Left Behind


Waiting

June 17 -- Unknown Location -- Unknown time


Reno was grateful for the little bit of sleep that he got. When he opened his eyes, Lira was back. From the look of her it seemed that Tseng turned down her crazy offer. There was no surprise there. Tseng would have noticed that she was insane.

She wasn't wearing her glasses now and her strange blue mako glowing eyes were focused on him. He couldn't help but shiver. Damn it. Those eyes freaked him right out. He never really got an explanation to why those blue eyes glowed like that. Clouds eyes glowed with the same blue, but her eyes, were so much colder than his. He doubted that there were anyone else around that was mako affected like Cloud or, it seemed, this Lira. People realized the advantages were not as great as the disadvantages.

She must have lost her sunglasses. Lore was bandaging her ankle. At least someone got a shot in. "Don't look at me Turk!" she hissed.

"Calm down!" Lore said. "And be quiet. Errow is sleeping and I want him to stay that way." His voice was strong and she sank in the chair that she was sitting in. There was a sneer was evident on her face. There was a lot of anger there and he knew that he wasn't the total reason for it. Hell, he had given her plenty of reasons to be mad at him, but she was that way before he ran off his mouth.

"Your benevolent Turk leader has until 10 pm to change his mind about your life," she growled. "The radio, Lore."

"Sis, you really need to rethink this whole thing," he said in a condescending tone. He tightened the bandage tightly around her ankle causing her to hiss and pull away from him.

"Don't start that crap!" she hissed. He hoped it was Tseng that shot her or at least the wound was painful. Real painful. "The radio! We have until ten."

The way she said that made him absolutely shutter. He wished he could see a clock so he knew how much time he had left. He wondered if Gaia would forgive him for all the crap that he had done in his life. He doubted it. Damn it.

"Damn it, sis! You need to…" his words were cut off as she slapped him, a sharp and painful open handed slap. Yeah, he was sure a couple of his bruises were because of her slaps. Lore twisted with the slap and then slowly straightened up and glared at his sister.

They stood there staring at each other. Lore's eyes didn't have the mako glow but there defiantly some fury behind them as they stared at each other.

It was strange to watch them stare at each other like that. He knew that they were talking to each other, or at least they knew what each other were thinking. It must be a twin thing but it was really really freaky.

"I'll turn on the radio," Lore said and turned to the radio that was at the head of the bed. It was turned to some radio station that was playing elevator music. They couldn't at least pick a good radio station for him to die by. Errow's eyes fluttered but remained closed. Lore stoked the boy's silver hair.

She was still standing where she had slapped him. She was shaking as she stood there; her eyes fixed on her the boy in the bed. "The blood will be on my hands," she whispered.

Reno shuttered again and saw that Lore did the same.

Reno knew what would happen if her plan failed. He heard her talking about it. It was the type of thing that you heard about and wondered what the hell they were thinking. I mean, who would think that death was the way out. He could understand a little better, but he still didn't think it was solving the real problem. I may be ending the pain, and he knew that seeing that boy screaming every couple of hours was getting tiring and all.

He hoped that Tseng somehow got some sort of tracking device on her or something. He didn't like the option that she was actually thinking of taking.

She took off her spear and began to clean it. There was quite a bit of blood on it as well as her armoured arm. She removed her weaponry and then sat on the edge of the bed and stroked the back of the sleeping boy.

For a moment, she looked like a mother, not a crazy person who was out to kill everything around her, including her own family.

"I really wish you would reconsider," Lore whispered. He was standing by the radio still. Reno noticed that he was crying. "We can work through this."

"I have already made up my mind," she said. "It is the only way that we will have peace."

"Please, sis, can't you… sleep… just… reconsider…" he gasped and wiped the tears off his face as if he were mad at the fact that he was crying.

"He doesn't deserve the pain that he has," she said simply. "This is the only way that I can think of to stop the pain."

Lore scrubbed at his eyes again. She was removing her jacket and threw it aside.

"There is another way. We talked about that," Lore said.

"It is not an option!" she snapped.

"Just sleep on it," he pleaded. "You need too, think clear!"

Think clear. Yeah, he pretty much doubted that she could do that. She was insane and it was the only way he could think to describe your warped thought process. Lore himself had even said so.

"It will not change my mind." She said curtly.

Lore sighed.

She crawled in beside the boy and drew him close to her. The boy groaned in his sleep and she held him tighter. Lore stared at the two for awhile.

Reno frowned as he watched the young man start to cry again, silent tears that ran down his face. He moved to the chair that he bandaged her leg and sat.

He swallowed hard at the conversation that he just heard. He knew what it meant but didn't want to admit to what it was. It hurt to think that she was capable of that type of thought! He was pretty sure it was tearing apart Lore. He never thought anything like that would be so real and he was in the middle of it.

