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Legacy of the Lifestream	By : butabara Category: Final Fantasy VII > General Views: 2387 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 0
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Chapter List
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A.N. This one is kind of short, but it is a crucial point in the plot, so forgive me. I hope you like the bits of comedy... as the rest of this is pretty dramatic. Sukai's meeting was written by riverseithr, and this chapter was, as always, beta'd by Sytherea Orianthe. R&R!
Chapter 23: Gege and MeiMei
Sassi sighed in relief as she reached for the bottle next to her bed. She'd gone without her medication for far too long. She was immensely glad that she was able to get her refill in Edge before Rufus decided to move in.
Rufus ShinRa. The name left a bitter taste on her tongue. She couldn't believe that none of them had seen this coming... then again, Rufus was always very good at making people see only what he wanted seen.
She opened the bottle and sniffed at the contents warily, wondering if he'd somehow given her something different. Something that could harm her. It certainly didn't smell any different, and it looked the same as it always did. Shrugging her shoulders, she took one pill from the orange bottle, bringing it to her lips and anxiously awaiting the sweet relief from her raging emotions.
!#$%^&*()
Harmony was jostled awake when the mattress beneath her moved, becoming instantly alert when she heard the sharp intake of a pained breath.
"Are you okay?" She asked groggily, rolling over and finding Kadaj sitting upright, clutching at his ribcage.
"I'm fine," He told her, "just a little sore."
She smiled apologetically, and prepared to express her regret for the rough activities of the night before, when a strong sense of dread washed over her senses.
"Sassi!" Was all she said, her voice a breathy and panicked gasp.
She bolted from the bed, not even stopping to put her clothes on before rushing out of the room and down the hall, heedless of Kadaj's cries to wait.
Yazoo and Cissnei were walking down the hall ahead of her, the middle Remnant gasping as his face colored in what looked suspiciously like a blush, and he averted his eyes.
"What's wrong?" Harmony faintly heard Cissnei shout after her.
"Sassi!" Harmony managed to gasp as she flew around the corner. When her charge's room came into view, the Guardian didn't even so much as slow her quick-as-wind pace, ripping the door open to reveal a choking Sassi.
"What's wrong?" She said frantically. Sassi waved her off.
"I'm fine, I just swallowed a pill wrong." Sassi explained with a croak. She held up the bottle and shook it.
Harmony grabbed it from her hands, inspecting it. "What is this?"
"Its an anti-depressant. I've been taking them for a few years. I got it filled yesterday." Sassi said, wondering what had her Guardian so worried that the woman had burst into her room in nothing but her underthings.
"This is bad, Sass. I feel some seriously bad joo-joo right now." Harmony warned, holding the bottle up and out of Sassi's reach when the red-head tried to retrieve it.
"Don't be ridiculous." Sassi said, "I smelled it, I looked at it. Its the same as its always been."
"No." Harmony said when Sassi reached for the bottle again. "Not until someone tests this. I'm serious, Sassi. If this is bad enough that my Guardian blood reacted to it, then something's wrong."
Sassi sighed. "Fine. You can have Sukai look at it. "
"I was going to do that with or without your permission, Sass."
Sassi snorted. "Yeah, whatever. By the way, you're basically naked, and Loz will be coming out of the shower in about five seconds." She said, smirking when Harmony gasped as though she'd only just realized that she was in only her bra and panties.
"Oh my God! Give me that robe!" Harmony said, snatching the robe off of the back of the door and racing out of the room before she caught a glimpse of way more than she wanted to see of the eldest Remnant.
Sassi snickered as the bathroom door opened.
"Morning." Loz said, walking to the door. "Hey, where's my robe?"
!#$%^&*()
Dr. Boughman looked up from the cold metal floor he was sitting on, his eyes widening in fear when he saw the very man that had captured him standing in the doorway. He'd heard of the creative mind of this one, and of the tortures that he inflicted upon others with no remorse what-so-ever.
"I'll cooperate." He rasped when the long-haired Remnant before him reached into the bag at his hip and retrieved what looked like a scalpel.
"Oh, I'm sure you will." Yazoo crooned. Cissnei watched the scene from the control room, he knew, and he was positive that he would come to regret having Cid install security cameras in all of the interrogation rooms. This was a side of him that he did not want his lover to see.
