Finally, decided to start this. Updates will be sporadic since, I am in my final year of University. This is unbeta'd.

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Tifa stopped wiping down the bar for the umpteenth time that evening to take a glance over the quiet bar, finding only a handful of customers scattered around the bar. The barmaid looked at her PHS, checking for a message from Cloud; however, she found no new messages. She sighed deciding, since it was nearly closing time, to close up early.

"Ok, guys time to drink up. I'm closing the bar now" The barmaid called out, earning a few groans. While the customers finished their drinks and headed for the exit, the barmaid smiled at each of them bidding each one farewell. After everyone had left, she locked the door and started collecting up the glasses, glancing at the clock, "Cloud, where are you, you better have a good excuse for being late back." she muttered to herself.

The toilet door opened and two men walked out, one in a Red top, the other wearing Black. Both men walked over to the counter where she was putting the glasses into the cleaner, she looked up at them, "Sorry, we're closed, you will have to leave."

She headed over to the door to let them out, but the men just stared at her.

The Man in Red spoke, "We're not after drinks miss, and we are not leaving either, not yet anyway"

He looked at the cash register, and they both reached into their jackets pulling out handguns aiming them at her. The bar maid looked at them, fear in her eyes. What did they want?

The Man in Red spoke "Do as we say and you won't get hurt, understand?"

She nodded and just stood there scared to move "Ok, we want the money from till." He placed a bag from his pocket onto the counter.

Realising they were robbing her, which had never happened to her before, she remained glued to spot unsure what to. "Empty the money from the till into the bag, don't try anything, and you won't be hurt!" Man in red told her again. She slowly walked towards the till, and picked up the bag. Finally deciding to do as they instructed, she started placing the Gil into the bag. A familiar roar heard from outside which meant Cloud was home. Hope formed in her mind that he would help her deal with the robbers.

"Hurry up miss, we don't have all night here..!" the man in red demanded, Tifa noticed he was starting to look antsy, she placed the last of the gil into the bag. Footsteps sounded from the garage, so the man in Black took a few steps towards the door aiming his gun at it, as he did it opened and Cloud walked in. He instantly froze seeing a gun aimed at him. Tifa glanced at Cloud nodded, he nodded in return, she placed the bag on the counter then stepped to the side, Red Jacket followed her movements with his gun, and reached for the bag. As he did, Tifa leapt over the counter catching him off guard, landing a punch on his nose, blood erupted from it and he fell over landing on his back dropping the bag and the gun.

The martial artist looked down at him in satisfaction, noticing the blood free flowing from his broken nose. She heard a gunshot, and her head whipped up to look over towards the man in Black. The man was standing over Cloud, who was holding his chest where blood was ebbing from where he had been shot, she screamed his name in horror falling to her knees helpless as the man in black slowly aimed the gun at Clouds head and fired, killing him instantly, this caused her to start weeping.

"That was stupid miss, we told you do what we say and no-one would get hurt, this man's death is on you." The men in black said looking at her, he helped the man in red up and they stood in front of her a smirk on their faces.

"Please, just take the money and get out. Leave me to mourn" Tifa said between sobs.

"Oh, I'm afraid we want more now. You broke my nose, you need to be punished," the man in red said looking at her lustfully.

They both walked over to her and stood either side of her. The man in red pulled her up from her knees to a standing position grabbed her chin and kissed her on the lips, she tried to push him away, but as she did the other man placed his hands on her shoulders and pulled her suspenders down before grabbing her top pulling it up exposing her breasts. The man in red gazed at her now exposed breasts and grabbed them harshly.

"STOP!" Tifa shouted at them, the man in black hitched her skirt up and pulled her underwear down "Please stop this..." she whimpered.

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When they were finished with her, they stood over her readjusting their clothing. They both had smirks on their faces, "I think you learned your lesson miss."

She looked up at them both "Go to hell!" she spat at them and jumped up, kicking the man in the ribs causing him to stumble backward; she turned to face the man in red who just raised his gun at her and shot her. She grabbed her chest and fell to her knees, blood was now pouring out from the bullet wound.

"That was really stupid miss, we were leaving" Man in red said while the man in black placed the gun on her temple and fired.

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Her eyes shot open, she was alive? She looked around and found she was sat in a chair with two more to her left, and another to her right.

