YES! I LIVE! I didn't didn't die and I hope you guys didn't either... I haven't updated this poor fic since December. I've been very busy and last month I wanted to do some mass updating on my birthday since I've got, like, fifty fanfics going at once. That would have been on the 13th, my gift to you guys but that obviously didn't happen. Thanks to everyone who yelled at me to hurry up, you guys are so inspiring!
And I KNOW some of you have probably forgotten somethings (my fault, of course) so...
'Chaos'
Hellmasker
'Death Gigas'
Galian Beast
And just to remind you: Avalanche is in Nibelheim. I felt sorry for the poor place because so many interesting things happened there like the whole Vincent-Lucrecia-Hojo thing and Sephiroth going insane and all that other stuff... but when you get there... You mug a bunch of Seph-clones, get Vincent, and leave! So now Nibelheim has a pet shop, a movie theater, and candy store.
Nibel feels better now.
Edit: Thanks to everyone who told me about that error with the two copies of the chapter... I fixed it the first time I caught it but I was having a hard time loading this chap so I guess it screwed up again. I think I got it right this time XD
Not fair! Chaos, stop cheating!
'I'm not cheating. I'm just awesome at poker.'
Shut up. I'm going to get my chainsaw back.
Chaos grinned, 'We'll see...'
Will you two be quiet? I'm trying to think here. Tifa had been sitting with Vincent on the well in center of the town for a good half hour now, both of them drowning in their own thoughts. I'm so confused... why do I feel so comfortable with him? I can't because I love Cloud. Yeah. I love Cloud... and he loves me back...But if he loves me so much why doesn't he just tell me?
'Gods this is so pathetic. Just admit it. You like Vincent, your obsession with Cloud is finally passing, the Planet will see finally how much you two are in love, and you'll get your bodies back and live happily ever after! It's so simple!' Death Gigas threw his arms up in frustration.
Galian Beast shook his head,You humans, always have to make things so complicated...
I'm NOT in love with Vincent –
Not yet.
Tifa was silent for a moment while she thought about what Hellmasker said. Not yet? As in she was already falling for him? She thought about how Vincent had sat and talked with her at Cosmo Canyon and their little chat earlier that day when they had eaten the ice cream. They had been spending quite a bit of time with each other...
We are only trying to...get to know each other...so that we can switch back... that's all.
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Vincent's thoughts were fairly similar to Tifa's. He was feeling...strange. He had stopped trying to deny that he had sort of enjoyed Tifa clinging to him during the movie. Really, he liked lots of things about Tifa. She was strong, kind, and beautiful, not to mention he also felt guilty that his son had killed her father and burned down her hometown.
How can she deal with that? How can she stand being around me knowing that she's spending her time with the father of her father's murderer.
Which brought up another interesting point, he was over twice Tifa's age. He was too old to be with her.
Valentine, you fool, trying saying that after the next century. Hojo made you immortal, what's thirty-odd years to a few hundred?
He bowed his head. That might be true, but Tifa still deserved so much better...
Why am I always so weak when it comes to women?
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Vincent stood up and looked at Tifa, "We should better head back, it's getting late."
Tifa stood up too, "Yeah." She looked up at the sky, "You know, I haven't had this much fun in a long time. Thanks Vincent."
"...You're welcome Tifa...anytime."
Chaos snickered, 'Yeah Tifa, anytime...'
Hellmasker laughed too and said in a singsong voice, Anywhere...
'If you need someone...'
He'll be there!
'VINCENT!'
Need a hug?
'Or a kiss?'
No need to fear...
'He won't miss!'
VINCENT!
'And when you say...'
I love you...
'Be glad you did...'
'Cause he loves you too!
'VIIIINCEEEENNNNT!' Death Gigas finished.
'And that was off the top of our heads too!'
Not too bad if I do say so myself...
Tifa looked at Vincent with a mixture of shock, awe, and disbelief.
"What? Are you okay?" Vincent asked with an eyebrow raised.
She blushed heavily, "Y-yeah... I'm fine. Just your demons doing weird things."