"Just tell me what you want to know, and I'll tell you everything! There's no need for... other methods." Dr. Boughman all but pleaded.
"Alright then, I want to know everything. What Rufus is doing, why he wanted Sukai and Harmony, and most importantly, where we can find the little shit when he runs off to hide." Yazoo said, closing the door behind him and leaning against it.
Dr. Boughman sighed and nodded.
"Rufus ShinRa has been lying to all of you for as long as you've been alive." He said, referring to the public's belief that the Remnants and the others that had died had simply been resurrected. "I'm sure that none of you know who the leader of Gaia's Retaliation really is... its Rufus. He's been leading them, and at the same time, killing them off to make you all think that he's on your side. He's been in on it the whole time, and he ordered the kidnapping of those children." He gulped when Yazoo's jaw clenched.
"And his reasons?" He growled.
"I can't say that I know for sure, but I personally think that it has something to do with how terrified he is of you all. With Jenova gone, he now has no control over General Sephiroth – not really. The General continued working for him because he had nothing better to do, not because he had to. And Rufus knows this. He is afraid that one day, Sephiroth will return to the way he was before, so he devised a plan to..." the doctor trailed off, not sure how to divulge this information without getting himself killed.
"Plan to what?" Yazoo hissed, standing from the wall and taking a menacing step toward the man on the floor.
"He's... He's trying to create an embryotic form of Jenova! He thinks that if he has her, then he'll have total control over the General and all of the Remnants again!"
Yazoo paused, his face paling. Rufus was what?
"That's why he wanted Sukai... the Guardian was just the biggest threat, and he wanted her eliminated. We were to take Miss Geordon to the labs and give her to Professor Hollander to-"
"Hollander is dead!" Yazoo snapped. He felt a chill overtake him when the man shook his head.
"No, he isn't. When we found him, he was almost dead... but we were able to save him. He's leading the project to create the artificial Jenova in the bowels of the new ShinRa tower." Boughman stated.
"Then why did you want Sukai?" Yazoo asked.
"While I was examining her, I noticed a dark mass on her abdomen. Its Geostigma, I know it is. I've seen it many times before. When I gave her an ultrasound, I discovered that Miss Hiroshima-Williams is pregnant, and the sire is General Sephiroth himself. Rufus thought that by using the child's cells, the child having been created with the purest form of Jenova cells left in the world, then he could bring his creature to life, and set his plan in motion."
Yazoo was fighting not to choke on the gasp lodged in his throat. Sukai had... Geostigma? "How can we help her?" He demanded.
Boughman swallowed heavily, knowing that if he didn't agree, his life was over... and if he led them in the wrong direction, even unintentionally... it would be the same.
"The only thing we found that even came close to working was to give the patient large doses of Mako. Pure, raw Mako. It can't heal the Stigma, but it can stop it from spreading. Though with the Stigma being caused by the child within her, I'm not sure if it would even do that. Shelke Rui of the WRO handles all of the experiments and studies on what few samples we have left."
At that name, Yazoo's complexion paled even further. Reeve and Shelke were still in the tower!
!#$%^&*()
"Don't worry. We'll get him out." Vincent said as he strapped the Cerberus and the Hydra to his body. He and Sytherea were going to infiltrate Edge and retrieve their friend, Vincent insisting that only he and his lover go. Of all of them, he considered Reeve to be his closest friend, and he would not let anything happen to him. However, first things first.
When Sukai found out what she would need to do to survive, she fought it with everything she had. She'd spent so many weeks in detox getting that blasted drug out of her system, and now she had to have it, or her and her child would die.
Deciding on a course of action, Sukai quickly contacted Tseng. Her Gege would help her. The others were going along to the meeting point just in case Tseng was followed.
The airship had touched down in a remote clearing, just a mile or so away from the meeting point, and Sukai, Sephiroth, Yazoo, Genesis, and Angeal had already left, the Inventor anxious to confirm that her Gege was indeed alive and well.
They could only pray that Tseng would know what to do.
