Two for the Price of One
WHO: Cloud Strife, Tifa Lockhart
WHEN: Tonight // 11/05
WHAT: Talks of Zack's "imposter."
WARNINGS: Cloud's emo. :[
Cloud Strife: Tifa.
Tifa Lockhart: Cloud!
Cloud Strife: .....Who is using BUSTERMercenary and how did they get the password to it?
Tifa Lockhart: Well, it's... It's Zack's name, so logic would say it's Zack. You want me to double check? I mean, there was Zack on the network and stuff and it sure seemed like Zack to me.
Cloud Strife: ......
Cloud Strife: Tifa.
Tifa Lockhart: ...
Tifa Lockhart: Yeah?
Cloud Strife: He's dead.
Tifa Lockhart: I thought so too, but--I mean, I never saw him personally, so I guess I have to be a little skeptical.
Cloud Strife: That's not him. He's dead.
Tifa Lockhart: Who else could it possibly be? Zack wouldn't give someone else his information.
Cloud Strife: Hackers.
Tifa Lockhart: Hackers. You mean to say someone hacked into his information.
Tifa Lockhart: I'm just going to ask whoever it is behind the screen name.
Cloud Strife: .......
Tifa Lockhart: What, you don't want me to?
Cloud Strife: No no, go ahead.
Tifa Lockhart: So what kind of question can I ask that only Zack would have the answer to?
Cloud Strife: .....
Tifa Lockhart: You don't have one?
Tifa Lockhart: He's claiming he's Zack.
Cloud Strife: .....
Cloud Strife: Ask him what he promised me when we were sophomores and he was a senior.
Tifa Lockhart: He said that you guys were going to go to the same college.
Cloud Strife: ........
Tifa Lockhart: Any other questions?
Tifa Lockhart: He said he made a lot of promises to you.
Tifa Lockhart: Something about paying you back for a few lunches.
Tifa Lockhart: He said you guys were going to go to Stanford together.
Tifa Lockhart: Is that right?
Cloud Strife: .......
Tifa Lockhart: He says he knows about the whole shooting thing.
Cloud Strife: I'm gonna go out for a walk.
Tifa Lockhart: You need some company, Cloud?
Cloud Strife: No. I want to be alone.
Tifa Lockhart: Be careful.
WHO: Tifa Lockhart, Zack Fair
WHEN: Also Tonight - During Cloud's IM // 11/05
WHAT: Tifa's investigating Zack, buys that he's really Zack, and offers to take him to the wharf on 11/06.
WARNINGS: None.
Tifa Lockhart: Uhm. Hey. I have a question, BusterMercenary.
Zack Fair: Huh?
Tifa Lockhart: Can I ask who this is?
Zack Fair: Zack
Zack Fair: Who're you?
Zack Fair: ((he doesn't remember tifa's sn sorry D: ))
Tifa Lockhart: (( It's okaaaay. Tifa's not memorable. /sniffle ))
Tifa Lockhart: Is this really Zack? TTL?
Zack Fair: TTL?
Tifa Lockhart: True to life.
Zack Fair: oh
Zack Fair: yeah
Tifa Lockhart: Like Zack Fair Zack?
Zack Fair: Yes like Zack Fair Zack
Zack Fair: Zack Mr. Awesome Popular in high school Fair
Zack Fair: Who got shot full of lead in oakland
Tifa Lockhart: If you're really Zack, tell me what you promised Cloud Strife when he was a sophomore and when you were a senior.
Zack Fair: That we were gonna go to the same college?
Zack Fair: I mean, I promised a looot of stuff... (like that I'd pay him back for a few lunches)
Zack Fair: But I made him promise that we'd go to Stanford together
Tifa Lockhart: You seem kind of mismatched and stuff. You sure you didn't just hit your head on something?
Tifa Lockhart: Maybe you fell off a bike.
Tifa Lockhart: Those rocks can do some major damage to the skull.
Zack Fair: Well a BULLET there doesn't help
Tifa Lockhart: I mean, I want to believe you.
Zack Fair: buuut you dont
Tifa Lockhart: I don't know.
Tifa Lockhart: You didn't make any promises to me.
Tifa Lockhart: So I can't really ask you about stuff like that.
