Eclipsed Chapter 13, a final fantasy vii fanfic

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Chapter Thirteen

Eclipsed

"Damn it!"

Genesis stormed around the Training room that evening. Sienna stood there, leaning against the doorway as she watched him, a small look of amusement on her face. The four of them had just returned from another mission of theirs; and returned to cheers for Sephiroth from the ones waiting on them. Genesis, at times like this, always disappeared to be alone but tonight, Sienna felt like following him. She didn't have to think hard of where the man would go. The Training Room was always his sanctuary; or her place.

To be honest, Sienna felt alone in that house now. Sephiroth had moved out a few months ago to his own place and it felt so empty. Sure, the three men all came over nearly every night but not having that man in the room down the hall…

"Damn it!" Genesis repeated, dragging Sienna from her thoughts as he slammed his fist into the wall.

"You let it get to you too much," Sienna crossed her arms as she watched the red-haired man.

He shot her a look. "Does it not bother you that he gets all the glory?"

Sienna shrugged. "Not really. Glory's not what I'm here for." To be honest, she had never even thought about receiving praise for what they were sent to do.

"Then what are you here for?" Genesis snarled. "What else could you possibly be here for?"
Listening to his words, Sienna gave a sad smile. She hadn't thought about this in a long, long time. "I…I'm not sure. The first thing I even remember was…" ~Waking up in that damn tube!~ "Professor Gast bringing me here and my training began. My first day here, I met Sephiroth and then you and Angeal followed a few years later." She shrugged. "I only get the glory because I am Sephiroth's partner. But trust me," She gave him a smile, hoping to cheer her friend up a bit. "It annoys the hell out of him." Genesis stopped in his pacing and turned his head to stare at her. "Even more than it does me. He might not show it, but he hates being at the end of everyone's praise. He hates being called the hero."

And that was the truth. Sephiroth and Sienna had this conversation several times since the two of them had been named partners. The man hated all the praise he received from the people and the Corporation. She didn't know how he could stand it for as long as he did; and she also doubted that it would ever go. The idolization of the Silver-haired man would never come to an end.

"Then why doesn't he let me beat him?" Genesis demanded. "Why doesn't he let me win?"

Sienna gave a shrug before walking a bit further into the room. "It's a man's thing, I suppose. No man can stand being beaten in a fight. At least, not any man I've ever met. It's their foolish pride." She shot Genesis a look. "And you have that exact same problem, my dear. If he just let you win, would you just let that fly?" She then paused. "I take that back. Angeal doesn't have that problem. He's the biggest sweetheart I've ever met. It must be just a problem between you and Sephiroth."

~For more reasons than one~ Genesis scoffed at himself. He gazed at her for a moment in silence before deciding to take this conversation in a whole other direction. "Say, if I beat Sephiroth in a battle, do you think that I could have you as my partner?"

If Sienna had been drinking something, she would have choked. "What am I? A prize? And what about Angeal? That's a mean thing to do to him, Genesis. Haven't you been friends since you were kids?" ~Kinda like me and Sephiroth, you could say. But at the beginning, could you really call us friends?~

"I didn't mean as a partner in fighting, Sienna?" Genesis' voice had lowered as he began to step closer to her, a firm, determined look on his face.

Getting what the man in red meant, Sienna couldn't help but flush. This set a flashback to that one night on the couch.

"Sienna, my words were true," He repeated himself. "The woman I was talking about, the one that I believe to be perfect for me," His lips were close to her ear now, his warmth breath giving her a tingle through her body as a small shiver passed down her back. She could hear her heart pounding in her ears. "Was you, Sienna."

There was no doubt in Sienna's mind that she had a little crush on her partner going on and Sephiroth was completely protective of her during battles and missions, but she never saw herself labeled as 'Sephiroth's Property'; no matter how much she wouldn't mind the idea.

And she had to be honest; Genesis was something special to her as well. Actually, all three of the men in her life had a certain spot in her heart. Angeal, Genesis, and Sephiroth all meant something important to her and she feared that she didn't know what to do without any of them.

"I will train, Sienna," Genesis' words dragged her out of her thoughts. He had come to a stop in front of her, staring down into her eyes. "And train until I beat Sephiroth and then…you'll be mine. Mine at last."

"SIENNA!"

Panic shot through his body at the sight before him. The four of them had been sent on another mission to Wutai again but all day Sienna's thoughts were elsewhere, resulting in her missing the announcement to evacuate the building before the explosion happened. He hadn't known that she was still inside until he joined Angeal and Genesis outside and didn't see her. Sephiroth had whirled around to hurry back in when the explosion went off.

"Sienna!" Genesis and Angeal's voices echoed behind him as the fire made their shield their eyes.

"Impossible!" The Turk that stood behind them, Tseng, hissed in shock, shielding his own face.

"Sienna!" Genesis went to run forward but Angeal grabbed him.

"You can't, Genesis! You-Sephiroth!"

The silver-haired man refused to listen and had run forward himself, intent on jumping into the fires of hell to save the woman inside of it.

