And, as promised, the final episode. This one has an embedded player, but you have to manually play it, and I strongly encourage you to do so. It's a very sad instrumental piece (not at all like the other song) that inspired the end of Yazoo's story,
(I'm not really sure if that has been the problem with the link not working, because it works fine when I test it), so please do our favorite girl-man justice and play her song for her ending ;)
“Reno! I didn’t expect you so soon!” Yazoo laughed, lighting up when he saw his lover come in on the heels of Cloud leaving. He held out his arms for a hug but drew up short when he saw how tense Reno was, how his jaw was set. “Reno? Is something wrong?”
The man flung a handful of pictures down onto the low, polished table piled high with pearlescent nick-knacks, a sudden flood of sordid actions spilling across the clean surface of Yazoo’s heart.
He could see immediately what they were – photos taken in the plane on the way to and from Setora, photos taken in Reno’s vacation home when they’d wiled away the day and the early morning hours before their flight.
“Wh…what…”
Yazoo picked up the pictures in nerveless hands, tears springing to his eyes. He looked up, those tears spilling over and running down his soft white cheeks. Here in his hands were the most intimate and emotional moments of his life, snapshots taken of him at his most vulnerable, his cheeks flushed with passion, the sweat of love on his skin, his silver hair tangled and mussed and his body displayed to careful advantage so that nothing really showed, but it was obvious what was being done. The curve of his bent knee hid his sex, the push of Reno’s thigh behind his hiding his groin, his long hair and bent arms concealing his chest. But the face turned up in rapture was undeniably his own, and it was undeniably Reno pressed so snugly against his round bottom, one hand clenched on his hip, the other at his nape, both of them naked and tense.
“R…Reno, what…”
“Nothing personal, baby,” Reno said, and he sounded so cold, so ugly. He lit a cigarette and informed Yazoo, “Those are stills taken from a video – a video where it’s pretty apparent that I’m fucking you…and it’s pretty apparent that you aren’t a woman.”
Yazoo dropped them on the table in a state of sick shock. He fell bonelessly into a chair, eyes wide and sightless, tears pouring down his face. He looked up at Reno, unable to believe that the man who’d held him so tight, had whispered such soft things to him when they lay together in the afterglow, could do something like this! His anxious, hurt eyes searched Reno’s impassive face, looking for some trace of the man who’d teased him and laughed with him, who’d taught him to love, who’d urged him to become more independent of Rufus so that he might one day have a life he loved living.
There was just that cold blankness looking back at him, no affection, just business.
“Reno,” he whimpered, broken and hurt. “Why would you…”
“You’re gonna tell your family to hand over investments in Wutai, Yazoo,” Reno said, tapping his ashes on the carpet, sounding no more interested in their conversation than he was in cross-stitching, but the angry mask of his face was taut, frightening. “They’re gonna sign them over to Dai Jiao Industries, lock, stock, and barrel…and if they don’t, these pictures are going to find their way into the hands of the press.”
Yazoo stared at him, horrified, so crushed he almost didn’t hear what Reno was telling him.
“At first it’ll just be the ones where you can’t tell anything is funny,” Reno went on, laying out the terms of the deal. “They fuck with me, then I’ll start releasing the ones where everybody can see what they pulled on Rufus all those years ago. The media can forgive a wife who cheats, but they won’t forgive a lie like that, Yazoo. You understand me?”
Yazoo didn’t understand it, not a single bit of it. This man had shown him the most affection he’d ever had in nine long, lonely years – he’d tutored Yazoo with patience and affection, had been his best friend and closest companion…He’d loved Yazoo, hadn’t he? Hadn’t he?
Looking at those bored, cold blue eyes, Yazoo knew beyond a shadow of a doubt that he hadn’t loved him. Not even a little bit. He’d simply pretended, and all to gain control of something that Yazoo’s family found negligible at best, though Rufus had always been firmly convinced that they were hiding something out there.
“How can you do this?” he asked, his voice a bare whisper, cracking with tears.
Reno just gazed at him, impassive, unmoved.
“I do what I have to do,” he said.
“I thought you were friends,” Yazoo moaned, shoulders shaking as he sobbed. He dropped his head into his hands and added, “Rufus has been like a brother to you!”
“Yeah? Well me fucking you should’ve been your first clue that the only one who means shit to me is me,” Reno told him. “Now dry the fuck up and call your Daddy, Yazoo. Let’s get this shit finished.”
This shit. Being together, loving one another, playing and laughing and living—and it was just shit. It hadn’t been shit to Yazoo. No, for Yazoo it had been his first experience with love, and realizing that it was false to the minute left him paralyzed with pain.
“Come the fuck on, Yazoo!” Reno snarled, and yanked him out of the chair with a hard, impersonal hand. He flung his unresisting body towards his small study, clearly intending to have it done right now.
Stumbling a little, suddenly graceless with the stunning force of his grief, Yazoo fumbled the phone to his ear and hit the auto-dial for his father’s private line.
“Premier Jenova’s office, this is Wai Ke, how may I help you this morning?”