Zack Fair: You still never told me who you were
Tifa Lockhart: Dark hair. Kind of long. Reddish eyes. Female.
Zack Fair: ...big uh... you know?
Tifa Lockhart: You know?
Zack Fair: Nevemind
Zack Fair: Tifa, right?
Tifa Lockhart: Yeah.
Tifa Lockhart: Is it, you know, really you?
Tifa Lockhart: You know, you you?
Zack Fair: I'm pretty sure I'm ME me
Tifa Lockhart: Cloud doesn't think so.
Tifa Lockhart: I mean, you sound like you.
Zack Fair: Yeah...
Tifa Lockhart: Act just like the Zack I know.
Tifa Lockhart: So I'm buying it.
Zack Fair: Awesome!
Tifa Lockhart: I don't know what to do about Cloud, though. He said someone probably hacked your screen name and was posing as you.
Tifa Lockhart: That's why I was asking you stuff.
Zack Fair: Who would do that?!
Tifa Lockhart: I don't know!
Tifa Lockhart: I don't even know how to hack someone's information.
Zack Fair: I guess there's ways to do it
Zack Fair: but uh... why would they want MY info?
Tifa Lockhart: You said it already. You're Mr. Awesome Popular in high school Fair.
Zack Fair: True.
Zack Fair: But it just kinda feels like... a lot of people have forgotten about me.
Tifa Lockhart: If they did, I think it's because if you lose someone you care about, some people can't handle that.
Tifa Lockhart: You'd rather forget than live through the pain, you know?
Tifa Lockhart: But then you've got some people who never forget you.
Zack Fair: Yeah...
Zack Fair: Aaand cloud just left
Tifa Lockhart: Yeah... He told me he was going for a walk. Said he wanted to be alone.
Tifa Lockhart: That's such a Cloud thing to say, though.
Zack Fair: Really?
Tifa Lockhart: You don't think so? Cloud's never really been keen on my company. I mean, not since he's gotten older. When we were little, it was great, but you know how it is. You grow up, things change. Like I know he cares and stuff, but he's just always got so much going on upstairs.
Zack Fair: I guess...
Zack Fair: He always was thinking too much... I used to tell him to stop
Tifa Lockhart: I think you might have to wait for him to come to you. As long as you approach him, he might still go into his shell. Hard to tell what's going on. You wanna knock on the outside and nothing comes out of it. If he doesn't open, though, eventually we'll just have to tell him to open up.
Zack Fair: He should open up now...
Zack Fair: i mean things aren't thing same without your best friend...
Tifa Lockhart: You should tell him that when you get the chance.
Tifa Lockhart: I think he needs to hear it.
Zack Fair: Yeah...
Zack Fair: Alright enough moping!
Tifa Lockhart: Moping isn't very you at all.
Tifa Lockhart: How are you doing, Zack? You sound so good.
Tifa Lockhart: At least through text.
Zack Fair: I guess I'm pretty good
Zack Fair: for... you know
Zack Fair: Still have to see the doctors all the time
Zack Fair: but I'm starting to get back into shape
Tifa Lockhart: They're just trying to make sure you're in tip-top shade.
Zack Fair: (and by into shape it's like make his already huge muscles even harder 8|)
Tifa Lockhart: (( FLEX FOR ME, ZACK. 8D ))
Zack Fair: ((Zack: *FLEXES*))
Tifa Lockhart: (( Tifa: *swoon* ))
Zack Fair: ((fffff. HE SHOULD JOIN A FRAT. AND RAISE MONEY THAT WAY))
Tifa Lockhart: (( That'd be sort of hot. ))
Zack Fair: But it's still annoying. They didn't want me to start college right away but I'm fine.
Zack Fair: ((ffff. HE SHOULD BE A PART TIME STRIPPER))
Zack Fair: ((shit i need money D:! *strips*))
Tifa Lockhart: I bet you feel fine, but if you're not careful, you'll open something or cause more damage.
Tifa Lockhart: (( He can go work with Seymour. :3 ))
Zack Fair: ((oh dear lawd))
Zack Fair: Yeah that's what they said. I don't believe them.
