-1Disclaimer….I don't own Genesis or anything to do with him…I do own Artemis. I noticed there is hardly any Genesis stories out there…so I took pity on him and made a plot dealing with him. He's kinda bad in this though…cause I think he is bad, but still I see some kindness in him.

Don't worry, Wolf Blood will be finished…when I get the inspiration back…My muse doesn't like me at all, and decided that she was going to put more ideas in my head.

BTW!! This is a SPOILER FREE fic….even though I know the real reason why Genesis broke ranks during the Wutai war…I'm not going to follow that storyline. Just because I know some of you prefer not to know what happens in Crisis Core before you play it. I might accidentally put a few hints…but that can't be helped…I'm going to try and make this a good story. I prefer to make up my own reason why he went AWOL anyway. So, here it goes.

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Sephiroth had sent him here, to this lab, but what for? These are the things he questioned while standing outside the door to the room of which only women were supposed to go in. Sephiroth had said for him to go here, for a reason unknown. He took out a piece of paper that resided in the inside pocket of his red over coat. It had a few scribbles on it, a couple of doodles here and there, nothing to big. The piece of paper held out coordinates to something and a persons name. Someone that Shinra had been looking for, but couldn't find.

Though he stood there in front of a door, to a lab, where he would use these coordinates. But what kind of machine could single out a persons life force? He would soon find out.

"Okay, this better be worth the time." Genesis pushed a few buttons on a keypad next to the door and heard the lock on it click. He pushed the door open stepping into a room full of women in lab coats. They all looked up when they saw him enter.

"Sir, your not supposed to come in here. This room is strictly off limits to any man." A woman with short red hair practically yelled at him from the far side of the room. He didn't flinch a brow.

"I know this, but I'm afraid that your going to have to deal with it. Being a superior officer, I think I would know these things." he looked down at the woman, who was around 5'2". Her grey eyes widened as she realized who she was speaking too. "Oh, I'm so sorry Sir! I didn't realize who it was." He ignored her looking at the various computers and machines monitoring a heart rate and vital signs of something. His eyes finally settled on the object in the center of the room.

In the center of the room, was a test tube of some sorts. Inside there was a woman, in the fetal position and she was naked. Curled up, the only things helping her breath was a tube going down her throat, and various other instruments attached to her arms and legs. Her brown hair flowing around her head, making her look like an angel. She was asleep it looked like.

"Who is she?" He asked the red headed woman. She turned her attention to the center of the room.

"Sir, this is Artemis. She is an experiment that has been in the making for a long time. We've finally got her to the point where she can track down a single persons brainwaves or life force from the other side of the planet." She looked on with pride at the woman in the test tube. "She is only eighteen, but her mind power has extraordinary results sir. The only problem is, if she were to be awake, we wouldn't have any control over her. She has been asleep all her life. Never even opened her eyes." Genesis wasn't impressed by this, but yet, he still cared.

"What exactly did you do to her?" The red head turned back to the SOLDIER and stared at him.

"You mean, they haven't told you?" He shook his head. He had never heard of Artemis, not once. Maybe he has, but never actually questioned what Artemis was. "Well, when we got her, she was a two month old premature baby, practically in a coma since birth. We operated on her, putting a crystal in her brain. Over time the crystal enhanced her brain waves, allowing her to do many things with her mind. She could get into your head, control your actions, make you do things you don't want to do. Her power is limitless." Genesis, wasn't thrilled about this, but still the red head continued on. "We use her mainly for tracking people. She's asleep basically, so she can't harm us as long as she is in slumber. If she were to wake, she would have the mentality and actions of a newborn." Genesis looked at the red head and raised an eyebrow.

"Or so you think." Her face faulted. "Now, on to business. I need to find a particular person." The red head smiled at the man.

"Do you have a signature or a code maybe, even a name would help." He gave her the piece of paper he was holding. The name scribbled on it was Garrin Sheder, an outlaw who had recently gone into hiding. "You may want to step out, this is hard to watch. Even for us." What were they going to do? He looked over to the sleeping woman and watched as a long needle came down, settling itself over her spine at the back of her neck.

"How exactly do you get information from her if she is asleep?" The red headed woman in front of him turned to the center of the room and pointed to the needle poised over the back of the sleeping girls neck.

"We send a series of electric shocks through her spine and brain, which bounce of the crystal. The information bounces off the crystal and back through the needle into wires that go to the computer you see here." The red head put a hand on the computer she was standing next to. "When your ready Sir, we can begin." Genesis nodded, giving the go ahead and one of the women pressed a button that allowed the needle to begin piercing the skin of Artemis's neck. He watched as she tensed up feeling the needle go into her spine. Her eyes scrunched up as if she were in severe pain. She couldn't cry out, for the tube in her throat and mouth kept her from doing so. Genesis watched the red headed woman next to him enter a few things into the computer and then he turned back to the girl. "Brace yourself Sir, she might try to get in your head." He didn't care. He watched as electric sparks danced all over the needle and caused the girl to straiten her back and throw her head up. Genesis swore he could hear screaming.

