sounds crap anyway," He joked.
Yuffie laughed slightly.
"Get away from her," A voice through gritted teeth grunted.
"Huh," Reno turned to look at where it had came from, The slight shadow from the small lights dotted around the staircase flickered against the wall.
"Vincent," Yuffie yelped He lifted his gun up and aimed at Reno.
"No, please don't shoot," Yuffie ran forward and lowered his gun
"What, why," Thoughts rushed through Vincent's mind, Maybe they had fallen in love while he was gone, No that couldn't happen, Could it? Yuffie explained to Vincent that they were going to help Reno, Vincent didn't say anything. He stared at Yuffie,
"Why?" Vincent was so afraid of losing her again.
"Because, its what he needs, Killing him won't do any good, please Vincent trust me," Yuffie looked up at him.
Vincent stared at Reno, He looked petrified, Elena's screams echoed in his head.
Vincent put the gun away and turned to leave, Yuffie followed and signalled for Reno to come along. Yuffie surprised to say the least at her surroundings, The tunnel she had been kept in was covered in plants. Around her were the strangest plants and animals she'd ever seen Vincent cut her observation short.
"Could I speak to you for a second?" He asked "Alone," He added They walked out of earshot of Reno.
"I don't trust him, look what he did to you," Vincent started
"I know, But, Vincent, he's lost, we have to help him, we helped other sufferers of meteor," Yuffie went on.
"I can't believe this; I come to rescue you because I... and you fall in love with the kidnapper, who by the way beat and raped you," Vincent shouted
"I am not in love with him, He just need's help," She shouted back Vincent winced in pain. He could see how it was going to go. She'd help Reno and all the time they spend together would bring them close and he would once again be forgotten. Vincent lay down in the grass and sighed.
"What's the matter?" Yuffie leant over him He stared up at her; she was more beautiful than anything he'd ever seen. He wasn't going to let her forget him. He grabbed her ankle and pulled her down on top of him. He laughed and ruffled her hair. Yuffie was confused, what went on inside the mind of Vincent Valentine? He kissed her on her forehead.
"I missed you. I was so worried," He whispered gently. Yuffie giggled, Vincent was so strange, but she loved him anyway.
"Sorry forgetting all crabby at you, I just think maybe Reno needs some support. I don't intend on doing it. Cloud and Aeris can help him or something," She looked at him closely.
He looked so longingly at her. Yuffie blushed. Vincent smiled, that was the most Yuffie thing she had said in ages. He noticed her blushing and almost instantly he started to blush as well.
"Yeah, Cloud and Aeris can help him," Vincent smiled from ear to ear.
Yuffie did the same, as she had never seen Vincent smile so charmingly. All the jealousy for Reno melted away from Vincent; he put his arms on Yuffie's back and hugged her tightly.
"Come on, Let's take him to Cloud and Aeris," Vincent stood up and helped Yuffie to her feet. Yuffie waved Reno over.
Vincent lead them to wear he ha parked the buggy. Yuffie ran forward,
"I get front seat!"
Vincent smiled, That was the Yuffie he knew, he intended to keep an eye on Reno, to make sure he didn't hurt her ever again, If he did, well Vincent could not hold himself or Chaos responsible for what he might do.
A/N: I've made a few changes to this chapter! Please R&R. Next Chapter: Who will help Reno when Cloud and Aeris refuse because they want to spend some alone time together........ Tifa? Surely not.
