Hey guys! Just a quick, important message.

I need questions for a questionnaire that I'm going to be doing, involving the main 3 (Kayli, Davis and Rex) as well as whoever else you want to know about. So please write a review with as many questions as you'd like to ask, and make sure to state who each question is to.

You can ask a question to any of my characters, not the just the main three! So please send me lots because I'd love to be able to make it as interesting as possible.

The questions can be serious or stupid – whatever you want! Now, on to the story so I don't completely bore you!

Kayli sat quietly as she waited for Davis to take in what she had just told him. He was staring down at his feet and hadn't said anything for a while, but she knew she had to give him time. She had explained the events of the day when Roy had died and now Davis knew just why she hated Liam so much. Because Liam had actually killed Roy, and found it amusing.

Kayli let out a quiet sigh and leant her head against the railing. She had brought Davis to her secret balcony so that they could talk with no worries of anyone overhearing them and was now glad for the cool breeze which blew across her face.

She closed her eyes then, her mind recalling what she had just told Davis. It was good to tell someone else but now it all kept repeating in her mind and she couldn't escape it. After five years, it still haunted her. Maybe it was so hard because she was alone. She'd left her family and best friend behind so she had no support when she got to ShinRa. No one who knew her past and could hold her up when she remembered things.

But now Davis knew too.

Shivering slightly, Kayli gave a small jump when she felt a hand on hers. Opening her eyes again, she looked over to see Davis watching her and smiling sadly.

"It's gonna be okay."

She screamed. With Liam inside the house she couldn't go in, but who was around to help her? She kept screaming, stumbling back away from the door and tripping over because she couldn't see anything - her eyes were blurred from all the tears which just kept coming.

"Mum!" she managed to sob out, wiping her eyes and looking around the street to see who was around that could help her. But her neighbourhood friends' family had gone out.

The sound of a door creaking reached her ears and she spun around again. Liam stood there, eyes narrowed in a scowl.

"Quit your crying." he said. "You sound just like your brother."

"Get lost!" she screamed at him, and her heart leapt into her throat when he lifted his hand and began walking towards her. She screamed again-

But it was only a phone in his hand, not a knife like she had feared.

"Your mother wants to talk to you."

Kayli was quiet for a moment.

"Throw it." she finally whispered.

Liam's mouth twisted in a smile and he took another step, making Kayli squeal and scramble backwards away from him. This only seemed to encourage him and then he was walking faster towards her, breaking out into a sudden run and grabbing her before she had time to start screaming.

"Pathetic." he whispered.

Kayli's throat had closed, making it impossible to scream at all now. Tears continued to stain her face and she knew she was going to die. She just knew it. Why else would he be holding her arms to her sides, inhibiting her ability to move and smiling at her in that sick way...

He still had Roy's blood on his hands. It was now on her shirt where he was holding her.

"Maybe you'll kill yourself this way," Liam murmured in interest. "The way you're hyperventilating..."

"Give me the phone!" Kayli suddenly screamed, pushing him away from her and snatching the phone from his hands. This was her last chance. She had to get her parents over there now so that they could get rid of Liam. "Mum?"

She was walking backwards away from Liam, straining her ears to hear any sound of recognition from either of her parents on the other end of the phone line. But there was only silence.

Silence until Liam started laughing again.

"You believed me! You actually believed me." he shook his head in amusement, absent-mindedly wiping his hands on his pants.

In desperation, Kayli pulled the phone away from her ear and began racking her muddled brain for the number her parents had tried to drill into her ever since she could talk. It was for emergencies, and this was definitely an emergency.

"Do you really think they'll believe you?" Liam whispered as Kayli began punching in the number.

She ignored him, but shivered.

Holding it up to her ear, she listened for the ringing and trembled with desperation, waiting for someone to answer.

Liam was terrifying her the way he just stood there and kept smiling. He was covered in blood and he was smiling.

Taking a deep breath and still waiting for a response from the other end of the phone, Kayli turned away from him. She couldn't keep looking at him and she knew that. If she did she'd have nightmares for the rest of her life.

So much for that.

There was a click and the ringing stop. Kayli heard her mother begin to say 'Hello?' but suddenly there was an explosion of pain in her side and she screamed, looking down to see blood soaking her shirt. The phone fell from her hand as someone else's hand closed over her throat and began to squeeze.

