Amnesia

"Kat, it me Vincent." Vincent said putting his hand out to help Kat up. Kat scrambled back some and said scared.

"Who are you! And how do you know my name!" Kat felt dizzy and scared, who was this talking to her? How did they know her name? Where was she? Vincent stood up and took a step towards Kat and said.

"You have been living here for months Kat."

"No I haven't! I don't even know where this is!" Kat said getting up and stepping away from Vincent no stopping and keeping her eyes on him.

"Kat, your going to fall."

"Don't talk to me like you know me!" Kat said her foot going back into air. She fell backwards of the side of the building, now in free fall screaming. Chaos dove off the side of the building after Kat. He was soon close to her and grabbed her pulling her towards him and beating his wings to get some lift. Kat had her eyes closed and hadn't yet seen Chaos, she opened her eyes looking strait at his face. She was frozen for a moment eyes wide with fear, then she started to fight his hold on her.

"Let me go!" She yelled struggling, she slipped from his arms. Chaos grabbed her wrist and held her by her wrist for a while giving her time to look at the long fall below.

"You really are a pain in the ass." He said pulling her back up into his arms. Chaos took Kat to the Seventh Heaven, most of the way there Kat had her eyes shut tight her fear of heights renewed. Once Chaos landed he let her down, before she could run he said in a threatening voice.

"Inside now." A shiver went down Kats spine when he said this and went inside, Chaos followed her in locking the door behind him. It was the early morning and the bar had just opened, there was no one there but when the door clicked shut Tifa walked out from the back. She stopped dead in her tracks when she saw Chaos and not Vincent.

"What happened?" Chaos turned back into Vincent. Kat took a few steps away from him as he changed.

"Kat cant remember anything. She doesn't even know who I am." Vincent sighed Tifa looked at Kat and said.

"Kat, what's the problem?"

"I don't know you! Where am I? I just want to go home." Kat said flopping in a chair her eyes filled with tears. Tifa motion for Vincent to follow her, once they were away from Kat but still had her insight Tifa asked.

"What happened?" As Vincent told the story Tifa listened searching for a reason why Kat would be acting the way she was. Once Vincent had told her everything Tifa thought for a moment then said.

"She probably hit her head when she fell and forgot everything."

"Will the problem go away?"

"I don't know, they call it amnesia that's about all I know. I herd that sometimes it goes away over night and other times it goes away years later."

"You mean she could be like this for the rest of her life?"

"I don't know, we'll have to wait and see." Tifa said looking over at Kat who was slouching in the chair her head hanging like she was about to fall asleep.

Cid walked to the door of the Seventh Heaven and pulled the handle, it didn't budge.

"What the? Damn bar is suppose to be opened. He looked through the window and saw Kat sitting in the chair. Knocking on the glass Kats head whipped up to look at him like a stranger.

"Come on Kat open the fucking door." he said, it reached Kat and her emotions instantly changed to fear she got up from the chair and took a step away from the door. Cid asked her to open the door again, still using her name.

"I don't know you! Why does everyone know my name and I don't even know them!" Kat screamed. Tifa sighed and walked over to the door Kat retreating to a corner.

"What the hell Kat, you know me." Cid said walking in Tifa gave him a look that was a signal to shut up and wait till she told him what was going on. Cid shrugged and went to the bar sitting down and waited for Tifa to tell him what was going on. Once Tifa had told him what was going on he said.

"So the kid can't remember anything since coming here?"

"Worse than that, she cant even remember stuff she knew about us before she came here." Tifa said. Vincent walked down stairs and said in an under tone to Tifa and Cid.

"I called Cloud, he is on his way here now. I don't think it would be a great Idea to call Yuffie. We don't need many people here the more that come the more freaked out she'll get."

"We need everyone here, so we can find a way to fix this problem, I'll take Kat upstairs."

"Alright." Vincent said and waited for Tifa to take Kat upstairs.

"You look tired, I have a spare room upstairs that you can rest in." Tifa said a sweet voice. Kat looked uncertain at first mostly looking at Vincent fearfully then got up from the chair and followed Tifa upstairs. Tifa left Kat in the spare room stopping by Marlene's room to tell her not to bother Kat, Denzel was out doing what he normally does. Tifa went downstairs and Cloud was just walking in and asked.

"What happened to Kat?"

"I'll explain once everyone gets here." Tifa said, she had brought the phone down with her, she started to call everyone that had meet Kat, leaving Sephiroth out of the mix totally cause she just hated him. Once everyone was there Tifa explained what was going on. They all agreed to talk quietly knowing that Kat was upstairs. Kat looked out the window of the spare room shivering, she had been up in the spare room all day and the woman that had taken her there hadn't come back. The sun was setting already, Kat looked at the drop, it was 15 feet or so. Kat gulped trying to think of anyway out. She sighed and put one foot on the sill and pulling her other foot placing it next to the one on the sill. She signed and lowered herself as low as she cloud holding onto the sill with her figure tips. Kat closed her eyes and let go of the sill, the fall was short and she landed on her feet stumbling back some to fall on her butt. Kat scrambled up brushing herself off hoping they didn't hear her. She waited for a moment in the ally way then walked out onto the streets and began to wander around. Soon Kat had found herself at the square where the monument of Jenova made by Shin-ra was. Kat looked around seeing a red hair guy with red markings under his eyes talking to his friend a black man with no hair. They looked at her and walked over.

