Chapter 14 : Mission for the Turks
Another week later.
Cloud stood at the door watching Aeris as she slept, his patience had nearly run out. So far after 3 more visits from the doctor they were still clueless to what was wrong with the Cetra. Aeris had been asleep nearly all week, she was only awake for a few hours a day at most.
Her symptoms still didn't tell them much, just a temperature raise and a slight red glow on her skin from the heat in her body.
"No change then."
Cloud looked behind him as Red approached.
"No."
"I wish I could help but medicine isn't my specialty." He sighed sitting down next to Cloud.
The blond just nodded understanding but at the same time disappointed. He had hoped Red would have known something with his intelligence of the Ancients, but he guessed it was too much of a long shot.
Red looked up at Cloud, he had his usual blank expression making it hard to tell what he was thinking of. "Do you have any ideas?"
Cloud looked down at him, he stared for a moment before looking back up at Aeris. "I'm not sure, there's something on edge of my mind but," He rubbed his forehead. "I just can't reach it."
"How do you mean?" Red looked at him curiously.
"It's like I know the answer, but I just can't reach it." He shook his head. "Or perhaps I'm just loosing it."
"Maybe you just need some rest, I'll stay here and keep and eye on Aeris for a while." Red sugested. "Having a rested mind may help."
Cloud stared for a moment longer before nodding. "It's worth a shot." He turned to leave realizing this would be the first time he'd sleep in the past thirty odd hours.
After he left Red turned to look at Aeris, she slept peacefully not moving at all. He frowned thinking again what it could be, he had never seen this illness ever before with anyone else. Also if it was flu or virus how come nobody else had caught it? Cloud, Tifa and Yuffie had spent a lot of time around her before and after she got sick so it would make sense that they would have it to. 'Unless they can't catch it.'
Red shook his head feeling confused. 'There must be something I'm not seeing."
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"Well it's about time you arrived."
"What the hell?" Cloud whispered.
"We've been waiting for you to arrive, Tifa here was getting worried isn't that right?" He turned to Tifa who just glared back at him.
Aeris and Yuffie slowly crept in behind Zack and Cloud. They counted nine Soldiers in the room plus Jenova, if a fight was to break out it would be very difficult to win.
"So, this is a bit tense isn't it?" Tysall leaned back against one of the consoles. "Are you going to attack or be wise and lower your weapons?"
Cloud glanced from Tifa and Reno to Aeris and Yuffie then back to Zack. He nodded slightly and the lowered he his weapon.
*****
Cloud opened his eyes and looked up, the plain white ceiling of his room was all the looked back. After leaving Aeris and Red, he had returned to his room, within moments of placing his head on the pillow he had fallen asleep.
'Great, just a stupid dream.' Sitting up form the bed he looked around the room until his eyes settled on the clock, he'd only been a sleep for a half hour. He fall back on the pillow and placed his hands over his face, wondering how a dream that lasted only a minute could take up that much time in real life.
After a while he closed his eyes again and slowly drifted off once more.
*****
"Until I brought back Aeris." Cloud grinned.
"Correct. This causing my new weapon to only be 37% as powerful as it should have been." He sighed. "No where near as powerful enough to produce the results I needed."
"You mean destroying the planet and its Lifestream?"
"Correct again. But at this point that doesn't matter, even now you are doing exactly as I planned and with out even realizing you Cloud Strife are going to help me wipe out every last Lifestream base creature in existence."
"Really? And how did you come to that conclusion?"
*****
Cloud shot up again off of the pillow, he breath was quick and deep. It took him a few moments to realize where he was again.
'Another dream?' He looked down at the bed he was sat up on. "Screw it!" He punched the pillow and jumped up off of the bed. The 'rest' he was suppose to be having now only made him feel even more agitated.
Unconsciously he walked towards Aeris room, passing by he saw that Yuffie had taken over from Red. Cloud stood at the doorway for a moment before deciding to move on, he didn't want to spend another few hours sat by her bed doing nothing.
