It had been a week before Angeal noticed something completely odd about his son. Once he had he came to Lazard and complained loudly about it.

"What the he-- Lazard?!" he spat slamming his hands on Lazard's desk.

"What is it?" asked Lazard looking up at the angry 1st class SOLDIER.

"What did you do to my son?! Why does he look so malnourished?!" he asked pointing his index finger in the direction of the nursery.

"What do you mean?" asked Lazard standing up.

"His skin," said Angeal. "He's so pale that he looks sick!"

"Show me," said Lazard as he and Angeal took off to the nursery.

"Look!" said Angeal showing him the suckling.

"Oh my—I see," said Lazard seeing the child was indeed too light for his complexion.

"I want to know, and I want to know NOW why he is like that!" growled Angeal.

"I can assure you I have no idea how this came about," said Lazard looking at the angry father.

"Well it can't just happen overnight 'cause I just saw him yesterday and he was FINE!' he spat.

"There's got to be a logical explanation to this Angeal," said Lazard placing his fingers on his chin.

"Logical?" said Angeal realizing something. "That BAST---!!"

At that he turned and marched off. Lazard's eyes widened now realizing what Angeal realized and chased after him saying—

"Now Angeal, wait!"

Angeal came to Hojo's lab and then to the doctor himself unexpected. Once the doctor turned to see the large man he was met by his fist and knocked back a couple feet.

"ANGEAL!" stopped Lazard coming between him and the doctor.

"You bast--- I thought I told you to stay away from him!!" barked Angeal.

Once Hojo got up he just began to laugh making everyone look at him sideways as if he was insane—like he hadn't gotten the looks before.

"Oh calm down Angeal," said Hojo with a laugh. "I was just simply called in by Shin-Ra to give him a checkup since I created his 'mother'."

"And you did that to him?!" said Angeal.

"Yes, I just decided to do a few other things then just checkup on him hee hee," he giggled.

"How dare you!" spat Angeal.

"Rest assure he will get better," said Hojo. "I made sure he wouldn't be too 'damaged'."

"You sick man!" growled Angeal. "He's only a child!"

"Yes, so?" said Hojo raising a brow. "Hollander agreed on which test I ran him through. Why don't you give him a little welcoming gift too?"

"Maybe I will!" growled Angeal and he spun on his heels and left.

Lazard just looked at Hojo who seemed to be working on something small. Once he noticed what it was he then fell into Hojo's mind. He was planning on getting the child one way or another and Lazard knew the mad doctor knew of any way necessary.

Lazard turned and ran after Angeal making sure he didn't go after Hollander next. He didn't, he just went straight to the baby's crib and stayed by his side until he began to act normal again. It took about three days before he began to get back to normal, but on the fourth day something horrible happened.

"Angeal!" came Sephiroth as he ran to Angeal one day.

"What is it Sephiroth?" asked Angeal as he and Genesis left the training room.

"The child—he's gone!" he said with concerned eyes.

"What?!" gasped Angeal. "What do you mean?"

"Follow me," said Sephiroth as they took off towards the nursery.

Once there they found the child gone, but everyone acted as if nothing was wrong. Angeal felt his gut churn inside him and his breathing heavy. How could this happen? The child—he was protected right? No—this couldn't be happening!

Once they came to Lazard they were forced to learn the truth.

"No, NO!" shouted Angeal slamming his fist down on the desk.

"That can't be!"

"But it is," said Lazard shaking his head in disappointment. "Somehow Hojo and Hollander gained rights over the child and took him. God knows what they're doing to him."

"But Zack would never give up his rights right?" asked Genesis taking a step forward.

Lazard was silent at that. He thought it best if silence answered them instead of him.

"No," gasped Angeal turning and running off to find Zack.

It wasn't long before Angeal found Zack wandering around with her head bowed and pace slow. He inhaled as he came up to her and looked at her hard.

"Zack?" he said catching her attention.

Zack looked up and saw Angeal. By the look on his face he knew. All Zack could down was bite her lips and narrow her eyes sadly.

:"Zack what did you do?" he asked her as she looked at him like that.

"I—I," was all she could get out.

"Zack," said Angeal placing his hands on her arms. "Why did you do this?"

Zack just began to start crying as she said—

"I don't know, but my mind hurt so much and I couldn't—I couldn't . . ."

"He was your son Zack," said Angeal looking at her in pity that she had lost her mind as well. "You're son . . . and you gave him away—to Hojo of all people."

"I'm sorry," she said as she cast her face down. "I'm sorry."

"He was your son," was all Angeal could say knowing they might never see him again and what a mistake Zack had made on her part.

"He was yours too," she said looking back at him with tears staining her cheeks. " . . . I just can't take this anymore! I want it all to go away!"

At that Zack escaped Angeal's grip and ran away. Angeal let her go not knowing what would become of her if he tried to stop her.

Hot Shot's girl: Sorry it was so short. The next chp will be longer . . . I think, lol, anyways I told you there was gonna be some drama--especially baby drama. Yeah . . . poor little guy. Well see ya next chp bye ;D