Masking The Pain

Stealings

AN: Fyi- Most of my stories will be set in a large house that is home to all the characters of the story.

Disclaimer: No I do not own any of the characters in my story

Yuffe jumped out of bed and crept across the hall in the dead of night. She pushed the door to Marlene's room open slowly and slid in. Closing the door behind her she tip-toed over to Marlene's bed and shook her. "Marlene," she wispered. "Wake up."

"Hmmmm," Marlene sighed opening her eyes. "What's going on?"

"Shhhhhh," Yuffie hissed. "Let's go steal some materia."

"For our plan?" Marlene jumped out of bed.

"For our plan," Yuffie nodded. "Now, let's go. We'll start in Tifa's room at the end of hall and work our way down to the basement."

"Vincent's room!" Marlene gasped.

"Yes, Vincent's room," Yuffie sighed.

"But Vincent told me I'm not aloud in there!"

"And when have we ever listened to anything Vincent says?"

"Um all the time like when..." Marlene paused. "You know, the time..."

"Never," Yuffie said "We have never listened to Vincent."

"Right."

"So let's go," Yuffie dragged Marlene out of the room and down the hall to Tifa's room.

The girls pushed the door open and tip-toed in quietly. They opened droors and rummaged through the closet and crawled under the bed and all they found was a dirty sock that was older than Marlene.

"Nothing," Marlene said an hour later as they sat on Marlene's bed. "We searched everywhere exept Vincent's room and we found nothing."

"We still have Vinnie's room," Yuffieat he sighed unhappily her loss of sleep.

"Ok," Marlene said standing up. "Let's go."

They creeped slowly down the stairs into the empty basement. "Vincent," Yuffie called into the room. When no one answered she crept forward. "Ok, search the room," Yuffie wispered to Marlene.

They began tapping floorboards and knocking on the walls. When they were sure there were'nt any hidden rooms they checked the only place there was left to check... The Coffin

They opened it and found red silk lining. In the corner of the coffin they found a black silk bag and when they opened that they found it was full of materia. Lots and lots of materia.

"This is it!" Yuffie squealed.

"Now can we go?" Marlene asked pulling on Yuffie's arm.

"Yes, We can leave," Yuffie said turning but stopped as she saw a fugure lurking in thedoorway.

"Having fun?" Vincnet asked emerging from the stairwell.

"Not anymore," Marlene crossed her arms.

"Give me my materia back," Vincent held out his hand.

"Why should I?" Yuffie asked.

"Because, it's mine."

"Yeah, like that's ever stopped me before," Yuffie stated sarcastically.

"What do you want from me?"

"A kiss," Yuffie said.

Vincent's mouth twitched in slight amusment. Yuffie caught it and cringed. "Fine then, I won't give your materia back." She turned to walk away and Vincent grabbed her arm and spun her back to her.

"Is it worth it?" he asked to nobody in particular and then he kissed her.

"Take it," she threw the materia at him and ran upstairs. Marlene followed her into the kitchen and they both sat down at the table.

"Well that didnt' go as planned," Marlene sighed