©Blood of Sephiroth 2001

Buried Past

'I know nothing of my past and less of my future.'

Gabe Xavier

Disclaimer: I own none of the FFVII Characters, but Gabe is mine! All mine, you hear me!!!!

Prologue & Gabe's History to date

Gabe ducked into the hallway, her prize clutched posessivly to her chest. That had been too close.

The young girl tip-toed back to her room, the doll still in her hands, and she made her way through the gloom and moonlight to her room mate, Eloise, and placed the doll in her bed, rewarded with the small smile from the young girl as Eloise tucked the doll out of sight.

'Thank you.' She whispered. Gabe didn't smile, but she patted the sick girl's hand before going back to her bed, barely disturbed by the whooping cough of Eloise.

Next morning, Gabe went over to check on Eloise as the sun rose and warmed the frigid orphanage room, revealing the squalid conditions they had to live in. Gabe got to the bed, but she sensed something was wrong. Eloise's face was smiling, but it was too pale. The eyes were shut, whereas usually she would be awake at the slightest noise. And she was too cold as Gabe shook her friend. With the child's uncanny sense of death, Gabe knew without question that Eloise had gone. Gabe took the doll out from under Eloise's covers, hugging it to her chest as she crept back to her bed and hid it under her loose floorboard. She curled back up on her bed, waiting for the door to be unlocked, no tears falling from her eyes, no emotion shown on the seven year old's face.

When a government agent came in and saw the conditions that the forty or so children in the orphanage were forced to live in, the orphanage was closed down and the children given to foster parents. That was when Gabe was ten. From there she was shipped from family to family, always told that 'she was a cold child' and that she was always suffering from depression. That and the fact she kept on running away.

Finally Gabe was shoved into SOLDIER when she was fourteen, where she was put through hell....