A/N:I'm so glad the site is working again;Um, I just wantto thank The Vampire Sephy, if you hadn't reviewed I probably wouldn't be posting these next few chapters, so give yourself a paton the back hee hee. Secondly my disclaimer: I don't own any of the Final Fantasy characters or story plot so please, don't sue -hides-.

Chapter Two Sleeping with the enemy

Lucrecia sulked back towards the mansion. Vincent was leaving town and it was her fault. She felt horrible for leading him on to believe she liked him in return. She really did, but not in that way; or so she thought. She knew she would rather have Vincent over Hojo, but she had already made her decision. She shut the door behind her and turned to head back towards the labs. She cried out lightly when she seen Hojo in front of her. She relaxed, "Professor, you startled me." Hojo smiled and placed his hand on the door.

"I am sorry, your beauty ceases to startle me." She smiled and tensed when he ran his finger along her cheek. He frowned.

"You are still so tense around me Lucrecia, we have been seeing each other for some time now, why are you still like this?"

She blushed and quietly said, "I'm sorry professor, I just am not used to seeing people I work with, it is nothing against you." Hojo looked her over and smiled when she shivered slightly when he kissed her.

"Lets have dinner later shall we?" He said. Lucrecia nodded and he kissed her again, deeply this time. He straightened up and turned when he heard someone behind them. Jessi blushed and excused herself. Hojo turned back to Lucrecia. "Tonight," He said before he left; he glared at Jessi and she made herself look away before she could give him a nastier look.

"I don't like that man one bit." She muttered. Lucrecia grinned.

"You and every one else I know." She headed for the hotel with Jessi at her side.

"I liked Mr. Valentine more."

"He is only a security guard."

"He likes you."

"I know, but he is a Turk and I am a scientist."

"So?"

Lucrecia sighed. "So, his job is to follow orders and kill different people, mine is to help them."

Jessi rolled her eyes, "Whatever, you and I both know he is better than that nasty guy Hojo."

Lucrecia smirked. "Perhaps so."

Jessi grinned as well. "Plus he has a cute butt."

Lucrecia's eyes flashed " who, Hojo or Vincent?"

Jessi smiled deviously, "Maybe both, but Valentine has a cute butt and I'm betting, a nice package as well…"

Lucrecia's eyes widened. "Jessica!"

Jessi laughed and dodged her sister's punch. She ran upstairs into their room with Lucrecia in hot pursuit. Jessi flung a pillow at her while shouting.

"Act your age Lucrecia!"

"You've got plenty of room to talk Jessica Marie Meadows!"

The two pelted each other with pillows while the most of the scientists left saying how immature they were acting and a few watched the bemusing spectacle. Eventually they left as well and the girls were too tired to do anything. Lucrecia went to bathe and Jessi stretched on the bed to go over her notes. The phone rang and she answered it.

"Hello?"

"Lucrecia, are you ready to wine and dine my love?"

Jessi held back a gag and gave Lucrecia a disgusted look when she entered the room.

"How can you stand him?" She hissed. Lucrecia took the phone away from her and held back a laugh when Jessi pretended to strangle herself.

"Hello professor… yes when I finish dressing I will be ready… shame on you Hojo!" Lucrecia turned scarlet as she hung the phone up.

"Don't bother dressing, honestly men really don't think with their brain."

"I thought when Dr. Gast told me you were together it was a joke, you don't plan to marry that man do you?"

Lucrecia dressed into a nice summer skirt and blouse, happy to be able to wear something besides her lab outfit then turned to look at her sister skeptically. "You never know where life can lead you." She laughed as Jessi pretended to faint and fall on the bed.

" Oh no! I am going to have little evil nieces and or nephews running about."

Lucrecia said goodbye to Jessi as she left and Jessi went back to her work when the phone rang again.

"She just left professor, she'll be down soon, keep your pants on!"

"…Excuse me?"

"Oh! I'm sorry, I thought you were Hojo."

Jessi kicked herself and cursed silently.

"By 'she' did you mean Lucrecia?" The deep male voice said.

"Yea, both her and Hojo went out."

The man swore and was silent for a few moments.

"Ah, can I take a message?" Jessi asked

"…Yes, tell her Vincent Valentine called and that I am staying at the Rocket Town Inn."

Jessi wrote it down in her notebook. "Allright Mr. Valentine, I'll give her the message when she gets back."

"Thank you… might this be Jessica whom I am speaking to?"

