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Love is Never Silent	By : OneWingedAngel Category: Final Fantasy VII > Het - Male/Female Views: 1947 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 1
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3 weeks later
Reno pounded on Rude's door. "Heeyy Rude! Wake up, yo! We gotta go to work! C'mon on man! It's been like three weeks already! Stop mopin' around, yo!"
"If you don't get away from the door right now Reno, I will break every single bone in your body, repeatedly. Now go away." Rude called from the other side of the door.
"Geez Rude. You haven't been to work in like weeks! Are ya even coming to work today?"
"I filled out the paperwork for vacation time. I'm good for another month."
Reno stared at the door flabbergasted. "How did you get vacation time? I've filled out paperwork for it about a hundred times!"
"I filled it out correctly, idiot. Now leave me alone."
Reno moaned. "Fine. But after work we are going out to the the bar and we're going to have a great time! And you aren't getting out of it this time!"
"Reno go away, I'm not in the mood."
Reno sighed annoyed, putting his hands in his pockets. "You're never in the mood nowadays Rude! You've gotten boring!"
"You're partially to blame Reno. Now do you want to see how easily I can punch you through this door?"
"Now why would you wanna go and do that? After all the complaining you did last time you had to fix it!"
"I'd buy a new one. Now go away otherwise I will call the Director and put in a recommendation for Elena so she can get a promotion!"
Reno laughed. "Now why would ya wanna go and do that partner? You'd loose your number 3 spot."
"It would be worth it. Now when I open this door again, you'd better not be standing there!" Rude said angrily.
"Okay. Okay. I'm leaving. But you'd better be ready to leave when I get home." Reno called as he walked out of the apartment.
~~--~~
As soon as he was sure that Reno was gone, Rude slowly left his room and headed into the kitchen to get himself something small to eat. He winced as he caught his reflection in a mirror. He hasn't shaved in over 3 weeks, so his normally clean shaved face and perfectly groomed goatee had become a scruffy, overgrown scratchy, disgusting mess of a beard. His usual clean appearance was covered with old grey sweatpants and a dirty white tank top. "I really should shave...I guess I could do it tomorrow." He sighed shaking his head, looking away.
He caught a glance in the living room and saw that the living room was a mess once again. It was especially worse the closer you were to Reno's room, he sighed shaking his head. "I give up. I don't care how bad it looks, Reno can destroy it all he wants."
He slowly shuffled into the kitchen and poured himself a cup of coffee, putting a large amount of liqueur in as well. He sighed a bit as he then poured a bit more into the cup. He then began his usual morning contemplation. -How could I have saved this? Should I have just told her the truth? Is there any hope of getting her back at all? How could this have gotten out of hand?- Rude moaned a little, laying his head on the table. -If she'd just answer her damn phone and let me explain-
He lifted his head up a fraction of an inch and looked at his phone, 7th Heavens number on the screen. -Just press the button. Everything could be explained and everything will work out.- His finger hovered over the send button, but then he moaned and placed his head back on the table. -Who am I kidding? She won't wanna talk to me. She probably changed her number to her house and the bar, just so I couldn't talk to her. - He sighed again as he placed his head back on the table.
He continued his musings for a few more minutes, until he heard his phone ringing. It startled him a bit, but he waited a few rings to pick his phone up. He moaned annoyed as he looked at the caller ID. He hit the ignore button as he finished his coffee and headed back to his room.
--~~--
His phone rang 3 more times before he finally answered. "What do you want Elena?"
"Rude! You finally answered! Thank goodness! I just knew Reno wasn't telling the truth!"
Rude shook his head. -What is it with people believing anything that comes out of Reno's mouth?- He thought, rubbing his forehead. "So what was Reno saying this time?"
"Well he was saying that how you were really depressed and that you were gonna kill yourself! Please don't kill yourself Rude! I know you're really upset about what happened! But please don't kill yourself!"
Rude rolled his eyes again. "Look Elena, your first mistake was listening to anything that came out of Reno's damn mouth. Secondly, I'm not going to kill myself. What I am going to do is drink and then fall asleep again."
"Alright, but Rude please don't do anything to hurt yourself! I'd be sad of anything happened to you."
"Sorry Elena, but I just had a bad break up and honestly the only woman I want is Tifa."
Elena laughed loudly, causing Rude to wince away from the phone. “Oh no! I’m not asking you out on a date! I’m totally in love with Tseng and someday I’m gonna marry him! In all seriousness Rude, please don’t do anything to hurt yourself! I’m gonna try and see if Tifa will talk to me maybe I can see if I can save this!”
