Lillian felt the oxygen in her lungs slowly become filled with water with every passing moment in her watery surroundings.
Her body was weak due to the attacks due to her former teammates Yuffie Kisaragi and Cid HighWind. She knew that death would not welcome her with her promise of immortality she would merely suffer here until her wounds healed and her thoughts would just want revenge. For AVALANCHE and her sanities sake she had to escape this maddening prison, she did not want to become another Sephiroth and prove Cid and the young ninja of Wutai right, Gaia forbid.

The sable-haired woman got to standing position ignoring the pain that the weapons that were once impaled in her left shoulder and her abdomen as she began to swim to the surface of the water anger willed her to keep going but vengeance was far from the young ex- bartender's thoughts and for the first time in her existence she prayed that revenge never came to her mind.

Finally reaching Earth's surface inhaling and exhaling the fresh air that seemed so foreign to her if only for mere moments, upon catching enough breath to move from the water she crawled from the small pond and lay on her back looking at the dark sky, that was almost covered by the glowing white trees that surrounded her, the cold dirt that was below her was not that much more relaxing in her wet clothes; it made her muscles ache, her brain screamed as if it were about to explode from the train of many thoughts that was out of her control and Allah was not helping her in her condition either, sending her signals of killing, vengeance and hatred towards those that have done her wrong, even those that had nothing to do with her condition...like the man she once loved Vincent Valentine.

She can't deny her feelings for the man they were one and the same, they may be far apart but that doesn't stop her love for him, he understood her and she understood him to a limit. He was like a book with a few pages missing and she wanted to find those pages so that she could understand him to the fullest.

Somehow she knew if she met Kadaj and his brothers in this world those feelings for Vincent would be put on trial Kadaj was her first love he was the one that truly understood her, he knew what made her laugh, cry, and what made her angry and how to calm her down.
Yazoo was the one who taught her to read and how to truly be calm in bad situations he was the father figure of them all the one they could run to when they were scared or hurt. Loz he was the one who taught her to fight and how to kill he was also the one to teach her take a joke but never to joke around, he taught her that fighting was more important than friendship. The lesson that they all three taught her was that family was the most important thing and family always stuck together.

She was brought from her thoughts by a group of rushing feet, hoping it was a friend, but what was the odds of that in a secluded area such as this one, the sable-haired woman staggered to her feet and waited for the group of intruders.

~

Cloud looked at Cid and Yuffie rubbing the bridge of his nose after hearing the deed the two them had performed he said in his low voice but annoyance could be easily read in his tone,"You two drove a member of AVALANCHE away without looking into what was going on, not only that you attacked Lillian, did you two forget that she helped us save the world against Sephiroth? You two should know that Lillian is one of us she has never shown anything for us to doubt her loyalty to us."

Yuffie stated in a shudder,"B-B-but, she had a dagger pulled out on Vince that was enough evidence to attack, she turned on us first."

The demon wielder that sat in the shadows his arms crossed strongly across his chest,"She had no intention of attacking, I know Lillian if you two had not attacked she would not have left nor would she have retaliated against you. Lillian was starting to change for the better if you and Cid had not had filled everyone's head with lies, she knows of the names you called her that is why she acted the way she had towards the two of you."

Cloud looked at Vincent as did the blond pilot and the young ninja, Cloud asked,"What names did they call her Vincent?"

The sable-haired man stated his focus was on the two in question,"They would often call her another Sephiroth or a human Jenova."

The leader of AVALANCHE looked at his two friends and comrades angrily.

~

Lillian drew her weapon soon three familiar silver haired brothers approached her, they, two had their weapons drawn, the four of them stared at each other for what seemed like hours but in reality, it was mere minutes.

Kadaj ordered,"Lower your weapons dear brothers."

Yazoo and Loz done as their brother order and Lillian done the same, Kadaj walked over to Lillian sheathing his Souba, he said with a smile that was foreign to Lillian,"Lily, you've changed."

Lillian looked at the three brothers a frown came to her lips she escaped the labs at age seventeen, she was now twenty-three, but the brothers their looks had not changed. She finally stated trying to hide the sadness in her voice,"Kadaj, you look as great as you did back then, you all three do. You've managed to grow some."

"We haven't aged since you left Lillian, the mako poison in our body won't allow us to age, but you've seemed to have gotten it out of your system and grown into a beautiful woman and judging by your injuries a strong woman as well." Came a quiet voice from behind Kadaj.

The sable-haired woman looked and saw that it was Yazoo that spoke the words she looked at the ground ashamed that she was foolish to move on when the people she valued so much was forced to stay in time and watch her grow to a certain age.