How do you speak
Tifa called early the next day saying not to come to the Seventh Heaven, that Turks had been in and out the entire day and that Tseng wouldn't leave. This bothered Kat she hadn't expected to fool the Turks with the hair dye and speaking Al Bhed but she hadn't thought they would stay at the bar the entire day. Kat had finished the third book that Vincent had let her borrow and was reading a book about a girl that moved to a remote town only to find out that there she had gained another hour in the day and within that hour strange and frightening monster lived. She had later found out that she had a power to protect herself with and that she could only use it in that hour. Kat read the book with interest waiting for the day to end. Vincent had gone out for a while and Kat knew he hadn't gone far, but she figured that spending the entire day with her was a little weird to him. Kat had gotten to the third book in the series when Vincent came back.
"Has Tifa called?" He asked .
"No, not since this morning."
"Alright, well its late we should go to bed." Vincent mad his way to the basement stairs, Kat hadn't gone down there when she was looking around the house. Kat put the book down and headed for the stairs up to her room. Kat fell asleep soon, but woke up later that night, she herd something fall downstairs. Kat slid out of bed in her panda pajamas she walked downstairs to see Vincent sitting in a chair with a candle lit on the table next to him. A book was on the floor its pages facing the ceiling. Kat picked up the book, it was Vincent's Journal. She looked at the new entry it read.
Tifa called saying that Kat had to stay at the house until she called to tell us anything, I spent most of the day sitting outside watching for anyone. Chaos talked with me, I rather not get into that he thinks that Kat is snoopy but cute. He pried me to tell him what I thought about Kat, to me it seemed so clear yet so clouded like there was something she is hiding and it is keeping her shielded from everyone else not allowing her to speak how she truly feels….
Kat wanted to read more and find out what Vincent thought of her but there was nothing else written on the page. Kat picked up the pen that Vincent had been using and set it on the table along with the Journal. Kat looked at Vincent he seemed so peaceful asleep in the chair. Kat put her hand around the flame of the candle and blew it out. Once the warm light was gone Vincent asked.
"What are you doing? I thought you were asleep."
"I herd your Journal fall, I'm sorry that I read it. I…I didn't mean to snoop." Kat was about to walk back upstairs. She turned and Vincent was standing in front of her his crimson eyes intense. His hand brushed Kat's hair back and he kissed her. Kat was shock but it wasn't the first time Vincent had done something like this. She closed her eyes and savored the kiss. When they parted Vincent said.
"I don't mind." Before Kat could say anything more he kissed again now holding her waist. Kat rapped her arms around Vincent's neck. When they parted both of then gasped for breath, the kiss had been so intense that they seemed to be the only ones in the world. Their lips meet again this time Kat had opened her mouth inviting Vincent into a French kiss. His tongue explored every part of her mouth. They parted lips again breathing heavy. They were about to kiss again when a knock on the door rang through the silence that engulfed them. They split and Vincent's expressionless face came back instantly. Kat skirted the bookshelves and made it to the top of the stairs and down the hall a bit before Vincent opened the door. The sound of a gunshot rang out Vincent eyes went wide Rufus stood at the door holding the smoking gun stomach high. Vincent staggered back some his hand over the fresh wound. Vincent fell to the ground Kat her d Rufus say to she guessed the Turks.
"Find the girl, quick she is probably hiding somewhere." Kat raced down the hall to her room and shut the door quickly. She put on a sweatshirt and grabbed her Materia and the gun that had been in the stone block. She didn't know if it was even loaded or not but she took it anyways. Kat closed herself in the bathroom and locked the door. Looking around the large room desperately she pulled down the shower curtains and took out some towels. Kat made a patchy rope and opened the window. Kat herd someone yelled in the house and soon there were slams on the door.
