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Love is Never Silent	By : OneWingedAngel Category: Final Fantasy VII > Het - Male/Female Views: 1947 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 1
Disclaimer: I do not own Final Fantasy VII, nor the characters from it. I do not make any money from the writing of this story.

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Tifa spent the entire trip staring out the window. - I thought they were my friends. They should be happy that I'm happy. Happier than I've been in a long time. Do they want me to be drunk, depressed and mourning that Cloud may never return?- She sighed a little, shaking her head.
Rude glanced over at Tifa, concerned that she was being so quiet. He reached over and grabbed her hand and gave it a reassuring squeeze. "Do you need to talk about it? You know I'm a good listener."
Tifa just smiled a little, squeezing his hand back. "I'd rather not talk about it right now. It'd just piss me off and I don't want to break a window. Or the helicopter."
Rude nodded. "I appreciate that. I would hate to be stuck in the middle of the desert. I don't think I could take another suit covered in sand." He said, smiling a bit.
Tifa just sighed as she continued to look out the window.
Rude frowned a bit, usually Tifa would tease him about getting his suits dirty. He hated seeing Tifa like this. -No matter what, I have to make her smile today.-
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Rude gulped nervously as the Gold Saucer appeared on the horizon. All he knew about it was that it was built over the ruins of Corel. He would be lying by saying that the building didn't intimidate him. Taking a deep breath, he landed the helicopter and helped Tifa out. "So...What exactly is this place?" Rude asked, looking at the building
"I guess you could say its an amusement park." She said as she dug in her pocket for her pass.
Rude gulped nervously, sweating a bit. "An amusement park...."
Tifa raised an eyebrow at him. "You know what that is right?"
"I know the theory of how they work."
"The theory? So you've never been to one?" She asked.
He shook his head once. "I always thought these places were for kids."
"Adults can enjoy them too. Especially the Gondola." She said bitterly.
Rude looked at her with a raised eyebrow. "Something bad happen?"
"Well looking back on it now, it probably was the best thing that could've happened, but then yes, it was kinda bad."
"Do you need to talk about it?"
Tifa shook her head again. "Not right now. Just cause I'm already annoyed about other things."
Rude gave her a quick kiss on her forehead. "Whenever you need to talk, just let me-"
"Hello there! And welcome to the Gold Saucer!" The attendant said as they walked up to the entrance. "Hey, I recognize you! Didn't you come here a few years ago with a spiky haired friend? Looks like the wrong side of a chocobo?"
Tifa rolled her eyes a bit. “Yes, that was us.”
Rude laughed a bit under his breath, trying to cover it with a cough. -That's a pretty good description of his hair style actually.-
"Well anyway, we are having a special event at Event Square today that’s just for couples! Last time we had this there was this cute couple that won it. Your friend was one of them. He had a cute girl with him too, said she was a flower seller. I wonder what happened to them? I bet they got married and had a buncha kids."
"We aren't interested in the event at all!" Tifa said a little too sharply as she shot the worker a look that could have killed him stone dead before dragging Rude in by the arm.
~~--~~
He stopped as they entered, the lights and sounds overwhelming him. "People willingly go here?"
Tifa nodded as she looked around at the different entrances. "Yup. You did."
"Only because I had no idea where we were going!" He said crossing his arms. "Does everybody on Gaia have no taste in music?"
Tifa giggled behind her hand. "Well not all of them listen to your kind of music." She stopped at one and nodded. "If I remember right, this is the one we want."
Rude's mouth nearly fell open. "W..Wonder Square? You aren't being serious right Tifa?" He asked hesitantly.
Tifa look at him and nodded once. "Dead serious." She said, as she gave him a look that was similar to the ones he gave Reno.
Rude sighed, placing one hand on his forehead. "Are you sure you don't want to go to the Battle Square? That sounds a lot more 'fun'."
Tifa glared at him even more, causing the big man to back up nervously. "Wonder Square."
"Okay. We'll go to the Wonder Square." He said holding his hands up in surrender. "If that will make you happier, then we'll go there."
Tifa smiled up at him and took his hand. "Good! Now down the slide!" She said as she pulled him to the entrance.
"Down the what now?" He asked, eyes wide.
"You heard me, down the slide." She said as she pushed him down it.
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Rude stood up, a bit dazed as he reached the bottom. He was completely confused by the whole process. -Whoever runs this place has a demented sense of humor.- He thought as he fixed his suit and waited for Tifa, shaking his head again.
