Hello my readers! I know that it's been a looooong while –two months-but I haven't had time to actually type my story. So I give you chapter 12!

My Sanctuary

Chapter 12

"I swear to god I've seen this in Resident Evil 4 with Leon." I said to myself as I slide under the red beams threatening to slice me into pieces. I hear my heart beating at an exponential rate as the beam goes right above my nose. I got up from my sliding position and notice that the door is right in front of me. My face lights up in excitement but I hear a crackling sounds behind me. I turn around and see the beams form into tight squares and rush towards me. "Looks like I'm taking the vents." I jumped and stuck my hidden knife in the ceiling to support myself as I moved the vent above me to slide inside. The beam managed to slice off part of the bottom of my shoe.

Damn…Good thing I haven't gotten a growth spurt yet. I can barely fit inside of this. I looked down and saw Turks approach the hallway I was just inside. I have to keep on moving forward. I slowly crawled in order to not make any sounds- unfortunately even my weapons are against me. I heard a 'clink' sound and turned my head back to where I came from. I had forgotten the knife that was stuck in the ceiling. The sound of guns being loaded was echoing with ammo. I scurried through the air vents as bullets started firing behind me and got closer with each passing second. As one nicked my heel, the bottom of the tight crawling space fell under me as I turned left and plummeted onto a Turk.

I looked down and noticed that we were in a different area and I knocked the Turk unconscious. "Oh. Shit." It was Veld. Damn me and my clumsiness…I was going to use him for directions.

"Let's see what's behind door number one." I said to myself and opened a random door; my eyes widened and closed it immediately. "If I survive this I'm going to need a lot of therapy."

I shook my head and ran through the next entrance and unfortunately for me I found more Turks.

"…you're the one who breached the security?" The female Turk blinked at me as if it were a joke. "You're just a kid. A kid who thinks can take out a Turk."

"Correction, I'm a teenager-" I sheathed my Nodachi and took on my stance from when Vincent trained me, once upon a time, "-that has nothing to lose." I moved in for the kill.

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"Note to self, when I need to kill someone, do it quickly or else back up will come." I said as I ran through the halls with the bloodied Nodachi in my hand and about 5 Turks behinds me. It doesn't help when I have bullet wounds on my right leg and left arm either -hey nobody said I had to be perfect- I need to get rid of them as soon as possible…or else I'm done for. I turned around and shot at the ceiling which caused the chandelier to fall upon them. "What kind of an idiot randomly hangs a chandelier…" my eyes widen, "it would be Hojo." I say to myself and take off again to the basement of where the experimentations usually happen.

As I descended towards the basement I saw Hojo leaving Sephiroth's room and with data results in his hand as he smiled to himself. "I swear, I'll get you out somehow." I looked back at the door I just came through and felt a cold chill creeping at my spine and felt goose bumps on my back with a shudder. Something bad was going to happen.

I kept going towards his room and opened the door carefully. There in the black crib was the baby I had sworn I would get to his mother. He had wisps of silver hair growing on his head and soft supple skin that looked exactly like Lucrecia's. I gently picked up the sleeping baby boy and supported his head. His eyes slowly opened with terror thinking I was the scientist but immediately turned innocent with a hint of happiness. His green eyes reminded me of Lucrecia's as I held him close to me. His hand reached from the blankets he was wrapped snuggly in and went for the flower that was in my hair. "You can have it if you'd like Sephiroth. Think of it as a welcoming present to this world." I whispered to him and kissed his forehead. "We have to leave and meet your mother alright?" I said as I covered his head with the blanket so the cold wouldn't disturb him. I ran through the halls of the basement but I accidentally took the wrong way and ended up in front of an empty tank filled with Mako.

"Oh it looks like I didn't have to hunt you down. Instead you came to me." My body felt as though it shut down. I slowly turned around with Sephiroth still in my arms and a scowl formed on my face. "And you've already been acquainted with him as well." Hojo motioned to Sephiroth as my grip grew more protective over the newborn baby.

"He needs his mother. He'll grow into someone who isn't stable." I said to him as I remembered Lucrecia telling me about having visions of her son.

"That's where you come in. I'm going to need someone who will share the same fate as he and need training to become the perfect weapon." Hojo's voice became snarky and eyed my body up and down.

I ran toward the open entrance behind him as he began to laugh hysterically and I managed to trip over a few times and ended up going through an unknown door and locked it behind me. As I looked down at the baby he smiled at me and gurgled a little. "Yeah, you're laughing now. Wait until he comes down here… where exactly is here anyways?" I looked up and noticed control panels up a flight of black stairs and large amounts of Mako under the railings. "I sure as hell don't want to end up in there." I kept walking up the stairs and noticed a tank with a person inside of it. "What the hell kind of shit have you been messing with Hojo?" I asked myself as I leaned up against the tank and read the name "Jenova". I could have sworn I saw her open her eyes at me and glare. I noticed the similarities between her and Sephiroth. The next thing I know there are Turks surrounding me with their guns at me.

"I can't have you letting Lucrecia know about her son being alive now can I?" A Turk came towards me and took Sephiroth away from me but not before stabbing me in the back with a knife. He immediately started crying as if he were being tortured. "It seems that he's already attached to you." Hojo commented as the Turk started to carry the baby away from the area and the other Turks ordered me to go around "Jenova" and stand next to the railing. They disarmed me of my weapons and I could feel the same eerie feeling of death crawl up my skin.

"I'll see you in hell." I commented to Hojo.

"Not likely dear. You're going to be my new experimenting toy." My eyes widened and was about to run but I felt bullets entering my body. My body slapped against the rail as it went limp and only supported by my arms.