"Open up! We know your in there Cetra!" Tseng yelled. Kat hadn't finished the makeshift rope. Kat looked down out the window, the ground looked unwelcoming and Kat really didn't want to jump that far. In the real world she would have a broken leg at the least. Kat knew she wasn't going to escape. Kat took off her sweat shirt and threw it in the tub, it would only slow her down. The Turks were yelling at her to open the door or they were going to shoot it open. Kat didn't have more time to think She got on the windowsill and jumped. Kat hit the ground her arm impacting first. A loud crack came from her arm and Kat screamed in pain. She forced herself to get up and run. Kat was running with a broken arm and a limp in her left leg. The Turks were soon behind her. They were able to run after her without trouble and soon Reno had grabbed the top of her panda pajamas. Kat was jerked back she could hear a tear in form in the shirt but the resistance to go forwards made her feet fall out from under her. Kat hit the ground with a yelp of agony when her broken arm hit the ground. Reno pulled her up and cursed when he saw Kats arm bent in an unnatural way. Kat was soon surrounded by the Turks and Rufus was standing in front of her smiling.
"You really thought you could get away? You knew we would find you." He looked at Tseng and said.
"Come on lets take her to the lab before that arm get any worse." They pulled Kat up and Elane who was behind her gave her a shot in the back of the neck, Kat was out cold in the hands of the Turks.
Shin-ra Lab
Kat woke feeling sore all over. Kat opened her eyes to see a green water and a glass casing around her. The breathing tube in Kats mouth was the only thing clearly white in the entire room. Kat had on a thin cloth medical dress. Her broken arm had been put in a splint that held it strait for healing. Kats chest hurt like a cut hurts after it was unknowingly scratched. Kat turned her stiff neck still confused as to where she was. When Kat saw an older man with grimy black hair pulled into a unkempt pony tail Kat knew where she was. Her memory came back to her so fast the horrifying gun shot rang out in her memory so clear and so dreadful. Vincent hadn't helped Kat at all when she was being chased. The cold truth crashed down on Kat like a wave, Vincent had been shot. The man looked at Kat with a smile that sent shivers down Kats spine. The tank began to drain. Kats heart raced she had hoped that she would never have to see Hojo or the Shin-ra labs at all. When the liquid was drained Kat felt weak like she had been in the tank for months on end. And that everyday they had done some terrible experiment on her. Kat was dragged out of the tank by some assistant.
"Our little Cetra is awake." Hojo said with a creepy smile. As Kats body started to dry off the pain increased. Kat was shot up with chemicals and liquids the assistants seemed to be worried about something with Hojo smiled a creepy smile then entire time. After 3 hours slowly passed Hojo said.
"That's all for now, put her back in the tank." Kat could barely move she had guessed that one of those shots was to temporarily paralyze her so they could work on her and not worry about her moving or hitting a tendon and have Kat start to thrash around. Kat was semi glad that she had been paralyzed because she knew that she would have jerked back with the amount of pain inflicted on her body. Kat was put in the tank again and they filled it with the same green liquid. The liquid made Kat drowsy and she slowly seeped into an uneasy sleep. What seemed to be moments later Kat jolted awake when she herd something tap on the glass. She saw Rufus Shin-ra looking in at her his arm leaning against the glass. His head turned and he said something to Hojo that Kat didn't hear. Hojo drained the tank again and pulled Kat out and over to a table where Kat sat teetering a bit.
"Where is Vincent?" Kat said now fighting her paralyzed body.
"Vincent, he is dead. He got shot, it was your fault really. If you hadn't accepted his help and went to his house then he would still be alive with your other friends that sheltered you." Rufus said walking over to stand in front of Kat.
"What do you mean?" Kat could feel the pain of the experiments seeping back into her body.
"Tifa, Yuffie, and Cloud are gravely injured. All because you wouldn't come with us the first time we found you." Rufus said with a smirk as Kats eyes widened.
'How can Vincent be dead and the others hurt so bad?' Kat asked herself. Kat began to shake uncontrollably Hojo walked over to her and dragged her back to the tank and tossed her in. Kat watched Rufus talk to Hojo as the green liquid flowed back into the tank. Kat now breathing through the air tube watched as Rufus walked out of the room leaving her alone with Hojo. Kat was so uneasy around the Scientist because she knew what he was capable of. He altered his son to the point where there was no way to tell that Sephiroth was the son of Hojo. Kat drifted into sleep again. Her dreams consisted of an image of Vincent laying on the ground he looked like he was in a peaceful sleep but the dream that seemed peaceful enough was a nightmare. Vincent was always laying in a pool of blood that seeped from his chest and darkened his crimson cape. Kat woke with a scream muted by the air tube in her mouth. But it was clear that Hojo had noticed something had happened when he came walking into the room to make sure that nothing had happened to Kat like her losing the air tube.