“Wai Ke, it’s Yazoo,” he whimpered, sobbing a little when Reno took his elbow in a rough grip and squeezed, hurting him. “Please put daddy on the phone!”
“Of course, dear, one moment,” she said, sounding alarmed. Yazoo could hear her urgent, frightened words to his father, and he felt an overwhelming urge to be hugged by his father’s strong arms when he said, “Kitten, what’s wrong? Why are you crying? Wai Ke said you’re crying!”
“Daddy,” Yazoo moaned, hitching with tears, gasping a little in pain when Reno squeezed his arm again. He switched to their local dialect, making it short and sweet, “Daddy, I know you never think much about your holdings in Wutai, but someone here wants them really badly.”
“Wutai?” his father echoed, confused. “Sweetheart, that’s just a tapped oil outfit and some clothing factories, there’s nothing worth having there.”
“Speak so I can understand you, Yazoo!” Reno hissed, forcing him against the desk so hard he winced.
“D…daddy, please s…sign them over to Dai Jiu Ind—”
“Dai Jiao Industries!” Reno snapped, correcting him.
“Dai…Dai Jiao Industries,” Yazoo whimpered, shaking so badly that he could hardly hold the phone up.
“Certainly, sweetheart,” he readily agreed. “Yazoo…Kitten, are you hurt? Is someone threatening you?”
“I should never have come here, daddy,” Yazoo whispered, sobbing harder, overwhelmed by how ugly everything had turned. Used and used again, and once more unwanted…No, never wanted.
“Get back to business,” Reno snarled, hurting him again so that Yazoo yelped in helpless pain. “Give him the address.”
He pulled a card out of his pocket and Yazoo managed to gasp his way through it, tears and sobs making it a long, difficult struggle.
“Tell them there’s certain parties who’d rather remain anonymous who want their holdings in Wutai,” Reno said, hissing it into Yazoo’s ear, angry and disturbed. “Tell them sign everything in Wutai over or something bad happens to their little Kitten, you got it? Tell them, we ain’t gonna hurt you, but that we’ll make sure the whole world knows what the mighty Jenovas did if they so much as dream of leaking this shit, we on the same page? They’ll get everything as soon as we get the deeds.”
Yazoo stopped listening, lost in his own misery and pain. He repeated it to his father on autopilot, but he was so overwhelmed by the anguish he was feeling that he’d settled into a kind of numb disbelief. His most beloved and tender moments had been raped to gain access to something that wouldn’t even yield anything to whomever wanted it. His loving, precious moments with Reno had been torn into pieces and made ugly, sordid, and shameful. What he’d done out of love, Reno had done for gain. While he’d touched Reno from a desire to be close to him, Reno had touched him in return with nothing more on his mind than manipulation. Yazoo felt dirty, vile and used – everything that Rufus had accused him of being. Now, he was everything Rufus had accused him of being. Funny how that had worked out.
He didn’t even hear his father’s assurances, he just sank to the floor in stunned shock after the call was over, covering his face with his hands and dissolving into tears.
“Listen up, Yazoo,” Reno said, looming over him. “Your daddy gets all of the pictures that I made except for two – they’re my insurance, got me? You keep your fucking mouth shut about all of this, and it’ll blow over soon enough.”
Yazoo shuddered, unable to look up at him.
“What’s to stop you from demanding everything?” he whispered, fearful for his family.
“Your family is fucking nuts, Yazoo. They’ll let my people get away with this little bit of blackmail, but anything more and they’ll eat us raw,” Reno said, and it was clear that he believed it. “You play the good little girl, and nothing ever comes of this. You don’t look at nobody, you don’t fuck nobody, you don’t give nobody any reason to think you’re playing our little Rufus false or I’ll send these pretty photos all over the fucking world. It may not ruin your family’s reputation, but you sure as fuck won’t be able to step foot outside of their house for the rest of your miserable fucking life.”
Yazoo said nothing. He couldn’t speak through his tears, he could only huddle wretchedly on the floor, sobbing.
Reno lingered for a moment.
“It was just business,” he flatly said, and stalked out of the room, slamming the door with a bang.
When Marlene first heard Reno’s voice raised in anger, she retreated to the far corner of Yazoo’s room, her heart thundering with fear. She’d always been afraid of the short-tempered, dangerous man, but until now she’d really had no reason.
But the harsh sound of his voice and the sound of Yazoo weeping was enough for Marlene. She wasn’t brave enough or stupid enough to go face him, and that galled her, but she opened her phone with trembling fingers and managed to type in a text.
‘She’s in trouble. It’s Reno. Please come,’ and sent it to Rude’s phone. She’d never had the desire or occasion to make use of his number, but she knew he had hers, and she knew he would come immediately – Rude was nothing if not capable and cautious, even if he was more scary than Reno.
When the voices raised again, Marlene scrambled back to the closet and slid inside, leaving the door cracked just a bit. She didn’t want to get caught in Yazoo’s private rooms, but she knew Yazoo herself would understand. Timidity in the face of temper was a trait they both shared.
For now, Marlene was stuck, and she knew it. Even once the shouting stopped and the door slammed, she was afraid to leave the safety of her refuge. And by the time she decided to chance it, it was too late.
