A/N: I got two reviews not even an hour after I posted chapter thirteen! Awesome! Also, there's a reason I took out Reno. I…just now realized it, though! If she's in love with Reno, she can't be with Squall in my sequel. Yep, there'll be a sequel. Suggestions for the sequel will be loved and greatly appreciated. All I know is that it's gonna be a Squffie. Holy spit! Look at all those reviews! I loves you guys!

bdsproductions: Yeah. Too bad she wasn't…y'know, awake. He still doesn't realize she likes him back, even after she let him sleep in the same bed as her. Pshh. Anyways, thanks!

Angelicxox: Suspense, yes. They'll get together if it takes all of my creative juices! Which…I hope it doesn't. You'll find out about Seth soon. I felt bad for doing that, but it just came to me. I'll try to find Mr. Muse, but he's damn good at hiding.

spirited angel1305: Wow that was a…long review. Thanks, though.

Li the Twilight Knight: I'll think about it. And I was thinking of not putting him in there, but I will if you want. And I'll do my best, even if it means holding a gun to Mr. Muse's head. D:

LadyLuck22: No worries about updating anymore. There's just the problem with my muse.

midori tsuki: I can't write at all, huh? Gee, thanks. Well, I value all opinions so thanks for the review.

Beeria: Yeah, they are idiots. And I did my best with that whole sleeping scene. You liked it, huh?

dave: I'm glad you did. I really just write this for the satisfaction of myself and others.

RoxasXNamine: I know. I love Reno, too. But it had to be done! Yeah, my muse will come crawling back any second. I've had a loose grip on it all throughout this story, though.

Princess of the Knight: Yeah! He's gonna get his buns brutalized! I'll do my best with the story.

Teddy-the-Bear: I know! I'd kill for buffalo wings for dinner. Yeah, it really scared the stuffing out of Brandon and pushed him over the edge in his liking for Laura. And I knew he was Reeve. I asked my friend Boy Scout, but he was making it difficult for me, and I just put him as Seth Cait. Yeah, he's Seth Reeve Cait now. Phew.

Chapter Fourteen

Laura sighed and set the flowers on her mother's bedside table. The smile that had always been on her mother's face was replaced by a deeply set grimace.

"Do you need anything?" Laura asked. Her father's funeral was in a week, but her mother wasn't going to live long enough to attend it.

"No, that's okay," her mother said from behind the oxygen mask.

Laura was just about to sit down when her cell phone rang. She answered it with an exhausted "hello".

"Reno's dead," Brandon said immediately. "Seth Cait, one of the people who worked on FF7, said Sephiroth is going to be at the cemetery tonight at night. Garret wants to know if you'll be there."

Brandon was quiet for several moments, allowing her to absorb this. She clenched the cell phone tightly in her fist and thought about it. Finally, she answered steadily. "No," she said.

Brandon frowned on the other line. Finally, he nodded, even though she couldn't hear it. "All right," he said. "Can you tell my parents that I'll be back late?" Even after she was adopted by Yuffie's father, they'd agreed that she would stay over weekends and most weekdays.

"Sure," she said and waited for him to hang up before she did.

Brandon's POV

Garret was pacing in front of him, covered in ammo and guns. He was definitely ready for the cemetery. Jessie even scrounged up a couple of grenades for him to put on his belt.

Vincent was polishing his pistol on his couch in the corner of the room. They were back at HQ and just waiting for Yuffie to pull herself together in time for the cemetery. She finally came in, her magnum loaded. There was fire in her teary red eyes and a set look about her tearstained face. It was time for vengeance.

"It's eight thirty," Tiffany said. "It will only take ten minutes to get there. What do we do while we wait?"

"Practice our aim," Garret said, aiming at a vase on the table all the way on the other side of the room. His bullet hit the very center of it and it shattered into many pieces.

Wedge sighed. "I'm the one who cleans up this place," he said. "Do you mind not filling the vases and walls with bullets?"

"Shaddup," Garret said. "Let's get going- now."

(later)

At Garret's suggestion, they'd split into groups. Seth had decided to go off on his own. Brandon didn't trust him but let him go. It was Vincent and Tiffany, at her request, Garret and Jessie, Wedge and Biggs, and Brandon and Yuffie. Garret had said off to the side, "You're the coldest fucker I've ever met. Cool her down, and keep her in line, spiky." Brandon sighed as he walked through the cemetery with her. Garret didn't have room to talk about temper.

"Brandon," Yuffie said, grabbing his elbow and pointing down at the ground. He looked and saw footprints in the mud.

"Be careful," Brandon said, lifting his gun to shoulder level. "It could be him out there."

Yuffie rushed forward, leaving Brandon to try and catch up. He had to jump over tombstones and catch himself before he tripped over roots and stones that seemed to be there only to spite him.

Brandon nearly ran into Yuffie when she suddenly stopped. There was only a crescent moon so he couldn't see what had caused her to stop in the dark. Suddenly, he caught sight of moonlight glinting off metal. There was the sound of a gun being cocked.