Rude sighed a little. “Look Elena, I appreciate your help and all, but that’s not going to help my situation at all.”
“No way! I’m not going to let you give up that easily Rude! Where’s your Turk spirit? We do the toughest missions on Gaia! We never give up, no matter who we’re fighting!”
Rude sighed, exasperated. “Elena, this isn’t the best time for you to try and cheer me up, or try and inspire me to come into work. I need to be away from everything, until I can figure out what to do.”
Elena sighed a bit, “Just please don’t give up and hang in there Rude, I’m gonna see what I can do to solve this situation! Uh-oh. Gotta go! We’re getting our mission! I hope you feel better soon Rude!” She said as she quickly hung the phone up.
Rude shook his head as he placed his phone on the nightstand and made sure to turn the phone off this time as he leaned against his headboard and closed his eyes, replaying the events in his mind and still trying to figure out if there was any way that he could salvage his relationship with Tifa. -It’s been three weeks. It’s hopeless by now, I should just accept that the past few months were just a happy dream and now I have to face reality. Tifa and I……are history. We’ll never get back together. What can the Rookie do? She can’t fix this problem! She can’t even get the Director to notice that she has feelings for him! How can she get Tifa to go back out with me- He sighed dejectedly, reaching out for his coffee cup as he took another drink of it. -Maybe Reno is right. Maybe Turks don’t get the happily ever after...I’d better not admit that to Reno. He’d never let me live it down, that I admitted he was right.- Rude sighed as he shook his head and closed his eyes, settling back into sleep. -Maybe this time she won’t be in my dreams.-
~~--~~
Rude found himself at the dinner table, sitting between Tifa and a picture of Cloud. He had to admit to himself that he was feeling very jealous at the picture. In it, Tifa was smiling and laughing her arms around the two children. While he hated the fact that Cloud was the reason for her smile, he liked that picture of her. He would prefer seeing her smile to the upset face she had now.
Marlene looked over at Rude for a second, before she looked back at Tifa. “Say Tifa, when do you think that Cloud is coming home? Do you think that he misses our family?”
Rude glared at the girl a bit, cutting his chocobo piece with more relish than he normally would have. -That stupid kid! Doesn’t she know that she’s hurting Tifa every time she talks about Cloud? Of course I’m sure she’s just doing it on purpose.- He looked over worriedly at Tifa, wondering if she was okay. He tried to reach over and grab her hand in support.
Marlene gave him a glare and shook her head a tiny bit as she glared right back at Rude.
Tifa hesitated for a few moments, not noticing the staring contest going on between Marlene and Rude. “Maybe. I’m sure he misses you and Denzel a lot. You kids did mean a lot to him.” Tifa said sadly, looking back down at her plate.
Rude looked over at her, his heart breaking with pity for her. -Poor Tifa. She really does miss him, more than she admits. She’s also totally jealous of the kids, how he cares about them more. I wish I could make her feel better.- He thought sadly, continuing to watch her, not really paying attention to his food.
“Say Tifa, do you think that when Cloud comes back the four of us could go to Gold Saucer together as a family?” She asked, looking at her smiling brightly.
Tifa winced again. “Maybe, we’ll have to see what C-Cloud wants to do when he gets back. If he even comes back.” She said the last part softly.
-I’m really starting to hate this kid! She’s trying to make me jealous, but she doesn’t care about how it affects Tifa!- Rude sighed shaking his head, taking another bite of his food. It was so delicious, the chocobo was cooked to perfection. He cleared his throat a bit, “The chocobo is delicious Tifa.” He said, as he refilled her cup.
Tifa looked over at him, smiling. “Thanks Rude. This is one of my favorite recipes to make! Herb roasted chocobo has always been my favorite food!”
“Just like the desert Tifa and I are going to share is my favorite as well. Which you don’t get to have any of!” Marlene said, looking at him, giving him an angry look.
“Marlene! That’s not a polite thing to say!” Tifa said, embarrassed. “Rude is a guest here, he has done a lot for us! He’s allowed to have some of our dessert. If I hear you talk to Rude like that one more time, you’ll be going up to room without any dessert, is that understood young lady?” Tifa said, giving Marlene a hard look.
Marlene sunk back into her chair and she nodded once. “Yes Tifa. I understand.”
Rude smiled a bit, listening to Tifa defend. -Maybe there is hope for the two of us. She doesn’t seem to dislike me, but she didn’t say she hated me. I guess we’ll have to see how the rest of the evening plays out before I make any judgements.- He thought as he took another bite of the chocobo, giving Tifa a reassuring smile.
