(Author's Note: Hello! Here's the next chapter…oh! I was thinking…well actually this was Rueh's idea more than anything but I'm planning on probably having 2 endings to this story…one will be tragic…the other will be happier! What do you all think? I'd like to have your opinions on this. Any other ideas are welcome too! Just e-mail me or put them in your review! Thanks and Thanks to Rueh for the 2 ending idea!)

Disclaimer: I don't own FF7 which belongs to Squaresoft. I don't own that either…but think of all that money!! But anything else is mine.

Chapter 15

3 months later…

"GET IN LINE NOW!" The few soldiers who had been lagging behind didn't hesitate to obey the order. Zack stood a few feet behind Sephiroth and kept a close eye on him. Ever since Cassandra had disappeared it was like this…Sephiroth in a mood that left no room for arguments or horseplay from the troops.  Everything had to be perfect or you had to face the temperamental General…and no excuses would help you…they would only make matters worse if anything.

 Zack sighed as Sephiroth made the soldiers do more drills. Today and for the rest of the week they were out in the field.

Sephiroth glanced at him over his shoulder. "Zack."

"Yes sir?"

"Go put Strife in line or I will."

"Yes sir," Zack said and he walked down the small hill they stood on to go put Cloud back in line.

Sephiroth then stood alone on top of the hill. He watched the troops without really seeing them. 'Why did you leave? Cassandra…why did you?' he thought for about the millionth time.

'You don't need that one…only me my son,' the voice said in his thoughts.

'And what have you to give to me?' he asked mockingly.

'Power beyond your wildest dreams…god ship…'

'Why am I not interested?' Sephiroth let out a snort.

'Oh you will be interested my son…'

'Why do you keep calling me that? I don't know who you are and really don't care.'

'I am Jenova…your mother.' The voice said gently.

'My…mother…? How could this be that I am talking to you in my thoughts when I don't know you at all?'

'Never mind that. Will you help me? She'll return to you if you are the most powerful being on this planet…its ruler.'

'…I don't want that. She'll come back on her own. She was just upset…'

'But can you really believe that? She ran away from you. You are alone.'

'I've always been alone. Why should it matter now?' But Sephiroth knew that these words weren't true as he thought them.

'You've always been alone. Nobody cares about you. Nobody at all…except for me…my son,' the voice said.

'Why should I believe that you are my mother?'

'Sephiroth! You injure me! How could you say such a thing to me?'

'As we have both said I have always been alone…not even you were there.'

'I've always been with you. You just haven't realized it,' the voice said.

'No…'

'You can't turn your back on me. I'm your mother after all. It's my responsibility to care for you and give you what your heart desires.'

'How would you even know what I want?' Sephiroth asked annoyed.

'I know your deepest wishes…'

'No you don't. If you knew them and you have always been with me why did you not grant my wishes and save me?'

'I was unable for I myself am trapped against my will…I…'

'Leave. I don't want to hear any of your pathetic excuses for what you could never do. I have better things to do than to get a headache from talking to you,' Sephiroth said.

'Very well. I'll leave…but I'll come back to talk again,' the voice of Jenova slowly faded from his mind.

Sephiroth sighed. Ever since Cassandra had left the voice had become more persistent in talking to him. It haunted his dreams and was even heard in the voices of others he talked to. It was getting annoying and even harder to ignore.

'I must be going mad…now that you're gone…' he thought and turned his attention to the new drill being practiced at the bottom of the hill.

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Hojo growled in frustration and threw a note book across the lab. She had been gone for 3 months. Three months! Those 3 months were now wasted! Navarro was gone to…killed by Sephiroth. Sephiroth…it all came down to him.

'If he hadn't interfered with Cassandra and my experiments I would have been closer to disposing of her by now,' Hojo thought angrily. He laughed to himself at what he could be doing right at that moment. He suddenly stopped and turned to the countertop that was only a few feet from where he stood behind his desk. He looked at the small piece of machinery on top of it his eyes slowly looking over if.

'Perfect…I had almost forgotten about this,' he thought to himself as he walked towards it.

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"What's Hojo up to?" Shinra asked annoyed. Lately the scientist had been getting on his nerves.

"He says he's found a way to replace the one that ran away," Rufus said and leaned back in his chair.

"A new experiment you mean?" Heidegger asked.

Rufus nodded and shuddered. "I'd hate to be the one he's doing whatever he is to them," he said.

"He just better replace her fast," Shinra said pulling a file towards him from the other side of the desk.

"Yeah. We needed her for our army," Heidegger said and looked at his own paper.

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