"Never turn your back on the enemy." Liam whispered in her ear.

"Kayli? Kayli, can you hear me?"

"Roy!" she screamed, her body convulsing from the pain and her voice hardly coming out as her vocal chords were being restricted. "Roy!"

"Go on, scream," Liam continued. "You'll join him soon anyway."

Kayli tried to prize his fingers away from her neck, but he was too strong for her. She couldn't do anything!

Suddenly he let go and pulled his knife back, watching her fall to the ground, head thudding against the dirt. Her eyelids fluttered and she breathed hoarsely, tears running uncontrollably from her eyes and blood still soaking her shirt.

"Get up." he ordered.

"No." Kayli whimpered.

"Get up right now!" Liam reached down and grabbed the front of her shirt, pulling her up roughly and smiling as she screamed again, clawing at his hands.

"Stop it! It hurts! Let go of me!" Kayli sobbed.

"I don't want to hear you complaining!" Liam snapped in her face, scowling as she continued murmuring pleas. "Shut up and quit your crying!"

Digging her fingernails into his skin, Kayli finally succeeded in making him let go. He dropped her again and she tried to crawl away.

"Hey! Where do you think you're going?" Liam yelled, bending down and reaching a hand out for her again.

"Murderer! Don't touch me!"

The screech of a car sounded and Liam froze, looking up as his parents leapt out of their car and came running over.

Sergei had told Yakov and Tarou to wait while he checked ahead quickly, and now as he walked back to them he was certain of what had only been a guess before. They were being tricked. Yes, people were following them from behind, but there was someone ahead keeping track of them as well.

"We need to split up further." Sergei said as he came to a stop in front of them. "I want you two to continue the way we have been heading, but I'll take another detour. If you reach the town before me and Lee gets there, tell him I won't be long."

"What's wrong?" Yakov asked, shifting slightly and moving a hand to pat his pocket sub-consciously, checking to make sure his grenade was still there. It comforted him.

"Just do as I say."

With that, Sergei walked off through the trees and quickly disappeared, leaving Yakov and Tarou to glance at each other before shrugging and continuing on – it was the only thing they could do since Sergei was too quick to follow.

"Do you know how much further it is?" Yakov asked curiously, looking up at the tree branches above them as they walked.

"No, I don't," Tarou shook his head, pulling out his cards and shuffling them. "I wish I had a flat surface."

"Do you ever spend a day without those?" Yakov asked him, a teasing tone in his voice.

"The cards? No. They're my hobby." Tarou answered.

"So what are they telling you today?"

Tarou paused and raised an eyebrow at his companion, confused as to what the question meant. "Sorry...?"

"Your cards. They are Tarot cards, aren't they?" Yakov asked as he shifted the pack on his back slightly and waited for a response.

Tarou laughed out loud.

"No, they're not. These are simply the ones used in poker."

"Really?" Yakov asked in shock, both his eyebrows raising. "I always thought you looked at them everyday to see what they said about your future."

"No, no." Tarou said, still chuckling. "I'm just a gamer."

"Incredible." Yakov whispered, shaking his head. "It looks like my idea of you has been really wrong."

"It's okay, I don't-"

They were interrupted suddenly when a bullet whizzed past Yakov's shoulder and embedded itself into a tree behind him.

"Move!" Yakov ordered, shoving Tarou to the side as he pulled out the grenade from his pocket and pulled the pin, then threw it as far as he could. He turned to shield himself and only straightened again after the explosion.

"The town's just up ahead!" Tarou called to him, ducking from tree to tree to get to him.

"ShinRa must have gotten there ahead of us!" Yakov said. "Come on, we should swing around and see if we can find any of the others."

Moving back a fair distance so that hopefully they wouldn't be fired upon again, Yakov and Tarou began moving in a wide circle around the town, hoping to run into Sergei or Lee.

Soon enough, Sergei rejoined them.

"I heard the explosion," he explained. "What happened?

Quickly they explained and Sergei nodded in understanding. "I don't think there are many ShinRa men, so we could take them if we wanted."

"How can you be sure?" Yakov questioned.

"I'm never sure," Sergei said bluntly, staring at him. "I always just guess."