Down in the bar Tifa was once again clean up the mess from the days work, when she opened the bar she wanted it to be a nice small place like she had back in Midgar. Only problem with that is when the customers find out the staff are the same people who were a part of Avalanche, business picks up just a little bit.
A few steps could be heard coming down the stairs and soon enough a Cloud's yellow spikes stuck out from the corner followed by the rest of his body. She smiled and walked up to him.
"Hey, so how you doing?"
"Not bad I guess." He tried to force a smile. "I can't sleep so I thought I might as well do something here."
Tifa looked round the room and shrugged. "Well, you can help me clean up, got plenty of pots that need doing." She grinned seeing his face drop even further.
"On second thoughts I think I'll go for a walk."
"Thought you would," Tifa stepped up to him and put her hand on his shoulder. "And don't worry about Aeris, she'll be fine I'm sure of it."
Cloud nodded hoping she was right, but either way he didn't like just waiting around for things to worsen or get better. "Have you seen Red anywhere?"
The brunette stepped back and rubbed her chin. "Err come to think of it I haven't, last I saw him was about an hour ago when he was talking to him self about viruses and stuff." She smiled and shrugged. "I really didn't want to bother him."
"Think he might be on to anything?"
"Might be, why don't you go find him, I'm sure he'll be around here somewhere. Plus it's something for you to do instead of wandering around here all day."
"Good point." He scratched the back of his head. "Okay, you know what to do if anything changes."
Tifa rolled her eyes before picking up the Phs. "Yes yes, you told me about a hundred times. Now get out of here and get some fresh air, I'm starting to wondering if there are cobwebs growing in that head of yours."
Cloud gave her a funny look before nodding and heading towards the front door. Within minutes he was already walking around the various streets of Neo Midgar searching for the fiery red creature.
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"Come on Rude you can do it!"
"...."
"Hey Reno why don't you get your ass up here too?" Elena shouted at him from up in the tree.
Reno grinned and crossed his arm. "Because, somebody's got to supervise this operation and I'm just the man for the job."
"What about Vincent? Where the hell did he run off to?"
"He said this assignment didn't really require his expertise." The red head circled the tree while keeping an eye on the two. "Now come on what's taking so long?"
Elena growled and snapped off a small branch then throwing it at Reno on the ground.
"Hey watch it!"
"Next one will be twice as big if you don't shut up." She snapped before climbing up another branch.
Rude grunted as he lifted him self up to the next level, he was only a few meters from the top now.
"Yeah come on Rude nearly there."
Rude looked down at Reno and griped the branch even tighter as he realized how high up he really was.
Elena was a few branches below him but was soon catching up. "Hey Rude can you reach it yet?"
The bald Turk reached out with his hand still a few feet away from his target. "Not yet."
"Well keep going your closer than I am."
He nodded and lifted himself up on to the next branch. The wood bent as he put his weight on to it, but since it was the only branch he could reach he didn't have much choice.
Reno shielded his eyes from the sun as he stared up at Rude. "That's it. I bet you can reach it now."
Rude shakily held out his hand as the branch swayed about under his feet. He kept one arm firmly wrapped around the trunk of the tree.
"That's it nearly there."
He leaned up on the tips of his shoes to reach and finally he managed to get his hand under the target and lift it up off the small branch. Rude grinned slightly as he pulled his arm back to his chest and then let out a sigh of relief.
Elena wiped her brow and sighed her self. "Bout time."
"Alright man that's it, now just come back down and the missions over."
Rude nodded and leaned down with his foot trying to reach the branch below. He froze instantly as he heard a small snap beneath his feet.
Elena looked up hearing the same sound. "Uhh Rude..?"
Before he could speak the branch beneath him snapped at the base and the Turk started his rapid decent towards the ground, hitting about four other branches on the way before collapsing in a small pile on the grass.
Reno ran over to where he landed and leaned over clicking his fingers in the Turks face. "Hey, hey, you ok? Snap out of it."
