Author's Notes: Makes me sad, though you might not agree. AU possibly, depending on your views upon Reeve. Italics and bold fonts show two different flashbacks. Normal font shows present. Plain font at the end shows future.

Theme: Sight

Cait Sith

Three years ago we got caught in a storm. Before the night was out the AI was totally fried. I never had the heart to try and restore it actually It had been the fifteen body for the feline, but still the first mind. It was also the only bot I'd never had any overrides on, never had a back up system to record the data upon. Never saw a point.

Now, at the reunion the children ask me where he is. They ask me why I have a dog instead. Even Vincent, always one to keep to himself and not question of other's lives, begins to hint at a desire for an explanation. I could almost feel them staring at the sunglasses they'd always accepted before, and at the contacts that hid the truth behind their emerald rings.

"I'm sorry Mister Tuesti. Your vision is degrading faster than we could ever hope to restore. But there are plenty of things we can do to make you comfortable."

"What about those radical treatments Professor Hojo…"

"Hojo's techniques died with him, and many would say it was for the best. Now, we can get you a seeing eye dog soon enough."

"He won't need on!" came the perky voice at his side.

"Cait?" Reeve asked simply for an explanation

"I can do it! I'm far better than a dog. And no one would know any different. We could get you a really small receiver and you could put it in your ear. And I can help you with everything by talking to you through it with one of my processors. I could even help you around the house. And no one would know!"

"I hear thunder Cait. How far to some shelter?" the worried male said. He knew from the scent around them and the sound of wind in the trees and the dankness of the air that the storm was rapidly approaching them.

"Not far Reeve, not far," the feline assured him.

Reeve could hear the worry in the voice of the robot. Over the years the emotions of the AI system had grown so real that even Reeve could hardly tell the difference.

He felt the rain though, as it started to come down around them. And he knew the smell of ozone for a brief second before everything stopped to exist in his world. When he woke the rain was over, but there was no Cait there to shake him gently and explain, to tell him where he was. There was a woman though, he could tell from the gentle grip as she searched out his pulse.

"Sir, do you know where you are?" she asked in a kind voice. He associated it instantly with the calmness of the nurse he knew at the doctor's office.

"No. I'm sorry miss, but I can't see you. You'll have to explain a bit, such as where Cait is."

There was silence for a while before another voice reached his ears. By instinct and habit he turned head and useless eyes towards the source of the voice.

"Sir, you're in a hospital. You've sustained some trauma from the incident, including some damage to your retinas."

Reeve shook his head. This man was wrong. "What incident? Where is Cait?"

"Sir, please calm down so we can check out your eyes."

"Back off!" Reeve growled, shrinking away from the voice. "There is no need for that. I have been blind for the last two and a half years. Genetic thing. Now, where is Cait Sith?"

"Who is Cait Sith sir?"

"My name is Reeve and Cait Sith is the feline robot that acts as my guide. I made him myself before I lost my sight. Now where is he? I need Cait."

The silence was longer this time. Far longer. Something that disturbed him.

"Sir… This Cait Sith you speak of… It's gone. Struck by lightening…"

He didn't know how to respond. There weren't even tears. The same thing that stole his sight had robbed him of the ability to shed tears, so what was the point?

When he awoke it was to something he had known was long since gone. It was enough to prove the obvious, that he'd finally died. There were beautiful things all around him, a near perfect Midgar, as he had first designed it, before the corruption of Shin-Ra got to it. This had to be heaven. All along the streets were smiling people.

"Reeve, about time you showed up," came a long since lost voice behind him.

The once-blind man whirled and smiled, tears stinging his eyes as they came to rest upon something he never thought to see again.

"Cait."

"Hey, apparently heaven isn't a no-pets place like Reno said," the feline winked.