"Stay where you are," said a cold voice.

Garret's POV (Hehe…can't wait, can you?)

Garret pointed his gun at anything that moved of made a sound. That included Jessie, several times.

"As soon as I find that son of a bitch, I'm gonna blow his fucking head off," Garret said, holding his finger on the trigger. The tombstones and bare, black trees were a depressing sight, but he was getting fired up.

"Did you hear that?" Jessie asked, stopping. Garret immediately whirled around and peered into the darkness, his head tilted.

There was a series of clicks from all around them. Shadowy figures rose from behind tombstones directly in front of them and aimed guns at them. There were at least five. Garret heard a gunshot go off and ducked, but it wasn't one aimed at them. It was in the distance.

"Toss your guns on the ground and put your hands in the air," one of the figures said.

Garret clenched his gun tightly and began to slowly kneel down. Instead, he tackled Jessie behind a tombstone and threw a grenade. There were two screams after the resulting explosion, but anything else was cut off by the barrage of gunfire.

Tiffany's POV

They were being chased through the cemetery by men with guns. Tiffany had no idea what was going on. Did Sephiroth really have this many people working for him?

Vincent suddenly grabbed her around the waist and pulled her behind a tree. She waited, breathing sharply and heavily from exertion and fear. The men ran right past their tree. She sighed softly and leaned back. Vincent still had her securely, she noticed, and his red eyes searched the night carefully.

"I'm going out," Vincent said, putting a new cartridge in his gun and releasing her.

"I'm going with you, then," she said. "We have to find the others."

They heard footsteps coming toward them. Tiffany and Vincent aimed their guns in the dark at whoever it was. They lowered their guns when they saw it was just Wedge and Biggs.

"Brandon and Yuffie are in trouble," Wedge said.

"Let's go," Tiffany said.

Brandon's POV

Brandon huddled behind a large monument, covering the bloody bullet wound in his arm. Yuffie peeked over the side of the monument, shooting just enough to keep the guy and his three reinforcements back.

"That's definitely not Sephiroth or one of the Turks," said Yuffie. "What's going on?"

"It was a trap," Brandon said, "just like I said. Seth set us up."

"But who would want to kill us?" Yuffie said. She'd been hiding with Brandon for several minutes, and the twin explosions and all the gunshots were starting to get to her. "It doesn't make sense."

"The man shooting at us is Hojo. He worked on FF7, just like Seth. Remember, Hojo and Shinra own SOLDIER and AVALANCHE and SOLDIER are against each other. They're probably using Sephiroth to get to us," he said.

"We're part of AVALANCHE now," Yuffie realized. She suddenly cried out when a bullet hit her hand. Her Magnum fell to the ground as she placed her back to the monument and cradled her bloody fingers to her stomach.

Brandon sucked in a deep breath and picked up his gun in both hands, despite the intense pain of his arm. He began to shoot around the monument.

"Why don't the police come?" Yuffie demanded, feeling hopeless. She picked up her Magnum in her uninjured hand and began to shoot. Brandon could see one of the four people go down before a bullet coming too close to his face made him jerk it back behind cover.

"The cemetery is far away from civilization, and it's late," Brandon said, already resigned to his fate. A bullet came from somewhere off to the left and skimmed his cheek. He fire rapidly in the direction of the sneak and quickly took him out where he stood.

"This way!" Garret shouted, throwing another grenade. It missed them, but the smoke rose up, blocking their view. It was then that they made their escape.

"Go, go, go," Garret commanded, letting the pass him and run to the car just outside the cemetery. He fired twice before Tiffany shoved him into the van and jumped in after him. Wedge flew down the road with a speed even Laura wouldn't match.

"Well, it's safe to say that was a huge mistake," Jessie said.

"We have to be more careful in the future," Tiffany said. "Now we have SOLDIER, the Turks, Hojo, and Sephiroth after us."

Brandon sat in a corner of the van in the back, holding his bloody arm close to himself. Jessie, who had been forced into the back by Garret, made him hold out his arm and began to treat it. He hissed when she pulled the bullet from his arm. Tiffany's hand crushed in his helped him keep from crying out in pain.

"I'll call Laura and tell her to look out," Brandon said, pulling out his cell phone as Jessie bandaged his arm.

Laura's POV

Her phone began to ring, but she wasn't in the mood to talk. Her mother was dying, and she'd just been kicked out of the hospital because she wouldn't leave her mother's side.

Laura was just about to get into her jeep when she heard someone come up behind her. Her hand immediately went to her gun, but the person grabbed her before she could turn completely around, trapping the gun between them. She looked into the cold eyes of a very familiar madman.

"Seph-" she tried to get out. He placed a strip of cloth over her mouth and nose, and she went limp in his arms. Her phone stopped ringing.

A/N: Well, she got kidnapped. Uh huh. I'm so proud of all my reviews. Thanks all around. I'm so happy. Please review like you did last time and please give me suggestions for my Squffie.