Lore was staring at him with his tear filled bloodshot eyes.


Attempt to Allude

May 28 -- PM -- Bearnin


Reno was nursing his wound and trying to catch his breath. He had lost his jacket and his phone and his weapon and whatever dignity he had left fleeing from that crazy Commander. He had to get to his emergency stash and fast.

She was insane! He held his side where she had pierced him with that knife of hers. It wasn't that deep of a cut but it hurt like hell! If he knew that he was just going to be kept a prisoner, he would have allowed it and waited for help to arrive, but she made it very clear that he was not going to get out of here alive. He was dead as soon as she got whatever information he got out of him was worth her while. He wasn't going to stick around for that.

He was getting back up down here right now and deal with this.

She was very protective of her son. That was obvious. He was pretty sure that there were some weird ass experiments that occurred to create that boy and she was the middle of it.

The burning left his lungs and he started to move forward, carefully to where he hid the emergency stash.

Some Militia leader, if she couldn't track him through her own woods! He chuckled to himself as he approached the area where he hit it. He moved the log …

…and all his stuff was gone!

"Shit…" he whispered

"Did you think it was that easy?"

Most terrifying voice he had ever heard in his life.


Glimmer of Hope

June 17-- Unknown Location -- Unknown Time


Lore got his composure back from the crying fit he had in the chair. It looked like he was having difficulty swallowing. He shakily pulled a small knife out of the sleeve of his arm. He stood from the chair and walked towards Reno. Reno closed his eyes and calmed down his rapidly beating heart.

He was certain that Lore was going to kill him. It would probably better than Lira killing him anyway. Hell, he thought he had a couple of more hours anyway. A couple of more hours in which he may be saved. It was a small hope, but he still had faith in his Turks to rescue him.

He still had faith that Tseng and Rude would hunt down where ever he was and save him, but watching Lore moving with that knife… maybe he thought that it would be best if he ends it all for them sooner. Maybe he was starting to think like his sister? Damn it all. He was scared and he couldn't even yell at anyone to make himself feel better!

He opened his eyes when he heard him shuffling past him, he squinted to see Lore cutting open a seam in his own backpack and pulling out a phone. What the hell was this? He was hiding a phone from his sister? He turned it on and it beeped its opening tune. He looked nervously over at his sleeping sister but it seemed that she was content in her slumber.

Lore sat down beside him. "What is Tseng's number?" he spoke in a whisper. His fingers were poised to press numbers. His blue eyes were looking at him in a calm manner. Was this part of his plan? What the hell?

Reno swallowed hard but couldn't say anything. No sounds would come out of his mouth. He wondered how much damage that she had done to his throat and if he would be able to talk again. "Show me the number on your fingers." Lore said and looked down at his hands.

Lore repeated the numbers as he showed them on his fingers and he dialled them. The feeling of hope had reached the glimmer stage man. He watched as Lore tiredly brought the phone to his ear. Lore patted him on the shoulder.

His voice was quite strong, "I need to speak to Tseng."

"He will want to speak to me." He cocked his head to one side and gave out an annoyed sigh.

"In regards to Lira."

His voice changed into a snarl. "How about Reno? Does that name strike cord? Thank you." Wow, Lore defiantly had some of his sister's fire in him. Reno was glad that the man didn't have the same problems as his sister. It was too bad; he was the more dominating one. All these problems would have been solved and he wouldn't be a crippled helpless Turk right now.

He looked on curiously. Wondering why he was calling Tseng after going through such efforts to make sure that they were hidden. What were his plans, really?

He seemed to be put on hold. He looked down at him with the sad blue eyes. "I love my sister. I do. But… I can't let her do what she is going to do. I know Errow is hurting, but I can't allow her to do this." There were tears coming to his eyes again.

"Yes. I am here." His voice sounding annoyed.

"He is still alive but won't be for much longer, if you are not tracing this phone." He rubbed his eyes to prevent the tears from coming again.

"Good, then I don't have to give you directions."

"I won't be able to stop her if she wakes up."

"No. You will have to trust me that he is still alive." He looked to Reno. "Dreams of the morrow hath the shattered soul / Pride is lost / Wings stripped away, the end is nigh"

Reno couldn't help but be freaked out when he quoted Loveless. It was so weird and he didn't know what the hell those lines meant anyway. Did it even fit in the conversation that was happening here! He hated that damn play or poem or whatever the hell it was. He never wanted to hear a line from it again! Of course, he really didn't want that thought right now though.

"It is no trap. I will not fight. Lira will when she is awakened though, so you better send someone that could handle her. I will do my best to control her, but as you know, Tseng, she is not that easy to control."

He pulled the phone away from his ear; leaving it on and placing it back in the bag. He went back to his chair and stared at the door.

…tbc….


….next chapters…. Initial Questioning & Cloud

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