A/N; Retro Lamb - you there hunnie...JARED LETO ROCKS!!!!! Here we go again...
"Mommy!"
Seifer snapped his blue eyes up as Alex ran forward from where both; he and her had been walking in through the door…the SeeD Instructor felt his heart leap slightly upon taking in the sight of his wife sitting up, evidently having regained consciousness, in her bed………
"Christi!"
Christi shot her glowing gaze upwards as his voice was heard, the memories of her harrowing premonition momentarily forgotten as tears formed in her eyes, and emotions took hold;
"Seifer – I'm sorry…I'm so sorry, I didn't mean any of it – I swear, I'm so sor-"
Christi trailed off as she immediately became aware of her husband's arms around her, hugging her tight…
"Don't be sorry Christi – I was just bein thick-headed as usual…I guess we both were, huh? Forget about it though, I'm just glad you're okay…don't ever scare me like that again brighteyes!"
Shalua looked up as the door of the medical lab opened…within seconds; the female found herself helping Genesis lay Rika down on one of the unoccupied beds…
"What happened her Genesis?"
No reply came to the scientist's query, as when she looked up from her friend's unconscious frame; the enigmatic SOLDIER had already exited the room………this fact alone set the woman on edge; Genesis, in her opinion anyhow, seemed to have changed somewhat lately; though she could hardly blame the man, everything he'd fought so hard to protect all those years ago, was falling apart right in front of his very eyes…his grandson was missing, his daughter was hurt, and all those he'd fought against in the past; were back again………it was no wonder the man had reverted back to his silent mood………
"Genesis! Where's Rika? What happened her?"
Genesis halted hastily as to avoid walking full force into Angeal…the white-winged SOLDIER looked worried…someone must have informed him of Rika's odd turn…and now he was doing the typical brother thing; finding out what the hell had happened his little sister! Genesis spoke quickly as he continued to walk, Angeal a few paces behind him;
"She is in the medical lab, Shalua is tending to her – and as for what happened; I honestly do not know, she was fine one minute, and next she keeled over………Angeal; we have bigger problems right now………"
At this; Angeal ground to a halt, his Mako-blue eyes seemingly examining the tiled floor of the corridor as he spoke quietly;
"You feel her too then………"
"Yes, we need to act now – before it is too late; the first she will come after are the remaining of Cetra………"
Angeal nodded as he turned on his heels, making a beeline in the opposite direction as Genesis walked on;
"I understand – I'll get Elmyra from Zack's room…then I'll get Aerith from the Lounge, last time I saw her; she was talking with Tifa………"
Genesis stopped mid-step as his eerily glowing irises came to rest on the scene of the three people sitting on the white-linened bed…Christi, Seifer and Alex………
Christi looked up as the door to her room opened, a small smile lit up her features as she saw the confusion on her father's face…
"Hi Dad………"
Genesis blinked as he closed the door behind him; still slightly taken aback by his daughter's miraculous recovery…but still not neglecting the fact that time was of the essence………
"Christi – you are okay?"
Christi grinned as she looked up to her father, then gingerly placed a hand to the back of her head, where several stitches were present…
"Mostly – have a bit of the headache – Oh!"
As she left the exclamation out – the memories of her supposed premonition came flooding back…the mother wasted no time in jumping forward to the end of her bed, her gaze meeting her father's in a pleading, almost begging look;
"Dad – please tell me Jamie's here! Please!"
All the SOLDIER, surprisingly, found himself capable of under his daughter's glare, was a mere shake of his hazel-red haired head………Christi sat back heavily on her bed, tears welling in her eyes as she realized what she'd seen had been true…
"Then…then; that means…no! We've got to go! I have to help him!"
Genesis spoke quickly as Christi set about pulling on some clothes, aware that; even though he did not wish her to be part of the fighting that was sure to ensue, he could not stop her – she wasn't the type who would gracefully bow out of something, regardless whether or not if she was likely to come out the other end unharmed………
"Stop for a minute and concentrate Christi – what do you feel that seems out of the ordinary?"
Christi did as instructed and halted for a minute, closing her eyes as she cleared her head…almost immediately; the mother snapped her glowing grey eyes open again, a look of horror on her face;
"I can feel her…but; she can't be back – can she? Oh no! That's what I saw! That's was they did to him!"
"Daddy – what are Mommy and Grandpa talking about?"
Seifer stood, hoisting Alex into his arms as he did so, and shook his head;
"I don't know hun………Christi – start from the beginning, not the middle; we're lost over here!"
"No…not in front………"
Christi trailed off as her gaze settled on Alex…she wasn't about to tell a four year old that the big brother she idolised was now housing a calamity………
"Elmyra – you need to come with me…you also Aerith-"
"And what about me! Huh Angeal – am I that easy to forget about?!?!"
Angeal felt a smile tugging at the corners of his lips as his gaze fell upon his hyperactive former-pupil…
"One could only hope………Zack, she's back, we need to go – Now!"
Zack felt his smile seemingly drop from his face as realization dawned on him…the SOLDIER stood quickly from his bed, ignoring the agony that flared into life in ribs as he turned to face his wife and daughter, both of which were oblivious as to the meaning behind Angeal's words…
"Aer, Elmyra – go with Angeal, I'll catch up later………"
Aerith nodded her head, evidently understanding what was going on…she knew something had felt uneasy lately…but never in years would she have fathomed that Heaven's Dark Harbinger had returned………unlike her mother; Elmyra didn't know what that weird feeling she had meant…the only thing the eighteen-year-old was sure of; was that she was being left in the dark…
"What's going on? Someone tell me!"
Zack turned as he pulled the top of his SOLDIER uniform down over his head, wincing slightly as he did so…
"Elmyra – I'm not gonna start arguing with you, now go with Angeal to the lab!"
That fatherly order may have worked in a perfect world, with the perfect little daughter – but Elmyra Fair was far from the perfect daughter! Of all the traits to pass on, it just had to have been the strong willingness Zack had passed on………
"No I won't! Tell me what the fuck is going on Dad!"
Zack groaned as he heard his daughter's angered shouts…now was not the time for an attitude problem!
"Either go with Angeal, or I'll make you, either way; you're not gonna win!"
"Just try it!"
Zack looked up and grinned as he heard the defiance in Elmyra's voice, fine then………
"Fine – I will make you!"
"Wha – Put me down! Dad – put me the hell down! DAD!!!"
Angeal smirked as he followed Zack, Aerith by his side, both watching on as Elmyra continued to protest and thump the back off her father………
A/N; Hehe; that's called persuassion...my Dad threatened to do it to me when I wouldn't get up for school one morning...I later found out my Dad does not believe in empty threats!!!!!