"I see. Well, Red and Nightmare have been waiting long enough, we should probably make sure they haven't fallen asleep."
She nodded and the both climbed down to greet the two beasts. Red gave them a knowing smile and they started to walk back to the hotel. They had almost reached the door when an annoyingly high-pitched voice shattered the tranquil night.
"Vincent, my love!"
Tifa and Vincent whipped around to see Veronica, who was almost unrecognizable since Vincent's punch had caused nearly half her face to swell, stumbled towards them blindly, like a zombie from a overly cliché movie. Tifa stared in horror and turned to Vincent with a panicked look in her eyes.
"Kiss me!" She grabbed him and crushed their lips together.
"Mmph!" Vincent stole a quick glance at Veronica and saw her drop to her knees with a loud "NOOOOOOO!". He looked back at Tifa and suddenly noticed that even if he did like Tifa, the fact that he was basically kissing himself was still a little disturbing so he closed his eyes.
They stood like that for a while until they started to forget the reason the kiss had been started and were just kissing for the heck of it. Red was laughing his head off, but they were too busy to notice.
"AH HA! I KNEW IT!"
Tifa and Vincent shot away from each other and looked in the direction the voice had come from and saw Cloud was practically hanging out of one of the hotel's second story windows.
"Stay right there! I'm coming down!"
Ohmygodohmygodohmygod why did I DO that... Tifa looked frantically for a place to hide but didn't find one so she stood behind Vincent and tried to make herself look small and insignificant. Unfortunately for her, she was a six foot tall man with long black hair, deathly pale skin, and glowing red eyes trying to hide behind a five foot four, fairly average-looking woman and when Cloud came out he spotted her right away.
"So Vincent, trying to steal Tifa from me, eh? I KNEW you two were up to something, you've been acting very suspiciously lately." He turned to Vincent and shook his head, "And you Tifa... how could you? After everything we've done together... all those memories we've shared..."
Vincent only arched and eyebrow.
Cloud pointed an accusing finger at Red, "Were you in on this! Red! Were you!" He turned away and bowed his head, "I thought you were my friend Red..."
Red shared a look with Vincent and shrugged.
Tifa felt kind of sorry for Cloud so she stepped up, "Cloud..."
"No! You tried to steal my girl Vincent, I don't need your pity!"
Tifa backed away, O-kay. Now what?
Chaos gave her an indignant snort, 'What do you mean "now what?" You've got a good three inches on this punk, use them.'
Intimidation is the key. You want to act like Vincent? Now's a good time to start.
Yeah. Cloud's like, deathly afraid of Vincent, use that to your advantage.
'Straighten up, make your eyes narrow slits, sort of cock your head back so you you have to look down your nose at him, and make your voice really deep and weird.'
Tifa did all that and watched as Cloud paled instantly and shrunk back, "You don't want my pity? I think you need my pity, Strife. I didn't 'steal' Tifa from you, she came to me. Did you ever think that maybe she got tired of waiting for you and possibly started falling for me?"
Cloud gaped at her and turned to Vincent, "Tifa... is it true?"
Vincent blinked as he realized he was being spoken to, "...Huh? Oh, um... yeah. Sure."
"Tifa, I didn't know you felt that way... I have to... go think," And with that he turned and walked back into the hotel.
Tifa sighed, "Do you think I was too harsh?"
Red shook his head, "No... but you've gotta admit, you made a pretty good Vincent. Even if you did get a bit emotional and said more than Vincent usually says in a week."
Tifa smiled to herself, maybe Vincent was starting to rub off on her...
"...Tifa?" Vincent asked quietly.
She turned to Vincent who had his head bowed so she couldn't see his face, "Yeah?"
"All those things you said... do you really mean them?"
Tifa blinked, "Uh...um..."
Choas cheered, 'YES! Finally! The moment of truth!'
...Yeah. Gods that was sad... I think I'll try to update Monday that was so sad...
Well it wasn't as bad as it could have been. Vincent and Tifa finally got to kiss... and they finally got caught! That makes me happy... but now I have to figure out what's going to happen next...
Please review! I need to know you're still alive!