~~--~~
It seemed like Rude had just fallen asleep when his bedroom door opened with a loud crash.
“Hey partner! It’s time to get up man! All the babes are waiting for us!” Reno said as the light shone behind him, giving him a holy-like glow.
Rude moaned a bit as he sat up on his bed, blinking a bit confused. “What are you doing in my room Reno?”
Reno looked around, going through some of this stuff. “How on Earth can you stand having your room so clean?! You must not be able to find anything in this neatness! Now come on! You said that you’d go to the bar with me after work. Work is over, so now it’s time to get the babes and do some serious drinking!”
Rude moaned, putting his arm over his face. “Reno, you know I just said that to get you to leave me alone right?”
“I honestly don’t care man. You are getting up and you are going with me! And we’re going to hang out like we used to! Back before that whole mess with Tifa. Now get up! Otherwise, I’ll bring the babes here and we’ll just have a party in your room.”
Rude looked up from under his arm. “You wouldn’t.”
Reno pulled out his phone. “I would. Now, come on buddy! You’ll see, after a shower and a change of clothes, you’ll feel like your old self again!”
Rude sighed a bit as he sat up in this bed and put his head in his hands. “Why are you so insistent on me going with you? You’ve never had trouble getting ladies when you were by yourself.”
“Yeah I know that.” Reno shrugged a bit. “I don’t know if I have a good reason. Maybe I miss hanging out with my best friend? That a good enough reason for you Rude?”
Rude looked him over a bit, wondering if he was being played by Reno. Sighing, he stood up and stretched a little. “Fine Reno. I’ll go to the stupid club with you, but I refuse to have any fun.”
Reno slapped his shoulder and smiled. “Oh trust me bro. You’re going to have lots of fun!”
~~--~~
Rude sat in the darkest corner that he could find, his table was completely covered in various bottles and glasses. The drinks were the only good thing about the club that they were in. The music, in his opinion was awful, the friendly atmosphere seemed to be forced, the women were throwing themselves on almost every available man around, and the general design gave him a headache that had nothing to do with the number of drinks he had, this was Reno’s type of club. Rude found himself longing for the more peaceful atmosphere of 7th Heaven. Sure it had its share of problems, but that just added to the charm of it.
~~--~~
He was standing with Reno as he was trying introducing to some girl whose name slipped Rude’s mind as soon as Reno muttered it. He was too busy watching Tifa as she walked around the bar, trying to help the other customers, but clearly she was overwhelmed. He wanted to try and help her anyway he could, but Reno would refuse to let him leave.
“She’s really perfect for you Rude! She works at ShinRa as an umm, what was it you did again?” Reno asked looking the blond over.
“I’m an accountant, in charge of allocating funds from the departments where they aren’t doing any good to the ones where they do the most good.” She said looking completely uncomfortable with the entire situation.
“See bro? Looks and brains! I totally think that she’s your type!” Reno said, slapping him on the shoulder.
Rude rolled his eyes, under his glasses. “You don’t know my type Reno, besides, you know that I’m dating Tifa right now.” He said as he looked back over at Tifa, who gave him a small smile, which he returned with one of his own.
“Yeah, but Tifa doesn’t have looks and brains like Angelique does! She’s an accountant bro! Plus you work for the same company, so you don’t have to worry about any issues involving dating someone from the other side!”
At this point Rude began to tone out Reno’s voice. He sighed, shaking his head a little. He was really hoping that Tifa would kick everyone out of the bar so that way he could take her out to dinner, he already had a nice place picked out, it was small and quiet, the perfect place for people who didn’t want to stand out. He glanced over at Tifa and noticed that a patron was making his way over to her, the man seemed drunk and was wanting to start trouble.
"Hey you, barmaid!"
Rude’s fingers and eyebrow twitched involuntarily at the way the man was talking to her.
"Yes sir? What can I do for you?" He heard Tifa reply sounding as professional as ever.
"Don't give me that high and mighty attitude."
It took all of Rude’s willpower not to go over to the man and Grand Spark him until he stopped moving.
"Excuse me?" He nodded a bit at how Tifa was trying to be diplomatic, he however was still in favor of using Grand Spark.
"Me and my friends asked you for your good whiskey. Not this cheap crap."
Over the lenses of his sunglasses, Rude sized the man up. -Hmph. He’s so scrawny it wouldn’t be worth my time or effort. He probably doesn’t even workout. Pathetic.- He thought as he shook his head.
"Sir, I gave you some of the best whiskey I have. If you want, I can give you something different, with no charge."
-I wonder why she just doesn’t tell him to back off. He’s obviously not going to listen to her.-
"Hmm, I know what you can give me. How about you close this stupid place and come home with me. I'll show you a real party."