Rude let out a small groan before nodding, he leaned up making sure his objective was still in one piece.
The red head smiled and squatted down. "Excellent work," He reached out and took the target out of Rude's hands. "I think there's gonna be a promotion for you in this."
"...." Rude just nodded slightly before collapsing back on the ground.
Reno stood up and walked over to the young girl who was stood on the side of the street. "Okay, here you go kid." The girl smiled and took the cat out of Reno's hands, she thanked him before running off towards her house.
Elena dropped down from the tree and cross her arms, giving Reno a cold look.
"What?" He shrugged.
"There are times when I really hate you." She pulled out a small mirror and removed the small twigs and leaves from her hair before snapping it shut again. "And then there are times like these."
"Hey a jobs a job. Right Rude?" He looked over towards the half conscious Turk.
"...."
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Cloud fell back onto his pillow, after spending a few hours wondering the city he finally found Red at the park he and Aeris had been in when this first started. He told him he had been thinking over some various possibilities, each one Cloud hated.
The one Red thought was the most likely was that Aeris had caught a virus or similar, the only problem is that it is something that affects Ancient's only. That would explain the reason the doctor couldn't find anything. Who knows the difference between a physical Cetra and a human?
He hoped that it wasn't true, that all this was is just some new type of flu that would cure it's self in time. 'Not likely.'
It was still early but so far the day had been a total waste in his eyes, he hadn't found out anything to help. The only thing left to do was sleep and hope that tomorrow something better would happen. Slowly he closed his eyes, forcing his mind to clear so he could sleep.
*****
Yuffie crossed her arms and stuck out her tongue. "That your boyfriend?"
"Silence child." Tysall ignored her and walked straight by towards Aeris only to be blocked by Cloud.
"Don't think your going any closer."
"Hmm, or what? For once use your head, if I wanted any of you dead I would simply have you shot."
Cloud glanced around the room and for some reason he only just noticed that every Soldier in the room that was not busy had their weapons aimed at him and the others.
*****
Stirring in his sleep a cold shiver ran down Cloud's spine. The air was still and silent, the only light in the room came from a lamp down the hall. Unknowing to him he had been asleep for hours, and everyone else had gone to sleep long ago.
He rolled around under the covers griping on to the pillow beneath his head as he slept.
*****
"So Cetra, I'm curious do you still hold the scar I gave you even with your new body?"
Aeris just gritted her teeth and held back the temptation to return the 'favor' Jenova had once given her. "Yes, perhaps you would like me to give you a matching one?"
"Heh heh, maybe another time." He leaned over and whispered into her ear. "Just remember this girl, I've always been ahead two moves, so don't think you can ever win."
While talking Aeris felt a sharp pain in her arm but strangely it left as quick as it came, she look down to see but there was nothing there.
Tysall backed up still grinning. "Well, as fun as this has been I'm afraid its time to come to an end."
*****
Cloud shot up as the dream released him from his sleep. His entire body felt like it was on fire as he realized what had happened, it took all his effort to keep himself from punching a hole straight through the wall.
"That bitch, she did it!" He leapt out of the bed and ran out of his room. He ignored the fact that his sprinting down the corridor would wake up everyone else on the same floor.
"I can't believe I missed it." Once in Aeris' bedroom he ran over to her bed and pulled back the cover. The Ancient stirred a little in her sleep but otherwise she didn't seen to take much notice.
Cloud switched on the small lamp next to the bed and the leaned over Aeris' body. He pulled her over towards the light and lifted up the short sleeve on her arm.
"Cloud what are you doing?" Tifa asked rubbing her eyes as she stood in the doorway.
"I know what it is." He said as he lifted Aeris' arm. As the light crept over her skin he spotted a small red dot, it could have easily been over looked as a simple freckle but when he looked closer he could see the small hole from the needle that still hadn't healed.
"What?" Tifa walked over towards him and leaned over.
"This is it." Cloud stated. "Jenova, she did this back on that station."