At Vincent's house
The phone rang multiple times over the past hour, Vincent lay on the floor the bullet wound in his stomach had healed over but the pool of blood could fool anyone. The blood slowly mad its way across the floor as more had been added. Yuffie, Cloud, Tifa walked towards the house.
"What's that smell?" Tifa asked as they drew closer to the house.
"Vincent!" Yuffie cried running over to the motionless figure laying on the floor.
"Oh god." Tifa said standing next to Yuffie. Cloud turned and ran over to where his bike was parked and brought it over to the open door. As they lifted Vincent up and onto the bike something fell to the ground like a coin. Yuffie picked it up.
"It's the bullet, it went strait through."
"All the more reason to get him to the Seventh Heaven and fast."
Tifa got of the bike behind Vincent and Yuffie asked.
"Why not the doctors?"
"Vincent isn't human anymore they will turn him over to Shin-ra." Cloud said and speed off with Vincent and Tifa in tow. Yuffie huffed at them and ran after them.
Soon as they got to the Seventh Heaven Tifa and Cloud took Vincent up stairs and looked at the bullet wound. It had completely healed over on both ends.
"What can we do?" Cloud asked.
"All we can do is wait and hope he wakes up." Tifa said leading Cloud out of the room and closing the door.
Shin-ra Labs
Kat had been put in a old cell, it was dark and dirty but for Kat it was better than sleeping in some tube even if she had to endure the pain. It was what she deserved, it was her fault that Vincent was dead so she deserved to live a life in pain. Kat was curled up in the center of the little cell in and uneasy sleep. The same picture of Vincent in a pool of blood hunted her dreams. Kat woke with a scream tears in her eyes, Kat wiped her tears and curled up tighter. A faint voice in her head spoke to her.
Don't cry, it will only give them what they want. Kat had never replied to the voice hoping it would go away so she could suffer alone but it never did. It would always tell her not to cry and to be strong. Kat had done what the voice told her but she never talked to it. The voice had been the only thing that kept her from going insane many times. More experiments were done to Kat everyone inflicting pain that Kat thought she deserved for causing Vincent to get killed.
"Well my little Cetra you are almost done for the day." Hojo said with a creepy smile looking down at Kat. She turned her head away from him not saying anything. Kat's hair had grown longer with the experiments it was about knee length now and mostly a matted rats nest (lots of tangles). They stitched Kat up and took her back to her cell. Leaving her with some hard bread and a cup of water. Kat hardly ate the bread and only drank a little of the water.
You should eat more, your going to die if you don't eat. The voice told her.
"W-who are you?" Kat asked to the voice within her.
I am you, for names sake you can call me Rage.
"Wha-"
You can also talk to me by thinking what you want to say.
Ok, but why Rage?
Well I am like... How can I explain this…you know Vincent Valentine well within him Chaos lives and their existence is just like ours. So I am your Chaos, only my name is Rage.
How do you know all of this? The sound of the Scientists coming to get her for more experiments was loud and clear down the hall way.
We will talk later but eat something, and endure the experiments because without them then I wouldn't be here.
The assistant came in and gave Kat a shot to my her paralyzed again. The sudden feeling of bugs crawling all over came. And Kat let them take her for more experiments. That day she hadn't been cut up she hadn't been shot up with chemicals all that really happened was them taking many x-rays of Kat, making sure her arm had healed well and making sure that she wasn't in any danger of being hurt easily. Kat was taken back to her cell and locked in. The assistant left and came back shortly to give Kat her food for the night.
Seventh Heaven
Tifa was at the bar washing glasses listening to Cid rant on about how his air ship was the most beautiful thing in the world. Vincent up in the spare room that Kat had been in while she was staying at the Seventh Heaven. Vincent woke up and sat up quickly trying to remember what happened and where he was. He remembered being shot, then hearing Kat scream.