Rude, however, knew his chance had finally arrived, and punched the accelerator even as he put his phone away, Marlene’s text burning in his mind’s eye.
Reno managed to make it back to Rufus’s suite, but by the time he shoved his way through the door, he knew it was going to happen.
Doing what he’d done to Yazoo was probably the hardest thing he’d ever had to force himself through, and it was taking its toll – the stress of the situation was rapidly pushing him towards a seizure, and he knew it was going to be a bad one.
“Fuck, you look like death!” Rufus said, shocked at his appearance. “Is it done?”
“I need to lay down,” Reno said, feeling the world swim a little around the edges, bright halos of light painting the corners of his vision a rainbow of promised pain. He bypassed Rufus and stumbled to his bedroom, the bed wavering into view.
“I asked you if it was done!” Rufus sharply said, following him.
“Yeah,” Reno said, and fell back against the bed. He fished the second set of prints out of his jacket and tried to hand them to Rufus, but they dropped to the floor. “Keep ‘em…just in…case…”
His teeth clenched and he twisted as the seizure started, and Rufus stared at him in open-mouthed shock.
“Rufus? I heard – what the fuck is going on in here?” Elena asked, rushing to Reno’s side. She took his hand, fighting the spasms that made it clench and jerk, and looked to Rufus for an answer.
“How the fuck should I know, do I look like a doctor?” Rufus hissed, and hastily scrambled to pick up the pictures, bundling them into a pile and holding them to his chest.
“Well don’t just be a douche-bag, Rufus!” Elena hissed, frantic as Reno’s body bowed up in a hard contraction, muffled, strangled sounds escaping his clenched teeth. “Call a goddamned ambulance!”
“He’s fine!” Rufus snapped, and when Reno began to relax, he said, “See? It was just one of his fits. I forgot he has them sometimes. He’s fine.”
“Rufus, he’s not fi – ”
“Keep your whore opinions to yourself, you tramp!” Rufus told her, glaring at her. They stared at one another for a long, tense moment before he suddenly said, “Get him undressed.”
“What?”
“You heard me!” Rufus shouted. “Get him undressed and get into bed with him!”
“Absolutely not!” Elena cried, still clutching Reno’s hand, her other hand on his sweaty forehead. “Rufus! He needs to go to the hospital!”
“No he doesn’t, he’s fine,” the man repeated. “It wasn’t even as bad as the one he had before that I saw, he’s just fine! Now do as I say! He’s in a perfect position, don’t you think? Get him naked, strip down, and get your ass in that bed! We’ll see who’s laughing when all of this is over!”
Elena stared at him in horror, shaking her head.
“I promised you a way into his bed, Elena,” Rufus lowly reminded, and smiled at her. “Now, here it is. I say you’d best take it if you want to get yours back on him.”
“You are such an asshole,” she lowly said, but moved down to unlace Reno’s heavy combat boots with sharp, jerky movements. “I’ll do it, Rufus – if only so that I can call an ambulance if he starts seizing again, you fucker!”
“Call it what you want,” Rufus said, and gloated over the photographs, kissing the glossy surface of the top one. “I’m going to deposit my insurance in the safe and have myself a drink!”
“Yeah, you do that, asshole,” Elena said, and glared at him until he left the room. Once he was gone, she deftly undressed Reno, but it was nothing like she’d always dreamed. He was terribly vulnerable in his nudity, his blue eyes half-open but unaware, and Elena felt awful that she was even going to climb in next to him. But she’d been honest with Rufus – as much as she feared Reno and wanted to get back at him, her obsession with him still had its roots in a deep and aching loyalty, and she wanted to make sure he was going to be alright.
“I’m sorry,” she told him, folding him under the light covers and curling up next to him, chilled to be in her bare skin beneath the cold sheets. She stroked his sweaty brow but there was no spark of anything – he lay next to her like a corpse, unresponsive and boneless. She tucked herself around him and pulled the covers up close, whispering, “I don’t know what happened, Reno, but I think when we wake up, neither one of us is going to want to be here anymore…”
Cloud wasn’t exactly thinking about paying attention when he went whistling his way down the front walk of the ShinRa town home. He was focused on the swab in his pocket, making mental notes about who to contact and how to get the results the fastest, and how he might benefit if Kadaj proved to be the lost Cetran heir.
So when he saw the guardhouse apparently empty, it took a second to register that something about that was off.
He doubled back, a little shocked that people who got paid so much money felt it was okay to leave their posts and let the guardhouse stand unattended, but such thoughts died when he looked inside and saw three sprawled bodies – all three of the guards lying dead, their necks snapped.
“Oh my gods,” he breathed, rushing to check for pulses, even though he realized that it was futile. The unnatural position of their heads made it clear that they were dead, but that didn’t stop him from trying.
His first instinct was to call the cops, but he remembered Chief Hewley’s acidic response when he’d called last and discarded that idea as doomed to fail. His second instinct was his reporter’s instinct – trembling with adrenaline and nerves, he fished a pen out of his briefcase and wound the surveillance tapes back…
They’d been taken. There was nothing there.