"Cloud you lost me.." She rubbed her eyes again. "Jenova did what?"
Cloud took a few breaths trying to keep him self calm. "Back on bored that station, Jenova walked up to Aeris and whispered something in her ear about been ahead two steps while she stabbed her with some sort of needle."
Tifa kneeled down next to him and looked at the small dot. "But how do you know? You were stood further away from them than I was."
"I.. I don't know..." He thought about it. 'How did I know what he said to her? I never heard it the first time.' Cloud shook it off not really bothered at this point. "It doesn't matter anyway." He looked at Aeris. "Now we know who did this."
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"So what do you suggest?" Reno leaned back in his chair and put his feet on the table.
Around it sat Tifa, Cloud, Yuffie, Vincent and the rest of the Turks.
"I want you to go to the building in Gongaga," Cloud started. "find anything that Tysall was working on to do with chemicals or viruses."
"You believe the injection Jenova gave Aeris is the cause of her illness?" Vincent added.
He nodded. "Yeah. It seems the most likly answer."
"The laboratory in the lower levels, it could have been created there."
Reno scratched the back of his head. "You know I think your right."
Everyone looked at Reno surprised he was actually agreeing with Cloud about something.
"What? You don't remember?" He sighed shaking his head. "I was given orders to use some sort of chemical on Aeris but never did. This could be the same one."
"The one you told us about when Tysall contacted you in the office." Tifa remembered.
"The same one."
Cloud felt a small amount of relief as they were getting closer to a solution. "If so then there must be some sort of records stored in that building about it."
"Which is going to be our job to search and find." Elena finished.
"Well this does sound more like a job for the Turks." Said Tifa.
"Beats climbing trees for a while eh Rude?"
"...." Rude just turned to Reno and adjusted his sunglasses.
"Then it's decided." Cloud stood up. "Tear that place to pieces until you find something."
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Finally a quick up date like I said. Thanks to my reviewers, I know there aren't many for this fic which is why I concentrated in my other one more but I'm still going to finish this one.
Another week later.
Cloud stood at the door watching Aeris as she slept, his patience had nearly run out. So far after 3 more visits from the doctor they were still clueless to what was wrong with the Cetra. Aeris had been asleep nearly all week, she was only awake for a few hours a day at most.
Her symptoms still didn't tell them much, just a temperature raise and a slight red glow on her skin from the heat in her body.
"No change then."
Cloud looked behind him as Red approached.
"No."
"I wish I could help but medicine isn't my specialty." He sighed sitting down next to Cloud.
The blond just nodded understanding but at the same time disappointed. He had hoped Red would have known something with his intelligence of the Ancients, but he guessed it was too much of a long shot.
Red looked up at Cloud, he had his usual blank expression making it hard to tell what he was thinking of. "Do you have any ideas?"
Cloud looked down at him, he stared for a moment before looking back up at Aeris. "I'm not sure, there's something on edge of my mind but," He rubbed his forehead. "I just can't reach it."
"How do you mean?" Red looked at him curiously.
"It's like I know the answer, but I just can't reach it." He shook his head. "Or perhaps I'm just loosing it."
"Maybe you just need some rest, I'll stay here and keep and eye on Aeris for a while." Red sugested. "Having a rested mind may help."
Cloud stared for a moment longer before nodding. "It's worth a shot." He turned to leave realizing this would be the first time he'd sleep in the past thirty odd hours.
After he left Red turned to look at Aeris, she slept peacefully not moving at all. He frowned thinking again what it could be, he had never seen this illness ever before with anyone else. Also if it was flu or virus how come nobody else had caught it? Cloud, Tifa and Yuffie had spent a lot of time around her before and after she got sick so it would make sense that they would have it to. 'Unless they can't catch it.'
Red shook his head feeling confused. 'There must be something I'm not seeing."
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"Well it's about time you arrived."
"What the hell?" Cloud whispered.
"We've been waiting for you to arrive, Tifa here was getting worried isn't that right?" He turned to Tifa who just glared back at him.