"Shin-ra!" He hissed and turned into Chaos getting off the bed Chaos walked out of the room uneasy and his hand on the wall for support. Chaos made it down stairs, Tifa and Cid looked shocked to see Chaos and not Vincent.
"Where are you going?"
"They took her, Shin-ra labs." Chaos hissed at them his eyes showing only rage.
"You can't leave, you wont even make it to Shin-ra labs." Tifa said setting down her glass and rag.
"I don't care, I have stayed here to long."
"Your not going anywhere." Cid said holding up his spear.
"Watch me." Chaos said making his way for the door.
"Sorry 'bout this man." Cid said sweeping his spear poll under Chaos and making him trip. Chaos landed on his back glaring at Cid.
"Told ya you weren't goin' anywhere." Cid said.
With Aya
"Kat pick up!" Aya yelled at her cell phone.
"Aya it wont help yelling at the phone." John said leaning on the counter.
"She has to pick up! She did once." Aya said almost crying.
"There is nothing that can be done, we have told the police everything we knew." John said starring off into space.
"But they took Kat's stuff out of her apartment, she has no home now. I have to talk to her." Aya said with a hopeless tone. John glanced over at the muted mini T.V. that was on the news channel. An image of Kat came up of the screen and under it some info about her came up in white letters.
"At lest they are still looking." John said.
Shin-ra Labs
Rage, Kats other half had told her that they had to get out of there before something happened like Hojo wanting to see what would happen if he added some Jenova cells to Kats new DNA mix. Kat had done everything that Rage had told her. It was mostly orders to eat and act weak. Kat waited until Hojo had locked her in her cell again, he normally left for the night after that, but that night he had stayed. Standing next to the bars that made up the door to Kats cell he said.
"You know that now you are done, but really you would be free right now if you hadn't run from us. Your friends would still be alive and Vincent, my first successful project working with that chemical combination. I was a little shock my self to hear he was dead but it wasn't my fault no it was all yours. You must feel terrible because of that. Is that why you never speak you feel guilty?" Hojo continued on and Kat balled up her fists ready to fight at any second.
"Come on I mean you really cared for those people that much you should have come without hassle." Hojo was crouching next to the bars eye level with Kat.
"Well can you talk or not? You are perfectly able to." Hojo said like he was daring her to do something.
"I hate you." Kat said at him, her voice clear yet shaky.
"Well that doesn't matter, you aren't going anywhere. Not after what you did." Kat lunged forward her hand grabbing Hojo's neck. He seemed shocked yet amazed that she was so fast. Kat slowly started to crush his neck.
Don't kill him, not yet. Rage said to Kat. Kat loosened her grip a little so he wouldn't be killed. She pulled him towards the bars and hit his head against the steel polls she knocked him out. Kat went through his lab coat and found the key to her cell. Lacing her arms through the bars Kat put the lock in the key and tried to turn it. It was a lot harder than she thought, but she finally herd the click. The door swung forwards Kat falling forwards because she was leaning against it.
Where now? Kat asked Rage.
I'm not a road map I have no clue. The experimentations that happened were to the right but I don't know anymore.
Right it is then.
Kat said within herself running down the hall way. Her legs felt good getting stretched out some. She hadn't run let alone walked for what seemed to be life times. Kat came to the end of the hall and there were two doors. Kat jerked open the one that she had been taken into for experimentation. The smell of the chemicals came to her clearer than they were every other time she had been there. Kat let the thought pass and made her way to the other end of the room where another door was. The table still cluttered with the items from the experiments. Kat saw the door knob in front of her turn. She stepped into some shadows and waited to see one of the assistants walk in and close the door. Kat lunged out at them quickly taking then to the ground with some swift hits that she learned from a ninja movie. The man was bleeding from his nose heavily and Kat soon had disposed of him. Kat walked over to one of the steel tables that she had been cut open on and picked up a long thin knife that made her flinch when she thought back to what role it played in her life. Kat went through the door that the assistant had come from. She was in a hallway that was white and well lit. It looked like an office building, only there were no windows and doors about every ten feet. Kat made her way to the end of the hallway to see some small stairs and an elevator next to them. Kat clicked on the elevator button and the door slid open with a little beep. Kat walked inside and hit the button for ground floor. She was in the lowest level of the building and slowly making her way up to freedom. The elevator stopped at basement 2. The doors opened and Rufus Shin-ra starred at Kat looking shocked and surprised. Kat took the moment to get the thin knife against his throat and practically yell at him.
