Coauthored with SonicDonix
Tifa walked the halls opening the doors and greeting the boys one by one. Dr. Fair watched from the security cameras, "They're open towards her, a few of them have even decided to speak to her on a patient level."
The figure folded their arms and nodded, "Just get the results." The door opened and shut, a man in a suit walked down the hall and stopped in his tracks at the sight of two scarlet eyes. He closed his eyes and shook his head, when he opened his eyes again the figure of X was gone. "I hate this fucking place."
The door to Noctis' chamber opened, "Morning, Noctis!" She stopped smiling when she saw he wasn't at the door, rather sitting in the back of the room in the dark. "Hey… Everything okay?" She crossed into the room. From the security camera the doctor watched nervously. Tifa knelt in front of him, "If you don't want to talk about it, I understand, but I wish you would."
Noctis looked up at her from his thoughts, "Have you asked yourself why we're in this wing… Not with the rest of the patients?"
Tifa smiled, "I read your files, you're all special, you're all previous subjects of the Shinra test programs. I found the common link in doctors prior to institutionalization."
Noctis dropped his eyes from her, "I see… You're smarter than the last ones…" He stood up and walked out of his room.
Tifa sighed and stood up writing in her notes, she went into the room with the rest. Reno turned the chair around and sat on it, "Alright, nurse, give us our mandatory talking too."
Tifa chuckled, "Not today, today you're going to talk to me… If you feel comfortable with my questions, if not you can simply pass." They all shifted a glance to one another. "It's something new we're going to try today!" She settled back in her chair and the doors flew open and doctors in hazmat suits came in armed with syringes. All of the patients tensed up. Tifa stood up with her arms out, "I think not!"
Dr. Fair rounded the group, "Move Tifa."
"You entrusted this wing to me, and with that, I refuse to let you experiment on them without my authorization, you have my notes, I have labeled them all competent enough to waive or consent to any medical treatment!" She stood her ground, the hazmat doctors started to back down slowly, they turned and left after speaking quietly into their helmet radios.
Tifa smiled triumphantly as the crew of doctors left the room, she turned around and met the eyes of Noctis who was directly behind her, furniture of the room levitating around all of them. "Thank you." With his words the furniture was gently set back into place and he returned to his seat.
She sighed, "Just when I think I'm cool you go and show me up, Noctis!" Reno, Tidus and Hope all chuckled. She playfully put her hands on her hips and faux scolded him with a smile on her face. He just folded his arms and legs with a smirk.
She sat down and smiled opening her notebook, "Alright, on a scale of one to ten, ten being the best, how do you feel, right now?"
They all stared at each other for a moment before a quiet voice spoke up, "8." Tifa smiled at Cloud, "That's high! Care to share with us?"
His gaze dropped to the floor, "No one has ever stood up to them for us before."
Tifa smiled, "If I can help it, no one will ever hurt you guys like that again."
"4." Sephiroth looked out the window.
"Whys that?" Tifa looked at him concerned.
Sephiroth shifted his stare to her, "Because, now they'll take you away. You're in their way… Above that, you're actually doing your job. Trying to help. You'll be gone by the end of the week."
The rest of the group looked down saddened by his words. "I like her." Hope whined.
Vincent cleared his throat, "So, let's do something about it. We'll help each other, how about that, Doc?"