!#$%^&*()
Sukai knew that her only hope was to see Tseng. Her parents could not help her, hell they were being watched, anyone she considered a friend was already with her, save for a couple of Turks. She already had a two hour long fight with the rest of the group that this was their chance. Yazoo mentioned that his father may be able to help, but that was a slim chance. The man could have died. Syth came with her, since Cissnei was already on the 'man-hunt' and could not be called to help. Vincent and Aerith also decided to tag along, and so did Sephiroth. Aerith understood Tseng better than most everyone, and Sukai wasn't sure if Sephiroth came because of Aerith or for her. It didn't take long for her to reach her destination after she sent the message to Tseng, using their special signal that they made when she was training. Fond memories flashed in her mind of times before:
"If you ever need me, use this," said Tseng, "From now on I will be your brother. I miss having conversations in the Mothertongue."
"My Gege?" said Sukai, eyes widening, "I always wanted one. Mom and Dad said that I was more than enough..thanks..I guess."
"Now would you stop terrorizing the other students?" Reprimanded Tseng from her and Reno's previous prank.
"Shì dàgē," she sighed, "Wǒ kěyǐ zhìshǎo tāmen kāishǐ zéguài ne?"
Tseng smiled and laughed before he ruffled her hair. "No."
Sukai shook the thoughts from her mind and looked around the old ruins of the first place she remembered. The Old Don's House. She bought it when she had the funds, believing in the sacred Wutai tradition of keeping memories alive in a place where family dies. Even back then, those kids, long gone and grown, some now dead, were her family. She placed a bouquet of red roses and lily of the valley in a vase in the foyer before making her way into the study to think about everything. Though the memories of her life, seemed to happen yesterday, most of her childhood was forgiven and forgotten or turned into her strongest weapon, her will. The others took positions among the many rooms and waited for Tseng, to see if he would arrive. However when Tseng simply waltzed into the room, it only caused Sukai to blink at him.
"Gege," She said in mild hope. "I was wondering when you would get here. I need your help."
"Sukai," He said in a calm, cold voice. "I am under strict orders not to help, or associate with you."
"What?" She asked, dumbfounded. "You don't say hello or how are you doing? What is the meaning behind all this?"
"I mean Rufus has ordered me to capture you if I find you, and kill anyone who stands in the way." He said moving slowly around to sit in a chair across the room from her. "You should not have asked me here. You have no idea what you have done."
"Yes I do," She said, confused at his behavior.
"Alone? If I wanted you-" He started before Sukai cut him off.
"That would make me foolish. Of course I didn't come alone. Vince, Seph, Aerith, and Syth are here. Aerith is making tea I believe, the others are out killing any reinforcements you may have brought," She said, narrowing her eyes, "You taught me well. Now let us chat. You were the one that sedated me, telling me everything was going to be alright. Why?"
"I was ordered," He deadpanned.
"Did you have any knowledge of why they would want me knocked out?" She inquired again.
"You know better than to ask questions like that. Sukai, we are only given enough information to get the job done, no more, no less," He said, looking away from her and now at Aerith, who just entered the room, "They said you were ill."
"I am ill, in a way," She said, trying not to let her eyes betray her, "I need Mako for-"
This time Tseng cut her off, "Mako! For what, transfusions? I doubt that. It would seem that Sephiroth was not good enough for you! To forget your pain you use people and things. Always the unpredictable beast you were when I found you. It would seem that you are turning back to your old habits."
His words cut like a knife into her heart and even Aerith, who was understanding, dropped her tray in shock, scattering liquid and shards of glass all over the floor. Sephiroth and the others appeared in the room, each having various looks of anger and disgust on their faces.
Sukai choked back a sob, "I-I will never go back to that!"
"You went to thatwhen the Don kept you," He continued.
"So what, was I your pet? Trained to kill, and I suppose if Rufus had of asked of it from you, I would be chained up somewhere being fucked by him in his sadistic pleasure! Couldn't bite the master's hand so you got Reno, and when he was too much trouble, you found me! Is that it?"
"Save your breath!" He commanded, "Sukai, I am a Turk, first and foremost. When I saved your life, it was in trade for the lives of others. You were never meant to be free of us. If Yazoo had not have bought your contract, you would still be with us. Perhaps you would be under Hollander's care..."
"That insane psychopath! He nearly killed Genesis! He would kill me!" She said, choking back tears, "Does it even bother you that he is still alive after all he has done?"