Zack Fair: ((in like a month you'll see a post that's like "OH SHIT GOING TO ER"))
Tifa Lockhart: (( And Tifa'll be like, "I TOLD YOU SO." xD ))
Zack Fair: ((HE'LL BE IN THE MIDDLE OF SOMETHING PHYSICAL TOO. LIKE SOME FIGHT OR SOMETHING PUBLIC))
Tifa Lockhart: They're the professionals. You're just an overconfident guy who hates being on bed rest. They've got the degrees to back up their info.
Tifa Lockhart: (( xDDDD He'll just be asking for it. People will have to send him flowers. ))
Zack Fair: I have a body telling me it's spent too much time stuck in a bed
Tifa Lockhart: Well... Uh. Huh. How about I take you out somewhere then? I have tomorrow off from work, so I could come by after my classes, pick you up, and we'll go someplace cool. Like the wharf or something.
Zack Fair: That sounds awesome!
Zack Fair: I haven't been able to go out for a while
Zack Fair: ((OH GOD HE'S GONNA LIKE CLIMB THE RAILING OF THE WARF))
Zack Fair: ((WHEEE I'M ALIVE))
Tifa Lockhart: (( And fall off. ;-; ))
Zack Fair: ((oh god lol))
Tifa Lockhart: Then that sounds like a pretty great plan! I could use a break too. I've been working nonstop lately. Jeez. I hate work.
Zack Fair: Where do you work?
Tifa Lockhart: ...
Tifa Lockhart: Hooters.
Zack Fair: .....
Zack Fair: Um. Best job ever?
Tifa Lockhart: Not if you're working there.
Tifa Lockhart: They stare.
Zack Fair: ......
Zack Fair: It's what we're supposed to do?
Tifa Lockhart: No, no, no. You go there to eat hot wings.
Zack Fair: And drink beer!
Tifa Lockhart: And drink beer.
Zack Fair: And uh. Look at the
Zack Fair: owls.
Tifa Lockhart: So every time you refer to mine, you're going to call them owls.
Zack Fair: ((he's laughing so hard right now))
Zack Fair: D-Do you want me to?
Tifa Lockhart: (( Zack's such a jerk. xD ))
Tifa Lockhart: Uh. What else were you going to call them?
Zack Fair: Nothing.
Zack Fair: ((he's a dude :B what do you expect))
Tifa Lockhart: (( xD I've no expectations for him. <3 ))
Tifa Lockhart: Yeah. That's what I thought. You're better than all the guys there. Don't make me think less of you.
Zack Fair: No, I'm better!
Zack Fair: ((Fuck I wanna have him say, I'd at least tell you that I was looking at yours :D))
Zack Fair: ((but no XD))
Tifa Lockhart: (( LMAO. /dies ))
Tifa Lockhart: Yeah. You are better.
Tifa Lockhart: That's why I like you.
Tifa Lockhart: Duh.
Zack Fair: :)
Tifa Lockhart: Anyway, so where are you staying? So you know, I can come get you after classes.
Zack Fair: ((BRB LOOKIN' THIS UP))
Tifa Lockhart: (( GG KA-CHAN; GG. ))
Zack Fair: ((shush i don't know your no cal ;-; ))
Tifa Lockhart: (( ;-; ))
Zack Fair: ((I CAN'T FIND THEM))
Zack Fair: Just the ones across from campus
Tifa Lockhart: You don't mean SFSU's campus, do you? Or Stanford's?
Zack Fair: Stanford's
Zack Fair: sorry
Tifa Lockhart: It's all good. Just making sure. I thought it was Stanford.
Tifa Lockhart: In that case, I'll come by tomorrow after... like... 12.
Tifa Lockhart: How's that work?
Zack Fair: yeah works for me!
Tifa Lockhart: Great! I'll see you tomorrow then. Do us both a favor and make sure you actually get some rest. I know you'll be excited to see me and all, but seriously.
Zack Fair: I'll rest when I
Zack Fair: *When I'm tired
Tifa Lockhart: Suuuure.
Tifa Lockhart: I'm holding you to that.
Zack Fair: Fine Fine, I'll sleep
Tifa Lockhart: Good boy. Everything tomorrow will be my treat, since you're behaving.