Aeris and Yuffie slowly crept in behind Zack and Cloud. They counted nine Soldiers in the room plus Jenova, if a fight was to break out it would be very difficult to win.
"So, this is a bit tense isn't it?" Tysall leaned back against one of the consoles. "Are you going to attack or be wise and lower your weapons?"
Cloud glanced from Tifa and Reno to Aeris and Yuffie then back to Zack. He nodded slightly and the lowered he his weapon.
*****
Cloud opened his eyes and looked up, the plain white ceiling of his room was all the looked back. After leaving Aeris and Red, he had returned to his room, within moments of placing his head on the pillow he had fallen asleep.
'Great, just a stupid dream.' Sitting up form the bed he looked around the room until his eyes settled on the clock, he'd only been a sleep for a half hour. He fall back on the pillow and placed his hands over his face, wondering how a dream that lasted only a minute could take up that much time in real life.
After a while he closed his eyes again and slowly drifted off once more.
*****
"Until I brought back Aeris." Cloud grinned.
"Correct. This causing my new weapon to only be 37% as powerful as it should have been." He sighed. "No where near as powerful enough to produce the results I needed."
"You mean destroying the planet and its Lifestream?"
"Correct again. But at this point that doesn't matter, even now you are doing exactly as I planned and with out even realizing you Cloud Strife are going to help me wipe out every last Lifestream base creature in existence."
"Really? And how did you come to that conclusion?"
*****
Cloud shot up again off of the pillow, he breath was quick and deep. It took him a few moments to realize where he was again.
'Another dream?' He looked down at the bed he was sat up on. "Screw it!" He punched the pillow and jumped up off of the bed. The 'rest' he was suppose to be having now only made him feel even more agitated.
Unconsciously he walked towards Aeris room, passing by he saw that Yuffie had taken over from Red. Cloud stood at the doorway for a moment before deciding to move on, he didn't want to spend another few hours sat by her bed doing nothing.
Down in the bar Tifa was once again clean up the mess from the days work, when she opened the bar she wanted it to be a nice small place like she had back in Midgar. Only problem with that is when the customers find out the staff are the same people who were a part of Avalanche, business picks up just a little bit.
A few steps could be heard coming down the stairs and soon enough a Cloud's yellow spikes stuck out from the corner followed by the rest of his body. She smiled and walked up to him.
"Hey, so how you doing?"
"Not bad I guess." He tried to force a smile. "I can't sleep so I thought I might as well do something here."
Tifa looked round the room and shrugged. "Well, you can help me clean up, got plenty of pots that need doing." She grinned seeing his face drop even further.
"On second thoughts I think I'll go for a walk."
"Thought you would," Tifa stepped up to him and put her hand on his shoulder. "And don't worry about Aeris, she'll be fine I'm sure of it."
Cloud nodded hoping she was right, but either way he didn't like just waiting around for things to worsen or get better. "Have you seen Red anywhere?"
The brunette stepped back and rubbed her chin. "Err come to think of it I haven't, last I saw him was about an hour ago when he was talking to him self about viruses and stuff." She smiled and shrugged. "I really didn't want to bother him."
"Think he might be on to anything?"
"Might be, why don't you go find him, I'm sure he'll be around here somewhere. Plus it's something for you to do instead of wandering around here all day."
"Good point." He scratched the back of his head. "Okay, you know what to do if anything changes."
Tifa rolled her eyes before picking up the Phs. "Yes yes, you told me about a hundred times. Now get out of here and get some fresh air, I'm starting to wondering if there are cobwebs growing in that head of yours."
Cloud gave her a funny look before nodding and heading towards the front door. Within minutes he was already walking around the various streets of Neo Midgar searching for the fiery red creature.
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"Come on Rude you can do it!"
"...."
"Hey Reno why don't you get your ass up here too?" Elena shouted at him from up in the tree.
Reno grinned and crossed his arm. "Because, somebody's got to supervise this operation and I'm just the man for the job."
