"Nice one Vince." Reno said dusting off his uniform. He looked up at the man that saved him from serious injury, maybe even death. "I'll admit you saved our butts… but we could have handled it, right Rude? We were just getting warmed up."
Rude shrugged cleaning his new pair of glasses. Reno let out a loud laugh and regained his cheerful attitude. The man in red glared at the loud mouthed Turk. He almost died. How could he be so cheerful? As Vincent proceeded to put Cerberus away, his eyes slowly made their way to look at October. Her eyes were close and she held herself, swaying back and fourth on the ground where she fell after, whatever it was, erupted inside of her. She opened her eyes as tears started to flow from them.
"Reno?" She called out, and he quickly made his way over to her and helped her up. His pale hands wiped up some blood off of her delicate and equally pale face.
The sight of this sparked anger inside of Vincent, so he slowly walked over to the trio. He stood in front of them, his collar of his cape covering the bottom half of his face, but rude and Reno could tell that he was raging. His crimson eyes could told all.
"What's wrong Vincent?" Rude asked.
"….What is your name?"
Reno looked around, and then pointed at himself. "You know my name yo, it's Reno."
"Not you, you idiot." He looked at October. "Her."
October stayed quiet for a moment then looked up at Reno. He was staring at Vincent with a very confused expression. His arm was draped over her shoulder; his thumb moving in small circles to comfort her. She was surprised such a simple gesture could calm her down. She opened her mouth to take in a well needed breath of air. The last of her tears slowly made their way down her cheek. She sniffled and cleared her throat.
"It's…October, sir." She said in almost a whisper.
"October…" He echoed.
A flash of memories came rushing into her head. A sharp pain began to make her head throb. She put her hand up to ease the pain and in it was the silver materia.
"F-father…" She choked out.
Rude took a double take. Reno jumped back. That's who she was a spitting image of. How could he not see it at first? Probably because she didn't have an evil and menacing look on her face the whole time. She had a smile on her face, and it was always so beautiful. He shook his head of any other thoughts that flashed in his head, and then he spoke.
"So….That's…He, Vincent Valentine is your father?"
October still seemed confused. Vincent stayed silent. She looked the man over. Somehow she could just feel that she was the spawn of this man. She opened her mouth to speak, but no words came out. Nothing more came to mind, any more clicks or flashbacks of any kind. Just more anger and confusion. Vincent finally broke the silence.
"Reno, why is she with you?"
"He is my guardian." October answered. "His boss is giving them the assignment to take care of me."
Vincent glared. "Take care?"
"Yeah, she's been out of it lately and it's our job to help her…remember things from her past." Reno said.
"Your memory has been wiped?" Vincent asked placing a hand on her pale face. Dry blood and tears have stained the beauty of his daughter. He then sighed and began to walk away.
Rude was silent, Reno held on to October as they all watched him walk away. Her eyes saddened with each step he took. It looked like he was walking away in slow motion, like the world was giving her a chance to go after the one man who held all the answers about her past. Her father. Her heart began to pound wildly as she broke away from the trance she was in.
Her crimson eyes began to glow, she felt like whatever took over her earlier, was coming back again. Reno looked over at her and began to panic. Her eyes scared him. If something happened to October, he didn't know what he would do.
"October, are you okay?" He asked.
"N-no. He can't ….LEAVE ME!"
She sprang forward; Vincent was already pretty far away. Reality set in on her, it felt like a monster had threatened to burst out of her. When she stopped, she looked in her hand and there was the silver materia. She didn't even bother to try and figure out how it got there, and then she held it up in the air.
"Reno! Go get October, this can't end well." Rude said calmly.
Reno ran to October as he saw a gun appear out of the materia. October smirked as the gun fell gently into her hands. Then she turned to Vincent. He could hear what was going on behind him, so he stood in place without turning. His hand on Cerberus, just in case.
"Vincent!" October yelled.
Vincent turned around and stared at his daughter. His eyes widened. There it was, standing in front of him. A monster.
"I won't let you leave." She growled in a low voice. A demon was awakening inside her and it wanted blood. Vincent stood there with his eyes looking past her, Reno about to grab her and hold her down.
"Look at me!" She yelled about to fire her gun. That's when Reno came up behind her and held her in a tight grip.
"Let go!"
"Calm down yo…" He whispered in her ear.
She struggled a bit before she calmed down and returned back to normal. The gun faded and the silver materia fell back down to the ground.
Vincent walked towards his daughter and a man he despised. "Let her go."
Reno did as he was told and Rude sighed with relief.
"Reno, your shirt." Rude pointed out. His red-headed partner looked down at his already messy Turk uniform and noticed that there was blood all over. October's blood. Her crimson eyes widened at the sight. She closed her eyes and walked away from them, a few inches away. Just so she could take a breather. Vincent looked at his daughters back and then realized why she was covered in blood. Something wanted out…And that something had wings.
"We need to take her back to the boss before she gets worse." Rude said quietly to Reno.
"Who is your boss?" Vincent asked, watching October.
"Rufus Shinra."
"NO! Don't take me back please!" October pleaded.
"I want to stay and get my questions answered! I…I want to know what's wrong with me."
Vincent placed his golden clawed hand on his daughters head.
"Go…I'll still be around for now. You'll find me again. Trust me."
She looked up at him and smiled. Those words seemed to ease her mind and calmed the storm that was forming inside of her. From now on she was going to think of her new found father as her guardian angel. Hopefully she would see him again soon.
"October, are you ready to go?" Reno asked.
She nodded and looked up at Vincent.
"Goodbye…Father." He couldn't help but crack a smile, and then they both had that awkward moment of not knowing what to do. Not knowing how to say goodbye after such a short reunion. So, October just went along with something that sparked up inside of her and hugged the tall and intimidating man in red.
Both Reno and Rude chuckled at Vincent's shocked expression. Finally he hugged her. His embrace felt like home to October and she never wanted him to let her go.
Sadly, the moment ended and they al went on their way. As October sat in the back seat of Rude's car she couldn't stop smiling. Reno turned and looked at her with an odd expression.
"Were taking you to my apartment to get ourselves cleaned up. Wouldn't want the boss yelling at us…again." He said with a small laugh at the end.
"Yeah…" She said with a smile. As Rude drove off she looked out the window for her father. But as usual, he had already vanished without a trace.