"Is that her screaming?" The red headed woman turned to him, looking confused at his words. She shook her head.

"There is no way she can, unless she is starting to reach out. That would mean she is close to waking up." The torture of Artemis continued till the information Genesis needed had been found. The needle that had been in Artemis's neck had been retracted and the girl relaxed settling back into her most comfortable position.

"Here you go Sir." The woman handed him a small white sheet of paper containing the information he was looking for. "Please, don't tell Hojo about Artemis. He will try to do worse things to her. She is pure human. I don't want her tainted by his experiments." He nodded, turning to Artemis.

"Help me."

Genesis heard the voice inside his head, knowing that he was the only one who could hear it. He nodded to the girl that called out to him with her mind, then left the lab. He would have to talk to someone about this. Maybe he should speak with Valera about the matter. After all, he was part of Valera. First, he had to find Sephiroth to give him the information he had just gathered.

"Send me all the way down here when he could have come himself." Genesis grumbled. Even though he and Sephiroth didn't get along to well, he still respected the General. He walked down the hall to the elevator, walking in and pressing the button to the floor that Sephiroth would most likely be on. "I had to say I had nothing better to do huh." He sometimes talked to himself, knowing that it would ease his frustrations with the fact that he had just seen something cruel taken place, yet when he saw this, he felt horrible. Normally, he would get a rush when someone was being tortured, but the person on the receiving end was usually deserving of it. This girl was pure, still innocent. She was pale, weak, fragile even. He wasn't for torturing the innocent.

The elevator stopped on the floor he requested, yet he really didn't want to talk to Sephiroth, he would rather talk to a chocobo. At least chocobo's were friendlier, and they didn't try to kill you with an insanely long sword. When the doors opened there stood Angeal, arms crossed and looking extremely mad.

"Where did he send you this time?" Genesis asked his friend while walking out of the elevator. Angeal just walked past him into the elevator and pressed a button.

"Guess." The doors to the elevator shut and Genesis shook his head, knowing that Angeal was going to the place he hated the most.

"The very top." The mako eyed man sighed then preceded to Sephiroth's office. He was older than Sephiroth, and ranked higher too. It was supposed to be his day off. He was going to go out tonight, but he changed his plans.

He walked into Sephiroth's office, where the silver haired man was hidden behind a huge stack of papers. This is the reason Sephiroth didn't go to the lab himself.

"Can you tell me why you are doing all this?" Genesis questioned the silver haired man behind the desk.

"Because, no one else wants to." Sephiroth put his pen down and looked at the auburn haired man standing in front of him.

"Have you considered on ordering someone else to do it?" Sephiroth nodded.

"I have, this is the shortest stack." Genesis laughed, then abruptly stopped when he realized what he had come up here to do. He pulled out the piece of paper the red headed woman in the lab gave him and handed it over to Sephiroth. "Impressive isn't she?"

"Who?" Genesis gave a confused look.

"The girl, Artemis." Genesis nodded, on the inside he felt strange about it. "I've never seen something like her before. It's a shame she's asleep, she would be very useful to me." Genesis couldn't even imagine what Sephiroth would use Artemis for.

"Yeah well, have a great time filling out these papers. I'm going enjoy the rest of my day off." With that said, Genesis walked out of Sephiroth's office to the elevator where Zack Fair was just getting off. "Careful kid, he's in a weird mood." Zack looked at Genesis confused, how did he know where Zack was going? The young man shrugged then headed down the hall as Genesis walked in the elevator. He pressed the button for the floor that Valera worked on. The woman would be happy to see him, for it was only a few times a month he could spare to go see his mother figure.

Humming the tune of a song that he had always played on the piano, he leaned against the wall of the elevator as it went down five floors. He would talk to her for a while then go get some sleep for tomorrow.

As soon as the elevator doors opened he walked out to an almost empty floor. There were at leas five people working, it was getting late. He walked past a row of cubicles and then walked up to a closed door that had the name Valera Tilray on it. He knocked on the door and waited for a reply.

"Come in!" He heard her from his side of the door. Turning the knob, he opened the heavy office door and walked inside. The auburn haired woman behind the desk looked up and put a big smile on her face. Genesis smiled as well, going over to meet his mother figure, who was rising from her chair to give the man she raised a hug. "I knew you were going to come see me today." She broke the hug and smiled at him. "So, what have you been up to lately?"