"Sorry sir, but you can't have me, I'm not for sale. Now I'm going to have to politely ask that you leave my bar. Or I will have you thrown out."
Rude popped his knuckles a bit as he glared at the man some more, liking him less and less with every syllable he uttered.
"You think that you're so much better than me, but you're not! Every woman can be bought for a certain price."
"Leave now! Get out of my bar right now trash!"
He was glad that Tifa finally had the sense to try and get rid of him. “Pardon me for a second.” He said as he pushed his way from Reno and towards Tifa.
"You'll pay for that one." He said as he held his hand up to slap her.
Rude closed the gap in a matter of seconds and grabbed the mans hand tightly, not wanting him to touch a single hair on Tifa’s head. He glared at the man. “No.”
He looked up at Rude and glared at him. "Oh, so you think you're going to stop me? I'd like to see you try."
Rude mentally shook his head at the drunk patron. Whatever he was drinking obviously gave him the idea that he could take on a Turk. -Some people will never learn.- Rude quickly stretched his arms a bit. “Fine with me.” He then grabbed the man and put him in a sleeper hold, thinking that it wouldn’t help him if on the first date he made a complete mess of the bar. He finally felt the man collapse in his arms.
"Thank you Rude." Tifa said as she gave him a smile.
Rude’s heart skipped a beat as she smiled at him. He cleared his throat and gestured to the man. “Where do you want the trash?” He asked, secretly pleased that Tifa was okay with him interfering.
~~--~~
Rude shook his head and placed his head in his hands. -Damn it. I let myself get lost in memories again.- He thought annoyed with himself for thinking about Tifa. -I’m going to blame this stupid place for it.- He thought as he finished his umpteenth beer and placed the beer with the others, in the section of the table with all the other beers. -Only one thing could make this evening even worse…-
“Hey Rude! What are you doing sitting here in the dark being really boring and alone man?” Reno asked, holding a bottle of beer in one hand, knocking over the different sections of glasses with his other.
-…and there he is right on cue, as usual. Once again, thank you Reno.- Rude sighed annoyed as he began to straighten up his handiwork, getting more and more pissed off as the bottles kept falling over. Even to this day, Rude doesn’t exactly know why he lost his cool. The popular theory was that the hours of grating techno music, coupled with the gratuitous amounts of alcohol and Reno’s incompetence just made him snap. “Reno…just stop! Everything I had was in it’s perfect place! All set up the way it needed to be! I had everything coming together and then you decided to blow everything up in my damn face!! You decided I wasn’t doing a good enough job! You decided it was time to give it a little touch of Reno. With your stupid rat tail and your skinny pretty boy looks and your egotistical bullshit!” Rude said loudly, glaring at Reno angrily.
“You still aren’t mad about that are ya?” Reno asked shaking his head a bit. “I mean, yeah I know you cared about-”
Rude abruptly stood up, slamming his hands on the table, knocking the various glasses and bottles on the floor. “You’re damn right I’m still mad at you! I was genuinely happy for once in my damn life Reno! I had the girl of my dreams! We cared about each other! But then you had to go and ruin everything that I had planned! Just because you couldn’t get your way, you had to go and ruin my only chance at happiness!”
“Yeah but Rude-” Reno tried to begin.
“Shut up Reno! I don’t want to hear you try and justify your stupid reasons for wanting me to be completely miserable!” He sighed and ran a hand over his head. “Reno, you’ve been my best friend for as long as I can remember. I just can’t understand why you’d do something like that! I loved her Reno! Tifa was one of the better things that I’ve had in my life! The only thing keeping me from kicking your ass to the Promised Land and back is that we‘ve been friends all this time!” Rude sighed annoyed again, he reached in his pocket and pulled out some gil and through it on the table. “Reno, if you know what’s best for you and our friendship, you’d better find somewhere else to sleep tonight. Maybe one of these ‘ladies’ will gladly let you sleep in their beds.”
~~--~~
Rude slowly walked down the lonely and empty streets of Edge, his hands in his pockets, kicking a rock with each step he took. If this had been three weeks ago he’d be walking home from 7th Heaven or wherever he was with Tifa at the time. Maybe they would’ve taken another trip again, maybe to Wutai this time, or wherever Tifa wanted to go. He smiled a bit, thinking about his last trip.
~~--~~
He sighed a bit, as he closed his eyes and relaxed in the sand. Normally, he hated it when he would get anything on his suits, sand included. He knew that he would be up for hours making sure every single grain of sand was out of his suit, pants and tie. However, when he would look over and see the bright smile on Tifa’s face he knew it was worth every single grain sand in his suit.