"I am afraid that it does not," Came the voice of her Gege, the words cutting deep, "Genesis was nothing but a failed-"
"Bùyào nǐ gǎn shuō!" Yelled Sukai, rising up out of her chair, "The man I know and love would never call him that. He knows Gen as a person, not some experiment or case number!"
Aerith came to hold Sukai back before she did anything, while Sephiroth and Vincent stared at the Turk with wide eyes. Tears formed on the edges of her eyes and began to fall uncontrollably.
"I am failing my orders-" He began, but Sukai lost it.
"Orders!" She choked out between sobs, "Always orders! To the job, always. We are Turk. I remember the first time you said those words to me. Do you? I came to you because I am dying Tseng! My child carries Jenova cells, and it is killing me! Hollander and Rufus wanted my baby! They tried to take it after you-"
"Sukai," Said Aerith, understanding what Tseng meant by his last words, "Enough."
Tseng couldn't believe his ears when he heard Sukai. She was pregnant? Then what was Rufus really up to? This, he would have to find out on his own, but to save his Mèimei, he had to distance himself. Cut all ties to her, for now.
"Zhè shì wǒmen zuìhòu yīcì huìyì shàng, bùyào lái zhǎo wǒ. Nǐ zuìhòu yīcì jīhuì táopǎo zhīqián, wǒ bìxū zhuībǔ nǐ." He said before turning away from her.
"Then you should have left me to rot in this place!" Sukai cried before her body collapsed from under her.
Sephiroth ran to her side and caught her before she fell to the ground. He held her close as he stroked her hair. He wanted to rip the spine out of Tseng and beat him to death with it, but it broke his heart to see Sukai cry like that. He wanted to say anything, do anything, to make her stop. Though he knew that Sukai didn't want him dead, yet. As Tseng tried to pass Vince and Syth, they both had their weapons trained on him, ready for Sukai to allow them to kill him. Aerith stepped in and spoke up before any blood was shed.
"Let him go," She smiled sweetly, "Let him leave alive. He will not tell anyone what happened here."
"How can we be sure of that?" Asked Vincent.
"V is right!" Snapped Sytherea.
"It is going to be alright," Said Aerith.
"Aerith is right," Said Tseng, "I won't tell anyone, not even Rufus that I came here today. You have my word."
"Coming from the man who did that to the one person who looked up to him the most!" Snapped Vincent pointing at Sukai who still shaking and refused to look up.
A few moments rolled by, but eventually Aerith convinced them to let Tseng go. They all gathered around Sukai, waiting for her to say something, but they couldn't even hear sobs from her. It pained everyone to see her like this. She was the cheerful one of the group, the one who always came with friendly advice, outrageous pranks, inventions beyond her years, and the one who smiled though her life was hard. Now they looked on at a small woman clinging to Sephiroth as if he was the only thing keeping her alive. Sephiroth looked up at them, eyes pleading for help.
"Is there anything we can do?"
"I am not sure," Came the now solemn voice of Aerith, "Tseng... he-"
At the mention of his name, Sukai jerked back as if she was lashed with a whip. Her body curled into a tight ball, face burrowing deeper into Sephiroth's hair, wishing she could wake up from the nightmare. Her precious Gege not only didn't care, he tossed her to the side, like she was nothing. Everyone could feel the tension as Sephiroth picked her up and tried to gather the pieces of her broken heart as best he could. He bent down and whispered into her ear.
"I can help you forget this... Sukai. Please, answer me." He was now pleading for a response as he kissed the top of her forehead.
"Sephiroth?" Sukai said with a voice that was hauntingly empty, "Get me out of here."
Translation:
Shì Gegēyes- big brother
Wǒ kěyǐ zhìshǎo tāmen kāishǐ zéguài ne?- Can I at least blame them for starting it?
Bùyào nǐ gǎn shuō!-Don't you dare say that!
Mèimei- little sister
Zhè shì wǒmen zuìhòu yīcì huìyì shàng, bùyào lái zhǎo wǒ. Nǐ zuìhòu yīcì jīhuì táopǎo zhīqián, wǒ bìxū zhuībǔ nǐ.-This is our last meeting, do not come looking for me. Your last chance of escape before I must hunt you down.
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