Tifa landed with a small squeal of happiness as she stood up and smiled at him. "That was fun, wasn't it?" Her bad mood temporarily forgotten.
"That was supposed to be fun?" He asked, raising an eyebrow at her.
Tifa just shook her head at him. "Yeah most people love going down slides as kids. So if you don't think that's fun then Rude, whatdo you do for fun? You've never been to an amusement park!' She asked, disbelievingly. "Do the Turks ever get a chance to relax and have fun?"
Rude put his hand on his face and tapped his cheek with one finger. "I think the word may have been banned at ShinRa. The first President didn’t tolerate anyone slacking off."
Tifa raised an eyebrow. "So Reno did actual work? That's very surprising. I thought he was deathly allergic to it."
Rude shook his head. "No. He's deathly allergic to cleaning. You should see how bad our place looks before I clean it."
"That'd be nice, I'd like to see your apartment someday." Tifa said softly.
Rude took her hand and smiled at her. "I'd like that too Tifa. You could come over one day and I could cook for you this time."
"I'd like that very much Rude." She said as she stood up on her toes to kiss his cheek.
"We'll lookie here! It's evray ones favorite lovebirds!" Cait Sith said as he suddenly appeared, bouncing over to them on his moogle.
Tifa lost her balance and fell backwards, but was then caught by Rude. "Cait Sith? What are you still doing here?"
"Imma fortune teller! Wha' else would I be doin'?" He asked, hitting her gently on the head with his megaphone.
"So this is where you sent him to meet up with Cloud? An amusement park? Why here, sir?' Rude asked, utterly bewildered that a high ranking ShinRa executive would willingly come here.
"Laddie, you need ta' learn ta' let your hair doun a bit."
Rude rolled his eyes. "Yes, sir. I'll get right on that. Soon as I can grow some." He muttered.
Tifa giggled behind her hand. "Well I'm glad to see at least one of us is still enjoying themselves." She said, scratching his ears affectionately.
"So lets get doun to it! I'va fortune for the two of ya!" He said as he smacked the moogle's head with his and it began to dance a bit, then he pulled out the fortune from the moogle's hand. "Alrigh' then, this one goes ta' Rude!"
Rude looked at Tifa, shaking his head. "Do I have to Tifa?"
Tifa nodded once. "Yes, just take it Rude! It's not that bad!" She leaned over and whispered, "Besides, most of them are just nonsense anyways! Ouch!" She said as she was hit on the head again with the megaphone..
"Don' ya be doutin' the fortune's lassie! Now, read it!"
Rude rolled his eyes as he took the fortune. " 'Beware the man with red hair'? Seriously? That's my fortune? I already know this."
"I don' write this! The moogle picks 'em oot! Fine. Have another one then!" He said as he hit the moogle and it began to dance. He yanked the fortune out and handed it to Rude. "There ya go laddie."
" 'This story is about to become depressing'?" Rude looked at him with an eyebrow raised. "What story?"
"Cait, I think you might've lost your touch a bit with some of these fortunes."
Cait Sith shook his head. "Don' you be doutin' lassie!" He said as he hit the moogle's head again as it began to dance again, he reached down and grabbed the fortune out of it's hand. "Alrigh' and this one is for you!"
Tifa smiled as she took the fortune. "Thanks Cait. -Things are never what they seem-. Hmm."
"So those are sum interestin' fortunes. Maybe I'll follow the tw' of ya aroun' to see what happens." Cait said eagerly, jumping up and down on his moogle.
"No way! We aren't going through this again Cait! We're going now!" She said as she grabbed Rude's arm and pulled him away.
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"Rude, welcome to Wonder Square." Tifa said, gesturing around the room. "This is the whole reason I wanted to come here today."
Rude looked around the room, mouth gaping at all the lights, cheery music and sounds. "This is why you wanted to come here? Next time, warn me!"
Tifa rolled her eyes as she walked to the back room and stood in front of the game called 3-D Battler. "No, this game is why I wanted to come here. The final fighter is nearly impossible beat. I'm not leaving until I've beaten him." She said as she pulled her gil out of her pocket and inserted it into the machine.
"What am I supposed to do then? Just watch you?" Rude said, crossing his arms.
Tifa sighed, a bit annoyed. "Rude, you're in an arcade! I'm sure you can keep yourself entertained!" She said as the game powered on.
Rude sighed for a bit as he watched Tifa fight for a few minutes. He noticed that she was wasting a lot of her energy with some of her attacks and was leaving herself vulnerable to easy attacks. -Whatever they said to her really made her upset. I've never seen her this distracted before. - He thought, shaking his head sadly. "Tifa, honey, relax. Breathe! You're letting your emotions control you!"
