Ok, you know the drill. I don't own FF7 blah blah biddy blah. I don't own any of the songs listed in this chapter either. I own a big bunch of nuthin'. But if you are curious, "Who do you think you are?" is from Sailor Moon, and I find it quite funny…c'mon you gotta love Usagi and Rei going at it. (Or Serena and Raye depending on if you prefer the English or Japanese) The next song mentioned is "Redemption" which I absolutely love, thanks to Shining Apocolypse who has now got me drooling over Gackt. Ahhh I love you for that! He's so pretty….and yes I mean pretty! Though I'm not sure if I even wear that much makeup sometimes. But hey, as I've heard my mom say, "real men wear eyeliner" (though I think she meant if your name happens to be Johnny Depp and you are a hot pirate ; ) ) So yes, Gackt is my newest obsession. I just love Japanese rock/pop. And like my characters here, I can sing it but not speak it…yet. I am going to take Japanese this year though so we'll be fixing that. So hopefully that clears up any confusion in the later part of this chapter of how they can sing it but not speak it. The short answer is: because I say so. I am the author therefore it is. That and I am queen and one day will rule this world because things would run so much smoother. (COME ON! They changed the ice cream packs from one big tub to two small boxes! This wouldn't happen if I was in charge! But I digress…) Um, let's see…I also have Evanescence's song "Whisper" in here too. It seemed fitting. Though it took me forever and a day to figure out what Cloud and Missy should sing. I was going to make Vincent or Red sing, but I just didn't think I could get away with that lol…So again, I don't own any of those songs…

Originally, this chapter was going to be kind of short and simple, but as you can see that didn't really happen…I just HAD to write Sephy in this chapter because I hadn't done so for a few chapters and it was driving me crazy. I like writing evil sexy characters. : ) Especially him in this story, because lets face it, he's just plain sexy. He can kidnap me any day. As could Kadaj or Cloud…or any of my favorite hot vampires. : ) Can't you tell I have issues with being in love with too many guys? Cry sniffle…sniffle tear. You just know there's going to be a vampire in here SOMEWHERE because I love them so heh. But anyways (and wow how did I get so far off topic) this chapter became a bit more intense and dark than it was supposed to be. But if Sephykins is gonna be in it, then you just know it's gonna be interesting. And if I continue talking I will spoil things so go read please! Oh but first I have to say thank you to my reviewer who offered help with spells, I will keep that in mind! And I will call on you should I ever have to write another spell again, because let's face it, that is one of the things I kinda sorta suck at. And Missy agrees. Ok NOW go read.

Chapter Nine-

I looked over at my clock, to see the bright red numbers flash "3:30".

"Ugh…" I moaned. "I have been trying to sleep for hours…" But I couldn't. Whenever I closed my eyes, I saw him. No matter how much time passed, I would always be in awe of that flow of smooth, silky, silvery locks embracing his green mako eyes. It was quite possibly the most gorgeous sight I had ever seen.

I hated how things had to change. I used to be safe from the world that wished to use me, and safe from any kind of harm. He would protect me. He still does, in his own way. But he has also become the one to hunt me down for who or what I am.

"What makes me so special…?" I whined. "It's not like I asked for this…I would have been content to just lead a normal life, no power, no nothing. Just…live."

Thinking on that subject I realized that I wouldn't have been happy knowing what I have, knowing what I can do and not having it anymore, being helpless. But I would give up happiness if it would mean that I would be out of this hell.

I sat up slowly, running my fingers through my hair and out of my face. God I wanted to see him. Yet at the same time I feared our next meeting. Part of me didn't care. I didn't mind the physical pain, so much as the mental damage that accompanied it.

I looked around my room, trying to divert the unwanted thoughts that plagued my mind. It was dark and gray in the early morning, but I could see that it really did look exactly the same. The only thing that had changed was that the image on the other side of the window no longer reflected the streets of Midgar, but the bustling streets of Tokyo.

I closed my eyes for a minute and let them flutter back open, noticing the glow of silver in front of me.

"How did I know…" I moaned. I was starting to get used to him popping up out of nowhere.

"Because you called me." Sephiroth stated simply.

"I…called you…yeahuh."