"Nothing much, training mostly. Today I just happened to get a day off and Sephiroth decided to see if I wasn't to busy to go run an errand for him." He sighed. "I didn't like this errand he sent me on." Valera put a hand on his shoulder.

"What was it that made you not like it?" He looked into her green eyes and sighed. "It couldn't have been that bad." He looked at the floor. Here was the only place he could soften up, and the only person he could open up too. She was practically his real mother, the only woman who came close to a real mother.

"Have you ever heard of Artemis?" Valera nodded. "I saw her for the first time today." He looked up at Valera and she smiled.

"I've seen her too, she is innocence in it's most glorious form. You saw what they do to her huh?" Genesis nodded. "It' will kill her soon, if they keep doing that to her."

"That's what I don't like, it's torture to her, yet I heard her voice in my head. I heard her screaming." Valera knew what he was talking about. She had seen what they did to the poor girl. "Should I do something about it?" Valera opened her desk and pulled out a file. She handed it to Genesis.

"This was given to me an hour ago. I've read over it a dozen times since then." He opened the file and read over it's contents. Valera saw his eyes widen. "She's already dieing. Shinra already gave permission to report her as a failure. She is to be disposed of tomorrow." He shut the file and looked at Valera.

"I have to get her out of there." She looked at him and nodded.

"I agree. I'll find a place for her to go." Genesis nodded and walked out the room.

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Genesis found himself back at the lab he had been to earlier in the day. There was nobody in the room but Artemis. There was the sound of heart rate monitors recording the girls last heart beats for the time being. He went up to her prison, looking at her innocent form.

"What is your name?" He heard her voice in his head. This meant she was awake.

"My name is Genesis Rhapsodos." He said. He didn't know if she could hear him but, it didn't matter. She was apparently more advance than they thought. "Can you open your eyes?" Though surrounded by water, she could hear him. Cool crystal blue eyes opened up for the first time, meeting the soft glow of blue mako enhanced eyes.

"It hurts." He nodded understanding. She reached out with her left hand, placing it on the glass that separated her from the outside world. Genesis took off the glove on his right hand and placed it where hers was.

"I'm not going to let you die." Artemis closed her eyes then opened them again. "I promise you." She understood, but she was soo tired. He saw this and pulled out a book from his inside coat pocket. LOVELESS. "Would you like me to read to you?" He grabbed a nearby chair and sat in it facing her.

"Yes. I would love it if you would." Came the weak reply. He nodded and flipped a few pages in the small book. He began to read to her, not letting himself fall asleep even though he was exhausted. He did this for her, he never even read to anyone before. He fell asleep soon, reading to Artemis. She went into his dreams, before she couldn't hang on anymore. By dawn she was almost gone.

Genesis was woken up by her soft voice in his head. He opened his eyes, looking into hers. She was getting ever more closer to death. He stood up and went over to her water and glass prison. Placing a bare hand on the glass. He couldn't let her die. He promised. He always kept the promises he made.

"It's okay to let me go." He shook his head and looked down at his feet. "I would just be a burden to you. You would have to teach me how to walk and to do other things." He looked up back into her eyes.

"It would be worth it in the end. You've slept your life away. I think you have another chance." He started to get angry. "Brace yourself."

Genesis stepped away from her prison, holding up his arm allowing energy and magic flow through him. Valera walked in at that moment. She knew what he was going to do and watched as he let loose a ball of fire at the glass, cracking it. Quickly Valera shut off all the camera's in the area as he let loose another wave of fire. It was then that the glass gave way and all the water came spilling out onto the floor. Artemis lost consciousness and fell to the bottom of what was left of her prison.

"Genesis! Remove the tube from her throat!" Valera shouted at him. He did what he was told. He went over to the naked girl still curled up in a ball on the floor of her prison for the last eighteen years of her life. He carefully picked her head up and removed the tube from her throat, allowing her to breath on her own.

"Come on. Wake up." He held her head up, not caring if she was naked. He took his red coat off and put it over her. She wasn't breathing. "She isn't breathing." He started using CPR on her to get her to breathe. After a few minutes she coughed up water and bolted up, breathing rapidly. "Take deep breaths." He ran his now gloved hand down her back making her calm down. She started to cry. Like an infant does when it's first born. Her eyes were closed, they weren't use to air.

"Is she alright?" He nodded as Artemis collapsed against him. He wrapped his arms around her, putting his chin on her head.

"Yeah, I think she'll be okay now." He took his left arm and put it under her knees, then stood up. "We have to get her out of here." Valera nodded. "Welcome to the world, Artemis."

"thank….you." Came her weak reply as she rested her head on Genesis's shoulder. He smiled, knowing that she was okay now.

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Okay, first Genesis fic….don't really know his character to well, but if you look at it…all bad boys start out good.

Please let me know what you think. I'll give you cookies.

Michiyo