Cursing, Cloud glanced back at the house, thinking of Yazoo alone in her suite with Reno, who might possibly want to hurt her. For all Cloud knew, the redhead had been the last one to use this route, and there was every chance that he had killed the guards, especially if he had big plans for getting rid of Yazoo.
“Fuck!” Cloud breathed, shaking. But he had no choice – he was going to have to go back inside, and he knew it.
Rude closed his phone and pulled the car around to the back of the house. He left it running. He would need to escape quickly once he was done.
He also left the trunk open.
He wasted no time – like a shadow, he slid into the house and up the stairs, taking the most direct route to Yazoo’s room. He’d already taken care of the guards, having planned to go through with this regardless, so he had no fear of anyone attempting to stop him. Indeed, the door to Rufus’s suite was shut tight, as if the man wanted no part of what was happening inside his very own house, to his very own wife.
Rude frowned and let himself in to Yazoo’s suite, the sound of her weeping already reaching him as he softly closed the door behind him.
Yazoo had the presence of mind to stumble to his room after a long while, but wound up collapsing wretchedly on the floor in tears, curled into a ball of sick hurt.
A long time later he heard the door open, heard the soft, steady tread of feet. He looked up and saw Rude before him, his hands neatly stacking those damning photos. Without saying anything, he opened a drawer on Yazoo’s ornamental writing desk, removed a large envelope, and slipped them inside.
Yazoo closed his eyes again, curling against the wall, not even caring that Rude knew his secret now. Everything that mattered was gone, had actually never been.
“Mrs. ShinRa,” Rude said, his guttural voice low and purring. The man came to kneel on one knee before him, one huge, gloved hand coming to rest against the side of his flushed throat. “Look at me.”
Yazoo opened his eyes, hitching with sobs and hiccups.
Rude was looking down at him with the expressionless face he’d grown so used to, but it was different somehow, less cool, as if emotion threatened to break through at any moment.
“I can make this stop for you, Mrs. ShinRa,” the man said, his voice purring and deep.
Yazoo swallowed a sob and shuddered, horrified by everything that had happened. He’d done the unthinkable – he’d cheated on his spouse, he’d fallen in love with a man who’d used him…he’d become everything he’d told himself he’d never be.
Rude’s free hand lifted and pushed his sunglasses down before that hand, too, came to rest on Yazoo’s throat.
Yazoo looked up at those eyes, only vaguely seeing their beauty through his pain. One eye was the warm color of bright amber and the other was the same blind-blue, husky-dog-blue as those in the north of Yazoo’s home country.
“R…Rude?” he warbled, unable to control his tears.
“Is that what you want, Mrs. ShinRa?” Rude asked, his fingers meeting around Yazoo’s slender throat. “Do you want to make your hurt stop?”
Yazoo hesitated, sensing something far weightier to Rude’s words than mere comfort. Raised all of his life to be nothing more than a placid sheep, he knew the wolf’s gaze when it finally found him.
Nodding softly, dumbly terrified of those hands around his throat, he sadly wept, “Yes.”
Rude’s fingers slowly tightened, but those beautiful eyes were soft with sympathy in his blank, emotionless face.
End of Season One
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Date: 2009-11-09 04:11 pm (UTC)dammit. I should really know better.
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Date: 2009-11-11 10:19 pm (UTC)BTW, note to all - the player is now fixed (I hope) so you can hear the song if you wish! If not, there is a link below that goes to the song. My apologies that it was not working!
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Date: 2009-11-09 04:53 pm (UTC)*dies in a happy pile of goo*
Epic story! *pops teh cork off teh champagne* Here's to an amazing year full of surprises and good stuff and here's to many many more!
Cheers!
But for serious Mei Li the second you get feeling back in your hands, take yo fuckin' hair pin o' death and stab Tseng's goofy ass with. And Rufus's too. Stabity death is too good for them but it will have to do.
Reno, Rude....*headdesk* Precious trouble makers always.
Kadaj, Yazoo and Sephiroth....oh snap son. Literally lol.
Cloud *wacks him upside the head*
And to all the supporting cast that dance about *covers in confetti* Great job everyone!
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Date: 2009-11-11 10:18 pm (UTC)Thank you, kiddo! I'm glad you liked the finale! *takes your toast!* We did it! An entire year! :D And yes, there will be many more, lol!
Hehe, I don't know that Mei Li would have the heart to stab him with her hairpin of death! She's dealt with him through everything else thus far. Stabity death IS too good for them, but I'm sure Ka will have its say ;)
Thank you again! So much!
BTW, note to all - the player is now fixed (I hope) so you can hear the song if you wish! If not, there is a link below that goes to the song. My apologies that it was not working!
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Date: 2009-11-09 04:56 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-11-11 10:16 pm (UTC)And Zack is with the Butchers, which I'm thinking we'll get to find out more of in Season Two :D
BTW, note to all - the player is now fixed (I hope) so you can hear the song if you wish! If not, there is a link below that goes to the song. My apologies that it was not working!
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Date: 2009-11-09 07:38 pm (UTC)It makes me feel what all the characters are feeling and the dialogue is not forced, and ooh it just reads and flows like a dream.
