Chapter 3

Vincent turned around and noticed she's not there. He looked left and right, and began to walk back the way he came from. It was wet and pouring so he shape shifted and ran to look for her.

"Godamnit, she knows she's in no condition to run off on her own," Vincent said to himself, and spotted her footprint leading to a tree nearby. He found her laying down unconscious. "Miette, Miette…"

No answer, Vincent went back to his original form and took his red cloak and covered her up with it and picked her up. He began to run to nearest place that would keep them dry for the rest of the night.

It felt like forever when Vincent saw a place he could rest up, it was a tiny village. He couldn't tell which village it was but he was sure there was an Inn somewhere. He walked into the door way, dripping wet, from head to toe, he didn't look too happy ether.

"I need a room and some clean dry clothes," Vincent told the man who was working up late.

"Why yes, we have a room left. That's the only one open for tonight and tomorrow until this rain go away we're completely out of room for now," He stare at Vincent for a while, "Um, well, here you go…it's the last one to your left. Don't worry it's a King size bed."

"Thanks," Vincent took the keys and walked up the stairs, "Bring the clothes upstairs please and I need someone to dry her off."

"Of course, SARA, GET SOME CLEAN CLOTHES, FEMALE," the man yelled, "you need to dry her up too."

"Got it boss,"

Vincent sat in the room after taking a warm shower and changing into some dry clothes, the young lady took Miette and dried her off and took both of their clothes to dry them off downstairs.

"Um, Sir," the maiden popped in, "would you please help us carry her back into the room?"

"Sure," Vincent said, "I'll take it from here, thank you." She bowed and walked away.

He took her and notices that they putted her in a white and brown dress. It made her look heavenly, unlike the other clothes she had on. Once she was in bed he checked her temperature and realizes she was burning up.

"What's this," Vincent looked and saw something he hasn't seen in a long time. It was a necklace; it was a fiery red stone with a craving on it. He bended over to take a closer look, bewilder to what he just saw there was a marking on her right arm it was an odd symbol but he was sure he had seen it before. He tucked her in bed and decided to just sleep next to her.

The night was long; Vincent lay there awake for at less an hour trying to remember where he'd seen that symbol before. He soon gave up and fell asleep.

When it was daylight, it was still gloomy and dark, Miette was still sick and dead to the world. Vincent decided to walk downstairs to make a call.

"Hello," said a gentle voice.

"It's me, Vincent,"

"Hi Vincent, um, are you looking for Cloud,"

"Yeah, is he there Marlene?"

"No, He left early yesterday because of the storm," she answer, "Um…I'll tell him you call okay."

"Thanks, take care."

"Bye"

"Ugh, Vincent," Vincent looked up and saw Miette on the top of the stairs holding her head. "What…"

"You shouldn't be…"Before he could finish she began to fall forward. Vincent ran and caught her before any damage was done. He carried her back into the room, "I'll get you breakfast."

"Why are we here, where are we," She asked.

"Somewhere out of the rain," He answers and left the room.

Vincent came back in with a bowl of soup, some bread and tea. Miette stared at him and back down at the food again, looking at him as if he was crazy. Then back down at her clothes.

"Um…"

"I didn't change you, so don't worry about me being a peeping tom," Vincent answer, "Now eat up, you have a fever."

"I don't have a fever, I feel fine," She answered and glaring at him.

"Okay, how many fingers am I holding up?"

"A thumb is not a finger," She answers.

"Just eat your food," He pasted the food to her and walked towards the window, "I don't think this rain is going to go away for a while and this is the only room left so we're going to share a bed."

"What," She shouted and chocked on a piece of bread, "That's not possible."

"Would you prefer the floor and the cold muggy ground," he asked, Miette shook her head.

"How long will this rain last,"

"I have no clue," He turn to face her and remember the marking on her arm, "Miette, I have a question."

She was still eating until she looked up after he had paused for awhile now.

"Um, Cloud?" He didn't answer, "What is it? Hello?" she wave at him

"First of all, I'm not Cloud," Vincent finally answer, "Second my name is Vincent and Third I have a question."

"…." She blink and stare at him for a couple moment, "Oh god, don't tell me you're one of those guys who are going to tell me that 'when you first saw me you've fallen in love with me' and blah blah blah. Well, it's nice meeting you and thank you for caring of me but I should get going."

As soon as she got up off bed she fell to the ground and tried to get back up. Vincent shook his head and walked over to her to help her stand up.

"No, you've got it all wrong," Vincent answer, "what you've just said are all false and I haven't been lying to you beside from the name part, here just rest okay. No need to get paranoid."

"Um…okay," She got back in bed and began finish eating her meal. "Oh, you wanted to ask me something, what is it?"

"That necklace and that marking on your right arm, how did you get them," he ask sitting next to her.

"Oh this," she paused for a very long, long time staring down at it, "to be honest, I don't know. I woke up one day on a hill wearing a name tag saying 'Miette' and with this necklace around my neck. It seems like I've had this marking my whole life."

"No clue what so ever,"

"Just one," She looked around the room, "Where's my stuff?"

"They're under the bed," He answers and she went to get a tiny looking cube with a chain on it.

"This is my only clue, it was lying right next to me," She push a tiny button and it shows them a screen in midair.

Video:

There was a loud buzzing sound like a fire alarm, it was loud and you can see people running and yelling and shouting.

"Miette, get out of there, Miette" it was a male voice, couldn't really see his face thought.

"No, I can't I have to save him," Miette scream, "Leave, it's going to…..AH…."

"Ugh…"

"EVERYONE LEAVE THE BUILDING AT ONCE,"

There was an exploration in the background and the screen went blank. Then it showed up again, an old guy with glasses.

"I'm Professor Hojo, this is the only video clip of a project that I have been working on. I've been looking for a suitable young girl to transfer Jenova's DNA into her's. I've been searching for over three month now, so far my last experiment was trying to revive the dead, after installing a buzz...SSHHHHEEEIIIIIiiii…"

The screen began to make some weird noises and stopped.

"Now, after some time now…I've found the girl. There have been some problem but at the lab I'm still working on it. Look at her, beautiful…just beautiful."

The camera turns to a green looking tube, where a girl is hooked up into small tubs and an oxygen mask.

"I am not working alone; I have a helper in hand, Valentine."

And the screen slowly disappear.

Vincent sat there for a moment and Miette started at him for a moment.

"Vincent…Vincent, hello, are you alright," Miette waved her hands at him, he turn and looked into her eyes, "Okay, you're scaring me now."

"I'm sorry," Vincent reply turning away.

"What's wrong, is it the video, what is it," she asked.

He turned back to her, staring at her, not able to remember why he too couldn't remember meeting her then and why she have a clip of Professor Hojo talking about the Jenova Project.