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Love is Never Silent	By : OneWingedAngel Category: Final Fantasy VII > Het - Male/Female Views: 1950 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 1
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"I'm not going to be the one who tells her! You know how she feels about him!"
"Someone's got to tell her!"
"Well it's not gonna be me!" Yuffie said, looking at Barret and crossing her arms.
Barret sighed, rubbing the back of his head with his human arm. "Well how about this, I found some good materia the other day."
"Oh no! You aren't pulling that one on me again! You already owe me materia for the next two years!"
Barret sighed a little, looking down. "Damn. Thought it'd work again!"
Yuffie stuck her tongue out at him. "In all seriousness, I don't understand why you're having such a problem with this!"
Barret stood up suddenly, knocking the chair over. "You know damn well why I have a problem with this!"
Yuffie stood her ground and continued to glare at him. "I don't see why I have to be the one who does this! She's still mad at me from before!"
"But she'll understand if it's coming from you Yuffie! You're a girl!"
"You're just being sexist! If you're so damned concerned you talk to her! I'm not doing this again to her!"
Barret sighed annoyed, rubbing his head again. "The hell am I supposed to do?"
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"Alright everyone! Now that we're all here, we can get this meeting started!" Reno said, standing at the head of the table.
Rufus sighed annoyed, shaking his head. "Seeing as how I'm the President of ShinRa, I should be the who calls any meetings. Or did you become President while I wasn't looking?"
Tseng nodded. "I agree sir." He turned to look at Reno. "So what's the supposed emergency this time Reno?"
"This is a serious emergency! This concerns the future of the Turks!"
Rufus interlaced his fingers and looked up at Reno, mildly interested. "Oh?"
"Yes sir boss. I wouldn't be callin' this meeting if I wasn't 100% serious!" He said as he slammed his hands on the table.
"Well, well. I have to say I am surprised. I don't think I've ever seen you this serious before Reno. Did you and Rude switch personalities while I wasn't looking?" Rufus asked, continuing to look at Reno.
"It's about Rude and his relationship with Tifa." Elena said softly, looking up from her seat.
Reno moaned a bit. "Laney! I was going to tell him! Thanks a lot! As the rookie said, this is about Rude! And the mission he's doing!"
"Last I heard he had just taken Tifa to one of her favorite places, correct?" Rufus asked, glancing over at Tseng.
"Yes sir. He said that it was going to be a bit harder than he thought to get the information from her."
"Psh!" Reno threw his hands in the air. "Yeah right! I don't think he's even trying boss! He's gone over to her place a lot, but I don't think that they're talkin' about Avalanche. I don't think they're doin' much talkin' at all. Y'know after all the dates they've had, Rude hasn't mentioned AVALANCHE once."
"Just cause you've never had someone that you cared about Reno, doesn't mean that Rude can't care for Tifa like he does." Elena said.
Reno rolled his eyes at her. "Sure rookie. Cause you're doing so well catching Tseng's attention."
Elena quickly looked down at her lap, not wanting to meet Tseng's eyes.
Tseng, however, was completely oblivious to Reno's statement. "Hmm. I do think this is strange sir. It has been over 3 months since he started this mission. Rude is a Turk, you'd think that he'd have something by now."
Rufus looked at the others for a few moments, contemplating what they were saying. "You have a point Tseng. He should've reported in with something by now. Reno, find Rude and bring him up here. I want to have a little…chat with him."
Reno smiled eagerly as he nodded. "Alright! I'll bring him right up!" Reno quickly ran to the door, slamming it behind him.
Elena hesitantly looked up at Rufus, "Umm, boss? Are you sure that you want to confront Rude about this? He really does care about Tifa. There has to be a reason he hasn't gotten any information yet."
Rufus gave her a harsh look. "Elena, I gave him a mission. He hasn't succeeded in it yet. That's very sloppy on his part. It doesn't matter if he cares for her or not. I expect more from my employees, you should know that by now. If Rude isn't up to the task, then we'll just have to find someone else who is. Personal feelings have no place at ShinRa. Do you understand?"
"Yes boss." Elena said as she looked back down at her hands.
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The lunch rush had just ended and Tifa was cleaning up the bar. She kept looking at her phone, Rude had promised to give her a call, to let her know if he was going to be able to join her for a quick lunch. She put her rag down as she sighed happily, leaning against the bar. She began to daydream a little, but quickly shook her head when she heard the door open. "Sorry, but we're closed right now!" She said as she turned away, hoping the customer didn't see how embarrassed she was. "But we'll open up again after 6!"
"What about some drinks for old friends?"
