Title: Escaping from a nightmare

Category: Final Fantasy 7

Genre: Angst,

Characters: Vincent, Cloud, Tifa, Hojo, Lucrecia (mostly mentioned solely by Vincent in his pondering).

Reason: Basically, after looking up stuff on Vincent, getting slaughtered by the lost number to get him into my party in the game, and various other things. I decided to write a fan fic on him. No, I am by no means a Vincent fan-girl. I just think he is one of the most interesting characters in Final Fantasy 7. He has a past with the Turks, and hates Hojo for all he's done to him. He acts like he has no emotions. So I thought the only approach for a Fan fiction was to write it in his POV. . hope you like it and I hope I don't anger the hard-core Vincent fan girls and such. (No, I'm not insulting them)

Summary: (hope you read the reason, this is a one-shot. If I get a good feed back I might write more. This is my first shot at a Final Fantasy fan fiction and I was certain I knew enough about Valentine to write this. I went to shrines and read all they had to offer.) As the party travels on to find Sephiroth, Vincent is haunted by images of his past. He tries to push them aside, until they meet up with Shin-ra and find out from Hojo that Cloud was a failed experiment of his. Enraged that Hojo mettled with another human life, Vincent confronts him once more…..

I can remember everything like it was yesterday. It was no gift, it was a curse, I didn't want to remember, but I had to. I was cursed, and as much as I hated it, I knew that it was my own fault. To this day, over 30 years later, I wonder why I didn't try to stop her. And now my sin will be the end of the world. When I joined Cloud's party I had overlooked what they were doing. At the time all I wanted was to see her. But, I'm aware of what this party is trying to accomplish now. They want to kill Sephiroth.

Kill the son of Lucrecia, could I? Would that be committing another sin? My head hurt, I decided to drop the subject. Cloud had just encountered Sephiroth, the illusion he has showed us made me realized what exactly happened while I slept. That fire, all those lives taken; because of Lucrecia's child? Cloud ran ahead of us and started talking to a man who was out of my line of vision. For my vision was direction to the heavens where they pondered my fate, I already knew I was going to hell.

"Professor please….give me a number….professor please"

Professor?

My eyes darted to Cloud, and there he stood in front of Hojo. I couldn't' believe that Cloud was degrading himself to beg Hojo for such a stupid thing. But then again, maybe Cloud and I aren't so different. We are both people who were altered by the same man, only I'm becoming less human by the day. My days, in truth, are numbered; as Cloud's will go one forever because of the Jenova cells in his body. An incomplete Sephiroth clone……how many more lives with Hojo taint?

I felt the anger rising within me. Something I try to keep hidden for this is what triggers my transformations. I had to do something before this happened. I turned my body around to face Hojo. "Hojo!" I called, anger and hatred dripping from the word. "When will you learn that human lives are not experiments for your twisted actions?"

"Oh, Hello Vincent….Surprised to see you out of the basement"

"Answer me, Hojo!" I growled.

He simply adjusted his Glasses as Tifa guided Cloud away from him. "When will you learn to stop meddling in my affairs? Very well, Valentine, I'll answer you're petty question. Humans are experiments; they will just die in the end anyway. So why not put them to good use,hm?" I was disgusted, I even felt it. I was disgusted both with him and myself. He began again, "You tried to stop my experiments and I killed you, remember? But put you to good use and now look at you! 30 years later and you haven't aged a day over 27! Aren't you thankful for my genius, Vincent?"

"….I rather get old and die, then be a monster…."

He laughed. Tifa glared at him, "Then what about Cloud?" she walked toward him with her fists clenched, "He didn't do anything to you and yet you experimented on him anyway! Vincent isn't the monster, Professor, you are!" I felt my eyes grow in surprise; I turned my head toward her. She defended me, I can't remember the last time anyone defended me.

Vincent isn't the monster, Professor, you are!

It echoed in the air around me. Could his sins be greater then mine? Yes, I was sure of it now. Although as great as my sin is, his is worse. He used Lucrecia's love, but I stood by and watched. He experimented on Cloud and Red XIII. I turned my head to Tifa. "Thank you….."

I started, slowly, to forgive myself. Maybe One day, I was see her again. And maybe one day, I will meet up with Hojo again. But now, I had something to do for myself, I had to forgive myself and move on. Or I will stay forever in my nightmare.

—End

Ok, that's it, I'll write more if I get some good feed back. n.n;