“Oh Rude, this so romantic.” Tifa said as she leaned up against him. “Everything is so perfect.”
Rude smiled as he put his arms around her and held her close to him. “I’m glad you think so. It’s pretty nice out here, especially when there’s nobody around to-”
He never even saw the volleyball coming at him until it hit him right in the face. He winced a bit, not because it hurt, which it didn’t, he didn’t even feel a thing, but because he heard the sound of plastic breaking. There was only one thing on him that could make that sound.
“Oh no Rude!” He heard Tifa call out worriedly. “Hey jerks! Watch what the hell you’re doing next time! You could’ve hurt someone!” He could hear Tifa kneel down beside him and knew she was checking him over, making sure he wasn’t hurt.
-No…no…not my sunglasses. These are my only pair of sunglasses that I have with me! They can’t break! Those stupid punks!- He slowly pulled his sunglasses off his face, watching as they broke in front of his eyes. “My sunglasses…they broke my sunglasses!” He said sadly, as he made a face similar to that of a hurt puppy.
He heard Tifa’s breath catch in her throat. “Rude….”
-What am I gonna do? I can’t be with out my sunglasses! I’ve had these sunglasses for years now!- He looked down at them sadly, he felt completely upset and depressed that they were broken. Those sunglasses had survived four years of Reno’s shenanigans, they couldn‘t break now. He then realized that Tifa was staring at him. -Oh yeah! Tifa has a pair of sunglasses! She promised me that I could borrow them!- He looked up at her. “Tifa? Did you bring your sunglasses with you?” He looked around worriedly for where she placed them.
Tifa handed him the sunglasses. “Rude, I have a request before you put the sunglasses on.”
Rude sighed in relief as he took the sunglasses away from her. “What is it Tifa?” He asked a bit concerned as he paused in putting them back on. -What’s wrong? Did my nose break or something? Did she change her mind and hate this idea?- His mind ran through several nerve wreaking possibilities until he saw her lean over and felt her soft lips brush up against his own.
“Okay, you can put them back on now.”
Rude just looked at her, stunned at what just happen, his mouth hanging open a bit. -She kissed me! Tifa…just kissed me!- He gave her a smile, his mind going completely blank as he tried to figure out how to reply to the kiss. Mostly, he was trying to figure out of this was a dream or not, Tifa had kissed him, sure they had kissed each other’s cheeks a few times, but this was full lips on lips contact!
“Sorry, I just didn’t want our first kiss to be while you were wearing your sunglasses. The moment just seemed perfect for it.”
Rude mentally slapped himself. -Idiot! If you would’ve taken off your sunglasses earlier you could’ve kissed her already! Idiot.- Rude just continued to smile at her, unable to stop the somewhat goofy grin that was for sure covering his face. “So did you plan on getting the ball thrown at me? Did you have a backup plan incase that one didn’t work?” He said teasing her a little bit.
Tifa put her hand up and giggled a bit. “Your just too adorable Rude. I love you.” She said, kissing his cheek.
Rude was sure that his heart had skipped a dozen or so beats. There was no possible way that he could’ve heard her correctly. -Did she just say what I think she said?- He thought, his mind in a daze, unable to find his voice.. He just blinked a few times at her. “W-What did you say?”
Tifa giggled again, her giggle made Rude’s heart just want to melt. “You silly Turk, I said that I love you.”
Rude grinned as he took Tifa in his arms, completely at peace at the moment. The woman he loved admitted that she loved him. Not only that, she had kissed him too! There was no way, this was real, this had to be a dream! He wanted to pinch himself to see if he was awake or not. -Better tell her that you love her too! Otherwise she’ll think that you don’t care about her and are just stringing her along!- “I love you too Tifa.” He whispered as he kissed her on her lips, loving the softness of them. For the first time in his life, Rude felt completely happy and at peace with the world.
~~--~~
Rude sighed, leaning against the entryway of his kitchen. -Damn it. When is thinking about her going to stop hurting so much?- He sighed as he grabbed himself a glass of water and drank it, hoping it would help relive the bad hangover he was sure to have when he woke up the next morning. He thought back to what Elena had said, about how she was going to try and fix this, to try and get them back together. -There’s nothing that she can do. She’s just a Rookie. Besides, she wouldn’t be able to get Tifa to listen to her. I gotta try and get her to talk to me- He thought as he looked at his fridge and pulled a piece of paper off of it. “Maybe this is the key.” He said to himself as he looked it over. “This is my last shot.”
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