Julie had pulled herself together enough to stand up and look out over the ocean to where Sephiroth once was. By now the sun had went down and the moon had come up. The sky was clear, filled with stars. The moon light lit up the beach and water around the shore.

            She looked down at the ground from were she was just curled up crying. A damp circle of tears rested in the sand by her feet. She sniffed a bit trying not to cry again. She tilted her head down looking at the feather in the right hand. She spun it around with her thumb and forefinger. It seemed to glow a dim color of green. "It's just like *sniff* his eye's." she said in a soft tone to herself. She held the feather in front of the moons light trying to get a better look at it. A chilling breeze blew across the beach making Julie shiver and let go of the feather by mistake. She gasped "NO! Come back…" she said trailing off. Her eyes began to tear up once more looking at the feather drifting away in the air.

The wind blew once more blowing the sand, but Julie didn't feel the wind against her own body. She dismissed it the first time because of how she felt. It happened again, once more the wind blew around throwing up sand and she never felt it. She dropped her head closing her eyes and started to softly cry letting the tears roll off her cheeks hitting the sand. She opened her eyes slightly looking at the ground still crying. What she saw next made her open her eyes wide. Another white feather rested at her feet. She reached down and picked it up as she did another feather flew by the side of her head from behind. It slowly drifted by her face wavering in the wind coming to a rest in the sand in front of her. Her eyes began to well up once more with tears. She bit her bottom lip and stood up, tears once more rolling down her face. ~ He's dead… I saw it with my own two eyes. That was his blood in the water. There's no way he could have beaten those sharks. ~ She stopped crying "Or did he?"

            She slowly turned around and began to cry even harder. There was Sephiroth, standing with his wings open, shielding her form the wind.       He looked at her with a confused look. "Did I do something wrong?" he asked. Julie's bottom lip quivered as she cried looking at him. She dropped the feather and grabbed him resting her head on his chest. "DON'T YOU EVER DO THAT AGAIN!!" she yelled still resting her head on his chest crying. She warped her arms around him squeezing tightly. This took him by surprise but for some odd reason he responded by holding her close and wrapping his wings around her, sheltering her from the wind. Most women would have killed to be were Julie is now, sandwiched between a buff guy and his white wings.

            Sephiroth felt odd doing this not in a bad way, in a good way. Every urge to kill and maim seemed to drift away as he held her. "There's something about you that stops me from killing you." He said bluntly. She looked up at him a bit taken but not surprised. "It's because you care." She said softly gazing into his eyes. "Care, I never care." He said looking straight ahead.

He remembered how he mutilated the sharks with ease, not caring as he killed them one by one. He ripped out ones hart and feeding to another. He ripped out ones organs letting them float in the sea. Another one was ripped in half; its blood filled the sea. That's what Julie saw. And the last one swam away but he chased it down and put his fist through its skull and out the other side.

            He snapped back to reality looking down at Julie. "I never…" he was cut off by Julie pressing her moist lips against his. He went to pull back but she only followed keeping the kiss going. She griped him tighter kissing more and more still crying. His eyes were wide watching Julie kissing him with her eyes closed, crying. He reached up with his right hand and wiped the tears off her face causing her to stop. "You do care…" she said hugging him.

To be continued.