Sephiroth stroked Yuffie's hair quietly, Yuffie smiled as he did so. The two of them were trapped in that bed, or at least Sephiroth was and Yuffie was not going to go anywhere while he was incapacitated. They had been in that bed now for two days, the only time Sephiroth had moved was when he had needed to pee. According to Lucrecia Sephiroth needed to stay hot for a week, until his body could generate enough heat to sustain him. Sephiroth thought that this may have been a lie created by Yuffie to keep him in bed but the storm outside was tremendous and so he was hardly able to go outside. Yuffie sneezed startling Sephiroth
"Yuffie!" Sephiroth shouted at her making her giggle
"You haven't shouted at me in ages" she giggled
"I've never been sneezed on either!" he told her. The door opened and Vincent stuck his head into the room.
"Sounds like you are getting better" Vincent told Sephiroth who nodded "But still, another five days to go" he added before leaving them alone.
"Come back father!" Sephiroth called out sarcastically.
Vincent and Lucrecia were stood in the kitchen talking about Sephiroth when Cloud stumbled into the room.
"You are meant to be in bed" Lucrecia reminded Cloud while prodding him with a hot spatula.
"Oww" Cloud whimpered rubbing his arm "Where is everyone?"
"Barrett, Nanaki and Cid are in the living room and Yuffie is in Sephiroth's bed" Lucrecia listed
"Sneezing on Sephiroth" Vincent added. Cloud nodded solemnly
"Any news?" Cloud enquired
"No, I believe she did find shelter after all" Vincent told Cloud
"Why?" Cloud asked him
"If she had…died, then we would have found a body but there was not one" Vincent explained
"So where could she be?" Cloud asked. Vincent shook his head
"I do not know" Vincent told him "But when the storm clears I will go and ask at all the houses on the continent and I will even check all of the caves seeing as it is Tifa we are talking about" Cloud nodded and thanked Vincent before he went back upstairs and collapsed onto his bed.
Tifa awoke and looked around. The martial artists cave-pal was asleep with his feet resting upon a rock. Tifa tested her legs for stability; they did seem steady enough. Slowly Tifa managed to get back onto her feet and walk around the cave.
"I'm glad to see you are able to move around" Kadaj told her. Tifa turned back to him and smiled
"Me too, I never thanked you for saving me" Tifa noticed
"Its alright, if I hadn't had saved you who would I speak to in this cave?" Kadaj asked her.
"True, but still thanks" Tifa told him with a smile. Kadaj nodded
"Apology accepted" he told her. Tifa went over to the makeshift bed and sat down facing Kadaj who had got to his feet and was now stretching.
"How did you end up here?" Tifa wondered aloud.
"I was out walking from Costa Del Sol when the storm first began, I was very far out" Kadaj explained "I took shelter for the first two nights of the storm and on the third day, during that blizzard, I came across you, rather literally"
"What do you mean?" Tifa enquired
"Those bruises on your right are from me tripping over you, you were buried under more than a foot of snow" Kadaj laughed.
"So then, Where are you from originally?" Tifa asked him
"I am originally from Mideel, and yourself?"
"Nibelheim" Tifa told him "Where are we?"
"A materia cave, north east of Corel" Kadaj informed her. Tifa nodded
"So how old are you?" Tifa wondered
"Guess" Kadaj said smiling
"Twenty something?" Tifa guessed
"Nope" Kadaj laughed shaking his head
"Late teens? Eighteen?" Tifa guessed. Kadaj nodded
"That's the one, miss" Kadaj laughed "How about you? I am guessing about…twenty-two?" Tifa laughed
"Exactly right!" she said laughing and clapping.
Back in Nibelheim Cloud was stumbling around the house only keeping himself busy. He desperately wanted to go out and search for Tifa but he could not even leave the manor because of the tremendous amounts of snow. In the dining room Barrett was sat by himself mourning Tifa's passing but Cloud did not want to accept it, not just yet.