He let out a curt chuckle and leaned forwards on the end of the bed near me. "I can hear you…remember?" He had that smirk on his face that I hated, but loved. It fit his thin lips perfectly.

I sighed, not exactly sure what to say at this point. "Look…I'm tired…can you just…go away or something? You make everything complicated."

"Oh I make things complicated? I'm offering you a simple solution. You're the one making it hard for yourself." His smile grew as he stroked my cheek.

"Stop it." I said as I whacked his hand away. He immediately reacted by grabbing my wrist.

I winced at the pain it caused. He was so strong; I knew my attempts to yank my arm away would be in vain. But still I tried anyways.

"Let go!" I hissed. Sephiroth grinned at me with great pleasure and amusement as I thrashed about madly. "Cloud!" I screamed, hoping someone would hear me.

"Hahaha…you can scream all you want! No one will hear you, you're voice can't even escape this room. I blocked it when I came in. One of my…specialties…" With his free hand he began to stroke the side of my face again.

I let out a whimper as I squirmed. His fingers slid up into my hair and pulled the back of my head back harshly. My eyes widened and looked into his as I gasped for breath due to the strain on my throat. Tears stung my eyes within seconds, and he moved his face to mine, this time with a softer smile. His silver hair draped carefully around his face, and fell around mine as he leaned closer still to kiss the tears from my face. His tongue brushed across my skin softly but violently. He traveled across to my ear and whispered.

"What do you say?" he asked. "Don't you want to join me in my task of fulfilling a prophecy?"

"Please…" I begged, more tears streaming down. I didn't know what I was begging for. My life? My freedom? My will to chose? For him to stop? Or for him to continue hurting me because it felt…good.

"Please, I can't take this!" I gasped.

"I know you…you're strong…you'll live…" he teased as he once again licked the new, salty tears trailing down to my neck. He shifted forwards, making us both fall back onto the bed with him on top of me, his large 6'2" frame completely covering my small 5'5" one. I couldn't even move with his muscles pinning me down. His fingers now wrapped themselves around my bare arms and dug into my skin with a hunger so great it frightened me. His legs found themselves around my thighs and squeezed harshly. I was completely immobile and helpless, and no one could hear me. Perhaps it was then that I gave in.

"Seph…Sephiroth…" I breathed harshly with fear and ecstasy. "Don't…"

"Don't what? Don't stop?" he laughed. "If you say so."

Every muscle in my body tensed as he pressed all his weight onto me, practically crushing me. I could barely breathe. A lump choked up in my throat at the fear. I tensed even more as his lips traveled down my neck to my chest where my top allowed my skin to show. I was starting to think I shouldn't wear such low corset tops. I let out several more short, soft gasps and he sucked at my skin and finally I just let myself become prey to him. I no longer tensed up, just laid there, letting him do as he wished. It was when his fingers started to slide up my thighs and under my skirt that my senses came back and I struggled again.

"No!" I squirmed around more, or as much as I could, when I felt his lips on my skin turn up in a sick and twisted smile.

"Ah ah ah…" he scolded. "I wasn't finished…" he leaned his head up to kiss me, but instead bit my lip harshly. My blood trickled out of the small punctures he made with his teeth and he licked it up.

I moaned as he bit down harder, causing more and more pain. Right now, the only thing I wanted was for Cloud to burst in and save me. And as if I had telepathically told him to come, the door opened revealing a shadow resembling the figure of my blonde, spiky haired friend.

Seph's head shot around to glare at who dared to interrupt him from what he was doing. "Cloud, how nice of you to stop by."

Using his mako enhanced eyes to see in through the darkness, he saw us both, especially the fear on my face, and dashed forwards to pry the silver haired intruder off me.

Catching him off guard, Cloud was successful and removed my leech. "What the hell do you think you're doing breaking into my house and going after Missy!"

"Tsk tsk, you are rather slow. Didn't you figure it out already? Where she goes, I go. She traveled through a portal and I followed in her footsteps. Don't think you're going to stop me."

"I did before, and by God I will again." Cloud spat through gritted teeth.

He shrugged with a smug look on his face. "The fun has just begun. Right Missy? You know what's to come don't you?"

"I never know what you mean Sephiroth!" I retorted.

