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The Only One in My Heart

Chapter 12

"Lana!" Kadaj called as he entered the cold room. He gasped when he saw Lana suspended in the glass tank and surrounded by intensified Mako liquid.

"Kadaj, break the glass!" Yazoo said as he rushed to the main control of the tank. He quickly deactivated the machine and detached the tubes from Lana's body while Kadaj used his Souba to slice the glass apart.

Lana was detached as the glass in front of her broke apart and she followed the flow of the Mako liquid out of the tank. Kadaj caught Lana in his arms as she tumbled out of the tank and immediately wrapped a dry blanket, which he found in a cabinet, around her before he carried her out of the cold room. Once outside, Kadaj knelt on the ground and gently laid Lana on the ground.

"Lana," Kadaj called softly as he gently shook her, "Can you hear me?"

"Kadaj," Lana said but no sound was heard from her as her body was still unconscious, "Kadaj, I want to see you." Lana felt herself being drawn close to a warm body and she felt a warm hand on her face, brushing away the cold liquid from her. "I want to see him. I want to call him. I want to…touch him," she begged her own body, "Just once, please."

Kadaj cradled Lana close to him and touched her cold and wet face with his ungloved hand. As he held her hand in his, he felt her fingers moved a little. His eyes went wide when he heard a soft sigh. Kadaj looked at Lana's face and saw that she was struggling to open her eyes.

The world was a blur to her when she opened her eyes. It was a mess of black and silver and of other colours. But there was pair of twinkling green light that caught her eyes. Before she knew it, she was already gazing into Kadaj's eyes.

"Kadaj," she managed to say with a smile as she raised her weakening hand to his cheek. It was as warm as she remembered except the cold liquid that still cling to her hand had limited the warmth she received from him.

"Lana," Kadaj called back with a smile and held her closer to him. Lana lay weakly in his arms with her head resting on his shoulder.

"I love you," Lana whispered softly into his ears. Kadaj released her from his tight embrace and looked at Lana.

"Lana, is something wrong?" he ask when he saw that Lana was slowly closing her eyes. "I love you," he whispered to her and placed another kiss on her forehead, "Don't sleep forever, promise me that." With one last effort, Lana gave Kadaj's hand a gentle squeeze and a smile.

"We'll be at the place where you wanted to go when you wake up. We'll be there. I promised you, didn't I?" Kadaj reminded her.

"Is she alright?" Tifa asked. Kadaj ignored her and carried Lana out of the building.

"Hey, the least you could do is answer Tifa!" Yuffie said but Kadaj kept walking away from the crowd.

"Kadaj!" Tifa stood in front of him, "Lana will catch a cold if you leave her like that." Kadaj stood uncertainly and looked at the sleeping Lana. Her whole body was soaked with the Mako liquid and the blanket was not thick enough to break the cold and dry wind that was blowing towards them.

Kadaj felt a hand on his shoulder as he looked at Lana. "Kadaj," he heard Yazoo said, "Let them take care of Lana for a while."

"There are things only we girls can do for girls," Tifa said with a warm smile, "I'll just dry her up and put some fresh clothes on her. I won't do anything else to her, you have my word."

xxxxx

"The place is small, but do make yourselves comfortable," Tifa said as they walked into the orphanage. All of the children hid themselves in their rooms when they saw the three brothers except one, Marlene. She stood in the middle of the shabby living room, where the children used to play together.

"Welcome home," Marlene exclaimed when she saw Tifa and the others walked through the door. She realized that a few of the members were missing but she hid her curiosity. She smiled at her father, Tifa, Yuffie and the other guest but she looked concerned when she saw Kadaj carrying a girl in his arms.

"Come along now, Marlene," Barrett said as he took her small hand in his and led her into the room where the other children were hiding.

"Come with me," Tifa said to Kadaj, who was still carrying Lana. Tifa led Kadaj up the stairs and opened the door to an empty room. "Lay her here," Tifa said as she laid some blanket on the bed. Kadaj gently laid Lana on the bed.

"There's another empty room right beside this room on the right," Tifa said, "Will you stay with us?" Kadaj did not answer her. "For a while? At least until Lana gets better?" Tifa asked.

"Kadaj," Yazoo's voice was heard from the door. Both Kadaj and Tifa turned to look at the long silver haired man. Loz too was there, he stood beside Yazoo quietly.

"Why don't you stay here while we both go back to our place?" he asked, "I need to fix our eldest brother's arm here."

"Why don't you all stay here? I mean…stay to get your wounds healed," Tifa said.

"No," Loz said, "The children are frightened to see us."

"Kadaj needs to stay here because Lana's here," Yazoo continued, "We can take care of ourselves."

"But," Kadaj began to feel powerless and he did not know what he should be doing. For the second time of the day, he felt useless.

"You are not useless, Kadaj," Yazoo said as if he was reading Kadaj's mind, "You have to protect Lana. That's what you promised yourself, isn't it?" Kadaj nodded to his brothers but he hung his head as he knew that he would be separated from his brothers for a while.

"Stay here and be good, ya?" Loz said. Kadaj looked up at his eldest brother with a scowl. Yazoo tried his best to hide his laugh but Loz burst out laughing at the angry looking yet harmless Kadaj.

"I'm not a kid anymore," Kadaj said. It was the first time for Tifa to see the three brothers behave like brothers and she was utterly surprised that the evil men whom the city feared were just ordinary brothers. She smiled along with them.

