Clouds Father

President Reeve (no one else above him left alive) was going through some of the more classified files that had been kept in one of the safes in the former Presidential office on his "day off". Many of the safes and files in the Shinra Tower had been lost after Diamond Weapon and Meteor. Only recently were some of these records discovered through restoration and recovery. This lead to a group of damaged disks that were now taking up all of his spare time: Mt. Nibel, Nibelheim, and Revaluation. As with all things, there was a problem. Even with all his skills at deciphering even the most damaged of disks, he wasn't able to get all of the information from them. Reeve was only able to recover about 40 from Mt. Nibel and 34 from Nibelheim. Revaluation was the worst, only a handful of completed pages were recovered from that disk, the rest was no more than random incomplete lines and code. What first got his attention about these disks were the dates. The earliest was before the Nibel reactor first came into operation and the latest was three weeks after the fire. With all the other current jobs that had to be done, this would normally have been put aside to fix on a later date if it were not for one name that had been listed in the roster for Mt. Nibel: Seifer Almasy Strife.

"I don't think I'll be able to get much more information from them. I hope this helps him put some of his questions about his past to rest after he sees this." Reeve

He picks up a PHS and calls Cid.

"Rude, you still owe me 50 gil." Cid

"Nice to hear from you to Cid." Reeve

"Sorry Reeve, the id said it was from the Turks. What's up?" Cid

"No problem, I'm using their computers to fix a few disks without the usual staff member disturbing me. As to what's up, I wanted to know if Cloud and Tifa are still helping you with the leftover mako monsters from the reactor leak last month?" Reeve

"Yeah they're still around. So why the hell did you call me for if you needed them?" Cid

"Three reasons, one how bad are the monsters out there now?" Reeve

"Not too bad right now. We took care of most of them, and that fucking leak was fixed so no more of them are forming. We should have the last of them out by the end of next week." Cid

"Good, on to reason number two. When this is over, would it be possible for you to bring: Cloud, Tifa, Vincent, and yourself over here?" Reeve

"I can see the three of us getting there alright, but I do have two problems. One getting Vincent to leave the deconstruction site of the mention. Two who's going to keep an eye out for any of those fuckers we might have missed." Cid

"The monsters are not a problem; I will leave the Turks there to keep an eye on things. Vincent will also not be a problem for you when you go to pick him up." Reeve

"Turks over here I can see, but how are you going to get coffin breath out of his hole." Cid

"The easiest way, tell him the truth. I found a few interesting files that concern three of you slightly and one of you greatly." Reeve

"Who?" Cid

"Don't worry you are not the one, but I'm not saying who it is till then. The information is sensitive, I would rather they not hear about it over the phs. Reeve

"Alright, so what's the last thing?" Cid

"Could you bring a box or two of those Coco Koko cookies with you when you come over here?" Reeve

"HAHAHAHA, alright I'll get you some of those things." Cid.

"Thanks, and see you later." Reeve

"Bye." Cid

"Well that's one down, now on to Vincent." Reeve as he starts to call Vincent.

"Yes."Vincent

"Hello Vincent, do you have a moment to talk?" Reeve

"Yes." Vincent

"Cid is going to be coming over next week to get you. I need you over here to help out with some information involving Clouds past. You are the only person I know that has any real working knowledge of Shinras past during the time that some of this took place. I know you don't want to leave the site till it all goes down but it would be VERY helpful if you came to help with some of the questions that will come up." Reeve

"This wouldn't have anything to do with one Seifer Almasy Strife would it." Vincent

"How?" Reeve

"Yesterday, when one of the walls came down, there was a small safe that had a file called Revaluation in it. Who knew Cloud might be half Ancient." Vincent

"You have the complete file!? I was only able to get a fraction of it from a damaged disk over here. Was there any other information other then he might be half Ancient in there?" Reeve

"Just a few theories and some witnessed accounts of him doing some things that he should not have been able to do so far. Honestly I have yet to complete the file myself, though it seems I have the same intentions as you, information first answers for Cloud second." Vincent

"True, I don't want to have him getting something only to find out I gave him the wrong information later. So will you come and keep me updated with whatever you find in there?" Reeve

"Yes on one condition, tell me how long have you known about this." Vincent

"A little over two weeks ago, I had finally gotten partway through recovering some information on some classified disks. With everything that is going on over here, and with the disks being as damaged as they were I didn't have much time other then what little I could get on my "day off" to work on what data I could get." Reeve

"Very well, I will contact you each day with what I get from this. We will go from there on how to deal with Cloud when we all get to the Plaza." Vincent

"Thanks Vincent, I will use whatever means I can to recheck anything on there till then. I'll hear from you tomorrow then so you can get back on that." Reeve

"Till then." Vincent

Well here looked like a good place to stop. I was so surprised when this got a review for this story that I figured what the hell write some more. Only problem was that it had been so long (near 2 years) that I had done this that I just went yuck looking at it. So I figured I would try to clean it a little and repost that and work from there. If you liked the old one and want it back I'll put it back if not well lets start from here and move on then. As always love to hear feedback and will answer if I can, till next time then.

Disclamer: I own nothing involving any of these fine copyrighted fictional people. True I may stick in the occasional OC just for kicks, but they are up for grabs if you want to use them in your fics. Well enjoy.