Tifa turned around and smiled bit, seeing Yuffie, Barrett and Cid walk in. She noted that Cid looked really embarrassed to be there. She was even more surprised to see Vincent come in a few seconds later, looking thoroughly awkward. Tifa began to pull out some glasses and pour drinks for everyone. "Here ya go guys! They're on the house."
Vincent sat at the bar, shaking his head as he looked over at the others and glared at them a bit, he looked up at Tifa a bit confused as she placed a glass of red liquid in front of him. "What is this supposed to be?"
Tifa just smiled at him. "Well I don't have any blood for you, so I figured red wine would be a good replacement for you. It's dark enough right?"
Vincent sighed, placing his clawed hand on his head. "Why do you people think that I'm a vampire?"
"Cause when we found you, you were sleeping in a coffin." Barret said taking a large drink of his beer.
"That and you have this aversion to sunlight, or anything resembling sunlight." Yuffie said as she toyed nervously with the materia in her hand.
Vincent groaned lightly. "That's because I was asleep for almost 50 years. You would avoid sunlight too."
"Yeah, I'm still surprised that you were able to sleep with all the stuff that was going on. I mean, Sephiroth was in the same part of the house as you, the two of you were even in the same room for a bit! How'd you miss that?" Tifa commented as she finished pouring drinks.
"I was too busy trying to atone for my sins."
"Just admit it, you're a vampire." Yuffie said as she stirred her drink with her spoon.
Barret shook his head, "Look that ain't why we came here! We aren't here to debate whether or not the vampire is a damn vampire!"
"For the last time, I'm not a vampire!"
Tifa raised her eyebrow at them as she leaned against the bar. "Yeah, why are you all here?"
"What, we can't just say hi to an old friend we haven't seen in awhile?" Yuffie asked, trying to keep the conversation light.
Tifa raised her eyebrow again as she looked at Yuffie. "Really now? I know that Vincent hardly ever comes out when the problem doesn't involve him. No offense Vincent. Now, what's wrong?"
"I told you that she wouldn't be fooled Barret! I just wanna let you know Tifa, I was totally against this from the start!" Yuffie said, as she picked up her materia again and began to run her fingers over it, obsessively.
"Against what Yuffie? Cid? Somebody tell me what's going on."
Cid sighed and placed his drink on the table. "I ain't sayin' a thing this time. You gotta ask Barret, he's the one with the issues."
Tifa turned to Barret and glared at him. "Let me guess, you have an issue with me dating."
Barret shook his head. "Not with you datin' in general. Just with you datin' that Turk."
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"I think the interrogation room is a bit much." Elena said, as she watched as Reno dragged Rude into the room.
"Nonsense, it's never too much. Reno and Tseng will get him to talk. We have to get to the bottom of this."
"Well I still think this whole thing is just wrong." Elena muttered.
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Rude calmly sat in the seat, looking up and Reno and Tseng. "So, is there a reason why I'm in here?"
"It's come to our attention that you've been lying to us Rude." Tseng said calmly, sitting in the seat opposite him.
Rude raised an eyebrow at him, urging him to elaborate.
"You know what we're talkin' about! This whole "relationship" you're in!" Reno said, slamming his hands down on the table. "You aren't doin' the mission right, yo!"
"What's wrong with the way I'm doing my mission?"
"It's been over three months since you started this mission. Your mission was to woo Tifa in order to get information about AVALANCHE and their oil field."
"I'm working on it." Rude said calmly.
"I'm sure having lots of sex with Tifa is getting lots of information from her." Reno said with a roll of his eyes.
"For your information, Reno, I'm not like you. I don't sleep with woman in order to get information. I have my own way of doing things. The closest I've seen Tifa naked is when we were at Costa. " Rude gave Reno a glare. "Getting information is harder than it looks."
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"What's wrong with him?" Tifa asked, crossing her arms.
Barret looked over at Vincent. "Tell her."
Vincent sighed again, "This is ridiculous."
"Jus' do it fool!" Barret said, slamming his hand down.
"The Turks are nothing but bad news. They are bad guys. They don't care about anybody else. They kidnap and kill people. They force woman to use their unborn children in scientific experiments. They turn you into abominations and make you sleep in coffins." Vincent stated, completely bored with the entire proceedings.
"And they try to destroy the planet! They also dropped a plate on Sector 7, killing thousands of people! They killed Biggs, Wedge and Jessie! You do remember what they did to Cloud? An' your hometown?"
