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Gasp! We did update this! It is not a joke or a fake! LOL Sorry for the rather long wait on this. I don't have any excuse, just life is life and this wasn't on top of my priority list. Yes, it was on , but sadly not mine. I am all to blame for the delay. We hopefully will finish this one. For she said that we can't move onto the next story idea until I have one of the two stories I am working on completed. Gah, you've gotta love it when someone makes sense!

They both blinked at her a few times as they attempted to process what they had just been told.

"Two weeks?" Angel inquired slowly.

"Yep." She popped her 'p' as she swung her legs on the chair. "Everyone's been really worried about you. Tanwen told them that you would be all right, but no one really believed her. Don't know why. She's the best healer ever, and they should really have believed her, but you're all better now, so it doesn't really matter. Though, I suppose you should be sleeping. Sick people need to sleep, but sleeping is boring, at least watching people sleep is. I don't know how Tanwen can do it. I mean she sat her for, like days, and just sat here. She didn't seem to mind though, so I guess it's ok."

"Who, exactly is Tanwen?" Veld asked grabbing onto what he thought would be the most important piece of her tirade the moment she took a breath.

She blinked at him. "Oh, that's right. You haven't actually meant her yet. Humm…." She contemplated this for several moments. "Well Tanwen is….She's well….Tanwen is…Good grief! I never knew it could be so hard to describe someone. That's it! Tanwen is indescribable." She nodded firmly with her victory. "I'd get her for you, but then I'd take the chance of running into Sir Dumbo, and she did told me, that is Tanwen, that I'm to keep an eye on you two and make sure you get your rest." She nodded again. "Yah, I'm gonna stay here. You'll meet her when she comes in during the next round, well… you're awake."

The two exchanged looks. At the rate Yuffie was going, staying awake would not be an issue.

"I suppose you want to hear about all the important political stuff huh? Oh! I could tell you all about what Gen and Seph have been up to. They're tons of fun to bug and they don't like the big meetings and formal dinners anymore then I do. So we're working on a way to get all three of us out of them without getting into trouble. So far we're not having much luck. I mean those two don't get into trouble, just me so you don't have to worry about them. You know I'm pretty sure I've been in more trouble these last two weeks then I have this whole last year! Daddy is not nearly as impressed as I am though. In fact, he is really unhappy, especially since I snuck off. That's the best part about it.

"What was I talking about again?" She titled her head to one side and put a finger on her chin, as the two men simply watched and listened to her sharing an amused look over the top of her head. "Oh yah! The important political stuff." She made a face then sighed. "Right, so your boss," she pointed to Veld, "was a moron, as I'm sure you know, and now he's a dead moron. Oh, maybe I shouldn't have said it like that. I mean you could have liked him, and saying that he is now died off the bat seems heartless. But I did mean he was a moron, I mean if someone says 'don't go in, there's a bomb' and then you go in anyways, well you're definitely a moron. And I really don't like him because of the that. Anyways, because of your act of bravery and heroism, what is that any way, and yada, yada, yada you have been appointed his replacement, and from what I've seen expect paper work, lots and lots and lots, and lots, and lots, and lots, and lots, and looottttssssss of paper work."

Veld groaned while rubbing his face with his hands as he mumbled. "Great, just what I wanted."

She reached over and patted his arm sympathetically before continuing. "So thanks to Tanwen stepping in and saving the day, your people, and my people got together to save everyone who was caught in the bomb. Turns out a third party set, not one, but seven different bombs." Here she grew much more serious. "If Tanwen hadn't been around, and if we hadn't started working together to get people help…." She lowered her head and scrubbed at her face with the back of one arm. "It was bad. Really, really bad." Her voice was low and slightly choked. "The death toll was….slightly over a thousand, including women and children." Her shoulders started to shake.

Angeal slide out of bed and, mindful of his wounds, still aching body, the wires and the IV, gently picked her up before sliding back into bed. For several minutes, he simply held her as she cried. As for Veld…the image he had been presented with was one from nightmares. He could barely get his mind wrapped around a death toll such as that, and for the first time in a while, he wished he had a phone. Sure, the person he wanted to talk to most probably didn't even have reception, but still…

Two sets of eyes flew up as the door slowly, and quietly slid open, and a young woman gracefully stepped in, leaving a staff by the door. Their eyes widened.