"Hey we have been looking for you." Reno said to Kat, she looked at him confused then asked.

"Where am I? I don't know this place and I don't know where my family is."

Reno looked at Rude and then said.

"Where were you?"

"All day I have been at this bar, these people knew my name and I don't know them." Kat said feeling like she could just give up then and there.

"Kat, was it? Come with us and we'll find your family."

"I never said my name." Kat said her body tensing up.

"Come with us and we'll find your family." Reno said holding his hand out to her.

"I never said my name, your probably helping them and want to get be back there." Kat said turning and running she wasn't going back there, not after what she saw that morning. The half human man that she first saw. She had entered a weird world where nothing made sense. All Kat wanted was to go home and be with her parents. Finally when Kat stopped running she as in front of a shop, the two people that had talked to her before weren't following her anymore. Kat looked at the window to the shop, it had a picture of some orb thing on it. Kat went inside the shop had cases filled with the orbs that were glowing. A woman with light brown hair and sunglasses on looked at Kat, she was in the same uniform as the two other guys that had talked to her.

"Are you lost?" the woman asked, Kat wondered if she was talking to her or someone else. The woman was looking at Kat waiting for a reply.

"I don't know where I am, this place is strange, I don't even know what this shop is selling." Kat said, the woman let out a small laugh and said.

"This shop sells Materia, its basically magic in an orb. What is your name?"

"I'm Kat, but magic isn't real so how can this shop sell it?"

"Kat magic is real, more real than your hair is brown." the woman said pointing to Kats hair, the hair was clearly growing out black again. The woman paused looking at Kats shoulder with the numbers engraved into it.

"How did you get those numbers cut into you?" she asked showing concern.

"I don't know, that half human guy must have done it to me." Kat said referring to Vincent and Chaos.

"So you have no where to stay?"

"No."

"Well Kat, my name is Kate. Do you want to stay with me until we find out what happened to your family?" Kate asked looking at Kat waiting for an answer. Kat hesitated for a moment, this woman couldn't be as bad as the half human thing right? So staying with her for a little while wouldn't do any harm would it? Kat pondered then said.

"Ok." Kate smiled kindly and said.

"Well where I live is a ways away from here so want to get going?" she opened the door holding it open for Kat. Kat followed her out and along the road for a while the shin-ra building getting closer as they went. Kate stopped at the door to the main building of Shin-ra company and held it open for Kat. Kat looked in the building, her body telling her to run but frozen in a blank stare. This woman was helping her right? She was going to help Kat find her parents, and then she would be fine. Kat started to walk into the building, her body still urging her to run away. Like half of her didn't want to go in. Once Kat was inside Kate followed her waving to the woman at the desk who looked at Kat strangely. Kat lead Kat down the hall way to a room and put a key into the lock, she opened to door and said.

"This is where I stay, come on in." She said walking into the dark room, Kat slowly walked in as well. Once Kat was engulfed in the darkness her eye quickly adjusting Kate flicked on a light. The room was a moderate size a bunk bed was in the corner with a dresser next to it, there were two doors on the other wall leading out to some other room. A small coffee table sat in the middle of the room with two chairs next to it.

"Kate, do you have a room mate?" Kat asked wondering if she was intruding on someone else's personal life.

"Yes, but they are traveling right now so it doesn't matter." Kate said pulling out a pillow from the dresser and tossing it on the top bunk.

"Kat if you will stay here I'll go get us something to eat, I'm also going to stop by a friend so I'll be a little bit. The bathroom is the door on the right if you want to wash up or anything." Kate said with the same smile she had the entire time since Kat meet her.

"Ok, I'll wait here." Kat said sitting down in one of the chairs. Kate smiled at Kat again and left the room. Kate walked to the elevator and pressed the arrow pointing up. The doors opened with a ring, Kate entered and pushed the button that said 12 on it. Once the doors opened again Kate was on the 12th floor. She walked out and down the hallway stopping at the door at the end and knocked.

"Come in!" a smooth clam voice said. Kat opened the door and walked to the desk and said.

"Sir, I have found and recovered project 67735."

"Kate your being very formal today, well that's good that the project has been recovered. Where is it?"

"She is in my room sir."

"Did she come easily?" Rufus Shin-ra asked looked at Kate with calm icy eyes.

"Yes, she claimed to be lost, that she woke up and there was a man standing next to her she didn't know. She doesn't even know that she walked into the Shin-ra building."

