DISCLAIMER: The game--its characters, story, and the like--of Final Fantasy VII belongs to Square Enix, formerly Squaresoft. Only the plot of this story and some original characters belong to me.
================================================================"Ugh....." Lisa groaned, twitching a little before opening her eyes to an unfamiliar room.
A child's voice began to resonate within the room, followed by enthusiastic thumps on the floor. "She's awake! She's awake!! Grandpa!! She's awake!!!"
Lisa turned her head towards the sound of the voice, only to see a little girl with dark eyes and ponytailed red hair grinning at her. "Hello!!"
The older girl sat up, looking down at the little girl and returned the smile. "Hi there..."
The little girl giggled, apparently excited by this encounter. "My name is Patty, what's yours?"
"My name is Lisa. It's nice to meet you, Patty."
"Oho! Seems like the lady is finally awake!"
The blue-eyed girl looked up to see a smiling old man come into the room.
Patty had rushed over to the old man and was already pulling him over to where Lisa is excitedly. "She spoke to me, Grandpa!! She really did! I told her my name is Patty and she says her name is Lisa and that it's nice meeting me!"
The old man chuckled, as he and Patty approached the bed. "Please excuse my granddaughter. She really gets excited too easily."
Lisa chuckled as well. "I think she's very cute."
At once the little red head beamed. "She thinks I'm cute!!"
"Yes, yes, I heard her Patty. You don't have to repeat everything she says. My hearing is still coming along quite fine, thank you."
"Oh Grandpa you're so mean!"
"...who's being mean?"
All the occupants of the room looked up just in time to see a young boy come in. Lisa gasped, clamping a hand to her own mouth in surprise.
It's...it's him!
She stared at him as he approached. Though he really seemed different up close she knew that this was the same boy that she had seen on the game cover. Apparently he looked around a year or two older than her. Shoulder-length silver hair tied back in a ponytail with some strands hanging loose over his face, a white shirt over a pair of black pants, smooth tanned skin, and a build that was slightly muscular. He reminded her of someone, she just couldn't remember who. And his eyes, they were rather peculiar...
Lisa suddenly felt her face heating up. She turned her head towards the other direction, trying to push down the crimson that was threatening to come up to her cheeks. Stop it, Lisa! This is not the time to ogle over a guy!
"Ah Lloyd, you're back already." She heard the old man say. "How did the evacuation come along?"
"Lloyd! Lloyd! Lloyd!" Patty jumped around him with glee.
"Everyone from Sector 7 has safely been evacuated." He patted the little girl's head. After which, she left the room declaring that she had gotten hungry. Then the boy sighed sadly. "But Jessie, Biggs, and Wedge...they...."
The old man nodded. "I know. I just saw the news. That's too bad. It must be really tough to take for AVALANCHE, having lost three of their best people at the same time..."
"But that's supposed to happen...."
Both the old man and the boy turned toward Lisa.
"Excuse me?" The boy said, moving closer to the bed. He seemed to have just noticed the girl.
Lisa bit her lip, not knowing how to explain this. "I, um...i-it's nothing. Please forget what I said." She looked up at him, and was once again taken in by his eyes...
...his closed eyes...
===============================================================Author's Notes:
Well, that's all for now folks! I hope you enjoyed reading it as much as I enjoyed writing it. Oh and this time, it's up to you to figure out the best background music for this chapter coz I can't think of one, hehehe. Anyways, I'll see you all in the next chapter! Please continue to read and review!