Protecting My Devotion - Group 7

[heartofheaven]

Characters: Tifa, Rufus, Raine
Progress: Ongoing
Summary: What's worth fighting for.
Location: Memoria
Date: 11th March, 1805.
Warnings: None yet.

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[whitecladprince]

When Rufus looked up, it seemed like a natural thing, after all, that he stood in the middle of the street of a dingy city made half of ramshackle houses... But as he felt wet drops began to patter around him, he sneered, annoyed at being caught in the rain. So when he saw a familiar figure racing across the street a ways away, he naturally followed.

What was Tifa Lockhart doing here?

But then he stumbled to a stop as everything shuddered and the woman disappeared, blinking out of sight.

The blond frowned, perplexed, but continued towards the door she had been headed to, the door of a building that looked like it may be a bar, even as the building itself shuddered, unfocusing before his eyes before becoming very solid.

As he pushed the door open, he blinked to find her inside, her back to him.

"What are you doing here?" As if she were intruding.

[waitedinwinhill]

Raine had been up early that morning with the baby who was more fussy than usual. She'd been in the middle of pacing the floors, making soothing noises when the light came, and thus she missed the changes going on outside her home.

What she didn't miss was that one moment she was holding her child and the next moment, she was standing out in a grimy urban area without the little one. Panic set in right away, less for the location and more for who was missing. "Brooke?! Laguna? Ellone?" One would think with having been pulled completely from her world to begin with, she'd not find this so unusual, but such was not the case.

Frantic, she whipped around only to see Tifa enter a building followed by a man. They knew each other a little, and Raine hoped the other mother could offer some insight or assistance. She entered the same building, breathless and panicking. "Tifa! Have you seen Brooke?"

[heartofheaven]

Tifa neither saw nor heard them. Instead, her gaze was drawn to her family. Every night when the bar was closed, Cloud would sit at a table with Denzel and Marlene and spend some time with them. He had a map spread out, checking the routes for his deliveries tomorrow. Marlene and Denzel's heads were bent over some papers. It warmed Tifa's heart to see them together as a family.

Denzel pointed to a place on the map. "Is that Wutai?"

Cloud nodded. "Yeah."

"You've been there, haven't you? What's it like?"

"It's a resort town."

"It's so far away... Can you get there on your motorcycle?"

Cloud nodded, and pointed out the way on the map. "You can get there from the south, but there are more monsters that way. The north route is safer."

While they were speaking, Tifa wandered over to join them and looked over Cloud's shoulder with a smile. "I remember. Wutai is Yuffie's home town."

[whitecladprince]

Rufus frowned when she ignored him to go speak... Cloud Strife? And who were these children? And as another woman ran through the door, his frown deepened. Miss Lockhart didn't acknowledge the other woman either.

"Miss Lockhart?"

Still no answer.

"Can she not see us...?" he murmured to himself, even as he glanced over at the other woman, who he did not recognize.