"Are you okay? Can you hear me?" A voice in Blake's head asked.

"Yeah…" she responded.

"Y'know, back then you could get by with just skinned knees…"

"What do you mean by 'back then'?"

"What about now, can you get up?"

"...I'll try."

"Oooh, she moved!" A male voice said.

"How about that? Take it slow now, little by little…" The voice in Blake's head said.

"Hello, hello?" The male voice said.

"I know," Blake said to the voice. "Hey, who are you?"

"Hello, hello!"

Blake opened her eyes, finding the flower boy from the other day looking at her. She sat up, and noticed she was in a flower bed in an old, abandoned church.

"You all right? We're in a church in the Sector 5 slums. You almost fell on top of me, gave me a real scare. The roof and the flower bed broke your fall."

"Flower bed… Oh, is this yours?" Blake asked, getting up and dusting herself off. "Sorry about that."

"Don't worry about it, the flowers here are tough. They say you can't grow grass and flowers in Midgar, yet for some reason they have no problem growing here. Anyway, we meet again. Remember me?" He flashed a big grin.

Blake nodded. "You sold me a flower."

"Yeah, thanks for that by the way!" the boy said, still grinning wide. "Say, do you have any Materia?"

"Only what Yang gave me," Blake said. "But you can find Materia anywhere these days."

"Mine is special," the boy said, looking down at the Materia attached to the ribbon tied around his belt loop. "It's good for absolutely nothing."

"You probably just don't know how to use it yet."

"No, I do. It just doesn't do anything. It was my mother's though, and I feel safe having it. Say, you mind chatting for a bit?"

"Sure, why not?" Blake shrugged.

"Cool! Let me check the flowers first though," the boy said, crouching down to check on them. "Oh, come to think of it, we don't know each other's names yet do we? I'm Sun, Sun Wukong. I sell flowers for a living."

At that moment, Turk Mercury Black walked in and stopped by the door, unnoticed. He was a light-skinned man in his 20s with grey eyes and grey hair.

"I'm Blake. I do a little bit of everything."

"A jack of all trades, huh? Nice to meet you Blake!" Sun said. He couldn't help but be reminded of him by her, what with her eyes, her uniform, her sword, or even the way she literally crashed into his life by falling through the church roof.

"Awww what a touching tale of romance: boy meets girl, surely you're destined to be together," Merc said sarcastically, grabbing their attention.

"Hey, Blake, you ever been a bodyguard?" Sun asked. "You DO do everything, yeah?"

Blake nodded. "Yeah, that's right."

"Get me out of here and take me home then."

"What's in it for me?"

"How about I take you on a date?"

"Sure, why not?" Blake shrugged, before stepping towards Merc. "I don't know who you are but-"

Just then, the voice in her mind said. "I know you."

"Oh wait, I do know you. I recognize that uniform."

Three soldiers came in behind Merc.

"Yo Merc, want us to take her out?" One of them asked.

"I haven't decided yet," he said.

"Blake, this way!" Sun said, motioning for Blake to follow him to the church's backroom. The two quickly ran back there.

"She had Mako eyes," Merc noted, walking across the flower bed. "Now let's get to work. Oh, and don't step on the flowers."

"But you just did!" the soldiers pointed out.

In the back room, Sun started leaping and climbing the scaffolding towards the rafters.

"What the hell Sun!?" Blake said, panting and trying to catch up. "Wait for me!"

Just then Merc and the soldiers came in.

"Don't let The Ancient escape!" Merc called out, and the soldiers opened fire on Sun, causing him to fall to the basement.

"Sun!" Blake cried out, watching as the soldiers surrounded and cornered Sun. Just as she was about to do something, Sun pulled a collapsible staff out of the back of his jacket and started fighting back against the soldiers.

"Oh yeah, time for some action!" He cheered as he attacked the soldiers with his staff. Blake soon jumped down to join him, and it wasn't long until they'd depleted the soldiers' aura. "Come on, Blake, let's get out of here!"

Sun picked up Blake piggyback style and jumped up to the rafters with Blake on his back. He carried her over to the hole in the roof she's left and they stopped to catch their breath on the rooftops.

"If you can fight like that... Why'd you even ask me to be your bodyguard?" Blake asked him.

"Maybe I just wanted an excuse to spend more time with you," Sun said with a wink. "Y'know, this isn't the first time the people in suits have been after me."

"They're the Turks. They're an organization in the SMC. They scout candidates for SOLDIER, in addition to some more dirty stuff on the side, like spying, murder, and stuff like that," Blake explained. "Why're they after you?"

"Maybe they're just Biphobic," Sun joked.

