Zack opened his eyes the first things that greeted him was the sight of the blue cloudless sky and then the field full of the most beautiful bright yellow flowers. And then he saw her from the corner of his eye she glided towards him through the river of sun ripen gold the red knee length dress she was wearing flowing behind as she moved tracing the outline of her slender, voluptuous body.

'Zack.' She giggled holding out her arms for him, her voice sounded as sweet to him as honey itself. She'd never spoken before.

'Zack,' Something cold brushing against his thigh caused Zack to open his eyes reaching out for his long sword in the darkness he realized that once again it had been a dream gripping the hard familiar handle he realized he wasn't alone.

'Hey, look there's no need to get like that.' Her voice giggled in the darkness, shaking his head letting strands of chocolate coloured hair fall across his face he'd almost managed to convince himself that it was real this time.

'Why don't you put that down, huh?' She whispered nuzzling her nose against the side of his rough cheek, letting her hand slip down so that it lay over his.

'Sam!' Zack suddenly shrieked, realizing suddenly that he was not in fact in another one of his dreams.

'Keep it down, huh.' Sam frowned glancing over her shoulder towards the dark outline of the bedroom door wondering if anyone had heard him.

'Sam, what are you doing here?'

'What do you think?' She grinned, leaning forward attempting to kiss him brushing her off Zack suddenly jumped out of bed.

'I think you should leave you can't do this you're getting married, you're marrying my boss for god sake.'

Her head fell a little in the darkness Zack couldn't see that her playful smile had been replaced by a painful frown.

'That fact never bothered Reno.' Sam motioned, knowing how to push his buttons.

'Well I'm not Reno thank god, and I don't want you any where near me do you understand the only reason I'm here is because…' Zack stopped himself he had to stop; grudgingly he knew that he still couldn't trust her.

Grabbing her by the flesh of her slender arm Zack pulled her up and onto her feet, as gently as he could.

'You don't have to drag me, I'm leaving.' Sam grumbled re-gaining control of her arm; she was much stronger and faster than she had been the last time.

For one second before she hurried out of the room Zack felt his control fail him, grinding his teeth the last thing he wanted to do was let her go he wanted to hold her and kiss her and make everything end…he didn't want to let her go…

As soon as Sam had left Zack realized how hard his mission really was going to be.

With a start Molly opened her green eyes, her forehead furrowing in a deep frown she felt a warm hand reach out and touch her cheek.

'It was just another nightmare.' Vincent's voice rose up from the darkness. The room fell silent once again; glancing over at his familiar form Molly sighed hard…it wasn't going to work.

'Vincent, do you ever think about the future?' She questioned the fearless Highwind streak inside her showing itself.

Vincent frowned he'd dreaded the day when she asked that question, he'd known for a long time what was going on that Molly had started to want more more from him.

'Sometimes.' He commented he hated lying to her 'sometimes' stood for all the time and the future was them. Vincent had waited so long to truly love someone now that he was with the woman that he loved he realized that he'd lose her all over again because Vincent couldn't give her a future. He could marry Molly, they could live together but they'd never have children and he'd never get any older.

'Do you ever think about us, what it will be like in a couple of years?' Vincent didn't answer.

'Doesn't it bother you that one day I'm going to get old, Vince one day I'm going to die and then what?' 'Vince' the way she said it reminded him of Cid and ultimately his betrayal he was in bed with one of his closest friend's daughters he was in love with her.

'I don't wish to discus this.'

'Well suck it in, I'm almost thirty did you know that all of my friends are married or have kids or have great careers I don't have any of that! What I have is a dying Father and a maladjusted teenager the life is being sucked out of me and all you want to do is ignore it!' Molly shrieked scratch sound like Cid Vincent felt for a creepy second as if he was in bed with the pilot; she certainly had the pilot's mouth and his steel.

'Molly I…'

'Get out get out of my God damn house I need a break!' She shrieked realizing that it was pointless to try and talk her around Vincent climbed out of bed changing quickly frowning hard he left without another word.

Molly had never expected him to leave burying her head in her pillow she broke down into sobs. Her life was over…