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Aeris sat down beside her and watched Mym as the girl obviously tried to figure
out where to begin.
“Do you know what the Turks do?”Mym asked her,”That’s the first thing that we
need to talk about.”
“I have an idea,”Aeris said.
“To put it simply,”Mym replied with a slight sigh,”We were kidnappers, snipers,
murderers, etc. Anything the President wanted done that was even the slightest bit dirty
and or illegal came to us to do.”
“And we did it,”she finished. She surpressed a chuckle as she joked,”I’m surprised
sometimes that he didn’t even have us wiping his ass for him. We basically did all his dirty
work.”
Aeris grinned a little at the light joke and then asked,”So you did all that for the
president. What do you mean when you said that the President ordered you to be in the
lab?”
“Ah... that,”Mym said, looking at her hands and then back at Aeris.
“Well, I suppose it was because I had knew a bit too much about a few things and
well, when I mentioned my opinion on how it should be handled to the President. Merely
as a suggestion mind you, well.. That was it.”
“What was it that you overheard?” Aeris asked, looking at her with curiosity.
“Rufus isn’t the president’s real son,”Mym explained,”I found out when I was
standing guard for the President on one of the dirtier jobs, one he even went to in person.”
She sighed and continued,”There were people opposing the ShinRa at the time
before he was President and the Turks were just a small faction of body guards at the time.
We weren’t the feared killers or anything yet. Anyway, ShinRa’s wife had just died and
for the record he didn’t even care too much about that. He was more concerned with the
other energy companies and ways of energy. Such as coal that was mined in North Corel.
But he dared not do anything himself against them in a physical means so he tried to get
them to go out of business or to just simply buy them out. He had enough money to do
that easily. Mako power was the future of the energy field he said and lots of people
believed him.”
She paused and Aeris urged,”What then?”
“As I was saying before I digressed somewhat, ShinRa’s wife had just died and
along with her, the only child that ShinRa had. He was angered at this and new he had to
find another child to succeed him and be as cold and corrupt as he was. That’s where the
people opposing him came in. He decided that if he was going to get another child he’d
just take one from his enemies and raise it how he thought a kid should be raised. So he
sent us out to find out about these other business owners and we finally came across one
with a new born child. Well at the time we didn’t know what his plans were or I probably
would have spoken up another alternative sooner. But I went along with it, I regret it
now but... I can’t change it. It’s a part of my past and it’s something I have to deal with
everyday. So he got us to get the address of the people. He said he wanted to have a
business meeting with them which suggested he was about to buy them out or something.
Well he went into the house with me and another Turk, this was before Vincent was a
Turk. We left a third Turk with the helicopter. Don’t ask me for their names, I can’t
remember,”she explained as she shifted her weight and looked at her hands once again as
if to see the sins written on them that she still needed to atone for. This being one of them
in her mind.
“As we walked in we saw the man’s wife sitting in a chair holding a baby, the man
himself was sitting at his desk. As soon as he saw ShinRa he stood up and demanded to
know what he wanted and why we all were intruding into his house. ShinRa smirked and
said that he wanted to make a deal with him. ShinRa pulled a contract out of his coat, a
big thick one and tossed it onto the desk. Meanwhile we had gone to stand at either side
of the door, waiting for furthur orders. The poor business owner just looked at the
contract and asked what it was for. ShinRa said that he wanted to buy the man’s business.
Flustered the man ran his hands through his brown hair and said that it was no deal.
ShinRa offered a lot of money to the man and they finally agreed. However there was
apparently an extra clause in the contract that the man didn’t read. When ShinRa smiled
and took the contract back he tucked it into his coat and said that it was good doing
business with him. He walked over to the woman and looked at the baby as if sizing it up
and at this point the man pulled a gun out of the desk. To protect ShinRa I shot the man
in the hand and when he proceeded to pick the gun up in his other hand and went to shoot
it I shot him through the head. Of course his hand clenched as the bullet hit his forehead
and entered so he ended up shooting his wife in the shoulder. The whole time the baby
was crying, shrieking almost as it’s mother’s blood spilled down onto it’s blanket. ShinRa
ordered us outside to get the helicopter ready and as we left we heard him talking to the
woman. When he emerged a few minutes later and got into the helicopter he had the baby
with him and simply explained that he had traded the woman her life for her kid. It’s a
shame really,”Mym continued,”Anyways, months later after we’d seen how he began
‘raising’ the kid, after he was President, and after I was appointed leader of the Turks
formally though I’d always held the position from when I’d managed to kill the previous
leader before I joined the ranks. That in itself earned me the position, ShinRa hadn’t seen
anyone who could outdo one of his Turks especially not the leader. Anyways well, it was
beginning to bother me a bit. I mean back then I was a cold killer, much the same as I’m
sure the Turks are now. The position hasn’t changed much, but anyways, I digressed
again. Sorry.”
“It’s ok,”Aeris said, stretching her legs a little,”Please.. continue.”
Mym moved her legs and crossed them, sitting indian style now.
“It wasn’t until a few weeks before the last mission I went on that I asked to speak
with the President. He agreed and I expressed that maybe the situtation could have been
handled a little different although I did agree that when the man tried to shoot him that
was acceptable behavior for me to shoot him and protect the President. So the President
asked what I thought could have been different and I said that maybe he could have went
to an orphanage and adopted a child instead of what happened. He laughed and asked if I
was finally getting a heart and said I should watch my mouth if I wanted to keep my
position. He said to just take orders and follow them. I excused myself and went home
for the night since it was the end of the day. On my way out though I saw the young
someday to be Vice President Rufus. Still a baby, being carried into a limo headed for his
home. ShinRa didn’t even have the kid living with him. He raised him to be as cold and
heartless as he was. Perhaps even moreso...” She paused, taking a deep breath and
looking at Aeris then she looked back down at her hands again. She clenched them
slightly and looked away as if the sins were written there and she didn’t want to see them
anymore.
“I now regret some of the things I did then. Some of them mind you,”she
continued once again staring at Aeris, her eyes taking on a light purple glow to them in the
moonlight,”Remember, I was and in some ways still am a cold blooded killer and back
then that was what I did for a living. I ended lives without even giving it a second
thought.”
Aeris shuddered slightly, eyes closing, thinking of the implications of what Mym
was saying. She hadn’t really realized that it had gotten so cold and instead of stopping
her shuddering it just kept going on without her noticing it. It was then that she felt a
warm piece of clothing wrap around her. It turned out to be Mym’s dress shirt. It was
nice and warm but when Aeris went to return it since Mym now sat in black shorts and a
black tank top Mym waved it off.
“But... aren’t you cold?” Aeris asked her, trying again to return the shirt.
“No, ever since my time in the lab I haven’t been effected by the cold as much,”she
explained, as she looked up to the night sky again,”Sometimes I almost miss being normal.
Sometimes....” Her voice trailed off as a slight sigh escaped her lips.
“Well, I guess it’s time to explain the rest,”she said fixing her eyes on Aeris again
as the younger girl wrapped herself up in the white dress shirt,”But to give you an answer
to your previous question earlier about Vincent and myself. Before I go furthur that is.
I’m in love with him Aeris. I’ve been in love with him for a long time, almost 32 years.
But he loves Lucrecia and there’s no way I’m going to push myself on him so.. I’ll be
content to be his friend and teammate and if it comes to it... Save his life by giving my
own.”