Sorry for making you all wait so long for the update! school, like i said in my other updates..school is still a killer.
Enjoy..
The door bell rang, awakening the sleeping family.
Morning was never their best time of the day. And having a pregnant woman in the house didn't help either.
Seventh Heaven was closed due to Tifa's pregnancy. Cloud didn't think it would be suitable for Tifa to have to wake up early every morning. She needed rest, to relax and take it easy.
"Mmm.." Tifa groaned, sitting up slowly.
She figured she'd go see who was at the door. So maybe she could give them a good lecture about ringing the bell at this time of morning.
"Tif," Cloud mumbled, eyes opening slowly. "No, you stay," he pulled her back down in bed. "I'll go see."
She smiled and nodded. "Do me a favour," she mumbled with closed eyes, "Give them a yell would ya," she settled back in the blankets.
"Oh I will," Cloud mumbled under his breath with a chuckle.
After slipping on some shorts over his boxers he swung the door open quietly. Sliding out and peering at Denzel's door to see if the child had awoken to the sound of the bell.
Apparently not.
He made his way down the steps sleepily, carefully running his hand over the railings just so he wouldn't fall. In the final steps towards the door, he let out a yawn and then unlocked the door.
Eyes filled with curiosity as he opened the door.
"Cloud," Reno greeted, his eyes were narrowed and serious.
"Reno?" Cloud mumbled.
"We need your help as well as your friends," Rude added in.
"Wha-"
"No time for questions, I suggest you get yourself, Tifa as well as the kids in some safe place. We have to leave," Reno spoke, entering their house.
"What's happening?" Cloud demanded, eyes peered at the two men angrily.
"Wutai was under attack, many didn't survive. It was an overnight intrusion. They still don't know who it was," Rude explained.
"Yuffie," Cloud gasped.
"Huh? Who?" Reno asked.
"She's..a friend," Cloud answered.
"We have to go," Rude said, eyes looking out at the stillness of Midgar's early morning. "Midgar is their next target."
Cloud's eyes widen. "Where will we go?"
"Forgotten City," Rude answered.
"Forgotten City?" Cloud asked.
"It's the last place they would ever go," Reno said.
Cloud stood there quietly just staring at the two.
"We can't be standing around all day Cloud, they are coming," Reno said angrily.
"You come bursting into my home," Cloud began, his voice rising a bit, "telling me that this, something is going to attack the city I live in and expect me to pick up everything and just leave?"
"Cloud I give an ass about you okay," Reno shot back, "I came down here to not only warn you but maybe save you, Tifa and your kids."
Finding no reason to speak any words to Reno, he turned and walked up the steps. "Give us a few minutes to get ready," he said whilst he made his way to the steps.
The door to Denzel's room was shut. Like it always was, the child had his privacy. Cloud made his decision and went to Denzel's room, thinking that maybe this would Tifa a bit more time to sleep.
He opened Denzel's door quietly and stepped in, the child still sound asleep in his bed.
"Denzel," Cloud whispered, sitting down on the edge of the bed.
His eyes watched the child slowly waking up, fingers pointing the direction of his stretching hands.
"Cloud?" his eyes peered open.
"We have to go," Cloud said. "Midgar is in danger," he didn't want to lie to Denzel. "Can you pack enough clothes for yourself, Reno and Rude are downstairs."
Denzel's eyes widen at the word, 'danger.'
"What danger? You mean another attack from the same people as last time?"
"I don't know," Cloud answered.
"Will Tifa be safe?" Denzel asked a little bit worried.
"She will be with both of us standing as her guards," Cloud said.
"Right," Denzel jumped from bed. "So we're, not coming back are we?"
"I.." Cloud looked to his hands.
"If you have to fight Cloud, I will protect Tifa to the end," Denzel placed his hand on his heart.
Cloud smiled warmly at the childs promise. "very well," he stood up and left Denzel to packing.
His steps were quiet, nervous and anxious was he.
This may be the last morning he walked in their house. In the house that love had grown.
"Tifa," he whispered, glancing down to Tifa.
"Tifa," he whispered again, touching her hand.
She was in her third month of pregnancy, with the slight bump of her stomach just showing over the blankets. Her hand was gently holding that bump lovingly.
She opened her eyes eventually. "Cloud," she focused them on him.
"It's Rude and Reno," he answered her question.
"What do they want?" Tifa asked.
"There was an attack," he started.
Her eyes widen. "Where?"
"Wutai."
"Yuffie," she gasped.