"What about Vincent? Where the hell did he run off to?"
"He said this assignment didn't really require his expertise." The red head circled the tree while keeping an eye on the two. "Now come on what's taking so long?"
Elena growled and snapped off a small branch then throwing it at Reno on the ground.
"Hey watch it!"
"Next one will be twice as big if you don't shut up." She snapped before climbing up another branch.
Rude grunted as he lifted him self up to the next level, he was only a few meters from the top now.
"Yeah come on Rude nearly there."
Rude looked down at Reno and griped the branch even tighter as he realized how high up he really was.
Elena was a few branches below him but was soon catching up. "Hey Rude can you reach it yet?"
The bald Turk reached out with his hand still a few feet away from his target. "Not yet."
"Well keep going your closer than I am."
He nodded and lifted himself up on to the next branch. The wood bent as he put his weight on to it, but since it was the only branch he could reach he didn't have much choice.
Reno shielded his eyes from the sun as he stared up at Rude. "That's it. I bet you can reach it now."
Rude shakily held out his hand as the branch swayed about under his feet. He kept one arm firmly wrapped around the trunk of the tree.
"That's it nearly there."
He leaned up on the tips of his shoes to reach and finally he managed to get his hand under the target and lift it up off the small branch. Rude grinned slightly as he pulled his arm back to his chest and then let out a sigh of relief.
Elena wiped her brow and sighed her self. "Bout time."
"Alright man that's it, now just come back down and the missions over."
Rude nodded and leaned down with his foot trying to reach the branch below. He froze instantly as he heard a small snap beneath his feet.
Elena looked up hearing the same sound. "Uhh Rude..?"
Before he could speak the branch beneath him snapped at the base and the Turk started his rapid decent towards the ground, hitting about four other branches on the way before collapsing in a small pile on the grass.
Reno ran over to where he landed and leaned over clicking his fingers in the Turks face. "Hey, hey, you ok? Snap out of it."
Rude let out a small groan before nodding, he leaned up making sure his objective was still in one piece.
The red head smiled and squatted down. "Excellent work," He reached out and took the target out of Rude's hands. "I think there's gonna be a promotion for you in this."
"...." Rude just nodded slightly before collapsing back on the ground.
Reno stood up and walked over to the young girl who was stood on the side of the street. "Okay, here you go kid." The girl smiled and took the cat out of Reno's hands, she thanked him before running off towards her house.
Elena dropped down from the tree and cross her arms, giving Reno a cold look.
"What?" He shrugged.
"There are times when I really hate you." She pulled out a small mirror and removed the small twigs and leaves from her hair before snapping it shut again. "And then there are times like these."
"Hey a jobs a job. Right Rude?" He looked over towards the half conscious Turk.
"...."
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Cloud fell back onto his pillow, after spending a few hours wondering the city he finally found Red at the park he and Aeris had been in when this first started. He told him he had been thinking over some various possibilities, each one Cloud hated.
The one Red thought was the most likely was that Aeris had caught a virus or similar, the only problem is that it is something that affects Ancient's only. That would explain the reason the doctor couldn't find anything. Who knows the difference between a physical Cetra and a human?
He hoped that it wasn't true, that all this was is just some new type of flu that would cure it's self in time. 'Not likely.'
It was still early but so far the day had been a total waste in his eyes, he hadn't found out anything to help. The only thing left to do was sleep and hope that tomorrow something better would happen. Slowly he closed his eyes, forcing his mind to clear so he could sleep.
*****
Yuffie crossed her arms and stuck out her tongue. "That your boyfriend?"
"Silence child." Tysall ignored her and walked straight by towards Aeris only to be blocked by Cloud.
"Don't think your going any closer."
"Hmm, or what? For once use your head, if I wanted any of you dead I would simply have you shot."
Cloud glanced around the room and for some reason he only just noticed that every Soldier in the room that was not busy had their weapons aimed at him and the others.