Tifa vaguely heard his words, but chose to ignore them. She was too busy wrapped up in her own thoughts to care. - How could they talk to me like that? I'd never betray AVALANCHE! I'd never join ShinRa, no matter how much I love Rude! Rude loves me! He wouldn't be doing all this if he didn't! They just don't want me to be happy! What do they want me to do? Be alone for the rest of my life, until Cloud decides to come home? I'm one of the saviors of the world! I'm allowed to have some happiness! So what if it's not with the guy they picked out for me? What right do they have? To decide who I can or can't be with? It's not like AVALANCHE and ShinRa are at war anymore! Why won't they understand? Rude's not a bad guy! He loves me! I know he does! He told me himself that he doesn't want any of AVALANCHE's secrets! Rude is a good guy! Why can't they see that? - She moaned a little as she let her guard down and got KO'd by a punch that she would have normally blocked. Tifa moaned angrily as the game ended. She picked up some more gil as the game started up again.
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Rude decided that it was best to just leave Tifa alone and not get in her way, so he wandered around, looking lost and completely confused.
"Well hi there sir! Welcome to Wonder Square!" A young and overly eager worker said as she came up to him. "Is there anything I can help you with today?"
"Hmph. Not really." He said, not wanting to admit that he was out of his element.
"Well sir, since you look new here, why don't we start ya off with something basic?" She said as she lead him to a brightly lit game called Arm Wrestling Sumo. "This is one of our most basic games. Basically, you have to arm wrestle your opponents. Arm wrestling is when-"
"I know what arm wrestling is!" He said shortly.
"Well, I can obviously see that you, with arms like yours." She said as she looked him over, wondering what she'd never seen such a hot guy come before. "I'll leave you to it for a bit then! If you need any help, and I mean any help at all, just give me a holler, my name's Shelly! Course I do get off at 7, maybe you can tell me some things about arm wrestling." She said as she flipped her hair over her shoulders and batted her eyes a bit.
Rude just nodded, ignoring her as he reached into his pocket and pulled out some gil and stretched arms and he placed it into the machine and let it warm up.
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A short time later, Rude was starting to get bored. He had done very well with the Arm Wrestling Sumo and won lots of GP from it. -Maybe Tifa'll use them for something. I'm not really sure what they can be used for?- He thought as he walked away from it. Shelly also came and tried to teach him how to play Super Dunk, with disastrous results, he nearly lost a pair of sunglasses and hit a few patrons while he was at it. He made his way to the back room, hoping to hide from Shelly, she was following him everywhere like a sick puppy. He was walking around when a game called Torpedo Attack caught his eye. He sat down at it and pulled his money out.
"Ah! I see you've found Torpedo Attack!" Shelly said as she came out from behind the machine.
Rude nearly fell out of the chair, surprised by her sudden appearance. He thought he had finally gotten rid of her. -Reno has to be around here somewhere. He must've paid her to follow me around like this! God damn it Reno!-
"Now this game has had some upgrading done recently. Let me show you some of them!" She said as she reached around him, pressing her chest up against him. "As you see here, we have new avatars of all the popular members of ShinRa, as you know, since this game is based-"
"I know what it's based on!" He said, abruptly cutting her off.
"Well that's good! Y'know I find men who are really smart very attractive. They are ranked from most popular to least popular." She said as she scrolled through the list. "Since you know what it's based on, I'll just leave you alone, so that you can play it." She said dejectedly as she walked away from.
Rude scrolled through the list and then threw his fist into the screen. -What the hell?! How is Reno at the top?! And how the hell is Palmer ahead of me?!- He continued scrolling a bit until he finally found his name, 3 places from the bottom. -Why am I so low? These people don't work for ShinRa anymore!- Rude picked his avatar as he began to play the game, muttering angrily about the fact that whoever designed the characters gave him an afro.
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Tifa sighed annoyed as she walked away from the machine. She was able to get rid of most of her anger, but she was still very depressed that her friends hated her for something she couldn't control. -Rude'll make me feel better. He's always been good about making me feel important and special.- She thought, smiling happily as she looked around for him. Then a depressing thought came to her, -What if he's really upset with me for leaving him to fend for himself? I shouldn't have been so selfish!- She looked around some more and found him on the 3rd floor, staring intently at a game called Torpedo Attack.
