R&R longer note at the end
It had been three days since Jessie had gone home, her shoulder still hurt from the blow from her girlfriend, she sat on the roof on her own not wanting to be near anybody, the look of anger in her girlfriend's eyes was burned into her mind. Dragging her knees up under her chin she thought about the pain she had caused, she wanted to go back, wanted to explain but she wasn't sure Tifa would even listen, if only there was a way to talk to her.
"So this is where you are" Jessie heard a voice as if it was miles away as she slowly came back to reality, she looked around her for the owner to show themselves, she didn't recognise the voice her eyes slowly landed on the figure of a girl wearing a white and brown poncho and a moogle hat to match.
"Leave me alone whoever you are" Jessie shot back as she rested her chin on her knees the girl hopped down ignoring Jessie's request as she walked over, Jessie tried her best to ignore her getting a little more frustrated with the sound of every step the girl took.
"I said go away" Jessie said angrily jumping to her feet getting into the other girl's face "Why is that so difficult for you to understand?" The girl smiled as she flicked out her card forcing it into Jessie's hand, Jessie looked down at it Yuffie Kisaragi, finder of lost things and people, she looked back up at the girl who had taken a few steps back into a bow.
"I can't reveal my clients name but someone hired me to find you" the girl named Yuffie said smiling "It took me a while to find you, if it hadn't been for your little visit from the place I don't think I would have found you".
"Wait? Tifa sent you?" Jessie asked grabbing the girl by the shoulders "I need you to help me get a message to her". Yuffie shrugged her off as she stepped back again, she fixed her poncho as she looked Jessie in the eyes a smile on her face, Yuffie rummaged around in her pockets as she removed a tape recorder passing it to the other girl.
"I'll give you a moment to yourself, don't be too long though I still have to get out of here after all" Yuffie said smiling as she vanished from sight, Jessie looked down at the grey tape recorder in her hand, she sat back down resting against the fence her mind raced. What was she going to say? How could she word it all properly? Would Tifa even hear it? Taking a deep breath holding it for a few moments before releasing it slowly, she hit the record button and began to talk.
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Tifa laid in her bed staring blankly at the wall, she had wanted to hear Jessie out but all her pent up rage had let itself fill her veins, every day she heard the familiar sounds of someone coming up the stairs standing outside her door. She had determined the owners of the footsteps to be Vincent and Biggs, she never heard them knock they just stood there waiting and waiting, a few times she had looked at the door considering opening it but she couldn't face them.
Her ears picked up as she heard footsteps coming up the metal stairs outside her door, she turned over to look at the door this time she would get up and answer, let them know she was doing ok. She heard the footsteps stop outside the door as she forced herself to sit up she looked at the bottom of the door as a small slip of white paper slid under the gap.
She waited a few moments as she heard the footsteps leaving, curious she stood slowly making her way to the door, she bent down turning the paper over as she read the words written on it open the door and collect the brown box outside, this took a while to acquire, I hope it helps. Tifa tilted her head to one side as she reread the note, she turned it over in her hand but there was no signature, looking through the spy hole in the door she saw there was no one there, slowly she opened the door as she looked down seeing a small brown box.
Bending down she picked it up seeing it was safe she brought it back into her room closing the door behind her, peering round the side the girl smiled as she hopped the guard rail of the stairwell. Her client had got the package it was now just a waiting game to see what she would do with the contents.
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Tifa used a small knife from her kitchen drawer as she cut the tape holding the package shut, going to her bed she sat down tipping the contents by her, as she shook the box a small grey tape recorder fell out with a yellow sticky note attached with the words play me written in black ink, Tifa recognised the handwriting as that of the note that had been slid under her door moments ago. Shrugging Tifa turned the tape recorder in her hands pushing the play button as she heard the device kick into life.
"Tifa" Tifa's heart skipped a beat making her drop the recorder onto the bed next to her, the sound of Jessie's voice had caught her by surprise "I don't know if you're even listening to this, I'm not even sure what I want to say. I've recorded this so many times now just trying to find the right words, I hope this one will be the last time I have to and I hope you hear it". Tifa sat quietly slowly she closed her eyes clearing her mind as she imagined her girlfriend sat next to her.
"I'd like to start by saying how sorry I am this happened" the recorder continued to play "I never meant for any of this to hurt you, never meant for this to come between us, when Reno and Rude came in leaving that card promising us an offer to end the fighting, end the constant harassment of them searching and probing us for information on Avalanche. I couldn't deny that I was curious, curious on this being my chance to make a difference, a chance to release some of the stress pushing on all of us, the constant looking over our shoulders whenever we did anything. Since the day I took their deal I have regretted it, I didn't even plan on staying I would just stick it out for a while then leave and return to you guys, then I let me ego get the better of me, you know how I get. Some cocky person says something that rubs me the wrong way and well I'm not going to back down". Tifa smiled she knew all too well how competitive she could be, not one to turn tail and run she always said that ego of hers would get her in trouble one of these days.
"Let's just forget that for now" her recorded voice went on "I never meant to hurt you, that look in your eyes when we fought, it hurt to see it but it hurt even more knowing it was me who caused it, if not for Biggs and Vincent I would have taken that last blow, I deserved it. I caused you so much pain, so much stress, I'm so sorry. I just wanted to make things better but I made them worse, I would understand if you hated me, if you never wanted to see me again. Five days from now I'm going to sneak out, I'll head to the shack on the outskirts of sector seven, you know the one. If you don't hate me, please comeā¦I love you Tifa". The recorder clicked off as the recording stopped, the room echoed with Tifa's soft sobbing tears burned at her eyes as they rolled down her cheeks.
"I don't hate you" Tifa muttered to the empty room as the tears fell into her hands "I love you Jessie".
Yuffie should add love consular to her list of jobs, she comes in trying to mend a relationship on the rocks and gets the message to the one who needs to hear it. Now the big question is will our barmaid show up? Will they end up fighting again? Guess we will have to wait and see