"By the planet!" Angeal could hardly believe his eyes. "You look just like him."

The woman looked just like Genesis. She was a little shorter with her red hair pulled back into simple a ponytail. Her face held the same delicate features as the Crimson Commander. Her filmed white eyes even hinted at the mischief hidden deep within. She was a beautiful version of Angeal's childhood friend.

Angeal's words had caught Yuffie's attention and she looked up. She wiped her nose with the back of her hand then giggled. "Yah they look a lot alike don't they."

"Yuffie!" her tone was only slightly scolding as she moved toward the bed. "You were supposed to let them sleep."

"I was just trying to get them caught up on everything. Tanwen, stop!" Yuffie carefully jumped down and moved the chair back to where it had been when she first came in. "Sorry, I moved things around again, and didn't want you to hit anything."

"Well that is very much appreciated." Tanwen walked forward slightly then reached out a hand, which Yuffie grabbed. She knelt down so she was level with Yuffie then reached out with her free hand and gently wiped Yuffie's face. "If you were getting them all caught up then you must have told them about how you heard those men talking about the bombs and about driving a bigger wedge between Wuti and Shinra and how you were so brave and raced right into the battle without a concern for youself and told Sephiroth and Genesis about the bombs and how you got your people to fallow their order, which lead to discovering and disarming four out of the seven bombs saving hundreds of lives in the process."

"No, I don't believe we had made it quite that far." Angeal stated smiling.

"Oh, then you hadn't gotten to the best part then either. In which one of the bombs was placed near the medical tents, where the two of you had just been transported to, and where I was resting. Which means you don't know how Yuffie took on two of the men by herself and managed to stall them long enough for Sephiroth and Genesis to come to the rescue, saving our lives and the lives of nearly a thousand other people, Wuti and Shinra alike. She was also the one who negotiated between the great Wuti council and Shinra calling for a truce. Treaty talks however," her she smiled widely at them, "are not our Yuffie's specialty."

"They are not Sephiroth or Genesis's either." Angeal chuckled.

"Then you have to be the one with the political brain, 'cause all three of you just can't be bad at politics." Yuffie insisted with a firm nod of her head.

"You must be right Yuffie." Tanwen agreed with a nod. "Now why don't you go grab Angeal's chart and read it off for me, while I give him a quick look over."

"I still don't understand how you can do that when you're blind." Yuffie stated as she skipped around the end of his bed and grabbed the chart off the bottom of it.

Tanwen winked, one unseeing eye, at Angeal. "Magic."

"That's what you always say!" Yuffie huffed. She opened the chart and hesitated. "Tanwen?"

"Yes Yuffie." Tanwen acknowledged as she sat on the bed next to Angeal.

"It's in common."

Tanwen paused and thought about it for a moment. "Humm….This could be a problem."

Yuffie titled her head to one side, mimicking Tanwen, than looked at Veld. "Veld can help me." The words were proudly spoken and fallowed swiftly by her practically jumping on him.

"Omph!"

"Don't jump on the patients beds Yuffie." Tanwen ordered.

"Sorry, Tanwen. Sorry Veld."

"I'm just glad you didn't land a little lower kid." Veld told her blankly, to which both adults were forced to stifle their laughter.

"Huh?" Yuffie titled her head to one side inquisitively.

"Don't worry about it kid," Veld told her reaching for the chart.

"Oh! You mean 'cause I could have 'unmanned' you, right?" He simply stared at her. "Awe, you don't have to worry about that. My aim is much better than to do something like that on accident."

Both men stopped and simply looked at each other.

"And that right there, squirt," Veld said slowly, "is what worries me."

"Why's that?" Then she gasped. "You called me squirt!"

"Yuffie, love, while I would love to know why that is so important to you, I really do need to examine both of them, so if you could please read me Angeal's chart?" Tanwen stated politely.

"Sorry, Tanwen." Yuffie scooted up so she was right next to Veld, as he held the chart open. "Now you can't read it all. I'm supposed to be practicing common, so I might as well do it now, instead of in some boring, stuffy, old room. You are only here to help!" The last was more order then statement.

"As you wish, my lady." Veld replied with the best bow he could give, while only half sitting up and being practically laid on.

Yuffie nodded, took a deep breath, then slowly began the painstakingly long process of reading Angeal's chart to Tanwen, though it did turn out that Veld was quite good at nudging her in the right direction.

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