-Hmm. I wonder if the President knows about this game.- He thought as he waited, once again, for the final level to load. -He probably doesn't. If he did the game would cost twice as much gil to play and he would be the only character you could play as.- He quickly looked around and took a sigh of relief. "At least Shelly stopped following me around." He muttered as he quickly took down an enemy sub.
"Wow. Y'know you should've been in one of those subs hun." Tifa said, walking up to him and leaning against one of the other games. "ShinRa would've gotten the huge Materia back sooner. We wouldn't have been able to stand a chance."
-Looks like her bad mood as all gone.- He smiled a bit, laughing. "The President thought it was a waste of the Turks talents to do that. 'Why have lower ranking Soldiers if we can't use them all the time.' Those were his exact words."
Tifa laughed a bit, as she wrapped her arms around his neck and gave him a quick kiss on his cheek. "So it looks like you find yourself something to do. Sorry for leaving you all on your own."
Rude shook his head as he took out the last remaining sub, he then stood up and stretched. "It's okay Tifa. It took me awhile to find a game that I enjoyed, but surprisingly, I enjoyed myself." He looked down at her, concerned. "What about you? Are you okay?" He asked, taking her hand.
Tifa nodded as they headed back down the stairs to the second level. "Yeah. I'm feeling better now. Although the machine might be out of commission for a few days…maybe a few weeks?"
Rude raised an eyebrow at her. "What happened to it?"
Tifa looked around nervously. "Umm, well that's the thing…it may have sort of broke…a bit…"
"It broke?" He asked as he looked over and saw several mechanics swarming around a certain machine, smoke was pouring out of it and it sent several sparks into the air as well. "Uh-huh."
Tifa blushed a bit as she looked down at her feet. "Yeah, it was the strangest thing. I was playing it and all of a sudden the screen just exploded!"
Rude raised his eyebrow again at her. "Uh-huh. And the screen didn't happen to explode because you punched it right?"
Tifa just smiled a bit, running her hand through her hair. "Hey, I've got a game for you to try out Rude!" She said as she quickly led him away and into a corner. "It's one you haven't played yet. You might enjoy it." She said as she sat him down in front of the game.
He looked up at them game and looked at her in disbelief. "Mog's House? This game is called Mog's House."
"Yup." She said as she inserted the gil. "Just try it Rude. It won't kill you to try it."
Rude rolled his eyes as the all too cheerful music started playing. "What the hell are you making me play Tifa? The music alone is going to give me nightmares."
Tifa just laughed and shook her head. "Just play it sweetheart."
Rude's mouth fell open. "What?! The entire point of this game is to hook him up with a female moogle? Tifa….."
Tifa laughing, gave him a kiss on his cheek. "Just play it Rude."
Rude moaned and muttered angrily under his breath about the stupidity of this entire place and this game. "So I just have to get Mog to eat then he'll get a girlfriend?"
Tifa nodded, trying to control her laughter. "Yup. That's it. Play it and I'll take you to another fun place here."
Rude rolled his eyes under his sunglasses. "After this place, how much more fun can it possibly get." He asked sarcastically. He sighed with relief as he finished the game a few moments later, then his eyes went wide. "What the hell? They had that many babies?!" He asked as the tiny mogs kept coming out of the house. He looked over at Tifa, mouth gaping and then looked back at the screen. "Wait….one of them is…yellow? How on Gaia is there a yellow baby moogle? What did they do?"
Tifa laughed harder, clutching her sides. "Aeris' reaction was priceless too! She grabbed the screen and called the female moogle a whore! She then refused to play the game until that was fixed."
Rude shook his head annoyed. "Why do they have a game like this here? To scam people out of money?"
Tifa shrugged, "That's probably it. You don't get much GP out of it."
"So what do you use these GP for? I've got maybe 150 or so?"
"You trade them in before you leave and you can get prizes. Or you can use them to go to different places here. Like where we're going next. Speed Square."
"We don't have to go down another slide do we?" Rude asked warily.
Tifa shook her head. "No it's nothing too exciting. We're just going down a tunnel this time."
Rude exhaled in relief. "Thank goodness."
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They were greeted by yet another employee, who was young, but thankfully a male. "Hi there and welcome to Speed Square! In this area you'll be shooting targets to try and reach the highest score! The higher your score, the better your prize!" The male looked over and Tifa and smiled. "Well hey there pretty lady! Haven't seen you in awhile! Did you come back to try and beat your score?"
Tifa grinned and nodded. "Yup! It's still the highest score right?"