I especially love how tragic Yazoo is, and her situation just makes me sad and hurt. I really hope she gets a happy ending, then I can feel happy too. Reno is a great contrast to her, but ugh, as much as I try, I just can't bring myself to have any sympathy for him. The drama is just so great!
I really like how out there all your fics are, and how your not afraid to add anything, but the best part is that you can pull it off 100%. I just hope my writing can be on par with yours someday!
Keep it rocking and I can't wait for the next season and all the updates to your other fics! <3
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Date: 2009-11-11 10:14 pm (UTC)Thank you so much, honestly! It means so much to me to know that you think highly of my writing! This soap has really become one of my passions, and I'm glad to know that it shows. And you're right, I'm not afraid, lol! I just write what feels right and hope that people like it :D Sometimes it works, sometims it doesn't, but I always have fun! So thank you for all of your wonderful compliments! I'm flattered and grateful!
BTW, note to all - the player is now fixed (I hope) so you can hear the song if you wish! If not, there is a link below that goes to the song. My apologies that it was not working!
OMFGGGGGGG!!!!
Date: 2009-11-09 08:17 pm (UTC)damnit stacey!!! why would you do that to me!!!! waahhhh h!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
all my babies are dying one way or another!!! nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo-
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Date: 2009-11-11 10:10 pm (UTC)BTW, note to all - the player is now fixed (I hope) so you can hear the song if you wish! If not, there is a link below that goes to the song. My apologies that it was not working!
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Date: 2009-11-09 08:20 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-11-11 10:09 pm (UTC)BTW, note to all - the player is now fixed (I hope) so you can hear the song if you wish! If not, there is a link below that goes to the song. My apologies that it was not working!
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Date: 2009-11-09 08:41 pm (UTC)Talking about Reno, I hope he will swallow his tongue and die.. and will be stucked with Elena for eternity.. thats all he deserves now. That scene with him and Yaz was heartbreaking. no less.. I dont give up hope because I just cant ! And I pray that Cloud or Lazard arrive in time..
So.. so far...
Kadaj is on his way to Wutai with Tseng and a very alive Mei Li indeed ! (I wonder if her loyalty to her "brother?" will remain unchanged after that little stunt)
Rufus/Reno.. whats going on ? is Rufus trying to blackmail Reno but putting Elena in bed with him ? whats the purpose ?
And what is that conversation with Sephiroth ? And the connection with Rude ? I didnt quite get it.. well, now again, I was a bit too busy being worried for Kad and Yaz..
And dont tell me that we have to wait for season 2 now ! :o I want to know, Jaded !!! pleeeeeeeeeeeeease !!! XD
ps : I picked my "Yaz is giving you the puppy eyes" icon on purpose... ;)
and PS 2 : I didnt dare play the music.. I will try later. I was already sad enough as it was, I dont even dare to imagine what it would have been with a sad music in the background.. :((((((
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Date: 2009-11-11 10:08 pm (UTC)Cloud will do his best to play the hero, but stacked against Rude I think he's looking at some serious scaries.
Rufus isn't so much trying to blackmail Reno as he is trying to get Reno back for speaking to him like he's a child. He got really angry at Reno's tone way early in the Soap (I think it was when Scarlett caught him talking to himself in the mirror?) and promised he'd have the last laugh, and he gets it by tricking Reno into bed with one of his own whores (which Reno has always sworn to never do).
Rude is the self-proclaimed ruler of Chechislan, where Sephiroth's bride (and Kadaj's mother) was from. Kadaj's mother died under mysterious circumstances, and now suddenly the man who rules Chechislan has Sephiroth's dear sister at his mercy...Bad idea. And as for Kadaj in all of this - Sephiroth handed him over to Reno to get Kadaj out of the way. Seph's father had him too young, by the time he's old enough to give over the throne of the Cetrans, Sephiroth himself will be too old to take it, and so it would go to Kadaj...and Seph ain't having that!
*snuggles your icon*
BTW, note to all - the player is now fixed (I hope) so you can hear the song if you wish! If not, there is a link below that goes to the song. My apologies that it was not working!
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Date: 2009-11-09 09:54 pm (UTC)if not, I'm going insaneOkay, I'm going to forget half of all I wanted to write here, but whatever!
Reno, you are an asshole. I hope his conscience will eat him alive. And I see him trying to get Yazoo back and maybe succeeding
(if Yazoo survives this...)cause it's perfect realtionship stuff for a soap. But first, Rude needs to get his hands off Yazoo!I wonder what Rufus is trying to achieve. But I should probably stop cause his mind is too fucked up to get through.
Cloud is getting himself in serious trouble here. Rude, the Jenovas, Reno...holy crap.
Good thing Mei Li is alive, I really like the character :)
Long story short: Amazing finale, it's mind-blowing! I loved every episode, you have a knack for developing great characters and amazing plotlines. If you're willing to do another season, I'll definitely read it just as gladly as season one :)
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Date: 2009-11-11 10:02 pm (UTC)Reno is an asshole, but I think more than his conscience will be bothering him by the time this is over. And Yazoo will be the better for her ordeal...if she survives ;)
Rufus tossing Elena into bed with Reno was his way of getting Reno back for talking to him like he was a child. He knows Reno doesn't sleep with his own whores, and how badly it would anger him if he found out that he HAD slept with one. And Elena is on dangerous ground once again with that nonsense.