Zack Fair: Thanks!
WHEN: Tonight // 11/05
WHAT: Talks of Zack's "imposter."
WARNINGS: Cloud's emo. :[
Cloud Strife: Tifa.
Tifa Lockhart: Cloud!
Cloud Strife: .....Who is using BUSTERMercenary and how did they get the password to it?
Tifa Lockhart: Well, it's... It's Zack's name, so logic would say it's Zack. You want me to double check? I mean, there was Zack on the network and stuff and it sure seemed like Zack to me.
Cloud Strife: ......
Cloud Strife: Tifa.
Tifa Lockhart: ...
Tifa Lockhart: Yeah?
Cloud Strife: He's dead.
Tifa Lockhart: I thought so too, but--I mean, I never saw him personally, so I guess I have to be a little skeptical.
Cloud Strife: That's not him. He's dead.
Tifa Lockhart: Who else could it possibly be? Zack wouldn't give someone else his information.
Cloud Strife: Hackers.
Tifa Lockhart: Hackers. You mean to say someone hacked into his information.
Tifa Lockhart: I'm just going to ask whoever it is behind the screen name.
Cloud Strife: .......
Tifa Lockhart: What, you don't want me to?
Cloud Strife: No no, go ahead.
Tifa Lockhart: So what kind of question can I ask that only Zack would have the answer to?
Cloud Strife: .....
Tifa Lockhart: You don't have one?
Tifa Lockhart: He's claiming he's Zack.
Cloud Strife: .....
Cloud Strife: Ask him what he promised me when we were sophomores and he was a senior.
Tifa Lockhart: He said that you guys were going to go to the same college.
Cloud Strife: ........
Tifa Lockhart: Any other questions?
Tifa Lockhart: He said he made a lot of promises to you.
Tifa Lockhart: Something about paying you back for a few lunches.
Tifa Lockhart: He said you guys were going to go to Stanford together.
Tifa Lockhart: Is that right?
Cloud Strife: .......
Tifa Lockhart: He says he knows about the whole shooting thing.
Cloud Strife: I'm gonna go out for a walk.
Tifa Lockhart: You need some company, Cloud?
Cloud Strife: No. I want to be alone.
Tifa Lockhart: Be careful.
WHO: Tifa Lockhart, Zack Fair
WHEN: Also Tonight - During Cloud's IM // 11/05
WHAT: Tifa's investigating Zack, buys that he's really Zack, and offers to take him to the wharf on 11/06.
WARNINGS: None.
Tifa Lockhart: Uhm. Hey. I have a question, BusterMercenary.
Zack Fair: Huh?
Tifa Lockhart: Can I ask who this is?
Zack Fair: Zack
Zack Fair: Who're you?
Zack Fair: ((he doesn't remember tifa's sn sorry D: ))
Tifa Lockhart: (( It's okaaaay. Tifa's not memorable. /sniffle ))
Tifa Lockhart: Is this really Zack? TTL?
Zack Fair: TTL?
Tifa Lockhart: True to life.
Zack Fair: oh
Zack Fair: yeah
Tifa Lockhart: Like Zack Fair Zack?
Zack Fair: Yes like Zack Fair Zack
Zack Fair: Zack Mr. Awesome Popular in high school Fair
Zack Fair: Who got shot full of lead in oakland
Tifa Lockhart: If you're really Zack, tell me what you promised Cloud Strife when he was a sophomore and when you were a senior.
Zack Fair: That we were gonna go to the same college?
Zack Fair: I mean, I promised a looot of stuff... (like that I'd pay him back for a few lunches)
Zack Fair: But I made him promise that we'd go to Stanford together
Tifa Lockhart: You seem kind of mismatched and stuff. You sure you didn't just hit your head on something?
Tifa Lockhart: Maybe you fell off a bike.
Tifa Lockhart: Those rocks can do some major damage to the skull.
Zack Fair: Well a BULLET there doesn't help
Tifa Lockhart: I mean, I want to believe you.
Zack Fair: buuut you dont
Tifa Lockhart: I don't know.
Tifa Lockhart: You didn't make any promises to me.
Tifa Lockhart: So I can't really ask you about stuff like that.