"Shame, I taught you better. Oh well, you will. Even if I have to show you. You will." He cocked his head and looked at me, before he disappeared before our eyes.

"Looks like someone has a few new tricks up his sleeves…" Cloud muttered as he turned back to me. "Are you alright?"

"I really wish people would stop asking me that…the answer is never yes you know…"

"Well…I just thought I'd be polite…" He scratched at the back of his head in discomfort.

"What do you want?" I asked exasperated.

"Uh, what?" He replied rudely, obviously confused as to why I was questioning him when he just saved me.

"I just meant, what did you come by for. It's like, 4:00 am. Did you want something?"

He blushed slightly, fumbling for an answer. "Um, I was just checking on everyone…I couldn't sleep…I thought you might be awake so I thought I'd keep you company…" his blush became more noticeable as he darted his eyes about, trying to avoid mine.

I furrowed my brow for a second, before relaxing again. "Oh. Well, thank you. Again." I seemed to be saying "thank you" a lot to him.

"Is there something I can do for you?" he questioned softly as he stared at the floor. Apparently it was interesting.

I shook my head. "No. But…I guess I could use the company…"

He gave a brief nod and sat down beside me. We sat there silently, unsure of what to say, for what seemed like hours. Pushing my dignity aside, I forced myself to go over and give blondie boy a huge hug.

"Thank you." I said, after seeing his shocked and confused expression, and feeling his body tense up at the sudden gesture.

"Um, no problem?"

I let a few more tears slide down out of my eyes as I hugged his side. It was comforting to know that someone was right here next to me, and that I was temporarily safe.

After a few minutes, he relaxed enough to allow himself to comfort me by softly running his fingers across my head. I gave a small yawn. I was starting to feel tired and my eyelids felt heavy as I laid there, sideways, hugging him.

I woke up a matter of hours later to the early morning sounds of the city below us. I moaned as I squeezed my pillow, hoping I would fall back asleep. But my pillow moved. It breathed! That's no pillow…

I looked up to see Cloud staring back down at me with a cute smile.

"Good morning." He sang. I loved the way his eyes sparkled when he smiled. And I mean genuinely smile.

"Ah…" I gave an embarrassed smile and immediately pulled back. "Have you been here this whole time?"

"Well you kind of have a death grip when you sleep. I didn't want to disturb you."

"So you've been awake this whole time?"

He shrugged. "Yeah," he chuckled. "I guess I wanted to make sure you were safe."

So he watched over me for several hours, while I slept. I found it rather sweet that he sat there patiently. I would have figured he would have slipped out of my grasp after he thought I was deep asleep and gone somewhere else. It was nice to have someone to take care of me again.

"Why don't we go out and have some fun? Take your mind off of things." Cloud offered.

It was a good idea, take everyone and explore Tokyo. But where to start?

"Besides," he began again. "We've never seen uh, what do you call it…Tokyo? Much less ever heard of it. And I think Yuffie will implode if she doesn't check out all the stores."

I giggled at the thought of Yuffie going spastic at the mere sight of this place. "I think I know where to take you guys! But we might have some troubles with Red and Vincent; they look kind of…conspicuous."

"Yeah, they do stand out a bit don't they?" Cloud laughed too.

"What are you two talking about?" Tifa asked. She stood at the door with everyone else behind her.

"Oh, nothing!" I replied innocently. I held a huge grin on my face just imagining all the looks we'd get. We were quite the group. I'm sure Red would be the victim of several children wanting to hug the cute puppy dog, or extremely large feral cat, whichever they thought he was. Heck, I'm not even sure. And I was also sure that Vincent would get enough attention of his own. He had that tall dark and brooding look about him which girls seem to go crazy for. I watched enough Earth TV when I was here before to know. Though out of everyone here, I figured the one to get the most attention by girls would be Cloud. He was quite handsome, there's no way any teenage girl, or any female for that matter, would be able to not stare at him. I found it hard myself.

"Where do you want to go then?" Cloud asked as he stood up and went over to the rest of the group.

"You'll see!" I chimed.

"The one thing this world can't live without! Fast food! More specifically, McDonalds!" We stood in front of the large M french fry sign.