Tifa slammed her fists on the bar angrily. "Yes Barret. I was there when it happened! I helped to prevent it! Don't you dare try and bring Cloud into this! Nibelhiem wasn't ShinRa or the Turks doing! That was Sephiroth's fault! And it was sort of our fault that Sector 7 was destroyed! They were trying to kill us! In fact, I don't remember the Turks doing much to us besides throwing us in jail and attacking us a few times! Hell they destroyed one of the planets weapons and tried to save the damn planet by destroying Meteor! Did you also forget that they did evacuate the Slums to save the people below, including your daughter! Or did you forget that? And when the Remnats attacked Edge, Reno and Rude fought Yazoo and Loz, or did that slip your mind Barret?"
"You're doin' a fine job defending them Tifa. Did they convince you to join their side?"
Tifa's eyes narrowed as she glared at him. "How…DARE….you Barret!" She said, venom filling her words. "I'd never betray AVALANCHE like that! I know how to keep my work life and my private life separate!"
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"Tifa hasn't exactly been…forthcoming with information. Whenever we are out and I try to get information from her, there is alwayssomeone around us." He said, giving a pointed look at Reno. "It would be much more productive to the mission if I didn't have all these strays following me all the time."
Tseng considered this for a few moments. "Point taken. Reno, you are forbidden to follow Rude around on his dates! If I catch wind of you trying to screw up his mission, you will be grounded for 6 months. Is that clear?"
"Grounded? What am I, 5?" Reno asked, indignantly.
"Grounded as in no flying the whirlybird, Reno. We all believe here at ShinRa that our employees are physically and mentally above the legal working age." Rufus stated.
Reno gasped. "But El Presidente, I…"
"Not buts Reno." Tseng turned back to look at Rude. "You have 2 weeks to report back with something, otherwise we will assign someone else to the mission. Understood?"
Rude nodded once. "Understood Director. Am I allowed to leave now?"
Tseng nodded. "Yes, just remember, two weeks."
"Yes.." Rude said with a nod as he stood up and walked out of the room. -I'm going to have to tell her soon. I don't know how much longer I can lie to her.- He thought as he walked out of ShinRa and towards 7th Heaven.
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"So I guess we should be lookin' for another bar us to drink at." Barret said, toying with his beer bottle.
Tifa raised her eyebrow at him. "What on Gaia are you talking about?"
"It's only a matter of time til you get too close to him and give up our secrets. Might as well have your boyfriend get you an application now. I'm sure they'd love to have an ex-member of AVALANCHE in their numbers. Then this place'll become a hang out for ShinRa members, won't catch me anywhere near this place then."
"Barret-" Yuffie began, glancing over at the hurt expression on Tifa's face.
"Ain't no way I'm gonna trust those ShinRa goons! Not after all they've done! They got too much blood on their hands. Myra, Dyne, Eleanor. Corel."
"That was Scarlet who did that! She was the one who killed everyone in your hometown! And she was acting under PresidentShrina's orders. Not Rufus, his father's. His father was the one who wanted to destroy the world with Mako Energy."
"Oh so you're on a first name basis with the President? You're defending ShinRa so damn quickly Tifa."
"Maybe because I would like to try and put the past behind us? Maybe I'm not the only one who noticed that ShinRa is trying to atone for their sins! Just like we are!"
Barret slammed his fists on the table. "Don't you dare compare us to those ShinRa bastards! Look Tifa, I'm just gonna tell you this, you need to end it with that Turk."
"His name is Rude."
"I don't give a damn what his name is! He's the enemy! He's nuthin' but bad news! He don't care about you Tifa! Turks don't care about nobody but themselves! He's just usin' you! Soon as he get what he wants, he's just gonna throw you aside! One of these days you're gonna find everything of yours sorted through!"
Tifa glared at him, eyes watering in anger. "I'm not going to stand here and listen to this! You all can stay here and finish your drinks. Marlene has a key, just have her lock up after you leave." Tifa threw her rag down and stormed out of the bar.
"I told you this wasn't a good idea Barret! You've really pissed her off now!" Tifa heard Yuffie say as she threw open the door.
Rude was standing outside of the bar, preparing to knock when he saw the door fly open. "Hey Tifa."
Tifa looked up at him, and smiled at bit. "Oh it's you! Just the Turk I wanted to see!" She said as she gave him a hug.
"Tifa, are you...crying?" Rude asked concerned, noting that she seemed upset.
Tifa just brushed her tears away with one hand. "Take me to the Golden Saucer."
Rude just looked at her confused, "What?"
"You heard me. The Golden Saucer. We're going there, now. I need to get away from certain people.." She said glancing at the bar.
"Are you okay?" He asked putting his hand on her face.
"I will be as soon as we are at the Golden Saucer and no, I don't feel up to talking about it right now. Just take me there. Please." She whispered, trying to get her emotions in check.
Rude nodded taking her hand and giving it a kiss. "Anything for you Tifa." He said as he led her to his chopper.
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