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Chapter 7

Roxy didn't awake until late into the afternoon. The image of Vincent and Kaitlin kissing kept replaying in her mind practically keeping her up for what seemed like forever. Yuffie peered in with a warm mug of tea.

"Oh you're awake."

"Yeah. How's Vincent?"

Yuffie hesitated and handed the mug to Roxy.

"Here why don't you just see for yourself?"

Roxy gave her a weird look and walked out of her room. When she turned to peer into Vincent's room there was no sign of him. His gun, materia, and his clothes that he had arrived in were gone along with the man himself. The mug slipped out of Roxy's hand and crashed to the ground as she ran into the room.

She noticed a note on the table and immediately grabbed it. She heard voices in the background.

"Carmen…"

"Yuffie? Oh yeah can you stop with the prank calls?"

"Carmen…"

Yuffie whispered as she started to sob.

"He really left…"

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Holding one hand over her mouth and the other hand holding the note Roxy read it and re-read it again while listening to Yuffie's held in sobs racket throughout the empty room.

Dear Roxanne,

I'm so sorry about hurting your feelings.

Maybe this relationship was a mistake.

That's why I've chosen to leave you and your generosity.

And start a new life somewhere else.

I will not tell you of my whereabouts.

And do not try to contact me.

This is my good-bye letter to you and…thank you for everything.

- Sincerely Vincent Valentine

I gasped at the shock of the news, he couldn't have left. He didn't even say good-bye. A good-bye letter wasn't what a good bye was. I never thought how much I loved him until now but the sudden pain inflicted in my heart hit me like a tidal wave.

I curled up on the ground trying to stop the pain from destroying my body. Dry sobs escaped my lips and I shivered uncontrollably. I was feeling weak and I felt myself drifting back to the empty darkness I was in before.

"Roxy! Roxanne!"

I faintly heard her voice. The one to pull me out of the darkness my best friend could only do so much. She was still not him.

"No he didn't…I need to get her to her bed! Rango!"

I felt warm arms surround my always cold body no comfort was found and I let another dry sob escape.

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Cait Sith waved sadly at the gunslinger.

"Good bye Vincent. Good luck on your mission!"

Vincent nodded a farewell to the robotic cat. Reeve was asleep with Shalua when he had slipped into their room to retrieve the AVALANCHE member. Explaining his situation to the robot, Cait Sith unwillingly agreed and started up the portal. It was for the best. A clean break for her, he would save her and would never hurt her again and she… She would know nothing of the situation at all; she would never know her life was in danger, or that he was saving it.

Vincent landed on the ground with a clink of his boots and stood up slowly. He smirked to himself; how ironic…Nibelheim.

He had asked Cait Sith to drop him off near the source of it all. Who knew it was here of all places. Vincent knew he was not to run into himself otherwise there might've been a few problems. Thankfully he remembered that he was in Edge right now staying at Seventh Heaven with the rest of Avalanche. He wouldn't be back for a few months.

Vincent set off to scout the place and create a plan to eliminate the threat to his love.

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Roxy lay in bed motionless while Carmen was seated beside the bed reading a book. Nanaki was nuzzled up against Roxy trying his best to comfort her.

"Tell me what happened."

Roxy explained the whole thing and started to dryly sob. Great she couldn't even cry. Roxy just sobbed even harder at the unfairness of everything, couldn't she be normal and have tears come out of her eyes just like every other human? No she had to have vampire genes mixed into her molecular structure causing her to be abnormal.

Weeks passed, yet nothing changed. Carmen was sent to more and more missions from the Oni Slayers and barely got to see Roxy. Yuffie and Yazoo seemed to be the only comfort Roxy could find with the loss of half of her heart.

She felt so hollow it hurt so much. Yuffie was there to comfort her by day and Yazoo was there to comfort her by night. It was an arrangement they made, ever since Vincent left Roxy had nightmares of terrible things happening to him: Bloody gruesome deaths.

Yazoo heard her cry out one night and rocked her in his arms whispering words of comfort. After that Yazoo would sleep beside her every night and no more outbursts happened. Yazoo didn't mind, Roxanne was his love and he despised Vincent for leaving.

Putting her in this state made Yazoo so mad at Valentine it made him want to wish the worst possible things to him. Roxy after 4 weeks of wasting her life, decided to change things. She started to disappear every night and come back haggard and tired. Yazoo never asked any questions and helped hugged her when she needed comfort.

One night Yazoo felt himself questioning his feelings for Roxy. He no longer felt like he loved her in a boyfriend/girlfriend sort of way but more of an older brother/little sister thing. The more he thought on the subject the more he realized the truth of it.

It seemed Roxy had realized this a long time ago and things started to make sense. Why she didn't pursue a romantic relationship with him. Why she found comfort in him. When Roxy arrived fatigued that night Yazoo hugged her tightly and stood that way for a long time. Neither seemed to mind and finally the bond between the two was clear.

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Carmen sighed as she went through all the security camera tapes that they had from the Oni Lair, but they were useless. Carmen shut them off, sighing, before looking around her office. Things were dull really. She sighed as she contemplated, before glancing at the door, which opened a few seconds ago.

"mind if I come in, Carmen?" Rango, who was still holding the door knob , asked as he steped forward a little

"You just did, so no, not really." She replied, sighing as she looked up at the celing, leaning back on her chair as Rango sat in front of the desk.

"About the Slain Slayers, Is there any tape which shows the killers of our comrads?" He asked, as he tousled his thick navy blue hair. Carmen glanced at Rango, before shaking her head. "Damn..."

"But I did see something interesting" She sighed, before taking out her whiskey. Rango glared at the drink, slightly shocked.

"Closet alcohalic?"

"Yea, but only a little. Doesn't matter. Alcohal isn't nearly as deadly as oni"

"Yes, it is."

Carmen rolled her eyes, but said nothing else on the matter, before putting the drink away. They sat in silence for a few minutes before Rango spoke

"So how are things going between you and that Kadaj kid?"

Carmen glanced at Rango, who seemed to have stated it mildly, but also with a little bit of curiosity in his voice.

"Things are going great, although he's been...Quieter" She responded, while Rango snorted

"I don't trust him really. You did say that in his world, he was like an oni."

"He's changed, Rango. Kadaj is a nice guy."

"Oh really? Does he ever do anything that pisses you off, and makes you hate him?"

"Why are you asking this all of the sudden?"

"..."

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Roxy: Yup some fast forwarding cuz my life is pretty boring at that time. Realization for Yazoo-baby! Yeah I luff you Yazoo but like a bro an awesome kick ass bro!

Carmen: I swear, sometimes, I think I'm not the one on antidepressants –inches away from Roxy.-