[INCOMPLETE]
Who: Lucrecia, Loz, Yazoo.
When: not long after Jenova arrives, while Lu is out searching for Kadaj.
Where: a secluded wooded area near the river.
Rating: PG-13ish.
Warnings: Possible (mild) violence. Loz and Yazoo sneaking up on a poor defenseless woman who has no idea where she's going. Loz just being an asshole. Probable language.
Summary: Lulu goes off to find Kadaj, but gets lost in the process. Loz and Yazoo find her. And are totally nice to her. Because they're such gentlemen, after all.
She was tired. Really, really tired, and really, really cold. Her jacket wasn't doing much to keep her warm, and even the numerous amount of trees that surrounded her weren't enough to block out the icy wind. Fingers were trembling from their lack of warmth, wrapped tightly around the base of a flashlight (one she had managed to find near her and Cloud's home) as she stared down at the paper with messily scrawled directions in her hand. Technically, she should have been to where Kadaj was staying maybe five - ten - minutes ago, and she could have sworn she had passed that same exact boulder, the one sitting near the pine tree, half an hour ago. She had been wandering for Shiva knew how long, and damnit, why was she constantly getting sidetracked?
And, yes, it was sidetracked. She wasn't going to admit that she was lost. Because she wasn't lost. No. Not at all. She had just taken a different way. Something that didn't follow the directions exactly, and it was just taking a bit longer than it would have otherwise. No. She was definitely not lost.
Anyway, at least she wasn't doing as terrible as she had the night she went to visit Hojo. That had been a little embarrassing, but still, this wasn't any better. Especially since it was a lot colder, a lot later at night, and there was something following her, watching her. She could feel eyes on her back, and every time she turned to look over her shoulder, she was met with nothing but the brown bark of the tree trunks and a vast stretch of darkness that was hard to see through. She didn't know, exactly, what was following her, stalking her like the prey she must have appeared to be. It could have been an animal, she supposed, and that was what it most likely was, logically.
Or it could have been a person. Or people.
And that, for some reason, made her a little bit nervous.
"Perhaps it was because I didn't take a left when I should have taken a right," she murmured to herself, gripping the edge of the paper tighter as her eyes poured over it. "I really need to stop taking these shortcuts. They always end up taking a rather long time to complete..."
Branches cracked beneath her feet as she took a step forward, paused, and was that some sort of noise? Somewhere off in the distance? Straining to hear, she lowered her flashlight, tilting her chin up as she surveyed her surroundings. There was the rustling of leaves on their branches, of the wind pushing its way between the trees, and something else. A different sort of movement, and then another crack, as if something had been stepped on, and her eyes fell to her feet. She hadn't moved.
And then there was no mistaking it. A presence from directly behind her, mere inches away from her back, and warm breath ghosting along the side of her neck as Loz leaned forward, chin brushing against her shoulder as a small, satisfied smirk tugged at the corner of his mouth.
"Mother."
Her heart dropped to her stomach, then, and he wasn't alone, either. At her side (not as close as Loz was, however), there was the other one. Yazoo, wasn't it?
And yes.
She'd have to refrain from camping in the future.
When: not long after Jenova arrives, while Lu is out searching for Kadaj.
Where: a secluded wooded area near the river.
Rating: PG-13ish.
Warnings: Possible (mild) violence. Loz and Yazoo sneaking up on a poor defenseless woman who has no idea where she's going. Loz just being an asshole. Probable language.
Summary: Lulu goes off to find Kadaj, but gets lost in the process. Loz and Yazoo find her. And are totally nice to her. Because they're such gentlemen, after all.
She was tired. Really, really tired, and really, really cold. Her jacket wasn't doing much to keep her warm, and even the numerous amount of trees that surrounded her weren't enough to block out the icy wind. Fingers were trembling from their lack of warmth, wrapped tightly around the base of a flashlight (one she had managed to find near her and Cloud's home) as she stared down at the paper with messily scrawled directions in her hand. Technically, she should have been to where Kadaj was staying maybe five - ten - minutes ago, and she could have sworn she had passed that same exact boulder, the one sitting near the pine tree, half an hour ago. She had been wandering for Shiva knew how long, and damnit, why was she constantly getting sidetracked?
And, yes, it was sidetracked. She wasn't going to admit that she was lost. Because she wasn't lost. No. Not at all. She had just taken a different way. Something that didn't follow the directions exactly, and it was just taking a bit longer than it would have otherwise. No. She was definitely not lost.
Anyway, at least she wasn't doing as terrible as she had the night she went to visit Hojo. That had been a little embarrassing, but still, this wasn't any better. Especially since it was a lot colder, a lot later at night, and there was something following her, watching her. She could feel eyes on her back, and every time she turned to look over her shoulder, she was met with nothing but the brown bark of the tree trunks and a vast stretch of darkness that was hard to see through. She didn't know, exactly, what was following her, stalking her like the prey she must have appeared to be. It could have been an animal, she supposed, and that was what it most likely was, logically.
Or it could have been a person. Or people.
And that, for some reason, made her a little bit nervous.
"Perhaps it was because I didn't take a left when I should have taken a right," she murmured to herself, gripping the edge of the paper tighter as her eyes poured over it. "I really need to stop taking these shortcuts. They always end up taking a rather long time to complete..."
Branches cracked beneath her feet as she took a step forward, paused, and was that some sort of noise? Somewhere off in the distance? Straining to hear, she lowered her flashlight, tilting her chin up as she surveyed her surroundings. There was the rustling of leaves on their branches, of the wind pushing its way between the trees, and something else. A different sort of movement, and then another crack, as if something had been stepped on, and her eyes fell to her feet. She hadn't moved.
And then there was no mistaking it. A presence from directly behind her, mere inches away from her back, and warm breath ghosting along the side of her neck as Loz leaned forward, chin brushing against her shoulder as a small, satisfied smirk tugged at the corner of his mouth.
"Mother."
Her heart dropped to her stomach, then, and he wasn't alone, either. At her side (not as close as Loz was, however), there was the other one. Yazoo, wasn't it?
And yes.
She'd have to refrain from camping in the future.