Before I wrote this chapter, I decided to check my email and found something back at the 11th of this month. I would like to thank Spirit01 for favoriting my story. I was so ecstatic to see that in my email. It shows that my work is appreciated by someone and I hope you and my other readers continue to enjoy my story, and thanks again. Disclaimer: I do not own FF7 or the characters. I'm just borrowing them.

Chapter 10

Everybody was in the bar waiting for Angela to return. Reno and Rude had to leave because they got a call from Tseng. They were needed back at the Healin Lodge. The two Turks left with Reno cursing. Angela had made it back to the bar with fresh clothes on and her hair down. It reached her mid back.

"She finally let her hair down." Cloud commented.

"It can't exactly dry with it up like it was. Where did the kids go?"

"They went upstairs. Probably to talk about how such a cool fighter you are." Yuffie replied grinning.

"What exactly happened out there? How did you do that?" Tifa asked.

"I have the ability of future sight, better known as premonitions. I've had this ability since I was a kid. I had an advantage on almost everyone that went up against me today because of that. I was able to tell how they were going to attack me and I was able to block them."

"Like Vincent, you can't be truly human. No human being would have been able to keep up with Vincent like that." replied Reeve.

"Your right, I'm not completely human. I think I should start more at the beginning. Please ask questions afterwards. I'm glad the kids are not here, I don't want them to hear this."

Angela sat down on one of the bar stools, took a deep breath and began her story.

"I was born in Kalm. It was more like a birthplace than a hometown to me, but my father and I did live there when we weren't travelling. He was a scientist for Shinra and I almost always went with him when he was sent somewhere to do some research. Most of his work evolved around the Cetra, more commonly known as the Ancients, and their work and communications with the Planet."

"I met many scientists through my father including Hojo. He really irked me, even when I met him the first time when I was nine. Anyway, when I was 17, I decided I wanted to work for Shinra as a Turk. My father would have liked me to go into a different profession such as music or theater because the job was so dangerous. I had my mind made up and it wasn't going to be changed that easily."

"When I was 18 and a few months away from graduating from school, I sent my application to Shinra for the Turks. Not to long after that my father took on an assistant to help him with his work, and eventually continue it. Cronin was his name. He moved to Kalm with his older brother Damien. They had stuck together like glue after their second parent passed away."

"All three of us hit it off easily and Damien and I became something more as I came close to graduating from school. About a month after I graduated, Damien asked me to marry him. I said yes to his proposal and got a letter in the mail from Shinra saying that I had been accepted to start training as a Turk. Instead of trying to dissuade me from joining, he supported me and continued to support me."

"I was given one week leaves once a month almost every month. I went home during that time to spend time with my father if he was there, and Damien and I made wedding plans together. I got a month off leave for Christmas to spend at home and we planned on setting the wedding date then. We never got that chance. My father and Cronin had asked Damien to run into town to get something for them for one of their experiments. Damien did since he was going into town anyway."

"I had a premonition of gunshots going off and I ran into town after him. I didn't get to him in time. He was shot down in the street in front of the goods store. It took him three days to die, and he never regained consciousness." Angela was fighting back tears. She continued when she felt composed enough to do so.

"After his death, my father and Cronin avoided me to the point that I didn't want to be home anymore. I received news that my father had retired and Cronin had gone his own way continuing my father's work. I didn't see my father again until I confronted him about doing another job for Shinra. He told me not to worry about him and to concentrate on my own profession."

"A month later I received news that he was killed in a lab accident. I knew better than that, and I immediately had suspicions. My father never had lab accidents, he thought things through too thoroughly because 'he had a daughter to take care of'."

"I did some investigating of my own and found out the Kraylin was also working at the lab my father was. Kraylin was the assistant to Hojo, and rivals with Cronin. I had met him several times and he had tried to seduce me countless times. Anyway, I went AWOL and hunted Kraylin down to confront him. He shot me in the shoulder. I ended up passing out because I had never been shot before."

"When I woke up I was strapped to a metal table that could be moved into a vertical position if needed. Kraylin told me that he would make me into the perfect monster that only he would love. He injected me with substances that I wish I didn't know what they were."

"I don't know how long I was kept in that place, but he would continue to harm me both physically and mentally. When I wouldn't do what he wanted me to, he would whip me. I still have some deep scars in my back. I lived in agonizing pain for days. Then one day he told me that he had ordered the hit on Damien. He said he wasn't going to let Damien take me away from him."

"Then on another day, he let me out of my confines of the table and decided he was going to teach me how to please him." Angela mentally cringed. "That was when he forced himself into my mouth. I wasn't going to let him get away with taking my loved ones away without losing something. I don't know if I took his appendage off completely because he sunk a knife into the base of my neck by my shoulder blade. I blacked out for I don't know how long. When I came too I was… well, as you see me today."

"It was over thirty years ago when I left that place. I travelled around the planet, looking for any family members. Ten years ago, I found my cousin I was so close to growing up. She was dying and had a seven year old daughter that she begged me to take care of. I took Kyra with me whenever I deemed it possible. I would leave her with people I felt I could trust when I couldn't take her with me, but I always came back for her."

"It was ten months ago when she disappeared. I searched for her left to imagine the worst. It was a few days ago that I received word that she had been found. That's where we are today."

Everybody listened in stunned silence. Even Yuffie was speechless for once.

"It was a few years ago that she finally told me about what had happened to her. I realized as I got older that she wasn't aging since I was taken in by her."

"Why did you leave Kyra alone at times?" Tifa asked.

"I use my premonitions to help people. I take Kyra with me when I deem it possible. If I feel she would be in any real danger I would leave her behind with people I felt I could trust. Then she was taken from the last people I had left her with."

"Angela," Cloud started.

"I am getting involved Cloud. When they took Kyra they made it my business."

"Your already involved."

Everybody looked at Kyra questioningly.

"What do you mean?" Angela asked.

"They need you to find something for them. Some kind of materia. I don't remember what it's called."

"I don't know about any materia that could possibly interest them."

A/N: That was one long chapter. Now you know what had happened to Angela and how she came to be who she is. Could she and Vincent get closer now that he knows they are so much alike? Stay tuned to find out. P.S. School will be starting for me again next week. I will try to keep updating as best I can. There may be times where I will go a while without updating, but stay patient with me. I will update anytime I can during the semester.