"What's fast food?"

"Did it run fast?"

"What's that smell?"

"What's with the funny outfits?"

"Who's that freaky clown dude?"

"I don't get it!"

"GUYS!" I held up my hands as a gesture for them to stop asking all their questions. "No one understands it, that's the beauty of it. Now, here's what you do. You go up to the people at the counter, tell 'em what you want to eat, and wait for it to be served." I laughed as I looked at the look of disbelief on their faces. "Just come on!" I ran forwards and opened the glass door and bounded up to the counter, the rest of the gang on my heels.

We ordered our lunch and sat down at one of the many red booths. Since there was seven of us, we had to scrunch in together to fit. All except Red, who wasn't allowed to order anything and had to sit on the floor and act like a regular dog. I felt sorry for him so I slipped him a french fry under the table.

"So…this is fast food?" Cloud eyed his cheeseburger like it might grow limbs and attack him. "Looks kind of suspicious to me…"

"Cloud, it may be extremely unhealthy but it's not gonna poke you in the eye or try to crawl its way back up once you swallow it down." I teased him, which won me a look that said something to the effect of "I've got a damn big sword and I know how to use it. Don't tease me." "Here!" I reached across the table and shoved a couple of french fries in his mouth.

"Mmm! This is good! How do they make it?"

"Trust me…you don't want to know."

"Hey Missy, how'd you make it so we can understand the people here and they can understand us without having to speak the same language? Last time I was here I had a hell of a time just asking for the bathroom. I ended up somewhere else which no power on this Earth or any other can make me tell you where it was." Skye raised her eyebrow skeptically at me as she munched on her food.

"Oh I cast a simple translation spell earlier so we wouldn't have issues. And were DID you end up…in a stripper club?"

"Without reciting an incantation?" She asked, even more suspicious. "And again, no power on this earth."

"You did didn't you!" I squealed. "Hahaha! Where were you on the stage or in some guys lap! Oh I knew you went missing for a day but I had no idea!" I keeled over, my sides bursting as I laughed.

"Hey! Not like YOU noticed…you were too busy having some fun of your own with Sephiroth! I swear you two never come up for air! You guys can go at it for days and never-" She immediately covered her mouth as she saw my face fall with depression. "I didn't mean to-"

"No." I held up my hand to stop her from saying more. "It's ok…" I sat staring at my food, suddenly finding myself no longer hungry. "You know what I think I'm going to go to the bathroom."

I slipped through Skye and Tifa who were on the same side of the booth as I was, and walked off to the bathroom marked "ladies". I went over to the sink and stared at the reflection in the mirror above it.

"Who are you?" I asked it. "Who are you!" I punched my fist into the glass and it shattered into several jagged pieces below. I flinched as I looked down at my hand to see several cuts bleed across my skin. I gaped at it as the tears started to close like they were being stitched back together, until the pink lines faded into nothingness and my hand reverted back to normal.

I breathed harshly as I searched for an answer. I glanced around to see if anyone else was in here, and when I saw that no one was, I rushed into the middle stall and locked the door. I didn't want someone to walk in and see what I was about to do next. I took the dirk from the side of my right boot and slowly sliced it across my palm. My previous action of healing repeated itself, and I slashed the blade across my forearm. Again, it healed. Annoyed, I dug the sharp edge deep into my thigh, creating several painful gashes. They too healed.

I slumped to the floor with my back against the stall door, and the bloody blade clattered to the tile. I stared ahead of me in disbelief. Why do my wounds heal themselves? Was that how I lived when Sephiroth once tried to kill me? Did he know? Does he know now? Is this why ShinRa wanted me? There's so much I still can't remember, like what happened in those weeks after I was impaled with his deadly sword. It annoyed me to no end.

I picked the dirk up again and tore it across the skin on my thigh one last time. This time it stayed. Satisfied enough, I took some toilet paper and let it soak up the blood that poured out. It took several minutes but I finally stopped the bleeding.

I slid the blade back in my boot and stood up, composed myself, made sure the cut was hidden under my skirt, and walked back out to everyone else.

"Bout time!" Cloud joked. "I swear you women take forever! What do you do in there!"

I forced a laugh, trying to convince them that everything was fine. "Come on, I have another place you have to see."