"Where am I?!"
"Your in the Shin-ra buildings where did you think you were?" He replied coolly. Kat pressed the knife harder against his throat and said.
"I should kill you for what happened to me."
Kat no! You know he is needed for a later time.
Kat pushed him back and closed the door to the elevator.
Happy now? I let him live.
I'm not happy but he can't die yet.
Kat didn't reply to Rage, she wouldn't have the time. The elevator doors opened to show the first floor, It was mainly offices and locked doors. Kat wandered around her legs feeling like blocks of lead. Kat moved through rooms most of them had nothing important to Kat. She was mainly looking for some place with different clothes because it would look weird if she walked into the lobby in a lab dress and covered with the blood of the assistant she killed.
"I mean its not like are criminals." Kat herd Reno's voice from behind a door.
"But we did take that girl so they had every right to not welcome us in." Tseng said. The telephone rang in the room.
"Yes?" Elana asked.
"We need to go and find that girl again, she got out." Elana said hanging the phone up. Kat ran over to the door that was closest and wrenched it open and ran in closing the door behind her. The sound of foot steps of the Turks slowly faded. The room was filled with weapons and crates that Kat guessed had more weapons. She rummaged through a create and grabbed a pistol that had a full round and a belt strap. Kat also found a small bag holding more rounds and a few stray shells. (rounds are all the bullets that can fit in the gun at once, shells are single bullets) Kat left the room with the weapons pistol and bag in tow. She went back to the room where the Turks were before hand and entered.
The room was dimly lit and had rows of bunks against one wall and another two doors attaching to the room. Kat went to the first door to her right and opened it. It had no lights on and Kat soon found the switch to turn the lights on. The room was a closet filled with the suits that the Turks wore and other things of that nature. Kat was soon in a Turk uniform with a pair of Rude's sunglasses. She fit into Elana's suits but they were still baggy on her. Kat walked out her hair combed and pulled up into a neat pony tail. She walked out and made her way down the hall, no one really noticed her when she walked into the lobby but Kat saw Reno and Rude walk down another hallway when she entered. Kat slowly made her way to the doors freedom so close but so far away.
"Miss, you forgot to sign out." The woman at the front desk said to Kat.
What the? Sign out, alright I'll sign out.
Don't use your real name.
"Miss Kate! I'm sorry to bother you, your on your way out to do field work, you don't need to sign out. I'm sorry this is a new policy and all." the woman said to Kat waving goodbye.
Who is Kate?
Don't know and don't care lets get out of here.
Kat nodded to the woman and walked out of the building, no one else had confronted her about where she was going. Kat guessed that she looked like this Kate person with her hair pulled back and the dark sunglasses hiding her eyes. Kat quickly made her way through town and far away from the Shin-ra building. Kat found herself at the Materia shop near the edge of town. Kat knew that Yuffie would probably be there if she was still alive. Kat entered the shop and everyone looked at her tensing up. Kat walked over to a case and looked down at the Materia shoving her hands into the coat pockets. It was clear by how tense everyone was that Kat looked like a Turk.
Yuffie walked out from the back of the shop carrying a box filled with Materia she went over and started to fill a case. Kat walked over to Yuffie and said.
"Can I ask you some questions miss?" Yuffie looked at Kat with a questioning look.
"Ok…" she answered still tense.
"Can we walk to the back then, it would be better if we talked privately." Kat knew that Yuffie didn't know who she was.
How much has my voice changed? Kat thought as she walked with the suspicious Yuffie. When they got to the back Yuffie said.
"What does Shin-ra want? You have our friend." Yuffie's tone was hateful.
"Actually, no they don't" Kat said taking off the sun glasses. Yuffie looked at her confused for a moment then asked.
"Kat?" her eyes were wide. "Is that you?" Kat sighed and said.
"Yes its me can't you tell?"
"Your hair is the same, but your eyes, they are like Vincent's now." Yuffie was starring at Kats eyes. Kat glanced down and murmured.
