Reno stood in between Rufus Shinra and his partner Rude. They were looking through the one-way mirror in a small room off of the main interrogation room at the Shinra headquarters.

A young woman was passed out, leaning against the wall.

"Yo Rude," Reno said tilting his heard towards the bald man on his right, "how much juice did you put in that tranquilizer yo?"

"Enough." The man said brushing off his sleeves.

"It's good." Rufus said, "We didn't want her waking up during transportation. Who knows what she would have done."

"Yeah, but is she going to wake up any time soon yo?"

"Couple minutes."

"Where are Tseng and Elena?" Rufus asked glancing at Rude.

"Who knows yo." Reno smirked, "Probably in a dark corner of this place suckin' face."

"Shut up Reno." The head Turk growled walking in with Elena close behind. "Just for that, you get to talk to her first and explain everything."

"WHAAT?" The redhead gawked. "She might kill me yo! Or I might kill her. She did break my goggles." His eyes narrowed at the last part.

"I knew there was something missing." Elena giggled.

The young Turk frowned. He felt naked without his goggles. His hair was in his eyes more than usual.

"HOW COU-"

"She's awake." Rude said.

They all turned around looking into the bright interrogation room. The girl was in fact getting up.

She groggily raised her head looking around.

'Shit.' They heard her mutter. She tried to pull her hand apart, but quickly realized they were handcuffed.

'SHIT.' She said louder. She leaned herself against the wall and closed her eyes sighing. Then, pushing against the wall jumped up. She walked around the room lingering in front of the mirror. She seemed like she was glaring directly at Rufus. She then sat down on the chair in the middle of the room putting her feet up on the table.

"Whenever you're ready." she shouted. "I'm not goin' anywhere."

Everyone in the room looked at Reno.

"Alright, alright." he said. "I'm goin' yo."

He walked out of the side room and down the hall pausing at the door of the interrogation room. Talking a deep breath, he stepped in.

She was staring at the ceiling when he walked in.

"Do you know why you're here yo?"

She looked down at his face from the ceiling and rolled her eyes. He drew his breath.

She was breathtaking. Before her face had been covered with her kerchief, and he couldn't see her well from the side room. She had short wispy blond hair, layered and ending right below her chin. Her eyes were the most brilliant blue he had ever seen. Almost unrealistic. She had a sweet heart shaped face. Her nose was small but noble, and her lips were perfect. Not too small, not too big. Just right.

His jaw dropped and he began to look lower but he didn't get a chance to see the rest of her, because faster than lightning she had leapt over the table and slammed him into the wall. She grabbed the keys off his belt and bolted out the door.

She looked down both ends of the hall. To her left, The bald man, the blond girl, and a black haired man were coming out of the observation room, followed closely by Rufus Shinra. To her right, there were six Shinra security guards coming down the hall, but behind them was a large window. If only she could get to the window, she could escape out it. Without a weapon and with her hands cuffed, it would be tough to get past the guards, but she might be able to make it. And if she died jumping out the window, at least she wouldn't be dying at the hands of Shinra.

She took a deep breath and went for the first guard. She kicked him in the face into the wall, then jumped off his chest into the next one.

Two down.She kicked her way past the last four with relative ease. They weren't expecting the tiny 5'4" girl to fight them.

She made it to the window, but there was the dilemma of how to get it open. She glanced behind her. The bald man was about six feet away, and the redheaded man was coming out of the interrogation room rubbing his head.

She had no choice.

Storm slammed herself against the window, and thankfully it broke. Unfortunately, she was wearing a tank top and got a few shard of glass in her arm and she definitely bruised her shoulder very badly, but she didn't care. Storm took a deep breath and closed her eyes flinging herself out the window.

But she wasn't falling. In fact, she was going up.

Storm looked behind her. The bald man had grabbed her ankle and was pulling her back in. She started shaking violently, but Rude was so much larger than her, that he just held her by her ankle at arms length.

"I WILL NOT DIE AT THE HANDS OF FUCKING RUFUS SHINRA!" She screeched.

The red head came up to her and turned his head upside-down so it was level with hers.

"You don't listen well yo. I already told ya, we don't want to hurt you yo!"

"Perhaps the interrogation room was too... Threatening." Rufus mused. "Rude, take her to my office. And Reno, go find a nurse. Elena, Tseng, go get Miss Storm some food and beverage."

"Good idea yo." Reno grimaced. "She might have given me brain damage or something."

"Not for you dumbass." Elena rolled her eyes. "Look at her arm! It's turning purple!"

"Ooh, that looks bad yo." Reno broke into a grin. "Want me to give it a kiss?"

Storm took her free foot and tried to kick him, but he jumped back.

"Not catching me off guard again yo!" he laughed.

"Come along." Rufus said walking toward an elevator. "Tseng, Elena, Reno?"

"Yes, sir!" they said unanimously all running in different directions.

Rude followed Rufus into the elevator. Rufus touched the button for the 8th floor and leaned against the wall and looked down at her.

