"Hojo… Please!"
She watched the monster who she called her husband grab the baby, soaked in blood, by his ankle. He handed it to the nurses who immediately cleansed him. He snatched the howling creature again and examined it.
Like an animal.
He noted the silver hair – neither of his parents had it. Green eyes – from Lucrecia. The glow must be from Jenova. The baby's features were so delicate, almost too exquisite for any human beings. The baby was not feeble, it already had strong muscles developing. …Once again, Jenova.
The woman cried out when the scientist stuck a needle in the newborn's arm, as if it was done to her.
Her beautiful face was gaunt, her once-lovely eyes now just rolling in her sockets. The child had sucked every drop of life out of her, leaving her with nothing but her soul intact. However now it was being torn in pieces as she watched her first child being put in a little incubator.
"Hojo… He's yours too! He's OUR child!!"
"Quiet!!" The scientist spat. He took the blood sample and placed it under the microscope. "Shut up."
Tears. She had thought that she was incapable of shedding any more tears. The past months – how she had cried! How she had tattered her mind into a boiling pot of guilt and sorrow, taking part in this inescapable fate. Now they streamed freely down her cheeks as she watched her son.
The bed she was lying on would be her deathbed, she knew. The bed that he was lying in would be his too. His life would end and destiny would take over. To be separated from humanity. Into a world of indifference and cruelty.
God… what have I done?
She opened her arms wide, wanting her son to come to him. Just to be able to hold him once. Just to give him something to remember of human touch, tenderness and love. Jenova would be his mother, she knew. He wouldn't be human.
She felt her consciousness slip away. "Sephiroth…" she uttered out, with her last breaths.
Please, son… forgive me.
The baby stared at the ceiling, oblivious of everything. He would remain that way for the rest of his life, isolated in seclusion. His life would be hell.
Please. Forgive me.
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She exhaustedly stumbled out of the train, clutching her bleeding stomach with one hand and grabbing her daughters with another. Tears were flowing freely as she took a step after step, the agonizing pain almost blinding her.
Suddenly she felt herself losing balance. She had tripped on a step. Her daughter instantly was by her side, her big eyes staring at hers.
"Aeris…"
How could the man she loved betray her like this? How could he let Shinra carry on the Jenova project? The man who proposed to her with the ring she still wore on her finger. The man whose eyes behind the silver-rimmed glasses shone so brightly that it dimmed everything else in her life.
"Ifalna… I love you more than my life."
Their first kiss under the moonlight, the shy man suddenly taking her by her waist and awkwardly pressing his lips over hers. As surprised as she was, she had wrapped her arms around him and had kissed him back. How she had giggled that it was his first kiss.
"I can't believe I met someone like you…"
She suddenly pressed the little figure against her, stroking her hair and kissing her in order to calm the frightened child.
Damn you, bastard.
Damn your lies and damn everything you stood for. How could you, after all that, choose science over us? Your wife, your daughter!
She felt everything becoming faint and the song of the planet that hummed in her ears became louder and louder, until her eardrums thundered and everything became dark.
"Mommy!!"
Aeris.
She felt a vague presence of someone else, someone who was frantically trying to wake her.
"Please take Aeris somewhere safe…"
I'm sorry for everything… for falling in love and believing that love could conquer everything.
The child desperately shook her mother's hand, crying and hoping that she would wake, the only family she had ever known.
I'm sorry that you'll be the last one.
Elmyra took the crying child in her arms and tried to calm her. The small figure shook with poignant sobs. The woman knelt beside the child and cradled her. The woman whispered comforting words to the frightened girl, stroking her hair.
However the small child knew that it was fake. She could never be comforted; a shackle was clasped on her ankle the moment her mother's soul left the planet
She looked around her, the flowery world she knew only days ago now shutting down completely. Every connection she had felt before was cut off from her. She froze in her place as she realized her future. A frightened denial escaped her lips.
She was completely alone.
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Author's Note: I just have the BIGGEST urge to write something about Ifalna and Gast. Does anyone know Gast's first name though? In this fic, Ifalna doesn't know that Gast was killed… but was he killed? They're shrouded in a veil of mystery, them two… If anyone knows what really happened with Ifalna and Gast, please e-mail me! Or leave a note! Oh, by the way, I appreciate all e-mails and reviews, I really do.
How did you like the prologue? I tried to make this so that you realize the similarities in their past. Betrayed by the ones that they (should've) loved the most, the tragic deaths of their mother, complete isolation – although the reasons for their isolation differs. See the reasons that they should be together?? ^^ Please leave reviews!
And I'm really sorry that I haven't updated in a long time… but the next chapter will be up soon… Sorry!!!!