"Not anymore beautiful. Some guy came and did the whole thing one handed and with a shotgun too! It was pretty amazing to watch. This guy got a perfect score! It might be hard for a pretty girl like you to beat."
Rude glared at him, sizing him up. He then took Tifa's arm and held her hand tightly.
Tifa winced a bit as she smiled at bit at the man. "Well I think we'll do okay." She said as she gave him the GP.
"Well, have fun you two and don't be a stranger! Come back again soon!" He said with a casual wave of his arm.
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As rhey got situated into the ride, Tifa looked over at Rude and shook her head a bit. "Y'know Rude, you need to not be so jealous all the time." She said shaking out her hand. "I think you might've broken a few fingers."
"Sorry about your hand Tifa. And I wasn't jealous!" He muttered as he familiarized himself with the controls.
Tifa just smiled, shaking her head. "I love you Rude, I'm not going to leave you, okay?" She gave his hand a reassuring squeeze. "Now let's just enjoy this game alright?"
"Hmph. Fine."
Tifa smiled even more. "Y'know maybe with the two of us we can get a perfect score too!"
"That's highly doubtful Tifa. The President would never allow anyone to even try and come close to his score. I'm sure he rigged the game so that it couldn't happen." He said as the ride began.
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"Man! I was so close to getting a high score! My stupid gun just had to malfunction near the end!" Tifa moaned as they walked back to the entrance.
Rude just laughed and shook his head. "I told you President Rufus wouldn't let anyone even come close to his high score."
Tifa stuck her tongue out at him. "Yeah well next time, I'll get a perfect score! He won't be able to stop me!"
Rude just smiled down at her and gave her a kiss on her forehead. "Of course you will Tifa. You won't stop until you beat his score."
Tifa smiled up at him. -I wonder if he'd ride the Gondola with me? Nah, he'd probably get upset at me for making all those demands today.- She thought, looking down embarrassed.
Rude gently pulled her face up to meet his. "What are you so embarrassed for Tifa?"
"Well after all the demands I made today, I was just wondering if you'd do one last thing with me."
"Tif, you've never made any demands today. I willingly came here with you. What do you want to do now?"
"Do you think we could take a trip on the Gondola?" She asked softly, looking up at him nervously.
Rude just smiled down at her and placed his hand on her cheek. "Of course we can Tifa."
Tifa smiled up at him and whispered. "Thank you Rude."
~~--~~
Tifa laid her head against Rude's shoulder as the Gondola slowly took them around the park. "I can see why Aeris wouldn't stop gushing about this. It really is nice."
Rude nodded a bit as he looked out the window and sighed to himself. -I have to do this. I have to tell her tonight. I can't keep this up anymore. She needs to know the truth. I just hope she doesn't hate me for this.-
Tifa sighed happily again as she kissed his cheek, bringing him out of his ruminations.
"What was that for?" He asked a bit startled.
Tifa just giggled. "For everything you've done for me Rude. For fixing my bar, for bringing me back to reality. For asking me out and making me the happiest girl ever. Thank you Rude, I love you so much."
Rude just smiled down at her and put his arm around her shoulder. "I love you too Tifa." He whispered as he kissed her on her lips.
~~--~~
Several hours later, Tifa and Rude were making their way back to 7th Heaven, Tifa was feeling in a much better mood, thanks to the man standing beside her, but she noticed that he seemed quieter than usual, at least by his standards.
The closer they got to 7th Heaven the more nervous Rude got. He knew he had to tell her the truth, the real reason why he asked her out. He just couldn't bring himself to do it. -It'll break her heart. But she has to understand that I never wanted to hurt her. If I don't tell her she will be hurt and who knows what else. This is for her own good.- Rude stopped just as they reached the door to Tifa's house. "Hey Tifa…"
"Hmm? Is everything okay, Rude?" Tifa asked as she dug around for her keys. "You've been really quiet tonight. Is everything okay?" She put her key in the lock and turned the doorknob.
"Yeah, I'm okay, I just need to talk to you about something. It's really important."
"Alright, well how about I make us something to drink and we can-" Tifa stopped in her tracks, mouth hanging open as she walked inside and looked around. "M-My house…"
Everything in the house was torn apart, ripped of its shelf, broken and in complete disarray. Tifa walked in slowly, picking up a few things here and there. Rude just slowly walked behind her.
"Who would do this to my house?"
There sitting in her living room with a huge stack of papers in his hand, was Reno. "Oh hey Tifa! How's it going?"
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