Ugh! My sincerest apologies for the EXTREMELY late update! (bows many times over) I finally found some inspiration to write again! Well, dear readers I hope you will enjoy this chapter! I know it's short and I'm sorry .

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Chapter 3: Finding Zack Fair


Tifa sighed heavily, she had asked some of her patrons in the bar and almost all her friends, none of them seem to know that Shinra, the famous electric power company, had a military force called SOLDIER. Then again, she hadn't known either until her…unusual roommate told her all about it.

She couldn't say the situation was normal, because it wasn't but at least she didn't jump every time when she saw him or when he accidentally walks through furniture or doors because he's transparent. She sighed again, cleaning the counter. Zack had opted to stay at his apartment but every now and then he would come with her to her bar. It was quite funny actually.

She hadn't know him for long, a few weeks really, but she had noticed that he was quite a funny man and a cheerful one in general.

He always made fun of her patrons, because since he was…err…a ghost nobody, except her could see him, therefore whenever he was bored he always pulled pranks at her customers. Like just now. He was mimicking making a braid to a man with exceptionally long hair, it was fun to see especially since the man drank his beer as Zack was playing with is hair from behind him.

Tifa had to suppress the urge to laugh out loud, it didn't help that Barret sent her a suspicious look at times. He was suspicious of her odd behavior, but didn't comment on it.

He also didn't comment why she was so insanely interested about asking Yuffie, who worked as a nurse at a hospital, if someone had a traffic accident recently and fell into a coma. She tried hiding her interest but Yuffie caught on, she wiggled her eyebrows and asked:" Oh? Have we finally moved on from Cloud and fell in love with a coma patient?",

Tifa glared at her as she replied:" Don't be silly Yuffie, I don't like Cloud that way. I was just… curious.", Yuffie didn't buy it but chose not to comment on it.

After Tifa closed the bar she, along with Zack who was walking beside her, set off to the nearest hospital. Tifa asked:" Do you think we will find something?", the man shrugged and said:" Don't know. But I'm curious.", Tifa nodded.

As she arrived at the tall, white building she asked the nurse at the reception desk:" Excuse me, could you tell me if you have a coma patient under the name Zack Fair?",

The woman, somewhere in her mid-thirties with dirty blonde, unkempt hair asked:" That is restricted information. Do you know the patient?", Tifa looked at Zack, whom of course nobody could see.

He said:" Uh…just say you're my girlfriend or something.", Tifa, with a light blush on her face, said:" I'm his girlfriend. I just came back from a long business trip and heard he suffered an accident, please tell me, is he alright?",

"Nicely played Lockhart.", Zack complimented, his arms crossed and a grin on his face as he almost fell for the concerned look Tifa displayed. She was a good actress, he would give her that.

The blonde narrowed her eyes slightly but nonetheless searched for his name in her computer.

"There is a Zack Fair, he suffered a motorcycle accident last week, he was mortally wounded. Profuse bleeding from the back of his head, four fractured ribs, a twisted ankle and wrist and various bruises and cuts.", she noticed the concerned look Tifa was giving her, she said with a apologetic smile:" He's in room 207. My apologies.", Tifa nodded and smiled kindly at the woman before she searched for the room number.

It didn't take her long with the elevator and she was standing right in front of it. Zack said:" Woah…I was badly beaten up was I?", Tifa nodded and whispered:" I'm scared to even see you now that I know how beat up you are.", but before she could open the door, it was opened from inside, by a trio of men.

One had long silver hair and a long black coat, his eyes were a greenish-blue, he was the tallest of them. The other one right behind him had red, short, spiky hair, almost glowing blue eyes, a red leather coat with black shoulder patches, also made from leather, he had soft features just like the man before him.

The last one was tall, short dark haired, two bangs framing his chiseled face, he wore a black sleeves shirt with a leather jacket over his shoulder, Tifa could clearly see the man was working out regularly if the bulging muscles on his arms were any indication, he also had electrifying blue eyes.

"Who are you?", asked the dark haired one, his eyes slightly narrowed in confusion.

Tifa swallowed hard. Who she was? She was…

"H-hi. I'm Zack's girlfriend, Tifa Lockhart.",

Complications were bound to happen.


I'm so very sorry for not updating in a LONG time, really! I've been busy with my other stories and studying! I'm sorry readers/followers I'll try to update more often!Please review!