"The one and only; why are you in Rocket town?"

Vincent was silent and Jessi frowned. A light clicked in her head.

"You heard about her and Hojo, didn't you?"

"…I'm afraid so."

"I hate that dirty bastard."

Vincent was shocked and slightly amused to hear that she too hated Hojo almost as passionately as he did.

"Why do you say that?"

"I just don't trust him; I think he is only interested in my sister for his own personal reasons."

"I would not be surprised and I don't trust him either, I hope Lucrecia will come to her senses soon."

Jessi agreed; they talked for a while when she realized it was getting late. "I'll tell her you called, goodbye Mr. Valentine."

"Thank you Ms. Meadows, goodnight."

Jessi hung the phone up and yawned. She looked at the clock and seen it was after midnight and Lucrecia was still not back. The thought crossed her mind that they decided to stop by the lab; with a lazy yawn, she changed into her nightclothes and crawled in bed. She wondered when her "date" would show up when the door to the room opened and closed silently.

"It's about friggin' time."

"Better late then never; at least I'm here, right?" A young man whispered as he lay down next to her. Jessi turned to face him and grinned.

"So, aren't you going to tell me how much you missed me Seany?"

Sean grinned and kissed her, "Do I even need to?"

Jessi wrapped her arms around him and lay her head on his shoulder.

"I suppose not, I am the one you chose to suffer with and that's all I need to know."

"Damn straight, that's how it is now and will always be."

He touched a small locket on her neck; "You actually wear this piece of crap?"

"Of course, it was the first thing you ever gave me."

"I made it when I was a kid, it's junk; compared to what I can buy you..."

"It is not junk!" She said interrupting him. "Besides, I wouldn't wear a fancy necklace if you tried to replace this one."

"Yea, I like you cause you don't spend my money."

She looked in his deep brown eyes and smirked, only Sean could mean that as a compliment.

"I love you so much."

"Ditto."

Lucrecia and Hojo had gone to Cosmo Canyon for dinner and Hojo had seen a small cub that looked to be half lion and half wolf. He was very interested in it and said he would need to find one of his own to experiment with sometime. The species was nearly extinct and Lucrecia thought it would be good to find more of his kind and breed them. Hojo agreed and said it would be one of their future projects. They discussed it on the plane ride home. When they arrived at Nibelheim, Hojo draped his arm around her shoulder.

"Let's go to the mansion, we can discuss our project there in peace since everyone is gone."

Lucrecia smiled as he unlocked the mansion and held the door for her. She walked in as he shut the door and re-locked it. They walked upstairs and instead of going down to the labs, Hojo led her into the spare bedroom next to the staircase. He shut the door behind them and turned the small lock on the knob. He turned to face her and noticed she was examining the room.

"This is where I stay, it has everything I need. That bookcase contains my, and Dr. Gast's work, projects we are working on now, and past research. Back there I have a bathroom that leads to another extra room where I perform my all of my personal chemical work."

He walked in front of her while she was looking at the bookcase. She looked at him and smiled.

"So this is where you are hiding all the time while everyone is in the labs."

"Yes, it gets rather boring up here sometimes."

He stepped closer and their faces were only inches apart. He ran his hand up the small of her back and she looked away.

"It is getting late professor, and I'm sure Jessi is worried…"

He pulled her to him and kissed her.

" Ms. Meadows will be fine, don't worry."

"Professor, I don't think…"

"…Don't worry, I'm not going to hurt you."

He kissed her more deeply as he walked her back towards the bed; she stopped.

"Hojo…I'm not sure about this."

He lay her down and smiled at her, she looked at him nervously.

"I assure you that you will have no regrets when I am finished."

Lucrecia ran her fingers through Hojo's hair and he looked at her with a soft smile on his face.

"No regrets?"

"None." She said, a little surprised at herself.

He kissed her before getting up and going to the bathroom. He turned the faucet to the sink on and closed the door. Lucrecia turned over and eventually drifted to sleep. Hojo checked to see she was out and pulled out a cell phone to make a call.

"Yes, it's me; part one of the plan is complete, now all we do is wait. No, it shouldn't be a problem, we can do this frequently until it is confirmed…"

Hojo hung up and went to check if Lucrecia was still asleep; she was and he grinned. He lay down next to her and pulled her close to him. She wrapped her arms around him and lay her head on his chest. He kissed her neck and rubbed her back, a vicious smile was on his face.

"Now my dear, you belong to me." He whispered cruelly in her ear.