"I didn't mean to be so much trouble and cause all of this sadness."
"What are you talking about?" Yuffie asked.
"Vincent got shot, he was left to bleed at the house."
"Vincent's fine! Are you kidding Tifa and Cloud are having a hard time making him stay there and heal up. He is bound and determined to go and get you out of those Labs." Yuffie said looking at Kat with joy.
"He is alive?" Kat said under her breath.
"Come on I'll take you over there."
"Its ok, you have work to do here. Shin-ra wont be looking for me till tomorrow anyways. They think I'm in a lab dress hiding in some dark corner." Kat said with a fake smile.
"Well ok, but you better be there at the Seventh Heaven when I come tomorrow morning." Yuffie said. They said good by and Kat put the sunglasses back on and walked out of the shop and headed for the Seventh Heaven. It was an hour later when Kat got there. Midgar looked different at night. Kat saw no lights on and tried to open the door. It was locked. Kat walked around to the back. Cloud's bike was parked next to the back door. Kat tried to open that one, locked. She looked around the building and noticed an open window on the second floor. By Kats judging it was about a 15 foot jump to get there.
Hey Rage, think we could make that jump? I just need to get hold of the sill.
I think that we should go over to that short wall there and make try the jump. Less upwards movement and closer. Rage replied to Kat. Kat looked at the short wall. It was about 6 feet tall. Kat jumped onto it with easy, now that she had become something that originated in this world everything seemed easier and with Rage's help Kat could do things that would be called crazy back in Tokyo. Kat looked at the open window. The light was off but it was the only way in that Kat saw. Kat over jumped and landed on the sill still moving forwards with her momentum. Kat let herself go flying forwards and tucked her head to her right shoulder her left arm extended. When her arm hit she went into a roll and stopped with the balls of her feet hitting the ground with a soft thump. Kat was shocked she didn't know anything about rolling or anything that might have helped her with the crash she almost had.
Your welcome. Rage said to Kat.
You did that?
No, I just subconsciously told you and you did the roll perfectly. Lets hope we didn't wake anyone.
Kat nodded to herself she feared that if she talked to Rage more through thoughts she would do something stupid and wake everyone. Kat looked around the room and it was clear that she was in Marlene's room by the childish layout of the room. The Bed just under the window containing a sleeping Marlene. Kat let out a slow sigh as she realized how close she had come to landing on the little girl. The sunglasses had slid down Kat's nose and were barely on. Kat pushed up the glasses and quietly opened the door and walked out of the room. Kats shoes made small thumps when she walked so she took them off and set them next to Marlene's door. Kat walked down the hallway seeing the desk with the phone on it. She walked over to the picture frame that had a picture of Tifa Cloud, Marlene and another kid that Kat recognized as Denzel. Kat looked down at the picture knowing that the small boy was to have Geostigma.
"Can't stop a disease." Kat said still looking down at the picture. Kat turned and walked through the house on quiet feet. She hadn't seen Denzel and that made her wonder, was he hiding from her? Kat slowly opened one of the doors that she hadn't been in before. Tifa was sleeping in a single size bed Cloud was sleeping in another single size bed on the other side of the room. Kat slowly closed the door hoping it wouldn't creek. Kat went to the next room and opened the door. A single small bed was in the corner with a sleeping child. Kat walked in and saw that it was Denzel. His forehead was showing signs of Geostigma. There was a one dark spot that had a ring of lighter discolor around it. Kat moved his hair aside and almost started to cry thinking of how the young boy wouldn't live to the end of his teenage years if the healing water wasn't discovered in Aerith's church. Denzel let out a small noise and put his hand over the Geostigma infected area. Kat drew her hand back but it was to late to get out of there before he opened his eyes. Kat looked down at Denzel waiting for him to scream or something.
"Who are you?" he asked with out fear.
"I'm Kat, don't worry I'm not a Turk or anything. I would take these glasses off but, lets say my eyes are different." Kat sat on the side of the bed as Denzel sat up.
"Tifa told me about you. She said that Reno was looking for you and that they couldn't let him find you. Did he find you?"
"Yes, he did find me. How is your head feeling?" Kat asked him, his hand went up to the Geostigma infected spot covering it from sight.