Yakov shifted and looked away from his gaze, wishing he hadn't spoken. Sergei always made him feel inadequate, even when saying something as simple as that.

"There's no time for self-pity," Sergei then said, as if he had read the man's thoughts like a wide-open book. "We need to move now so that they don't have a chance to attack Lee's group."

"Liam's group of two."

Yakov, Tarou and Sergei spun around to see Kuja and Kuta walking up. There was no sign of a cigarette anywhere, although there was a faint smell hanging in the air around them.

"What happened?" Sergei asked.

"He wouldn't let me smoke," one of the twins shrugged.

"So we walked off by ourselves." the other finished.

"So Qurt's still with him?" Sergei asked to make sure. The twins exchanged a short glance.

"Unless Liam killed him."

"Why would he do that?" Yakov piped up, frowning.

"He's in a bad mood, that's all," another shrug. "Hopefully he'll calm down by the time he arrives here. Anyway, what's the plan?"

As Sergei began to explain his plan to all of them, they listened intently to remember what they would have to do in order to carry out the plan efficiently and succeed in taking the town captive.

"Do you want to go get lunch?" Davis asked quietly, knowing it wouldn't do any good to talk about Kayli's past more now. He needed to get her mind off it anyway, because he could tell that she was still thinking about it.

"Yeah, that sounds great." Kayli nodded and stood up with Davis, the two then making their way to the cafeteria and over to the table that Rex, Cloud and Alec were sitting at once getting food. Surprisingly, Jinx and Jensen were also sitting at the table.

"Hey," Davis said as they sat down.

"You just missed Jinx's story about how he crept into Reno's room and stole his EMR!" Rex announced, looking up at them and grinning.

"Oh, as if." Davis laughed.

"No, I really did!" Jinx said. "I gave it back, though, which is why I can't show you the evidence."

Davis shook his head in amusement and began to eat his lunch, glancing at his watch to see how long he had until they needed to head off to guns. Which was, still, his favourite class.

"So..." Jinx folded his arms, leant back in his chair, and stared at Kayli. "You gonna tell me your secret yet, Roy?"

"Secret? What secret?" Kayli asked, also starting to eat and trying to act as innocent as she could.

"Come on, Roy doesn't have a secret." Rex laughed.

"Oh, really?" Jinx asked.

"Really." Rex nodded, looking down at his empty plate and smiling. Kayli couldn't help but smile as well, since she knew what Rex was meaning by what he said. Her 'secret' wasn't really much of a secret now, considering how many people knew.

"I don't believe you. Roy, tell me your secret or I'll make Reno interrogate you." Jinx ordered.

"Are you kidding me? Reno would never do anything for you!" Kayli laughed. "He almost killed you last time, remember?"

"He wasn't in his right mind!" Jinx snapped.

"Oh, next you'll be telling me he really is your cousin." Kayli shook her head and took another mouthful of food. Jinx simmered silently for a moment before huffing and looking away.

"You're just jealous." he muttered.

"Guns is gonna start soon," Jensen said, beginning to get up out of his seat. "I'm gonna go grab something from my room."

Jinx nodded and then Jensen walked off.

"Don't you have something to do as well?" Rex asked Jinx, raising an eyebrow.

"You're right! I'm gonna go write a letter to my girlfriend." Jinx grinned, jumped up, and ran off.

"There is no way he has a girlfriend unless she's masochistic." Kayli sighed.

Davis grinned and glanced over at Cloud, wondering why the blond was so distracted. "Hey, Cloud? What have you got there?"

Cloud looked up from his hands and went bright red, gulping. "N-nothing."

"I dunno about Jinx, but Cloud sure looks like he's got a girlfriend." Rex teased, leaning over. "Let me see, Spiky."

"No!" Cloud quickly moved the letter to behind his back and continued to become redder and redder. "It's nothing."

"Can you at least tell us her name?" Alec asked, joining the fun.

"Keep out of my business!" Cloud said angrily, moving his hand to hurriedly shove the letter in his pocket and then standing up. "I'm gonna head over to guns now."

"It's nothing to be embarrassed about, Cloud," Davis said, making the blond pause. "I mean, I've got a girlfriend!"

Kayli smiled as Davis grabbed her hand.