A man walked over to her, "You ok miss?" he pressed a button on control panel in front of her and the harness holding her in place lifted up. She got up from the chair, and looked back at it in confusion she noticed a monitor above the chair had the words "Game Over" displayed on it. "Sorry miss we need this booth for the next group of players."

"Where am I?" She muttered.

"You are in Square land, in the Final Fantasy simulator, he gestured towards a door labelled "exit", please make your way to waiting room B. Your friends are there waiting for you an attendant will be there shortly with your belongings."

She nodded and slowly walked in the direction the attendant had indicated. At the exit she placed her hand on the handle, glanced back to the chairs, and saw a group of four people walking over towards them, the Final Fantasy theme music was playing beyond the door they came in. She shook her head in confusion, and walked through the exit.

She walked down a corridor and found the waiting room. She walked inside and found a woman with shoulder length hair sat on bench with two men with spiked hair either side of her. She instantly recognised them "Cloud, Zack, Aerith... That you...?" she sped up and took a seat opposite them.

"Yeah, we were told to wait here, I've been here nearly thirty minutes, Aerith got here a few minutes later and then Cloud walked in just a couple minutes ago."

Tifa nodded "So what's going on here. Do you guys know?"

"Not a clue" Zack responded. "We were told our memories would come back shortly, but nothing so far."

A door opened and a taller younger version of Hojo walked in carrying a tray with four boxes on it. "Ok, guys here are your belongings." He placed the tray on the bench next to Tifa.

"So how did the game end for each of you?"

"I was killed by the infantry, trying to get back to Midgar" Zack replied

"Really, why didn't you get into the helicopter with Cissnei she would have taken Cloud to a doctor, who would have cured him while reuniting you with Aerith."

"Cissnei? She was a Turk, she was the enemy!"

"Well yeah, but they were there to help you. Why do you think they took so many years to return Aerith to Shinra? When they did, they had no choice but to because she started to help Avalanche. Wait, do you mean you actually carried a comatose Cloud from Nibleheim to Midgar alone?"

"Yeah"

"Oh man, no wonder you only scored 10%"

"What about you?" he looked at Aerith.

"I was stabbed through the back by Sephiroth,"

"Oh, you mean while praying for Holy on the pedestal in the forgotten capital?"

"Yes..."

"Why didn't either of you help her?" he looked at Cloud then at Tifa

"I was under Sephiroths control, I was too weak to save her..." Cloud said.

"I was too far away" Tifa replied

He looked back to Cloud, "So you mean you hadn't cured your mind in that room just before you descended the stairs..." the attendant stated

"What room?" Cloud responded.

He shook his head looking to Aerith again, "So you got the stabbed in the back ending then. Not a good ending she was destined to become the living embodiment of the goddess and destroy Jenova for good." He looked to Cloud "What about you?"

"I got shot by robbers in Seventh heaven, when I got back from my deliveries."

"Hang on! You were a delivery boy?"

"Yeah."

"Wow, that's a new one, you're the first person to become a deliver boy while portraying Cloud. Did you at least get married to Tifa here?"

"Married to Tifa? No, I mean I like her, but married?"

"You mean you guys never even pursued a relationship? What about you Tifa?"

"I was raped and killed by the same robbers that killed Cloud."

"So you never attacked the man in black, and you allowed them to rape your character?"

"I was in shock over Clouds death, and was unable to resist them."

"You could have saved Cloud, if you had of attacked the man in black while he was aiming his gun at his head, he would have dropped the gun, they were no match for Tifa, they would have fled, and been arrested by WRO the next day. Clouds recovery was designed to bring you and Cloud closer together, to initiate a relationship if one didn't exist. I can't believe you both got killed by those men." He turned to leave, "Oh, I nearly forgot, your total overall score was 21%. If you would like a DVD each of your game, your code is ff7cc. They are available for $10 each at the shop. I'll leave you to get dressed, the exit is over there".

"Wait, who we are really, our memories are not returned." Zack said.

"They will be back soon, I promise, with some people it can take up to an hour." The attendant turned and walked out.

"Ok, well let's open the boxes, seeing our personal belongings should help." Zack got up and grabbed a box. He looked at them, "Ok this first one contains Sam Smyth's belongings no photo, on the tag, so which of us is Sam?