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Tseng x Elena
It hurt Tseng to know that even after four years he was no closer to finding the person who kidnapped Elena. A simple mission, in and out, thats all it was. Four years ago today her PHS was dropped cover in blood, a black car skidded away. If he'd thought sooner he would of followed, he didn't realised she'd been kidnapped till it was too late. And every day from that moment he felt regret, worry and above all heart broken. He had failed her. He had failed himself.
The Wutai man closed his laptop down, he couldn't concentrate. Four years. The 96 hour window he had to find Elena came and went with no evidence surfacing. Back the he had all the Turks pulled into help. The only information they had on the group was that they were the against the group that the Turks were falling, the enemy of the enemy. The Turks had questioned everyone they could think off. The anti group gave up all the information quickly, but it wasn't quick enough. The group had the blonde. The car was dump with nothing more then blood splatter that linked to Elena. That was all. Which didn't help was the car was being torched when they found it. They lost all evidence. The trail in finding the blonde. They lost. Every Turk worked around the clock. But nothing ever came up. She was gone.
And now all he could do was wait, unknown if she was alive or dead. All the evidence they had pointed to her death, but he never thought she'd give up so easy. He just wanted something. A sign. Anything. After four long years, one thousand four hundred and sixty days, he had heard nothing from her. Complete and utterly nothing. There had been no sights. No trace. Her bank details never activated. Her home never returned too. All the signs pointed to her death. Every last one of them pointed too finding her dead. But he couldn't help but feel that she was alive. Without a body he didn't want to believe she was dead.
The Turks had to close the case, they had too. All they did was hit dead ends. One after another. Legend and Two Gun still did checks around different areas and nothing showed. Rude and Reno spent there holidays searching for Elena, as Tseng did. But nothing ever came from it. Tseng went two weeks at a time around the whole of Gaia. From Midgar to the desert North Corel. Tseng and Reno went for over a month and searching from Costa Del Sol to Rocket Town to Cosmo Canyon. Rude and Cissnei searched the Bone Village and the Sleeping Forest. Yet Elena had never been seen, no one knew her face from the photos. Tseng carried a photo of Elena with him at all time, no matter where he went for a mission, he'd ask around.
Tseng opened the bottom draw his desk. Taking out a folder. Not just any folder. As he opened it, a photo of Elena was the first thing he saw. The smile on the blonde's face made his stomach turn. He felt like he had failed her, more and more with every passing day. And looking at the photo, made him feel worse. But it was a smile that haunted him. Three weeks before everything kicked off, Elena and Tseng had attended Knives and Katana's wedding. The blonde had told Tseng how she felt about him, they danced the night away at the reception and for once Tseng felt relaxed. And thats when the last photo of Elena was taken. She had a big smile on her face her eyes were open showing her chocolate colour eyes. Her hair was fixed to one side like normal, but for once she wore earrings. A gold necklace around her neck that Tseng had brought for her a few months before Katana and Knives' wedding, on the blonde Turks birthday.
The Wutai man picked up the photo, looking at her face. How he wanted to see her in the flesh again. How he wanted to hold her like he got too for a few weeks before all these mess kicked off, till he lost the women he truly loved. Sighing he placed down the photo and closed the file on. Standing up he moved to the window in his office, looking out across Midgar. He wanted his Elena back. He wanted to know if she was safe, he wanted to know more then he knew possible. He missed her. And after four years. He knew he loved her. Tseng knew he loved Elena. And now, all he had to do was find her.