Disclaimer:Case you forgot,Square Enix owns these characters not me. Though i wish i did

Warning:Cid is in this chapter so expect swearing.

CH.3

An Unpleasant Meeting

Sephiroth groaned and lifted his head. His arm's and legs were chained to the wall,and the was a length of rope around his neck.

"Your slipping boy,"came a voice from across the room. Sephiroth looked up and recognized Cid Highwind. "I was expecting to loss three damn platoons trying to take you down, but here you are chained up like a #$! beast and we haven't lost a man." Cid continued. He then walked up and put his face right in Sephiroth's, "And here i was thinking you were some kind of warrior, my mistake." And with that Sephiroth promptly spit in Highwind's face.

"Why you #$#$&4(," Cid sputtered and promptly commenced beating Sephiroth. After a minute he let up, "Looks like we'll have to teach you some manners,though i think we should just kill you right now and be done with it."

"Then why don't you?" coughed Sephiroth, "Go ahead you gutless worm impale me. Can't do it can you?Can't muster the courage to end my life?" This of course only further angered Highwind,but instead of beating him Cid simply slugged him a few times and continued his interrogation.

"What you do to Tifa you fucking monster?" demanded Cid angrily.

"What are you talking about,I did nothing to that Lockheart women." Sephiroth spat back, "Don't believe me,then ask her yourself."For some reason being accused of hurting Tifa really infuriated Sephiroth.

'What is this?' he thought, 'why should i care about her?'

"Oh I'll ask her,and if she even hints that you harmed her I'll..." Cid threatened.

"You'll what?Kill me?I'll come back. Torture me?What could you possibly do that I haven't already experienced, or worse?" Sephiroth laughed, "You don't scare me little man,nothing from this planet scares me." Cid punched him in the gut,and stormed out muttering curses.

'Finally,' Sephiroth thought, 'Now why is it I'm starting to care about that woman?'

Tifa groaned and for the second time in the space of five hours woke up with a migraine in an unfamiliar bed.

"Hey Tifa, you ok?He didn't hurt you did he?" came a deep voice Tifa recognized as Barrett's.

"Where am i?" asked Tifa confusedly.

"Your safe,your in Avalanche's Capitol Building. And don't worry about that monster we've got him locked up so he won't be able to hurt you again." Barrett answered.

"He didn't hurt me, he saved me." Tifa growled,anger building in her voice, "Then you up and attack him for no reason, your soldiers beat him to a pulp after drugging him so he couldn't defend himself!You deserve to be beaten for that!"

"Whoa,whoa,whoa. Settle down Tifa it's obvious your delusional," Barrett started trying to calm Tifa down, "you can't rea..."

"DELUSIONAL!?I'M NOT DELUSIONAL!I NOW WHAT I SAW!" Tifa screamed, she probably would have continued on but the door opened and Cid came in.

"Hey Ti..." he started.

"AND YOU! YOU ORDERED THEM TO DO THAT!YOUR JUST AS RESPOSIBLE!"Tifa screeched at him.

"Calm down, Tifa calm down." Barrett pleaded.

"CALM DOWN!CALM DOWN!" Tifa continued ranting for a few minutes before stopping to catch her breath. Cid jumped on the opportunity.

"Tifa," he said drawing a breath, "WHAT THE !$!$# IS YOUR #$!#$ PROBLEM!"

"Ya Teef," said Barrett,who was more surprised then angry, "it's not like we dragged in some kid off the street. This is Sephiroth we're talking about,nobody hates him more then you Teef. We all know that, so why are you so mad about this?"

"WHY?WHY?..." Tifa spluttered,then stopped. Why was she so mad about it? If she had met him wouldn't she have done the same thing? But they hadn't seen what she'd seen, this wasn't that same man. He didn't have that insane glow in his eyes, all she saw in him was sorrow. She found herself feeling sorry for him, it was like all the evil that had possessed him was gone.

"I don't know," Tifa said at length, "It's like he's a completely different person, all that evil and madness is gone. All I saw in his eyes was sorrow."

"Your too trusting Teef," Cid scolded, lighting up a cigarette.

"That still doesn't give you the right to treat him like that," Tifa shot back, "you don't know his past, what it must have been like to be Hojo's child or having Jenova dictate your every move. He already payed for his sins,he doesn't deserve this." It took them a while to think of a comeback and when they did it wasn't even a very good one.

"Ya well he's still Sephiroth," said Barrett, "Just because he's sorry doesn't mean he should escape the consequences." Cid nodded his head in agreement.

"He did pay the consequences, we killed him remember?" Tifa said.

"He ain't dead now is he?" said Cid, "Maybe we never killed him?"

"We did kill him the planet brought him back to end this..." Tifa trailed off realizing it wasn't her place to explain what Sephiroth was doing back.

"Wadda ya mean da planet brought im back?Sephiroth is da planet's worst enemy." Barrett said with a staunch belief.

"No,Jenova is the planets worst enemy,"Tifa corrected, "Sephiroth was just a puppet,not a very happy one either."

For the next few minutes everyone just sat around quietly. Finally Barrett sighed and got up.

"Well, I phoned Vince and Yuffie, they'll be here in an hour. We got im chained up in the detention level if you wanna see im." he said.

"Fine take me there."Tifa replied, and stood up shakily, "though it looks like I'll need some help getting there." Cid offered an arm and Tifa took it. After taking an elevator down to the basement they walked down several hallways before coming to a stop in front of a window. Tifa gasped in horror when she saw Sephiroth's broken form. He looked and met her gaze but dropped his almost immediately, ashamed to be seen in such a weak state. Before she knew it Tifa was weeping.

Author's Note:So what do you think?Not the best i know but it can't be all that bad is it?