The sun rose in Vincent's eyes, it was some where around 6:56a.m. he hoped out of bed, he was assigned to escourt Lucrecia, to ShinRa that day, she told him to meet her at 7:00a.m. Vincent ran around and got dressed very quickly and made it to Lucrecia's house very promptly. He knocked on her door, she had just gotten done getting dressed, she opened it and smiled.

"Good morning Vincent." said Lucrecia she walked out side to her demi-lover's side.

"How are you this morning...?" asked Vincent in his usual tone, of calmness and tranquility, almost apathetically.

"I'm fine. How are you, did you sleep well?" asked Lucrecia.

"I slept fine, I feal alright...." said Vincent.

Little did the two know they were being fallowed, yet again by Hojo. He grimanced at the fact, Lucrecia was takeing a likeing to Vincent, instead of him, he knew that if she chose Vincent, then the experiment would be for nought, all the research and time, wasted, all because of that turk. He thought about that, he knew Vincent was interfearing, how could he get him out of the picture without killing him.

"I think a bug is fallowing us." said Vincent.

"A bug?" asked Lucrecia. Vincent pulled out his gun and shot at Hojo, causeing him to jump out of his hideing place and onto the street.

"Hojo?!" said Lucrecia.

"Huh? Oh sorry I saw you both pass by, I was takeing a morning stroll and I decided to try and ceatch up!" explained Hojo.

"Then... Why were you hideing?" asked Vincent looking down on the bug of a man he considered to be Hojo.

"I most certainly was not 'hideing' I was contimplateing!" said Hojo.

"What..? How to be an idiot and fired in two days?" asked Vincent sarcastically.

"Vincent... Be nice." said Lucrecia trying not to laugh at the situation.

"Right, Lucrecia." said Vincent.

"Well! I'll see you both at the lab!" said Hojo as he scattered off.

"He's a very odd fellow isn't he." said Lucrecia.

"Very odd, and very annoying." said Vincent.

"Well let's go. We don't want to be late."

"Right." replied Vincent as they walked off to ShinRa HQ. When they arrived Ghast was awaiting them, he allowed them in and they walked casually in, like it was nothing special.

"Well good morning, Lucrecia, Vincent." said Ghast.

"Good morning sir, tell me where you want me in the lab today." said Lucrecia.

"Over there." said Ghast. "Oh and Vincent, Hojo wants to speak with you."

"Pssh, fine." said Vincent, he really didn't want to speak to the toad today, Hojo annoyed the hell out of him, and of course when he walked into his office, Hojo was sitting there awaiting him. Vincent put his things down and sat down and stared blankly at Hojo. "What do you wish to speak with me about?" asked Vincent.

"It's about you and Lucrecia, I don't want you two seeing each other anymore." said Hojo dead seriously. "It's an endangerment to the experiment Lucrecia and I willbe conducting later on when we go to Nibelhiem."

"You cannot tell me who I can see and who I will not see." said vincent looking dead on into Hojo's eyes. "For I am not your creature to control.... I am but a human, and you are filth upon the ground that I walk on. You will not tell me what to do unless you wish for me to kill someone."

"Ho? Is that so.... Well then we'll see about that, won't we, Vincent." said Hojo. He walked out of Vincent's office, Vincent was throwing glares that would even make president ShinRa cower in fear. Hojo smirked and left, he thought about how good Vincent would be experimenting on. He was unusually happy that day researching more and more experiments and experimenting more and more. Lucrecia frowned at this, she had an uneasy fealing in her stomache, that something bad was going to happen, but what was it?

Later that afternoon, she was just leaveing, when Vincent walked up to her.

"Good after noon Vincent." said Lucrecia. "How are you?"

"I'm fine.... Hojo didn't do anything to you did he?" asked Vincent.

"No why?" asked Lucrecia.

"I don't think it's safe for you to be working next to him without some one near you anymore.... Somethings he's doing lately, it's worrying me." said Vincent.

"Oh Vincent, don't worry! I'm perfectly fine, anyway I wouldn't let him do anything to me even if he could." she said hugging Vincent.

"Please Lucrecia, becareful, Hojo's a strange man, he'll do anything for an experiment, even if he has to kill someone. Please stay on your guard." said Vincent as he hugged her infront of the ShinRa doors.

Chapter 3 end....