Chapter...something...
Note + disclaimer Sorry guys, been up to here waves hands over head in my own junk. To prove that, I can't even remember what chapter I'm writing. So... I don't I don't own anything but the plot, which after seeing Advent Children I now know is totally off, and Harper. Sorry about all the oc-ness of all the characters, but hey, it's a fanfic. But I think I've kinda kept at least Valentine to his own personality? Neh? Ok, when I started writing this, it was the 17th. Let's see just how horrible I can be sometimes...
Chapter 21?
I woke up what seemed like three minutes later in a bed not my own and not Shera's, or any other I'd ever slept in. There was a dim light coming from under the door, and a cold-salty taste to the air. Pulling the heavy down comforter off, I stepped onto the floor and realized I had on thick socks. Well, that's new... I thought. I looked my self up and down in a mirror by the wall to my left and came to the shocking realization that I wasn't wearing the same clothes as I had been when at Shera's house. I'll kill all three of them no matter what excuse they give me if they say that they changed me themselves... To say the least, I was not a happy camper any more.
So, with the death threat in mind, I opened the door and ventured out into the soft, and was it itself glowing, air. It was a place I'd never been to, but of course I hadn't gone many places before Kadaj had come to the door, yet strangely I knew exactly where I was.
(Vincent)
Two days earlier.
"What do you mean they're gone?" I asked. "You called Cid, he called me and I came, straight from Cosmo Canyon. I couldn't have missed them."
"Well, sorry Vincent, but you did. They were gone yesterday when I got home from work," Shera explained sadly. "There was something funny going on though that I got the feeling of, you know? What do you know of the three people she's with?"
"Only that they said they'd keep her safe from the SHINRA. That's what she said in her letter to Cloud anyway."
"Oh... I get the feeling you don't like them very much, do you Vincent?" Shera stuck a hand in a pocket.
"Not really. I think there's more going on than anyone knows."
"Maybe this'll make you laugh a bit, then..." she pulled her hand out and opened it revealing a crumpled photo. Shera handed it to me and started giggling as I unfolded it and looked.
It was a picture of the three men Harper was with, but they were all in pink clothes. Cid's pink clothes I realized. I couldn't help laughing as I asked, "How did you manage that?"
"Oh, you would have loved it!..." She went on to explain how she had accidentally dyed all or most of Cid's clothes pink when she put a red shirt in with the other clothes. Since it looked like the three men were too stiff, she thought it would be funny to do it since it was raining, they were wet and needed clothes, and she had the chance. "Vincent...?"
"What?"
"Why..." she cocked her head and squinted at the floor. "Why...why are you following Harper? She had asked you all to let her go, you know?" She sat down and looked up at me with a worried expression.
I took a wild guess at why she was asking and sat down by her. "Shera..." I pulled out the ribbon holding back my hair and took off my cape completely as a sign that I was going to be very open and trusting with her. Most people knew that that was what I was doing when I did that. I was going out of my comfort zone, so to speak. "Shera, I think I know why you're asking. Are you trying to protect her?"
I think the question put her more on her guard. "Well, does she need protecting, Vincent?"
"Perhaps from the three she's with."
"What? Why are you following her? What are you talking about?" Shera started "freaking" out.
I sighed. I had been hoping that I wouldn't have to tell her too much about the trip and what was going on. She knew about Sephiroth, that much I could tell. Laughing a little I said, "Shera, you're a good person. You know that?" Her brows knitted together at that. "I mean about your trying to protect Harper. I assume you know almost everything about what's been going on lately with the group, I am almost sure she told you why she left...she's afraid. Afraid for both herself and for the others back in Midgar. And yes, I know she asked us to let her go—"
"Vincent," she interrupted me with a look and I realized just how fast I had been talking. Shera laughed a bit and smiled as she again said, "Vincent... you love her, don't you."
I was speechless.
(Harper)
The Forgotten Capitol.
Note: yes it's short as...my...foot...uh, sorry. R&R please! And Shade...I'ma kill ya if you don't update as soon as you can; I know you're having "problems" with your keyboard...lesse... outline the chap, then you can come o're 'ere and type it on my compy! WA! I'm genius! Ok, like I said, "let's see how horrible I can be," When I started writing it was the 17th of March. It is now the 27th of March and I only have like...three pages to this chapter when in Word. Heh, oh well. Sorry! Byeeeeeeee!