Don't Play with Fire (Turks FF7)

31) Kilmister

"Mr. President, where are you!" Someone calls. I look up at the blurry form of Rufus as he forces himself to his feet and walks to the bed in the corner of the room, eyebrows drawn together and teeth clamped down on his lip. Probably to keep himself from feeling the pain. He gets down and looks under the bed, grabbing something and rolling underneath.

"What're you doing?" I ask quietly. He doesn't answer, the door getting kicking down loudly.

"Where is he?!" The man demands. I just stare at him blankly, his words echoing distantly like everyone else's. He angrily steps toward me, and I brace myself for another blow. Then Rufus's chain catches his eye and he smirks. "Hiding under the bed, huh?"

I hold my breath as the guy gets closer. The man gets down to cautiously check under the bed, pulling a gun out of his pocket and aiming it down under the bed. Rufus pushes the gun up agaisnt the bed, startled.

"What are you doing?!" The man weilding the gun fires and Shinra rips his hand off the end of the barrel, blood dripping from his hand. He rolls out from under the bed, holding something that I recognize as a whip only when he swings it. Something about this scene reminds me of Pirates of the Caribbean. The gun clatters to the floor beside me and I pick it up, unsteadily aiming it at the guy as Rufus stumbles back beside me.

"I win," Rufus says finally. Smoke suddenly starts pouring into the room, making my vision even more useless.

"You stupid president! Come on! Have her fire! How's that gun gonna help you?" Just let me shoot him. He put us in this mess.... Rufus frowns and looks down at me to shake my head. My weapon doesn't lower. Then the blonde looks back up.

"You killed Mutten?"

"Yeah, I did. He's been treating me like -@+$! We grew up together, dang it!"

"I see. And that's what caused this fall."

"Don't try to make me one of your men. I haven't forgotten how you made a fool out of me back in that house." Suddenly, there's the bang of a gunshot, the man dropping dead. I blink down at my hands, thinking maybe I fired unconsciously. Rufus seems to think so to, looking down at me quickly. Then we notice that someone else has entered the room. It's the doctor. And he's aiming his gun at us.

"How are you Mr. Rufus Shinra?"

"Not very well."

"Then you should have her throw away the gun. It'll just make things worse for you both." I narrow my eyes at him, not even aware that I had aimed at him. Ignoring the doctor's orders, I hand it up to Rufus. Rufus takes it uneasily.

"Doctor, if you throw yours away then I will do the same."

The doctor smirks and aims his weapon at Rufus's head firmly. Rufus in turn pushes his gun to the man's chest and fires. An empty click sounds through the room.

"Mr. Shinra, you don't know the man who possessed that gun. He hated Mutten. All Mutten did was make him do all the dirty work and take all the good stuff for himself. That's why he used all the bullets to relieve hatred in Mutten. I believe the last shot was used in this room." He kicks over the corpse of the guy that was shot. "I am Kilmister. I worked for the Shinra Company since I was young. I was a little lower down than Dr. Hojo's assistant in terms of status." Hojo? I'm not going with this guy! I look up at Rufus with a look I know he would read if he would just look away from the doctor. "Now throw away your gun."

With an annoyed look, Rufus drops the weapon down at Kilmister's feet. In turn, Dr. Kilmister pulls a glass bottle out of his pocket and holds it out to Rufus.