"Sienna!" He cried her name, ignoring the heat of the fire and the fear of another explosion as it pounding around him. He searched everywhere he could until he found her. The woman had been hurt bad. Cuts and scratches and burn marks covered her body where the ice had not reached in time to encase her from the fire but even so the fire was melting the ice and burning through it still. Her left leg looked so horribly burned and her right arm, Sephiroth closed his eyes for a moment, trying to ignore the sickening feeling from the sight of the white bone ripping out of her skin at such an odd angle.

"Sienna," The moment that Sephiroth reached out to grab her, what was left of her ice-like shield melted away into water and he picked her up into his arms and retreated from the fire as fast as he possibly could.

"Sienna!" Genesis' voice greeted him the moment he reached fresh air, but Sephiroth didn't stop until he reached the helicopter; Tseng had been smart and hurried on ahead to get it ready. It was going to be a long journey back to Midgar and Sephiroth was gripping onto the woman in his arms, trying to keep his rage from taking over to where he returned to Wutai and destroyed everything there.

"Sephiroth. SEPHIROTH!" The silver-haired man gave a glare to Angeal as he and Genesis boarded the copter; it then took to the air. "Let me have a look at her. Maybe we can heal her a little before we get back."

Sephiroth didn't argue. Any thought of trying to heal Sienna took control of his mind and he set her across the seats, moving out of Angeal's way. He felt so…so useless! This was just like that time with Genesis, only worse. How? Why had he let her get hurt like this? Why?

"What do you mean only Sephiroth?" Genesis' growl sounded through the hall. Hollander wore an annoyed look on his face as the red-haired man argued with him. Sienna needed a blood transfusion, much like genesis had before, but when Genesis had offered himself, it was a repeat all over again.

"Sephiroth's the only one that's viable." Hollander told him again.

"But why?!" Genesis shrugged Angeal's hand from his shoulder. "Why can I not save her?!"

Sephiroth stared at his friend for a moment before closing his eyes and stepping past Hollander and into the room.

He bit his bottom lip.

Sienna was laying there in a bed. Angeal had done all that he could on the helicopter, like setting her arm and doing his hardest to keep a fever from taking over. All night the three of them had been waiting outside the infirmary to make sure that the woman they all cared for was going to be okay. Relief passed through him the moment Hollander told them she would be fine after a blood transfusion and was willing, no matter what, to give her all the blood that she needed to stay alive.

Even if it turned out to be all of it.

~We love our tragedies.
When we're broken in our own little ways
We're broken and we fit together just right
You know I saw the black inside your eyes
I saw they were eclipsed, and by mine, they look just right ~

The last few months, Sephiroth had been confused. He wasn't sure what it was that he had been feeling or what had been transpiring in his chest whenever he glanced at Sienna or when he was near her. He hadn't been able to understand why he felt so…empty when she wasn't there with him or close to him. He thought at first it was because that had been the first person that could understand him. Sienna had gone through everything like he had been since they were children. He knew that Sienna despised him at first but over the years they had grown into, what he had first thought, siblings.

~When our lights meet, will you know me then?
And will you want to know it
It feels like I've known you for so long.
When our lights meet, will you love me then?
And will you ever know it.
It seems like you've known me for so long.~

But it had been something much more than that. He had grown to love her. To love everything about her. At first, he had refused to believe it, to accept it, but he had finally let it take over. He loved her.

He loved her voice. Her laughter. Her fingers as she plucked at the strings on her guitars. He could just sit there for hours, watching as she painted or did her puzzles. He wanted to go everywhere she did.

But he also hated it.

~I love your melodies.
We're both crazy in our own little ways
We talk about the future and our past lives.
I know I loved you then.
I know I love you now.
I know I'll love you then.
I know I love you now.~

He hated when she wasn't there. Hated it when she was sad. When she was hurt. He hated everything that Hojo and Gast and ShinRa had been putting Sienna go through. He hated Genesis trying so hard to claim her as his own.

That was a main reason to why he was everywhere with her. He didn't like the thought of Genesis trying to win her over for himself.

And he also hated that she was never going to be his.

Sienna would never be his. He wasn't good enough to be hers. Wasn't pure enough. Whatever it was that ShinRa had done to him it made him…he didn't know what it made him, but he knew that Sienna deserved something better. One would think that letting Genesis take her would be the best, but Sephiroth just couldn't…

If he couldn't have Sienna, then no one could.

~But you can't have everything you want when you want it.
I will be everything you want, when you want it.~

Call him cruel or heartless, but Sienna would never be touched by another man. She would be his and his alone, even if it was just through SOLDIER and friendship.

~Wait for me. Just for me.
Fall for me. Even when you don't know you fell from me.
Will you fall for it? If this comes around again.
Don't wait for me. And don't trust in me. Don't fall me.
Even when you know you're falling for me.~

Sephiroth knew that, no matter how much he wanted Sienna, that in this life he would never have her the way he wanted, but he would still be there to make her happy. To protect her. And with that, he would be set. As long as she was happy, then so would he.

But then maybe, just maybe, in another life after all of this was over…

~When our hearts meet, will we make it right.
Will we even notice that they are Eclipsed?~

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