"You have given us quite a chase Miss Storm. I hope you live up to the rumors."

Rumors? Storm thought.

Ding

They arrived at the 8th floor. A startled receptionist gawked at the sight of the short girl being dangled by her foot by the Bald Turk as they made their way through the doorway by her desk. They walked into a room with four desks. Three looked occupied, but the last was empty. There were two doors at the end of the room. They entered through the left door into a large office. There as a large glass desk at the end of the room, a large white computer, and several neat stacks of paper on the desk. Two large white comfy looking chairs sat in front of the desk. The walls were all white with white carpet. The rest of the room was empty except for a drink cart and a large television on the front wall. No windows to escape out in this room

Rude turned Storm over and set her in a chair. It was even more comfy than it looked. She could sleep in it. Rufus sat behind the desk while Rude took her handcuffs off then his place by the door.

"Miss Storm," Rufus began, "I must know, do you have something against my company and I?"

Storm blinked. She wasn't expecting that question.

"Not particularly." she stated. "You've been cleaning up you act a bit more since the remnants. Although, you did just abduct me."

"Yes, we apologize for that. We attempted to contact you, but that's not easy."

"Obviously, you couldn't take a hint." she spat.

"Miss Storm - uh, do you have a last name?"

Storm frowned.

"That is my last name."

"Ah, well than, a first name?"

"I go by Storm." She figured she might as well answer his questions. He wasn't asking anything of consequence.

"Ahh well then -Storm- how old are you?"

"19."

"A bit young to be a mercenary isn't it?"

"Sometimes you have no choice." she answered shortly.

"Ah I suppose that's true."

Just then, Reno, Elena, and Tseng entered the room followed by a short pudgy woman with grey hair.

Reno took his place next to Rude, crossing his arms while Tseng and Elena deposited a plate of what looked like grilled chicken salad and a bottle of sparkling water in front of her. Storm felt her stomach rumble with hunger. She hadn't eaten in days, the money from her last job was going to buy her some food. Most of her jobs she did for people just as poor as her, so she didn't make much. Enough to stay alive. She had scrimped for a year to buy her motorcycle.

But she didn't trust Rufus enough to eat his food.

Rufus figured this out and reached over and ate a piece of chicken on her salad.

"See?" he said, "not poisoned."

That was enough for Storm. She attacked the salad eating it quickly to fill the void in her stomach. It was good. While she ate, the Turks and Rufus watched her. It was obvious to them she didn't eat much. While she ate the nurse quickly plucked all the glass shards from Storm's arm. She was good, Storm could barely feel the pain. She rubbed a cool liquid on the hurt arm that took away the burn from the cuts almost instantly. She then wrapped it in gauze and left. By then Storm was done with her salad and began to sip the water.

"Would you like more?" Rufus inquired.

Storm shook her head. If she ate too much she would puke. It had happened before.

"Well then, down to business. Storm, you have caused my company quite a bit of trouble. We have had very few jobs in the past year. Most people have been using your services, rather then ours. That's not good for us."

Storm frowned. What was he getting at? Did he want her to quit? How would she make money?

"What do you want me to do about it?" she asked.

"Well, I'd like to enlist your services."

"What?" This was the last thing on earth she had expected.

"He means he wants you to work for him yo." Reno said smugly from behind her.

"You'd make a considerably larger amount of money than you are now."

"How much more?"

Rufus wrote down a number on a piece of paper and handed it to her. That was a lot of zeros.

"A year?" she gasped.

"A month."

Storm stared at him.

"Is that a yes?"

"What would I do?" she asked.

"Turk."

Storm chewed her lip. It was a lot of money. And a good job.

"Fine." she whispered.

"ALRIGHT!" Reno shouted.

Storm rolled her eyes. "You honestly consider him a Turk?" she asked.

"Reno," Rufus began, "Please take Storm to her room so she may rest. Elena, I want you to look for an apartment for her if you would. You may go now."

Storm got up and followed Reno out of Rufus's office.

"That's your desk yo." Reno said pointing to the desk in the far right corner. "You're right next to me." he grinned.

His hair really is a mess without his goggles. She thought. It drooped in his eyes practically covering the whole upper-half of his face. Storm smiled inwardly.

Storm followed Reno back to the elevator which took them to the sixth floor.

"Seventh floor is training, sixth is a little kitchen and some rooms in case we have to crash here." he informed her on the elevator. He lead her into a large room with a kitchen in one corner, and a sitting area with a large TV in the other. The back wall had five doors going across it. He lead her to the far left.

"Here's your room. There's a-"

Storm slammed the door in his face and locked it. She looked around and spotted the bed in the corner of the room. She didn't bother looking around. She just collapsed on the bed in exhaustion.

That's chapter two! Let me know what you think! Any changes I should make? Something you don't like? Any characters inaccurate in their attitudes? PLEASE LET ME KNOW! Let it out yo! Just don't be too mean. ;) And thank you Zek88 for the kind review. =]