*****
Stirring in his sleep a cold shiver ran down Cloud's spine. The air was still and silent, the only light in the room came from a lamp down the hall. Unknowing to him he had been asleep for hours, and everyone else had gone to sleep long ago.
He rolled around under the covers griping on to the pillow beneath his head as he slept.
*****
"So Cetra, I'm curious do you still hold the scar I gave you even with your new body?"
Aeris just gritted her teeth and held back the temptation to return the 'favor' Jenova had once given her. "Yes, perhaps you would like me to give you a matching one?"
"Heh heh, maybe another time." He leaned over and whispered into her ear. "Just remember this girl, I've always been ahead two moves, so don't think you can ever win."
While talking Aeris felt a sharp pain in her arm but strangely it left as quick as it came, she look down to see but there was nothing there.
Tysall backed up still grinning. "Well, as fun as this has been I'm afraid its time to come to an end."
*****
Cloud shot up as the dream released him from his sleep. His entire body felt like it was on fire as he realized what had happened, it took all his effort to keep himself from punching a hole straight through the wall.
"That bitch, she did it!" He leapt out of the bed and ran out of his room. He ignored the fact that his sprinting down the corridor would wake up everyone else on the same floor.
"I can't believe I missed it." Once in Aeris' bedroom he ran over to her bed and pulled back the cover. The Ancient stirred a little in her sleep but otherwise she didn't seen to take much notice.
Cloud switched on the small lamp next to the bed and the leaned over Aeris' body. He pulled her over towards the light and lifted up the short sleeve on her arm.
"Cloud what are you doing?" Tifa asked rubbing her eyes as she stood in the doorway.
"I know what it is." He said as he lifted Aeris' arm. As the light crept over her skin he spotted a small red dot, it could have easily been over looked as a simple freckle but when he looked closer he could see the small hole from the needle that still hadn't healed.
"What?" Tifa walked over towards him and leaned over.
"This is it." Cloud stated. "Jenova, she did this back on that station."
"Cloud you lost me.." She rubbed her eyes again. "Jenova did what?"
Cloud took a few breaths trying to keep him self calm. "Back on bored that station, Jenova walked up to Aeris and whispered something in her ear about been ahead two steps while she stabbed her with some sort of needle."
Tifa kneeled down next to him and looked at the small dot. "But how do you know? You were stood further away from them than I was."
"I.. I don't know..." He thought about it. 'How did I know what he said to her? I never heard it the first time.' Cloud shook it off not really bothered at this point. "It doesn't matter anyway." He looked at Aeris. "Now we know who did this."
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"So what do you suggest?" Reno leaned back in his chair and put his feet on the table.
Around it sat Tifa, Cloud, Yuffie, Vincent and the rest of the Turks.
"I want you to go to the building in Gongaga," Cloud started. "find anything that Tysall was working on to do with chemicals or viruses."
"You believe the injection Jenova gave Aeris is the cause of her illness?" Vincent added.
He nodded. "Yeah. It seems the most likly answer."
"The laboratory in the lower levels, it could have been created there."
Reno scratched the back of his head. "You know I think your right."
Everyone looked at Reno surprised he was actually agreeing with Cloud about something.
"What? You don't remember?" He sighed shaking his head. "I was given orders to use some sort of chemical on Aeris but never did. This could be the same one."
"The one you told us about when Tysall contacted you in the office." Tifa remembered.
"The same one."
Cloud felt a small amount of relief as they were getting closer to a solution. "If so then there must be some sort of records stored in that building about it."
"Which is going to be our job to search and find." Elena finished.
"Well this does sound more like a job for the Turks." Said Tifa.
"Beats climbing trees for a while eh Rude?"
"...." Rude just turned to Reno and adjusted his sunglasses.
"Then it's decided." Cloud stood up. "Tear that place to pieces until you find something."
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Finally a quick up date like I said. Thanks to my reviewers, I know there aren't many for this fic which is why I concentrated in my other one more but I'm still going to finish this one.