She watched the monster who she called her husband grab the baby, soaked in blood, by his ankle. He handed it to the nurses who immediately cleansed him. He snatched the howling creature again and examined it.
Like an animal.
He noted the silver hair – neither of his parents had it. Green eyes – from Lucrecia. The glow must be from Jenova. The baby's features were so delicate, almost too exquisite for any human beings. The baby was not feeble, it already had strong muscles developing. …Once again, Jenova.
The woman cried out when the scientist stuck a needle in the newborn's arm, as if it was done to her.
Her beautiful face was gaunt, her once-lovely eyes now just rolling in her sockets. The child had sucked every drop of life out of her, leaving her with nothing but her soul intact. However now it was being torn in pieces as she watched her first child being put in a little incubator.
"Hojo… He's yours too! He's OUR child!!"
"Quiet!!" The scientist spat. He took the blood sample and placed it under the microscope. "Shut up."
Tears. She had thought that she was incapable of shedding any more tears. The past months – how she had cried! How she had tattered her mind into a boiling pot of guilt and sorrow, taking part in this inescapable fate. Now they streamed freely down her cheeks as she watched her son.
The bed she was lying on would be her deathbed, she knew. The bed that he was lying in would be his too. His life would end and destiny would take over. To be separated from humanity. Into a world of indifference and cruelty.
God… what have I done?
She opened her arms wide, wanting her son to come to him. Just to be able to hold him once. Just to give him something to remember of human touch, tenderness and love. Jenova would be his mother, she knew. He wouldn't be human.
She felt her consciousness slip away. "Sephiroth…" she uttered out, with her last breaths.
Please, son… forgive me.
The baby stared at the ceiling, oblivious of everything. He would remain that way for the rest of his life, isolated in seclusion. His life would be hell.
Please. Forgive me.
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She exhaustedly stumbled out of the train, clutching her bleeding stomach with one hand and grabbing her daughters with another. Tears were flowing freely as she took a step after step, the agonizing pain almost blinding her.
Suddenly she felt herself losing balance. She had tripped on a step. Her daughter instantly was by her side, her big eyes staring at hers.
"Aeris…"
How could the man she loved betray her like this? How could he let Shinra carry on the Jenova project? The man who proposed to her with the ring she still wore on her finger. The man whose eyes behind the silver-rimmed glasses shone so brightly that it dimmed everything else in her life.
"Ifalna… I love you more than my life."
Their first kiss under the moonlight, the shy man suddenly taking her by her waist and awkwardly pressing his lips over hers. As surprised as she was, she had wrapped her arms around him and had kissed him back. How she had giggled that it was his first kiss.
"I can't believe I met someone like you…"
She suddenly pressed the little figure against her, stroking her hair and kissing her in order to calm the frightened child.
Damn you, bastard.
Damn your lies and damn everything you stood for. How could you, after all that, choose science over us? Your wife, your daughter!
She felt everything becoming faint and the song of the planet that hummed in her ears became louder and louder, until her eardrums thundered and everything became dark.
"Mommy!!"
Aeris.
She felt a vague presence of someone else, someone who was frantically trying to wake her.
"Please take Aeris somewhere safe…"
I'm sorry for everything… for falling in love and believing that love could conquer everything.
The child desperately shook her mother's hand, crying and hoping that she would wake, the only family she had ever known.
I'm sorry that you'll be the last one.
Elmyra took the crying child in her arms and tried to calm her. The small figure shook with poignant sobs. The woman knelt beside the child and cradled her. The woman whispered comforting words to the frightened girl, stroking her hair.
However the small child knew that it was fake. She could never be comforted; a shackle was clasped on her ankle the moment her mother's soul left the planet
She looked around her, the flowery world she knew only days ago now shutting down completely. Every connection she had felt before was cut off from her. She froze in her place as she realized her future. A frightened denial escaped her lips.
She was completely alone.
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Author's Note: I just have the BIGGEST urge to write something about Ifalna and Gast. Does anyone know Gast's first name though? In this fic, Ifalna doesn't know that Gast was killed… but was he killed? They're shrouded in a veil of mystery, them two… If anyone knows what really happened with Ifalna and Gast, please e-mail me! Or leave a note! Oh, by the way, I appreciate all e-mails and reviews, I really do.
How did you like the prologue? I tried to make this so that you realize the similarities in their past. Betrayed by the ones that they (should've) loved the most, the tragic deaths of their mother, complete isolation – although the reasons for their isolation differs. See the reasons that they should be together?? ^^ Please leave reviews!
And I'm really sorry that I haven't updated in a long time… but the next chapter will be up soon… Sorry!!!!