A/N;; Thanks so much for the reviews! I was a little stunned. It took my other stories five months to get one review. It took Five Stages five HOURS to get THREE! ^^ Much love to all who faved and reviewed.
Anyway. Here's the next chapter. As promised.
Oh, and I don't own anything. As much as I wish I did.
1. Denial
This was not happening. No, it could not be possible. A lie, surely. A misdiagnosis.
There was no denying the confirming tests. Positive.
Five months. He had five months left to live. Or so the doctors had predicted. Five months. It wasn't enough time.
There's never enough time.
But Rufus ShinRa couldn't be dying.
Elena refused to accept that. As she sat in her closet, back to the wall and knees drawn up to her chest, surrounded by her hanging clothes and shoeboxes and her photo albums from collage, she refused to accept her superior's mortality. Hallow chocolate eyes, once to full of life and enthusiasm stared blankly at the floor through her short, blond and now disheveled hair. She tried to convince herself that Rufus was going to live. That he was going to live a long healthy life…that they all would.
She tried to convince herself that this was not punishment for their actions.
Everything was going to be fine. Everyone would live.
No, it won't, argued the rational part of her mind.
After the first week, the shock of the news slowly began to ebb. As the first month drew to a close, and Rufus' condition began to worsen, his body weakening, the seizures starting and the pain shooting, Elena entered the first stage.
She was in Denial.
Tomorrow is Anger, centering around Rude. =D I've decided that the order in which the characters in 5S are placed follows there senority. EX) Elena is the newbie, so she's the first stage. Rude is one 'rank' above her, so he's stage 2. Etc.
Don't forget to review. It makes me want to write more literatly. =]