Just a little chapter this time, guys. The Next one's gonna be really long ;)

Chapter Two

Like Ice

"No."

"Sienna, please, don't be-"

"I said no."

"You're being difficult. Just one-"

"NO!"

The young man sighed and hung his head. "Gast wants a sample of your blood. Please, if I don't bring it I'll be in serious trouble!"

"I don't care," The child crossed her arms as she stood there, glaring at the man across the table from her. "I refuse."

"Dammit, Sienna," He growled. "Just give me your arm!" He lunged across the table but his face was slammed into a wall of ice that just now formed on the table between them.
"I said leave me alone!" Sienna took off and ran from the lab as the young man called after her. She dodged through the people in the hall, heading for the roof. She had found, over the last few months, that this was her favorite spot to be. It was silent most of the time, too high to hear the noise from the city below ShinRa Inc. The date was August 7. She had been moving around for nearly eight months now. According to Gast, she was strong. The elder man loved the power that she now had, apparently. There was some type of control over water and Ice. Example, the poor man in the lab a few moments ago. Since they had found that she had control with the ice Gast had been trying to find the child to perform some blood tests but she had been hiding all afternoon after the fight she held with Sephiroth.

Then again, you couldn't really call it a fight. Sephiroth, constantly, refused to lift that blade of his, the Masamune, against the one that she would wield. It enraged Sienna. Sephiroth was the one that everyone saw as the strongest of the two. She hated it. She wanted to prove them wrong, but he would never let her. He refused to fight and it made everything worse as she just stood there, staring at her. She let it take control of her today which ended up with the Simulation room being sliced to hell and back as Sephiroth just stood in the middle, watching with that blank face of his.

Sighing, Sienna leaned against the railing of the room and stared at the golden brown sunset. She didn't know what was going on. Gast kept telling her that she was a special girl, but why? Why was she a special girl? She had been sleeping in a damn tube for the last seven years! Was her waking up what made her special? Was it the Ice? What? Why didn't she have any damn answers for what she was? There was no way that she was normal, and neither was that other boy. Now with the way all these people were treating them. Especially Gast and that other man, Hojo.

Hojo…that man made Sienna's skin crawl. And as for the other one…every time Gast look at her it was like he was looking at a prize. A golden monument that he was going prize for the rest of his life. She didn't know which one she hated the most.

"What are you doing up here?"

Sienna froze and turned at the voice behind her. Sephiroth stood there, staring at her. "Why do you care?" Something about this boy…something about him pissed her off even more so than Hojo.

"I understand how you feel." He told her, ignoring her question. "Confused, like you're in the dark or left in the streets, not knowing where to go and so…so sad that there's no one there to grab your hand and lead you through all of this. I was like that in the beginning as well. It was…hard to get used to all of this until Gast stepped in and-"

"Gast is the worst of them," Sienna slid down against the roof wall and wrapped her arms around her legs. "The way he looks at me, I…" She glared at the ground as ice began to form on the ground around her feet.

"You will learn to control your anger with time." Sephiroth told her as she sat down beside her. "I did, eventually. It's still there but I can control it."

"You? Angry?" Sienna snorted with a smile. Sephiroth was the coolest of the few that she had met. Imagining him angry was like seeing a snake protecting a baby rat.

"It took a while for me to get used to it all but you will with time." Sephiroth told her with a small smile and her comment. "You might not believe it but everything turns better. You just have to…find something."

"Find something?" She asked him, glancing over.

Sephiroth scratched the side of his head. "It's hard to explain. A place. An object. A person. A song. It's different for everyone, I suppose."

Sienna was silent for a moment, thinking over his words. It made some sense, she guessed, but she didn't know how much. This was something that was going to be roaming around in her mind for a while now. "What…what is yours? Your…peace?"

"Peace?" Sephiroth glancing up at the sky. "Hmph. I wouldn't call it peace. It's more of a-"

"And so I find you both out here." A voice cut through. "Why, oh why? Didn't I tell you to stay away from her, Sephiroth?"

Both of them turned to see that a man with glasses and a lab coat, his long brown hair tied back, was walking towards them with his hands behind his back.

"Hojo…" Sienna hissed silently as her blood seemed to start burning. The ice at her feet began to rise into small spikes but she bit her bottom lip, trying to keep them still. She needed to learn how to control her anger, just like Sephiroth had said.

"Come, Sephiroth, let's return to the lab."

"But-"

"Ahh, there you are," The trio turned to look at Gast as he approached them. "I was wondering where you had run off to, Sienna." He then took notice of the other two. "Ahh, Hojo. Sephiroth. What are you doing up here?"

"Sephiroth was up here so I came to drag him back to the lab. His tests aren't over with yet!"

"Oh, it's nightfall, Hojo. Leave him be for the night." Gast replied. "Besides, we have to fix the simulation room from earlier, remember?"

It seems that Hojo had forgotten about that and frowned before turning to Sienna. "Yes, I had forgotten. That new type of attack that she brought forward. Had you given her Materia?"

"No," Gast replied. "We haven't. It just popped up the other day. It's very…interesting, a mysterious power, much like Materia. I've decided to run some tests on it." The thought of more tests being run shot her anger up again. The two doctors were talking about her like she wasn't even here.

"Never use an unscientific term such as mysterious power! It shouldn't even be called magic!" Hojo growled, glaring at the small child. "She'll never be-"

"Shut up!" Sienna told him. "Just leave me alone, you jerk! Go play with your pet somewhere else!" She referred to Sephiroth.

The silver-haired man closed his eyes as Hojo gave a hoot. "Let's go, Sephiroth. Let's leave these two to deal with eachother." He turned and left, leaving the silver-haired boy to follow him.

Gast gave a sigh. "I really hate that man."

~You're not the only one~ Sienna sighed to herself. She now had the urge to go beat the hell out of something like she had when she and Sephiroth were in the Simulation room but at the same time she just wanted to sit there and cool down.

Standing to his feet, Sephiroth gazed after Hojo for a moment. "Just so you know," He told her before he turned to leave the roof as well. "The ice trick is actually really…neat."

Sienna lifted her head and watched the door shut, her anger cooling off and changing.

"Well, well, well," She turned to look at the Doctor that was still with her. "Cold and cruel," Gast smiled proudly. "Just like ice."

Sienna gave him a glare before turning back to the door. She felt…guilty now. For calling Sephiroth Hojo's pet. She needed to learn to put a control on her anger. Sephiroth told her that it came with time, but just how much time?

All right, things are going to pick up in the next chapter so get ready for the real fun!