Many people before had told him that he was crazy, but he never paid any attention to that. He knew he wasn't sane, but he did believe his experiments were perfectly logical. After all, who ever heard of a human without insanity; it just wasn't true. Everyone had some sort of obsession, his just happened to be greater. His experiments were always ones involving some discovery; and many of them containing theories of what some people would call dangerous, but they all worked…or would work. He just had to prove them. Which brought us to now…

He was going to test the levels or fear.

He glanced down at his files; he knew exactly what he needed to do. Create an AD for people with sleeping disorders. People desperate for sleep were more susceptible to hearing and seeing things. They were easier to push over into insanity, into fear. Normal people wouldn't be proper test subjects. No, he needed subjects already on edge; he needed to get down to the chemistry of fear.

"Hojo?" Lucrecia's smooth voice questioned from the door, "Hojo are you in here?"

He briefly glanced up from his work, "Yes." He replied. Lucrecia strode confidently over to her husband; she knew very well he was working on something; and she was determined to find out what it was.

"What are you doing?" She inquired, looking over his shoulder.

"Working." He said distractedly. She sighed, sure it may be annoying, but when Hojo got into something he worked hard to make it happen. Maybe that was the one thing she admired about him.

"On what?"

He closed his eyes in annoyance, but turned to her nothing less, "I'm going to test fear." He said; and though he was annoyed and aggravated about the distraction he couldn't help the twinge of excitement that sounded in his voice.

This caught Lucrecia's attention, fear? Such a wonderful thing to study. Hojo noticed her facial expression become interested. He didn't need to hear words; he knew she was just as crazy about science as him.

"I am going to post an add for people with sleeping disorders and they will be my specimens. I will put the address as ShinRa Mansion and there is where I will test fear. I want to know everything about it." He said his voice full of enthusiasm.

Lucrecia stared intently at Hojo then at the Ads on his unorganized desk; a smile made its way onto her lips as her eyes lit up with excitement. This was sure to be one of Hojo's best experiments; she couldn't wait. Hojo returned to his work.

"May I accompany you?" Lucrecia asked hopefully.

Hojo paused, but shrugged, "Sure. Why not?"

Lucrecia's smile got wider; this was going to be an amazing study.

"You can help me." He continued; never leaving his work.

"Oh thank you Hojo." Lucrecia said gratefully.

He didn't reply; he was too caught up in his work.

Lucrecia watched him; the smile never leaving her face, giving her a somewhat insane appearance. She knew it was crazy, she knew it was an obsession they both couldn't control. And she knew it was dangerous, well some people might find it frightening, ShinRa Mansion had many scary tales told about it, but she could care less about that; she would be one of the first to witness the actual truth of fear.

Alright! This is the first chapter to my first ever horror fic! I hoped you enjoyed this! . Well the next chapter is about Yuffie...

I want to give a VERY special thanks to drakonlily for helpin' me out! THANK YOU SO MUCH!

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