"Well, um, gentlemen," Tifa began, "If you don't mind, it's girls' work here."

"I'm here!" Yuffie exclaimed behind Yazoo and Loz. "Excuuuuse me!" she said as she pushed her way into the room between Yazoo and Loz. "Right! Girls' thing! So out with you!" Yuffie told Kadaj and pushed him out of the room and slammed the door on the three brothers' face.

"Yuffie, don't be so rude!" they heard Tifa told Yuffie, "You'll never change, will you?"

"Nope," Yuffie answered her, "Let's get her done!"

xxxxx

"They have left already?" Tifa asked Kadaj, who sat alone in the living room.

"Yeah," Kadaj answered her.

"Do you need something to drink or eat?" Tifa asked him.

"I need to sleep," Kadaj replied her with a tired sigh.

"The room's ready for use, you know," Tifa reminded him of the room beside Lana's.

"What about the children?" Kadaj asked.

"They have their own rooms," Tifa informed him, "Go get some sleep. I'll prepare some food when you are awake."

"Thank you," Kadaj said as walked to the flight of stairs.

"You know," Tifa began, Kadaj stopped in his tracks. "You are not that bad after all," she continued. Kadaj turned to face her. "I used to hate you for capturing the children but after knowing the reason behind everything, I begin to understand your struggle," Tifa finished.

"Even so, you don't know why we wanted that little girl so much," Kadaj said.

"Marlene? Isn't it because she is a child too?" Tifa asked. Kadaj shook his head.

"Countless children and victims of GeoStigma could only replace one Cetra," Kadaj began, "Marlene is half Cetra, we only know that much. So, the numbers of victims needed to revive JENOVA would be lessened by half."

"How did you know that?" Tifa asked.

"I could sense their powers," Kadaj answered, "JENOVA gave this ability to me."

"Why didn't you know that Lana is a Cetra?" Tifa asked.

"I refused to sense her power," Kadaj said, his head began to hung a little.

"Well, um, sorry to keep you here," Tifa said to him, "Get some rest."

"How's Lana?" Kadaj asked.

"She's still sleeping," Tifa told him, "You can go into her room if you want but you must get some sleep." Kadaj nodded to her. "We don't have many clothes but we managed dig out a blue dress that once belonged to Aerith when she was younger," Tifa said, "And a pair of sandal too."

"Thank you," Kadaj managed to say before he headed up the stairs.

xxxxx

"Marlene, have you seen the sister and the brother?" Tifa asked Marlene who stood behind the corner of the corridor in her pajama. She nodded and walked up to Tifa.

"Where did the brother take the sister?" Tifa asked.

"Big Brother said he wanna take Big Sister to the beach," Marlene said.

"How did the Big Brother look like?" Tifa asked her.

"Big Brother smiled at me when he said that to me," Marlene replied.

"Alright," Tifa smiled as she put a hand on Marlene's head, "Go back to sleep." Marlene obeyed and walked back to her room. "At least he did take a blanket with him. And be back for those gloves," Tifa sighed as she looked at the gloves on the table and then at the clock beside them in the room. It showed 2:14 am.

xxxxx

"We're here, Lana," Kadaj said to Lana who lay asleep in his arms. He carried Lana to the beach where Lana had her first premonition. Nothing had changed on this beach. It was still as breathtaking as ever and it was Lana's favourite place yet also her dreaded place to be alone.

"But I'm here," Kadaj sat down with Lana, whom he had wrapped the grey blanket around, on his lap, "You'll not be alone." He held Lana's body close to him and lightly kissed her forehead. With his ungloved hand, he touched Lana's warm cheek and held her head closed to his heart.

"I miss you, Lana," Kadaj said as he lowered his cheek to meet hers. "Please, wake up," he begged her, "I can't stand seeing you asleep anymore."

Lana made no sign of waking up even though a tear slipped from Kadaj onto her face. Kadaj wiped the tear away and forced a smiled.

"It's alright," Kadaj said, more of consoling himself than Lana, "You promised me that you'd wake up. I'll just have to wait for you."

Kadaj sat on the beach holding Lana close to him. He closed his eyes and rocked Lana back and forth as he hummed a song. It was a song Lana used to sing when she was alone. He had always hid himself behind a rock to hear her sing because she would be embarrassed when someone heard her singings.

Kadaj did not know how long he had sat on the beach humming the same song over and over again. He would occasionally cast glances towards Lana for any sign of her being awake. He would even tighten the blanket around Lana to keep her warm and even covered her sandaled feet with the blanket. Seeing none, he returned his gaze back to the sea.

"Can you hear it, Lana?" Kadaj asked as he gazed at the endless sea, "It's the song of the sea that we used to listen together. It's still singing the same song as we remembered."

"How could I forget that song?" a soft voice said. Kadaj looked down at Lana, who smiled weakly at him.

"Lana!" Kadaj exclaimed happily, "When were you awake?"

"How can I sleep when you keep talking to me and the road here was as bumpy as ever!" Lana said with more energy in her. Kadaj smiled at the lie Lana told him. He had used the new highway that was built years after they had left the village and the highway ran smooth.

"If talking and bumpy roads will keep you awake," Kadaj began as he smiled at her, "Then I'll talk to keep you awake." He rested his forehead on Lana's. "I'm glad you are awake," he sighed. Lana smiled in reply.

"I'm really glad," Kadaj repeated with a smile.