"You're Bi too?" Blake said.

"Hell yeah I am!"

"BI RIGHTS!" They both said at the same time, giving each other a high five.

"We should probably get going; we don't wanna get caught," Blake said.

"Right," Sun said, and they ran across the rooftops for a bit, before stopping to take a break. "Hey Blake, were you ever in SOLDIER?"

"Yeah, I used to be. What gave it away? Was it the uniform? Maybe even the eyes?"

"Both, but mostly the eyes. You can always tell if someone's been in SOLDIER by their glowing blue eyes."

"How did you know about that?"

"Don't worry about it. Let's get going, 'bodyguard'," he said, nudging her with his elbow. Eventually they made it to the edge of the rooftops, and jumped down into the slums. "My house is that way. Let's not take too long."

They came across a large sewer pipe converted into a small home.

"The guy that lives in there is sick," Sun said. "He passed out nearby and someone must have helped him here."

They decided to enter the pipe, where the sick man was. He had a tattoo of the number 2.

"Here he is, can you help him? You did say you did a little bit of everything," Sun said.

Blake shook her head. "Curing sick people was not a part of that everything. I'm no doctor."

"Oh well, let's get going then," Sun said, disappointed. Blake stopped for a moment to look at the man's television, where the news was playing.

"The parts of Midgar that were temporarily out of power due to AVALANCHE's attacks will have their power back momentarily. Following her father President Jacques Schnee's lead, Mayor Weiss Schnee has also spoken out against AVALANCHE."

"What're you watching the news for? It's not like there's anything interesting on," Sun said, grabbing Blake and pulling her back outside. Before long they'd made it to Sun's house, where his foster mom, Glynda Goodwitch, a light-skinned, green-eyed blonde woman who looked to be in her 30s or 40s, was waiting.

"Hey mom, meet my bodyguard, Blake," Sun introduced.

"Bodyguard? Don't tell me they're after you again," Glynda said, shaking her head. "Are you all right?"

"Psssh, when am I ever not fine? 'sides, I had Blake with me."

Glynda turned to Blake. "Thank you for looking after my fool of a son."

"Hey!" Sun said, offended, before Glynda turned and went upstairs. "So Blake, what're you gonna do now?"

"Sector 7's not far is it? I wanna meet up with Yang at her bar," Blake said.

"Who is this Yang anyway?" Sun asked. "You mentioned her back at the church too. She your girlfriend or something?"

"Not exactly. It's… She's… We're… It's complicated."

Sun laughed. "All right then, I won't pry. I can show you the way to Sector 7 though."

"Sounds good to me," Blake said with a shrug.

"Mom, I'm taking Blake to Sector 7, be back in a bit!" Sun yelled upstairs, and Glynda immediately came down.

"Not at this hour you aren't, young man," Glynda said. "I know I won't be able to stop you from going entirely, but you could at least go tomorrow instead of at this late hour."

"You're right," Sun admitted.

"Good, now get to bed," Glynda ordered, and Sun ran upstairs. Glynda turned to address Blake. "Those glowing blue eyes… You're from SOLDIER, aren't you?"

"Yeah, I used to be," Blake said with a nod.

"I'm not sure how to say this, but could you please leave tonight? Without telling Sun? SOLDIER… The last thing Sun needs is to get his heart broken again."

Blake nodded and went upstairs, finding Sun there.

"Better be wary when we go through Sector 6 tomorrow, Blake," Sun said. "That place is a little dangerous. Anyway, night."

"Night," Blake said, and the two went to bed, Blake getting to use Glynda's bed and room. She soon fell asleep.

"You seem pretty tired," the voice is Blake's head said. "I haven't slept in a bed like this in a long time. Not since I was a kid…"

Blake had a flashback to her lying on her bed in Nibelheim as a kid, her mom pacing about nearby.

"Oh my how you've grown. I bet the boys never leave you alone!" Kali teased.

"Really, mom?" Blake sighed.

"I just want you to settle down with a nice boyfriend is all."

"Oh my God," Blake groaned in embarrassment. "We are not talking about this."

"I think you'd do well with a slightly older boyfriend, one that would look after you."

"Mom!"

And with that, Blake woke up.

"Crap, I wasn't supposed to fall asleep," Blake berated herself. "Oh well, it's still late, I can still sneak out."

Blake carefully snuck out of Sun's house, and made her way through Sector 5. However, when she made it to the Sector 5 exit, she found Sun himself standing there.

"Hiya Blake, ready to go to Sector 7?" He said cheerfully.

Blake facepalmed. "You've gotta be kidding me."