Cloud is in way over his head, he just doesn't want to walk away from a mystery.
And thank you! I wanted to keep her alive :D I just couldn't bear to part with her!
Thank you so much again, I'm really glad you've enjoyed it this whole way through! It took us a long time, but we made it! WOOT!
BTW, note to all - the player is now fixed (I hope) so you can hear the song if you wish! If not, there is a link below that goes to the song. My apologies that it was not working!
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Date: 2009-11-09 10:38 pm (UTC)I have to say only this: *whimper*
Please write a second season. I wanna see what happens! Is Yazoo gonna be okay? What'll happen to Kadaj and Tseng and Mei Li? Will Sephiroth get involved? And what about Reno, Rufus and Elena?! Is Zack gonna live? Please let Zack live, he's too awesome to diiiie!
Yes, so pleeeease write a second season. Please.
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Date: 2009-11-11 09:58 pm (UTC)BTW, note to all - the player is now fixed (I hope) so you can hear the song if you wish! If not, there is a link below that goes to the song. My apologies that it was not working!
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Date: 2009-11-09 11:09 pm (UTC)There are many stories uncovered here or I don't want to believe that is so simple just kill Yazoo!
What for? And Rude,my god who are this man???All the time by Yazoo's side, wondering about a politic plan to rebuilt his kingdom and then just kill 'her'? Dear, dear...you're planning a lot of things uhn?
But I loved the sadness regret on Kadaj,the emotion between Tseng and Mei Li- yay! I knew she was alive!
Zack, he's still a mistery...And Yazoo, although I couldn't listen the music, it was sooooo sad...poor babe, she deserves a new chance in the next season...
And the 'wow part' for me was Sephiroth's connection with Reno.
Well, again it was a great chapter but full of promises...for another season!
hugs and love dear Stacy
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Date: 2009-11-11 09:56 pm (UTC)And Rude is...Rude. He had to do his mission with Yazoo's consent, so there is really no telling if he's really killed her or not. But I'm thinking he hasn't ;)
And Mei Li - I just couldn't kill her off, lol! And Kadaj is just a confused boy, so he was bound to have second thoughts. I think I've fixed the music issue, there is a link below the player that should work now. And yes, Sephiroth conspired with Reno to rid himself of his heir...but why? :D
Thank you again, Bela! What would I do without you?!
BTW, note to all - the player is now fixed (I hope) so you can hear the song if you wish! My apologies that it was not working!
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Date: 2009-11-09 11:30 pm (UTC)OMFG HONEY!!!!!!!!!!! You exceeded ALL my expectations! The finale season wiped my mind clean (after ripping my guts out) and now I need to go and plug my brain in somewhere to reboot.
There are too many things to say, and there'll never be enough space to say it, so I'll try to be short.
You have taken us on an emotional rollercoaster with this, turned us inside out and made us laugh and cry through this whole year of Soap Awesomeness, and to see the Season Finale top it off at a peak like this… You’ve outdone yourself! *goes to light a candle at the jaded_grin-shrine and bows down and worships*
Please please continue with Season Two! I need it. Hell, we ALL need it! *points to the other comments* You need to let us know what happens next and this simply can't be the end!!! I know you're ebol and all, but you're not cruel... right??
Honey, you already know how much I love your writing, and you know all I want to say, so I’ll leave it at this. *snuggles you and pops another bowl of popcorn, waiting impatiently for the first episode of Season Two*
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Date: 2009-11-11 09:49 pm (UTC)BTW, note to all - the player is now fixed (I hope) so you can hear the song if you wish! My apologies that it was not working!
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Date: 2009-11-10 12:04 am (UTC)No, really, you'll get something coherent later tonight.
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Date: 2009-11-11 09:46 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-11-10 12:57 am (UTC)Oh My God!!! *dies, then like Mei Li comes back to life* Awesome Episode!!
Thank you for bringing back Mei Li. I guess Tseng has a heart after all? Though finding out that Mei Li used to be his half brother...I feel that if Tseng has a heart it's a shriveled up black thing.
Freaking Rude, is he really going to kill Yazoo? What the hell? Why didn't he just kill her way back when he first found her? I knew as soon as he took off his sunglasses that Yazoo was dead. No one sees Rudes eyes and lives (except for Tseng I guess, but those two are two devils born in hell).
I've got my fingers crossed for Cloud, I hope he gets there in time. HE HAS TOO!!!
I have no words for Reno, except that he obviously didn't want to do it, and when he did it, he did it well. Poor Yazoo, if I was in her shoes, I'd tell Rude to just go ahead and kill me. Or, if I lived, I'd go home and never set foot in Midgar again. These people are evil.
I hope you continue writing this, there are so many questions left unanswered that it begs for a season two. I worry about Zack (he's too hot to die and too good to be sad) and Sephiroth.... I've been waiting all season for him to show up and he's almost here. You can't tease me like this! (OK yeah you can and I'll probably like it *evil grin*)
!!!AWESOME EPISODE!!! Please write more?