"NOOOOOOOO!" I heard a female cry out in the distance. I felt someone lift up my head. "What did you do?!" I laughed in my head at the irony of it all. Had she come a few seconds earlier, she would have seen her son. "Dawn! Please don't leave me! Please!" Her begging only became futile to me. "I'm so sorry! DAWN! I should have adopted you! I could have protected you!" No Lucrecia, you couldn't have…especially with Hojo against us.

"He's…still…alive" I coughed up blood and my eyes went to the back of my head.

"I-I don't understand." Her voice became more desperate as blood started to drip from her white coat. The last thing I thought of was the green eyes that haunted me and too feeble to fight for him against the Turk. I imagined him in my arms protecting him…It's a shame I had to end like this.

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'WH-where am I?' All I could hear were murmurs of two people. One sounded female and the other was male. They were arguing…about a project…number two. The last thing I remember was a pair of small green eyes and they were crying. Red liquid was coming out of my mouth as I desperately tried to hold a small body next to mine.

I could barely open my eyelids. They felt so heavy. Light shined through my water tank as I tried to move any part of my body. I was paralyzed. My eyes were starting to sting regardless of my light mask; it was the only thing that covered me. As my head moved down I noticed that I was naked with my legs crossed at my ankles and arms crossed enough to cover my chest. Everything hurt, my body and mind- I felt so exhausted.

Both of them stopped arguing when they heard me and looked towards my tank with their startled expressions. The ugly male smiled creepily and turned his full body to me. I saw a nametag but unfortunately was unable to read it when he folded his arms and walked towards me.

His eyes are what gave him away. I've never seen such evil and disgusting aura on anyone before. His white lab coat flapped behind him and eyes as they were stalking me…analyzing me…studying me…nothing but a plaything.

"So," his voice was disturbing, "you're finally awake." I flinched as his hand came up to the glass of my tank and started to rub up and down. He is evil, all I want to do is kill him.

Professor Hojo," the female sounded nervous and weak, "just please stop doing that! You're scaring her. "Please…" her voice began to crack, "I beg of you, stop experimenting on her!"

"Why? It was your idea after all to do this to your "daughter". I told you not to let her in but no you just had to be the sweet, loving Lucrecia. You wouldn't deny her the freedom she wanted." He sneered. "I still don't understand why you took that brat in, the first place! Wait a minute, I know. You're only using her as a replacement for the boy aren't you?"

The woman flinched at the harsh tone of his voice.

'So this woman is my mother? But not by blood apparently.'

"Be quiet." The woman's voice sounded hostile.

"She'll be more worthy than that Ex-Turk and just maybe-"

"NO! I won't allow another person to become like that again, especially not Dawn!"

'Dawn, that's my name. Dawn.'

"No? My how I admire your spirit, but unfortunately all good things must come to an end. She will be my next project and I will do whatever is necessary to make sure that this one does not fail me. She has already managed to survive the other tests, what's a few hundred more?" The mad scientist pulled out a remote control "Goodnight," he smirked, "number two."

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Five Years Later

"Dawn!" Sephiroth woke me up and saved me from another nightmare. "What do you dream about that always ends up in you screaming?" His childish curiosity is what always made me laugh but I saw concern in those five year old eyes of his. I chuckled and patted his head and got up from my bed. I turned on the light and revealed a boy of five years old with sad green eyes staring at me.

My body unconsciously went into the bathroom and closed the door. As I extended my arms to support myself on the counter and stare at my ageless face in the mirror. My hair grew longer and parts of it were white due to the stress of the experimentations. I still remember the day Lucrecia committed suicide. She couldn't deal with the loss of Vincent, her baby and me.

Knock, knock.

"I'll be out in a moment Sephiroth." How completely ironic. I'm supposed to be taking care of him but he's the one who ends up checking on me. "I miss you Vincent. I want you take me away from my hell." I whisper as my eyes turn glossy. All I am to Hojo is a guinea pig to test out the experiments out on first. If he deems it good enough, the injections goes to Sephiroth. The only person I can confide in is Professor Gast Faremis. He has been the only one helping me and Sephiroth when the injections are too rough on our bodies and screaming in agony. How I despise Hojo and his mind. How I wish to run away from all of this, but I promised Lucrecia that I would take care of her son and so I shall, but not without a price. "Everything has a price." I gripped the counter even harder when I remembered the tubes going into my body and the burning of my skin.

I wiped the tears away and wet my face with cold water. Today was supposed to be my 20th Birthday but I'm stuck inside a 15 year old body…permanently.

I opened the door and there stood Sephiroth. "Come on, let's get you back into bed and in your room."

He nodded no and frowned, "I want to sleep with you. I keep on having scary dreams."

"Alright Sephiroth. Hup, hup(1)." I said as I got into the bed first and motioned him to come under the covers. As he lay by my body I would always trace my fingers through his hair lightly in order for him to go to sleep. "Do you wanna talk about it?"

"I-I keep hearing voices in my head. She says that she's my mother." He responded timidly and quietly.

"Oh?" I knew that whatever this being was, always tried to influence him. "What's her name?" He never tells me the name, he'd always change the subject but this time…he was truly terrified as his body shook in my grasp.

"J-Jenova."

As I heard that name come out from his lips, I started to cry silently. I remember that 'thing' when I first held Sephiroth. "Dawn, are you alright?"

"Yeah, I'm fine Sephiroth. Just go to sleep." I held him tighter to me because I was afraid for Sephiroth. I was truly afraid of what Sephiroth may become if I don't show him the right path.

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So what do you think? I know it took me FOREVER but I am seriously sorry about the wait. I hope that this chapter is up to your standards! Feel Free to Review! And thank you to my patient readers!

Hup, hup- it was an expression used on me when I was a child and had nightmares. That usually meant "don't cry".