Zack Fair: You still never told me who you were
Tifa Lockhart: Dark hair. Kind of long. Reddish eyes. Female.
Zack Fair: ...big uh... you know?
Tifa Lockhart: You know?
Zack Fair: Nevemind
Zack Fair: Tifa, right?
Tifa Lockhart: Yeah.
Tifa Lockhart: Is it, you know, really you?
Tifa Lockhart: You know, you you?
Zack Fair: I'm pretty sure I'm ME me
Tifa Lockhart: Cloud doesn't think so.
Tifa Lockhart: I mean, you sound like you.
Zack Fair: Yeah...
Tifa Lockhart: Act just like the Zack I know.
Tifa Lockhart: So I'm buying it.
Zack Fair: Awesome!
Tifa Lockhart: I don't know what to do about Cloud, though. He said someone probably hacked your screen name and was posing as you.
Tifa Lockhart: That's why I was asking you stuff.
Zack Fair: Who would do that?!
Tifa Lockhart: I don't know!
Tifa Lockhart: I don't even know how to hack someone's information.
Zack Fair: I guess there's ways to do it
Zack Fair: but uh... why would they want MY info?
Tifa Lockhart: You said it already. You're Mr. Awesome Popular in high school Fair.
Zack Fair: True.
Zack Fair: But it just kinda feels like... a lot of people have forgotten about me.
Tifa Lockhart: If they did, I think it's because if you lose someone you care about, some people can't handle that.
Tifa Lockhart: You'd rather forget than live through the pain, you know?
Tifa Lockhart: But then you've got some people who never forget you.
Zack Fair: Yeah...
Zack Fair: Aaand cloud just left
Tifa Lockhart: Yeah... He told me he was going for a walk. Said he wanted to be alone.
Tifa Lockhart: That's such a Cloud thing to say, though.
Zack Fair: Really?
Tifa Lockhart: You don't think so? Cloud's never really been keen on my company. I mean, not since he's gotten older. When we were little, it was great, but you know how it is. You grow up, things change. Like I know he cares and stuff, but he's just always got so much going on upstairs.
Zack Fair: I guess...
Zack Fair: He always was thinking too much... I used to tell him to stop
Tifa Lockhart: I think you might have to wait for him to come to you. As long as you approach him, he might still go into his shell. Hard to tell what's going on. You wanna knock on the outside and nothing comes out of it. If he doesn't open, though, eventually we'll just have to tell him to open up.
Zack Fair: He should open up now...
Zack Fair: i mean things aren't thing same without your best friend...
Tifa Lockhart: You should tell him that when you get the chance.
Tifa Lockhart: I think he needs to hear it.
Zack Fair: Yeah...
Zack Fair: Alright enough moping!
Tifa Lockhart: Moping isn't very you at all.
Tifa Lockhart: How are you doing, Zack? You sound so good.
Tifa Lockhart: At least through text.
Zack Fair: I guess I'm pretty good
Zack Fair: for... you know
Zack Fair: Still have to see the doctors all the time
Zack Fair: but I'm starting to get back into shape
Tifa Lockhart: They're just trying to make sure you're in tip-top shade.
Zack Fair: (and by into shape it's like make his already huge muscles even harder 8|)
Tifa Lockhart: (( FLEX FOR ME, ZACK. 8D ))
Zack Fair: ((Zack: *FLEXES*))
Tifa Lockhart: (( Tifa: *swoon* ))
Zack Fair: ((fffff. HE SHOULD JOIN A FRAT. AND RAISE MONEY THAT WAY))
Tifa Lockhart: (( That'd be sort of hot. ))
Zack Fair: But it's still annoying. They didn't want me to start college right away but I'm fine.
Zack Fair: ((ffff. HE SHOULD BE A PART TIME STRIPPER))
Zack Fair: ((shit i need money D:! *strips*))
Tifa Lockhart: I bet you feel fine, but if you're not careful, you'll open something or cause more damage.
Tifa Lockhart: (( He can go work with Seymour. :3 ))
Zack Fair: ((oh dear lawd))
Zack Fair: Yeah that's what they said. I don't believe them.