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Date: 2009-11-11 09:39 pm (UTC)Rude is...Rude. We'll have to wait and see what actually happened to Yazoo. Just remember, this is a Soap, so all things are possible!
Cloud is going to start playing a larger role in the next Season, due to his being so central to the other characters. And I kinda like him, lol!
And Sephiroth is coming, sure as God's vengeance, hehe! Thank you again, kiddo, for real! You've been a tireless supporter in the ongoing nonsense that is Midgar: The Soap, and I can't thank you enough for that!
BTW, note to all - the player is now fixed (I hope) so you can hear the song if you wish! My apologies that it was not working!
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Date: 2009-11-10 01:02 am (UTC)Way to exceed all our expectations. XDDD
Someday, I will have enough mastery of writing that I can achieve a plot as intricate as this... and until then I will be a joyous bystander. XDDDD
Love that Lazard is so involved, too. <3 And... Rufus needs redemption. XD At some point. Srsly. I can't wait to see what happens to him. He's been such a jerk that I'm just waiting for his downfall. AND THIS IS MY FAVORITE CHARACTER! *dies* *puts on Rufus icon in honor of him*
So... you say season finale. It's not like... the end end right? ... Right? XD
PS I love Muse. But the link on this part with the audio didn't work.
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Date: 2009-11-11 09:35 pm (UTC)Lazard will become more involved in the aftermath of what has happened at the ShinRa house, and I hope to delve more into his story because he really is an intriguing character! And Rufus will come around eventually! AND YAY FOR RUFUS LOVE!!! Hehe! *noms your icon*!!!!
Season Two in the works, not sure how early it will be ready, but once I get a few episodes ready, I'll start posting on Mondays again! And thank you again! You're the best!
BTW, note to all - the player is now fixed (I hope) so you can hear the song if you wish! My apologies that it was not working!
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Date: 2009-11-10 01:31 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-11-11 09:32 pm (UTC)BTW, note to all - the player is now fixed (I hope) so you can hear the song if you wish! My apologies that it was not working!
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Date: 2009-11-10 03:47 am (UTC)A few things I didn't expect. One is that Mei Li is alive. And that we see a sudden tender snippet of Tseng. He's been such a bastard up until now, and all of a sudden he turns around and rememberes a promise he made to a skinny little boy long ago. It's bizarrely sweet of him.
And damn. Just about everybody is right about Kadaj. o.O
Poor Yazoo. I really hope you pull another Mei Li with her. Afterall, she's one of the most central characters. Then again if they can kill off one of the three in Charmed I guess you could get away with it here. Not that anyone would like it much.
Very good, and very keen for season 2! (If there is one.)
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Date: 2009-11-11 09:30 pm (UTC)And YAY for surprises! I couldn't knock Mei Li off for reals, she is a favorite of mine and it just didn't feel right. And yes, somewhere in that cold and cruel man named Tseng is a heart that can sometimes feel. I think Kadaj is going to need that in the time to come.
I really wanted this to wrap up Yazoo's story, but since this is a Soap (and since there is a lynching party being gathered for me right now) I think she'll make a come back.
And there will be a Season Two! I can't say how soon I will start it, but I will do my best! Thank you so much, honey! You've stuck by me, and I can't thank you enough!
BTW, note to all - the player is now fixed (I hope) so you can hear the song if you wish! My apologies that it was not working!
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Date: 2009-11-10 04:25 am (UTC)Holy shit. I just. That is. Holy.
*____________________*
SHIT. I have no words. No words, goddamn it all to hell. Argh, I'm physically unable to express how fabulous this was. *flails*
You've gotta write a second season. Please. It's imperative to my survival [and I'm sure a lot of other readers would agree that their lives also hang in the balance].
Mother of all cliffhangers, much? I mean, damn.
Damn.
Ack. *smacks self* My deepest apologies for the largely incoherent comment. But you win at life. *hearts you and feeds you pie*
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Date: 2009-11-11 09:27 pm (UTC)SO YAY! I plan on writing a Season Two, I don't think I could leave the story alone, lol! And thank you again, so much! *snuggles you and eats the pie*
BTW, note to all - the player is now fixed (I hope) so you can hear the song if you wish! My apologies that it was not working!
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Date: 2009-11-10 07:23 am (UTC)Haha, and I found it hilarious when I found out that Kadaj stole Reno's birds.
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Date: 2009-11-11 09:25 pm (UTC)And yes, Kadaj wouldn't leave without the birds, hehe! Poor little baby, he does have SOME things he holds dear.
BTW, note to all - the player is now fixed (I hope) so you can hear the song if you wish! My apologies that it was not working!
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Date: 2009-11-11 09:23 pm (UTC)BTW, note to all - the player is now fixed (I hope) so you can hear the song if you wish! My apologies that it was not working!