"That's interesting, have Hojo take a look at her to see what the problem is. I would have expected to have her knocked out to get her back here. But I don't want to lose this advantage so don't let Hojo do anything but find out why she came so easily. Right now she trusts us that's what we need to keep. You can go now."

Kat nodded then left, she went strait down to the labs to talk to Hojo. She pushed open the steel door that kept Hojo's lab a secret from most people. Hojo looked up at her when she entered the lab, with a chilling smile he said.

"Welcome back, so what brings my finest work down here today?" He asked setting down the papers he had in hand.

"67735 has been recovered, Rufus wants you to find out why she came easily and doesn't know a thing about what has happened here. He has forbidden you to do anything but that. I'll be here to make sure you don't do anything either." Hojo's smile grew when Kate had finished.

"Bring her down, it would be nice to see what has become of my latest project." Kate gave him a cold stare and said.

"When I do bring her down you aren't to refer to her as a project or anything but a girl." Kate turned and left a burning flame had risen up inside of her. She hated having to talk to Hojo, he only cared about his "projects" and nothing else. Before Kate returned to her room she grabbed some muffins and glasses of water and took them back with her.

"I'm back." Kate said with the same smile she had around Kat. Kat looked at her still sitting in the chair, Kate set the muffins and water on the coffee table and sat in the other chair.

"Hi, so who did you talk to?"

"Just a friend, I'll introduce you sometime. Tomorrow I'll take you to see the doctor around here, just to make sure that those people you were with didn't make you sick or something." Kate said with the same smile waiting for Kat to eat something.

"Can I go to bed? I'm not feeling well." Kat said not looking at the muffins.

"Ok, we both need some sleep its late anyways. We can have these in the morning." Kate said walking over to the light switch and turning off the lights. Kats eyes adjusted instantly to the darkness, apparently Kate did as well because she walked strait to the bunk bed sat down and waited for Kat to go to the top bunk. Kat climbed the latter and let herself lay on top of the sheets for a while then finally getting under the covers she drifted into an uneasy sleep.

In Kats dreams there was a man in a lab coat with greasy black hair that was pulled back into a untidy pony tail, he had glasses and cold heartless eyes. He was walking around a large tank filled with a strange greenish water. He was taking note on a clip board looking at the figure inside, a girl with a shaved head in a lab dress with tubes coming from her mouth and arms. That image faded into an image of the same girl with her hair longer on a table her eyes opened slightly as the same man preformed surgery on her. The girls stomach was cut open and the man was changing her somehow.

Kat jolted upright screaming, her face was covered with sweat and she was breathing hard. Kate got up and looked at Kat asking.

"Are you ok?" Kat looked strait forwards confused for a moment her body shaking and finally said.

"Bad dream…"

"Do you want to talk about it?" Kate asked with concerned eyes. Kat nodded and climbed down from the bunk bed and said in the chair. As they sat there in the dark Kat explained everything that she saw in her dream. As she went on Kate seemed to be more and more upset by it. Once Kat had finished Kate said.

"It was just a dream, why don't you go back to bed." Kat went back to bed but didn't go to sleep. Her mind kept going over the dream again and again. And finally Kat pulled her shirt up to look at her stomach, there were no scars. She let out a sigh of relief, the girl in her dreams couldn't have been her. When morning came Kat was still awake, she hadn't slept at all fearing what her mind might conger up. Kat waited for Kate to get ready to take her to the "doctor". It didn't take Kate long to get ready and they were soon out of the room and heading down to the labs. In the elevator Kat asked.

"Kate, who is this doctor?"

"His name is doctor Hojo. He is a n-ice man." Kate said having trouble saying nice. Once Kate knocked on the steel door Kat got nervous, this place seemed familiar. Hojo opened the door sending alarms off when Kat recognized him from her dream. Kate walked in as Hojo held the door, Kat didn't follow her but rather stared at Hojo with fear teaming through her.

"Kat its ok, he is just a doctor." Kate said from inside, Kat slowly started to walk into the room. Once Hojo closed the steel door she regretted it, the room had a tank and everything from her dream, there was even a work table where the girl in Kat's dream had laid while Hojo worked on her.

"Take a seat." Hojo's cold sharp voice said as he motion to the work table. Kat reluctantly sat on the cold metal table.

"So tell me what has happened to you, since you woke up with the black haired stranger." Hojo said sitting in a chair waiting for a reply. Kat told him what had happened since she first woke up with Vincent next to her.

"So you don't know how you got here?"

"No, I just woke up here." Kat said. Hojo remained silent for a moment then said.

"Well its clear you have Amnesia, unfortunately there is now way to fix it. Your memory may come back it may not." Hojo said standing up and opening the door again. Kat quickly left the room with Kate glad to be out of there. When they were back in the elevator Kat asked.

"Can I meet your friend?"

"Sure." Kate said pushing the button with the 12 on it. They walked down the hallway again and knocked on the door. When they entered Kat looked at Rufus for a long time then said.

"I have seen you before…Rufus, is that your name?" Kat asked.