"Fine, they say it is getting worse. They say there is no cure."
"All I can say is that the stigma will get worse for you, but don't give up hope for a cure. Everything has a cure." Denzel smiled at Kat and said.
"Can we go tell Tifa?"
"In the morning, right now you need your sleep." Kat stood up and walked over to the door and walked out closing it quietly behind her. Kat walked down the hall way a bit with a sad smile on her face. If the healing water wasn't surfaced by Kadaj's spell then Kat would make it surface even if she had to dig it up, she wouldn't tell Denzel that there was a cure for everything if she hadn't planned to make sure he got healed. Rufus on the other hand, Kat could care less if his entire body was covered with the stigma she wasn't going to dig up that water for him. Kat went to the room where she had slept in when she stayed at the Seventh Heaven. Opening to door she walked in and closed it behind her to see Vincent asleep in the bed. Kat walked over as quietly as she possible could. She didn't want to wake him. Kat kneeled down and looked at Vincent's sleeping figure and smiled a tear rolling down her cheek. He was alive, alive and safe. The night passed and Kat stayed where she was kneeling in front of the bed watching Vincent. Kat took the sunglasses off and put them in the coat pocket.
The next morning Vincent opened his eyes to see light brown hair next to his head. Kat had fallen asleep leaning on the bed her head and arms rested on the side of the bed. Vincent smiled slightly and brushed some of Kats hair out of her eyes. He didn't care how she got out all he cared about was that she was there now. Kat mumbled something that Vincent didn't catch. Kat slowly woke up to see Vincent looking at her happy and shocked.
"Kat…your eyes." Tear welled up in Kats eyes and she nodded.
"I know, I thought you were dead." She said rapping her arms around his torso and pressing her face against his chest. Kat was shaking, Vincent stroked some of her hair back and she raised her head to look at him with her new eyes, she was crying.
"Here, you stay here and rest, I'll go and get you something to eat."
"Tifa doesn't know I'm here." Kat said wiping her cheek clear of tears.
"I'll tell her, but you need your rest." Vincent got up and put his crimson cape on. Kat watched him walk out of the room and closing the door behind him. Kat now sitting on the bed felt her eyes heavy and quickly drifted to sleep. Vincent walked downstairs and Tifa said from her spot washing glasses.
"Felling any better Vincent?"
"I'm fine, the bar is still closed right?"
"Ya, we have another 30 minutes of no customers, why?"
Vincent walked over to the bar and said in an undertone.
"Kats upstairs, she must have escaped the labs. But she is different I wanted to tell you about it now, she seems a bit sensitive about what happened."
"What? That's great that's she is out of that place. Come on, I want to see her." Tifa said setting her glass down and looking over at the windows, no one was outside. They went upstairs and opened the door. They walked in and when they got close to the bed Kat woke up with a gasp. When Kat noticed that Tifa and Vincent were standing by the bed she relaxed.
"Kat are you alright?" Tifa asked.
"I'm fine." Kat said not looking at Tifa, she didn't want more comments about her eyes and how they changed. Kat only knew that Yuffie told her that her eyes were like Vincent's now.
"Ok, you must want to take a bath, why don't you? But I would leave the window closed it's a bit cold in the mornings around here." Tifa said smiling down at Kat.
"Ok…" Kat said getting up and heading for the bathroom. Kat closed the door and locked it, she looked in the mirror and saw crimson eyes like Vincent's but they were slits like Sephiroth's eyes.
"What did he do to me?" Kat whispered to herself starring at her eyes. Kat left the mirror and started the water for her shower.
Down stairs
"Vincent, you know that Shin-ra will be looking for her today." Tifa said to him.
"I know, we can't let them catch her again." A loud banging came from the locked door.
"Hey! Open up!" Yuffie's voice yelled at them. Tifa sighed and opened the door. Yuffie was breathing hard like she had run all the way there.
"Is Kat here?" Yuffie asked sounding desperate.
"Up stairs, what's the problem?" Tifa said closing and locking the door behind Yuffie.
"Shin-ra Turks and other people have been going all over town looking for her. They are putting up wanted posters, they have Kat's picture on them. Only thing that is wrong about the posters is the age posted. They have her down for a girl in her early 20s."