We stopped outside of a brightly colored building that emitted loud pop music.

"What is this place?" Vincent inquired.

"It's a place where you can sing karaoke! I used to come to place like this a lot when I had the chance. I thought it'd be fun!"

"OOH!" Yuffie darted past us in a blur of color and into the building.

We followed after her and paid to use a room. There was a stereo system and a microphone stand on a small stage at the back of the room and several chairs positioned around it.

"Come on Vincent! Give it a try!" I nudged him with my elbow.

He gave me a cold glare. "I think not."

"Not even if you were drunk?"

"Not even if it saved the world."

I pouted in an attempt to change his mind, but he merely turned on his heel and stalked off to one of the chairs, his cape billowing behind him.

"What about you Red?"

"...I think I'll sit this one out if you don't mind." And before I could respond, he too turned around and curled up in one of the seats.

"Well who's going to start!"

"C'mon Missy! Let's show 'em how it's done!" Skye grabbed me by the arm and dragged me up on the stage. I hooked up my ipod and turned it onto the song "Who do you think you are?" and Skye and I performed a duet to it.

"Oh I want to go next!" Yuffie jumped up on the stage and grabbed the microphone.

We giggled as we sat down. The teenage ninja took her sweet time cruising through my list of songs.

"Hurry up!" I said.

"I am the Great Ninja Yuffie! I will not be rushed!"

After several more minutes of searching, she picked a Jpop song and belted it out.

Tifa also joined in on the fun, also singing some Jpop, but this song was slower.

"Come on Cloud!" She dragged him up on the stage when she finished. "You have to sing!"

"Erm…but…I don't want to…" he struggled to go sit back down but Tifa continued to push him near the stereo. "But Vincent and Red got out of it!"

"Yes but we're too afraid to make them." I joined in on the fight to make him sing.

"I am going to get you girls back one day…" He gave in and looked over my selection of songs. "What the hell?" he suddenly blurted out as he saw how many musical soundtracks were on there.

"So I like musicals!" I said defensively. "I also have hard rock on there! And pretty ballads! You name a genre and I have something that fits it!"

"Monk gong music?"

"You got me there…"

He shrugged. He decided to go with "Redemption". I was quite impressed with his voice, and his ability to rock out just as good as the original singer. I had to keep myself from drooling like a love sick fan girl…

He really got into it too. He swayed with the microphone stand and even shook his blonde spiked locks back and forth a bit. If I really thought about it, it made sense he picked rock, I couldn't see him singing anything else really.

I found myself up and dancing around madly, head banging to the harsh sounds and the guitar pieces that I grew to love so much. During my spaz attack I caught Cloud's eyes staring at me as if he wanted to tell me something. He still moved to the music, but his eyes still stayed glowing in the same spot.

All of us girls stood up and clapped and whooped when he finished, with me cheering the loudest.

"I have to admit Cloud, when you rock, you rock hard!" I jumped up and down a few with all the energy I got from watching him. "You know I'm gonna drag you to a karaoke bar all the time now, right?" I started laughing so hard when I saw the smile on his face drop down to a "you have got to be bloody joking" frown.

He sat down and sulked in his chair.

"Oh come on blondie boy! You can rock! Much better than-" I stopped myself from completing that sentence with a strange look on my face as something tried to enter my mind. Like water pounding against a dam begging to be allowed to crash through.

Much better than Sephiroth. But I don't remember him ever singing around me. He wasn't the type; he was too shy about it. So why do I feel like I have? He…he did sing…but…when? Was I drunk or something? Well if he was rocking out he must have been drunk too…no…I remember it now…he wasn't singing rock…he was singing softly…he was crying…why? I just remember it being black…I'm not sure I was even conscious…

"Rock harder than who?" Yuffie asked.

I blinked and shook my head to snap myself out of my daze. "I'm sorry I just spaced out. Um, rock harder than…I figured you could!" I fumbled for a lie so I didn't have to say what I really meant. "Um…my turn!" I ran up to the stage for the second time to avoid the awkward silence hovering below.

I held the microphone tightly in my hands as the music began. It was playing the song "whisper".

I started singing it meekly, my eyes darting about as more flashes perturbed my mind.

