A/N: I am soooooooooo sorry! (Begs forgiveness) I have been a bit sort on the booze aspect of my typing and have also been sleeping a lot! Yes I know I promised a quick update, please don't kill me! (Throws the new chapter at you.) Tonight is Sunday night and I have no work tomorrow so I figure, "Hey I could write the next chapter!" so that's what I did! I hope you all enjoy this fiction and will continue to R&R, because yes I will never update without at least 5 reviews per chapter, even if they are by the same person.
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This story takes place a few months after Advent Children.
Warning: If there are any spelling errors, be nice and forgive me...I am quite drunk.(It took me 20 min to write this intro...LOL! Jk like 5!) OH and this fic has become quite lemony!
Redemption
Chapter 15
Alleyway Chatter
Previously:
"No. Men! Get Him!!!" Cloud released him and began fending off and disposing of all the grunts attacking him. He sliced through them one by one tacking damage as he went along, but nothing to serious, Until. "Uhh..." cloud grunted as a piece of hard steel went through his back. He fell to his knees and collapsed to the floor. All he could hear as he blacked out was the laughter of the greasy man standing before him.
Two Days Later
The Hospital
Tifa yawned, stretched and looked over at Yuffie sleeping in the chair next to her bed with baby sky in her arms. Her lack of a good nights sleep was getting to her. She had a hard time getting to, and staying asleep since Cloud left two days ago. What is taking him so long? I hope he is okay. The door opened and a man in a white coat walked in.
"Ms. Lockheart?" Tifa snapped back to reality.
"What is it?" she yawned and the doctor smiled.
"You are free to leave, just make sure you get plenty of sleep. Don't do too much of anything ok?" Tifa smiled as the doctor began removing all of the tubes and cords that he had injected into her arms and wrists.
"Okay!"
The Warehouse
Cloud's eyes flicked open and he made an attempt to sit up, collapsing as the pain surged through his abdomen. This is ridiculous! He breathed and looked around the room. It appeared he was in a concrete basement, probably below the warehouse. He looked at the cold metal wrapped around one of his wrists and one of his legs his eyes followed the chain to the wall. His Buster sword sat across the room leaning against the wall as if to taunt him with freedom. The Blonde Ex-Soldier Cringed as he forced him self up. After steading himself and adjusting to the pain he walked as far as the chains would let him and reached out for his Buster sword. His fingers could just barley touch it. He grunted moving his fingers over the blade trying to move it closer to himself, to no avail. After a few moments of struggling he eventually gave up, noticing all the blood he was losing trying to reach his sword. Cloud got dizzy and fell on his butt. I need to get out of here asap.
7th Heaven
Tifa tucked Sky in and smiled as the babe fell asleep. Yuffie came in and sat in the room next to the cradle.
"Teef, Let me watch. You need your sleep right now." Tifa smiled at her.
"Thanks Yuffie!" Tifa exited the room as Yuffie looked over the edge of the cradle at the sleeping baby. (A/N: bleah! This wine is nasty! I wish I had not run out of my tasty blackberry Merlot. I loved that stuff!) Tifa closed the door and walked down the hallway. I have a bad feeling about this. Mabey I should ask some of the local snitches. Tifa walked to the register in the bar and withdrew a substantial amount of gil and shoved it into her apron. This should do it. the raven haired warrior closed the cash drawer and exit the bar quietly closing the door.
Two hours later
she continued walking down each alleyway scanning for a particular snitch, when her eyes caught a glimpse of the right man. Tifa rushed over towards the man.
"Peanut!" The man looked at her and made to run when the martial artist caught his arm. "Please, I need you!" The grungy one toothed man eyed the woman.
"Ms. Lockheart?" Tifa nodded. "What is it? This is much against protocol!" he seemed almost startled as the strong woman's eyes filled with tears.
"Please I need some information." she took a deep breath. "I will pay you well, just give me the info I need!" The grungy man pulled at his mustache.
"What kind of information?" Tifa made a sad smile.
"I need to know about the men, the ones who wanted my bar! Where can I find them!?" Peanut smiled a big gummy smile. "Plea-.." he put his hand on her shoulder.
"How much you got?" Tifa handed him a rather large bag of gil.
"This should be more than enough!" The man looked at her in awe and shook his head in disbelief.
"Are you sure? This is quite a bit of money." Tifa nodded. "Alright, the warehouse, their stronghold is located on fifth street down in lower Midgar. Its next to, or rather close to the old military base. You know the one!" He winked at Tifa and made to shuffle to the side. "I believe his bike is still parked right outside. Then again they may have moved it by now." He shrugged and picked up his bundle. "Is there anything else you would like to know?" The brunette thought for a while and shrugged.
"I think that should do it. I'm sorry about the trouble, I will leave you in peace now." she smiled at the man and waived as she made her way back to the bar. Peanut laughed to himself and made his way further down the alley.
"I hope no information is leaked and traced back to me. Well, my dear best of luck to ya."
7th Heaven
Tifa opened the door as quietly as she could and began to pack her things. She tiptoed up and down the halls, to not alert the sleeping ninja who would oppose her plan entirely. Tifa had to make this work, she was tired of things preventing her from having her own family. Now that she had it within her grasp nothing, nothing was going to take that away from her. "Here it is." she sighed as she placed the last Hi- Potion in her "adventurer's pocket" the martial artist slid down the hall and out the door as quietly as possible, taking the time to scribble Yuffie a quick note with a brief explanation. Tifa walked into the garage and started the motor to the spare motorcycle and took off in the direction of lower Midgar. Hold on, I'm coming Cloud!
End Chapter 15
sorry about the shortness and lameness of this last chapter and the amount of time it took me to get it to you! I promise the next chapter will be longer and better than this. It will start picking up I swear, so bear with me just a little while longer ok? Well please R&R. As usual 5 reviews or no new chapter, I'm sorry I'm such a stingy bastard, but that's just the way things are, Sorry. New chapter should be ready to go in just four more days so please be sure to leave me a comment! Love ya all!
-Kannami
"Brain Slugs are people too, vote YES on proclamation 99!"