Zack Fair: ((in like a month you'll see a post that's like "OH SHIT GOING TO ER"))
Tifa Lockhart: (( And Tifa'll be like, "I TOLD YOU SO." xD ))
Zack Fair: ((HE'LL BE IN THE MIDDLE OF SOMETHING PHYSICAL TOO. LIKE SOME FIGHT OR SOMETHING PUBLIC))
Tifa Lockhart: They're the professionals. You're just an overconfident guy who hates being on bed rest. They've got the degrees to back up their info.
Tifa Lockhart: (( xDDDD He'll just be asking for it. People will have to send him flowers. ))
Zack Fair: I have a body telling me it's spent too much time stuck in a bed
Tifa Lockhart: Well... Uh. Huh. How about I take you out somewhere then? I have tomorrow off from work, so I could come by after my classes, pick you up, and we'll go someplace cool. Like the wharf or something.
Zack Fair: That sounds awesome!
Zack Fair: I haven't been able to go out for a while
Zack Fair: ((OH GOD HE'S GONNA LIKE CLIMB THE RAILING OF THE WARF))
Zack Fair: ((WHEEE I'M ALIVE))
Tifa Lockhart: (( And fall off. ;-; ))
Zack Fair: ((oh god lol))
Tifa Lockhart: Then that sounds like a pretty great plan! I could use a break too. I've been working nonstop lately. Jeez. I hate work.
Zack Fair: Where do you work?
Tifa Lockhart: ...
Tifa Lockhart: Hooters.
Zack Fair: .....
Zack Fair: Um. Best job ever?
Tifa Lockhart: Not if you're working there.
Tifa Lockhart: They stare.
Zack Fair: ......
Zack Fair: It's what we're supposed to do?
Tifa Lockhart: No, no, no. You go there to eat hot wings.
Zack Fair: And drink beer!
Tifa Lockhart: And drink beer.
Zack Fair: And uh. Look at the
Zack Fair: owls.
Tifa Lockhart: So every time you refer to mine, you're going to call them owls.
Zack Fair: ((he's laughing so hard right now))
Zack Fair: D-Do you want me to?
Tifa Lockhart: (( Zack's such a jerk. xD ))
Tifa Lockhart: Uh. What else were you going to call them?
Zack Fair: Nothing.
Zack Fair: ((he's a dude :B what do you expect))
Tifa Lockhart: (( xD I've no expectations for him. <3 ))
Tifa Lockhart: Yeah. That's what I thought. You're better than all the guys there. Don't make me think less of you.
Zack Fair: No, I'm better!
Zack Fair: ((Fuck I wanna have him say, I'd at least tell you that I was looking at yours :D))
Zack Fair: ((but no XD))
Tifa Lockhart: (( LMAO. /dies ))
Tifa Lockhart: Yeah. You are better.
Tifa Lockhart: That's why I like you.
Tifa Lockhart: Duh.
Zack Fair: :)
Tifa Lockhart: Anyway, so where are you staying? So you know, I can come get you after classes.
Zack Fair: ((BRB LOOKIN' THIS UP))
Tifa Lockhart: (( GG KA-CHAN; GG. ))
Zack Fair: ((shush i don't know your no cal ;-; ))
Tifa Lockhart: (( ;-; ))
Zack Fair: ((I CAN'T FIND THEM))
Zack Fair: Just the ones across from campus
Tifa Lockhart: You don't mean SFSU's campus, do you? Or Stanford's?
Zack Fair: Stanford's
Zack Fair: sorry
Tifa Lockhart: It's all good. Just making sure. I thought it was Stanford.
Tifa Lockhart: In that case, I'll come by tomorrow after... like... 12.
Tifa Lockhart: How's that work?
Zack Fair: yeah works for me!
Tifa Lockhart: Great! I'll see you tomorrow then. Do us both a favor and make sure you actually get some rest. I know you'll be excited to see me and all, but seriously.
Zack Fair: I'll rest when I
Zack Fair: *When I'm tired
Tifa Lockhart: Suuuure.
Tifa Lockhart: I'm holding you to that.
Zack Fair: Fine Fine, I'll sleep
Tifa Lockhart: Good boy. Everything tomorrow will be my treat, since you're behaving.
Zack Fair: Thanks!