Catch me as I fall
Say you're here and it's all over now
Speaking to the atmosphere
No one's here and I fall into myself
This truth drives me
Into madness
I know I can stop the pain
If I will it all away

Don't turn away
(Don't give in to the pain)
Don't try to hide
(Though they're screaming your name)
Don't close your eyes
(God knows what lies behind them)
Don't turn out the light
(Never sleep never die)

By the chorus I had started to sing louder and powerfully.

I'm frightened by what I see
But somehow I know
That there's much more to come
Immobilized by my fear
And soon to be
Blinded by tears
I can stop the pain
If I will it all away

Don't turn away
(Don't give in to the pain)
Don't try to hide
(Though they're screaming your name)
Don't close your eyes
(God knows what lies behind them)
Don't turn out the light
(Never sleep never die)

Fallen angels at my feet
Whispered voices at my ear
Death before my eyes
Lying next to me I fear
She beckons me
Shall I give in
Upon my end shall I begin
Forsaking all I've fallen for
I rise to meet the end

I belted out the chorus three more times until the music faded away and was met with applause from everyone. Everyone, that is, but Cloud. While others were cheering with smiles plastered on their faces, he stood there with his arms across his chest, yet again looking at me. Like he knew I was faking my feelings right now, pretending that I wasn't dying from the pain in my heart and that the song didn't fit me. That it hadn't been ripped from my body years ago and was cut into pieces by Masamune and hidden in the freezer. I smiled nonetheless, trying to prove to him that he was wrong. That I wasn't so dead inside, that I would not let Sephiroth get the better of me. He noticed my beaming yet fake grin, and narrowed his eyes, daring me to speak the truth. If I was just alone with him I just might have, but with other people here, I would never do such a thing. They had no right to hear about my personal life right now. Why Cloud but no one else, not even Skye, I'm not sure, but maybe it's because he too has such a strange relationship with the silver haired man. He too has received great pain from him. He too has lost loved ones to him. I knew more still would be lost.

I slowly walked back down to my seat, wobbling with dizziness as the images still came into my head. I dropped to my knees as I saw the events of the early morning arise from deep inside my mind. It was like being a fly on the wall and watching it happen. I started to weep as I could almost feel him grope my body again. Past memories melded with the ones of this morning, but they were all the same, making it difficult to tell what happened when.

I heard the soft thud of Cloud's shoes travel across the tiled floor slowly, stopping inches before me. He squatted down cautiously and bent his head to look up at my face. My whole body shook with mental pain that flooded through my veins, and shook harder when his hand lifted itself up onto my shoulder.

I continued to lean forwards, wrapping my arms around themselves, digging my nails into my skin and letting my tears wet the floor.

He let me cry for a number of minutes before he spoke.

"You don't have to be strong and fight it alone all the time you know."

"I don't know how else to do it…" I whispered. "I've fought alone for so long…it's easier to give in that to ask for help…"

"How selfish." He replied curtly.

"Excuse me!"

"You heard me! I think it's selfish of you to fight all alone and push everyone aside when we're here to help you! It's not fair to the people who care about you."

"AND WHO CARES ABOUT ME!" I had to gasp for breath as I shouted my words over my sobs. "I've know you for how long now! I have had to run away my whole life and never got to make many friends! It's a miracle Skye is even still alive because she knows me!" I pointed at my friend as I mentioned her. "Name one other person that cares!"

"Me. Tifa. Red. Yuffie. Vincent. WE care about you. So what if we've only known you for a short amount of time. WE care if you live or die. WE care that Sephiroth hurts you."

I remained silent. I knew I was just being emo and I knew without being told that my new friends did care.

"You can't give up on us after the trouble we've gone through to help you."

"Why?"

"Because I'm the leader and I say so."

"But I'm the leader."

"Of you, not of this group." He grinned as he said this, refusing to give up his title of leader, but knowing that I wouldn't allow him to be the leader of me. I'm too stubborn.

"Fair enough." I replied.

Once again I jumped at him, wrapping my arms around his neck and giving him the biggest hug I could possibly provide. I buried my head in his neck as my tears stopped flowing.

"I keep getting flashes." I confessed.

