ch19. the end of the worst f*cking company

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ONE YEAR LATER another company had emerged. The World Re-genesis Organisation. Of course, it was funded by no other but Rufus Shinra. The Shinra Electric Power Company was on the verge of getting bankrupt, or at least, that's what everybody thought. At least, these were the rumours that the Turks had spread with a little bit of effort.

Rufus, basically, wanted to erase Shinra no matter how much of a shame it was. The world hated Shinra after everything that had happened, and he himself had grown to loathe the company that once he called his own. No. It wasn't his own. It was his father's. He need not to hide in the shadow of his father anymore. He wanted to create something new. Something better and that something was the WRO. An organisation completely dedicated to rebuilding the world and he wanted no other to govern it but Reeve Tuesti.

Though, after dealing with the Remnants and curing Geostigma, a new problem emerged no long after. Rufus did not remember himself being angrier in his life. It was when Tseng entered his office with some old files that nobody cared about anymore. Deepground. He could not believe that there was an entire City beneath Midgar, and he didn't know. No one had briefed him on that matter. Deepground held the vilest, strongest test subjects of Shinra's. The measures his father had taken to quench his thirst for power were sickening. Rufus had anonymously supplied the WRO with all the gil they needed to deal with that new threat, and they did.

It had been another year, but things in Gaia had never been more peaceful and Hannah had been with him all along, just like she had promised. Every morning he would go to the headquarters of whatever was left of Shinra, and Hannah would go to the WRO. She had started working there as a research scientist after she finished studying for her doctorate.

She was third in command and she couldn't believe she even deserved that position. But she was one of the oldest scientists there. Life had been amazing. For once in her life, she loved her everyday life. She didn't mind going to the labs and work there all day, but what she loved the most, was that in the afternoons Rufus would pass by and pick her from work and they would return together to their house in Junon. They had been living together, and life was just not lonely anymore.

She had no nightmares anymore. She had no company to worry about, though, she did have the plans for tidal power in her old files and she had talked to Rufus about it. He liked the idea, and he had said he would look into it. Of course, he was busy. Shinra hadn't bankrupted just yet, but they were close to getting there.

After another day of work, both had no energy to do anything else but just lie down to bed. Rufus had just finished the paperwork and he had just joined her on the bed. She looked already in deep sleep when he got there. Her hair was a beautiful blonde mess against the pillow. Her body was hidden beneath the bedsheets. Her eyes closed as soft breaths escaped her nose. She looked peaceful and he couldn't believe he was staring down at her.

He had seen her sleep so many times before but she had always been so precious to look at, he couldn't understand himself. But he knew he never lied. He never lied when he told her he loved her that day in Midgar. His weight pressed down on the mattress as he lied beside her. He wanted to hold her but he didn't want to wake her.

Rufus's hand reached for her cheek, caressing her skin softly with his thumb before he realised, he was smiling. Oh Gaia, it was taking him long, but the more time he spent with her, the more he fell. The more time he spent away from her, the more he couldn't wait for him to close that wretched company and just be with her.

She tilted her face to the side where his hand lingered and before he knew it, she had kissed his thumb. She turned and looked at him and gave him a smile. It was that genuine, happy smile that he always loved to see on her lips. All their problems were gone now. Geostigma and JENOVA, and Deepground, and Shinra were history. He had a future to protect now. Her.

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