"Great, now what can we do?" Tifa said tossing her hands up.
"Its clear that Midgar is no longer safe for Kat to stay." Vincent said. Kat walked down stairs her wet hair behind her, she was still in the Turk uniform and looking glum.
"So what's going to happen now?" Kat asked looking at Tifa, with Kats new eyes she seemed more intimidating that she had with the soft green eyes that made her like a little clone of Aerith.
"We are going to get you out of Midgar, somewhere that Shin-ra isn't so powerful and make sure that you stay safe." Vincent said.
"Where can we take her though?" Tifa asked.
Kat herd a floor board squeak and turned her head to see Denzel standing at the bottom of the stairs.
"Hi there." Kat said to Denzel he walked over to Kat and said.
"Hi, thank you. I hope that your right." Tifa looked confused by what the orphan said.
"Hey Tifa, can I go out today?" Denzel asked.
"Sure, be back for lunch ok." Denzel smiled and ran out the door. When Denzel was gone Tifa looked at Kat and asked.
"What was that about?"
"Nothing really, I gave him hope that's all." Kat said sitting down and saying in a bored tone.
"So where are we going?"
"Safest place that we can get you to today is the Forgotten City." Vincent said. Kat smiled and said with some enthusiasm.
"Ok, when do we leave?"
"Tonight, first you need to go out and get some new clothing." Tifa said pulling out some hair bands and pulling Kats wet hair up into a bun.
Kat pulled out the sunglasses and put them on, only to be dragged upstairs by Tifa.
"You can't go out in that outfit." She said leading Kat to her room. Tifa pulled out a leather outfit similar to the one she was wearing now and said to Kat.
"Try this on, it might be a little lose on you, you have lost so much weight." Kat knew why it would be baggy on her and it wasn't because she was thinned out. Kat walked out of the bathroom in some of Tifa's clothing, everything was to lose, especially around the breasts.
"How does it fit?" Tifa asked.
"Fine, but I don't want to take your stuff, so I'm only borrowing this for today." Kat said.
"Ok, come on we need to get you some new clothes." Tifa said leading Kat to the door and then turned and said.
"While we are out your going to go by….Jess." Tifa didn't ask Kat if she was ok with it or anything. Kat followed Tifa out and across town to a shop that was the place Kat guessed Tifa got everything she ever wore. It was mostly black leather for sale. Kat looked around the shop, finding some nice outfits that she liked. Kat even saw a skirt with a bottom rim of Chocobo talons on it. Kat tried on many things Tifa spent the time finding things that Kat practically hated. It reminded Kat of her mother when they went shopping together. Kat had rejected most of the thing suggested by her mother. Tifa came over to Kat with holding a leather tub top that had an single strap that went up over her shoulder and attacked on the other side of the top. Tifa was also holding a skirt that was long and went to Kats ankles. It had four cuts up the sides that stopped around her thighs. Kat rather liked the outfit and agreed to get it along with some other similar things. Kat wore the new outfit back to the Seventh Heaven. Yuffie had been right there were posters everywhere and they all had Kats picture on them. Kat often saw people that were talking about the posters. She had always seemed to noticeable walking with Tifa, but no one recognized her as the girl on the posters. When they got back Vincent, Cloud, and Yuffie were talking about the safest way to get Kat to the Forgotten City with out stirring up trouble. Kat had hoped that they hadn't made anything to complex. In a way Kat wanted to be found to try out her new abilities and all.
"Shall we go then?" Vincent asked. Kat smiled adrenalin made Kat hyper for the small journey to come.
Authors note: Ya…so really long chapter hope you like it. Please, please, please send me a review, I want to thank chelseaheckabad, DragonessWarrior, VinVal, Andra-Dragoon-Chaotix, and Whistle for reviewing. Thanks for your comments. The next chapter might take a while but I am already working on it. Preview for Chapter 13:
"Hello?….Anyone out there?…." The figure turned around as the noise of crunching snow sounded behind. Through the blowing wind nothing could be seen but white snow.
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"I know that's its down there, I can get it easily. Don't worry about me, as long as I come back before a minute is over then I'll be fine. I promise."