He pulled back and looked me in the eye. "Flashes?"

"Images…of things that have happened…at least I think they've happened. It's hard to tell sometimes. It's all so blurry and spins around. But really vivid…that's what made me break down…I saw…him…"

"Hurting you." Cloud finished.

I nodded.

"It wouldn't be so bad if I didn't have to relive it so much." I forced a weak smile at him.

"You're lying again." He said flatly. "It would still be just as bad even if you didn't relive it like this. You just push it aside and pretend it doesn't exist or nothing happened when the truth is that you can't keep running from these things because when they catch up to you they will bite you in the ass-HARD-and tear you down, leaving nothing standing. It's really hard to start all over, I know."

He looked down at the floor, letting his blonde spikes droop over in front of his face. "I used to run from my emotions too. I thought I had to fight alone, and pushed my friends out of the way. I felt useless and refused to let anyone help me. It's a dark place, one I promised myself…and Aerith…that I would never go back to." He said her name so softly it was barely audible.

"You must of loved her very much…she must be proud of you now."

"I think she is." He looked back up, and to my surprise was smiling. "Feel better?"

"Yeah…a little. Though it concerns me that once again Sephiroth knows where I sleep. That man needs a bell on a collar! The world's greatest ninja makes more noise then him!" I stood up and brushed some dust off my skirt.

"Well maybe we should make sure someone stays with you so that doesn't happen again. We can take turns, right guys?" Cloud turned around to look for approval from the rest of the gang, and was met with several nods.

"So where should we go now?" Skye asked. "Back to the apartment?"

"I have one other place I need to go." I said.

"Where's that?" Cloud walked up next to me.

"To see my daughter."

MWUAHAHA! Bet you weren't expecting to hear that now were you? Missy has a daughter? Oooh! Anyways, I think really the main thing I wanted to say here (after you all read it!) is that I didn't want to make Missy come across as really emo and trying to cut herself and stuff cause she's not really trying to hurt herself because she's depressed but more because she's having issues with dealing with everything and how things keep changing and she doesn't understand who or what she is. At least that's her reasoning for now. (Dun dun dun…) That and it sets something up for me later and I like going back to things. But I can't tell you yet! Tis a secret. And I'm feeling kinda evil today ; ) So fun being evil…mwuahahaha! Ok I'm good now…no…wait…MWUAHAHA! ok that one had a mind of its own, I swear I'm good now. So yeah. What did you guys think? Do you like the scenes between Sephy and Missy? You better, because I love writing it LOL (I know I'm sick and twisted and have issues…but it makes life so much more fun!) Believe me, several chapters from now I'm sure I'll have to up it to an M rating…knowing me. But you know you love it lol. (Well at least I hope so I don't wanna piss anyone off…I'm strange that way I'm evil yet I hate making people mad at me. Unless you're evil to me then it is my sole purpose in life) And what about the rest of it? I came up with the whole "lets have Missy and everyone else go to McDonald's and a karaoke place!" at 3:30 in the morning while I was trying to get to sleep. (I have insomnia issues…) So then I ran with it. I just love the idea of Cloud singing LOL…so cute! I know I'm rambling right now so I shall shut up. I'm just practically bursting with energy from my homecoming dance which I actually went to. I'm still all pumped up. Though rather sore from all that dancing…ouchies. Oh and kindy bear if you are reading this (which I'm sure you are) I'll be your date anytime lol. And probably the only other girl I will ever do that kind of sexy dancing with again…but mainly because I had to smack a certain male who shall remain nameless (cough) over the head more than once…ANYWAYS…wait…how on earth did I get here…man I just keep having spaz attacks! And my mind keeps going off on tangents constantly. It quite amusing to see people stare at you going "how the hell did you get that from that?" and I'll reply "what? I saw that which made me think of that which obviously reminded me of that which eventually led to orange juice." (Ok actually it usually leads to a different topic, but I can't say that here.) So…if you actually read all of my incredibly long author notes (which I thank you, here have a piece of cake it's freshly made!) I apologize for my ramblings and beg you to go review! I am on my hands and knees here folks! I love hearing what you guys have to say. Thank you peoples! Till next chapter! TTFN! (Ta ta for now!)