Chapter Five: Rocket Town and secrets....

((Another short skip!))

From Mt Nibel, the team traveled two days towards Rocket town. It was getting dark and there were still about twenty miles to walk towards Rocket Town. Tifa and Aeris suggested that the group set up camp as the sun set over the mountains.

"Good idea... Beth, Aeris and Tifa, you guys take one tent... Barret, and I will use one... Vincent and Nanaki will use one..."

Nanaki shook his head, "No thank you! No offense to Vincent, but I prefer to sleep under the stars!"

"Very well," Cloud said, handing out tents.

Beth couldn't sleep that night, so she got up and walked towards the small creek, she intended to bathe in the moonlight and relax a little. She stripped down to her bare, pale, skin and laid her clothes and sword on a nearby bush. She didn't notice that there were already clothes on this bush. She walked a short distance, naked, down to the water and put her foot in to test it.

At the small splashing, Vincent looked up, he had been bathing so nobody would see him. Beth was right there, close and... naked.

Beth turned towards the noise and saw Vincent, standing and looking at her, he was bare. She looked at his soft, pale skin and his... scars? He had scars like she did. One down the length of her torso, and two across, one under her breasts and the other under her navel. He had the same scars.

He couldn't take his eyes off of her scars, and her gauntlet... who was this woman, and why did she look like Sephiroth. Vincent thought, could this be?

Not a word had been said as Beth took one step towards Vincent. The look in her eyes made him feel as if he knew she wouldn't hurt him, she motioned to his scars and his gauntlet. He nodded. She reached her gauntlet out and gently touched his flesh arm.

He almost jumped at the touch, causing him to loose his balance in the shallow water. He sat down hard on the bank, but never took his eyes off of this woman with the scars.

Beth sat beside him and looked at him, she smiled.

Vincent felt a strange sensation creeping over him as she smiled, he had seen that smile before... but he couldn't quiet place it... He finally decided to break the silence that had been hanging over the two for almost a half an hour. "Wh...who are you?" He whispered.

"My name is Beth Lotti..."

Her name was right, but... she looked too young to be 'his' baby Beth. His baby would be almost thirty now... not twenty.

"I know your name..." She said. He turned his head so that their eyes met, her glowing green mako-eyes and his wine colored eyes. "You're Vincent Valentine..."

He stared deep into her eyes, trying to read her soul, her past. "How do you know my name?" He whispered.

"You told us the day we met you in the basement of Shin-Ra mansion." Beth said, looking at his scars.

"You look..." He started to say.

"Yes, I know... I look like Sephiroth, don't I?" She said, they were still quiet, as if they didn't want the world to hear them.

"But..."

"He's my twin... Vincent, don't you remember that you saved my life? I lived in Mideel for all my life..." Beth said.

Vincent shook his head, softly shaking his long black hair, "No, it... it can't be... you..." He reached his hand up to her face, his gauntlet fingers touched her skin.

"It is..." Beth said, her eyes shining in the moonlight, her pale skin and body looked like perfection. Vincent let his fingers dance across her cheek, not another word was said between the two, they understood perfectly what the other one had been through.

Beth woke up next to the creek, fully dressed, she must have fallen asleep with Vincent the night before. She looked around and saw that everyone was getting up and ready for the morning meal. She rushed over to join them.

Rocket Town was uneventful, save for the fight they had with Palmer, the new member on the team, a cussing, drinking, smoking old pilot named Cid, and the Tiny Bronco.

After being shot out of the sky, the group sat in the shallow water and talked about their new mode of transportation. They discovered that they needed to go to the temple of the Ancients... but in order to do that they needed the Keystone.

"How about a vacation to the Gold Saucer?" Cloud said, "We have to go there anyways!"

((wow, this just flowed out of my fingertips, I typed so fast that I finished this whole chapter in 20 minutes! The Temple of the Ancients is coming up soon, where Beth meets Sephiroth Face to Face, the Turks join the team (Square Enix should have thought of this) and Tseng is saved by a fraction of an inch! Stay tuned... Oh, and no sexual things with Beth and Vincent... yet...))