"...She's not my girlfriend." Cloud whispered.

"But you wish she was, right?" Alec chuckled. Cloud coughed awkwardly and turned around, walking briskly out of the cafeteria.

"You're all so mean!" Kayli laughed.

"He'll get over it." Rex laughed, now also standing up. "Come on, guns will be starting any minute now."

Davis and Kayli finished the last bits of their lunch and followed Rex and Alec out of the room, back towards their room so that they could grab their stuff before heading to class.

Rex moved back to walk with Kayli, his expression turning serious and making her feel nervous.

"You okay?" he asked quietly.

"Of course." Kayli nodded.

"Good." Rex nodded and remained silent for a moment before deciding to speak again. "Have you spoken to your friend Gemma lately?"

"Are you still trying to hook up with her?" Kayli asked, raising an eyebrow and smiling slightly. She was surprised to see that Rex wasn't asking her more personal questions since he often didn't know when to stop. It was a nice change, though she wondered how long it would last.

"It's not my fault she's so good-looking!" Rex defended himself with a laugh. "Could you at least ask her what she thinks of me?"

"Yeah, maybe." Kayli teased.

"What's this?" Davis asked, tuning into their conversation.

"Rex wants to get with Gemma." Kayli explained.

"You're not feeling left out, are you?" Davis joked, before shooting a grin at Kayli.

"Don't be stupid," Rex pouted, trying to hide a smile. "Of course I am!"

The three of them laughed and then quickened their steps to enter their room and grab their things, rushing out to follow after Cloud and Alec who had already began making their way to guns.

As they walked into the room and took their seats, their PHS's gave small beeps just like they had when they were informed that they were being sent to Modeoheim or Kalm. Since their instructor was glaring at them, they decided to read the messages later, but Kayli managed to steal a moment to read hers when they were put into groups and told to practice shooting.

The message was short and simple.

Selected Infantrymen will be heading out to Wutai as soon as word is received from the team currently there. A meeting will be held tomorrow morning at 0800 hours to talk about the exact details. All recipients of this message must attend.

"Are you sure you're doing the right thing?" Angeal asked, standing in front of Sephiroth's desk and frowning down at his friend, who sat calmly doing paperwork.

"If they aren't confident in themselves they'll decide not to go." Sephiroth said, turning a page over. "They do have a choice and Lazard gave the okay."

"Yes, but what if one of them isn't ready and only thinks they are?" Angeal asked. "They're only young!"

"It's up to them." Sephiroth said. "Besides, I'm hoping to find something out."

"Find something out? What exactly could you discover by doing this other than who's brave and who's not?" Angeal snapped, folding his arms.

"I want to know about Roy Peters' brother." Sephiroth said, still working and not even glancing up from the papers.

"You've lost me."

"Roy Peters has a brother in Wutai who is a rebellion soldier. I'm hoping Roy will choose not to go so that I can interrogate him with an excuse." Sephiroth explained, rubbing his wrist before continuing to write.

"What? His brother is a rebellion soldier?" Angeal gasped.

Sephiroth sighed and put down his pen, looking up at his friend and folding his arms. "That's what I just said, isn't it?"

Angeal quickly composed himself again.

"Look, if you're going to send these Infantrymen, why not go with them? That way you'll be able to protect them!"

"I was actually hoping to send you." Sephiroth said quietly. "I thought maybe you could take the puppy as well, to give him some practice. Will you go?"

Angeal scowled, annoyed that Sephiroth had gotten him exactly where he wanted him. Since he cared so much about the Infantrymen, it was obvious he would eventually give in and decide to go to ensure he could keep an eye on them.

"I'm going to regret this." Angeal said, and Sephiroth smirked.

The door suddenly burst open to reveal Zack holding a live puppy in his arms.

"Yes! I'm going to Wutai!" Zack then froze and took a moment to find out why Angeal and Sephiroth were staring at him in such a strange way. "Ah! Oops!" he exclaimed when he realised he had completely failed to hide the puppy.

"I thought I told you to get rid of that, Zack." Angeal growled.

"Uh, yeah, well... It's just so cute!" Zack argued before flashing a grin and darting off again.

Yes, Angeal thought to himself, I am going to regret taking him to Wutai.