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Date: 2009-11-10 02:51 pm (UTC)Hm, and here it is eventually, the dreaded clash... It was very touching and left in a bit of emotional turmoil. Poor Yazoo. Poor Reno. I do hope that Yazoo survives and if she does, I suppose that she might be a lot stronger than she was before? Now that she has seen the really ugly face of the world... *sigh*
Poor Reno too, he has some messed up priorities... I want to punch him :) A bit. I wonder if he can find a way to make it all better. Or if he even wants to find one...
So I do hope you will continue this, as it still has so much potential, and there are so many questions left unanswered! Love you and your awesome writing!
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Date: 2009-11-11 09:20 pm (UTC)And yes, the dreaded clash. I believe Zill got the music that inspired it from you? I might be mistaken, but I think I remember correctly, so in a way, I owe it all to you! Yes, Yazoo will still have a role to play, I'm going to have to admit it before too many Yazoo-lovers come to lynch me :D
Reno certainly is messed up, but that often happens to a man of his word, incongruous as that may be to apply to Reno, lol! If there is a way to make it all better, he will certainly find it.
I will continue! I'm not sure if it will start again on Monday, but I think I better had if I want to keep the pace going. Thank you so much, kiddo! I love you to bits!
BTW, note to all - the player is now fixed (I hope) so you can hear the song if you wish! My apologies that it was not working!
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Date: 2009-11-10 03:40 pm (UTC)OMG FLAILLLLL!!!!!!!!! I was literally leaning forward in my seat reading this, nose inches away from the screen.
This was just so absolutely wonderful and suspenseful and YAY you brought Mei Li back and awwww Kadaj took the birds and Seph's evil and omg the scene between Reno and Yazoo and Rude can't kill him, right?
There needs to be a second season. You're still having fun with it, and I certainly think public opinion supports it. :D Thank you so much for this sweetie, it is absolutely incredible!!!!
ETA: Second media player wouldn't work for me? What song did you have for Yazoo?
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Date: 2009-11-11 09:17 pm (UTC)BTW, note to all - the player is now fixed (I hope) so you can hear the song if you wish! My apologies that it was not working!
BTW, note to all - the player is now fixed (I hope) so you can hear the song if you wish! My apologies that it was not working!
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Date: 2009-11-11 02:49 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-11-11 09:12 pm (UTC)BTW - the player is now fixed (I hope) so you can hear the song if you wish! My apologies that it was not working!
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Date: 2009-11-12 05:59 pm (UTC)This was such an amazing ride and you left it at such a point too.
I'm glad Mei Li is alive and I hope Tseng will live up to his promise. I'm afraid, however, that he will do so only to make her available in the future. (What he gives, he can also take away, after all.)
Kadaj, poor messed up kid. He's physically strong and very intelligent but so emotionally messed up. Reno's going to have to go after him of course. Not only does he love the kid but Daddy Dearest will kill him if(when) he finds out the red-head lost him.
And Yazoo... it hurts to read her pain. I knew it was coming but it still hurt.
Will Rude be able to go through with it? Quite frankly, I think he should take her back to his country and set her up as his shadow ruler/queen. I think he's genuinely fond of her so, if he did that, she would be protected and cherished a lot better than Reno ever did.
But maybe she needs to learn to be strong and independent so that she can rescue Kadaj... That would be cool.
One last comment. Looking back over what you've done with this story over the last year, I'm blown away by how complex the story is. There's so many characters yet each one is defined and an individual. Wonderful, wonderful work.
(And one last question: what's the name of the song you used for this chapter? It didn't come up on the file link.)
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Date: 2009-11-18 04:00 pm (UTC)Yes, I couldn't let Mei Li die, I like her too much and I think she has enough people rooting for her that it was ok to do it. But I doubt she's clear of Tseng yet. She's been too valuable in the past, and only Tseng, Kadaj, Zack, and Mei Li know that she "died" so yeah....
Kadaj made a mistake and he knows it. At least Reno was the Devil he knew, and now he's headed to a strange place with a man he really doesn't know who could do practically anything to him. He's Cetran, he knows he fucked up, now he's just going to have to make the best of it. His going did cause some major problems for Reno, but first he's going to have to find him - I'm betting if Neala asked Kadaj where he was going, he probably gave her a big F you and didn't tell her. We'll have to see. Reno's smart, he'll put it together.
Yazoo's scene was really difficult to write, because she started out so innocent, and everything about her was harmed in that moment. I think everyone can find a shadow of that pain in themselves, and it makes it painful to read.
As for Rude - he's waited all of these years...I think he will definitely be able to go through with it. But what exactly IS "it"? :D Rude has his plans, and we'll find them out eventually.
And thank you so much! This has definitely been a labor of love! I've struggled with it at times, but I'm proud that I could carry this off for such an extended period of time :D Thank you very, very much for that, I needed it!
As for the song, I got it from a friend who got it from a friend...all I know is that it is by Yuji Toriyama and might be called "Sad Song" but I can't find it listed on any album information. I've been searching. If I find it for sure, I will let you know! If you'd like a download, I got that, too.
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Date: 2009-11-18 11:03 pm (UTC)Yeah. Wow. Coherency is overrated.
Please continue on for a second season! I love these characters too much for it to be the end!
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Date: 2009-11-27 04:30 pm (UTC)no subject
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